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Sorry, I do this every year. Pure curiosity as to how many people start looking for this and when. And then to see how many legit copies are purchased. Apologies!
Have a listen to David Turpin instead.
10 years ago on this forum, I suggested that the PSBs were beyond pop and were artists in the most sincere sense of the word. Tonight showcased that in a way that their live shows often do, but this time to a mass audience who never really understood. How gratifying to imagine the heathens finding the whole experience weirdly arcane. The audience at Earl’s Court betrayed all of the body language redolent of the fanbase during Performance in 1991: slack-jawed bemusement. What *are* we watching? From Drico on Pet Shop Boys Community Message Board
See previous post. Especially No. 5.
They rocked. And didn’t the new tracks, Love Etc and All Over The World, sound pretty good too?
(iTunes has 30-second snippets of the new album available now)
Just experimenting. Is it really that easy to get hits? Heh heh heh.
Apologies if you came here looking for Leona Lite’s track. But it is available for download in obscure shops such as iTunes I am told.
Incidentally, both her and JLS’s versions gave me goosebumps – until the track went completely OTT with orchestras and choirs and key changes that is.
UPDATE: After 24 hours, it would seem that, yes, it is that easy to get hits. I got about 6 times as many hits as normal (over 1,000) today. I would have thought that Google et al had some groovy algorithms to filter out this sort of cheekiness, but perhaps they don’t kick in til later. Anyway, an interesting experiment that I won’t be repeating (soon). My apologies again to those who clicked here expecting a download, but you have contributed to my learning!
After a couple too many refreshing Carlsbergs last Friday afternoon, I went a bit bonkers in HMV and Zavvi in Cork and spent far too much on CDs.
Like many music fans who buy shedloads of CDs, I have a code of ethics around downloading. If I’m curious about an artist or track, I’ll probably go get it from a torrent site somewhere, but if I really like it, I tend to buy the physical CD too. Yes, I want to reward the artist, but I also want to have it in high-quality audio. So, every now again I purchase a few titles that have ended up on my hard drive, and on Friday I finally added Sigur Rós’ ( ) and Roísín Murphy’s Overpowered to the list of albums that have passed muster and deserve purchasing.
Except I just started ripping now and realise that I have an empty Roísín jewel case. No CD. It’s in HMV Cork I guess. Did I keep the receipt? Of course I didn’t. Oh well, it was a 2 for €15 deal, so no major loss. And I’d imagine that the album will be re-released shortly with her cover of Slave To Love tagged on, so maybe it’s not all bad.
And it’s worth the €7.50 for the nutty photographs alone.
Wonderfully pointless, but intriguing just the same.
There is a plan afoot to get Tom Waits’ ‘Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis’ to No. 1 in Ireland for Christmas. (You can hear the divine Neko Case version in my Scarves & Gloves mix).
So, if you can purchase from an Irish download site, why not go for it? It’s a very good track. While you’re there, download ‘Martha’ and ‘Down In The Hole’ (Theme from Season 2 of the fantastic The Wire).
More about this at waitsforchristmas.blogspot.com.
Look at last.fm’s most played tracks this week. The top 10 is made up entirely of new entries; this is unprecedented. The CD is on it’s way out, pop kids. We are witnessing the beginning of the end.
And that’s OK. Hard drive space is becoming ever-cheaper so we will be able to have as much stuff as we like in uncompressed format. Already I’ve noticed that I’m encoding at higher rates, and lots of that stuff that I download is also encoded at high rates.
Well done, grumpy old Radiohead! (Oh yes, the album is alright too, but you probably know that as it seems everyone downloaded it last week.)
