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Weezer posted this great music video for their new song Pork and Beans (iTunes, Amazon). It has been a long time since I watched a music video, but if more were as well done as this one I might tune in more often.
I am not sure how I feel about recognizing most of these videos. Apparently I spend way to much time on the Internet. Oh and putting a face on the gopher really creeps me out.
Tags: internet, music video, weezer
Back in the day there were mix tapes. You would take a set of songs that you liked and made a tape for your friends or yourself. Then CDs came along and started to change the game. It was faster and easier to make. Plus, you had way more room to write the names of the songs. The name also changed. No longer did we have mix tapes, instead the mixes took over. People started making these all the time. It was one of the best ways to share your favorite songs. Everyone could enjoy a piece of your world.
I have taken it one step further. CDs don’t hold nearly enough music in this world full of iPods. So I moved over to an iPod, the iPod shuffle that is. My girlfriend and I both have shuffles. Each of us has a playlist full of songs we love. Whenever we visit each other we fill our shuffles with a random selection from these playlists. Now we can rock out to the other’s musical taste.
I have always thought of the iPod as my personal music cocoon. It wraps me up and takes me to my own place. Now with the shuffle, I can choose to be encompassed in either my great musical taste or my girlfriends. The lack of display isn’t really a problem. The only button you need is the one that takes you to the next song. This helps on those songs where your musical tastes don’t quite mesh or if you don’t want to hear that Ted Leo song for the 20th time.
So you are psyched for the new Amazon.com mp3 store, but you want to keep the functionality of the iTunes Purchased Music playlist.
This makes tons of sense, you want to be able to loacate your recently purchased music easily. Here is how you can do it with the amazon.com purchased music.
Create a smart playlist with the following criteria:
(Comment Contains amazon.com)
Now you will have a playlist that contains all of your amazon.com purchased music. Enjoy.
What happens when funny people make a video and put it on YouTube, well you get a funny video. If you haven’t heard of the band Ok Go or seen their music video for “Here it goes again” then you wouldn’t really understand the video from Nobody’s Watching. So to make it easier for all of you that haven’t seen this great music video I will provide it below so that you can watch it before you watch the next video.
Now wasn’t that great. I think it is really unique and fun to watch. I wish I had 8 treadmills so that I could do it. Now lets move onto the next video. This is from Nobody’s Watching. You can visit their site here and watch the video below. Enjoy.
If you are interested in finding good new music then I have a podcast for you. It is call IndieFeed and there are 6 different flavors of the podcast featuring different genres of music. After subscribing to their alternative podcast I have bought 4 albums from bands that they featured. So head over to their website or iTunes and check them out.
This is a new addiction of mine. I love music and everything about it. So it should come as no suprise that a large part of my income goes to purchasing new albums and songs from various artists. The other day when I was looking at some Ben Folds music, I noticed he had an album that was called an iTunes Original. I have seen these around before but have never really looked at them. After looking at the album I was impressed. It basically has versions of his most popular songs (some are re-recorded as acoustic and stuff like that) and in between each song the artist explains what the song means to them and what inspired them to write it. It is really cool and gives a lot of songs a whole new meaning to me. It is also really neat to hear the history behind some of these artists. Needless to say that iTunes has burnt a hole in my wallet with these albums. I suggest heading over to iTunes to check out the iTunes Original albums.
Let me start off my slew of new posts with podcasts. As some of you may know, at times I can be a total podcast junkie. I recently started subscribing and giving more of my time to podcasts again. I think that podcasts have some of the richest and best content out there. There are some podcasts that are better than a lot of shows on the TV. If you haven’t ever listened to a podcast, it is most likely that you could find one that fit your interests. I suggest going onto iTunes and just browse around the podcast section and see if anything sticks out. Also another place to find good podcasts is Podcast Alley. Podcasts are a great source of content and I highly recommend them to everyone. I want to start my own podcast but lack a good idea for a show. If you have any ideas just leave them in the comments. In case you were interested my top podcasts that I’m listening to (or watching) are:
Ctrl+Alt+Chicken
Diggnation
IndieFeed: Alternative / Modern Rock
Keith and The Girl
MacBreak Weekly
MacCast
tWiT
Tiki Bar TV
This list isn’t all of them just the ones I watch/listen to on a regular basis.
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