#31299: — 07/08  at  08:54 PM
I think you have the title and artist of the first song backwards.

#31302: PZ Myers — 07/08  at  08:59 PM
Yes, I do. How did I do that? Geez, I don't know how to copy and paste after all!

#31314: Martin Wagner — 07/08  at  10:01 PM
The Pink Floyd song is "Learning to Fly," not "Leaning".

Interesting list. What's it for?

#31334: — 07/09  at  12:44 AM
I think you have the title and artist of the first song backwards.

He's got the artist right, but I think he has the title wrong. Somehow in the copying and pasting frenzy it looks like he got some of the lyrics mixed up with the title. And then of course there was that whole Pink Floyd debacle. There is a lesson in this somewhere, I think...

#31350: Amanda — 07/09  at  06:12 AM
Everyone needs to listen to more Zevon.

#31411: — 07/09  at  02:24 PM
Re:Warren
If you're a Zevon fan rent the DVD "My Ride's Here".Bittersweet!

#31458: Amanda — 07/09  at  07:16 PM
Cheers P.C. Will do. I do love that album.

#31497: — 07/09  at  10:58 PM
please excuse my ignorance, but what is the significance of the list? I haven't seen one of these before. Is this a list of random picks, something generated automagically from a recent play list, or something else?

just curious...

Regards
Krill

#31500: coturnix — 07/09  at  11:27 PM
For a blogger, I am curiously Luddite. My computer does not have sound! I do not have an iPod, or blackberry, or PalmPilot, or cell phone. I play CDs (bought in a store) at home and I play tapes in the car.

#31502: paperwight — 07/09  at  11:34 PM
BHK - You fire up your MP3/AAC/whatever player (iPod, Rio, Winamp, Real, whatever), select every song you have, hit "randomize" or "shuffle" or similar, and list the first ten songs that come up.

It's just a blog thing. No particular significance, except that it happens on Friday I think because people are often a bit burned out with heavy-duty bloggery, and traffic starts to drop anyway.

#31504: — 07/09  at  11:58 PM
paperwight,
thanks for the explanation - I'll have to try that (I have itunes running on my other computer...

Regards
Krill

#31562: Ken Cope — 07/10  at  11:37 AM
Coturnix,

I have sound on my computer, but only for my cheapo stereo speakers at home or old fashioned cans (I can't stand earbuds) in consideration of others in veal fattening pens at the workplace. Cell phones are too useful not to have one, but my wife's and mine are over five years old. I'd rather get a laptop than break out subsets of functionality for all those other gadgets.

But then I find I'm the only one at the workplace who happens to have let a hundred or so CDs pile up next to the machine. Nobody seems to use them any more; it's easier to burn a CD to mp3 and listen off your harddrive, and share over the LAN with your neighbor if he asks what you're listening to; nobody wants to deal with your CD unless they ask to rip it.

I'll probably eventually archive my CDs onto a hard drive and end up hearing more of my collection than I would otherwise. But I want *more* bandwidth, not less!

I want 24 bit audio that the recording engineer hears in the mixing room! I want my home theater audio to spin around the room as it was originally intended, not to be subsampled and squeezed through tinny earbuds.

I'll eventually have to archive my laserdisc collection to DVD, because a lot of it is animation that will take years to show up in DVD, but that's a huge project.

All this digital convenience is too much work.

#31566: coturnix — 07/10  at  11:44 AM
I know I will come around eventually. I always seem to do it in jumps. I watch for years what is going to become a new standard, then go and get myself the best machine available.

#31571: paperwight — 07/10  at  12:18 PM
Ken - Just pick up a decent sized USB or Firewire HDD, point one of the free players at it as your core music repository (iTunes or Real), and set it to record *and* playback every time you put a CD in. That way you've got a portable library, and the player won't usually let you record twice, so even if you don't remember to put the CD in a "done" stack, you should be OK. Heck, if you get a *really* big HDD, you can store the music at pretty much the same compression level as is on the CD.

#31595: arensb — 07/10  at  01:42 PM
Not that anyone asked, but:

Mortal Highway (Original) - :Wumpscut:
Better Than Then - New Model Army
O, Do Not Forsake Me - They Might Be Giants
White Hot Day - Simple Minds
Track 8 - Kärtsy Hatakka and Kimmo Kajasto (Max Payne 2)
YYZ - Rush
Amoeba - "Weird Al" Yankovic and Wendy Carlos
Face the Fire - Leæther Strip
It's Over - Electric Light Orchestra
Spit Sink - The Dead Milkmen

#31598: Michael Hanscom — 07/10  at  01:52 PM
Just a minor nitpick -- that first song is actually titled "Most Beautiful Girl", off of LoA's "Lust" album.