In an article by Anmar Frangoul for The Sunday Times, Jon Bon Jovi states:
Kids today have missed the whole experience of putting the headphones on, turning it up to 10, holding the jacket, closing their eyes and getting lost in an album; and the beauty of taking your allowance money and making a decision based on the jacket, not knowing what the record sounded like, and looking at a couple of still pictures and imagining it.
God, it was a magical, magical time. I hate to sound like an old man now, but I am, and you mark my words, in a generation from now people are going to say: ‘What happened?’ Steve Jobs is personally responsible for killing the music business.
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MacDailyNews Take: Johnny Bongiovi misses the time when children were cajoled into parting with their allowance money for wildly overpriced, forced bundles of sight unseen, or rather, sound unheard, crapshoots; 99.9% of which were packed to the gills with filler. Ah, “the good old days.”
Johnny’s also probably upset that in order for him to sell a full album nowadays, he’d have to come up with 10-12 good songs, a feat he hasn’t accomplished during his entire lifetime. Yes, the magical, magical times certainly are over for Johnny.
Today, thanks to Steve Jobs, a good portion of music consumers still actually pay for music and also actually have – *gasp* – consumer choice! Music consumers can now buy exactly what they want while not paying for things they don’t. Imagine that! Consumers can also still buy a full album via Apple’s iTunes Store, complete with artwork and more, if they so desire. Nobody’s stopping them. And, oh by the way, artists are still getting rich. All of this is thanks to Steve Jobs.
Steve Jobs is personally responsible for saving the music business, you vapid twit.
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You Give Music a Bad Name
I think it is the producers and engineers who are destroying the music business thanks to the loudness war. There’s no top end and no dynamic range. Therefore I deem most music production now to be utter crap.
My headphones go to 11.
Actually, I’m listening to .. and buying .. FAR more music now than ever before. Thanks, Steve.
What a complete and utter moron this guy is. For those who like his music: How does it feel to be seranaded by an idiot?
What a misguided saddo.
iTunes rekindled my love of music and opened the door to a galaxy of new sounds.
What nicer way to spend an hour of so on a Friday evening than listening to ‘n’ variations of a tune? (Well strike that, if she’s warm n willing).
Seriously, Bon Jovi is very wrong indeed, and I speak from the heights of being many years his senior.
Everything has killed the music business except for crappy music and artists.
Its like saying that Henry Ford is responsible for the oil shortage. Just because you have pop records doesn’t mean you are a good musician or understand the music biz or that we should pay any attention to him.. Whatever to Jon.
Spoken by someone who has one of the largest villas in New Jersey… Bought by all that “allowance” money… I happen to like Bon Jovi somewhat, but give me a break… And yes, I agree with the above, the record industry killed vinyl, not Steve Jobs…
If it was not for iTunes I would have stopped buying music 20 years ago. In my office listening to Bon Jovi on my iPad. Thanks Apple!
I thought “Video” killed the music business.
(oh wait… that was the radio star)
Ahh, it was a magical time – you looked at the sleeve, were in love with that one song which was playing on radio all the time, plonked down your dough, grabbed the LP and rushed back home, only to discover that, other than that one song, you had been royally screwed, usually nine times.
Napster, Limewire and other “sharing” services are responsible for severely damaging the music business. Apple is the one source responsible for saving it. And oh yeah, the public who doesn’t think they need to pay for music is to blame as well.
If what was most important to that moment was clutching an ablum, looking at the images on the cover, and the thrill of gambling with your allowance, then the music must have been pretty feeble.
I like great images with CDs, the thrill of finding an out of print CD, etc, but the most important thing to me about the first play is the music.
Bon Jovi is also assuming that only that particular experience can possibly be as sweet. I understand nostalgia, but the reality is that kids are associating some other set of circumstances with the joy of listening to some particular piece of music. Those sort of experiences of discovery as a teenager are just more pungent. Sorry, Jon. As long as there are teenagers and there is good music, they are going to have the same emotional experiences, it just won’t be the same as the one you had.
Ahh, nostalgia. It isn’t what it used to be…
As normal I agree with MDN view.
John B. your an Ass.
Has anybody else checked out the an iTunes Deluxe addition LP. Runs kind of like a DVD with band videos, photos and other stuff. its some cool shit!
Hinder has one – All American Nightmare (Deluxe Edition) – iTunes LP Some great tunes also!!
Oh, Thanks Steve!
Tom
Jon Bon Jovi is personally responsible for a lot of bad music!
I’d like to tell Old Man Bongiovi where to get off, but I don’t know Morse Code.
I DON’T agree with BonJovi at all…but I wouldn’t argue it with his “irrelevance”. Bon Jovi was the top grossing tour in the States for 2010. Love or hate his music, he still has draw.
Jon, i still like your songs… BUT THAT WAS ONE OF THE DUMBEST COMMENTS EVER ABOUT WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT IN MUSIC.
YOU FORGOT THAT NAPSTER, etc… IS WHAT KILLED THE MUSIC BIZ THAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT. iTunes was the solution TO YOU STILL GETTING PAID…
LEAVE THE GUY ALONE… HE ALREADY HAS CANCER TO DEAL WITH…
STUPID…
LET JON KNOW HOW STUPID A COMMENT THAT WAS…
http://www.bonjovi.com/
How ironic … I was just telling someone that I thought music “jumped the shark” when Bon Jovi sold any albums/CDs/songs/concert tickets.
I hope Jobs continues to kill the music industry because it is full of people who miss the essence of music and the artistry and are only concerned with money.
I agree that I mis the big LP record covers but that is something totally distinct from the record business.
Now if BonJovi REALLY cares about this, he ought to be perhaps creating his own record label, eh?
Pretty sure weak, made for video, spandex and eye shadow wearing, “I wanna be an actor”, if I hear the first three notes I leave the room or change the station, bands like Bon Jovi “killed” the music business. ITunes saved it. Sorry he feels old; his music already died, he will eventually meet the same fate and won’t be missed.
“Video killed the radio star…”
I had a album of Jon BonJovi that I had purchased for 12.99 and listened to it once to realized there is only 1 track that I like and had to sell it for 1.99 to a recycling store… Screw you Jon for being so self-centered.
you liking only one track is your own fault. it’s called familiarity and the refusal to put effort into discovering the songs you dont know. people sound like hicks when they tow out the ‘only one good song per album’ party line. Albums are a wonderful thing to discover, but most people will never know.