One Day... Albums as Single Unbreakable Files
Fans are cherry-picking your songs. You hate it, hate it, hate it. Artists make albums, not songs. If only there were a way to make fans consume your vision as you saw fit. In Wired UK's edition, Russell Davies poses an interesting question:
“MP3s, Napster and iTunes have turned the natural unit of music consumption into the song... [they] are not completely separate entities, not isolated fragments. They're linked by sound, By the mood and ideasof the musicians, by the time and place of the recording. They're connected—and sometimes it makes sense for them to keep that connection... We very rarely sit and listen to a single song, unless it's that first moment of fan devotion... How long before bands decide that they're only going to make albums available as single unbreakable files?
“MP3s, Napster and iTunes have turned the natural unit of music consumption into the song... [they] are not completely separate entities, not isolated fragments. They're linked by sound, By the mood and ideasof the musicians, by the time and place of the recording. They're connected—and sometimes it makes sense for them to keep that connection... We very rarely sit and listen to a single song, unless it's that first moment of fan devotion... How long before bands decide that they're only going to make albums available as single unbreakable files?
