My Beef With Today’s Music, 1
Live Albums: Please stop making anymore live albums. Live albums sound horrible, the audience in the background don’t shut the fuck up ever, and without digital touch ups, the singing is just horrible. Hate to be repetitive since its been said already, but people like Kanye cannot sing. Live albums used to be great. Duke Ellington’s Great Paris Concert & Diz and Getz, what great albums. Recording studio songs are great, but put a musician in his ambience in front of an audience and they sound even better. I’m being a bit prejudice mentioning only jazz musicians, but really, jazz albums are the only great live albums. I’ll concede and mention Metallica’s S&M and almost all of the BBC Live albums they used to do for the likes of Hendrix and Zeppelin, but today, I haven’t heard a decent live album. So stop making them. Along with those fucking concert DVDs….if I wanted to see a shitty band playing on my TV screen, I would have spent a bit more money to go see them. Stop trying to squeeze every fucking penny from your pathetic fans.
Remixes/Mashups: Specifically mainstream ones. I’m fine with those indie, underground (what is ‘underground’ anymore, nowadays?) remixes from the likes of DangerMouse (Grey Album), Girl Talk (Feed the Animals), and Earworm (http://djearworm.com/) but as I accidently turn on the radio while in the car, I hear those horrible mixes/mashups that ruin a perfectly good song. Yes ‘Paper Planes’ is a great song but what the fuck. How many different ways can you cut and paste and shit on that song?
