{"id":465,"date":"2003-12-20T19:34:37","date_gmt":"2003-12-21T00:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/npr-looks-at-the-death-of-the-album\/"},"modified":"2003-12-20T19:34:37","modified_gmt":"2003-12-21T00:34:37","slug":"npr-looks-at-the-death-of-the-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/npr-looks-at-the-death-of-the-album\/","title":{"rendered":"npr looks at the death of the album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>something we&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/the_death_of_the_album.html\">talked<\/a> about <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/another_view_of_the_death_of_the_album.html\">here<\/a> a couple times was the topic of a <a href=\"http:\/\/discover.npr.org\/rundowns\/rundown.jhtml?prgDate=12\/19\/2003&amp;prgId=2\" class=\"broken_link\">segment<\/a> on npr&#8217;s all things considered program this past friday.  see &#8220;the death of the &#8216;concept&#8217; album.&#8221;  a few choice quotes from people interviewed in the segment&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote\">tim quirk,  rhapsody<\/a><\/div>\n<p>i think even if you just look over the last couple of years there&#8217;s arguably more artists making&#8230; that are album-based rock music at least than there has been in a long, long time whether that&#8217;s the flaming lips or radiohead or wilco&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tr-i.com\/\">todd rundgren<\/a> [flash required]<\/div>\n<p>before there were ever recordings, it seemed like serious composers always gravitated toward the long form.  towards doing symphonic works as opposed to 3-minute minuets all the time.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perry-farrell.com\/\">perry farrell<\/a> [also flash]<\/div>\n<p>i haven&#8217;t thought in terms of an album for probably a decade.  i&#8217;d rather be making singles.<\/p>\n<p>record companies have gotten to be such hacks that they have made the idea of doing a full record almost impossible for an artist.  it&#8217;s disheartening what little respect they have for people that have concepts of albums.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>something we&#8217;ve talked about here a couple times was the topic of a segment on npr&#8217;s all things considered program this past friday. see &#8220;the death of the &#8216;concept&#8217; album.&#8221; a few choice quotes from people interviewed in the segment&#8230; tim quirk, rhapsody i think even if you just look over the last couple of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}