Post Random Music-Related Thoughts You Have

[Birds in Hell]

Apple to phase out iTunes

Shit, now what am I meant to use to manage my digital music library?

Did you not read past the headline?

New reports indicate the program will be split into Music, TV, Podcasts apps

Yes, I did - I don't want to be forced onto Apple Music.

[swan]

RIP Roky Erikson

[washing machine]

A Texas legend.

[bune]

Apple to phase out iTunes

Shit, now what am I meant to use to manage my digital music library?

Did you not read past the headline?

New reports indicate the program will be split into Music, TV, Podcasts apps

Yes, I did - I don't want to be forced onto Apple Music.

Unless the latest iTunes update had a poison pill in it that will kill all versions of the software in two weeks*, I don't think you have to worry about that.

*You know, other than the fact that it's a bloated piece of whale carcass.

[Ello Sailor]

What would you recommend from Interpol?

Turn on the Bright Lights is a masterpiece

Our Love to Admire is also super underrated.

[LoathedVermin72]

What would you recommend from Interpol?

Turn on the Bright Lights is a masterpiece

Our Love to Admire is also super underrated.

All the Carlos albums are gold IMO

[Ello Sailor]

Fuck that chode for jumping ship.

[LoathedVermin72]

Seriously

[doug rr]

i wonder what evan dando's hair looks like now..

[VinylGuy]

i wonder what evan dando's hair looks like now..

I guess the same?? I dont really know

[lennytheweedwhacker]

i wonder what evan dando's hair looks like now..

I guess the same?? I dont really know

i don't know either

[VinylGuy]

I just Google it, yes it looks the same. Lucky guy.

[Bi_3]

Elbow's "Weather to Fly" is a great song

[lennytheweedwhacker]

for some reason i’ve thought for years that yankee hotel foxtrot won a grammy

[lennytheweedwhacker]

my favorite thing nirvana did is easily the man who sold the world

[dimejinky99]

Lana Del Reys ‘music’ even a fraction of a second of her voice makes me want to kill myself

Can we fire her on a rocket into the sun please

[Birds in Hell]

I'd forgotten all about this and had no idea it was so catastrophic.

As the article describes it, "the biggest disaster in the history of the music business":

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/maga ... dings.html

[wease]

Holy shit!!! That’s one helluva long article!

I’d never heard about this. Thanks for sharing, Spenno.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

didn't realize how long the current incarnation of wilco has been together

[Birds in Hell]

I'd forgotten all about this and had no idea it was so catastrophic.

As the article describes it, "the biggest disaster in the history of the music business":

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/maga ... dings.html

To jump off this post from PJ Chat:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... ur-w433291

"The quarter-inch tapes got lost," says Ament. "The only way we could've used the original mixes would have been pulling it off a CD, which would have been inferior. Brendan really didn't mess with the levels, but he just pulled back a bit on the effects and reverb. The new mix is just a bit crisper. The way we listen to music is so different than 25 years ago. People have gotten used to so much clarity on the top end, and I think he really brought a lot of that out."

Crossed my mind today - the "lost" quarter-inch tapes were probably in the Universal warehouse that burned up in 2008 (that we found out about this week). TOTD = A&M = Universal. Kinda curious if the guys were given an explanation as to how the tapes were "lost". (From press reports, it sounds like a lot of artists were given the runaround.)

I think it's certainly possible.

This is a brutally sad couple of paragraphs:

Virtually all of Buddy Holly’s masters were lost in the fire. Most of John Coltrane’s Impulse masters were lost, as were masters for treasured Impulse releases by Ellington, Count Basie, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach, Art Blakey, Sonny Rollins, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Alice Coltrane, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, Pharoah Sanders and other jazz greats. Also apparently destroyed were the masters for dozens of canonical hit singles, including Bill Haley and His Comets’ “Rock Around the Clock,” Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats’ “Rocket 88,” Bo Diddley’s “Bo Diddley/I’m A Man,” Etta James’s “At Last,” the Kingsmen’s “Louie Louie” and the Impressions’ “People Get Ready.”

The list of destroyed single and album masters takes in titles by dozens of legendary artists, a genre-spanning who’s who of 20th- and 21st-century popular music. It includes recordings by Benny Goodman, Cab Calloway, the Andrews Sisters, the Ink Spots, the Mills Brothers, Lionel Hampton, Ray Charles, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Clara Ward, Sammy Davis Jr., Les Paul, Fats Domino, Big Mama Thornton, Burl Ives, the Weavers, Kitty Wells, Ernest Tubb, Lefty Frizzell, Loretta Lynn, George Jones, Merle Haggard, Bobby (Blue) Bland, B.B. King, Ike Turner, the Four Tops, Quincy Jones, Burt Bacharach, Joan Baez, Neil Diamond, Sonny and Cher, the Mamas and the Papas, Joni Mitchell, Captain Beefheart, Cat Stevens, the Carpenters, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Al Green, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Elton John, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Buffett, the Eagles, Don Henley, Aerosmith, Steely Dan, Iggy Pop, Rufus and Chaka Khan, Barry White, Patti LaBelle, Yoko Ono, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, the Police, Sting, George Strait, Steve Earle, R.E.M., Janet Jackson, Eric B. and Rakim, New Edition, Bobby Brown, Guns N’ Roses, Queen Latifah, Mary J. Blige, Sonic Youth, No Doubt, Nine Inch Nails, Snoop Dogg, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Hole, Beck, Sheryl Crow, Tupac Shakur, Eminem, 50 Cent and the Roots.

Difficult to overstate the scale of the loss and the staggering fact that it was more or less swept under the carpet by UMG for a decade or so.