As much as I know that it's not doing any favors for artists, I can't help but love the Amazon MP3 albums for five bucks deal. I've gotten many classics from my teens using this bargain price, finally scoring digital versions of cassettes and vinyl I never upgraded to CD. Roger Hodgson's 1984 solo debut In the Eye of the Storm is the latest Amazon deal I downloaded in my iTunes.
I'm not sure exactly when I picked up the vinyl (I'm thinking late 1984 or early 1985). I do know it came after I heard "Had a Dream (Sleeping With the Enemy)" one late night on the Albany rock station PYX 106. It might have been their Headphones Only program, which exposed me to a bunch of prog rock I hadn't heard before. And Hodgson -- the guy that was in Supertramp that sang "The Logical Song" and "Breakfast in America" -- definitely indulges in his prog rock side on this entire album. (When I first heard the intro to "Had a Dream" I thought it was a Roger Waters solo track.) Four tracks clock in over 7 minutes, with opener "Had a Dream" coming in at 8:26. After listening to it on my iPod on the snowy journey home Sunday evening, I wanted it to be 18:26. It's proggy but oh so catchy.
And wow, I never knew that the video for "Had a Dream (Sleeping With the Enemy)" was rather insane:
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Buying a 20+ year-old album thru Amazon/mp3 that is out of print and can only be had used, wherein the artist gets nothing, is a bad deal for the artist? I'm not into buying/ripping mp3's myself, but I think the artist still benefits from this new sort of commerce.
Headphones Only really changed my life as a teeenager in the 80s. I wish I could track down that Pyx106 DJ and thank him. How else would a nerd in a small town have found Kraftwerk, Art of Noise, Tangerine Dream along with Yes, King Crimson and the Moody Blues? So good!
Headphones Only really changed my life as a teeenager in the 80s. I wish I could track down that Pyx106 DJ and thank him. How else would a nerd in a small town have found Kraftwerk, Art of Noise, Tangerine Dream along with Yes, King Crimson and the Moody Blues? So good!
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