tunequest

From the archives: I wrote the original version of this article for a newspaper column about 5 years ago. So it reads more like a newspaper column and not so much like a the informal blogginess that's usually found around here. It's from the Records that time forgot series that I hope to revive in 2007. This version corrects a couple awkward sentences and updates the formatting, but remains ...

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I knew this day would eventually come, since the tunequest made it into the "i"s many months ago. Back in 2001, I ran across a posting on the usenets called Italian Cinema Lounge. It was 225 songs taking up 700 MB and spanning eleven and a half hours of music culled from various Italian film composers from the 60s and 70s ranging from Alberto Baldan Bembo to Walter Rizzati. Fascinated ...

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In retrospect, I probably should have saved Lalo Schifrin's Mission: Anthology for the last album on the tunequest. It would seem fitting that my last song played should be the last song on this album: Mission Accomplished. Alas, it is not to be; I finished listening to that album just moments ago. However, there are other suitable songs for that distinction. At the moment, it's reserved for The Smashing Pumpkins' ...

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I took an hour out of the tunequest this morning to listen to an episode of the Sound of Young America, a radio show/podcast that I discovered in January. In all seriousness, I'm not a fan of talk radio as a format; I find that listening to other peoples' conversations grating. I'd rather be having my own conversations or listening to music. SoYA instantly cut through that avoision. Besides host ...

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