Random Music Talk LXX: Original Theatrical Version

[u2popmofo]

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Consider Pandora and Spotify, the streaming music services that are becoming ever more integrated into our daily listening habits. My BMI royalty check arrived recently, reporting songwriting earnings from the first quarter of 2012, and I was glad to see that our music is being listened to via these services. Galaxie 500's "Tugboat", for example, was played 7,800 times on Pandora that quarter, for which its three songwriters were paid a collective total of 21 cents, or seven cents each. Spotify pays better: For the 5,960 times "Tugboat" was played there, Galaxie 500's songwriters went collectively into triple digits: $1.05 (35 cents each).

To put this into perspective: Since we own our own recordings, by my calculation it would take songwriting royalties for roughly 312,000 plays on Pandora to earn us the profit of one-- one-- LP sale. (On Spotify, one LP is equivalent to 47,680 plays.)

Ouch.

 

[martha]

Yikes.

 

[martha]

Imagine listening to Milhouse prattle on about Tame Impala for 5 minutes before actually hearing the song.

This made me laugh.

 

[bono_212]

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Ouch.

And a flipside:

Myth Dispensing: The Whole 'Spotify Barely Pays Artists' Story Is Bunk | Techdirt

Seriously, Galaxie 500 is not the band I would go to for modern-day Spotify success...just sayin'.

 

[RobotlandGirl]

I never thought alters were all that fun. Then I got my own, and I changed my mind.

 

[LemonMelon]

Rage Against the Machine is so much fun sometimes.

Aw shit.

COME ON.

 

[LemonMelon]

Via the new Joni Mitchell box set, P4k reviewed all of her albums up through 1979. Perfect 10s for Blue, Court And Spark and Hissing of Summer Lawns Three of my most played and beloved records by anyone right there.

 

[cobl04]

Rage Against the Machine is so much fun sometimes.

Aw shit.

COME ON.

Bulls on Parade goes hard as fuck.

And some of the most fun I've had in nightclubs is dancing to Killing in the Name.

 

[gvox]

You guys are gonna kill me, but..

I have an alter

 

[cobl04]

Bitches Brew

The first part of the title track is so maniacal, I love it

 

[IWasBored]

I think I mad an alt or two way back when all the cool kids were doing it, but I have no idea what they were.

 

[u2popmofo]

Debaser is a good song to wake up to.

 

[IWasBored]

Debaser is a good song to wake up to.

Or a good song to listen to in general.

 

[Danny Boy]

I think I mad an alt or two way back when all the cool kids were doing it, but I have no idea what they were.

 

[bono_212]

IWB Headshots

 

[u2popmofo]

Her hatemongering is more of a recent thing. Back then it was probably some sort of "hug a flower, I'm a hippie" style alter.

 

[IWasBored]

i thought hippies hugged trees. have i had my plantlife love wrong all these years?

 

[Danny Boy]

i thought hippies hugged trees. have i had my plantlife love wrong all these years?

Exactly. Hug the trees. Stick flowers into musket barrels.

 

[bono_212]

I found this life-like recreation online.

 

[u2popmofo]

A perfectly good (yet tiny) musket, RUINED!

I assume IWB has based her life on the teachings of this song.

Love Power - Lorenzo St. DuBois - YouTube

 

[Hewson]

A perfectly good (yet tiny) musket, RUINED!

Its not the size of the musket, but how you fire it.

 

[IWasBored]

She's sticking her flower in his gun? Why do I think the mechanics of this seem to be reversed?

 

[BoMac]

Its not the size of the musket, but how you fire it.

And how well it kills.

 

[bono_212]

She's sticking her flower in his gun? Why do I think the mechanics of this seem to be reversed?

Never thought about it that way.

 

[Cactus Annie]

People who create an alternate account to post as a new online "identity."

Well that's not me, is it?

 

[u2popmofo]

Only the red ships know.

 

[the tourist]

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Ouch.

That's pretty bad. I don't really care about making money off my own music ever as it's more of a hobby to me, but for people who make their living off it, my goodness, how do they survive nowadays?

 

[BoMac]

There's been a beaver sighting in the nostalgia thread.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

You sick pervert!


Oh wait...

 

[Danny Boy]

I sighted a beaver in that video Cactus Annie posted in this thread.