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So now I’ve had a few days to go through portions of the new Emusic catalog, and here are a few of my impressions:
I see nothing from Chicago (Say what you want about them, their first three albums were more interesting than what most long-lived bands and/or artists do over a twenty year career) or [...]
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(by the way, I’ve added on a post since, talking about first impressions of the new Emusic)
On June 3rd, 2009, I checked out eMusic to see if there was anything new that I might want to download and I’m met with a major announcement of a massive expansion of their selection and a severe increase [...]
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Did Disco Die in 1979? And Why?
Yeah, I know. Disco sucked, and the world improved when it died at the old Comisky Park that summer day in 1979 after the first game of a Chicago White Sox/Detroit Tigers Doubleheader (BTW…thanks for the win, Dahl).
But…why did Disco “die” in 1979? And Why, if it did?
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Broadway is Dark Tonight…
Broadway is dark tonight -
A little bit weaker than you used to be.
Broadway is dark tonight…
See the young man sitting in the old man’s bar
Waiting for his turn to die
Somedays something comes up and reminds me of what it is that I miss.
Like this song: Broadway, by the Goo Goo Dolls.
The cowboy kills the rock [...]
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This is a rhetorical question. Of course you can’t. The only thing you can do is give them away.
All twenty-five gigabytes of MP3 files.
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I remember the winter of 1988, when I was jobless. I was able to go to school thanks [...]
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Kinda disturbing, looking at the billboard advertisements and realizing all the radio stations around here are either owned by Clear Channel, Infinity Broadcasting, Bonneville International or some other multinational, with a smattering of local-owned stations. Needless to say, the music from these stations has been getting lamer and plainer over the past few years.
Mind you, [...]
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In Memorium to Wazoo Records
This last summer (August 30, 2006 to be exact) Wazoo Records closed in East Lansing.
It could have been worse. Out of two used record stores in East Lansing, Wazoo was the lamer one (sorry, had to put it that way). The selection leaned more towards the popular and the “adult” (meaning calmer, quieter and Middle-of-the-road) [...]
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A Jolt Back Into The Past
Ever listen to the radio (or to your collection of mp3s) and hear the song that jolts you back to when the song first came out?
I just turned on my iPod (while new to me, it’s actually a refurbished 40 Gigabyte 4Gen iPod) and turned it to my collection of Tori Amos tunes (all legal, [...]
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The Right Apple Wins!
From The BBC: Beatles Lose to Apple In Court
Okay, so you’d choose to disagree if you were rooting for The Beatles. Fair enough, but even you’d have to admit that the Apple (Music) Corporation of Britain has badly served the Beatles, what with their unwillingness to remaster their catalog and preference to sue anything that [...]
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Watching a WTTW show on Eric and Cathy, it hit me just what the real change in Radio has been.
Think of it this way: In the seventies and eighties, would you have heard music on the radio, maybe some wild stuff on the morning shows, but little in audience response, and almost nothing in appearances [...]
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