Music!

[flexagon]

I just bought a ton of music:

• Nude by VAST(what the hell, I've been listening a lot more to Music For People lately...)


• 2 AM Wakeup Call by Tweaker, an entire album about insomnia and dreams


• Floodland by Sisters of Mercy


• Mezzanine by Massive Attack


• Deep Forest by Deep Forest
(the top review says: It's not that different from what we hear today from Fatboy Slim and Moby, except of course with Pygmies. Um, yeah! I must have it!)

• Cantata Mundi by Adiemus (remember the shout-out I gave to their other album, Songs of Sanctuary, lately?)

So, two re-buys of CDs I've owned for years but which have wandered away (the middle two), two albums being heavily compared to NIN's The Fragile (the first two), and two world / new age / whatever. I possibly shouldn't be spending the money, and my CD rack is so full that this will make it overflow and cause a storage crisis, but I so rarely get inspired to explore music that I thought I should take advantage of it. :)

Also, I just discovered pandora.com, which is bad because I have that nagging, tickling feeling that someone else has already posted about it and I forgot and now I'm being a dweeb by acting like I just heard of it. But... it's nifty. You can enter a song that you like, and it makes up a custom "radio station" of songs that are similar to that song in some really sophisticated ways. Give it a shot if you missed that earlier post by whoever already mentioned it.

Comments

[belacane.livejournal.com]

pandora is pretty cool... although after a while it makes you pay, which is lame lame lame.

if it wasn't for swapping music with friends, i'd never have any, because it's just too damn expensive!

[flexagon]

It is too damn expensive... most of what I listed above was bought used. Nice of Amazon to make that easier than it used to be. :)

[miyyu.livejournal.com]

I had to add that Deep Forest CD to my wishlist once I saw it. I love them.

[flexagon]

Yeah, I really liked all the online samples, and the things people had to say. I'll let you know if the album lives up to its promise.

[flexagon]

P.S. Yeah -- I got the album yesterday and it DOES live up to its promise. I really really like it. So go back to your wishlist and clicky! :)

[hiddenbear.livejournal.com]

Pandora works well for popular bands. However, if you seed it with a less known band, or a band with a unique sound, you get repeats galore. Try 'Kaki King' and I bet you won't go more than six songs without a repeat.

[flexagon]

HLM's done well with semi-obscure prog rock from the 70s and 80s. I guess they have their strengths and weaknesses.