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| Author | Comment | Forum guest
Oct-14-2010, 02:42 GMT
USA - United Staates America
 | In teh newest rolling stone magazine (obama on cover) there is a tiny article saying Paul previewed the new album at Rolling Stone headquarters, saying it was his best since Graceland. Amazingly, the Rolling Stone writer agreed, so time really does heal all wounds. Anyway, maybe there really is an album coming up
| | | | Ian
Oct-14-2010, 04:57 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| Great! Thanks for that! Tell me though,was there some issue between Paul and Rolling Stone magazine? | | | | Forum guest
Oct-14-2010, 06:04 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| Best news I´ve heard in a while | | | | Bodo
Oct-14-2010, 09:31 GMT
Austria
 | I appreciate that | | | | Forum guest
Oct-14-2010, 11:50 GMT
United Kingdom
 | I wonder if Sony are planning to re-release Paul´s back catalogue before releasing the new album?
I know they´re re-releasing The Essential Paul Simon later this month.
For the a few months Graceland and a few other of Paul´s CDs haven´t been in stock at Amazon.com, presumably because of the label change. Since a new album is likely to boost sales of his past work, I wonder if they´re trying to get all those records on out the Sony label before they release the new album.
The albums that are in stock at Amazon are Old Warner stock, which Sony won´t make a dime from. | | | | Ian
Oct-14-2010, 15:30 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| Yeah,Paul being the perfectionist he is surely won´t be appreciating this messy situation. It could very well be that,that is holding up the release of the new album. Man,if only we had a title for it,something you know? | | | | mog
Oct-14-2010, 15:54 GMT
Canada
 | I wonder what would be the use of reissuing all back catalogue when CD´s are almost dead. His online catalogue has already been reissued on Sony.
Eventually, yes, but in the short run, no big deal.
His best work since Graceland....it must be damn good if it is better than ROTS. Expectations are high ! | | | | Ian
Oct-14-2010, 17:07 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| I´ll always take cd´s over a download anyday,so I hope they´re not close to being obsolete. I prefer something tactile,something I can hold and peruse whilst listening to the music. In many ways I´d prefer cd´s came in an lp sized packaging. Those were the days-exquisite packaging,gatefold sleeves,real pieces of art. | | | | mog
Oct-14-2010, 19:24 GMT
Canada
| I presume you are over 35 years Old ?
I like CD´s a lot too, and continue to buy some.
But I also know youngsters who have not put a feet in a HMV in 10 years.
Yep, we are old ! | | | | Petr
Oct-14-2010, 19:25 GMT
United Kingdom
| what to say..... uuaaaaaaaaaaaaa, my heart is beating, hope it will be released before christmas :) | | | | Kerstin
Oct-14-2010, 19:25 GMT
Germany
 | I agree with you 100 %, Ian. If I buy an album from e.g. i-tunes because it´s not released on CD I still burn it on CD and print a cover etc. | | | | ernesta
Oct-14-2010, 21:10 GMT
Italy
 | Hope! | | | | Bodo
Oct-15-2010, 00:56 GMT
Austria
| Although I did not really start a LP collection I Love those big covers
Mmy first album I ever bought was a LP...but only because in that time a LP costed about 10 euros, and a CD 20 Euros.
The cover artwork was so important in the 70´s and early 80´s, I think this whole thing got lost today. Most young bands might design their CD at home with photoshop. I am not sure what to think about Pauls latest covers, they are not so special.
I was in London a few weeks ago and loved all those LP shops, it is wonderful to have those covers in your hand, see the artwork. The Paul Simon LP has a really cool cover, on a small CD it looses everything.
| | | | Bodo
Oct-15-2010, 01:28 GMT
Austria
| And I think with all those inventions, which should only make your live easier, the single song has lost his value.
I learned that when I bought a grammophone some time ago, and I have only a few shellacs. On every side is only 1 song. So to listen to that song you have to crank up the whole grammophone, set down the needle exactly, and then you listen carefully for the next 3 or 4 minutes. It is wonderful. Whatever I play, everyone likes those songs because you listen so attentive. You do not start any other activitys while you listen to that song, most of the time even no one talks.
The industry gave us the long play album and people just began to see music as a background ambient thing. However, you still had to stand up every 25 minutes, change the side - and the music had your attention again. Also the artist had a big influence when he created the order of the songs - one of Pauls special abilitys. On a really good album you did not want to skip a song, and I learned to hum the melody of the next song before it even started.
The next advantage was the CD. And this was already the first step do destroy the concept of a song-order commpletely. I think when I bought my first CD it was only because I could skip forward and backward very easy. You might not believe it, but I did not hear any difference when playing a cassette or a CD (can you? yes a LP has some cracking, but a cassette was great), so why should someone buy a CD, which cost about 30% more? It was only because I did not have to rewind it.
The first thing I learned to do with that CD player (around 1990) was to programm a different song order, and let it play infinite. That wasn´t that easy, it was like programming a video recorder to record 5 different movies a week. I even remember that our CD player had a feature called FTS. FTS for 200 CD titles... you know what that means? I saved all song titles of all CDs into that thing (it was like writting a textmessage to your CD player, just without the cellphone, and your cellphone had only 2 buttons)
Anyway, you still had to decide which CD you wanted to play. Graceland or ROTS?
The invention of MP3 changed everything. Now I have all possible songs in all different versions available within 1 mouseclick. I can play half a second of a song, and within that time my brain will decide if I want to listen to that song or not. Next one..next one...next one...next one...wait, ok - this might be the perfect song for that minute in my life.
But hey, most of the time the computer just plays the songs for himself. He decides which one will come next, and there are about 6000 songs he can choose from. He can play 3 hours or 5 hours, and I believe he can play 500 hours in a row, and I do not have to click on anything during that time.
When friends visit me then it is not so easy to find the music which everyone likes. I guess in the 60´s that was really easy, you either liked the Beatles or the Rolling Stones, and some freaks liked S&G. Your friends for sure loved the music you like too. Today the people are not really interested in listening to music, it is background noise.
Except when I turn on the grammophone, then it is magic.
I can recommend it to you - and the really good thing is, you do not have to care about the music-taste of your friends. All those shellacs are 60-80 years Old, no one can say: "Play Lady Gaga!" | | | | mog
Oct-15-2010, 03:10 GMT
Unknown
 | Interesting contribution Bodo. I wonder how Old you are !? Probably around my age...
I don´t what to say. It is true to the attention span has shorten in a big way since MP3.
I did like the cassette for its convenience and although it has a good sound in general, I could tell the difference with a CD.
CD is my generation, and it is my thing. I have never been a big fan of vinyls and kind of amused at the so-called revival of them. Although I do get your point that there might be something magical about it in a certain way.
For everything, there are pros and cons. I guess we all have been amazed at the vision of having 4000 songs on a small device, and no reading skips while jogging.
On the other hand, it has banalized the whole thing greatly. Friends that come to my house almost always tell me how they are impressed when they see my collection of discs. On digital, yes, you can have 4000 songs on your iPod, but who cares ? The neighbor has 80 Go, and the other one 100Go, and so on and so forth.
Formerly, it took patience, money, and Love for music to acquire a collection of discs from an artist. Now, any 18 year-old could tell you...oh, nice Bob Dylan collection. I downloaded the whole thing with 2 clicks on a torrent.
I do think that paying for stuff and/or taking time to get something into your possession make you appreciate it more. Do you think the guy who downloaded the entire Bob Dylan discography in 5 minutes pays as much attention as you do ?
Anyhow, the machine is big and things will continue to evolve, whatever we think. Being nostalgic is as up-to-date as being found of the 45-RPM in 1986...
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