Friday, December 18, 2009

Why the music business is tanking

Music executives like to blame free downloading for the demise of the music industry.

It's actually a lot more simple than that. The main reason music sales are down are frankly because the music sucks.

Case in point, here's Rolling Stone's list of the top 100 albums of the 2000's. Besides the collection of horrible Jay Z, Coldplay and Lil Wayne albums on the list, is Magic by Bruce Springsteen at #24.

Are you kidding me?

Look, I love The Boss. I'm one of the few Springsteen fans who actually thinks Nebraska is one of his best albums. But this CD stinks yet it's the 24th on this list.

Bruce's life in LA has taken his toll on the grit that defined his music for years. If this CD is one of the best for the 2000's. We're going to need to TARP program to bail out bad music soon.

Here's a taste of one of Bruce's works from the 2000's, I think you'll understand what I'm talking about.



1 comment:

Kurt Harden said...

Well said. What a crappy list.