***stardust

So... if you buy a digital music album.

Where do you go to find the liner notes?

I just bought the Hope for Haiti Now album on iTunes, and I was listening to the track with Bono and Edge, and I was curious as to who was drumming. Because in places it sounded like Larry. I pulled up the file info...and there's nothing more than the main four artists. I poked around online to the places selling it - nada. There's no listing of production credits or any of the other usual goodies.

That is going to really, really bother me, if music is (as is likely) going totally digital. I love reading through the liner notes, being all happy when a favorite band has the same producer as another favorite band (Coldplay and U2 share Eno, Guster and U2 shared Steve Lillywhite...I'm such a nerd), or when I spot names I recognize in the U2 thank you blurbs (yay Gavin!). Bad enough that album art has become the size of an lj icon, and with less importance. ick ick ick. There goes my dream job...

p.s. If you're a U2-spazz like me and were willing to buy an entire album just for some new Bono listening.. he sings back-up to Rihanna and you can hardly hear him. Doesn't even get a little verse of his own in the live version, which is by far the better. booo. Fortunately, there is a plethora of pretty sparkley Edgeguitar...and the song itself isn't bad in general. ;)

Labels: griping, music, U2 spazz

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Comments:

Brian Eno (who's repeatedly come up as a crossword-puzzle answer on the crossword app I d/led to iTouch) - so that's why Coldplay started sounding like U2 all of a sudden?

Anyway, it might be a problem with the artists themselves: once or twice I've downloaded an album for iTunes and a file containing all the liner notes (graphics of each page of the CD's notes) has come with it. So apparently iTunes doesn't have a problem with accommodating that.

# posted by

Kellie : 2/21/2010 08:46:00 AM

Eno doesn't account for all the Edge-guitar Coldplay's been doing - and he didn't produce X&Y, which is where it started. But Viva la Vida was Eno, and it reminds me sooo much of Unforgettable Fire, in terms of atmosphere and experimentation and mood, and Unfire was Eno's first album with U2.

You know, I should have remembered that. I forgot I'd bought No Line on the Horizon on iTunes (I later bought an actual cd too, because I'm a psychofan like that), and it has a pdf of the booklet. I'm sure demand for that isn't terribly high in most cases, and the deadlines for the Haiti benefit album were undoubtedly short, but... I want to know who was playing drums, darnit! ;p

# posted by

Melissa : 2/21/2010 05:46:00 PM