I’d pay a pretty penny for a Fat Morrison.
As we await the next round of Hear Factor reports, here are two more complete mixes for download, Al’s soul mix and BigSteve’s techno mix. Take a day or two to download these .zip files, then I’ll upload some more of the ones that have been discussed so far. Enjoy!
So this week the music industry is back to bashing the digitally downloaded single for the continued dropoff in album sales.
Consumers no longer need to buy an album if they want that cool jam they heard on the radio — and in growing numbers, they’re choosing 99-cent downloads over $15 CDs.
Some worry this trend is worsening the quality of albums as a cohesive musical work, and that label executives are more and more interested in quick hits than lasting music or artists.
Am I really to believe that Nickleback, Maroon 5, Gwen Stefani, Nas, et al are really concerned with the cohesiveness of their 15-song, 70-minute releases? If so, who do they think they are? Not even the Beatles and the Stones could stay cohesive over the course of an oldtime double album. What kind of drugs do you need to be on to stay through the 11th track on a Nas album, or are you expected to be a glutton for the “N Word”?
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Since Townsman Kpdexter‘s Hear Factor mix, Damn Hippies!, has yet to reach him, I’m posting it for complete download today along with one of our first Hear Factor mixes, General Slocum’s prog-fusion mix, which BigSteve lived through. Take a day or two to download these .zip files, then I’ll upload some more of the ones that have been discussed so far. Enjoy!