This month in music
Wed 19 October 2005 by Kevin van HaarenI subscribe to emusic.com at their top level, which I means I get 90 tracks at month for $20 (or about 22 cents a track, take that iTunes). Plus the music is in pure MP3, no DRM, no limitiations on what device I can use, no limits on burning to CD. All around a good deal.
EMusic has a feature called Save for Later. Basically I browse and search for tracks during the month and add them to my Save for Later list. Frequently I don’t remember why I added them, that’s why some of my descriptions might be slightly vague.
Here’s what I picked up this month:
Hard-Headed Woman: A Celebration of Wanda Jackson – I love rockabilly and I love Wanda Jackson’s stuff. Plus they have one of my favorite Wanda Jackson songs, Fujiama Mama, by one of my favorite bands, Trailer Bride.
Dark Snack – speaking of Trailer Bride, this is the lead singers new band.
Whip It On – I think I heard this band on Sonic Spectrum on KCUR here in KC. Best damn radio show ever.
Memory-Minus I think I picked this up because of an EMusic review.
The Donnas Turn 21 I saw The Donnas on Adam Corolla’s Too Late show. They were hot. (Yes I’m a guy that will pick up a cd if i think the artists are hot. I’m just like every other guy in the world)
Hope is a Thing with Feathers more Trailer Bride.
Absenter b/w Chinese Fork Tie My brother got me a Jawbox album many years ago which I enjoy very much. This is an EP of theirs.
This has leaves me with 2 tracks left, which don’t roll over so I pick some random tracks from my save for later list. Fortunately EMusic keeps track of whay you’ve purchased and if you redownload something it doesn’t count against your downloads for the month.
My Music Library
I found a neat program tonight. It dumps an iTunes Library to a lovely HTML formatted series of pages.
So of course I dumped out my listing of 13,352 songs. Peruse the list at your leisure.
and no, you can’t download the MP3s. And my collection is legally obtained. Either ripped from my own CD’s or from emusic.com.
completeOnline Music
Slashdot reports that buymusic.com is being merged with the parent site buy.com.
I’m assuming this indicates the failure of BuyMusic.com, and good riddence I say. I looked over the site when it first fired up but never bought a song from them.
IMO, the main reasons for the failures:
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Horribly variant restrictions – I guess buymusic.com decided their customer was the record labels, not the people giving them money. As such they allowed each label to set it’s own restrictions per album. Look at The Who’s Then & Now album. On BuyMusic you can only ...
Woohoo!
I just bought Harry Nilsson’s album The Point from the iTunes Music Store. I grew up listening to this album (and if my brothers or sister read this – yes I’ve the album! Ha! Ha!) and it kicks butt.
Oh and even though I’ve got the vinyl album, I no longer have a turntable to play it on, hence the iTunes purchase (and now I can put it on my iPod).
Link to album (I think that requires iTunes for it to work.)
completeStupid Music for Commercials
I just saw the HP digital camera where they use The Cure’s Pictures of You as the music. This has got to be one of the more retarded choices of background music I’ve heard.
This song is about someone who’s love has left them forever and all they are left with are the pictures.
I guess HP’s message is “buy our camera and your loved ones will leave you.”
Damn good song though!
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