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Download-only Single Becomes UK Number One
Stuart Gibson writes "As predicted, the Gnarls Barkely single 'Crazy' has reached the number one spot on the official UK charts, based solely on legal downloads. The CD version of the single will not be released until tomorrow. This is the first single to be eligible for the honour as, until last month, download sales would only be counted if the track was also available to be bought as a physical copy."
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Not since Marie-Antoinette played milkmaid has looking simple and honest been so fake and complicated.
i think it's relevant as it's another example of the music industry only just catching up with the demand of the public. i'm glad they've decided to treat music downloads slightly more seriously and hopefully this will allow slightly more mature musical tastes to become more prevelant in the media in general. the singles chart has long been a joke to anyone other than 13 year old girls, it's time for change.
legal downloads of music/film/tv is the way in which music will be sold in the future. the thought of having to go all the way to a shop where there's only an x% chance of finding the album/song you're looking for will seem laughable in a decade's time... at least, it will be should the music industry not drad its feet as it always does... so perhaps we'll still be exactly here.
the biggest impedement to the music industry is the music industry.
It is a great song. It is also nice to hear something that doesn't sound exactly like absolutely everything else.
Ohhh, if it's Cee-lo and DangerMouse it's an entirely different story. The names are even more ridiculous.
Apple sold one billion songs.
That's a 'b'
Billion.
Nine zeroes.
Big number. More than a lot. Like, really big number.
Just before iTunes launched everyone said "who's going to pay for something you can get for free?"
Then Apple sold one billion songs.
That's a 'b'
pwnt
Next.
Business isn't willing to pay for products, innovation and careers, so we get brands, mortgage commercials and layoffs.
Some slashdotters seem to think: popular song == bad; popular song that makes a lot of money on sales == t3h evil/RIAA(or equivalent)/worthless sell-out.
On the other hand, the GP does have a certain point, in that popular music will be popular, regardless on distribution method, regardless of vain lock-in. Or rather, popular music will be distributed no matter how locked.
True confidence comes not from realising you are as good as your peers, but that your peers are as bad as you are.
If you guys want to find new music by comparing to the music you already listen to , check out the link in my sig. Last.fm has reawakened my passion for finding new music to listen to that I thought stopped when I was 25 or so. Now I find that I am buying about 3-4 CDs a month like I used to when I was a teenager. Giggles, ponies!!!!
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Gnarls Barkley is the collaboration between Danger Mouse and Cee-Loo Green. Cee-Lo had one of the most well-received albums of 2004, and Danger Mouse has been involved with a lot of critically acclaimed, succesful projects.
/. crowd would be more understanding.
Just because you (and a lot of others) haven't heard of them doesn't mean they're bad. This is not Suga Babes II.
You'd think the
(For the record, I think Gnarles Barkley is just OK so far... I prefer some of Danger Mouse's other work).
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
Spoken like a true Anti-American - unable to even notice that they have something loged sideways up thier ass. At least we know we do.
The guy figured that "number one song" isn't really news for nerds and such (I would tend to agree, though not enough to warrent a post - been here long enough to know it's not my opinion that matters).
It might interest you to know that we know very well there are other people and the world doesn't revolve around you any more than it does us.
You might want to look in the mirror before you post like this again. You immediatly jumped to the "American are self centered idiots who don't think about *me*!" idea.
------- Sorry about the spelling, I suffer from two problems. Dyslexia makes it difficult to spell well, lazy makes it
How can we debate a song (or any work of art) if not from the approach of taste, as you say? That's the only way we can, in fact, since there's no objective idea of "good" art. Thus, any opinion will be based on taste. Linguam Latinam quoque dicere possum, sed ratio mea potentior fit? non sic. Et eloquentia et substantia praesint.
Sorry, I only know the little bit of Latin I picked up watching gladiator flicks with Cliff and Norm. I'm going to presume you said something wittily devastating, stutter and stammer a bit, exclaim "Oh, for crying out loud!", head to the bar and switch to something stronger.
To answer your question, though, art can't be debated. You can discuss how much you like or dislike something, and you can try to express in words why you feel that way, but you can't ever decide whether something is good or evil. You can't 'objectively' determine that Britney Spears isn't the Almighty Apotheosis of Art (insert trumpety fanfare, change mind, insert catchy pop tune you can bop to).
This all changes, of course, once you arbitraily declare some premises. If you decide that "good art is art which makes me feel happy", then we could measure your endorphins or dopamine or something like that and announce that certain works are "good art" and "bad art". If you decide that "good art is art which increases the likelihood of reproduction and thus improves the odds of the survival of the species", then you can make the case for Britney Spears being the Greatest Artist Ever(TM) and not genetically engineered by the Disney Corporation to bring western culture to its knees.
Five percent of one year's DoD budget puts us on Mars.
Terrible station? what would you prefer Saga FM maybe? Although they air a lot of chart music by day. Radio 1 still remains to be one the most varied and innovate radio station in the UK. Remeber this is the station that bought us John Peel and regularly gives air time to unsigned bands.
Time is relative like Incest.