SAILORJ.com » Music http://blog.sailorj.com Walking a Straight Line to Infinity... Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:28:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Top 100 Albums http://blog.sailorj.com/2006/11/15/top-100-albums/ http://blog.sailorj.com/2006/11/15/top-100-albums/#comments Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:33:15 +0000 Sailorj http://blog.sailorj.com/?p=175 Ha, Leave it to Whitney to give us that Sampler of a list.  I could think of plenty of albums that should have made the list, such as Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA, or Steely Dan’s Aja for instance.  The 70’s really brought home the idea of the “Concept Album”, and Ms. Whitney just doesn’t dig too deep when giving her opinion, but asks, US, her dear reader for some fodder to throw like monkeys at the poor old folks at Time.

Looks like Whitney ought to fet out USAToday’s top list of albums as voted upon by her devoted readers and fans.

Whitney Matheson is a writer for USAToday’s PopCandy section.  Her blog is updated almost daily.

]]> http://blog.sailorj.com/2006/11/15/top-100-albums/feed/ 0 The day the music died http://blog.sailorj.com/2006/11/01/the-day-the-music-died/ http://blog.sailorj.com/2006/11/01/the-day-the-music-died/#comments Wed, 01 Nov 2006 12:00:54 +0000 Sailorj http://blog.sailorj.com/?p=170 If you have been following the news about music lately then you may have heard about something called Payola which is back in the news.  Payola is record companies paying for DJs and radio stations to spin a specific artists record.  We’ll just say number of plays per day of a specific tune.  Anyway, Payola has been a big deal for years, and I started thinking about some of the music that I listen to, particularly the older music, ie Classic Rock genre, and I’m wondering how these stations are making cash since there isn’t really a rationale for Payola for these older stations of music, and yet there are a plethera of radio stations playing this type of music.

This got me thinking, how long will the music that I listen to be viable for airplay?  I mean, you don’t hear music from the 50’s much on the radio anymore, if at all.  As big as Elvis was, when was the last time you heard him on the radio?  The lifespan of music seems to be attached to the radio.  Currently the oldest music that is played, appears to be things from the mid 1960’s to today, say 40 years old.  I know when I was younger that we heard ‘50s music played all the time on the “Oldies” station.  Will Classic Rock become “Oldies” soon?  I don’t think so.  It will always retain a specific label that iconofies it to an era, such as Vietnam.

As people in this particular era turn to non-traditional methods of music listening, iPods, Podcasts, Satellite Radio, Music Videos, I believe radio will quickly find itself needing to transform itself to be a viable music delivery system.

With music on-air having basically a 40 year lifespan, you can bet it is the radio that is making the music die, but it will be those non-traditional methods that will breathe new life into the music of yesterday, the soundtracks of each generation.

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