Hundreds of thousands of master tapes of artists you love burning IN HELL
 

*of songs from master tapes, fuck I'm too angry to type properly

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/m...ecordings.html

TL; DR:

UMG stored decades worth of recording masters in a parking lot warehouse with next to no safeguarding, the whole thing burned down in 2008, they lied about the extent of the losses for years, and now we know thousands upon thousands of original recordings and who knows how much known and unheard material is now lost forever, never to be heard, never to be released or remastered.

"It includes recordings by Benny Goodman, Cab Calloway, the Andrews Sisters, the Ink Spots, the Mills Brothers, Lionel Hampton, Ray Charles, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Clara Ward, Sammy Davis Jr., Les Paul, Fats Domino, Big Mama Thornton, Burl Ives, the Weavers, Kitty Wells, Ernest Tubb, Lefty Frizzell, Loretta Lynn, George Jones, Merle Haggard, Bobby (Blue) Bland, B.B. King, Ike Turner, the Four Tops, Quincy Jones, Burt Bacharach, Joan Baez, Neil Diamond, Sonny and Cher, the Mamas and the Papas, Joni Mitchell, Captain Beefheart, Cat Stevens, the Carpenters, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Al Green, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Elton John, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Buffett, the Eagles, Don Henley, Aerosmith, Steely Dan, Iggy Pop, Rufus and Chaka Khan, Barry White, Patti LaBelle, Yoko Ono, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, the Police, Sting, George Strait, Steve Earle, R.E.M., Janet Jackson, Eric B. and Rakim, New Edition, Bobby Brown, Guns N’ Roses, Queen Latifah, Mary J. Blige, Sonic Youth, No Doubt, Nine Inch Nails, Snoop Dogg, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Hole, Beck, Sheryl Crow, Tupac Shakur, Eminem, 50 Cent and the Roots."

Well that sucks.

^ would have loved to get a classic Shallowed "ok" on this one

that being said, holy shit. a good argument for why artists should own their own masters, I guess

Burl Ives? Those motherfuckers!

This is even sadder if you pretend the tapes were their uploaded consciousnesses like that episode of Black Mirror

The Eagles? Guns n Roses?

THE FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS?!?


OMG NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

*scans for Third Eye Blind*

OK, cool. Guys, it's going to be OK.

"It was the biggest disaster in the history of the music business."


Whoaaaaaaaaaaa whoa whoa.

BEEP BEEP, let's back this Rock and Roll truck the Hell back up...

That's not a fair way to talk about NAME TERRIBLE ARTIST NAME HERE at all!

I mean...even Nickelback has mostly held their finalized lineup together so far.