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Elton John on Leno

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Lifted

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He doesn't like ipods becuase he likes to buy CD's and hear the whole album and support the artist rather than just hear a sound bite.

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I prefer entire albums also....has to do with growing up during the time of AOR. Album Oriented Rock, and Elton was the master in the 70s.
 
Originally posted by: Lifted
He doesn't like ipods becuase he likes to buy CD's and hear the whole album and support the artist rather than just hear a sound bite.

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Well he has a point... so many people just download the songs they hear on the radio and don't hear the other good songs that aren't released as singles.
 
Originally posted by: Ronstang
I prefer entire albums also....has to do with growing up during the time of AOR. Album Oriented Rock, and Elton was the master in the 70s.
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True dat. SOme of those albums in those years were KILLER...Floyd being the master....


Hell, even recently, bands like Radiohead, RATM, cafe tacuba, coldplay....have had great albums period.


The point is, nowadays everything is backwards. You have to go out of your way to buy the cds only at concerts so they'll get a good cut of the $$$

 
pretty much, he's ecentric to begin with.

he's full of it anyways, recent study showed most ipod owners still buy cds. people prefer physical medium, a master copy with full quality and no drm that they can recompress as they like.

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/17/006206
iPod Users Buy CDs, Shun iTunes

course artists like him prefer cds for another reason, they get a cut on every track on a cd, even the total sh*t filler ones people wouldn't buy on itunes. all about the $$$ and i've heard that arguement that artists want you to listen to the full album in order because its some kind of artistic package. bullocks, thats pretty arrogant to believe its all worth listening to. like most artistic attempts, much of music even from great artists is garbage or atleast mediocre and unexceptional.
 
Originally posted by: chuckywang
If all artists intended for us to listen to album straight through, then they would put all the songs on one track.
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have you ever listened to any pink floyd?
 
Originally posted by: chuckywang
If all artists intended for us to listen to album straight through, then they would put all the songs on one track.
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They'd probably only release singles albums. :roll: As cited above, Pink Floyd.
 
Originally posted by: preslove
I don't think he knows anything beyond his weird superstar world.
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i'd rather buy the album than have crap AAC encoding over itunes (i'll encode it how i want and play it where i want, thank you). itunes may be convenient, but you're paying a price (quality of encoding) for it.
 
Originally posted by: NFS4
Then you're supporting Ticket Bastard
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Fair enough, but the artist still gets more from those ticket sales (even after TB's cut) than they receive when you walk in and buy a $15 CD.
 
Originally posted by: chuckywang
If all artists intended for us to listen to album straight through, then they would put all the songs on one track.
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Kinda like Rush - 2112
Not the whole album, but that track definitely has a few points that could have been divided into separate songs.
 
Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
Originally posted by: preslove
I don't think he knows anything beyond his weird superstar world.
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i'd rather buy the album than have crap AAC encoding over itunes (i'll encode it how i want and play it where i want, thank you). itunes may be convenient, but you're paying a price (quality of encoding) for it.
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while i don't like the itunes DRM, the itunes AAC encoding is atleast better then most WMA places.

AAC = Mpeg-4 Audio
 
he has a point, but it has nothing to do with the ipod itself, since you can buy an album, put it on your ipod, and listen to it fully from start to finish. that said, i enjoyed the interview.
 
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