May 2009
5 posts
blip.fm accomplished what no-one else ever has
Here’s an admission: I hate YouTube. Along with the rest of the Internet, I watched the OK Go video with the treadmills and thought it was quite cool. It’s certainly one of the most inventive music videos that’s been shot in a long while, but then I guess there’s no incentive to make inventive music videos when there’s no outlet for them.
After that video, though,...
the never-ending task
I’ve got a massive CD library, and as I’ve entered the digital age, I’ve found that I’ve got a never-ending task.
The first inkling that I had this task was when I got an iPod. I got it when it first came out, so it was all of 5 GB. I knew that I had more than 5 GB of music then, so as I started ripping things, I went for lower quality, and I didn’t rip...
organisational scheme
My boyfriend can never grasp my CD organisational scheme. I think it’s trivial, he thinks I’m crazy.
At the highest level, it’s arranged in alphabetical order by artist: Amos, Tori to Zevon, Warren. For an artist, if I have multiple albums by them, those albums are arranged within chronological order. If I also have singles, those singles are arranged in alphabetical order...
top ten travelling songs →
From the Sydney Morning Herald, their best picks for top ten travelling songs. They give props to Paul Kelly’s “Every Fucking City”, a bitter love song played out across Europe’s capitals.
Tori Amos and the conceit of the concept album
I’m an old-skool Tori fan. I first heard Little Earthquakes about a week after it came out and was hooked. I first saw her in concert on the Under the Pink tour, and have seen her more than 30 times.
But I think she’s jumped the shark. She stopped making music, and instead has moved completely into the realm of concept albums. The first hint of this was her covers album Strange...
