Comments on: re-recordings, explained http://17dots.com/2007/04/19/re-recordings-explained/ notes from the digital underground Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:55:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Frank Hecker http://17dots.com/2007/04/19/re-recordings-explained/comment-page-1/#comment-2166 Frank Hecker Sat, 21 Apr 2007 05:10:36 +0000 http://17dots.com/2007/04/19/re-recordings-explained/#comment-2166 Another interesting example of re-recording is Gang of Four's "Return the Gift" (which I need to check out sometime). Regarding the Duncan Watts NYT Magazine article, the "Justin Timberlake effect" has interesting implications for eMusic and its users. Most notably, if musical popularity is in large part a matter of random chance, that implies that there must be a lot of high-quality music that just didn't happen to hit the lottery. This is in large part the premise behind eMusic. (There are some other implications I can think of, but I may save them for a Swindleeeee!!!!! post.) Another interesting example of re-recording is Gang of Four’s “Return the Gift” (which I need to check out sometime).

Regarding the Duncan Watts NYT Magazine article, the “Justin Timberlake effect” has interesting implications for eMusic and its users. Most notably, if musical popularity is in large part a matter of random chance, that implies that there must be a lot of high-quality music that just didn’t happen to hit the lottery. This is in large part the premise behind eMusic. (There are some other implications I can think of, but I may save them for a Swindleeeee!!!!! post.)

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