[lbo-talk] why Prince is right

[Bhaskar Sunkara]

I think the much heralded "death of the album" is mostly hype, there are
still artists putting them together.  I've made a similar point about Itunes
sort of helping make this a singles-dominated era (some crappy filler in
between) with less cohesive albums though, but wasn't even the 1960s a
singles-era?  Hasn't that historically been the norm?  If anything the
digital form should give artists more freedom from medium-imposed limits
(the max length of a single lp / cd, etc).

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Eric Beck <ersatzdog at gmail.com> wrote:

Yes. At the risk of sounding all rockist, the most annoying thing
> about iTunes has been this emphasis on songs, the three-minute
> individual unit, and abandonment of formats that let artists express
> themselves more freely.
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