I agree. I made the same comment in another post and some user read me the riot lol. It's amusing that Mika and other artists with more cutting edge and actual vocal talent are huge everyone but the states, while the states seems caught up in the Britney Spears/Timbaland/Justin Timberlake bread and butter blandness of corporate money making. Whatever happened to the originality of the 80's and early 90's? Music seems to have generally gone down hill since...
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I agree. I made the same comment in another post and some user read me the riot lol. It's amusing that Mika and other artists with more cutting edge and actual vocal talent are huge everyone but the states, while the states seems caught up in the Britney Spears/Timbaland/Justin Timberlake bread and butter blandness of corporate money making. Whatever happened to the originality of the 80's and early 90's? Music seems to have generally gone down hill since...
Oh Give Me A Break
If Apple pulls a stunt like charging for ringtones, I'm going straight to hacking the freaking iPhone and never looking back. That's the dumbest idea I have heard in a long... long time.
Where's iChat? Where's a browser that doesn't crash all the time? Where is an official SDK? Apple, please don't tell me that you've been wasting all this time on the Beatles and ringtones that we're going to have to pay for. I beg of you... make this announcement worth the time it has taken to put together!
New iPods? Okay great, but how about giving some much needed updates to the iPhone and its community that should've been there from the start?
If Apple pulls a stunt like charging for ringtones, I'm going straight to hacking the freaking iPhone and never looking back. That's the dumbest idea I have heard in a long... long time.
Where's iChat? Where's a browser that doesn't crash all the time? Where is an official SDK? Apple, please don't tell me that you've been wasting all this time on the Beatles and ringtones that we're going to have to pay for. I beg of you... make this announcement worth the time it has taken to put together!
New iPods? Okay great, but how about giving some much needed updates to the iPhone and its community that should've been there from the start?
I'm surprised that we haven't seen any decent spy shots of the new ipods surface. Apple is doing a good job of keeping a tight lid on things.
I hope they introduce iTunes 8 which will come with the "events" styling ala iPhoto
I think it would be neat to have a new "view" button for that, but that's me and I'm funny like that
and I guess iPods would be pretty cool as well...
I think it would be neat to have a new "view" button for that, but that's me and I'm funny like that
and I guess iPods would be pretty cool as well...
All I want is MMS, and the ability to send text and MMS to multiple people at the same time. I can live with the ringtones, and even if I can't, there's ways to hack the phone to get them on. I just want some missing features i used to use daily. It's bad enough the reception on AT&T sucks for me... As much as I love some aspects of this phone, I'm REALLY missing some other basics.
Yes, if The Beatles are on iTunes next week, it will be the old 1980s CDs, not any re-issues. I don't think they would want that, so I think no Beatles this year.
When it does happen, it will be only a small part of a huge re-issue series. At that point no-one will care (or notice) that they are also on iTunes.
I don't get why you all are reading into this whole stupid Beatles hype. So what if Beatles songs aren't sold on iPod. It can't be that important, because if you are a hardcore Beatles fan you already have their CDs or have downloaded their song illegally. It ain't like their songs are debuting on iTunes or something. Geeez!!
Does anyone have...
...that sinking feeling? Aren't we long overdue an underwhelming Apple Media Event?
"Oh, and one more thing... As of today we will make available to ALL iPhone customers the facility to use audio content purchased from the iTunes store as custom ringtones."
Queue a wave of ear-bleed that spreads through the crowd as the mass of assembled journalists snap biros/pencils in thunderous unison.
Perhaps...
...that sinking feeling? Aren't we long overdue an underwhelming Apple Media Event?
"Oh, and one more thing... As of today we will make available to ALL iPhone customers the facility to use audio content purchased from the iTunes store as custom ringtones."
Queue a wave of ear-bleed that spreads through the crowd as the mass of assembled journalists snap biros/pencils in thunderous unison.
Perhaps...
I think The Beatles on iTunes is as much symbolic as it is commercial.
For iTunes to finally get the last great holdout truly legitimises online digital music distribution as a bona-fide long term reality.
It also comes at a time when iTunes is under pressure from giants like Universal who are engaged in a stealth strategy to become their own digital distributer and cut everybody else from the game.
EMI/Apple Corps giving distribution rights of the worlds greatest and most popular band of all time to iTunes once more reinforces the clear and logical distinction between a record label and it's chosen digital media distribution solutions partner.
plus it will be cool to bring The Beatles catalog to a generation who currently don't care much about The Beatles...
For iTunes to finally get the last great holdout truly legitimises online digital music distribution as a bona-fide long term reality.
