No More Radiohead Albums
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- sweetasbro
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Thom Yorke says they're looking forward to not having to make another album right away. He told Billboard.com, "It's always been album, album, album...with things like iTunes and people splitting up tracks, I kind of think that's good. I listen to music on random all the time."
CD days are over!
Discuss...
- mirola0
good one.
i always like the idea of an album being a complete 'body of work' that reflects something the artist is trying to get across but thom yorke's looking at it from the perspective of a rock star with an incredible amount of money and adulation. all he has to do is write his music, play it infront of people and talk about it. he's just being lazy. get the fuck on with it and write some proper songs again. you nearly had it with that last effort now step fucking about with crap samples and your expensive compressors and make some fucking tunes.
- mirola0
sorry, it's late.
- unfittoprint0
thank god.
- sexypixel0
i agree, and album is a presentation of where a band is currently at, the track order/selection is as important as each individual song.
we should all be worried if cd is dead, no more album art, just flashturbation
- mirola0
he's just being dramatic. the ponce.
- kpl0
albums are a product of the arbitrary limits set by the limitations of a medium and market forces.
or something like that.
- sexypixel0
im sure alot of artists write a few songs that are rushed, per album just to meet the demands of record companies to 'pad out' a cd.
maybe song quility will improve now that artists can concentrate on the songs they spent time and though writing, as apposed to making a few extra tracks for the sake of it
- mirola0
"albums are a product of the arbitrary limits set by the limitations of a medium and market forces"
this sentence doesn't actually say anything does it?
- sexypixel0
its the first sentance ive read today that hurts my head
- quamb0
i agree and disagree.
albums will never and should never die (due to the mentioned reasons).
tho yorke is entitled to his opinion, which isn't 'wrong' at all. I 100% understand the liking of the idea to release tracks, rather then albums all the time.
write music with a friend and we have sooo many songs that we dig, tho can't fit on our upcoming release. And we're always writing new tunes, tho they 'dont quite fit' on the album. What to do with such tracks?
Albums are a huge process, where as if Radiohead were just to pump out a few songs everynow and then untill they felt like making a new lp- then the music will probably be alot more relaxed and organic.
- kpl0
yeah, it's saying something. but I'm too lazy to make sense right now.
- unknown0
next thing you know they'll be fighting al qaeda.
- CyBrainX0
This is the type of regression that has Britney all over ever magazine. We have devolved in artistic quality and ambition since the sixties when people like the Beatles and Dylan made us think of a body of work rather than a single, which was a quick fix for the teenagers.
Personally, I don't believe Thom Yorke means it. It would be a shame since his band has put out some of the best albums of the last 10 years.
- ok_static0
i still prefer the old ones like:
http://LP (Long Play)
http://EP (Extended Play)what the hell is http://Album anyway...?
- mrdobolina0
if they stop making albums, will all of you stop talking about them?
to coin I phrase:
"I'll get my coat"
- cookie0
I agree with quamb - It would be nice to have some kind of forum where I could release tracks that don't make it onto cd releases.. I mean b-sides are nice but why not just chuck em up on to I-tunes?
- GreedoLives0
I'm still waiting for wax cylinders to make a comeback.
- pascii0
fuck off! whats next? concerts on real video? LAME MUSICIANS!
- spartahkus0
mirola...mate..you are a f...
sorry..it's late and i'm drunk
- mirola0
i cant help being a f$%#%^@$#^@%^@%^@$%^@%^@%
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