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[b]david wrote:[/b]
[quote][b]Hamlet wrote:[/b]
[quote]"But the majority of albums are crap thrown together to profit from a single."

*Gasps in amazement*. This may be true of your average X Factor artist but not of music in general. When done well an album can be a cohesive statement : think Dylan's 'Blood on the TRacks' or Bowie's 'Ziggy Stardust'. I can think of piles of albums that had no hits on them at all and yet contain only one or two duff tracks, if at all. Nick Drake's three albums for example. I can also think of albums where the so called 'filler' songs are better than the hits. I'd say that 'The Queen is DEad' by the Smiths is one of these. Songs like 'I Know Its Over' & the title track are better than hits such as 'Bigmouth Strikes Again'.[/quote]

What an excellent post, Hamlet.

I think that maybe if your [b]only[/b][i][/i] interest is chart singles then then you will come across plenty of albums that are singles plus fillers. But that's because chart singles are all you're interested in.

The examples you speak of are excellent ones, in particular The Queen is Dead by The Smiths is brilliant. As you say, there are so many brilliant songs on that album that would not have made great radio singles, but that does not make them great songs.

And I think that is my point. People such as yourself JK are obviosuly brilliant at what you do, but when you state that albums are 'crap' you are simply stating the fact that you're only interested in hit singles and anything else gets in the way and or is maybe too much effort.

As for ABBA, their albums before Arrival were patchy at best, but from then one each is a classic with at the most one dud per album. Eagle [b]was[/b]released as a single in many countries but was a flop. Why? Because the nearly 6 minute song had to be edited down for radio, and each of the edits that were made took so much away from the song that it became a pale shadow of the brilliant song on the album.

Now I love a great single, a 'hit' as well, but if that's the only thing you're looking for in music then your attention span is going to be very limited and you won't like albums.

Finally, a list of artists I love who don't ever bother the singles charts but who make fabulous albums:

Kate Bush
Janis Ian
Peter Hamill
Marc Almond
Alison Moyet
Peter Gabriel
Patrick Wolf
Sparks
Carmel
Morrissey

and there are so many more.

If people want to live their lives thinking that Kelly Marie or Una Paloma Blanca are the best thing that music has to offer and that anything else that lasts longer than 3 minutes is a waste of brain cells, well I'll leave them to it.[/quote]

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Topic History of: Tunecore Just announced Alex Day's first week sale - over 100,000 globally
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JK2006	I gather they are - We don't go through them (we go through AWAL and are, I believe, their biggest product source by far).
veritas	a question !!! I love the 'democracy of an outfit like Tunecore ...are they kosher ?
Pumpkinhead	Brian wrote: Pumpkinhead wrote: Quite a few of my friends bought Alex Day's single but most say they don't particularly like the song but they bought to to rebel against the likes of X-Factor, Military Wags, etc, or to just prove that they are not all sheep. ....so doesn't that make them sheep? We are all sheep, but some of us have better quality wool.
Brian	Pumpkinhead wrote: Quite a few of my friends bought Alex Day's single but most say they don't particularly like the song but they bought to to rebel against the likes of X-Factor, Military Wags, etc, or to just prove that they are not all sheep. ....so doesn't that make them sheep?
Pumpkinhead	Quite a few of my friends bought Alex Day's single but most say they don't particularly like the song but they bought to to rebel against the likes of X-Factor, Military Wags, etc, or to just prove that they are not all sheep. So, it remains to be seen whether Alex Day has enough substance to be more than just another Christmas gimmick.