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Pink Floyd Wins Legal Battle Over Digital Sale of Individual Songs

Artistic Integrity

So, naturally, the members of Pink Floyd will return all the monetary royalties they received for the singles sales of the song "Money" as a sign of artistic integrity............. :D

I think not................. :mad:

Surely the band members were aware of the sales of phonograh singles of "Money", you know those thin round black disks with a big hole in the middle. Of course, that was a long time ago and the drugs may have had something to do with it.....


and I quote "...Think I'll buy me a football team..."
 
MrSmith said:
The irrelevancy of this comment astounds me. The mental and physical states of Gilmour and co. are not in the least connected with the albums they have already produced.
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Gilmore was the source of most of the Floyd troubles. To me the real Pink Floyd was Barrett and Waters tried to honor his friend. Gilmore couldn't get along with anyone in the band and was a prima donna and who thought he was the only member of Pink. I severly dislike that guy.
 
satcomer said:
Who the heck is Pink Floyd today anyway? A bunch of geriatrics looking for more money. I would be surprised if most of the remaining members are suffering from Alzheimer's.

It's time to move on. :eek:
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While they are mostly dead or well along the way, their music and attitude toward music defines an era, defines an attitude, and defines some form of religion.

The moment you get that, is the moment you get Pink Floyd. My advise is once you choose to "get it", also choose to buy a vinyl record of theirs, play it on a turntable with an analog amp, and with your attitude "slightly adjusted".

IF YOU DON'T WANT TO DO THOSE THINGS, OR CANNOT, I STRONGLY SUGGEST YOU AVOID FLOYD OR DOWNLOAD THE DIGITAL VERSION AND JUDGE IT ON THE SAME LEVEL AS THE BEE GEES OR BARRY MANILOW.

Thank you.

Rocketman
 
satcomer said:
Who the heck is Pink Floyd today anyway? A bunch of geriatrics looking for more money. I would be surprised if most of the remaining members are suffering from Alzheimer's.

It's time to move on. :eek:
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Sure. You're just another brick in the wall who needs to listen to their Christian rock, Jonas Brothers or Hanna Montana.
 
satcomer said:
Nope. Jazz is my choice. The last great original music that isn't something manufactured.
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Jazz?

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batchtaster said:
I don't mean any offence by this but I remember when CDs were considered gauche, and it was vinyl records that were the measure of a true musician. CDs were "too perfect" and had no soul or some other junk I barely listened to. (Although there is something to that - consider Britney's and Whitney's complete inability to "sing" a note without error-corrective software.)

I wonder how long until MP3 is held with reverence and fondly remembered in comparison to whatever's-next (presumably also digital, as I don't see any way back from music - or anything else for that matter - having become insubstantial and having no physical mass).

ObTopic: I don't care. Never liked P.F, so they can do whatever the crap they want. If it heralds in a new era of selling only entire albums then so be it. Market dynamics will nip this in the bud when people walk away once they're told they can't buy single packs of Funions, that they have to buy a case.
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No offense taken. At just shy of 30 years old, it sounds like you have more of a historical perspective than I do.

I have no problems with vinyl, it's just that probably less than 5% of the cd's I have are available on vinyl. So cd's it is for me.
 
Nebulance said:
I agree completely -- while not a professional musician, I do write & play music. MP3's are terrible in sound quality -- FLAC is the way to go.

As for physical recordings being dying industry -- most likely not. Vinyl has become more popular as of late, a slight return to the good old days when music was good (1950-1979) (in terms of rock & roll, at least).
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That's a great point, wasn't 2009 a huge year for vinyl? Didn't they see record sales compared to the last 25 years or something like that? Can't remember the story I read.
 
satcomer said:
Nope. Jazz is my choice. The last great original music that isn't something manufactured.
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I respect that. I like Jazz and let's be clear it is "original north American music".

Floyd is actually a version of jazz. It is contemperaneous sounds with an emtional motive more than a message or word motive. While Floyd does have some vocals, it has a basis similar to Jazz, but on a rock and roll, and synth, and composite art fashion.

Floyd is about leveraging the tools.

Jazz is about leveraging the instruments.

The difference while actual is not readily discernable.

Rocketman
 
AidenShaw said:
And the next night, repeat.

It's even better when you recognize the little riffs that
foreshadow the next movement ("song" or "track" seem to be the
wrong words).
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Actually the next night you queue up the wizard of oz right along with the Dark Side of the Moon. That'll really blow your mind.
:D
 
Rocketman said:
I respect that. I like Jazz and let's be clear it is "original north American music".

Floyd is actually a version of jazz. It is contemperaneous sounds with an emtional motive more than a message or word motive. While Floyd does have some vocals, it has a basis similar to Jazz, but on a rock and roll, and synth, and composite art fashion.

Floyd is about leveraging the tools.

Jazz is about leveraging the instruments.

The difference while actual is not readily discernable.

Rocketman
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Pink Floyd isn't much in the jazz tradition if you ask me. Sure, you can draw some similarities, but it is possible to find similarities in 2 entirely different things.
 
Rocketman said:
Floyd is actually a version of jazz.

It is contemperaneous sounds with an emtional motive more than a message or word motive. While Floyd does have some vocals, it has a basis similar to Jazz, but on a rock and roll, and synth, and composite art fashion.

Floyd is about leveraging the tools.

Jazz is about leveraging the instruments.
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Very well said.

Once I chuckled at the "the human voice is an instrument" crowd.

After I listened to "The Great Gig in the Sky" from Dark Side
of the Moon, I understood completely.

The "solo instrument" in the song is a female vocalist - Clare
Torry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gig_in_the_Sky
 
the whole "mine's bigger" attitude...

Eduardo1971 said:
I don't care for Pink Floyd but I am glad to read that the courts sided with their argument.
As some one with over 1100 CD's and over 700 vinyl albums I am able to appreciate those artists who really put an effort in creating a cohesive album
and not an a just a collection of singles.
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why not just say you have a lot of music?

will you feel less of a person if someone else has 1101 CDs and 701 vinyl albums?

this whole album issue is a farce... there are plenty of albums where you have to buy the whole thing to get specific tracks. Mute seem to have a "over 7 minutes, buy the album" agreement in place. so it's technically easy to implement. would be interesting to see how the sales go one these albums compared per-track purchasing. probably like the US$1.29 tracks: a hell of a lot less. :)
 
satcomer said:
Nope. Jazz is my choice. The last great original music that isn't something manufactured.
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You can manufacture jazz. Take a pretty face with a decent voice and have her sing some standards or take a saxophone or trumpet and have it play the vocal harmony of some standards over some "funky" bass and synths. Or if you want to make it "edgy" cover a pop or Radiohead song.

Recorded jazz as a genre isn't special.
 
rockosmodurnlif said:
You can manufacture jazz. Take a pretty face with a decent voice and have her sing some standards or take a saxophone or trumpet and have it play the vocal harmony of some standards over some "funky" bass and synths. Or if you want to make it "edgy" cover a pop or Radiohead song.

Recorded jazz as a genre isn't special.
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Sure, those arrangements you listed could be considered manufactured, but hopefully following the head would be choruses of improv. That's the exciting part for me, the spontaneous musical communication between the band.

Sure, I'll agree, some recorded jazz isn't special, in fact there is a lot of recorded jazz that I'd call bad.
 
Pink Floyd needs to chill out maaan... seriously All people want are Comfortably Numb, Wish you were here and that other one about teachers
 
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