The day of the album is dead. At least, that's what modern radio seems to have done to the music industry. Ask anyone about any given artist's newest hit single and they'll give you their awful opinion about it as well as some moderately fascinating factoid that they learned from the DJ who probably ruined the intro of the song by talking over it. Start talking to them about other songs on the album and they'll stare at you as if they'd just had a stroke.
The point is, if you're reading this and nodding along in agreement, you're one of the seeming few that still value the whole album and appreciate the music and the artist's effort and vision at a deeper level then most.
I find it interesting that more bands these days are releasing versions of their newest albums on vinyl records. Seriously, check out a place nearby that you know has a vinyl section and flip through it. Vinyls I've seen of heard of lately to attempt to give you an idea what's out there, are Breaking Benjamin's "Dear Agony," Disturbed's "Indestructible," We Are The Fallen's "Tear The World Down," Anberlin's "New Surrender," and even "The Dark Knight" soundtrack. (Yes, by the way, I do have a bit of a bias toward Rock music but stick around long enough and I may surprise you.)
The thing with vinyls, that a friend pointed out to me, is that, in a sense, there are no individual tracks on a record. When you sit down to listen to a record, you're committing to listening through and absorb it differently then just downloading the one or two tracks you think you like.
My point in all of this is to say that I have some fundamental problems with the way radio works. So many good songs go largely unnoticed by the mainstream world and so many otherwise good songs get ruined by overplaying. So what I intend to accomplish in this new "Revolt Against Radio" series is to [roughly] once a week, highlight incredible songs by artists that no one seems to know about. I'm going to attempt to try and stick to songs by artists that should be fairly well known but as my tastes and favorite artists are all over the place, chances are, before long you'll find something completely new.
I'm starting this week with the song "All The Same" by Sick Puppies. This is a beautiful, under-appreciated song that really shows off the talents of the three members of the band. Everything about the song is intoxicating. The acoustic version truly accentuates the beauty of the song and the music video gives an even more complete picture that goes wonderfully with the song.
EDIT: Working on getting the music video back. Embedding was disabled on the music video because Virgin Records and anyone else that does that is a b!tch. Song's here at least.
I hope you liked the song. The list of more songs to highlight is growing by the minute so stay tuned.
Originally posted on Thoughts From an Internal Monologue on 10/9/2010
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