As the Emerson, Lake and Palmer lyric goes " to the show that never ends, come inside, come inside". As mentioned on the sidebar, this blog was created as a response to the current state of the music business and not necessarily the music itself. As Neil Peart mentioned on his webiste "The importance of “the album” is not what it was, and there is currently a reversion to a musical climate rather like the 1950s, when only “the song” matters. Radio, downloads, and "shuffle" settings are inimincal to collected works". If this is truly the case, the avid music listener looses. The record companies will decide what is the best song for the listener and not the listener itself. The "American Idolization" of music has precipitated this and not the emergence of digital downloading of music. Personally I like shuffle settings, it allows me to play "producer", be creative and sequence an album to liking. That being said, we plan to introduce you to albums and artists that either been ignored because they did not appeal to the mass audience or had brief commerical success but what the radio playlists considered to be "Popular" had changed but still have outstanding artistic quality that should be shared. In addition to the Czar and Emperor, we plan on having guest reviewers who enjoy other genres of music and/or have more diverse music collections to give the best representation possible.
So, enjoy and welcome. Step inside, Step inside.
The Czar
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