Posts citing: Hepworth, D. (2019) A Fabulous Creation: How the LP Saved Our Lives [online]. Kindle. London: Transworld Digital.

12 November 2022

Back Here Now:
Revisiting Be Here Now 25 years on

Drawing on personal memories, press coverage, interviews, and biographies, this post revisits Oasis’s third album, Be Here Now, 25 years from its original issue in August 1997. It recalls the expectations and excitement surrounding the release, explores its cover artwork’s creation, examines The Beatles’ influence on the album’s concept and composition, and discusses the quality of the music.

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22 November 2019

Conspicuous consumption and the illusion of ownership

Starting with the idea that subcultures are expressed through conspicuous consumption, this post explores how the impression of ownership experienced by consumers of recorded music on vinyl, audiotape and CD was only ever an illusion of these media. It goes on to describe how subsequent technologies broke the bonds of recording and medium, reducing the possibilities of cultural expression through ‘ownership’ of recorded music.

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