| Re: [I] Tenor of afp [message #250444] |
Di, 04 April 2006 23:56 |
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Peter Davies posted:
> It all started on Mon, 03 Apr 2006 08:56:06 -0400, when
> Arthur Hagen wrote:
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>> I can name at least 10 hits for each year from the 70's to
>> the early nineties, but I can't name 10 hits since 2000
>> until now. That's not because I'm not listening to new
>> music, but because of the record companies being more
>> interested in maximising short term profits and reducing
>> risk than at gambling on new music, so there really /are/
>> very few hits.
>
> I was interested to see in Q magazine's most recent Top 100
> Albums of All Time feature (which they seem to be doing
> with increasing frequency these days) that not a single top
> 100'er came out later than 2002.
>
As a matter of interest, have they started to list Chinese
and Indian music yet?
--
Ciao
Thomas =:-)
<I'm feeling so tired, all of a sudden>
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| Re: [I] Tenor of afp [message #250446 ] |
Mi, 05 April 2006 00:08 |
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Thomas Zahr said:
> Peter Davies posted:
>
>> It all started on Mon, 03 Apr 2006 08:56:06 -0400, when
>> Arthur Hagen wrote:
>>
>>> I can name at least 10 hits for each year from the 70's to
>>> the early nineties, but I can't name 10 hits since 2000
>>> until now. That's not because I'm not listening to new
>>> music, but because of the record companies being more
>>> interested in maximising short term profits and reducing
>>> risk than at gambling on new music, so there really /are/
>>> very few hits.
>>
>> I was interested to see in Q magazine's most recent Top 100
>> Albums of All Time feature (which they seem to be doing
>> with increasing frequency these days) that not a single top
>> 100'er came out later than 2002.
>>
>
> As a matter of interest, have they started to list Chinese
> and Indian music yet?
Why would they want to do that? China and India, between them, make up only
about a third of the population of the world, whereas the USA and Britain
between them make up an entire twentieth!
Anyway, if you added China into the mix, you'd probably end up with Richard
Clayderman in top spot, every year, for decades. (Data source: "Last Chance
to See", by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine.)
--
Richard Heathfield
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29/7/1999
http://www.cpax.org.uk
email: rjh at above domain (but drop the www, obviously)
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