Comments on: Your Best Stuff http://www.brianstucki.com/blog/your-best-stuff/ Living A Story To Tell Thu, 02 Jun 2011 21:08:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Sea http://www.brianstucki.com/blog/your-best-stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-2130 Sea Thu, 06 Apr 2006 02:30:07 +0000 http://www.brianstucki.com/blog/your-best-stuff/#comment-2130 I worked for a small record label during high school and this dilemna was very much an issue for all the bands we worked with. I helped put together label samplers and we had to help the badns choose which song to put on them. it was always a big headache to get bands to decide. After a while of doing them, we decide that it was best to put a band's catchiest song on the compilation. Catchiest doesn't necessarily mean best. It means most likely to draw the listener in through a casual listen. If bands put their catchiest song on, the listener is more likely to go out and purchase the cd and spend more time listening to it since they paid for it. A bands best work is usually not their catchiest, but if a band teases listeners with their catchiest, they have a much better chance at getting their best work in fron of the listeners ear. Just a thought from my experience. I worked for a small record label during high school and this dilemna was very much an issue for all the bands we worked with. I helped put together label samplers and we had to help the badns choose which song to put on them. it was always a big headache to get bands to decide.

After a while of doing them, we decide that it was best to put a band’s catchiest song on the compilation. Catchiest doesn’t necessarily mean best. It means most likely to draw the listener in through a casual listen. If bands put their catchiest song on, the listener is more likely to go out and purchase the cd and spend more time listening to it since they paid for it. A bands best work is usually not their catchiest, but if a band teases listeners with their catchiest, they have a much better chance at getting their best work in fron of the listeners ear.

Just a thought from my experience.

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