Flushed with the success of my radio station widget, here’s a playlist to go with it. Happy listening!
Music archive
last.fm is apparently worth 64.5 sqazilchillion pounds/dollars/peppercorns, and here was me thinking it might just be a neat way of finding new music, or sharing what I’m listening to.
Anyhoodlum - this widgety here should allow you to listen to my own personalised radio station. There’s just no saying what might be on it. I might even take a listen myself…
Interesting report from the BBC that Steve Jobs
has urged the world’s largest record companies to begin selling songs online without security software.
Apparently he’s a lot more in favour of losing DRM than you might think, given he’s the head of company that’s sold 2 billion songs with DRM…
Full report:
Apple seeks online music shake-up
PS - Everyone should sign up for emusic, instead of getting songs from iTunes… 
Santa was good enough to get me the latest and very splendid Divine Comedy (Victory for the Comic Muse) for chrimbletide, which features a track called Party Fears Two, which in turn features one of the absolutely most wonderful riffs pop music has given us. For all you thirty-somethings out there, here, courtesy of YouTube, some 1982 TV programme I don’t know the name of, and the late Billy MacKenzie, is the original version from The Associates, featuring some pretty incredible vocals (for the record, I’m pretty sure the lipsynching is better than this edit lets on). Not sure about the uniform, though…
I love emusic, and so should you.
If you sign up you can download 25 tracks for free, and why wouldn’t you want to do that exactly?
Click this. It’ll make you happy!
If you can’t see the image, it basically says you get 25 free downloads, which is true, and that you can put them on any MP3 player, which is also true. No DRM, baby!
You can sign up through this link:
Unforunately, no-one seems to have written a plugin that will allow me to list all songs played on a certain date, but I’ll put a list together of the whole day’s effort later on.
So far I’ve taken the wrapping off a Stephen Duffy collection after several months of not letting it get to the top of the “play me next” pile, which I’ve followed up with a Boo Hewerdine album I bought for a quid last year some time. Nothing particularly brave or experimental so far, then, but I’m hearing all these songs for the first time, and that’s my basic aim. I wonder if I can experience 100 new songs by the end of the day…