Category: Music

Back in 2000, maybe 2001. Pool and beer and music at work. But, never as much fun as this crew had doing “Flagpole Sitta” by Harvey Danger. What a blast!

That rock and roll lifestyle is taking its toll on the boys and their friends. Check out the new video: YouTube – "My Generation".

A fine analysis, yo. 

As these claims and predictions are speculative, there are more possible outcomes; it seems reasonable to assert that Mims can’t sell more than a mil’ sayin’ nothin’. Though we would love to see him try.

Seriously, what is this going to accomplish?: Oasis, The Killers to record new version of ‘Sgt Pepper’. Haven’t we had enough? We get it, Oasis, you looooove the Beatles.

I might buy this for myself (and my kids) as a post Christmas holiday present. I’ve always dreamed of drawing something like this, but my idea was to go even further back in time, and I’d love to see it brought to present day. Link: HistoryShots Genealogy of Pop & Rock Music.

I just added a couple more tips in the article cuene.com: 3 Ipods, One Computer. it’s working pretty well now….

I can’t wait to pick this up. I must have listened to this album a gajillion times, since it was my brothers favorite album and I shared a room with him growing up. I think I know all the words on the album, even though I haven’t listened to it in about 15 years. It just sounded so big, so rich, and quite literally, a whole different world compared to my small town Wisconsin upbringing.

And, by the way, what did you accomplish when you were 25?

Link: Amazon.com: Born to Run: 30th Anniversary 3-Disc Set [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]: Music.

My brother in law asked about wrangling 1 PC with a white Ipod (his), a mini (son #1), and a Nano (son #2). I’ve got the same problem, with my wife’s Mini and my Ipod (you are welcome Steve Jobs). There doesn’t seem to be an  easy answer, but there are a couple tips.

* Turn "auto-sync" off – Within the iTunes and Ipod settings, you can over-ride the default auto-sync option, so that you have to manually sync your Ipod with your library. This sort of assumes you have one library and the multiple Ipods. But, if you’re not adding tunes a lot, this could work fine.

* On Windows XP, log in as different users – This makes sense, and I wish I would have thought of it. On XP, you can set up a number of different accounts on one PC, so each account can store their own settings, have their own profile, and recognize their own software installs. In this case, he’d have to have iTunes "installed" for each of the accounts, I think. But, that would enable him to a) keep auto-synch on, and b) have different libraries and accounts for each user.

Update (11/15/06): I’ve set up the XP computer to have 3 logins now. 1 for me, 1 for Andrea and 1 for both my kids. I’ve installed the Itunes software for both my account and Andreas. Then, I copied a bunch of songs from my library of iTunes songs to a separate directory for Andrea. And, finally, she’s got her own ITunes account. It’s working like a charm.

Important: Make sure each iTunes user closes iTunes and completely logs off the account before trying to synch the iPod. if you don’t, XP and iTunes thinks that iTunes is being used by another user (because, uh, it is) and can’t figure out which library to synch to. For instance,  if I want to synch my iPod, i need to make sure Andrea has a) closed iTunes and b) has logged off. then, I can log into my account and synch it up. Works pretty well when you do it right.

Also, I don’t think i needed to physically copy the tunes from my library to hers. I could have individually loaded the songs and folders into her library, thereby saving some space on my harddrive, but with 80 gigs, i’m drunk with bits and bytes, so what’s another couple gigs, right?

Link: NINJAM – Novel Intervallic Network Jamming Architecture for Music – Main.

Can’t wait to play with this… Boot up and jam!

Man, I love this song from the Dears so much. It’s been such a long time since I found a song like this that stuck in my head from the first time I heard. Sure, the guy sounds so much like Morrissey that Johnny Marr couldn’t tell the difference and his friends call him Suedehead, but when was that ever such a bad thing?

(psss – They’re going to be in MPLS in a couple weeks with the Soundtrack of our Lives. At the 400 bar, so I should go, right?)

Also in heavy rotation:
* Low – The Great Destroyer
* Interpol – PDA
* Pubic Enemy – Fight the Power
* Rage Against the Machine – Bulls on Parade
* Colin Hay – Overkill (Acoustic)