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Music YOU should be listening toYes, you too should listen to this stuff! I wouldn't have spent the time scaning the CD covers on a stupid windoz box, transfer them with a FAT16 floppy over to my linux box and give them meaningful, longer than 8 charactor names if I didn't think it was really important. I no longer listen to the radio. It sucks and no one plays any music anymore. The DJs just babble, play commercials and play music indistinguishable from commercials. The current genre favored by the bastards in corporate music I like to call "pissed-off white guys with guitars." Sorry guys, you just don't speak to me. If I wanted that, I'd listen to The Clash or Bad Religion. The key strategy to finding new music you WOULD like is to find internet groups concerned with the music you like NOW and find out what other people who like the same stuff are listening to. Someday, when all CD players are networked, we'll be able to transparently form coalition groups of like-minded individuals and finding good music will be much easier. Please steal this idea. Please. And use public-key cryptography to implement it so the corporate bastards can't control it. As Bjork says in the Video "Vessel": I could never live without my ears.I live quite happily with my CD player. I primarily use a five disc changer and put it on repeat while I work or hack. This has some implications as to the CDs I listen to. Each CD plays through completely so the whole CD must be good. I'm lazy, so often times the player will stay on repeat for several cycles until I get frustrated enough to reload the whole player. So every CD must withstand repeated listening. In many cases, a particularly good (usually new) CD will stay in the player through many reloads. A few CDs have stayed in rotation (to use an evil radio programming term) for up to a month. Those are the CDs I seek. As for finding and buying obscure music on line try: |
Technology You Must Have
The greatest music tool ever invented is the HD jukebox. I have an Archos
Jukebox Recorder 20. Read
some of my rantings
about the Archos, some
resources and see what
I have in mine.
For Electronic, Techno, and House music, the tools are simple. This is what you want: |
It's such an awesome CD that I actually hauled it around in the
portable CD player and listened to it in bed before falling asleep.
Normally, it's reserved for the 4am slot while hanging out in a deck
chair in my screened in workshop overlooking the assortment of living
and dead cars in the driveway.
Well, the new album is out, it's called "South". Her stupid Sony Music
website is so out of date it doesn't even have that info yet. It's nearly two
years out of date. Her actual website is at
heathernova.org. Oops, that's a trap site.
Rumor has it that there were EP releases after this:
Note the punch-mark at the lower right corner of this CD cover. Right
into Alisha's left biceps. Yup, it's a cutout.
Just try getting a fresh copy of this one. Mine is so
scratched from dropping it in the VW Rabbit on road trips that even
cdparanoia
won't read it cleanly.
