Weird Al To Release Songs As He Records Them 333
slapout writes "Weird Al has announced that with the Internet he can now release his songs for sale as he records each one rather than waiting for a whole album to be produced."
Fast, cheap, good: pick two.
Re:first post (Score:5, Informative)
Dude
1st: This is about Weird Al. This clearly qualifies as nerd news.
2nd: This is about freeing us from the tyranny of packaged deals. Clearly this ranks higher than even the $700 Billion dollar bail out news.
3rd: This is about Weird Al. He is like the king of nerdiness.
And lastly, it is Weird Al.
Any questions?
Weird Al info (Score:3, Informative)
Here's Weird Al's official youtube channel [youtube.com].
Weird Al's speciality has been rewriting pop songs with completely unrelated topics (parody). Among his works are "eat it" [youtube.com] ("Beat it" by Michael Jackson), "I think I'm a clone now" (I think we're alone now - sang by Tiffany), "Like a Surgeon" [youtube.com] ("Like a Virgin" by Madonna), "Fat" [youtube.com] ("Bad" by Michael Jackson), and most recently "White and Nerdy" [youtube.com] (parody of "Ridin'" by Chamillionaire), and others.
White and Nerdy was one of Weird Al's most popular songs - it was rated platinum by the RIAA (yes, they also rate songs besides suing customers :P ) and as of 10 September 2007, it reached the 4th position on the Viral Video Chart.
Weird Al's songs have always been popular among anime fans, as they present pretty good opportunities for making parody AMVs [youtube.com], such as the ones in AMV Hell 4 (Golden boy - White and Nerdy [youtube.com]). Another example is this snip from AMV Hell 4 [youtube.com] (fast-forward to 3:30) using Weird Al's "A complicated song" (parody of Avril Lavigne's "Complicated").
Re:Just because he can... (Score:5, Informative)
>>>94% of all internet facts are made up on the spot.
Except this one is verifiable:
1988 - download of 880k floppy game over then-typical 2400 baud modem =~ 1 hour (from my own personal experience)
2008 - download of 4000 megabyte game over typical 10 Mbit/s cable =~ 1 hour (math)
Naturally the actual time will vary if your 1988 computer had a double-sized floppy (takes 2 hours) or if you are downloading a dual-sided DVD (also 2 hours). But Slashdot's signature length limit precludes me from including all that detail. The important point to note is that speeds have escalated to match demand. We have never experienced the so-called "speed limit" that certain Chicken Littles keep claiming we're going to hit. They are just blowing a lot of hot air, and have been doing so for almost 15 years now. Their claims have no merit.
Re:Carlos + Yankovic. (Score:4, Informative)
You probably didn't know that Wendy was also a gifted solar eclipse astrophotographer, did you?
Now that's a woman of note. Cool musician, cool geek.
http://www.wendycarlos.com/eclipse.html [wendycarlos.com]
Re:This isn't really a progressive move as you thi (Score:3, Informative)
Well, for one, when you buy an album (assuming it isn't DRMed to hell), you get a perfect digital copy of the recording.
No, you are not, and for two reasons.
The first is that the CD-audio standard does not give you a perfect digital copy of anything.
It lacks sufficient error-correcting codes.
The second is that digital downloads can give you master-quality, or high definition audio, which are identical or extremely close to the original tune as designed by the artist .WAV format.
See Trent Reznor and his latest album release in 96kHz/24bits