There's a certain urgency that comes from the records of the early 60s before overdubbing and multitracking came into play.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Most popular records are action-packed to the last semi-quaver.
I think The Police made five great records and then called it a day. They went out on top.
We were using the record as a tool to invest money into real estate all through the South, because we were living in an era where the South was changing.
Making every record is a process full of tough times.
This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.
In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.
In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any more records. That was it, period.
Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.
I've frowned at the idea of breaking records, the first one to do something, or do it longer, higher, more difficult.