So - What Music: Whatever Happened to a Album Concept?

 So - What Music: Whatever Happened to a Album Concept?

That sounds a bit silly, yet it seems to me that that is what's duty to a renounced strain these days. People buy unaccompanied songs for .99¢ or cut one or twin tracks from a CD to bucket adult their iPods. Then they mention them so that they have songs for calm days, inclement days, break-up days, and soaking days. The songs spin a commodity and purposeless fodder for a daily soundtrack. And don't even get me started on ring tones!

It's not all a error of a consumer either. Songwriters are lured by a probable bearing and income they can acquire from a content endorsement or a chain of one of their songs on a WB network show. And like these shows, a song is stealing predictable and boring; they contend a same things in a same ways with a same deep approach. we listen to these songs and we only contend - So What? -

Thus I've come to emanate a whole new difficulty of cocktail music called, in my book, "So What Music". The songs are good played, a singers, for a most partial are ok, and there is zero really 'wrong' with a songs solely that I've listened them before in some guise or another. I'm an XM Satellite radio subscriber and as we bounce around a twenty or so channels that offer renounced songs of some character or another we realize that there unequivocally are not a lot of sealed artists that offer something 'new'. Perhaps that's because they are sealed - oooh I'm being asocial - maybe, though it does seem that a bigger acts are a ones that interest to a middle. And, we guess there's zero wrong with that, it's been function since cocktail music became cocktail music, but... So What?

Concept Album Whatever Happened When

we was a kid we went to a Kresge's dime store and bought 45's for 75¢ and traded those around with my friends, but we also bought albums (when we had a cash). The albums we bought customarily had an arc to them and we would listen to a first side and afterwards want to spin over to a other side to hear how a thing ended. Born To Run is a primary example and we can't listen to just a song Born To Run but humming She's a One right after it. It's a next section in a story. These albums had songs that had abyss and imagery and a albums themselves had an arc to them that demanded that we listen to a entire CD.

So who is doing this these days? If we take a listen to this week's podcast we feel that a three artists that are spotlighted do and we can name a few sealed artists like Elvis Costello, Springsteen, and an adult and entrance favorite of cave Ryan Adams. We as cultured listeners have to wade by a lot of rumble to get to a real good stuff. But it's good worth a search and hopefully this podcast is a good place to burst off.

So - What Music: Whatever Happened to a Album Concept?