theres no way all 48 songs are gonna be up to that quality. its gonna be annoying having to sift through that many to pick out the good ones...but whatever floats his boat
Essentially, he'll have new material to release outside of a traditional "album cycle" style of promotion, which is outdated in 2017. Calling them all the same project will bump streams on the earlier tracks when a new wave drops. This will bump his streaming numbers on older songs from TSFE and give earlier songs a renewed chance to "stick" with fans on repeat listens. It'll also encourage people to add more individual tracks to their playlists.
Pretty much identical to what Sleeping At Last did with the Yearbook series, and that's one of my favorite collections of music ever. Very cool thought process.
Please don't be 48 songs. I don't need 48 songs. Just release the best 12-16. No artist is good enough to release to 48 great songs and the perfectionist within me will want them all regardless. This smacks of a worrying lack of quality control.
Even if everything is as good as "Love on the Weekend", it's still just too much, haha. I'm assuming people will just pick one or two songs from each month, and then at the end of year make a playlist/mix CD of the best ones to make a solid 12-16 song album, which is definitely what I'd do.
Could potentially do kind of what Biffy Clyro did with the double album and release a more concise version that perhaps contains just the best received tracks.
Ehhhhhh...strongly disagree there...we wouldn't have gotten White Album or Mellon Collie if we just cut it down to the "best 12-16". And John more than qualifies as the type of artist who could get away with something like this. Even if I don't really like the genre (like his last album or two), the quality of all of this songs has been top notch.
I mean, four new songs a month isn't that much, all things considered. I'd be more worried if he were releasing all of them at once, and even then I'd be most concerned about just not being able to digest them all. Of all the studio albums Mayer has released, there are probably like...two or three songs I don't really care for? Maybe? He also hasn't released anything for almost three and a half years and has probably been writing for that entire time. And he put his album on hold when he went on tour with Dead & Company, which means his musical inspiration has probably shifted a fair amount in that time as well. I'm sure not every song will be golden, but I'd bet on a pretty solid batting average for this.
Yeah, even if only half of them are good (I'm guessing I'll like more than half) that's 24 new John Mayer songs to add to his already fantastic catalog. If you only want to make a playlist of the best 12-16 then that's cool, you can do that but I'd bet if we all did that at the end of the year, they wouldn't all be the same. This way everyone gets to hear all of the music and decide for themselves what songs they love. Some may only get a normal albums worth, but some people might love all 48 songs.. Why should he limit his output just because some people think it's too much?
Don't forget--dude hasn't released music in three years. He's definitely got gas in the tank. Edit: Oops Craig already said this. Let's all commit to making a twelve-track album listing in December! Should be great fun.
Whilst I get this, even Mellon Collie is only 28 songs, which is basically half the length. Don't get me wrong, I'll listen to them all, I just feel like it's going to be very off putting to newer listeners and I can imagine at least a third of the tracks will be kind of weak.
I wish any of my favorite artists did it. There's no such thing as too much good music, especially when it's spaced out like John is doing.
I don't think Mayer is just going to start writing one-third bad songs. Dude has never been that inconsistent. His weakest stuff has typically been radio singles or covers and I doubt we'll be seeing much in the way of either throughout this project.
It would be awesome if he did one of the monthly EPs, or whatever he's calling them, with Bob Weir, Kreutzmann and Hart. Throw in Phil, as well.