I wonder about that in the modern age though. I mean there has to be a factor of how easy it is to copy and store. So likely a lot was lost before performance recording capability. In the car I mostly listen to npr but when I don’t care for whats on I will just sorta jump between stations and there is a thing now for stations to kinda take a time period but they don’t seem to be very discriminatory about it. On the other hand now that we can call up any song we want likely you will see the cream come up to the top on what gets asked for a lot. I have one particular gripe though because my fav band tull had this album crafting they did where the position of songs, especially the first and last, were real important. They have these special editions they kinda just tacked songs on them and it ruins the flow. Its impossible, at least with amazon, to get the device to do the original vs the special edition that it defaults to.
Yeah, one of the cool things about the Classic Rock era was how real artists would program their albums for flow. The Beatles were really the first to do that, and they completely changed music industry sales from a single format to an album format, which was far more profitable for both artists, and record companies, which only encouraged more people to become musicians, and record companies to make more albums.
So, yeah, when you get some special edition, and they start inserting alternate or demo or live versions INTO the original program, it totally fucks up the artist’s intentions.
Luckily most of the time, they give us a nicely remastered version of the original on a disc alone, and all the other stuff on a separate disc.
But that’s only if you use CDs, which more and more people are going back to, fortunately. I never left, I still have my original CD collection, about 5000 of them. Don’t get excited I was in the music biz for years, a LOT of them were free, but still good. Got a killer discount, too, basically manufacturing cost, so about $3 a CD, back in the 90s. I would buy the entire catalogue of a band like Led Zeppelin, or Prince, or Talking Heads, or the Eagles, etc.
As for music from before recordings, I don’t even like to think about it. Many of the great composers, like Bach, or Mozart, or Beethoven were known to be astonishing virtuoso keyboard players, who could improvise incredibly complex music on the spot. At a concert, the guest of honor, usually some local VIP, would supply a tune, and they would play it on the piano, and then build an entire work out of thin air in front of the audience. Can you imagine hearing a recording of that?
I wonder about that in the modern age though. I mean there has to be a factor of how easy it is to copy and store. So likely a lot was lost before performance recording capability. In the car I mostly listen to npr but when I don’t care for whats on I will just sorta jump between stations and there is a thing now for stations to kinda take a time period but they don’t seem to be very discriminatory about it. On the other hand now that we can call up any song we want likely you will see the cream come up to the top on what gets asked for a lot. I have one particular gripe though because my fav band tull had this album crafting they did where the position of songs, especially the first and last, were real important. They have these special editions they kinda just tacked songs on them and it ruins the flow. Its impossible, at least with amazon, to get the device to do the original vs the special edition that it defaults to.
Yeah, one of the cool things about the Classic Rock era was how real artists would program their albums for flow. The Beatles were really the first to do that, and they completely changed music industry sales from a single format to an album format, which was far more profitable for both artists, and record companies, which only encouraged more people to become musicians, and record companies to make more albums.
So, yeah, when you get some special edition, and they start inserting alternate or demo or live versions INTO the original program, it totally fucks up the artist’s intentions.
Luckily most of the time, they give us a nicely remastered version of the original on a disc alone, and all the other stuff on a separate disc.
But that’s only if you use CDs, which more and more people are going back to, fortunately. I never left, I still have my original CD collection, about 5000 of them. Don’t get excited I was in the music biz for years, a LOT of them were free, but still good. Got a killer discount, too, basically manufacturing cost, so about $3 a CD, back in the 90s. I would buy the entire catalogue of a band like Led Zeppelin, or Prince, or Talking Heads, or the Eagles, etc.
As for music from before recordings, I don’t even like to think about it. Many of the great composers, like Bach, or Mozart, or Beethoven were known to be astonishing virtuoso keyboard players, who could improvise incredibly complex music on the spot. At a concert, the guest of honor, usually some local VIP, would supply a tune, and they would play it on the piano, and then build an entire work out of thin air in front of the audience. Can you imagine hearing a recording of that?