Got the iPod from Sing-Sing for Rs. 35,000. Scratches like a kitten.
Since I got an iPod I’ve been downloading music like mad. In Montreal we had the fastest Internet ever and I think I amassed gigs upon gigs of music. When I got the studio on St Laurent, however, I gave up on MP3s altogether. With broadband they’re really so 2001. Got a monthly subscription to Rhapsody, which was verily the greatest ever. They have a catalog of almost every song on earth and I could stream all of them. I stopped downloading music cause the industry gave me value added, not cause I felt guilty. I was still downloading the Soprano’s and Sex and The City, but I woulda paid for NetFlix if that worked in Canada. I melted my motherboard and lost all my MP3s, but didn’t really care – until I came to Sri Lanka. Streaming in Sri Lanka sounds like coolies are painfully carrying each packet on their back, that is, it doesn’t work. I though downloading would suck too, but I’m able to down about 50k/sec with a little diversification. Anyways, these are 3 MP3s I like.
Oh, and fcuk iTunes. 1 USD for a song that I can only copy x times. There’s no way I’m going to pay $350 for a 30GB iPod and $7,500 to fill it with songs. I could hire Wildfire to sit in the back of the car for less. What I would pay for is…
internetPod: I liked Rhapsody cause I could listen to tens of thousands of songs without having to download them. If an iPod had an Internet connection (most likely via the cell networks) it could theoretically stream any song you could imagine – to your pocket. I’d gladly pay $15-25 for access to some huge online music catalogs. I guess satellite radio iPod would be cool to start. Anyways, these are 3 songs I like this week. All MP3s can be downloaded from:
I was at the gym and the fk Black Eyed Peas came on. That woman’s vocals make me gush blood from the nose and ears so I hurried to put my headphones on. One of my favorite Rhapsody suggestions was Postal Service, which I re-downloaded.
Postal Service: They put the soul back in ‘souless electro-pop’. I don’t understand their bio, but as far as I can tell its Dntel and some guys from Death Cab for Cutie. I think they call it Postal Service mailed CD-Rs of songs back and forth to create the album. Anyways, it’s really good laptop rock. Without guitars… mostly keyboard/sampler and ethereal vocals.
Sleeping In: I like this song for driving in the morning. Makes your head bop at epileptic pace. The keyboards are gentle and, how do you say, undulating and the kick and snare are sharp. Vocals are quite belle too.
Again last night I had that strange dream
Where everything was exactly how it seemed,
Concerns about the world getting warmer
People thought they were just being rewarded
For treating others as they’d like to be treated
For obeying stop signs and curing diseases
For mailing letters with the address of the sender
Now we can swim any day in November
Belle and Sebastian: They make gay hipster rock as far as I know. B&S remind me of Dolce and Gabbana. I bet they’re wearing turtlenecks right now.
The Boy With the Arab Strap: This is actually my sister’s download, as she has a much better taste in indie than I. This is another happy song, with a rolling piano line and lyrics you can hum along to without knowing the words. It actually feels like Belle or Sebastian or whoever is making them up as he goes along.
Lady Sovereign: I am copying this review from Slate, because I agree with everything they say. About everything.
Armed with a “Save the Hoodie” campaign (English lawmakers want to ban them) and resembling Avril Lavigne after ransacking Sean John, the 19-year-old Louise Harman, the self-described “biggest midget in the game” (“the game” being rap), has a next-big-thing debut on Island Def Jam this spring. (She was signed by her No. 1 fan, label president Jay-Z.) A graduate of Vice Record’s grime sampling Run the Road compilation, the MC, lyricist, and producer hails from Wembley, England.
Random:
For this track, her J. Lo-dissing palette includes a baroque sound-effect production style and a tunefully bratty delivery that wraps itself around cheeky lines like, “Now get off your churr, I mean chair/ Some English MC’s get it twisted/ Start sayin’ cookies, instead of biscuits.”
Speaking of, my sister made chocolate chip cookies and I’m going to go eat them.
Indica- Do you know if this Sing-Sing place have apple ear-phones? The only place that sells them here is the Apple Store itself and I don’t have time to get there before I leave to Sri Lanka unless I really am desperate. Just wondering if this shop does the ear phones. It’ll save me a lot of time.
30GB iPod for Rs.35,000? That works out to be cheaper than here. It’s £219 here which works out to be Rs.39,500. hmm
uh, Sing-Sing is Singapore. Also a jail somewhere in the States. Think BT Options has Mac stuff
HA HA HA. I feel quite embarassed now Indi!!! ARGH! :)
Anyway, do you know if I can get them in SL?
forgive the geeky opinions from across the sea, but:
1. the album Give Up (should you not have downloaded it in entirety) is THE BEST of 2003, it is said. it fking blew my mind when I first heard it. is tPS better than DCfC? arguably. they don’t rock as hard, but come on, how can you call them soulless in any way shape or form? with lyrics like ‘i’ll be the phonograph that/plays your favorite albums back/as you lie in bed, drifting off to sleep…’ how can you not say AWWWWW?
2. B&S are so not gay, unless you mean listenership, and even then it’s pretty well split (breeders outnumber homos as in life). just because they are skinny and wear femmey clothes… look at the North American hipster street dress and all is clear. they are the progenitors of contemp indie, whatever that means, unless we mean early uber-gods, in which case it’s probably some combination of the Beatles and David Byrne. (the respective and varied influences of these artists could potentially explain all modern rock). but yeah, they’re good. I agree that it often sounds as if the lyrics are being made up as gone along, but they’re ultimately so sweetly crafted that it’s the deftest kind of clever.
3. yo, Lady Sov played philly last week and though I wasn’t there she apparently did ONE MEASLY NUMBER and then left the stage. what, biscuit girl, can’t handle the gritty city of philthy-delphia? but I do like the advance releases.
i myself am loving the new Madonna. it’s the kind of rubbish we expect, and lap up, from her. ABBA references always get me in the end.
Hey Guys …Im also in MAD to have an ipod..coz Im a poor guy who don’t have an ipod yet….SO Im chatting with a HK girl to get one and she promised me to send one…but she said she will come to meeet me to give that….I don’t know what to dooo…Plzzzz help me..bcoz of the ipod…
thx.
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