2010-03-17

Too much music?

The hell of being prolific: Are musicians making too much music? [AV Club]

Snip:

With a supportive label, a band can manage and produce itself, can enter the studio and release a finished album without anyone outside the group asking whether it’s good work. When was the last time a band at this level got sent back into the booth with orders to not come out until it has something worth releasing?


Worth a read, it raises some interesting questions. Thanks to my friend Adam for the link, this relates directly to a conversation we had recently about all the filler on recent commercial hip hop releases.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yeah, shit yeah. Although rap albums have been pretty bloated for a while. I remember back in the day this was blamed on the longer running time of CDs.

Not sure who invented the rap "skit"? De La Soul?

phatmat said...

Yeah I think it was De La Soul on '3 Feet High and Rising'.

Interesting fact that I just found while Googling: Prince Paul did an album that was nothing but skits!