Category: music

Apple

I decided to check out Apple’s new music service today. Looks pretty good. Just for yuks, I bought a song — “Glad and Sorry” by the Faces. I was hoping I could find the cover by Golden Smog, but no luck. Also no luck finding “I Can’t Stop Loving You” by Ray Charles, which has been stuck in my head ever since I saw Metropolis.

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.