The earliest example I know of where the record company dictated to the band was the Beach Boys. -----Original Message----- From: yello-bounces+tourguide=austexecotours.com@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:yello-bounces+tourguide=austexecotours.com@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Jussi Salmi Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 2:43 AM To: The moon: beautiful. The sun: even more beautiful. Subject: Re: [Yello] rocket puniverse, potion mixtures, and the mote parkinglot Tasha wrote:
I am having to admit to age more and more often. Most of the popular electronically created dance music these days doesn't appeal to me very much. Thank goodness, keeps me from looking like the old hag on the dance floor.
Well, I have to admit, that I myself feel generations away from the hit music of today. When I was young, in the eighties, music that was clearly a project of a record company and that had the sole meaning of making money, was bashed in the media, and people actually didn't want to listen to such music. It seems that record companies have a lot of power on what kind of music people listen to today. But I guess the eighties were not free of this phenomenon either, things must have been going in that direction ever since the seventies or maybe even the sixties. I've given some thought to the question, whether this is just me getting old or is this a real phenomenon, the older generation is always talking of the golden times, but I'm sure, that music business has actually changed. A notable turn was when the "boy bands" like New Kids on the Block became massively successful, they were clearly formed by the record company. It made me scared when I heard that many radio stations get paid by record companies to play songs that they have published. This is definitely bad for musical creativity, since the record companies don't do the creative part, the artists do. -- Jussi Salmi http://staff.cs.utu.fi/~jussalmi/ _______________________________________________ Yello mailing list Yello@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/yello Report list abuse to list-abuse at studio-nibble.com