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So about a week ago I discovered that Amazon now sometimes lets you hear
clips of the music you're thinking about buying. (Which, obviously, is
pretty damned useful.) I can't make use of that at work, but now that
I'm home, I decided to do some browsing.
Now I love rock & roll dancing. But to do it requires rock music. And
I'm not talking about Meatloaf or The Darkness. I'm talking about Buddy
Holly or Elvis Presley. THAT kind of rock.
Obviously by the time Elvis died I had only reached the age of -12 or
so. Consequently, I don't have much of a clue about this stuff.
(In fact, I can still remember the look of shock and disgust on my dance
partner's face when I uttered the syllables "who's Bill Haley?")
So at about 7PM I started browsing. I can't even remember where I
started from. Amazon shows you "related" artists, but they're only
related in the statistical sense that purchases of one artist correlate
with purchases of another. So the relationships aren't based strictly on
time period, style or cast members. Indeed, some of the relationships
are frankly... odd.
Anyway, in true Wikipedia style [ http://xkcd.com/214/ ], starting from
one point I ended up hearing some bizare and highly unrelated stuff over
the course of the evening. I made a few interesting observations:
- EVERY artist is "the best" in their particular field, despite the
apparent logical impossibility of this fact. (Then again, if "my field"
is "being Invisible" then I can pretty categorically say that, by
definition, nobody does it better than me...)
- There are many, many artists and groups who's names I've never ever
heard of. And yet I instantly recognise their music. Hey, it's not like
they tell you what they're playing on the radio!
- I tried to find rock & roll, yet ended up hearing blues, country,
jazz, gospel, soul, metal, and even rap. I have no idea how I got to
Frank Sinatra. (!)
- Many, many tunes that I like have been recorded by several people.
(And, obviously, I have no friggin' clue who did the version I liked!)
- Many tunes didn't sound nearly as good as I remember this. This is
possibly related to the insane levels of MP3 compression in the preview
clips.
I didn't like most of what I heard tonight, but there was some good
stuff in amoungst. And then, every now and then, I heard something which
was good enough to tap my feet to. One or two tracks actually
*compelled* me to jiggle around in my chair with their jaunty rhythm.
There was just one tune, however, which forced me to actually get out of
my chair, put some slack in the cable to my headphones, and actually
dance around the room in sheer uncontrollable glee. It was somebody
called - wait, let me go look up the spelling again - Connie Francis,
singing "Lipstick on your collar". Damn, that's bitchin'!
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> (In fact, I can still remember the look of shock and disgust on my dance
> partner's face when I uttered the syllables "who's Bill Haley?")
Maybe you should keep your expressions of ignorance to the internet
only... :P
Btw, ever thought of trying line dancing? I hear it has some popularity
in many countries besides the US. And country can be quite groovy at times.
--
- Warp
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4b89a0e9$1@news.povray.org...
> So about a week ago I discovered that Amazon now sometimes lets you hear
> clips of the music you're thinking about buying. (Which, obviously, is
> pretty damned useful.) I can't make use of that at work, but now that I'm
> home, I decided to do some browsing.
Did you try deezer?
http://www.deezer.com/en/
It's free, you get songs from start to end in rather good quality.
Marc
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On 02/27/10 14:47, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> called - wait, let me go look up the spelling again - Connie Francis,
> singing "Lipstick on your collar". Damn, that's bitchin'!
Wow. Haven't heard that name in over a decade.
--
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember, it didn't help
the rabbit.
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Warp wrote:
> Maybe you should keep your expressions of ignorance to the internet
> only... :P
Well, sometimes you learn stuff...
(Other times, the only thing you learn is that everybody thinks your an
idiot.)
> Btw, ever thought of trying line dancing? I hear it has some popularity
> in many countries besides the US. And country can be quite groovy at times.
This would be viable if it weren't for the fact that I HATE COUNTRY
MUSIC. ;-)
Besides, my rock & roll class already includes a few solo dances which
are sort-of like a line dance. (Although obviously without the
popularity.) One of my classmates tells me there's an active rock & roll
dance scene in MK... Unfortunately that was about 30 seconds before she
went home, so I didn't get to enquire further.
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Neeum Zawan wrote:
> On 02/27/10 14:47, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> called - wait, let me go look up the spelling again - Connie Francis,
>> singing "Lipstick on your collar". Damn, that's bitchin'!
>
> Wow. Haven't heard that name in over a decade.
I haven't heard that name *ever*, but hey...
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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M_a_r_c wrote:
> Did you try deezer?
> http://www.deezer.com/en/
> It's free, you get songs from start to end in rather good quality.
Mmm, interesting. I tried clicking "about", but everything's written in
some language that I don't recognise. (I.e., not one of the three
languages I do recognise. LOL!)
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> M_a_r_c wrote:
>
>> Did you try deezer?
>> http://www.deezer.com/en/
>> It's free, you get songs from start to end in rather good quality.
>
> Mmm, interesting. I tried clicking "about", but everything's written in
> some language that I don't recognise. (I.e., not one of the three
> languages I do recognise. LOL!)
The blurbs are in french for me, if that helps.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
The question in today's corporate environment is not
so much "what color is your parachute?" as it is
"what color is your nose?"
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>> Mmm, interesting. I tried clicking "about", but everything's written
>> in some language that I don't recognise. (I.e., not one of the three
>> languages I do recognise. LOL!)
>
> The blurbs are in french for me, if that helps.
Well, that _would_ explain why I don't recognise it...
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:16:41 +0100, M_a_r_c wrote:
> Did you try deezer?
> http://www.deezer.com/en/
> It's free, you get songs from start to end in rather good quality.
Cool, I'd never heard of this one before - Rhapsody, Pandora, Slacker,
and Lala, yes - but nice to have another option that has things I can't
find on the others.
Jim
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