Archive for the 'Downloads' Category
Wey-oh-wibble
I’m a long-term Jonathan RIchman fan, but with the advancing years and overexposure I stopped listening to my old records (in the same way that I stopped listening to The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, The Beatles, The Who, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen, to name but two) and I stopped buying his new ones as [...]
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Tags: 1980s, 80s, Jonathan Richman, JR, Music
On Band Camp
BandCamp does for musicians what WordPress does for writers. We’ve had MySpace for a few years now, but MySpace is nasty, ugly, chock full o’ shite and owned by News Corporation.
BandCamp, as you can tell from their introductory video, was created by Mac users: people who know good interface design instinctively, and appreciate the importance [...]
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Tags: bandcamp
Accidentals
I vaguely understand that some good music has some accidentally played notes in it: mistakes which turn out to be quite musical. Very rarely, I am loose and relaxed enough to do something that sounds quite nice. I have found, for example, that I often play electric guitar better when standing up and moving around [...]
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Tags: home recording, pro tools
Tift Merritt – Home is Loud
On pre-ordering Tift Merritt’s live Buckingham Solo CD today, I noticed that another limited-release 2005 live recording, Home is Loud, was available again. Even better, for the instant of gratification, it’s on iTunes (that link should take you to the Store) for just £6.32, with no DRM. That’s 70p per track.
Home is Loud was [...]
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Tags: Tift Merritt
Little Big Mac
I bought A Place to Land by Little BIg Town a while ago, but I’ve never really listened to it as an album. It’s been on the iPod, and I’m not even sure I’ve heard all of it yet. I’m only up to the Fs on my run through the 1000-song alphabet, but by coincidence [...]
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Tags: garageband, ilife, ilife '09
Cunning
I thought it was cunning for Mr Springsteen to promote a new album on the back of the presidential inauguration (could they not find a better word than that?). I was slightly nonplussed when a new album was announced less than two years after the last one. At his peak, he went five years between [...]
Filed under: Arrested Development, Downloads, Entertainment, Middle Age, Music, Nostalgia, arts | 4 Comments
Tags: springsteen
Cluster Pluck
In the great tradition of superb session players, Brad Paisley has released an album of mostly instrumentals, showcasing his extraordinary fingers’n’tone. There are a few vocals on the record, but the main reason for listening is to marvel at the technique.
The token hit single on Play is “Start a Band”, a duet with that other [...]
Filed under: Beatles, Downloads, Entertainment, Music, Songs | 1 Comment
Tags: brad paisley, guitarists, Telecaster
Roll Your Tapes
via BoingBoing, I came across this selection of recordings of Bob Dylan with that overrated charlatan Johnny Cash from 1968/69. Only one song from these sessions ended up on Nashville Skyline. There are also, so it goes, a few quadrophonic remixes of Nashville Skyline tracks – no Johnny Cash required. Regardless of my personal opinion [...]
Filed under: 1960s, Baby Boomers, Bob Dylan, Culture, Downloads, Entertainment, Music, Nostalgia, Songs, arts | 3 Comments
Tags: 1969, country music, johnny cash, nashville skyline, quadrophonic
rose, originally uploaded by mcmrbt.
Further to the recent Dire Straits controversy, I decided to spend the 79 pence to get the 8.5 minute live version (from Alchemy). Most of the extra minutes on the recording are shockingly bad 80s stadium rock filler, so the core of the song itself is basically the same.
On my main [...]
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Tags: dire straits, name of the rose, novels, romeo and juliet, semiotics, umberto eco
Imaginary Next Beatles Album
Last month, George Harrison’s solo albums were made available on the iTunes store, meaning that you can now buy Beatles solo stuff on iTunes, with the Beats themselves coming next year, it says here.
This news reminded me of a game Roy and I played a few years ago: proposing a track listing for an imaginary [...]
Filed under: 1960s, 1970s, Beatles, Downloads, Entertainment, Music, Songs, The Seventies, sixties | 17 Comments
Tags: iMix, iTunes
