[NewMusic] Death of the record industry (cont'd.

[Matthew Goodheart]

On Sep 4, 2007, at 6:01 PM, weasel walter wrote:

> (the trend now for top 40 albums is to overblow them into 74 minute  
> epics where about half of it is blatant filler - but that still  
> leaves about 37
> minutes of pure solid gold!)

Yeah, and not just pop. . . jazz, improv, folk, etc. etc., all those  
alternate takes they put on reissues of old albums. . .   Personally  
I think about 45 min is the perfect length for a CD-(with some  
notable exceptions, of course.)

Tangentially, the "death of the album" works great for some kinds of  
music. I've been getting in to the  SaReGaMa series on emusic- each  
"album" is a raga- ranges from 3 min to  40. Long music like this  
works well outside of the "album" format.  Even the reissues: the  
Dagar Brother's Rag Kambhoji: 2 downloads total for the alap and  
dhrupad- about  a penny a minute of music. . .

mg