tunequest

So Amazon recently threw its hat into the thunderdome of online digital music sales. The store's big brand name and huge retail operation instantly make it one of the top tier marts for digital music. As Amazon MP3 is seen primarily as a challenger to the iTunes Store's throne, I originally wanted to do a compare and contrast with that gorilla, but later thought that unfair to eMusic, who ...

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Seis de Mayo edition. Yeah, What They Said, pointers to interesting stories. Some people call it “link sharing.” :: Debunking the Myths of Peer to Peer in Regards to CD sales From the horse's mouth, the effect of file-sharing, peer to peer, downloading, and copying on a small indie label unaffiliated with any of the majors. Kurt Cobain: the man, not the myth Very nice write up of Kurt Cobain: About a Son, a ...

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When I began the original tunequest in February of last year, I had ~6000 songs in my iTunes library that had a play count of zero. Part of that list consisted of old CDs that just hadn't been played since they were digitized. A good number of them were the result of over-zealous music collection and exploration. That was one of the reasons I decided to undertake the endeavor ...

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i've got a case of the blogger's ennui, so if posts seem few and far between, there's your reason. anyway, i listened to sonic youth's dirty on this evening's interminable communte home. for an album that's 14 years old, i gotta say it still packs a punch.

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As if to prove my previous post for me, the tunequest-pod offered me these selections today (in order): pearl jam-live at the fox theatre in atlanta (which i skipped because i had just heard a live show yesterday) vince guaraldi's oh good grief (a decent jazz album) sonic youth experimental jet set trash and no star (my first sonic youth ...

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my ipod loves it some sonic youth. and beck. and pearl jam.one of the recurring subplots here at tunequest has been the tracking the seemingly non-randomness of the selections my ipod chooses to play and lately it's starting to draw my aggravation. you see, part of my goals for  tunequest is to get to know some of the vast swaths of under-appreciated tunes resting in my library. so i ...

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Mudhoney's My Brother the Cow, I think, is a fitting bookend to the "grunge" era. And though I didn't get into Mudhoney until the waning days of the movement, in retrospect it seems as though it was the most quintessentially grunge of all the big bands to come out of Seattle during that time. Nirvana was more pop friendly; Pearl Jam leaned toward hard rock; Alice in Chains and ...

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I picked up the latest Sonic youth recently but hadn't gotten around to listening to it until this evening. Because of my tunequest rule of "no repeats," I won't be able hear it again until the next year or I complete the project, whichever comes first. It's safe to say that when I pass either of those milestones, I'll be itching to hear it again, along with the handful ...

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After dancing with the mainstream on dirty and (to a lesser extent) washing machine, sonic youth delivered more musically-complex album with a thousand leaves, which contains two of the great songs in the group's repetoire: 'sunday' and 'hits of sunshine' (one of their most quintessential jams). in my mind, this album marks the mellowing of the band, but it's a mellowing that comes from the confidence that they know what ...

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