Comments on: The way we listen now

By: DV

DV — Sat, 09 May 2009 10:36:50 +0000

I did find it interesting a while back when that Mariah Carey song became Christmas number one. I would love to believe that it was loads of people thinking what Xmo party song they love and downloading it, though I bet it was just some marketing campaign, or maybe the song was being used in a short advertisement film being shown on the television.

By: koganbot

koganbot — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:37:26 +0000

DV this sentiment officially announces the start of being VERY OLD for you! (it’s the best thing to be obv)

Not necessarily. If you look at what’s happening on the charts themselves, the same songs are hanging on week after week after week – which shows that even with relatively recent stuff, now that the record-company practice has faded of deleting singles as fast as possible in order to get people to buy the album, people aren’t jumping on the new so much when they download.

By: Michael Kelty

Michael Kelty — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:23:33 +0000

Walking in the dark- by MrsAmeryca
Patty R. was tweeting that a b list celebrity who will remain anonymous didnt want to perform live because of an ‘audio problem’( she wasnt able to lipsynch) and I guess Mrs Ameryca opened for her and ended up playing and singing live for about an hour and everyone was kinda Awestruck!lol I googled her up and found a reverbnation profile for her and the rest was history. I listen to it EveryDay. Its different makes me wanna move. Still cant find away to download it though!

Thanks Patricia Ramone!!

By: a tanned rested and unlogged lørd sükråt wötsît

a tanned rested and unlogged lørd sükråt wötsît — Thu, 07 May 2009 23:03:50 +0000

DV this sentiment officially announces the start of being VERY OLD for you! (it’s the best thing to be obv)

By: DV

DV — Thu, 07 May 2009 21:26:56 +0000

I find myself wondering whether the whole obsession with “current” music is one that we might move away from. It suits a print music press, because people will want to pay money to learn about the sounds of now, but as people move to primarily downloading music they are surely going to start engaging more with music from random periods of the past. And with a dying print media, they are as likely to read a blog on which some guy enthuses about Ethiopian jazzers from the early 1970s as whatever sounds are currently troubling the singles chart (or are they?).

Or maybe not. Anyway, my favourite song of the moment is the Shangri-Las “Give Him A Great Big Kiss”, and I had never heard it before buying a Shangs compilation.

By: Nelson Wells

Nelson Wells — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:25:35 +0000

nice work, tom. we like. surprised that idolator scooped it before Pitchfork. Did you even bother pitching it to pitchfork?
like it.

so, my new favorite blog: FreakyTrigger (found out about from a Tweet from Maura at idolator) LOL.

@Clermont1

By: Martin Skidmore

Martin Skidmore — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:17:24 +0000

My answer to Steve was through the singles jukebox, which is how I hear nearly all new music these days (plus then seeking out more by the acts I really like, of course).

By: David Belbin

David Belbin — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:50:38 +0000

Interesting stuff, Tom. I read on the Springsteen usenet group that I occasionally frequent that there was a new Slaid Cleaves album about to come out and it was in a different league to anything he’d done before. Turned out it was only available as an eighteen quid import but I bought a copy from the Cayman islands for a tenner and it arrived within a week of its American release. ‘Cry’ is the title track, in that it includes the line ‘Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away’. It’s a very catchy country folk album with a lot of songs about mortality and, if there’s any justice, should make him bigger than Garth Brooks ever was. Since there isn’t, I’ll probably be seeing him in the same small club I’ve seen him in three times before when he tours the UK this October.

By: mike

mike — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:10:31 +0000

Very interesting stuff. And apols: I didn’t answer the second part of your question very well. I first heard the Lovebugs track by downloading it from a Eurovision download blog, that an old friend had told me about via e-mail.