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2fs - 2008-12-12 22:36:00
I like some of that stuff - way back in the ancient days of 1996 or whenever, Ken Stringfellow made what we'd now call a blog documenting the recording of Amazing Disgrace, which was pretty interesting, and certainly made me want to actually hear what the album sounded like. However, I don't think every artist would want to be exposed like that, and I don't really think all that stuff is necessarily any way to add value to an "album" for most folks. Such things should be ignorable by those who want to preserve the mystery (then, there are folks who don't want to read lyrics, don't want to see photos of the band, etc...)
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MacGregor - 2008-12-14 18:15:12
s a non-musician, I think it can be cool to get some insight to the process. At the same time, something about this article doesn't sit right with me. I can't quite put my finger on it, but the whole idea of laying groundwork for how the relationship between artist and audience is weird. I'm also not sure about this business of "social objects." Or the idea about giving as much weight to the process as the end result. Perhaps I'm just misunderstanding something. I don't really care to read writers discussing writing either, for the most part. One of the most pretentious things I've ever read was Jonathan Franzen writing on William Gaddis and who writers write for. Ugh!
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