Writing tagged Music
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Top Tunes of 2007, part 2 and 3
The second and third (and final) parts of my favourite music of the year.
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Top Tunes of 2007, part 1
The first part of my favourite tunes of 2007. Unsurprisingly.
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A laudable idea
Annoyed at Boing Boing’s link to the BBC’s consultation about on-demand programming, and an idea about classical music.
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My top tunes of 2006
A CD’s worth of my favourite music of 2006.
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Paul Morley’s ‘Words and Music’
Summary of what I liked and how it excited me.
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UK gig ticket alert service wanted
I want a service that emails me when a band I like are playing near me.
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Nice chart of my MP3s over time
I did a chart of what years my MP3s originate from.
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The endless musical relay race
Dan Hill passed the musical baton on to me, an excuse to waffle about music I like. How could I refuse.
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Europa and Hackensack
The sadness of two “boy loses childhood girlfriend who then becomes famous and successful” songs.
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Piano Notes by Charles Rosen
Fascinating insight into the world of professional piano-playing. I think you’d get even more…
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Top Tunes of 2004
Making a CD of your favourite music and giving it to friends is naughty and illegal and the cause of global terrorism. But if I was, perhaps, to make one of my favourite music of 2004, then it would look like…
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Morning News interview with Alex Ross
A very quotable interview with the ‘New Yorker’s music critic. Lots of good stuff.
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MP3 blogs and the record labels
A roundtable discussion of MP3 bloggers seems remarkably optimistic about the record labels’ stance on people giving away their artists’ music. A flurry of letters from lawyers seems much more likely to me…
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We’re gonna need a bigger pipe
I’ve been grabbing music from Mostyn’s Music Page for some time, but I only recently realised that a whole MP3 Blog scene has been blossoming out there. It’s official: I am now several weeks behind the bleeding edge.
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Less metadata, more music
Having thrown away my to do list, I recently finished transferring 342 songs taped from the radio to MP3.
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Audioscrobbler
Having lots of fun with Audioscrobbler, which is, really, kind of like a social networking site without all the annoying “Are you my friend” stuff, and with lots and lots of music.
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The Caretaker
John Peel played a track by The Caretaker earlier this evening. It’s good stuff and you can…
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McSweeney’s vs They Might Be Giants
“Quirky” pop duo and self-absorbed literary quarterly… a recipe for embarrassment. Or maybe not!
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Ella Guru
Heard their song ‘On a Beach’ on Late Junction last night and it was good.
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Summer playlist
A selection of tunes from Greil Marcus’s ‘Mystery Train’ that make for fine heatwave listening.
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What are the chances of that happening, eh?
Brian Eno documentary on BBC 6 Music.
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Greil Marcus
Greil Marcus’s ‘Real Life Rock Top Ten’s, once at Salon, are still going over at City Pages. Yes!
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Akufen
Last week the New York Times had an interesting article about about the most underrated albums of…
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Festive taping vs festive downloading
Wondering why I feel more of a criminal listening to MP3s of John Peel’s Festive Fifty rather than cassettes of the same thing.
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Popstars - the year ahead
I think the rejected five should be formed into a band, a kind of anti-Popstars. Bitter, vengeful…