moni

omg, he wrote you?? *faints* hehe, kidding he rocks though.

k, thanks. in this while i got this compilation, so i'll make my own opinnion about it.

i guess you're right damn i gotta buy this cd too

true.

no. the power of "for free".

i was reffering in general ... i'm just saying that people (at least the ones with small incomes) preffer to have the product in front of them, physically, when they want to buy music. the availability of the CDs is not high. i for one can only buy music online. no other option. example ... i will soon travel by train like 10-12 hours to go to a party where Ticon will play. and maybe Jaia, i'm not sure (but that's another party). now, if there would be CDs for sale, i'd surely buy. i guess i don't live very close .

in CD sales ... if artists or their managers would bring CDs for sale at their gigs/parties, it might help increase sales. the cost would be smaller cause there is no delivery fee. make your product available, touchable, thus easier to purchase. however, labels are pretty much involved in the "cost and income" side, so you cannot talk about artists and exclude labels, and vice-versa. downloading will never stop. even if people would have enough money to buy more CDs than they currently do, they'd still download the music, based on "listen before buying". however, we have concluded before, that downloading to some extent means "promotion". the music moves faster and easier from a listener to another. i wonder what's the production cost of a CD ... who can afford to lower price, who can't. can the artist by-pass the label in sales? hmm ... i saw The Lone Deranger on psyshop.com 11 Euro. Twisted Recs has been re-releasing and stuff.

oh man ... last evening i was CD shopping. see, i have these 5 releases as mp3 and 1 as promo CD, and i decided to buy them also. i searched for the 5 albums, found them, clicked, calculated, and thought: "Damn .. this is expensive. They are my favourite CDs, but can i really afford them?" i bought 2 in the end.

let's say it's not bitching, it's discussing thanks btw

yeah, you were very close to being sent a horse head and stuff.

true true, very "visual" thread ...

you misunderstood. we just said: #1 gets 5 points #2 gets 4 points #3 gets 3 points #4 gets 2 points #5 gets 1 points

i checked all IPs. there were just 2 usernames with the same IP. their top 5 were not similar. even if it was a double account, 1 top 5 doesn't have the chance to change much in the statistics. after all, it could have been also that 2 different people used the same computer to post their top 5. for any questions, i am here till around midnight

sometimes i use "look" when explaining something, i am not a hostile/angry/patronising person. i'm actually a cheery kind of person. always happy that's all!

look, OOOD is made of 4 guys, not just Colin: Colin Rama Ryo Steve they're gonna release a new album, called Free Range, in this spring. so .. soon. some of you have seen the cover already. some not. because it is so beautiful, here it is again:

this thread is finished Jamie. you can go see the results, the thread is pinned.

if you remember well, all top 5 albums have been hyped pretty well here by people. and i've seen 0 words from Anoebis and mars about Apsara and Khetzal. so i'd say it's objective and representative for psynews. if more people participated, maybe results would have been the same, or close, or different. i guess we'll never know. oh well, there is always next year.

thanks guys the database is downloadable excel file btw.

With my appologies for the delay, we now can present you the results of the BEST OF 2005 thread. Please click here to see the results: http://www.psynews.org/media/bestof2005/ And insert your comments below. Thank you all who participated in this exercise; we will let you be the judge of the relevance of this information; and for the next one, we hope that more of you will participate! The bigger the database gets, the more relevant the results will be!

this thread has been moved from the General section to the Music Promotion section.

i've met the guys, yes, that's how they pronounce it. though i say long O and D. the way they say it sounds weird it sounds UUUD to me. my language is "how you write it, you pronounce it", and that's why. the music is great, i got to see them live at X-mas, old tracks + new tracks. i believe the new album is gonna be good. i'd like to hear A Live too, seraph has been talking pretty nice about it.

"Let's Go Raving" - Scorb "Scraqp" - Ka Sol "Information Insemination" - Mubali "Woebup" - G.B.U. "Pampampampam" - Deedrah don't ask why

obviously, the poll does!

come on ... you should see MY van

several people who met Skazi said that they were cool guys. this eliminates the second option of the poll.