Go back 40 years & do the research. 1972 = Led Zeppelin IV. name one track this year that is going to surpass Stairway To Heaven. The Stones release Exile on Main St. Bowie with Ziggy Stardust.. Alice Cooper School’s Out which could be in an Old Navy commercial tomorrow & EVERY MOTHER FUCKER ON THE PLANET would say "hey i know that song !!". those same people could do the same with Mott The Hoople’s All The Young Dudes. yep same year. Pink Floyd is recording Dark Side of the Moon. you’ve got seminal albums by Black Sabbath, Lou Reed, T Rex, Roxy Music, John Lennon, Elton John, Slade, The Kinks, Neil Young, Rod Stewart, Deep Purple (yeah the one with Smoke On The Water), & on & on & on & on. you want black music ?? cool: Al Green releases Let’s Stay Together. name one "soul" or R&B track of 2011 that is going to outlive that. you have seminal albums from Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield’s Superfly. how about War’s The World Is A Ghetto ?? or how about Parliament-Funkadelic’s politically charged double album America Eats Its Young ?? that one carries special weight for today. i didn’t even cover what the crackers were throwing their $$ at: platinum (or multi-platinum) albums from Neil Diamond, Paul Simon, John Denver, The Eagles, & America.
the 1st GIGANTIC solo female singer/songwriter star Carole King had just conquered 1971 with her album Tapestry & her next album Music would kick 1972 off at #1 landing there on New Year’s Day & would vacation at that spot for most of January.
that’s all in one year = 365 days and represents about 5% (or less) of the major releases from that year.
every record, tape, & later CD being walked out of every single store on the entire planet was just another piece of piracy waiting to set sail.
as far as music goes….that industry is in the toilet because it’s doing a shitty job & its artists for the most part completely suck because they do not have any true concept of A&R or development anymore….and more relevant than that is the fact that the consumers they ripped off for years figured that out about them a long LONG time ago.
oh & don’t forget the Telecommunications Act of 1996 that completely dismantled radio as we knew it so we could go from all corporations combined owning 63 stations in the entire U.S. to one company Clear Channel owning 1200+ & dominating 99.9% of the 250 major markets in the entire U.S. so we either get to hear Pearl Jam's Jeremy for the rest of our fucking lives or go to YouTube for an ALTERNATIVE (great word).
simply put the U.S. government can BLOW ME with any of its thinly veiled bullshit about piracy. spare me. any one at any time could have copied any one of the albums above and did….MILLIONS more times than ever purchasing them and no one GAVE A FUCK. why now ???
figure it out.
