Media consumption paradox, dilema, tragedy.

[cheezydemon3]

Two shays, and a bottle o bourbon.

GILACHEEZY

I'm partial to Woodford reserve if you're buying!

 

[Jacob_Marley]

What's this netflix you speak of?

It's a pornography website on the internet.
I hear you can use the Google to find it.

 

[sloan_s]

Netflix porn? Lol

 

[Bedlam]

Oh, man, I have discovered SO MUCH MORE powerful music using Pandora combined with Sirius than I ever had when only Casey Casum ruled the airwaves. Top 40 schutff doesn't even reach my ears anymore. I don't have to sift through the pop/superficial/teenage angst crap like I used to. I just listen and hear something I like, say "huh, who was that?", then do a quick search and sample the album. I download what I like and Bob's your uncle. The side effect is that now my listening tastes are so far afield that I can't connect to, really, anybody else except for folks who like pretty specific or weird music. The upside: when I *DO* find those folks, it is great!

I'm happy. Good times.

 

[Kittyfeet]

Today's music is like processed food made on an assembly line.

For me, this is the main reason why I much prefer buying a single mp3 rather than the full album. I'm sure albums back in the day were great, but as the music industry got bigger and bigger and a new teenage pop star came out every year, things started to go downhill. Fast.

These last few years I've started looking at what label a particular artist is signed to. If most artists from one label have one good song and 11 crap songs, I'm going to assume this label is really good at making one hit wonders, and I'm going to buy one mp3 per artist. I can't trust the label to give me better quality.

If another label has artists with 3 or 4 good songs per album, I'm much more likely to buy that entire album. One of those gems might be an actual listen through album. I haven't found a good listen through album in years.

My method is based entirely off observations and assumptions, so for those who know actual facts about music labels, I'd love to hear your thoughts.

 

[dfc]

For me, this is the main reason why I much prefer buying a single mp3 rather than the full album. I'm sure albums back in the day were great, but as the music industry got bigger and bigger and a new teenage pop star came out every year, things started to go downhill. Fast.

These last few years I've started looking at what label a particular artist is signed to. If most artists from one label have one good song and 11 crap songs, I'm going to assume this label is really good at making one hit wonders, and I'm going to buy one mp3 per artist. I can't trust the label to give me better quality.

If another label has artists with 3 or 4 good songs per album, I'm much more likely to buy that entire album. One of those gems might be an actual listen through album. I haven't found a good listen through album in years.

My method is based entirely off observations and assumptions, so for those who know actual facts about music labels, I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Majors are about money therefore one hit wonders and album fillers. Seek out independent labels and typically you'll find a better quality product from start to finish.

 

[r2eng]

I do understand Cheezy - the backsides of my vinyl supplied many a pleasant surprise. I do miss those days. But...

Bedlam just described my feelings to a T. I have really expanded my horizons with previously unknown-to-me artists using Pandora. From there it's up to me to discover the depth of said artists, which I do using iTunes and Amazon.

And yes, I have downloaded entire albums!

My $0.02.

 

[cheezydemon3]

OK. Genre specific time.(BS PUKE!!!!!!!)

I know no other way.

JOSH RITTER, Todd Snider.

Pandora that and you have several months worth of EPIC music!!!!!PARADISE!!!!LIKE RIGHT?!?!?!???!?!

In all that fantastic music (just pretend for a minute that your tastes are mine), all that AMAZING music.

Will you once hear "the curse" by ritter? NO. Not even if you put that in as the station (by song, not artist) MY POINT????(he asks AGAIN)

That song, all at once, a Waltz with a melancholy trumpet solo, a morbid take on a Mummy story that is at once NEW and uplifting "....after thousands of years, what a face to wake up to" and yet uplifting as it seems, it takes a new look at a MUMMY'S CURSE, and is the counterpoint, for me, that takes this AWESOME songwriter, with such bad ass sh!t as "girl in the war" and makes him nearly superhuman in my somewhat educated eyes.

NOT on Pandora. So, CASE in MF POINT. Do you see that despite the fact that you have 45 AWESOME songs from 43 AWESOME artists, that is at least 200 lifechangingly great songs YOU WILL NEVER HEAR!!!!

Great times??
You bet.

I guess I would rather have 48 songs from my 4 favorite artists, than 48 songs from my 45 favorite artists.

You are free to disagree.

 

[Berniep]

Pandora is a means to an end. Just like r2eng said. I dont look at it as the end product. It helps me find artists i like and then i can research them further elsewhere.

 

[cheezydemon3]

Pandora is awesome for discovering new artists!

It saved my life this weekend as I had to house sit for my dad. No tunes hell.

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

OK. Genre specific time.(BS PUKE!!!!!!!)

I know no other way.

JOSH RITTER, Todd Snider.

Pandora that and you have several months worth of EPIC music!!!!!PARADISE!!!!LIKE RIGHT?!?!?!???!?!

In all that fantastic music (just pretend for a minute that your tastes are mine), all that AMAZING music.

Will you once hear "the curse" by ritter? NO. Not even if you put that in as the station (by song, not artist) MY POINT????(he asks AGAIN)

That song, all at once, a Waltz with a melancholy trumpet solo, a morbid take on a Mummy story that is at once NEW and uplifting "....after thousands of years, what a face to wake up to" and yet uplifting as it seems, it takes a new look at a MUMMY'S CURSE, and is the counterpoint, for me, that takes this AWESOME songwriter, with such bad ass sh!t as "girl in the war" and makes him nearly superhuman in my somewhat educated eyes.

NOT on Pandora. So, CASE in MF POINT. Do you see that despite the fact that you have 45 AWESOME songs from 43 AWESOME artists, that is at least 200 lifechangingly great songs YOU WILL NEVER HEAR!!!!

Great times??
You bet.

I guess I would rather have 48 songs from my 4 favorite artists, than 48 songs from my 45 favorite artists.

You are free to disagree.

The "Three's Company" guy? Always dreamed of Janet or Chrissy playing the "flute" but never, ever, Ritter!

 

[cheezydemon3]

I think that was John....Oh wait, I see what you did there.