Full Name: Max
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Date and Time: 7/11/2001, 1:17 PM
Comments: After sifting thru the recent history of Squeeze, I can see the Internet has been good for them. I know XTC's web sites were the MOST visited on the web in the late 90's, that did not, however, help them at ALL. I think were ALL tired of critics, the movie industry has shown they will simply invent a good review and reviewer. Many of these critically acclaimed artists are locked in a void where there biggest fans are critics that PAY nothing for the CD's they so tout as good, or bad. How much free food can you eat before you cant stand it? NOT MUCH! So we are left with folks(critics) that look at that pile of cd's and just see work, not the blood and sweat of a band. But not just any band-- the treatment labels give these artists is reprehensible. What artists? Why ALL the UK pub rock greats that you reading this must know and love. Reprise had Squeeze, but they also signed Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe. So, how can a label be so "in tune" with these acts, yet let each of them "die on the vine" at their hands? dumbass kids, that's how. Reprise was the label Sinatra created after telling Capitol to jump in da' lake. Many of the original Reprise artists-- Randy Newman, for one--are STILL on reprise. And Reprise should supposedly have an adult-oriented perspective. But these acts or BRANDS are more valuable than EVER! XTC should NOT be on TVtoon Records, Joe Jackson should HAVE a contract, and I know the Buzzcocks couldnt get signed, and poor supertalented Adrian Belew had to start his own label, just like Glenn Tilbrook. just like Dave Edmunds. I wish I had the money to sign them all to ONE label. the bookend for popular music was Spinal Tap, everything since has been crap, even kurt Cobain would have agreed, everything has sucked since REM took the Talking Heads fan base. REM is BORING. The Talking Heads "Remain in Light" still as fresh as they were in '82. The computer revolution has desroyed the linear method of music creation. When ANYTHING is possible, nothing is a clear choice-- and now you have a Disney-trained army of mouskateers (BriTney, N'Sync, Christina A, others) using the music business to forward thier branding/identity. Music was always a business, but what we have today is vapid, pointless and disposable. Was pop music always designed to be so, disposable? Tell everyone trying to sell a CD against the Beatles ONE cd. There is nowhere left for the pendulum to swing, in fact, its come to a DEAD STOP!
Max