9 posts tagged “music”
I'm making a mix CD of songs that deal with nerdy subjects. Obviously I'm throwing Weird Al's "White And Nerdy" and "It's All About The Pentiums" on there. I want each song to either ooze with references or focus on one particular subject. "Ghardbad At The Roxbury" is a gem I picked up years ago that mixes the tune from Night At The Roxbury with voice clips from the original Diablo. I'll also have some TMBG and Moxy Fruvous, as well as MC Chris and Futuristic Sex Robotz.
I figured after I looked through my mp3s for the nerdiest stuff, I'd do some Googling on the subject. Feel free to feast your ears on a few of my findings.
The Four Eyes - not exactly my thing music-wise (and especially because I'm not into WoW)
Anchorhead - Is that a death metal version of the Imperial March? I think it is.
Adam and Andrew - These fellows have some very accurate things to say about emo kids.
Optimus Rhyme - I think this group hates the aforelinked MC Chris. Nerdcore is big enough to have a feud? Nice.
I look at problems in our society and think of ways to be rid of them. But a lot of my solutions seem to go back to government intervention. For example:
How do we deal with the problem of digital piracy and the RIAA clogging up our courtrooms? What if we made music free and had a government agency do promotion?
The Department of Culture's Music branch would hire x number of bands a year as subcontractors to perform in government-sponsored venues. It would become an alternative to going out to the movies or seeing a play. Some number of bands will be playing at one particular local venue at predictable, convenient times. Censorship is virtually unnecessary - a band is simply given a rating on their performances before they're presented to the public. A PG-13 performance means only 13 and up are allowed to get tickets. The only rule is "don't break the law on stage." Easy, simple, and ethical.
Advantages of this system:
Local governments would be receiving the lion's share of profits in exchange for advertising the heck out these bands. Public buildings will be updated with performance schedules. Local radio and tv will be required to put up commercials for these performances as part of their broadcasting contracts. That takes care of the big problem bands have starting out - their name will be out there. Second, everyone will know where to go after a concert to get their free mp3s of the bands they just saw - a perfectly legal, government-maintained website.
In fact, the rating system could be supplemented by parents being able to download music before decided whether or not to let kids go see a particular band.
So -
Revenue is generated within a community and stays in that community
Musicians get steady paychecks
Bands get public exposure for when they want to get higher-paid gigs at private venues
People get free music
Of course, there's an issue with taking business and talent away from private venues. For that, there could be a tour program for the most popular bands to travel around to public and private venues. The current system in place would have to be changed considerably, of course. The two goals of this whole idea are to increase the presence of fine arts in our society, and to solve this whole copyright mess we have on our hands. Music stays free, at it basically is anyway, and artists get paid.
I don't know if people would support this idea, since it technically gives power to the (local) government over music. The thing is, it doesn't really matter who controls it - it's whether or not the controller is adhering to ethical standards.
1) An Internet Gentleman shall not engage the Vile and Despicable Act of Spamming the Tubes.
2) An Internet Gentleman shall not Exhort his Compatriots to Flame, no matter the Righteousness of the Cause.
3) An Internet Gentleman shall never Force Invitations to any Website upon anyone, but instead shall Politely Recommend Once.
4) An Internet Gentleman, upon the Polite Recommendation to a Compatriot on the Subject of Obtaining an Account on any given Website, shall give Full Disclosure on any Benefits he would receive for Signing Up another Individual.
We, the Respectable Users of the of the Information Superhighway, shall hereby adhere to the rules herein.
So, now that I've got that out of the way, let me tell you about Amiestreet. Amiestreet is a website that distributes DRM-free mp3s. Prices range from free to 98 cents. The more popular an mp3 becomes, the higher the price goes, maxing out at 98 cents. I've checked it out and there is a ton of completely free music in a variety of genres. Also, there are several promotional codes floating around the net. I used "forteller" to get a little bit of free credit to spend on the mp3s that actually cost something. I also got a couple of these "REC" things, which are used to recommend music to others and hopefully gain more credit.
Full disclosure: If you give me your e-mail address and let me invite you to Amiestreet, I get a little bit of free credit. That would be really cool. No pressure.
Hey there fellow voxites,
I just had a thought. What are the most often covered songs? I know a ton of bands have done songs such as Black Betty, Tainted Love, and Gin and Juice, but what other musical works get multiple incarnations like that? Obviously groups like KISS and Metallica have whole bands devoted to covering their works, but I'm thinking of tributes done in new and interesting styles, as opposed to imitation. So, tell me what comes to mind when you folks think about cover songs.
So the aforementioned suers of children have gotten some others together to get royalties from radio.
Am I the only one who sees this as a horrible idea? CD sales are down - of course, because there's a whole lot of garbage being produced that no one is buying. So they're going to start charging radio to play their crappy music. Isn't radio one of the main, if not the main way people hear new music, which they then consider buying? MTV hardly ever plays music anymore. We occasionally get little bits at the end of
So the RIAA, which can't seem to make a good decision about new technology, wants to hit up their main promoter for money. Maybe that will work out in the short-term, but I'm thinking it's only going to hurt in the long term.
Which band or artist which is no longer performing or alive would you have loved to have seen?
Submitted by Rev Stan.
Soul Coughing.
Audio: Share a song that makes you nostalgic.
Submitted by Alex.
Audio: It's 70's music Wednesday.
This is one of my favorite songs of all time.
Abigail Washburn Coffee's Cold
Alain Leroux Hadera
Army Navy Snakes Of Hawaii Ben Lee Gamble Everything For Love Black Seeds Tuk Tuk Calahan When We Were Young
Casolando Carino Mio
Chris Ligon Crazy Day David Allen Coe - Don't Bite The Dick
Dengue Fever One Thousand Tears Of A Tarantula Don Walser Rolling Stone From Texas Ephemera Air Fern Jones Strange Things Are Happening Fly My Pretties Singing In My Soul Gabby La La Pirates Gwendolyn Happy Clappy Birthday
Gwendolyn Little Monkey
Individuals Let A Thug Smoke Jack Drag Now or Never Jenny Owen Youngs Fuck Was I
Kava Kava Don't Stop The Music Leona Naess Ballerina Mary Schneider Yodeling The Mozart
Mope You Look Like A Gorilla
Moses I Will Be Negro Problem Bleed Noam Weinstein I Can Hurt People Of Montreal Wraith Pinned To The Mist and Other Games Pasta Boys featuring Wunmi Babalawo
Real Tuesday Weld Bathtime In Clerkenwell Regina Spektor Ghost Of Corporate Future Roaring Lion Life Can Be Sunny
Rilo Kiley With Arms Outstretched
Roaring Lion Love Thy Neighbor
Rocky Dawuni Jah Be For Us Rocky Dawuni Jammin Nation
Rogue Wave Kicking The Heart Out Snoop Dogg Vato
Sufjan Stevens Holland
The 88 Not Enough
Tom Verlaine Day On You
Tracy Speuhler Where Do We Go Yehoram Gaon Od Lo Ahavti Dai Zeroleen All Good
5 points for figuring out the connection without using a search engine
3 points for recognizing 3 or more of these groups/musicians (not counting Snoop Dogg, +1 point for each one above 3)
2 points for each one of these you send to me via fatmalegamer@gmail.com
