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Originally Posted by Bob Olhsson  Of course there will.
It just won't sound like the warmed over '80s records most people are making for an audience that's yawning and not inspired to buy anything. |
Thanks Bob for injecting some much needed optimism in the latest gloom and doom GS thread concerning the "industry". Only great artists with passion, talent, and originality putting out great records that inspire and move people will turn things around; and those that can do this WILL have great success!
And who are you people on here proclaiming that the album model is dead ? The real problem, as far as I can see, is that hardly anything of any real quality is being released today in this format. You know, an album of 10-15 songs that, strung together, are like one cohesive piece of profound art. If people really felt like they were getting something of great quality, they WILL buy it and feel good about it.
Get out in the field and talk to the young, middle aged, and older folks (ages 18-65) out there about the current state of music. Just simply ask over 1000 people on the street (me and a friend have actually done this) and you will find a startling common denominator in basically all of their replies. People are not buying albums today because the stuff labels are putting out is worthless cookie-cutter garbage with no soul or originality, and they are tired of being scammed. People are literally sick of the endless barage of untalented copy-cat artists who can't even play their instruments well, and they have basically boycotted the industry by no longer paying for the garbage.
Most of the really serious music listeners/buyers that I know (ya know, the type person that's SO into music that they have over 1000 CDs they bought) have completely written off the labels and actually look at the top 100 today as a guage for what is probably the worst stuff out there. Yet they spend ALOT of time on the net looking for new music, and are finding things that they really love AND buying the CDs from those artists. And yes, they WANT albums -- not just singles; they simply want something GREAT, something REAL, and something of QUALITY!
