Yeah, iTunes is slowly getting more comprehensive, but indie stuff and some big names aren't giving up the goods.
And their oldies selection is quite weak.
I like books. I just don't want to take on too much. Do they have an introduction to the modern blurb?
Buffy ,'Lessons'
Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Fred Pete - Mar 31, 2004 3:58:40 am PST #1916 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
Michele T. - Mar 31, 2004 5:36:30 am PST #1917 of 10003
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
Bloodshot rekkids are available on iTunes. Go forth! Spread the gospel of the honky-skronk!
Also, CDBaby.com, an indie distributor, is having a big ol' clearance sale.
Lyra Jane - Mar 31, 2004 6:25:06 am PST #1918 of 10003
Up with the sun
I got more new CDs on half.com and Amazon last night. (I'm on a Must Diversify! Now! trip.) The CDs I bought were:
- "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back," Public Enemy
- "Blacklisted," Neko Case
- "In Search Of...", N.E.R.D.
- "Three Feet High And Rising," De La Soul
- "Fragments From a Rainy Season," John Cale
- "Things Fall Apart," The Roots
- "Pleased to Meet Me," the Replacements (I had it on cassette, which I can't find anymore. I am slowly duplicating the good parts of my high school record collection on CD. The next purchase in this vein should be Sonic Youth's "Sister".)
Between that and an LJ mix trade I'm participating in, I expect to be in New! music! heaven! for quite a while.
bicyclops - Mar 31, 2004 7:29:25 am PST #1919 of 10003
"Fragments From a Rainy Season," John Cale
For some musicians (Neil Young is one), my rules are:
1. Live beats studio
2. Acoustic beats electric
3. Solo beats band
And those rules certainly work for me in this case. A bunch of Cale's best songs (and one of Cohen's) performed simply and minimally. I love this album.
YMMV - some people get bored with Cale's piano playing.
bicyclops - Mar 31, 2004 7:34:32 am PST #1920 of 10003
One more thing: moonlit's Bonus Australian disk - LOVE it.
Michele T. - Mar 31, 2004 7:52:25 am PST #1921 of 10003
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
Not quite music-related, but: HEY! JOE! Marc Maron is listed as the primary host for the new progressive Air America's morning show, "Morning Sedition" on their website. AM 1190 in NYC, 6-9 AM.
joe boucher - Mar 31, 2004 8:02:10 am PST #1922 of 10003
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
Interesting Neil Young interview on Fresh Air yesterday. I'll take him electric, preferably with Crazy Horse, over acoustic any day.
It Takes a Nation of Millions... is astonishing, probably one of my "Desert Island Discs". Took a while for me to get into, but once it clicked it was mind blowing. Unbelievably dense. I'm tempted to advocate its status as Greatest Production Ever. The Bomb Squad (Chuck, Hank & Keith Shocklee, Bill Stephney, Eric Sadler) are the real stars. "Louder Than a Bomb", "Rebel Without a Pause" and "Black Steel In The Hour of Chaos" are favorites, although, the whole thing is great. Adore the back to back clips of Malcolm X ("It is time for us to do whatever is necessary to defend ourselves") and George Clinton ("Ain't nuthin' but a party, y'all!"); who says agitprop can't be fun?
joe boucher - Mar 31, 2004 8:13:46 am PST #1923 of 10003
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
Thanks, Misha. Spent yesterday afternoon listening to Robert Smigel's Fresh Air appearances (working hard the whole time, of course...) -- see the new tag. Had tears rolling down my cheeks, laughed hard enough to aggravate my asthma, but it was so worth it. For his most recent appearance search "Triumph". That's the one in which he parodied Bill O'Reilly's Fresh Air appearance.
DavidS - Mar 31, 2004 8:23:29 am PST #1924 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Speaking of N.E.R.D.: Pharell Comes Alive! (but the Black Eyed Peas were better)
I'm tempted to advocate its status as Greatest Production Ever.
In close competition with Paul's Boutique for the best of last 20 years, I'd say.
bicyclops - Mar 31, 2004 8:37:13 am PST #1925 of 10003
I'll take him electric, preferably with Crazy Horse, over acoustic any day.
Saw NY & CH on the Year of the Horse tour. Long, interminable feedback-drenched codas on every song. Bored me out of my skull. Now the Rust Never Sleeps tour - solo acoustic at the start, then Crazy Horse. That was one to remember. My left ear's never been the same.
My favorite Neil, though, is on bootlegs of solo acoustic shows from '89 ( Freedom material), '92-'93 (not the Unplugged thing though) and one from the early 70's