Peter Gabriel's 3rd album for the drum sound he got.

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According to this LA Times blog Amoeba is starting its own music label (but their first release is a bootleg, Gram Parsons to be exact, not an actual album) and downloading site.

As far as the sonic touchstone thing - that's exactly the kind of question I am no good at answering. I tend to think of albums like OK Computer or Yankee Hotel that were just different than anything I had heard before and seemed to affect the sound and recording style of many other bands after, but I have no idea if that is due to use of the studio or my limited musical universe or what have you.

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How about Big Black's "Atomizer" or Slint's "Spiderland"?

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Screamadelica, Psychocandy, the first Art Of Noise album (Fairlights!), Selected Ambient Works (both of them, actually), My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts, Timeless, Blue Lines, Millions Now Living Will Never Die, Raise Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennae To Heaven, Yes to Atomizer, yes to Spiderland, I'd say that isn't Anything was way more influential than Loveless, Daydream Nation, the first Flirts album (Bobby O begat New Order begat...), the first Orbital album, the first LL Cool J album,

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The Low End Theory, ATCQ
Parklife, Blur (maybe not revolutionary but it did cement the Britpop sound)
The Bends, Radiohead (not innovative but widely imitated)
Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos (yeah, Joni did it better, but still)
Mellow Gold, Beck (not the first to use found sounds, but again, widely imitated)
No Depression, Uncle Tupelo
The first Stone Roses album
I get the sense that In The Aeroplane Over The Sea may move into the "highly influential" zone over the next few years.

I want to include Surfer Rosa but don't know if it fits.

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So a blogger friend of mine pretty much demanded a CD-of-the-month club from the world. I, of course, joined up. I got #1 a week ago, and I'm a little disappointed in the first guy's work -- he's trying to be a little too cutesy with some interstitial tracks. But I have been introduced to Mercury Rev finally.

So here's the problem with this club and iTunes: the damn restriction on burning playlists. I need to make 11 CDs, but iTunes limits the burns to 10 (7 if you bought the song after last fall IIRC). I can pass the songs through JHymn and theoretically fix the problems, but JHymn isn't working with iTunes 6 right now. So, I'm looking at either making a different mix with the same songs for everyone, or... going out to Kazaa or Limewire and using shared songs to get the same functionality. So, Apple and the record companies' stupid restrictions are forcing me into a life of crime.

Good news is that I'm not up until June, so maybe things will change between now and then.

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dw - I have often wondered about this - can you burn one copy of the cd with iTunes bought music on it and then just copy that CD over and over? In other words you are not burning an iTunes playlist 11 times but just making a copy of one CD perhaps even on a different computer. Does that still count toward your 10 burn limit?

Also - can you rip the first CD you burn (again, perhaps on a different computer) and then burn those files? Does that still affect your limit?

I have no idea because I have never burned a song bought from iTunes because I almost never buy from iTunes (unless I am sampling something for probable purchase) because I often make mixes for more than 10 people... but, anyway, I've always been curious if you can trick the burn counter by not burning directly from the iTunes playlist.

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Can't you just recreate the list and call it something else?

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I want to include Surfer Rosa but don't know if it fits.

I'd say Doolittle, myself, on account of Kurt Cobain openly admitted they were ripping off that album when they put out Nevermind, and look how many people imitated them.

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Studio wizardry:

• Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
• Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
• Actually, although it's not necessarily a change for the better, anything made with ProTools is using the studio in new and odd ways.

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