My theory is do something good in the end and that will close out your longevity. After that, you can go on home and sit down. | | | | House of bad repute: Joan Jett in New York, 1981.
(Mark Weiss/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “My theory is do something good in the end and that will close out your longevity. After that, you can go on home and sit down.”
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| | rantnrave:// Dear streaming services of the world: Can one of you please get a copy of 23 JEWELS' 1979 single "PLAYING BOGART" and add it to your collection? This isn't me asking. This request comes from SCOTT BASS, whose essay for PERFECT SOUND FOREVER on the fate of analog music that never quite made it across the digital river was inspired by finding ANY TROUBLE's 1980 version of the song on SPOTIFY. It's a reasonably popular track but the band being covered, Bass noticed, has more or less disappeared from our collective digital memory. Everyone knows about the AALIYAHs and DE LA SOULs and TOOLs who are partly or entirely missing from the streaming universe for a variety of reasons that are easily GOOGLE'd if not so easily solved. Everyone can tell a story about beloved individual albums and tracks that have mysteriously vanished into the digital ether (and hey Spotify, there's literally no reason you shouldn't have ROBERT PALMER's DOUBLE FUN and SECRETS albums, so as long as you're listening...). My boss has a long, running list of holes that should be easy to plug. Bass's story is about something else: the indie artists, the older artists, the minor artists, the homeless (in the business sense) artists who have no one to do the digitizing, uploading and accounting for them. Maybe they made vinyl records that never got transferred to CD. Maybe they made CDs that long ago went out of print. Maybe their A&R guy was laid off in 1982. Maybe their copyrights have been bought and sold seven times. In an era where "not available for streaming" increasingly means "doesn't exist," is it anyone's job to remember? Is it anyone's job to assure NICK SIMPSON, whose self-released 2005 solo album LASHINGS OF POP is on Spotify, that his old band 23 Jewels does in fact exist and that the world remembers? Is it anyone's job to understand that music need never go out of print in a world where being "in print" is quickly losing its literal meaning? Does—or should—an obscure 39-year-old 7-inch single matter to Spotify or APPLE or TIDAL? I'd like to think it does. And should... For what it's worth, 23 Jewels haven't been completely digitally erased. The song is on YOUTUBE—but not YOUTUBE MUSIC. They have a DISCOGS page—but not an ALLMUSIC page. Fans clearly remember. I hope the business will remember, too... Respect to all those writers who waited until at least Monday to review YE. Music is absorbed and processed over time, and advance copies of 'Ye' weren't floating around on Wednesday or Thursday or even Friday afternoon. At least one track was still being recorded on Friday. This is the best review I've seen... Scripted DOLLY PARTON coming to NETFLIX... RIP CLARENCE FOUNTAIN, JERRY HOPKINS and WAYNE SECREST. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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