Today’s Leftsetz Letter made me laugh at first, but then, as I read further, a blanket of sadness fell. Why does this make me feel so strange, I thought.
Then I realized that these are the rantings of a man insane, screaming into the digital void. Leftsetz is standing on top of a dirty, digital trash-can and heckling the passerby with warnings of the apocalypse … digitally.
Essentially, Leftsetz says, as if fact, that no one likes albums, so bands should just make singles.
No, wrong, no one likes shitty albums. Sure, there are plenty of those out there, but the purpose of a single isn’t just to get people to purchase an album, it’s also to get people into your band. If you hook them with a single, you need more tracks to feed them – free or not. To say that a band only needs one song, and that any fan (not just the die-hards, as Leftsetz assumes) would be satisfied with just one song is as crazy as a monkey shitting balloon-monkeys.
He’s finally lost it.
Leftsetz is fucking amazing. But it’s definitely a this kind of amazing:
http://www.iheartchaos.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/nwzo7s.jpg
All of his writing make sense only in the context of each single post. He recently claimed bands have to make money taking their act on the road…but how do you take one fucking single on the road? If you put everything he’s written together, it would be one giant contradiction.
Maybe that’s why he loves singles.
My comments would have less typos if your comment box had a font size bigger than 1.
Considering the supply is greater than the demand in the music biz, I don’t think it much matters whether a band releases a single instead of an album — there’s still too much to grasp. Unless, of course, the band in question wants to have lasting appeal. Singles are designed to hit the market and stick “RIGHT NOW!” where albums have the glorious ability to act as an artistic statement that is fulfilling as an experience. The cream will rise to the top, as they say, even if it takes 25 years to do so, and the bands that release multiple singles that aren’t tied together won’t fare as well as the artists who release songs with a greater picture in mind. I’m probably missing a great point, but I sort of don’t care anymore. I’m about to give up music to go into the more lucrative artistic role of basket-weaver.