01-19-2019, 05:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-15-2019, 05:29 PM by Dekalb_Blues.)
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You . . . in due course of time:
Never mind the bollocks -- Jazz will destroy us all in the end, as concerned right-thinkers have tried to warn us:
"The Problem with Music" by Steve Albini
(an independent and corporate rock record producer most widely known for having produced Nirvana’s In Utero [1993])
A classic well-informed analysis of The Swindle in action at gullible-signed-artist level:
"Whenever I talk to a band who are about to sign with a major label, I always end up thinking of them in a
particular context. I imagine a trench, about four feet wide and five feet deep, maybe sixty yards long, filled
with runny, decaying s***. I imagine these people, some of them good friends, some of them barely acquain-
tances, at one end of this trench. I also imagine a faceless industry lackey at the other end holding a fountain
pen and a contract waiting to be signed. Nobody can see what’s printed on the contract. It’s too far away, and
besides, the s*** stench is making everybody’s eyes water. The lackey shouts to everybody that the first one
to swim the trench gets to sign the contract. Everybody dives in the trench and they struggle furiously to get
to the other end. Two people arrive simultaneously and begin wrestling furiously, clawing each other and dunk-
ing each other under the s***. Eventually, one of them capitulates, and there’s only one contestant left. He
reaches for the pen, but the Lackey says 'Actually, I think you need a little more development. Swim again,
please. Backstroke.' And he does of course.
"Every major label involved in the hunt for new bands now has on staff a high-profile point man, an 'A & R' rep
who can present a comfortable face to any prospective band. The initials stand for 'Artist and Repertoire,' be-
cause historically, the A & R staff would select artists to record music that they had also selected, out of an avail-
able pool of each. This is still the case, though not openly. These guys are universally young (about the same
age as the bands being wooed), and nowadays they always have some obvious underground rock credibility flag
they can wave."
For moar: https://www.negativland.com/news/?page_id=17
The social effects of engineered tribally-catalytic exemplarism: Like shooting fish suffocating in a barrel of molasses-like disinformation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snlmYehSwAU
The aesthetic apex of Western Civilization.
"This was the actual day the world ended. We are now living in the brutal, hellish, ensuing aftermath. This was the death of everything right here."[font=Roboto, Arial, sans-serif] --[font=Roboto, Arial, sans-serif] YouTube[font=Roboto, Arial, sans-serif] comment[/font][/font][/font]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgPgavmY99U
The future of non-corporately-controlled music-performance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNaLMRCYgOM
You . . . in due course of time:
Never mind the bollocks -- Jazz will destroy us all in the end, as concerned right-thinkers have tried to warn us:
"The Problem with Music" by Steve Albini
(an independent and corporate rock record producer most widely known for having produced Nirvana’s In Utero [1993])
A classic well-informed analysis of The Swindle in action at gullible-signed-artist level:
"Whenever I talk to a band who are about to sign with a major label, I always end up thinking of them in a
particular context. I imagine a trench, about four feet wide and five feet deep, maybe sixty yards long, filled
with runny, decaying s***. I imagine these people, some of them good friends, some of them barely acquain-
tances, at one end of this trench. I also imagine a faceless industry lackey at the other end holding a fountain
pen and a contract waiting to be signed. Nobody can see what’s printed on the contract. It’s too far away, and
besides, the s*** stench is making everybody’s eyes water. The lackey shouts to everybody that the first one
to swim the trench gets to sign the contract. Everybody dives in the trench and they struggle furiously to get
to the other end. Two people arrive simultaneously and begin wrestling furiously, clawing each other and dunk-
ing each other under the s***. Eventually, one of them capitulates, and there’s only one contestant left. He
reaches for the pen, but the Lackey says 'Actually, I think you need a little more development. Swim again,
please. Backstroke.' And he does of course.
"Every major label involved in the hunt for new bands now has on staff a high-profile point man, an 'A & R' rep
who can present a comfortable face to any prospective band. The initials stand for 'Artist and Repertoire,' be-
cause historically, the A & R staff would select artists to record music that they had also selected, out of an avail-
able pool of each. This is still the case, though not openly. These guys are universally young (about the same
age as the bands being wooed), and nowadays they always have some obvious underground rock credibility flag
they can wave."
For moar: https://www.negativland.com/news/?page_id=17
The social effects of engineered tribally-catalytic exemplarism: Like shooting fish suffocating in a barrel of molasses-like disinformation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snlmYehSwAU
The aesthetic apex of Western Civilization.
"This was the actual day the world ended. We are now living in the brutal, hellish, ensuing aftermath. This was the death of everything right here."[font=Roboto, Arial, sans-serif] --[font=Roboto, Arial, sans-serif] YouTube[font=Roboto, Arial, sans-serif] comment[/font][/font][/font]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgPgavmY99U
The future of non-corporately-controlled music-performance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNaLMRCYgOM