I tend to not watch TV, unless the ABC is running something worthwhile. But without an iPod and needing some background noise while I write, I happened to hear a few ads for something called The Great Australian Songbook, more than once in the past hour. The concept of a CD, let alone a compilation CD is something which I thought the music industry had given up on, let alone advertising it on TV, so let's look at both of those things first.
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| Pictured: Old Media |
First thing's first, they're two types of old media that I don't particularly get behind but strive constantly to keep abreast on. I want to be apart of TV because I love the medium of television. I think that it's strong and powerful as a storytelling narrative and that I've been watching Buffy for the past six months and I don't think anyone could tell me otherwise...who has psychic powers?
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| Although I didn't particularly enjoy Dollho- ERRRGH |
For music, companies dropped the ball on that by not respecting it's consumers and fanbase, which film seems to be following suit with. Meanwhile, some video game companies continue to thrive based on subscription services and some respect to it's users. Also I'm a bedroom DJ who respects artists and finding new ways to mix music, so I'm not sure where I fit in regards to the spectrum of music.
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| Depending on your age, he is on either side of that spectrum |
But back to the
Great Australian Songbook. Now being twenty, being from Australia and knowing too much about popular culture, I like to think that we have a diverse and interesting series of artists, musicians and just generally talented people working in the music industry. I like to think that, but that's like a pig thinking one day he mighten end up as bacon. It's just not there sometimes. When I think of great Australian songs,
Great Southern Land and
Beds are Burning come straight to mind. So let's look at the tracklisting on this "Great" Australian Song Book and analyse it to see if it's truly Australian or just a bit of joke.
