Online Music Brings New Life To Old Music

Rick Zeman writes to tell us The Washington Post has a look at how online music has helped to revitalize eclectic or out of print music. From the article: " Because the Internet has changed how people discover and share music, the rules of marketing it and the hierarchy of who determines what's hot have also changed. As radio-music listenership declines, the industry finds itself spending more time courting a broader field of tastemakers who, through Web sites, are popularizing songs that never get radio play. The primary tool in this transition is the playlist -- a sequence of tracks posted on blogs or shared on music purchase sites such as iTunes. Not just that, but also 'about 2,700 albums have been brought back through the Vault, with more than 5,000 scheduled to follow' with those albums not having enough demand to justify another printing."

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[Sir Brian Peppers]

jollyroger1210 (jollyroger1210@gmail.com) said:

Dexy and the Midnight Runners "Come on Eileen" Do a search on Youtube, there are tons of remakes....

i know, offtopic sort of

On the contrary. Your post is right on topic. Except instead of giving life to old 80's tunes, remakes and punk covers are torturing and killing the music in a way that would make the baby-eating Chinese government ask the U.N. to intervene.

Someone has to do something to stop punk bands from covering 80's music. The sheer lack of originality does not compensate for the shitty instrumentals or the chalkboard-screeching vocals. I mean, holy fucking shit.