So here is another installment of the Uncle's Primordial Soup and I would be willing to bet that a huge portion of the people reading this has a hard time remembering life before the Internet. Don't get me wrong, I'm one of the Internet's biggest fans, but it has changed the way I (and many others) feel about music.
Instead of vinyl LP's and CD's we have MP3's that we got from eMusic or our favorite music blog. The cover art on my Zune is shrunk to a minuscule size. I rarely hold a physical product in my hands anymore, and when I do, the moment seems so fleeting and impersonal.
The Internet and the information revolution of the mid 90's made anything and everything instantly (well slowly with dial-up) accessible to just about any affluent person with a computer. Today the information overload is 1000x worse. It is great that there are so many individuals that can get their music heard by anyone who will listen, but all the mystery is gone. No stone is left unturned.
Uncle's Primordial Soup reminds me of back when music was mysterious and you could spend hours pouring over the liner notes of your favorite album. Sadly, for me, those days are long gone.
MP3 | Wire - Map Ref 41N 93W
MP3 | The Sound - Jeopardy
MP3 | The Vapors - Turning Japanese
MP3 | Minor Threat - I Don't Wanna Hear It
MP3 | Mission Of Burma - That's When I Reach For My Revolver
MP3 | The Sisters Of Mercy - Adrenochrome
MP3 | The The - This Is The Day
MP3 | Minutemen - Political Song For Michael Jackson To Sing
MP3 | Billy Bragg - A New England
MP3 | Dinosaur Jr. - Little Fury Things
More music at The Hype Machine or buy from Insound | eMusic
1 Comments ↓
Absolutely correct; the concept of a 12x12 canvas for artistic expression is dead.
And besides the artwork (ranging from the trippy fantasy of Roger Dean to the mimimalist messages of Andy Warhol), there was STUFF in lots of albums.
Every Beatle fan in college had the 8x10 photos of the Fab Four displayed in their dorm room; pictures that came with each copy of The White Album.
Then there are the interactive covers, like the pull-down crotch zipper of the Stone's Sticky Fingers, the spinning wheel of Led Zeppelin III, and the flip-top zippo lighter that was the original issue of the Wailer's Catch A Fire.
While I DO enjoy the portability of an MP3 file, a tiny picture on a jewel box, or a thumbnail-sized image on an iPod just doesn't cut it.
Silent 3
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