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  • White Love

    Cover of Morning Dove White by One Dove
    This is from one of my all time favorite albums Morning Dove White. It was one of my favorite CDs to listen to coming home from a party. This is the second song on the CD: White Love (Guitar Paradise Mix), by One Dove. It was actually a tough choice on what song to put up, as when I was looking at the track listing I was really tempted to put up the title track Fallen.

  • Dangerous

    A friend of mine over on LJ was posting some old songs and it put me in the mood to hear an old Depeche Mode b-side that I hadn’t listened to in ages. Dangerous (Sensual Mix) – Depeche Mode (aac). They really did have some nice b-sides to their singles back then. The other I remember liking a lot was Set Me Free.

  • More Proof That iTunes Reads Minds

    I just fired up iTunes because I wanted to listen to some music, but also wanted to hear one song in particular first. So I hit shuffle and then searched for the song. The scroll bar barely moved and I noticed that it was the second song in the shuffle. Coincidence? I think not.

  • A Little Bit of Forgiveness for iTMS

    But only a little bit because they didn’t get it all right. I have a few different bands I’ll search for on iTMS every now and then to see if they’ve made it into the store. An old favorite, Lard, had shown up a few months ago, but it was missing the album I really wanted: The Last Temptation of Reid. On that point iTMS has done well.

    On the other hand, when I go to select the album to buy. It gives me an Unknown Error and tells me to try again later. DAMN YOU APPLE FOR TEASING ME!

  • iTunes Music Store Inaccuracy

    I was poking around in the iTunes Music Store early this morning and discovered they had The Swing by INXS. I was quite psyched since that is one of my all time favorite albums. I remember my high school roommate and I used to have it playing on shuffle play all night long many many times. I clicked to add it to my shopping cart and did some more browsing. When I was done I was just about to click on ‘Buy Now’ when I noticed something. The version of “Original Sin” they have as part of the album is the wrong version. The listed time for the track is 3:46. According to allmusic.com, the actual length of the track is 5:19, which sounded more like what I remembered.

    The most annoying part of this is that I’ve had my eye out for this for ages and it feels like it is almost within my grasp. Maybe I should ask around to see if any of my friends have it.

  • She had to leave… Los Angeles

    Yesterday I set out for Newbury Comics in search of two CDs and I was quite happy to find that they had both of them. Usually I feel like I go off in search of CDs and never find what I’m looking for and end up buying way too much stuff because I start browsing. So, yesterday’s purchaes were:

    • cover.xMake the Music go Bang! – X: I’ve been an X fan since high school and have about 3/4s of their CDs, but wanted to pick this up after reading a short article about the band on CNN.com a day or two ago. I’ve given a listen to the beginning of the first CD and still love their sound so much.

    • B0002IQML6.01._PE8_SCMZZZZZZZ_The Name of This Band is Talking Heads – Talking Heads: This is one of the Talking Heads albums I never got around to picking up. When I heard they were finally releasing it on CD I had to pick it up. The album was originally released in 1982 and had never been released on CD before. It has also been expanded with a bunch of unreleased material. I think this one will get its first listen today in the car, where I can turn it up really loud.

    Possibly more comments to come as I listen.

  • Maybe If I Share It…

    trevor-animatedMaybe if I share this with the world it will get out of my head. Those wonderful wacky people at weebls have a little cartoon that I’m finding more addicting than Badgers. I mean, Everyone Love Magical Trevor. He makes cows disappear than reappear! I blame ladysissyphususerinfo for my knowledge of this.

     

  • Airport Express and the Genius of Apple

    Today while looking for a wireless mouse I picked up an Airport Express. For those of you who aren’t aware of this device, it is Apple’s mini base-station, music streaming, usb printer sharing, network extending device. Currently, I have it set up downstairs hooked to the stereo and had it cranked up while I sat out on the porch. Currently, any mac in the house can stream music to it from iTunes. In some ways it’s not a perfect solution, since in my parent’s case they’d have to go upstairs to their mac to start iTunes. But for someone with a laptop or a laptop and a desktop it just plain rocks. And I’m not the only one who is loving it.

    Here’s where I think Apple was smart with this device. They’ve made it so easy to want more than one of them. I’ve already got one and can easily justify two more. The second I’ll use in my room as a print server/wireless client. The third will go on the third floor hooked into the home theatre setup. At around $130 each it isn’t something I’ll pick up right away, but once I get my laser printer I know I’ll be eyeing it.

    Of course, then I may want one for when I’m on the road. MacMegasite has a neat article about using the Airport Express in a hotel room.

  • Words Still Fail

    Thanks go out to Suw for two posts that I’m pointing at tonight. I blogged about this last month, but here’s some more information about Mr. Shatner’s effort to revive his singing career (ew).

    William Shatner does something unspeakable to Pulp’s Common People

    You remember James T Kirk… er, I mean, William Shatner's last foray into musical endeavour? His stunning – and that's 'stunning' in the same way that a sharp blow to the head is stunning – rendition of The Beatles'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds? Think that's the depths of JT Hooker… er, I mean, Shatner's depravity?

    Think again.

    Shatner has teamed up with Ben Folds, of Ben Folds Five, to record a slew of new tracks. According to XFM, the new album, ‘Has Been', will be released on the Shout! Factory label this September.

    Earlier today I heard Shatner's cover of Pulp's Common People, and I can assure you, it will blow… you… a… way…, featuring as it does Shatner's thespy spoken-word vocals and Joe Jackson, (yes, that Joe Jackson), doing the wail-y impaled art student bits.

    You really, really do need to listen to this. You absolutely must. I have scoured the web for a link to a full length version, but all I can find is this (fairly substantial) snippet. (Quicktime. Other formats available.) [Chocolate and Vodka]

  • Tune of the Day 07/21/2004: Oingo Boingo – It Only Makes me Laugh

    Boingo Alive CoverToday’s song is one that I tend to listen to when all my health issues get to me and I’m feeling a bit down. Off of Boingo Alive, here’s It Only Makes Me Laugh. Because darkness can never last too long, when you laugh in its face.