I’ve just added Royel Otis to my Spotify. Love their old school Indie-Pop sound.
It’s so sad (to me) what music has become now. We used to only hear one single song, and be so excited to go to the shop to buy the tape, or later, CD.
Was such a special thing to catch a bus into the city, buy some CD’s and be itching to get home to listen to the new music you bought.
I’d get home and blast it, and at the same time go through the CD sleeve which sometimes had lyrics, or photographs and art to gawk at.
Was such a beautiful ritual.
Now you just go to Spotify and have instant access to a list of their “best ofs” or you can just add their singles to your playlist without any respect for the artists entire album. Musicians spend days or more trying to figure out which songs make it to an album, then they labor over what order to put the songs in. All gone pretty much these days.
/rant.