"Too Many Notes"
Posted on 12/08/2016 12:35:05 PM PST by nwrep
A mammoth box set of Mozart’s music is officially the best-selling CD release of 2016.
Mozart 225: The New Complete Edition has sold a total of 1.25 million CDs in the five weeks since its release, announced Universal Music Group via Billboard.
The anthology, containing every musical work written by famed Austrian composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), has managed to beat this year’s hit albums from stars including Drake, Beyoncé, Rihanna and Kanye West.
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You mean you spent that kind of money for a Mozart cover band?
Just CDs; those little plastic discs that young people have absolutely no use for, if they even own a device that would play one.
By comparison, Adele's 25 last year sold more downloaded copies on the first day of release in the United States alone than this Mozart CD sold.
These days, only old people buy CDs.
I thought that would be the case; people are only buying the songs they want from an album, not the entire album. The “CD” is going to be obsolete. We are losers in a couple of ways:
1. The CD began the process, but with the death of the CD comes the death of the genre of “album art.” Some of the best pop art of two generations was on album covers.
2. There are many times I’ve bought a CD, and at first blush one or two songs don’t seem that good. But with exposure, over time I realize they are actually good songs.
But probably the main cause of the collapsed market is that they don’t have anything to market. What is passed as “music” these days is all formulaic canned crap that sounds no different than the rest of the formulaic canned crap out there.
Who?
My younger son has figured out that if he buys the CD, he can get the download for free immediately then puts the CD away as a back up.
My other son doesn’t stream or buy CDs, he listens to FM radio.
Both are a couple of throwbacks.
I kept putting off buying it, and now Amazon is sold out.
Bummer.
I hope they get another supply soon.
I’ll buy CDs at the second-hand CD store, upload it to my iTunes library, and keep the CD as a backup.
When I was young, I never consumed music by the song, music was one side of an album. I found that frequently, I didn’t really like any individual song but as an album side, the music worked.
Putting together an album side is a lost art.
The really sad thing about all this? The publisher is going to claim “copyright” over the disks for 100 years.
That is what he does, a little surprised that a 15 year old would be doing so.
Putting together an album that tells a story is a lost art.
The Who: Quadrophenia
Pink Floyd: Animals
Yep. Wolfie was a dab hand at electric klavier in his younger days but later his strength was in composing and still later, decomposing.
Another lost art is album covers.
"Too Many Notes"
Downloadable music formats have inferior sound quality to CD's. Classical music lovers appreciate the quality of CD's and will go to the trouble of buying physical media.
I downloaded and ripped it as individual tracks, and as one big bloody track. Sent them a few $$ too, as I thought it was pretty well done.
Absolutely.
CDs and vinyl are superior sound wise. That's why I buy them.
I listen primarily to classical, and continue to buy CDs, SACDs and Blu-ray audio discs. The only time I buy digital music is when it's one of those cheap Bach Guild sets from Amazon that I can stream in my office at work.
This. Is. So. Timely!
I have not only been praying for our President and Vice President-elect’s every success, but for our culture to change as well: for a revival of truth, beauty, and goodness in the arts! For Christians and conservatives to take the lead in media and entertainment industries with artistic integrity and excellence.
We are so hungry for spiritual and cultural revival!
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