It also comes at a time when iTunes is under pressure from giants like Universal who are engaged in a stealth strategy to become their own digital distributer and cut everybody else from the game.
EMI/Apple Corps giving distribution rights of the worlds greatest and most popular band of all time to iTunes once more reinforces the clear and logical distinction between a record label and it's chosen digital media distribution solutions partner.
plus it will be cool to bring The Beatles catalog to a generation who currently don't care much about The Beatles...
iPhone Gadget OS X Rumors Weekly claims a reliable source has information regarding next Wednesday's Apple Media Event.
I hope these rumors are true. I can hardly imagine a white iPOD.
I lol'ed. We need to buy our new Red Shuffles to save Africa, 10 cents at a time.
Hold your horses, the next few months are just going to be amazing! We're looking at refreshing the entire iPod range, Leopard, Europe iPhone launch and more I'm sure.
I think you should avoid arguing with people who believe music began with Flock of Seagulls.
Custom Ring tones... wwoooow.
Such innovation from Apple
I think Apple TOTALLY missed the boat by not putting a ringtone maker into Garageband 08. I was actually pretty shocked.
Except it isn't quite true. There's plenty of singles cuts (A and B-sides) on the Beatles official UK album releases, particularly the earlier ones. However the tracks always appeared on singles first, except for the 'Something/Come Together' double A-side which appeared around a month after the release of 'Abbey Road'.
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Just a quick theory on the 'the beat goes on' tagline....
Could it be so simple as to basically say that the iPod isn't dead and that it will go on?
Kev
Just a quick theory on the 'the beat goes on' tagline....
Could it be so simple as to basically say that the iPod isn't dead and that it will go on?
Kev
Beatles, Beatles, Beatles...
I love the Beatles, but man... they're all going to be 6-feet under before a deal to put their music online ever happens!!
I love the Beatles, but man... they're all going to be 6-feet under before a deal to put their music online ever happens!!
Why? Tell me why?
Why would anyone want to hear a 5.1 mix of an album that wasn't conceived of as a surround sound project? Novelty value at best; total desecration at worst.
I'm not knocking 5.1 for audio per sé (the Super Furry Animals have done simultaneous 5.1 releases of all their records since Rings Around The World all of which make great use of the tech), but to me it's a lot like when stereo LP's first appeared and all of a sudden everything was remixed for stereo and you would have these Rolling Stones LP's with Keef 100% panned left and Ronnie 100% panned right and the whole thing just sounds weird and not at all good.
I've listened to the stereo mixes of Village Green maybe two or three times. Always reach for the mono.
Why would anyone want to hear a 5.1 mix of an album that wasn't conceived of as a surround sound project? Novelty value at best; total desecration at worst.
I'm not knocking 5.1 for audio per sé (the Super Furry Animals have done simultaneous 5.1 releases of all their records since Rings Around The World all of which make great use of the tech), but to me it's a lot like when stereo LP's first appeared and all of a sudden everything was remixed for stereo and you would have these Rolling Stones LP's with Keef 100% panned left and Ronnie 100% panned right and the whole thing just sounds weird and not at all good.
I've listened to the stereo mixes of Village Green maybe two or three times. Always reach for the mono.
I have this debate all the time, where people think groups like The Beatles will die out with the generation that grew up with them. Yes, the Beatles and most other early rock groups have an influence on 'modern rock' Ask your favorite rock bands and they'll tell you themselves. (if you're into hip hop only, forget it then. )
Music is not newspapers. They have no dates and no pictures unless you're hung up on album covers. Music expresses emotion and if you can relate to the artist's message then that song lives with you forever.
On another note: When younger people who don't really know or care about the Beatles hear about them, they usually think of maybe four songs: "Hard Day's Night", "She Loves You", "Sgt. Peppers" and "Yellow Submarine" Which I understand can sound kinda tiresome... The cure is the Abbey Road album, which can still go toe-to toe against anything produced in the last 38 years.
After playing Abbey Road to someone for a first time:
"That's a beatles song?!"
"Yea, that's a beatles song."
It all depends on your needs. Fair enough that the iMac is the only thing interesting to you (I'm the opposite; the new iMac doesn't dramatically interest me). But on the other hand, I found the new MBP to be majorly impressive (still the only laptop on the market with a 15.4" LED-backlit screen, and still by far the lightest and thinnest laptop with an 8600M GT). But I assume you found it to be uninteresting.
Aside from that, this year also brought the iPhone; even if you're not personally interested in it, given it's introduction of a new mobile OS X platform, I'm not sure how it can be said to be part of a lousy year.
-Zadillo