Jeremy Kill wrote:I feel like two years between albums is a happy medium.
To me, 2 years should be a minimum. Less than that would be way too quick imo. It's possible to write a great record in less than two years, but I'd rather enjoy and listen to the record for a while rather than getting a new one only one year apart.
4 years might be too long between albums, so I'd go with 3.
Jeremy Kill wrote:I feel like two years between albums is a happy medium.
To me, 2 years should be a minimum. Less than that would be way too quick imo. It's possible to write a great record in less than two years, but I'd rather enjoy and listen to the record for a while rather than getting a new one only one year apart.
4 years might be too long between albums, so I'd go with 3.
It's just one way in which the music industry has changed. Several decades ago, making and playing music would be a full-time job without much 'time off' except hiatuses. Look at The Who at its peak - wrote and recorded Tommy in '69, toured it until '71, wrote and recorded Who's Next and toured that until '73, then wrote and recorded Quadrophenia. No time off, and three albums released and toured in 5 years. And those have gone down in history as three of the greatest albums of all time.
Jeremy Kill wrote:I feel like two years between albums is a happy medium.
To me, 2 years should be a minimum. Less than that would be way too quick imo. It's possible to write a great record in less than two years, but I'd rather enjoy and listen to the record for a while rather than getting a new one only one year apart.
4 years might be too long between albums, so I'd go with 3.
It's just one way in which the music industry has changed. Several decades ago, making and playing music would be a full-time job without much 'time off' except hiatuses. Look at The Who at its peak - wrote and recorded Tommy in '69, toured it until '71, wrote and recorded Who's Next and toured that until '73, then wrote and recorded Quadrophenia. No time off, and three albums released and toured in 5 years. And those have gone down in history as three of the greatest albums of all time.
I'm not a huge fan of The Beatles, but I'm sure they were the same way. Just from looking at Wikipedia, they released two albums a year for '63, '64,' and '65. Six albums in three years!