One, Two, Three
Ah, yes. It's Friday, so it's time for another weekly roundup of things that I found on the internet.
This week, I point you towards this piece on the Wired site. David Byrne somehow writes the most in-depth, fact-filled piece on the current state of the music industry that I've seen. It's complete with interview recordings with several people with actual good ideas and nice charts, which were surely influenced by Byrne's fascination with PowerPoint. Note that he says of Madonna, "Madge is a smart cookie." I'm not sure I agree with him there, but I eagerly await what he has to say about Jacko and Moz. Or even Posh and Becks.
But that's not all! Byrne does a second piece which focuses entirely on the economics of the recent Radiohead album. Note that Yorke says that "In terms of digital income, we've made more money out of this record than out of all the other Radiohead albums put together, forever — in terms of anything on the Net." Which sounds like an awful lot of money until you realize that he's comparing the money they have so far made on the latest album with the money they've made on online sales from their previous albums, which are currently not even available on iTunes. In fact, it's not clear where you could buy any of their previous albums online at all (nope, not Amazon either). So, that's not a very meaningful statement, but it is masterful hype.
And finally, a pair of unholy unions.
This week, I point you towards this piece on the Wired site. David Byrne somehow writes the most in-depth, fact-filled piece on the current state of the music industry that I've seen. It's complete with interview recordings with several people with actual good ideas and nice charts, which were surely influenced by Byrne's fascination with PowerPoint. Note that he says of Madonna, "Madge is a smart cookie." I'm not sure I agree with him there, but I eagerly await what he has to say about Jacko and Moz. Or even Posh and Becks.
But that's not all! Byrne does a second piece which focuses entirely on the economics of the recent Radiohead album. Note that Yorke says that "In terms of digital income, we've made more money out of this record than out of all the other Radiohead albums put together, forever — in terms of anything on the Net." Which sounds like an awful lot of money until you realize that he's comparing the money they have so far made on the latest album with the money they've made on online sales from their previous albums, which are currently not even available on iTunes. In fact, it's not clear where you could buy any of their previous albums online at all (nope, not Amazon either). So, that's not a very meaningful statement, but it is masterful hype.
And finally, a pair of unholy unions.
1 Comments:
damn, those are some gems you found there. The beatnix playing StoH has me wanting to see the whole zep catalog beatles-style.
the byrne article doesn't really point out any groundbreaking knowledge, but it is probably as clear as i've ever seen it stated, and the fact that its david byrne in wired lends the point some nice weight.
the only thing i have mixed feelings about is byrne's optimism about the current state of careers in music - i mean, i agree with what he says, but i wish he would just keep it to himself and let those on the fence to keep falling on the side of 'music is a bad choice'.
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