Welcome to the working week.
Click to viewLive at the Nashville Rooms 1977, first ever performance as Elvis Costello & The Attractions. With Intro by Dave Robinson.
Which gets me thinking about how utterly amazing the line up on Stiff Records was back in the alleged day.
Have another Stiffy:
In my very unhumble opinion I consider Stiff to be the most important record label of the post ( Read more... )
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"If it aint Stiff it aint worth a f..k"
(bowdlerisation for your readers filters)
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"Stiff Records...the highest "hit-to-flop" ratio of any label, anywhere"
Do you mean by your personal taste? No argument here, if that it your definition. Just to point out that Motown's hit-to-flop ratio was freakin' legendary. But maybe Martha Reeves doesn't do it for ya...
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No one else does, either.
Motown was a factory, turning out a massive array of "black music", with a pretty standard win/lose ratio.
While, indeed, Motown had over 100 top 100 songs in the decade of my birth and I am a fan of many of those- Motown was a machine and while people remember the Motown sound and all the hits, there were a tremendous number of flops- especially after the music writing team of Holland, Dozier and Holland left in 1967.
Motown has been around for 50 years, but is only really known for a decade-plus long period of music. Motown is still putting out music, but I defy you to name a Motown hit made in the last quarter century.
Sure- had it survived - the same thing would have happened to Stiff. But it didn't, and from my pedant's perch, it really does have the highest hit-to-flop ratio- by review of number of releases to number of successes- of any "name" label in history.
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