Shouldn’t The Music Speak For Itself?
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- Welcome to another episode of the Sound Exchange Sessions. While I was setting up to film a different pre-planned topic, the unplanned topic of this episode presented itself and grew out of a typical record store conversation about how music should stand on its own and not use sex to sell it.
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It was really cool seeing the alternate angle showing more of the entrance way
There was about 5 minutes of that footage but like the guy said, heavy editing was needed and RUclips wouldn’t allow it. Glad you enjoyed the alternate view. Maybe I’m try more.
@@BrendonSnyder cool dude! Whatever you do I’m on board with
The L7 debut totally kicks ass
agreed
"The Warning" an all female band that I see has great music and really great image control. They are all gorgeous, their style and image is rock and roll and not shock value.
Plush is good too
Love The Warning; favorite band in decades.
Got tickets for September 16 & 17 in Brooklyn, early next week .
I actually like some of the pop artists today. I’m in my 40’s, so I grew up on melodic pop like Madonna and I feel like a lot of the young artists like Sabrina Carpenter are carrying on the same type of style.
Ratt's Invasion of your Privacy album cover is as awesome as the album!
I think a lot of people saw Lita Ford album cover from 1988 Lita and was blown away but the whole album is amazing.
😅😅 Brendon 😅😅 You just cracked me up!!! You were disappointed when the Black Crowes didn't continue with the bush theme!!!! 😂😅😂😅
Kittie was an awesome all women band, that kicked ass. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
I was well aware of the Southern harmony pic. " I was bummed when it wasn't there a third time!" 😂 classic!
The 90s was an explosion of female artists: Mazzy Star, L7, Hole, The Breeders, Sonic Youth, etc.
Cheesy pop is strictly for making money. I don't think promoting it is any different than death metal bands having gory album covers, etc. And they all SHOULD do whatever helps them sell their products.
Seems like a really cool shop. Wish I lived nearby. It's a long way from Sweden, unfortunately. Love all the discussions!
I usually don't buy an album because of the artist or the model being naked nor dressed scantily, I look to the single or singles. That really matters.
I’d say that poster was fairly tame when network TV will show a razor commercial with a woman shaving her pubic area. It all boils down to selling a product. Whether it’s music or razors or whatever - if you want potential buyers to notice, then you have to draw their attention.
Girlschool, L7, Lita..I heard the music
..and you must hear
Annica Wiklund from Finland
Annica-Badly Dreaming -88
Sex and capitalism is a lock and key.
People (generally speaking) will not separate them. People have been deeply conditioned to expect this coupling.
At this stage in life, it bothers me. I solely want the music. Sex as a marketing strategy only worked for me from ages 14-27.
If the music doesn't move me, I have no time for it. Did I get rid of all my highly sexualixed albums from the 70s- late 80s? Nope....not if I still could relate to the music.
good topic ,
What about the cover of the Pixies Surfer Rosa's record, that cover is magnificent, and usually I'm not in this kind of stuff for my music. But it fits so well their music weirdness that it's the perfect cover, and done with great taste.
I listen to quite a few artists, and just love it to let their music speak for itself, especially with these modern all female bands, like in the UK, we have The Big Moon and The Last Dinner Party, who are rock groups, but they like to do more casual music, instead of having more explicit content, whether it’s dirty or violent, or whatever, and you have The Beaches, The Warning and other female rock bands from all over the world, that have lyrics of those things, and sometimes it can be quite gratuitous, and sometimes unnatural in places, but I think it’s more common in America than in the UK, for these artists to act sexual, but not explicitly as most people say.
However I rather just let all music speak for itself.
Brendon, I really appreciate your shows being family friendly which you stated you wanted your show to be. But your videos you produce at the record store are definitely R rated.
I get it. Dont watch.
no problem with this, Lorde did a nice album cover a couple of years ago, it's ok for me, if tasteful
Oh the irony , the Glam Metal guy has to explain (to me) who Sabrina Carpenter is.
