Ain't No Sunshine
Bank holiday weekend. The portents were good."It's going to be frigging glorious this weekend" spake the overpaid tossers we call weathermen and women. Rain, sleet, wind, cloud: the lot. All in a three day window. Perfect.
This was the weekend Eldest had his housewarming and barbecue. A great evening all round (apart from the reluctance of anyone to man the barbie. ten or twenty years ago the blokes would have been queuing up to play with fire, act Ray Mears-ish and sort the burgers - these days we're not so bloody stupid).
But yeah, a great evening with a 'beach party' theme which made for some odd sights (me included). A laptop plugged into Eldest's stereo system provided the sounds. MP3 coming of age? Possibly. The place was also awash with iPods, iRivers, Creative Rios and a thousand other variations on the art of digital music.
Quite interesting as well because this week Coldplay became the first British band to enter the US charts in the first week of their single being released since The Beatles with Hey Jude back in '68. This coincides with the Yankee charts finally embracing the download phenomenon and including tracks purchased this way.
Now this could profoundly affect the type of music we see in the top forty in the near future. There are profound shifts in the popular music paradigm occuring here. Since the late eighties at least, the type of consumer who forks out for the type of single that'll end up in the charts has tended to be a pre or just barely post-pubescent female. MP3s, WMAs, OGGs and the like tend to be downloaded by males over the age of 25. They don't consider them to be singles, but rather just another track that they like. And it's blokes over the age of 25 who have the plastic disposable income and access to the internet in such numbers that can make a difference.
So Top of the Pops just might become interesting again - for a short while at least.
Ahh well, time to take the shit machine for her evening crap. Hope you all had a good 'un.
3 comments:
Barbecue ahh! Almost got it out of the box but was afraid it would've rusted in the torrential rain we had up here.
Nessie The Dragon? Fuck me - I must be getting old. Never heard of it. And never heard it. Thank God.
Never heard of Nessie teh Dragon? You must watch no commercial TV at all.
""It's going to be frigging glorious this weekend" spake the overpaid tossers we call weathermen and women."
I work with such people and can tell you that, in my experience, they are neither 'overpaid' nor 'tossers'.
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