Interesting views from rocker turned movie director Rob Zombie. He recently told AOL's Noisecreep that the full-album format has become impractical, forcing him and other artists to think of new ways to get their music out to the masses."I like the thought of the band writing, say, one song a month and putting it up there," Zombie said. "Say we've been on tour for six or eight months and we don't have time to stop and make a whole album. It would be cool to put out two or three songs we've written and then keep going just to keep it energized. And truthfully, when you make a new album ... you go, 'OK here's 11 new songs, five of which we'll never play live. And here's the two or three singles that will always be in the set.' So it could just be a different way to do business that's really sort of like the old way of doing things.
"Back in the '50s and '60s people weren't making albums, they were pressing singles and then an album was basically a collection of all the singles."Rob Zombie's new album, "Hellbilly Deluxe 2", sold 49,000 copies in its first week of release to debut at position No. 8 on The Billboard 200 chart.
This was less than 50 percent of the opening tally of Zombie's previous CD, "Educated Horses", which landed at No. 5 on the Billboard chart after premiering with 107,000 units back in April 2006.Whilst I agree that this is partially true, I think people still buy albums and like to hold a physical product. The advent of the internet and downloading has just made things more accessible and provides far more choice.
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