6 posts tagged “music”
EMI announced some weeks ago that they will be making their music available online without DRM. I'd really like to support that initiative by buying their music.
But as far as I can tell, the DRM-free music is only available through the iTunes Music Store. And the iTunes Music Store only works on Windows and Mac. You can't access it from a computer running Linux.
Am I wrong? Is there some way that I can buy EMI's DRM-free music from my Linux computer?
I have finally managed to fill my 40GB iRiver. I got an "out of disk space" error when copying over some music this morning.
They estimated that it would store 10,000 songs but I only got to 9638. That's probably got something to do with the number of 20 minute long Yes epics on there :-)
I've loved Stoppard's work since I saw The Real Thing about twenty-five years ago and for a while I saw just about every production of one of his plays in London. But that's a habit that I've fallen out of over the last ten years, so it was great to go along and see this one.
Stoppard's plays often work by juxtaposing two completely different concepts - Jumpers was philosophy and acrobatics, Hapgood was espionage and quantum physics - and this play follows in that classic mould by telling the story of Czechoslovakian politics from 1968 to 1990 at the same time as tracing the history of rock music in general and Syd Barrett in particular.
If you have any interest at all in either of those subjects - or, indeed, if you just want to see a very well-written play, then I strongly recommend that you see this play.
The BBC reports on Q Magazine's list of "guilty pleasures" - those songs that you secretly love but would never admit to owning. So, go on, admit it. Which of their top ten is on your MP3 player?
I'll admit to having "I'm Not In Love" on my iRiver. And also the Human League's cover version of "Rock 'N' Roll Part 2". But I think that's all. Although I have been contemplating buying an ELO compilation recently.
So Top of the Pops finally finished on Sunday. It'll be sadly missed. Though, of course, like everyone else I've discussed it with, I haven't watched it for about twenty years.
BBC Two celebrated on Sunday night with an evening of programmes (well, ok, two or three programmes) about the show. I watched the last episode of TOTP and, later in the evening, a documentary about the history of the show.
The final TOTP was a "best of" show. It featured many clips of classic (and not so classic) performances from its 42 year history. The documentary was a repeat of an old documentary from four or five years ago with a new ending tacked on. And it contained largely the same set of clips that we'd seen earlier in the evening on the show itself. That's just the BBC being lazy. Surely they could have come up with two different sets of clips. I mean, there's plenty to choose from. There's really no excuse.
What's the one CD that will totally remind you of the Summer of 2006?
I've only just got hold of this album and I can already tell that it's going to be on heavy rotation on the iRiver for the next few weeks. It's gorgeous.
