yeah, Spike Island turned into Background Noise

not my favorite to say the least but I'm happy it got a lot views on youtube, more than 400k

-- Edited by Bookmark on Monday 5th of May 2025 03:49:02 PM

I think it'll need a radio edit or the mid part being less meandering. Background Noise might be deemed more effective.

not me, but many will check the hasitleaked.com site

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Albums tend to leak less and less these days dont they ? I gotta say i dont bother anymore, and wait for release date.

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Most leaks used to come from cd pressing plants. Now 95% is digital, that's cut out most of that opportunity.

 

In fact most leaks used to come from one guy with an elaborate belt buckle in one cd pressing plant!

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HoltbyCity wrote:

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andy wrote:

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Albums tend to leak less and less these days dont they ? I gotta say i dont bother anymore, and wait for release date.

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Most leaks used to come from cd pressing plants. Now 95% is digital, that's cut out most of that opportunity.

 

In fact most leaks used to come from one guy with an elaborate belt buckle in one cd pressing plant!

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Really, one guy ? Bennie Lydell Glover, is that the guy ? Just did a bit of research, didnt know about that. Thanx 

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Yeah, that's him.  It's a really interesting story.

 

For anyone else that wants to read about it: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/27/the-man-who-broke-the-music-business

I'm not aware of a single album that I have bought in recent years being leaked. I remember getting hold of "We Love Life" and "Think Tank" by Blur before they were released but that was over 20 years ago.

I'm guessing that each record label's computers have some sort of software on them that would block employees from downloading a copy then perhaps the process for uploading to download sites and streaming is automated. It would also be reasonable to assume that fewer units of the physical formats are manufactured these days so less chance of one going "missing".

Speculation that Pulp are performing this evening at a pre-record for the Later with Jools Holland TV show at Ally Pally Theatre in North London.

Weener, are ya there?

-- Edited by Eamonn on Tuesday 6th of May 2025 07:05:59 PM

Nice! I checked Amazon and Apple music earlier today for this very data and meant to ask on here if folk thought we'd find out this info in advance.

So...looks like Grown-Ups is a bit of an epic to go with Hymn and Slow Jam. Apart from the closer, A Sunset; it seems that Tina is the shortest song on the album - maybe that's the next single! Got To Have Love might be too long for that...

Also looks like Background Noise might have been elongated with a bridge section, here's hoping. It's now a good half a minute longer than the 2023 live versions.

If this is accurate, More is very similar in total running time to His'n'Hers. A couple of minutes shorter in total than We Love Life and Different Class. WLL/HisnHers are more directly comparable as they also had 11 tracks, DC had 12. That long-sustained note on The Day After The Revolution makes Hardcore harder to compare. Actually if you take 10 minutes off the end of that album you get to 55 minutes.

So every Pulp album since HnH has had more or less the same amount of "content" on it (50-55mins). Who knew?!

Spotify UK isn't showing the track times from what I can see.

the cd pressing plant guy story is the most amazing story ever. There is a doco - a 3 part series I think??? We watched maybe last year based on Stephen Witt's How Music Got Free. Delightful book!!

Yeah I was just thinking wow we're 4 weeks out and things start to appear- albeit less and less these days because of I guess more "convenient" infrastructure...