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Besides being rather more busy and rather less organized, this is a good time period. Period.
Today, I would have liked to listen to the song "Night Nice" by Howie B, but it never was out on CD. Instead, the artist put it onto a podcast of sorts as an exclusive and that one's long gone. I don't have a recording of it. I can whistle the tune but that's not the same.
That made me think of how sad it is that so many great recordings do not get released on CD anymore. When an album is only released digitally, it's so much easier to delete. And once it's deleted, it's gone and can probably never be obtained again because uploading it costs a fee which it is likely not to regain as it would be just a reissue. That's one of the main reasons why I still stick to CDs.
Having bought CDs directly from artists' websites since 2000 and looking for those albums today does prove me right: if there is no physical release of an album, it cannot be found in most cases, especially if it's out of print.
Take for example "Gator Rock" by Ned Albright. The band on the album is full of Rolling Thunder Revue alumni, but yet, it came and went and there isn't any sign of it anymore on the web. Or at least google cannot find it. Finding "Public Face Private Face" by Quiet City, them being the solo project by Nigel Thomas, inofficial drummer of The Blue Nile, would be equally hard these days.
I guess I've been lucky finding some out of print CDs whilst they still lasted and/or whilst they were available in used condition.
I just wish that "Mayonnaise II" and "Mayonnaise III" by Howie B / Crispin Hunt / Will O'Donovan, "Orelia Has Orchestra" by Orelia Has Orchestra, and "MSB" by Michael Sackler-Berner would have actually made it onto CD. These albums do deserve a release on this more permanent medium very much.
Today, I would have liked to listen to the song "Night Nice" by Howie B, but it never was out on CD. Instead, the artist put it onto a podcast of sorts as an exclusive and that one's long gone. I don't have a recording of it. I can whistle the tune but that's not the same.
That made me think of how sad it is that so many great recordings do not get released on CD anymore. When an album is only released digitally, it's so much easier to delete. And once it's deleted, it's gone and can probably never be obtained again because uploading it costs a fee which it is likely not to regain as it would be just a reissue. That's one of the main reasons why I still stick to CDs.
Having bought CDs directly from artists' websites since 2000 and looking for those albums today does prove me right: if there is no physical release of an album, it cannot be found in most cases, especially if it's out of print.
Take for example "Gator Rock" by Ned Albright. The band on the album is full of Rolling Thunder Revue alumni, but yet, it came and went and there isn't any sign of it anymore on the web. Or at least google cannot find it. Finding "Public Face Private Face" by Quiet City, them being the solo project by Nigel Thomas, inofficial drummer of The Blue Nile, would be equally hard these days.
I guess I've been lucky finding some out of print CDs whilst they still lasted and/or whilst they were available in used condition.
I just wish that "Mayonnaise II" and "Mayonnaise III" by Howie B / Crispin Hunt / Will O'Donovan, "Orelia Has Orchestra" by Orelia Has Orchestra, and "MSB" by Michael Sackler-Berner would have actually made it onto CD. These albums do deserve a release on this more permanent medium very much.