😂😂😂
LOL Great topic fellas. S*x Sells but who's buying? Was the name of my band in both Rock Band and Guitar Hero Games. It is true, It's been around for years.
Hi Brendon, I’m fairly new to your content and I’m loving going through all your previous videos. Would you be able to help me in my CD collection that I’ve started only recently?
I’m looking to add new albums to my list and I’m so confused as to which ones to obtain. Some masters I’ve heard can sound real muddy and it’s so difficult finding information on good masters of a recording in CD online.
I’m looking at Dokken original CDs on eBay and I’m confused by the various countries of manufacturing and the forums that say one is better than the other. They are selling Japan, USA and West Germany CDs of the same album and I have no idea which ones to buy as there are contradictory reports about the best sounding one online.
I recently bought a Journey CD original and it sounded awful. I usually avoid remasters due to the compression and loudness which I find loses dynamics and balance to allow the sound to breathe.
I also remember getting the Megadeth remasters back in like 2006 and they sounded so bad as I barely recognised the sound. I’m very nostalgic about music I grew up with which is then being drastically altered.
Please let me know from your experience in general which country of manufacturing of 80s CDs sounds best to you and if you notice any difference whatsoever in the quality.
Please could you make a video going in depth on this topic? Thank you so much for sharing your passion through RUclips!
Different counties usually do not have different mastering. Sometimes an album is recorded for one market and later another county decides to release it and they do a remix. This happened with Dokken’s Dysfunctional album. It was originally released in Japan with a different mix, track listening and songs. Later the US decided to release it and they wanted to change it. I prefer the Japanese version that was a self titled album but both are worth having. I have made a video comparing both versions. As for the other Dokken albums I recommend the Rock Candy Records reissues that sound way better than the original masters released in the 80’s. Regarding the Megadeth albums you bought in 2006 those weren’t just remastered and remixed they had parts removed and changed. That’s why they sounded so different. And for Journey definitely get the remasters, they sound brilliant. For the most part remasters will always sound better. But in some small instances it can be the other way around.
Have you seen Wild Cherry's Album cover for I Love Music?
It seems the more eye candy the less talent . jmo
New subscriber here, great conversation....WHERE IS THE RECORD STORE LOCATED OR WEBSITE INFO please, thank you
Sound Exchange is located in Wayne, NJ. No website. But you can follow them on Instagram.
@@BrendonSnyder Awesom, thank u so much…..great discussion & I also thought the Chili Pepper guys with the socks on there junk was supposed to be a joke aswell🤘🏾😂🤘🏾
Rush Hemispheres...i mean come on;-)
I lot of these gals that are in pop music now are just doing what Madonna did which is prude in comparison.
Houses of the holy 🤟
I don’t think they were trying to sell sex with that one. I think it’s just a misunderstood album cover that a lot of people take issue with instead of seeing it for what it is.
@@BrendonSnyderThere is nothing sexual about the HotH cover by any stretch of the imagination, and it’s weird that this guy needed that to be explained to him
@@fclefjefff4041 , yup ,
Die Toten Hosen-Reich&Sexy Collection
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Every autograph record/CD I ever bought the autograph is barely 2 letters it’s such a waste of money.
Smell the glove by the mighty Spinal Tap.
You cant get a more sexist cover than that!
And whats wrong witn being sexy !!!
It's a shame but if a butt speaks for itself there's a good chance to see it on the cover ....but in the end it's a choice...I do believe the artist has the final word most of the time...some of the most beautiful women in pop-rock history ...in fact the vast majority never needed to do that...
The cover of the debut album of Montrose has all 4 guys topless as well. Jon Bon Jovi has always worn shirts to enhance his hairy chest for the ladies. Were it not for a pink border to match the nail polish of the model, Slippery When Wet would have had an entirely different cover and may have turned off women from buying the album.
