The Mighty Musical Observations Thread

[revbob]

The more challenging question is what was the *second* video ever played?

Gonna assume "some garbage" will suffice as an answer.

Judges? … No, they want something more specific.

Pat Benetar - you better run

Cheater. No way you knew that. But, yes, it was an additional shot at radio, that MTV was coming at it.

Of course I looked it up.

[Flex]

See, I was right!

[revbob]

https://musictech.com/features/intervie ... platforms/

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[Dr. Medulla]

https://djmag.com/tech/new-music-market ... ir-revenue

Love the principle, skeptical that it's viable.

[revbob]

https://djmag.com/tech/new-music-market ... ir-revenue

Love the principle, skeptical that it's viable.

Sorry Flex, not for you.

[Flex]

https://djmag.com/tech/new-music-market ... ir-revenue

Love the principle, skeptical that it's viable.

Sorry Flex, not for you.

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Dammit, that captcha is always excluding me. It's like being back in high school p.e. class.

[Dr. Medulla]

Easily the best part of the internet age—it says it's for everyone, but Flex.

[Dr. Medulla]

I've been seeing more and more of "this [album] turns [year] today" pieces of late. Is it more a case of an easy way to generate content or the sense that we're regarding music/culture in the past tense now? I assume it's more the former, but can't dismiss the latter.

[WestwayKid]

I've been seeing more and more of "this [album] turns [year] today" pieces of late. Is it more a case of an easy way to generate content or the sense that we're regarding music/culture in the past tense now? I assume it's more the former, but can't dismiss the latter.

I feel like that should be reserved for the truly best of the best, but only for milestone anniversaries. When Rubber Soul hits 60 next year, stuff like that.

[WestwayKid]

I tried listening to Preservation by the Kinks yesterday. I try every few years, hoping it finally clicks. Like most Ray Davies projects, there are moments where you think maybe, but Preservation is dull and pretty much impossible to listen to all the way through.

[Flex]

I've been seeing more and more of "this [album] turns [year] today" pieces of late. Is it more a case of an easy way to generate content or the sense that we're regarding music/culture in the past tense now? I assume it's more the former, but can't dismiss the latter.

It's just clickbait nonsense. "Thing from your adolescence is old now. You are old now." Yeah, that's how the passage of time works, AI generated "article"

[Dr. Medulla]

I've been seeing more and more of "this [album] turns [year] today" pieces of late. Is it more a case of an easy way to generate content or the sense that we're regarding music/culture in the past tense now? I assume it's more the former, but can't dismiss the latter.

It's just clickbait nonsense. "Thing from your adolescence is old now. You are old now." Yeah, that's how the passage of time works, AI generated "article"

Just for conversation's sake—because I largely agree with you here—there is a presumption that there's an audience for this, that wants to relive the past in this way. Is the present/future stagnant enough that someone in their 20s wants to celebrate something from their adolescence? We all go into consolidation mode as we get older when it comes to culture, but it's unsettling if "older" is getting younger and younger.

[WestwayKid]

I've been seeing more and more of "this [album] turns [year] today" pieces of late. Is it more a case of an easy way to generate content or the sense that we're regarding music/culture in the past tense now? I assume it's more the former, but can't dismiss the latter.

It's just clickbait nonsense. "Thing from your adolescence is old now. You are old now." Yeah, that's how the passage of time works, AI generated "article"

Just for conversation's sake—because I largely agree with you here—there is a presumption that there's an audience for this, that wants to relive the past in this way. Is the present/future stagnant enough that someone in their 20s wants to celebrate something from their adolescence? We all go into consolidation mode as we get older when it comes to culture, but it's unsettling if "older" is getting younger and younger.

I need the internet to tell me when we hit the 25th anniversary of Crazy Town's The Gift of Game.