Comments on: Harry Potter and the Silly Weblog Post Title

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Radio never plays anything odd their standard play list unless it is an evening/late night slot. For example, on BBC Radio 1, DJ’s can only play 3 non-playlist songs during the daytime.

And I expect the play lists are controlled by the Industry, so you only get to here what they want. At least that is how it works in the UK.

I don’t listen to Radio 1 anymore (except for Mark’n'Lard).

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

The single is very much on its way out in the UK too. I don’t remember the figures exactly (or the location of where I read this) but the Beatles sold a million and half singles in 1963 to get to No.1 but todays No. 1 has sold less that 50,000 records.

I’m glad that Radiohead are not anti-Apple, their website seems to be one of the best/interesting band websites out there, so I was suprised by the claim.

By: gilmae

gilmae — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

And some other bands are worried that the single will become the predominant way in which their music is heard. If you can just buy the singles rather than buying the whole album, you will never hear the songs marketing deemed were not radio friendly unit shifters. The obvious example being the song of the same name by Nirvana, and Scentless Apprentice off the same album, In Utero. Fantastic songs, and you’d never hear them on radio.

By: Michel Valdrighi

Michel Valdrighi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Now, why it doesn’t say my name in the ‘posted by’ area, I don’t know.

By: Bill Humphries

Bill Humphries — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

It’s Metallica, not Radiohead, who refuse to sell through AppleMusic.com. They explain they don’t want to contribute to the demise of the full-length CD. Radiohead’s adapted to online music fairly well.

Many bands are upset that the market will force them to show up in the studio and put some effort into it instead of recording one ’single’ and eleven pieces of shite.

Of course, the single never really died in the UK, unlike out here in the states.

By: Nick Boalch

Nick Boalch — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Nope. Bought in the UK, at Sainsbury’s I think. Ripped without a problem.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Plagiarising the first Harry Potter book, one could rename this entry “Paul and the Chamber of Procrastination”.

By: Cathy

Cathy — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Someone on my blogroll found that it didn’t play in their portable CD player, but he could still rip it with WMP? See http://fuddland.org.uk/archives/2003/06/22/001831_maybe_they_misunderstood_the_design_brief.php
for details.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

I didn’t know about the Apple business, but then Apple is only for the US, and I don’t have a Mac anyway.

Is it Radiohead or EMI, though?

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

If my (UK bought) copy has copy-protection, it is very poor protection. (Didn’t work, in other words. I assumed there was no protection on it)