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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."
eye-catching BBC Radio 1 advert
Wow, that is special. I don't think i've ever had the radio catch my eye.
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However, the bad news is that I will not be buying it either as it's yet another example of cobbled-together, formulaic music designed for the plastic, designer mobile-phone generation who are too insecure to venture into a deeper exploration of music that extends beyond the 40-or-so CDs on sale in their local supermarket.
I'm sorry but I wouldn't know "Cee-Loo Green" if he/she passed me in the street but "Danger Mouse" is a superb & wonderful character of whom I have the utmost respect and admiration - although I did sometimes consider him to be a little hard on his mole sidekick, Penfold, in the British cartoon series of the same name.
In my day, when an artist "featured" another guest artist, we generally knew who one, the other or both are as musicians. However, these days such is not the case as I wouldn't know "Snoop Doggy Poop" from "Rampant Moggie Mangler" if they past me in the street.
May I also remind you that in my day, recording engineers were obviously better trained due to the fact that they mixed their music correctly the first time without having to reissue subsequent endless "remixes" of their music, For GOD'S SAKE, why can't you just TRAIN these people properly the first time so they get it right the first time? And why do you not have a decent Quality Assurance department that checks the "mix" quality before sending CDs out to the record stores. Why, we never heard Led Zeppelin (Featuring James Page) saying "Ooh, I don't think Robert quite got the 'Oooh-oooh-oooh' quite right on Stairway To Heaven that time. Can we please have another go at it?"
In summary, therefore, may I offer a few suggestions which, I feel, will go a long way to improving the quality of music in today's pop charts:
1. Suggest to some of your musicians that their hard-earned money might be better spent on singing/instrument lessons rather than baggy, badly-made jeans where the crutch hangs down at the knees. If nothing else, imagine the trouble these poor people would have trying to run outside of a burning studio - the damned things are a fire hazard!
2. Please throw in the occasional guitar solo - after all, guitar solos never did His Almighty Majesty Ozzy Osbourne any damage, now did they?
3. Allow your musicians to spend some time learning with Michael Flatley & "Riverdance". I find this constant "hand jiving" and finger gesturing by these artists most off-putting. I'm sure Mr Flatley will be able to teach these musicians how to keep their arms gracefully be their sides at most times.
4. Please ask some of your artists to have a quick look in the mirror before venturing out onto the stage or in front of a video camera. It is most disturbing to see so many young men with their baseball caps on backwards & if they took a little more time over their appearance, we would all feel much better.
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Is that just a lame excuse to rip off music for free?