I bought a marked-down copy of Dinosaur Jr’s Without a Sound CD yesterday. I just looked at the receipt, and, rather than the title, it’s listed as “OFFBEAT GENERIC CD”. Weird. It’s like a little three-word record review. If I bought the new Madonna CD, would it show as “BORING MAINSTREAM TRASH”?
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WNEW
WNEW Cutting Talk Format to Focus on Free-Form Music
This would be really good news, if their “Free-Form” format was really free-form. They mention Michelle Branch, the Dixie Chicks and Etta James, but if they were really free-form, they’d be playing Squirrel Bait, Fugazi, Jimmy Scott, and Etta James. Or something like that. Oh, and their logo is pink. That’s a bad sign. Maybe eventually they’ll find their way back to being a good radio station. Well, that’s my rant for the day. Hope you enjoyed it.
Best albums of all time
Zagat has a music survey running right now. Just for yuks, here are my selections for some of the best albums of all time:
Selected from their list:
- AC/DC, Back in Black
- Beatles, The, The Beatles (White Album)
- Devo, Q: Are We Not Men A: We Are Devo!
- DiFranco, Ani, Living in Clip
- Led Zeppelin, IV
- New Order, Power, Corruption & Lies
- Queens of Stone Age, Songs for the Deaf
- R.E.M., Murmur
- Replacements, The, Let it Be
- Roxy Music, Avalon
- Rundgren, Todd, Something/Anything?
- Rush, Moving Pictures
- They Might Be Giants, Flood
- U2, War
- Uncle Tupelo, No Depression
My write-ins:
- Ani DiFranco, Dilate
- The Smiths, The Smiths
- Jimi Hendrix Experience, Axis: Bold As Love
- Husker Du, Candy Apple Grey
Not a complete list of my favorite albums, by any means, but a good start, based on the stuff they had to choose from, and a few things that popped into my head at the time.
Music
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A Stroke of Genie-us
Okay, I have to admit I’m stuck on “A Stroke of Genie-us” by The Freelance Hellraiser. Christina Aguilera meets the Strokes. Okay, if I was really hip, I would have known about this a year ago.
crabwalk
I’ve been checking Josh Benton’s blog on crabwalk.com a lot lately. Follow some of his links, and waste some time. Good stuff.
good music
Mix
I discovered the cd mix of the month club yesterday, after reading this article in the Times. Pretty cool idea. I’ve already made a mix to send off. Hopefully, the mention in the Times doesn’t bury the poor guy.
Emusic
After going for quite some time without downloading and burning anything from Emusic, I went nuts today and burned 4 CDs. Soft Boys, Solarized, Boss Hog, Matt Pond PA, Ivy, and one song from Cat Power.