Stop calling MP3s on the internet "albums".

Aloysius · 08-01-2017, 09:32 PM

I guess the difference is how high the barrier to entry is. In the 70s you needed a lot of cash or record company backing, now anyone can do it. However the high barrier to entry in the past didn't stop plenty of **** music coming out.

Buckethead is an interesting case - putting out an album every day at one point. He prefers not to call them albums, using the term 'pike'. And lots of people put out something every couple of weeks. I have no qualms about the medium of internet only releases, but I do think many of these people over release. Why not record just as much stuff at home, then release only their best of their best once a year or so?

Neapolitan · 08-01-2017, 09:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

We need to come up with a new term for internet based song collections other than "album". Albums should only be a physical object made from vinyl.

IMO.

Too convenient for anyone to download a bunch of samples, some cheap recording software, and then cobble together a bunch of stuff into a dozen songs on a site like bandcamp and then announce "I just released my new album".

Great for the ego, not so great for the legacy of real albums.

IMO.

YMMV.

No we don't. An album is just a collection of things, like a photo-album. Should we stop call photo-albums "albums" cause it confuses the **** out of you?

Dylstew · 08-01-2017, 11:53 PM

Chula, are you trolling us?

Stephen · 08-02-2017, 02:06 AM

Do digital albums have a b-side?

Spectralmusic · 08-02-2017, 04:39 AM

Bands these days record their music in a studio.....a studio!!!!

and put it on a vinyl record to sell it. They don't use notation paper it and publish it like we used to back in the day, what is this world coming to?

YorkeDaddy · 08-02-2017, 05:55 AM

This thread literally gave me aids

The Batlord · 08-02-2017, 05:58 AM

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Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy

This thread literally gave me aids

YorkeDaddy, you narcissistic, maladjusted ****. Been a while.

YorkeDaddy · 08-02-2017, 06:01 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

YorkeDaddy, you narcissistic, maladjusted ****. Been a while.

Been a while because idiots like Chula make this place a nausea-enducing shitshop of horrors

But at least MusicBanter has a lot of unique characters. Nowhere else on the internet is like this really

The Batlord · 08-02-2017, 06:17 AM

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Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy

Been a while because idiots like Chula make this place a nausea-enducing shitshop of horrors

But at least MusicBanter has a lot of unique characters. Nowhere else on the internet is like this really

*inducing

YorkeDaddy · 08-02-2017, 06:35 AM

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bitch

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Aloysius Music Addict Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Adelaide, Australia Posts: 353	I guess the difference is how high the barrier to entry is. In the 70s you needed a lot of cash or record company backing, now anyone can do it. However the high barrier to entry in the past didn't stop plenty of **** music coming out. Buckethead is an interesting case - putting out an album every day at one point. He prefers not to call them albums, using the term 'pike'. And lots of people put out something every couple of weeks. I have no qualms about the medium of internet only releases, but I do think many of these people over release. Why not record just as much stuff at home, then release only their best of their best once a year or so?

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Stephen I sleep in your hat Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Melbourne, Vic. Aus. Posts: 1,851	Do digital albums have a b-side?