Normalized Happiness

Ghostface Killah "Ghost Is Back (edit)"

2007-01-20T07:12:14Z

I bought one of the most popular tracks from "More Fish" but was annoyed to learn that the first minute and a half was a pointless and chaotic New Year's Eve countdown skit. So, using QuickTime Pro I sliced the offending material off and now post ...

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Bloc Party "The Prayer" and Modest Mouse "Dashboard" mp3s

2007-01-07T05:07:51Z

Thanks to the power of the Hype Machine, I now have proper mp3s of the new Bloc Party and Modest Mouse songs. Upon first (or third) listen, I'd say the Bloc Party song is the more ambitious of the two, in that it's a lot weirder and darker t...

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Yo La Tengo are BACK

2006-07-31T03:52:53Z

Matador Records just posted the first track from Yo La Tengo's forthcoming "I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass." On first listen, it's a crazy guitar freak-out somewhat reminiscent of "Spec Bebop" but with vocals. They also announced...

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What's your favorite song of 2006?

2006-05-25T22:07:06Z

Hmmm... a chance to show off the new audio features? Except you can't insert assets from the QotD field on the Comet home page, thus necessitating a cumbersome double edit. Here are some of mine: And yet more: It would be nice if Comet could...

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How unbelievably epic is Comet

2006-05-24T23:08:26Z

now that you can post mp3s. Renders all previously features comletely irrelevant. Some more recent songs of note. I wish my mp3 files had album covers embedded in them, but that's not something that iTunes seems to do.

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I'm such a nerd because...

2006-05-04T02:31:46Z

Uh... just one thing? That's a hard question. My mp3 collection is ridiculously well organized. I can cite a relevant Simpsons quote to just about any topic you'd care to name. I own every single Rush album remastered. Those are probably my top t...

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Beatles on ITMS?

2006-04-13T03:26:14Z

One glaring fault of the iTunes Music Store is the lack of music by two of the greatest bands of all time, The Beatles and Led Zeppelin. Now reports are surfacing in the Apple rumorsphere of the Beatles catalong being remastered and put on the ITM...

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TechCrunch compares subscription music services

2006-04-11T20:45:31Z

TechCrunch just posted part II of their look at online music serivces, this one focusing on subscription "all you can eat" services . As you can see by looking at their comparison chart, there isn't really much difference between the services. Bec...

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TechCrunch reviews online music sites

2006-04-08T19:41:00Z

In part I, they review pay per song (non-subscription) sites . Apparently Apple has had some success in this area with something called the "iTunes Music Store" (who knew?) Competing against them are a bunch of hapless sites who have all tied thei...

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80s one hit wonder

2006-03-16T22:07:35Z

Prompted by my mention of David Gilmour's new album, Harold was reminscing about seeing him live in 1984, going to the show to see the opening act, Icicle Works, who didn't show up due to a death in the family. I went out and managed to find thei...

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