Who are the best Artists at each eras music format?

[Delete Delete Delete]

I recently watched a documentry on the ear of massive Album sales, and that got me who are the best at using the different formats.

I consider the eras as

Sheet Music (pre 50's)
The 7" Single (50's-early 70's)
The Album (70's to late 80's)
Music Video (80's to late 90's)
Mp3 (2000 - 2010)
Youtube (2010 - )

My picks

Sheet Music - Cole Porter
The 7" Single - Elvis
The Album - Pink Floyd
Music Video - Michael Jackson
Mp3 - Radiohead ( mainly for In Rainbows pay what you want play)
Youtube - Taylor Swift

[New Jack]

Minidisc not good enough for you, huh?

.. That said, I don't think I even saw the commercially released stuff in that format, despite having a player/recorder

[Z]

MP3 would surely have to be an act that made big gains off the way those things spread and how cheap it is to get something out there. Radiohead's handling of the format is more a business gimmick than maximising the artistic potential.

Albeit beyond your time range, Chance the Rapper's second mixtape turned him into a legit star and probably made more sense on a $$$ level long term than if he had released an album.
Or maybe the mixtapes Lil Wayne done between Tha Carter II and III, being able to quickly spit out new material by using other people's beats without any worries RE: licensing, generating so much hype in the process that he was the biggest rapper around by TC3's release, biggest new release in about 4 years.

[Delete Delete Delete]

I think Ash's A–Z Series was a intresting use of digital download. Releasing a new track every two weeks.

[rue the polywhirl]

The Sheet Music - Scott Joplin
The 7" single - Neil Sedaka
The Album - Queen
The 12" single - New Order
The Music Video - Duran Duran
The CD - Dire Straits
The mp3 - Metallica
The USB stick - White Stripes
The YouTube  - Gangnam Style
The Spotify stream - Ed Sheeran

[Sebastian Cobb]

Minidisc not good enough for you, huh?

.. That said, I don't think I even saw the commercially released stuff in that format, despite having a player/recorder

they were around in ourprice briefly. i had moby play.

[wasp_f15ting]

The Sheet Music - Scott Joplin
The 7" single - Neil Sedaka
The Album - Queen
The 12" single - New Order
The Music Video - Duran Duran
The CD - Dire Straits
The mp3 - Metallica
The USB stick - White Stripes
The YouTube  - Gangnam Style
The Spotify stream - Ed Sheeran

Lol - re Metallica :)

[Delete Delete Delete]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYv_dbLKMmc

[New Jack]

they were around in ourprice briefly. i had moby play.

Ah, now that chain is a blast from the past. Not surprised you had the obligatory album, though!

[holyzombiejesus]

What about flexis?

[Cuellar]

Minidisc - Toploader

[Golden E. Pump]

Billy Bass was the best of the Singing Fish on a Wall format.

[the]

Minidisc - Toploader

Reef, surely

[the]

The Myspace - Lily Allen
The mp3.com - Ozma
The Monophonic Ringtone - Usher & Alicia Keys
The Brain Shaped CD - Green Day
The Sitcom - tie between The Rembrandts and Gigolo Aunts
The BBC Two - The Staves

[lazyhour]

The T-Shirt: Ramones

[the]

Oof, some hot competition from The Nirvana though

[New Jack]

8-Track = Creedence

[the]

Who was the best at:

DVD-Audio
SACD

?

[Huxleys Babkins]

What about those tiny CDs that would jam up a slot-loading CD player?

[the]

Ritz crackers, they're called

[Brundle-Fly]

Cylinders - Brahms?

[daf]

Phonograph Cylinder (1888–1915) - Enrico Caruso *



Gramophone shellac 78rpm disc  (Acoustic era : 1900-1925)  - Al Jolson (belting it out like a foghorn)
Gramophone shellac 78rpm disc  (Electric era : 1925–1947) - Bing Crosby (able to invent 'Crooning' - thanks to the new sensitive electric microphones)

The 10" 78 is somewhat forgotten now, but was the original mass produced 'pop single'. And it was these 10 inchers that were first collected into 'albums' - usually containing 8 discs in a hard-bound flip-page album. (I have 6 of these VERY HEAVY albums - originally collected by a groovy aunt in America during the 40's and 50's)



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(* so famous he was still referenced without explanation as the shorthand for "great singer" in the Bash Street Kids right up to the 1980's!)

[New Jack]

Whistling = Postman Pat theme

[daf]

Percy Edwards* came close, but the "Whistle King" for me has to be the 'I've got to leave Old Durham Town' Hit-maker himself, Roger Whittaker

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* One for the teenagers

[Brundle-Fly]

Singing in the bath. - I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles - Doris Day

[daf]

Winnie Lightner / Gracie Fields / Vaughn De Leath / Guy Lombardo / King Nawahi's Hawaiians* came close, but the "Bathtub Kings" for me have to be the 'Plucky Lindy's Lucky Day' Hit-makers themselves, The High Hatters

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* You boys took one hell of a beating!

[DukeDeMondo]

The Brain Shaped CD - Green Day

Ha! I found my copy of that a couple months back, stuck in a box was supposed to have all Iron Maiden singles in. Had forgotten all about it. Dunno if it still works right or it doesn't. Had the original version of "Good Riddance" on.

[New Jack]

The best CD is Godspeed You! Black Emperor's 'Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada'

Cause the CD looks like this! It is this, literally


But hey if y'all love Rod Stewart or whatever... Er.. I can't think of a Rod Stewart joke to sign off with

[Sherman Krank]

I consider the eras as

Sheet Music (pre 50's)
The 7" Single (50's-early 70's)
The Album (70's to late 80's)
Music Video (80's to late 90's)
Mp3 (2000 - 2010)
Youtube (2010 - )

Then you consider wrong sir!

You. Consider. Wrong.

Billy Bass was the best of the Singing Fish on a Wall format.

Not the best, just the most popular.
Charlie Carp was the best.
That Chinese lad had a voice that could make the angels cry.

[Astronaut Omens]

Is there a consensus choice for best flexidisc?
I think the ones that used to be most ubiqitous at car boot sales were the Stylophone one, which is now less fun due to it's bearded Australian host, and the ELP "Brain Salad Surgery" one, which is not great and also isn't really musically unique.