-He knows his naked ladies!
thing is sex and shock always was and is a simple sell
I will have to say Sabrina is very tame for these times. I mean you see Meg the Stallion and Nicki Minaj and artists more in that genre shaking it on stage on shows like the grammies, their videos I mean I have watched some and can't believe back in the day people wanted to ban Sheena Eastion and Laura Branigan, I mean its not that long ago. But that is the world we are in now, as PRINCE said in the early 2000's sexiness is in the mind, this coming from someone who used sex alot in his early music. I mean look at HEART sex saved their career, because they were done, despite doing a great record with "Passionworks" no one cared till they became glamour girls and Nancy showed cleavage, yes the songs were great but they didnt write them, they sold out as the sisters have said over and over. With Sabrina Carpenter she isn't selling out, she isn't being sexy to be popular she was already a big star in music, right in there with the pop ladies like Rodrigo and Swift. I think this album and things she is doing are a concept, she hasn't done "sexier" songs like this before, she also has a perfume or some endorsement that a lot of her look now is tied into, I see it is a natural progression and a concept, I mean Madonna did it, and had she not she never would have been what she was. But I mean you can kind of tell when an artist is doing it for shock or get clicks and notice. I mean I love the Pretty Reckless and at times I want Taylor to tone it down because it becomes the focus of people looking at her and the band is super tight and she has one of the best female rock voices, and some great songs, but at times the "shock" shots overshadow the band and it only does when its a female. Now if a band like "Dorothy" fronted by Dorothy Martin all of a sudden she started doing sexy shoots and stripping down her look I would say she is selling out because she has never been about that, ever, also I think her age has a bit to do with it and beliefs in certain things. So I think the Sabrina album is getting really good reviews and honestly all her records have, she is a good singer, writer and this is just a different type of record, as for Taylor swift she has never presented herself this way, Sabrina has that about her, not saying one looks better than the other, but Sabrina has a more natural sexuality that has come out alot before, where as Taylor she is not there for that and yes on stage you will see Taylor walking around showing a lot of legs but its a different ride, the music is different too. As for parents complaining whatever, if the kids have a phone then they are getting much worse stuff than Sabrina, I mean some complained about Oliva Rodrigo cursing on her latest album, well why does she have to explain that? She is 22 now yes most of her base is younger than her but get the edited album, I mean I hear a lot of cursing in a lot of music and Rodrigo is very tame. As for the poster I mean Kacey Musgrave's latest album is fantastic possibly an album of the year candidate and she did various covers and one is her in a field of grass in a fetal position naked, and of course that version sold out first, but that didnt make the record great, she as a musician did.
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5:30 What cd he dropped off?
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It’s the new Immortal Rotting CD. That guy dropping it off is the leader of the band.
@@mitchellgang120 Nice.
If the music truly 'spoke for itself', there wouldn't be cover art at all. All of those box sets with stickers, patches, and posters wouldn't exist either. People like packaging, that's not news.
Women get put in impossible positions. Sabrina puts a sexy picture of herself in, and you criticize her, yet you're defending all the old rock bands who went much further with their album art. Why couldn't they let the music speak for itself?
Or, this is veering awfully close to saying women have to choose between being serious or sexual, because men can't see women as anything but sex objects.
Kiss has to be at the top of the list. Without the make up and costumes, I dont know how far they ever would have went.
What are you talking about. They took off the makeup decades ago. They had no makeup longer than they had makeup.
I'm not saying cencership but i don't think girl or guys should be complet ly nud if teenager comes in that's all there gonna see and children if it's got a lot of adult content ont covers i think there should be a sectioned off over 18 section just to give the parents a heads up on covers i don't mind nudity me looking naked women ain't my thing may not wanna see it just like you don't wanna see naked guys make a teenager buty the album just because they know parents wouldn't approve don't think it didn't happen rebellion
I don’t like Sabrina I like blink 182 a lot. More I think artists like Sabrina shouldn’t make there music with sexual referncees in it parents should immediately take thouse kind of albums away from there kids besides that is the reson why thouse albums come with warning stickers on them