Comments on: Only read this if you’re a complete music business geek. Like me. http://www.susanpiver.com/wordpress/2007/11/13/please-only-read-this-if-youre-interested-in-music-business-geekery-as-i-am/ Susan Piver - Meditation, Relationships, Creativity Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:23:08 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Publishers: Don’t do what the music business did — Susan Piver http://www.susanpiver.com/wordpress/2007/11/13/please-only-read-this-if-youre-interested-in-music-business-geekery-as-i-am/#comment-1640 Publishers: Don’t do what the music business did — Susan Piver Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:02:55 +0000 http://www.susanpiver.com/wordpress/2007/11/13/please-only-read-this-if-youre-interested-in-music-business-geekery-as-i-am/#comment-1640 [...] business. Cowardice and shortsighted turf-protection on the part of music business executives did. Here’s a long and—unless you’re a geek like me—boring post from 2007, dissecting just how this [...] [...] business. Cowardice and shortsighted turf-protection on the part of music business executives did. Here’s a long and—unless you’re a geek like me—boring post from 2007, dissecting just how this [...]

]]> By: Chris Flett http://www.susanpiver.com/wordpress/2007/11/13/please-only-read-this-if-youre-interested-in-music-business-geekery-as-i-am/#comment-392 Chris Flett Sun, 02 Dec 2007 03:06:30 +0000 http://www.susanpiver.com/wordpress/2007/11/13/please-only-read-this-if-youre-interested-in-music-business-geekery-as-i-am/#comment-392 Susan, this is an excellent commentary on the music industry and I think you have hit this dead on the head. Well done! C/ Susan, this is an excellent commentary on the music industry and I think you have hit this dead on the head. Well done!

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]]> By: sandy http://www.susanpiver.com/wordpress/2007/11/13/please-only-read-this-if-youre-interested-in-music-business-geekery-as-i-am/#comment-377 sandy Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:16:08 +0000 http://www.susanpiver.com/wordpress/2007/11/13/please-only-read-this-if-youre-interested-in-music-business-geekery-as-i-am/#comment-377 i'm not a music business geek, but read this post anyway and found it fascinating. as just an average consumer, i've also been saying for years that there hasn't been an original music genre since the 80's, but had no idea how that happened. i don't buy much music because i have such a hard time finding stuff i like. i don't listen to the radio because i can't stand hearing the same 10 songs that sound exactly the same over and over all day long. "retro" is the word of the day. it both delights and saddens me that young people love the same stuff i did when i was their age, but don't have a love of their own. when i hear a song from my youth that brings back such feeling, it breaks my heart that the youth of today won't have that unique and fresh experience. that their growth and potential may actually be stunted by it. "retro" is just that. history is important of course, but everyone knows it's just repeat and can only get just so attached to it as something rehashed. i used to see hip-hop and rap as very valuable and much-needed new anthropoligic expressions, but feel it's become just another cash cow with the predominantly african-american artists that populate it getting exploiteded just like the blues and jazz artists of the past. beyond all the profit aspects of the music business decline, i feel there's also darker forces at work. i truly believe that apathy in other aspects of life --spiritual, political, emotional-- comes from a lack of musical inspiration. the sublimity of the 60's was so imbued by it's music! this idea could branch out in a thousand directions. i see download sites and programmable "radio" applicatons (GOOD ones, which are VERY hard to find) as bastions for original music, and search them yearningly for inspiration (my favorites are download.com and pandora). i also spend a lot of time cross-referencing on the listening stations at barnes and noble. i hate the giant companies, but music is essential to the soul so what can i do? anyway.....just a few of my thoughts. maybe we can develop a spot on this site for exchanging music resources. like every other rip-off in modern society, change is totally up to the consumer. i’m not a music business geek, but read this post anyway and found it fascinating. as just an average consumer, i’ve also been saying for years that there hasn’t been an original music genre since the 80’s, but had no idea how that happened. i don’t buy much music because i have such a hard time finding stuff i like. i don’t listen to the radio because i can’t stand hearing the same 10 songs that sound exactly the same over and over all day long.

“retro” is the word of the day. it both delights and saddens me that young people love the same stuff i did when i was their age, but don’t have a love of their own. when i hear a song from my youth that brings back such feeling, it breaks my heart that the youth of today won’t have that unique and fresh experience. that their growth and potential may actually be stunted by it. “retro” is just that. history is important of course, but everyone knows it’s just repeat and can only get just so attached to it as something rehashed. i used to see hip-hop and rap as very valuable and much-needed new anthropoligic expressions, but feel it’s become just another cash cow with the predominantly african-american artists that populate it getting exploiteded just like the blues and jazz artists of the past.

beyond all the profit aspects of the music business decline, i feel there’s also darker forces at work. i truly believe that apathy in other aspects of life –spiritual, political, emotional– comes from a lack of musical inspiration. the sublimity of the 60’s was so imbued by it’s music! this idea could branch out in a thousand directions.

i see download sites and programmable “radio” applicatons (GOOD ones, which are VERY hard to find) as bastions for original music, and search them yearningly for inspiration (my favorites are download.com and pandora). i also spend a lot of time cross-referencing on the listening stations at barnes and noble. i hate the giant companies, but music is essential to the soul so what can i do?

anyway…..just a few of my thoughts. maybe we can develop a spot on this site for exchanging music resources. like every other rip-off in modern society, change is totally up to the consumer.

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