And you thought Linkin Park wouldn't have music on iTMS
I was searching the music store earlier today, and to my surprise Linkin Park had three songs on the store. They come from albums with other artists (Family Values Tour & Little Nicky Soundtrack), but how interesting. I wonder if the group knows?
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PS 6 months ago a friend asked me if I liked Linkin Park.... I said I had never been there!
Originally posted by Ra
Funny thing is, Linkin Park got started here
i am old enough to understand the "album experience" therory and i must admit that i love listening to whole albums myself....but, a few things here:
1) what is the album experience? this changes some...when i was growing up we had albums...the album experience was listening to one side, then flipping and listening to the other side...many albums where made with one side being the hits and the other side being the "not hits"...david bowie's low is a wonderful example of an album that was totally different from one side to the next...but even then the artist sold singles from the albums (except the buzzcocks who had singles and albums separately).
now we have cd's and the album experience is all the songs played directly one after the other...what will be the album experience in the future?? mp3s are changing that now, along with cross fades and computer edits and such that home uses can do themselves...and yet still we have cd singles and such, so record companies obviously still like the idea of selling "single" songs
2) we hear songs on the radio all the time...the stations aren't told, "no, you can't play one song...you have to play the whole album or you are messing with the artist's right to have the consumer enjoy the album experience"
i guess it just surprises me...i really do love the "album experience" and mostly buy cd's (half of what i have downloaded from iTMS are whole albums), but there are many artists that i want a song from, but would never buy the album...the artist could sell me a song and maybe that would make me want more...or get nothing...artist getting nothing makes no sense...but if i have a choice of: buy an album from beyonce to get Crazy in Love or not have the song in my collection...i would just not buy the album...as it is i bought the song and it is a "fav" summer song...it makes me think, "maybe i should check out the album"...same with buying minerva from the deftones...
oh well, nobody ever said rock stars where rocket scientists...but they are cute, so i guess they have that going from them
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There are very few Singer/Songwriters out there to make ANY claims that the majority of Artists have purposely intended for their albums to be cohesive and listened to at one time.
This is total BS.
Michael Jackson recorded over 35 songs before pairing down the finalists for his last Album.
Madonna basically has Producers submit tracks and she picks the best ones to go on her albums
Look at all the Rodney Jerkins, Teddy Riley or Diane Warren songs out there.
The FACT is artists in most cases are buying their songs and producing them. Your typical album will have songs produced by a few different people and thus a different sound.
If your someone like Sting, or Donald Fagen or other artists who basically maintain complete control over your project then this is believable..But Linkin Park???? Puhleeze.
The Linkin Park type peeps seem to have goten this whole $0.99 per song deal backwards!! Or do their albums only have 10 or less songs ?