tunequest

a solid 3 hours and 40 minutes in today, which doesn't seem long enough to have covered all the items below. but a lot of them are singles, just 2-4 songs each, plus i don't actually list an album here until i've played all its songs. i had 6 songs left in the soul coughing show and only the last 2 of sigur ros' (). so ...

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this morning i increased the number songs on the tunequest playlist from 300 to 1000 songs. that translates to about 110 albums or so, alphabetically ranging from '0' to 'Bo.' even though alpha-by-album method pretty much ensures a random assortment of musical styles, i decided i wanted an even larger variety to choose from. so without further ado, here are today's entries. thomas ...

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Today's roundup: system 7 [777] tortoise [digest compendium of the tortoise's world] oasis [what's the story morning glory] styrofoam [a heart without a mind] single A little story about System 7: back in summer of 1997, when only a handful of people knew what "mp3" meant, I ran across a song file called system 7-dizzy ...

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today included: bavarian radio orchestra performing beethoven's no.5 badly drawn boy [about a boy] english symphony performing delius' florida suite disney's magic skyway music from the 1964 new york world's fair all tomorrow's parties 1.0 you know, the back-to-back playing of delius' florida suite (which is magnificent, btw) with dvorak's no.9 has given me the idea to put together some kind of "impressions of america" compilation. dvorak's 9th was written during the ...

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Ah, sweet weekend, the first without rain in about 2 months. Naturally it's time for yardwork. I can finally finish my fall raking, just in time for spring. Even though I actually loathe doing yardwork, it does present much opportunity for music listening. Too bad I didn't get to take advantage of it; I was too busy fighting an alternator. Curse those who designed the 1997 pontiac ...

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I had a short day at the office, so i only managed to work in about 2 hours of music. no albums today, just handful of singles. highlights include stayin' alive [bee gees], a couple tracks from velocity girl's¡simpatico! and the hand that feed [nine inch nails] (i'm kinda bummed that i won't get to hear it again for the rest of the year. oh well, ...

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Highlights: John Williams score for A.I. Artificial Intelligence is a breathtakingly moving film score, particularly The Mecha World suite. The man was on the mark with that one. In a similar vein, I also enjoyed movements I. and II. from Mahler's 6th Symphony performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra as well as some groovin' Les Baxter. I removed a dull number by Hooverphonic and a non-song by An April ...

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