February 20, 2004
Grey Tuesday
I heard this album recently and it is dang good. It combines some moving Beatles tracks with Jay-Z's laid back but rough rhymes. It did make me think about the issue of creating something an leaving it to the public to deal with it what they will.
From the Site----
Historic Online Protest
It's time for music fans to stand up and demand change from the music industry's copyright cartel.
Tuesday, February 24 will be a day of coordinated civil disobedience: websites will post Danger Mouse's Grey Album on their site for 24 hours in protest of EMI's attempts to censor this work.
DJ Danger Mouse created a remix of Jay-Z's the Black Album and the Beatles White Album, and called it the Grey Album. Jay-Z's record label, Roc-A-Fella, released an a capella version of his Black Album specifically to encourage remixes like this one. But despite praise from music fans and major media outlets like Rolling Stone ("an ingenious hip-hop record that sounds oddly ahead of its time") and the Boston Globe (which called it the "most creatively captivating" album of the year), EMI has sent cease and desist letters demanding that stores destroy their copies of the album and websites remove them from their site. EMI claims copyright control of the Beatles 1968 White Album.
Comments
My problem with this is that the Beatles deserve to not have their records desecrated and repackaged against their will
Posted by: Jake of 8bitjoystick.com | February 24, 2004 02:44 PM
I don't think the album was treated with contempt, but there are obvious issues.
Posted by: anthony | February 24, 2004 04:19 PM
You liked it? I was thoroughly unimpressed. On the positive side, it will send me to the store to cop the White Album.
Posted by: Avery | April 7, 2004 01:56 PM
I do like it. Though, that said, I don;t have the Black Album, but I do have most all the Beatles albums (actual albums, not all the re-release crap), and have listen to them for a long time, at one point the White album was one of my favorites. So I dig hearing it re-interpreted, and I probably coming at it from the other angle than you are.
Posted by: anthony | April 10, 2004 10:33 PM