Put another nickel in ...
Aug. 16th, 2008 10:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mschatelaineI gave in to my Shiny! impulse last month and bought myself an iPod(tm,$$$,etc.). It is a very shiny 'pod indeed, a 32Gb iTouch, which now goes by the name of Ludwig. (Commiserations to anyone who is old enough to get that reference.)
I was delighted to find that Ludwig is just big enough to dump my entire mp3 collection into. Since this collection is in part the result of *ahem* backing-up friends' and family's CDs and hard drives over a period of a few years, there are some things that I've had hanging around that I've never got around to listening to. I know that 30 gig of music is not a huge collection, but it's more than I care to trawl through sitting in front of my computer after sitting in front of a computer all day at work. Now I can listen to this stuff on the move or plug it all into my stereo.
So, with over a thousand albums to listen to, how much of it do I actually play? Not a lot, it has to be said. The music I would normally have listened to I'm over-familiar with, and the stuff I hadn't got round to, I never really fancied. I play about one percent of it, which is a bit of a waste, and I'm getting tired of what I do play. I've found a few gems, Heather Nova, James, 10,000 Maniacs, and so on, but I need new music.
Cue Fopp, and the classic albums sitting in Asda and HMV for less than a fiver. I'm ploughing through Tom Waits' back catalogue at the moment, also got hold of Led Zeppelin IV and Paranoia by Black Sabbath, and of newer acts, the Magic Numbers, the Zutons, the Fratellis, Goldfrapp, King Creosote and so forth.
I've also gone the download route, but since I object strongly to DRM and other such attempts to fence off and plough under the cultural commons, I have an eMusic subscription. This morning I got Vampire Weekend, Eliza Carthy, Rev. Gary Davis, Karine Polwart and Davison/Coleman. I still have ninety-odd tracks to use up by the end of the month out of my initial subscription and freebies. I think this will be a good chance to broaden my classical, jazz, blues and folk listening.
So, I'm now entertaining suggestions for new music to listen to. Classic albums, new and interesting acts, any genre (except hip-hop and club music, not that I expect most people who read this to be into those).
addendum
Oh dear, I just discovered something that I'd heard about earlier and not connected to myself - Amazon also do DRM-free music downloads. (waves fond farewell to credit card)
I'm going to be strong, I'm only downloading John Denver's I Want to Live, for now. This was an album I played over and over again when I was a teenager and it's absolutely beautiful. It's only a shame that downloads don't carry the sleeve notes along with them, with one of the most evocative poems I have ever read.
continued
Bastards are limited to the US at the moment. The only news articles I can find say that UK roll-out is due 'this year', dated 2007. Need a US credit card, for many reasons, but mainly this.
I was delighted to find that Ludwig is just big enough to dump my entire mp3 collection into. Since this collection is in part the result of *ahem* backing-up friends' and family's CDs and hard drives over a period of a few years, there are some things that I've had hanging around that I've never got around to listening to. I know that 30 gig of music is not a huge collection, but it's more than I care to trawl through sitting in front of my computer after sitting in front of a computer all day at work. Now I can listen to this stuff on the move or plug it all into my stereo.
So, with over a thousand albums to listen to, how much of it do I actually play? Not a lot, it has to be said. The music I would normally have listened to I'm over-familiar with, and the stuff I hadn't got round to, I never really fancied. I play about one percent of it, which is a bit of a waste, and I'm getting tired of what I do play. I've found a few gems, Heather Nova, James, 10,000 Maniacs, and so on, but I need new music.
Cue Fopp, and the classic albums sitting in Asda and HMV for less than a fiver. I'm ploughing through Tom Waits' back catalogue at the moment, also got hold of Led Zeppelin IV and Paranoia by Black Sabbath, and of newer acts, the Magic Numbers, the Zutons, the Fratellis, Goldfrapp, King Creosote and so forth.
I've also gone the download route, but since I object strongly to DRM and other such attempts to fence off and plough under the cultural commons, I have an eMusic subscription. This morning I got Vampire Weekend, Eliza Carthy, Rev. Gary Davis, Karine Polwart and Davison/Coleman. I still have ninety-odd tracks to use up by the end of the month out of my initial subscription and freebies. I think this will be a good chance to broaden my classical, jazz, blues and folk listening.
So, I'm now entertaining suggestions for new music to listen to. Classic albums, new and interesting acts, any genre (except hip-hop and club music, not that I expect most people who read this to be into those).
addendum
Oh dear, I just discovered something that I'd heard about earlier and not connected to myself - Amazon also do DRM-free music downloads. (waves fond farewell to credit card)
I'm going to be strong, I'm only downloading John Denver's I Want to Live, for now. This was an album I played over and over again when I was a teenager and it's absolutely beautiful. It's only a shame that downloads don't carry the sleeve notes along with them, with one of the most evocative poems I have ever read.
continued
Bastards are limited to the US at the moment. The only news articles I can find say that UK roll-out is due 'this year', dated 2007. Need a US credit card, for many reasons, but mainly this.
