So....
Sometimes I feel like there's nothing hugely great to spend my eMusic downloads on, and other times I discover some amazing band and quickly run out of downloads.
Anyway, What are some good Of Montreal albums? So far I have
Satanic Panic in the Attic
(which I love to death), and
The Bedside Drama: A Petite Tragedy
(which I like OK.)
Just downloaded
The Sunlandic Twins
and spent my last two downloads on two songs from
Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
So, what other albums of theirs are must-haves?
Sunil is a big Of Montreal fan, IIRC. I have not heard the newest one, but it is getting very good reviews.
Venture Brothers Christmas Carols: [link].
Awesome! Wish I'd had the Bowie/Bing parody last week.
Too late for Jon, but they have a version of "The Little Drummer Boy" - by the Jingle Cats.
You obviously didn't have a look at my playlist.
Music producers mixing for MP3
In a fascinating article about trends in sound engineering, Rolling Stone notes that producers are now specifically mixing tracks to compensate for the failings in MP3 -- it seems to me that as a society, we're happy to sacrifice fidelity for ease of use, flexibility and low-cost (see, for example, the trend from landlines to cordless phones to mobile phones to Skype). Designing for that, as opposed to lamenting it -- is a damned good and realistic thing to do.
Producers also now alter the way they mix albums to compensate for the limitations of MP3 sound. "You have to be aware of how people will hear music, and pretty much everyone is listening to MP3," says producer Butch Vig, a member of Garbage and the producer of Nirvana's Never- mind. "Some of the effects get lost. So you sometimes have to over-exaggerate things." Other producers believe that intensely compressed CDs make for better MP3s, since the loudness of the music will compensate for the flatness of the digital format.
Or we could just use higher bitrates....
"Other producers believe that intensely compressed CDs make for better MP3s"
Intensely compressed music is
bad,
m'kay?
The RIAA's new position is that everyone who has ripped legally purchased CDs to their computer is stealing: [link]
Next: everyone who listens to legally purchased music is violating someone's copyright.
The RIAA's new position is that everyone who has ripped legally purchased CDs to their computer is stealing:
Actually, that's been their position for a while. They just happened to mention it in their court document thingie (where they hadn't before).
The main issue in this case is still that the guy "made the files available" on a shared folder.
The RIAA's new position is that everyone who has ripped legally purchased CDs to their computer is stealing
Whether or not it's a new position, it's one that case law will laugh out of the room. This kind of thing got resolved way back when people were taping off of TV onto VHS, and I'm sure was also resolved the first time blank audio tapes were sold directly to consumers. I think this RIAA position is the legal equivalent of shit-piling your opponent in hopes of scaring him away.
Yeah, the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of fair use. [link]
Yeah. I used to tape off radio, you know. Endlessly. For hours and hours. And I named the tapes after boys. Boys who would have liked the music on the tapes. And then I made lists of what was on the tapes for each boy. And then I made subject matter mix tapes off the original radio tapes and named them after boys I really really liked.
...
It's possible that this is exactly the sort of behavior the RIAA is trying to curb.
