Most Pretentious Move in Music History? (Beck releases album on sheet music only)
downtownrobbrown
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Beck has announced that his newest album will arrive in the form of Beck Hansen's Song Reader, meaning you won't know what the songs sound like unless you put some work in. What is a song reader, you ask? It's an experimental collection of individual pieces of sheet music. In this case, none of the 20 songs have been recorded or released before. It'll be available through indie publishing house McSweeney's in December of this year.
"The songs here are as unfailingly exciting as you'd expect from their author, but if you want to hear 'Do We? We Do,' or 'Don't Act Like Your Heart Isn't Hard,' bringing them to life depends on you," reads the McSweeney's site. That is correct, you'll have to literally play the songs yourself. In addition to the sheet music, the package will include original art from an array of visual artists across 109 pages. Readers' and select musicians' versions of the song will later be featured on the McSweeney's site.
Thumbs down on this one in my opinion.
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dudes with 1890's mustaches, scarves and the like will probably praise this luddite move but it is beyond pretenious and ridiculous.
In the context of declining album sales, this seems like a pretty interesting way to find new ways to promote and monetize a "record".
I think it would be fun to make your own versions of these songs. I wonder how specific the instrumentation, voicing and dynamics are written.
I'm looking forward to the day when an established artist like Beck or Prince release a new LP and the only way to hear it is to pay them $10.000 to come to your home and perform it live.
Fortunately we won't be confronted by his new music on the radio.
:next_level:
Like the next level on from when Radiohead released all their backing tracks.
Let people interpret and then release the og.
Sheet music is balleur.
B/w I have several lots up on the bay
Seller: kellst
Check it!
::runs for cover::
please to post a link, skel...
An unknown artist would probably completely waste their time with the sheet music approach tho.
Hi N**h
I could never post a link to an auction with original Jacksons, Van McCoy, Johnny Bristol and og rock n punk n pop shert music classics from the day, that would be the most shameless plug.
I wouldnt even recommend searching for "sheet music lots" or seller kellst, that's still so underhand as to be deeply and brazenly uncool in extremis.
::wink::
http://datagarden.org/5934/king-britt-the-bee-and-the-stamen/
Is this pretentious?
Perfect.
Fuck yeah, it is.
King Britt disappeared up his own arse a minute ago.