Comments on: The Death of the Album http://tapenoisediary.com/2008/11/22/the-death-of-the-album/ Mon, 28 May 2012 22:24:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jim http://tapenoisediary.com/2008/11/22/the-death-of-the-album/#comment-263 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 02:07:19 +0000 http://tapenoisediary.wordpress.com/?p=621#comment-263 Every Rush album is a concept album of one sort or another. Musical themes are consistent through the album. Certainly lyrical themes are inter-related.

The album isn’t dead, but it might be dying. ’tis a shame.

]]> By: Is creative content going to atomize even further? | Broadcasting Brain http://tapenoisediary.com/2008/11/22/the-death-of-the-album/#comment-244 Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:18:15 +0000 http://tapenoisediary.wordpress.com/?p=621#comment-244 [...] caught my eye recently was by Jay Cruz of Tape Noise Diary. In wrote an interesting post called The Death of the Album, Jay quotes music critic Chuck Klosterman in Chuck Klosterman Reviews Chinese Democracy: … [...]

]]> By: jaycruz http://tapenoisediary.com/2008/11/22/the-death-of-the-album/#comment-242 Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:43:10 +0000 http://tapenoisediary.wordpress.com/?p=621#comment-242 The last album I heard marketed as a “concept” album was The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium, and as you can see from the title, is not something that can be easily decoded. Not like Pink Floyd’s The Wall or something similar.

]]> By: markdykeman http://tapenoisediary.com/2008/11/22/the-death-of-the-album/#comment-241 Sun, 23 Nov 2008 02:36:22 +0000 http://tapenoisediary.wordpress.com/?p=621#comment-241 Can’t remember the last time that I’d heard of a new concept album, either.

Bummer.

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