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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
I love the idea of easy release of music, without the constraints of a record label. I also love the idea that working hard to tweak and work out all the kinks in a song, to find a better change, or to re-work the bridge to better match the chorus, etc.
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You seem to be talking about a certain sloppiness creeping in, which is possibly true, but then if you look at the average amount of time a band spends on an album today compared to the 1960s then if anything more time is spent attending to details than ever before (at least with Rock music).
Sgt Pepper's took roughly six months from the start of rehearsal/recording to its eventual release.
Dark Side of the Moon took a few more months but was largely worked out, at least in its early stage, on the road. How long did
Chinese Democracy take? It seems that one of the ironies of living in such an immediate society, that if anything
more time is spent perfecting things now than ever before - and with no actual evidence that it benefits the end result.