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 Post subject: Tommy Lee: "The days of the album are over"
PostPosted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 7:28 pm 
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Motley Crue's Tommy Lee: 'The days of the album are over'

Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee believes "the days of making a record are over."

In an interview with Noisecreep, the infamous rock and roller spoke out about his opinions on album creation and the future of recorded music.

"No one buys them [album] anymore." says the drummer. "I'll never make another full record I think. It's a waste of time cause people can only ingest a song at a time, so why not make bitching songs at a time and release them. If you want to call them singles, great, whatever; or at its maximum, an EP, four songs, done, boom. I just really feel like the days of the entire record are long gone."

"I don't listen to anybody's full record anymore," admits Lee, "and when I did, I don't think I listened to the whole record. I guess I'm just a fan of switching it up. I want to hear some of this, some of that. Maybe it's my child-like short attention span, but I'm not a fan of that long, drawn-out fucking album anymore. I don't think most people are; if you look at sales most people are buying songs at a time and they're just not really buying records."

"That's just a sign of the times," says the drummer. "There's so much more out there to play with that grabbing anybody's attention and keeping it there for an hour and a half - good luck."

http://www.nme.com/news/motley-crue/57359

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 7:39 pm 
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 10:27 pm 
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Hey Tommy:
Maybe if you ever made an album worth listening to all the way through this would make sense. If nobody's buying full albums anymore why has Adele's album topped the charts for 10 weeks and sold over 2 million copies in the US? This is unheard of these days and good for her-plus, the album is great.
And, DanO beat me to it with his comment!

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 7:38 am 
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i so glad we got a music expert like tommy lee to tell us that.

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 8:08 am 
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I think the days of Motley Crue albums are over. Which proves there is a God.


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PostPosted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 9:22 am 
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I think the days of Motley Crue albums are over. Which proves there is a God.


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PostPosted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 9:26 am 
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haha

Elvish Costello was saying this a couple of years ago, too.

I personally like the format, but tend to mix up my cues with whatever I want there next, as do most.

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Tommy needs to resume his porn career with Pam, because he clearly doesn't make music anymore.

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