[Dead-Air]

A pretty decent and amusing list from Blender Magazine of the 20 Biggest Record Company Screw-ups of All Time.

[jetengine]

I can think of several other blunders that could have made that list. I'm sure we all could.

[batreleaser]

that was prolly the first enjoyable thing blender has ever published.

[Savage Clone]

Is "not signing Charlie Manson on as one of The Monkees when he auditioned" on this list?
I'm too lazy to look right now.

[Rob Instigator]

good list. thanks!

[StevOK]

I'd say the worst record company blunder ever was when Island Records dropped Tripping Daisy right after they released the greatest album of all time. It might have actually been popular, and Island Records might still be in business.

[uhler]

i say one of the worst is when sst decided to release 10000000000000000000000000000000 shitty reacords and lost their fans by doing so.

[afterthefact]

Originally Posted by hipster_bebop_junkie

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This is actually pretty funny, and it's the truth:

The Vinyl Solution
#19 The industry kills the single—and begins its own slow demise
In the early ’80s, the music industry began to phase out vinyl singles in favor of cassettes and later, CDs. Then, since it costs the same to manufacture a CD single as a full album, they ditched the format almost altogether. But they forgot that singles were how fans got into the music-buying habit before they had enough money to spend on albums. The end result? Kids who expect music for free. “Greed to force consumers to buy an album [resulted] in the loss of an entire generation of record consumers,” says Billboard charts expert Joel Whitburn. “People who could only afford to buy their favorite hit of the week were told it wasn’t available as a single. Instead, they stopped going to record shops and turned their attention to illegally downloading songs.”
Unintended consequence The Eagles still top the album charts.






Thanks for the link, Dead-Air.

It still doesn't work for me.

I remember singles though. They were great, there were some songs that you could only get on singles, like instrumental version and stuff.

EDIT: Haha, now it does work. I guess in order to get it to work, you have to complain about it not working on here first?

[Toilet & Bowels]

Originally Posted by afterthefact

I remember singles though. They were great, there were some songs that you could only get on singles, like instrumental version and stuff.

well done, next you'll be telling us you can remember as far back as yesterday i suppose?

[afterthefact]

Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels

well done, next you'll be telling us you can remember as far back as yesterday i suppose?

Man, you really got me.

I'm just saying I remember them being a big part of my music buying life. I remember there being a huge wall of singles to choose from. I eventually got into buying albums once my cash flow increased, and only recently noticed singles weren't around anymore.

[Dead-Air]

Originally Posted by hipster_bebop_junkie

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EDIT:
It's working now.


This is actually pretty funny, and it's the truth:

The Vinyl Solution
#19 The industry kills the single—and begins its own slow demise
In the early ’80s, the music industry began to phase out vinyl singles in favor of cassettes and later, CDs. Then, since it costs the same to manufacture a CD single as a full album, they ditched the format almost altogether. But they forgot that singles were how fans got into the music-buying habit before they had enough money to spend on albums. The end result? Kids who expect music for free. “Greed to force consumers to buy an album [resulted] in the loss of an entire generation of record consumers,” says Billboard charts expert Joel Whitburn. “People who could only afford to buy their favorite hit of the week were told it wasn’t available as a single. Instead, they stopped going to record shops and turned their attention to illegally downloading songs.”
Unintended consequence The Eagles still top the album charts.

Yeah, this and the #1 of the record labels killing Napster instead of making use of it (they tried the same thing with radio way back when, they just couldn't succeed in killing it and had to learn how to use it) are spot on.

That said, I'd rank them as #2 and #3 respectively behind the #1 of investing 90% of their promotional money and energy in the early '00s in less than ten artists. When all the people who actually spend money on music (and I'm not talking about the sort of underground fanatics you find here, but the average consumer of media goods, the people who heard of Nirvana on MTV and went and bought it) heard about was Britney and her five clones, they just invested their funds in other entertainment. Combine that with the industry smashing Napster into a thousand differnt file sharing sources and, how amazing, recorded music sales plummeted.

[Rob Instigator]

i miss vinyl singles. pavement was always good about including some of their best songs as B sides. The cure used to do that too.

[avantgarde1]

Originally Posted by StevOK

I'd say the worst record company blunder ever was when Island Records dropped Tripping Daisy right after they released the greatest album of all time. It might have actually been popular, and Island Records might still be in business.

no offense dude, and i actually kinda liked tripping daisy back in the day (being from texas and all), but you talk about them constantly. not sure what my point was......

[StevOK]

Originally Posted by avantgarde1

no offense dude, and i actually kinda liked tripping daisy back in the day (being from texas and all), but you talk about them constantly. not sure what my point was......

I can't help it, I'm completely fucking obsessed! I've gone insane for this band. Didn't you do the same thing with Sonic Youth when you first started listening to them? Haven't you ever been obsessed with something?

[avantgarde1]

lol yeah i've been obsessed, i just thought it was funny almost all yr posts mention tripping daisy. i have jesus hits and it's good..... although i was always partial to the toadies. by the way, since you like TD so much, what do you think of the polyphonic spree?

[StevOK]

Originally Posted by avantgarde1

lol yeah i've been obsessed, i just thought it was funny almost all yr posts mention tripping daisy. i have jesus hits and it's good..... although i was always partial to the toadies. by the way, since you like TD so much, what do you think of the polyphonic spree?

They're amazing, but it's not quite as good without Wes Berggren.

[Rob Instigator]

that era of texas punkfunk crazy was something else

tripping daisy
retarted elf
billygoat
sprawl
spunk
deschmog

weird weird bands outta texas