what music are you guys listening to?

[strategy 4]

I think my favorite is "home."

[Tactical Bear 3]

can't recommend highly enough for all of you what or waffles members to get the 2003 vinyl remaster of loveless. it sounds heaps better than the original cd.

When it comes to my favorite albums -- or at least the ones that I consider Tier 1 -- I always download every version I can find and figure out which one I like the best. I am glad that I have the version that is mk approved. Despite my giving you lots of shit about your music smuggery (see: the Sick Thread dialog regarding Murphy's vocals on the mix of This is Happening; see also: that I ****ing won that discussion; see further: blind squirrels, nuts), I generally trust your tastes with respect to music fidelity. I don't know much about mixing and mastering and engineering, but I usually know what I like, if not why. I can even be persuaded to change my mind if told what to look for. (On everyone else's behalf: hint, hint)

Yeah, "All I want" is the money track of that album. I'm starting to think "All I Want" > "All my Friends," though it would take a while to confirm such a thing.

My first reaction to "All My Friends" was very, very positive, but nothing compared to "All I Want." That song is in pretty select company, as far as first-listen-awesome goes -- "Airbag," "National Anthem" and "Reckoner" by Radiohead; "Immigrant Song" (the BBC recordings version) by Led Zeppelin; "Suicide" by Ghost Rider; "Only Shallow" by the aforementioned MBV; more that I can't name.

[strategy 4]

mk sometimes sends me previews of new material soon to "drop" (his parlance, not mine) asking for suggestions. I am definitely one of those useless binary people: I have a decent barometer for whether something is good or bad, but I could never come up with the flowery prose you see in album reviews.IMO, there's little that exceeds the ridiculousness of beer reviewers.src

[uncooper 1]

mk sometimes sends me previews of new material soon to "drop" (his parlance, not mine) asking for suggestions. I am definitely one of those useless binary people: I have a decent barometer for whether something is good or bad, but I could never come up with the flowery prose you see in album reviews.IMO, there's little that exceeds the ridiculousness of beer reviewers.src

My favorite BA reviews all include the term "barnyard".

[mk 11]

I don't know much about mixing and mastering and engineering, but I usually know what I like, if not why.

there's really nothing better to trust than your own ears.

[timwakefield 69]

My first reaction to "All My Friends" was very, very positive, but nothing compared to "All I Want." That song is in pretty select company, as far as first-listen-awesome goes --

Ooo, now I'm quite excited. I still haven't listened to This Is Happening, I've kind of been saving it for myself. "All My Friends" is an amazing song. Another new album I've been saving: Crystal Castles II. Anybody listened to it?

[mk 11]

Another new album I've been saving: Crystal Castles II. Anybody listened to it?

yeah, it's an ok listen, some interesting sounds etc, but i find them to be pretty fatiguing after a while.

[timwakefield 69]

This Is Happening is awesome, not as good as Sound Of Silver to me but I really really like Sound Of Silver. A lot. Hey remember when LLY was gonna make the wmaygltbotd list? Too busy colliding hardons?!Hadrons, but probably hardons too cuz you're gay!

[LongLiveYorke 38]

Hey remember when LLY was gonna make the wmaygltbotd list?

Yeah, remember when I had any free time? I don't.

[mk 11]

new m.i.a. and new tortoise leaked = yay!

[timwakefield 69]

Here's the new M.I.A.http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TN4KPSK9

[strategy 4]

thank you timothy

[bigkg 0]

Here's the new M.I.A.http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TN4KPSK9

Awesome, thanks

[timwakefield 69]

Fo shizzle.

[mk 11]

Does anyone else think it's kind of crazy that M.I.A.'s dad was a Tamil Tiger and her politics are sympathetic to their cause? I'm certainly no expert on Sri Lankan politics, but from what I've read, Western consensus seems to be that they were pretty much like terrorists.......

[Iphonenkinder 558]

Does anyone else think it's kind of crazy that M.I.A.'s dad was a Tamil Tiger and her politics are sympathetic to their cause? I'm certainly no expert on Sri Lankan politics, but from what I've read, Western consensus seems to be that they were pretty much like terrorists.......

I find it crazier her baby daddy is a Bronfman. They've been together for quite some time.

[mk 11]

diplo's beats sound sofa king amazing, i mean cot dam steppin up is too hothe lived up to his promise from the nyt profile of forcing her to sing, which i don't really understand.

[timwakefield 69]

Last thing I'll say on illegal downloading for a bit. Proof that it should not be defined as theft, or if not proof, at least a decision from a legal authority.

interference with copyright does not easily equate with theft, conversion, or fraud. The Copyright Act even employs a separate term of art to define one who misappropriates a copyright: ... 'an infringer of the copyright.' ...The infringer invades a statutorily defined province guaranteed to the copyright holder alone. But he does not assume physical control over the copyright; nor does he wholly deprive its owner of its use. While one may colloquially link infringement with some general notion of wrongful appropriation, infringement plainly implicates a more complex set of property interests than does run-of-the-mill theft, conversion, or fraud.—Dowling v. United States, 473 U.S. 207, pp. 217–218

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_inf...arison_to_theftAlso, it probably sounds like I'm trying really hard to rationalize my 'theft.' I'm not - it doesn't really bother me much. I still spend money on LPs and also plenty of CDs as gifts for my parents. (Now it just sounds like I'm trying to pretend that it doesn't bother me, but showing that it clearly does because I'm going to unnecessary lengths to explain myself. So I'll stop.)

[strategy 4]

I'm just gonna leave this here.http://strategery.livejournal.com/209746.html

[JoeyJoJo 20]

I'm just gonna leave this here.http://strategery.livejournal.com/209746.html

You complete me.

[David_Sklansky 1,913]

edit.

[JubilantLankyLad 1,960]

I'm just gonna leave this here.http://strategery.livejournal.com/209746.html

i wish i remembered my livejournal password, but that is both really cool and completely unimaginable as to why anyone would want to know that.sentence structure!

[strategy 4]

i wish i remembered my livejournal password, but that is both really cool and completely unimaginable as to why anyone would want to know that.sentence structure!

sadly, I failed to satisfy the one curiosity that sparked it all. I wanted to know what time of day I listened to music most often during the various periods of my life. last.fm discards that data after one year...I could still manually do that in excel for the last 12mo if I really wanted to know...

[Mercury69 3]

I find it crazier her baby daddy is a Bronfman. They've been together for quite some time.

Really! Montreal connection!

[Tactical Bear 3]

I'm just gonna leave this here.http://strategery.livejournal.com/209746.html

I just spent about two hours reading and clicking through your blog. I remember, years ago, reading it semi-regularly, and then just assuming you stopped updating. (Apparently I have never developed a sense of object: permanence). You are a very good writer and an interesting guy. This does not surprise me, of course, since I already knew it, but the reminder was welcome, not to mention thoroughly enjoyable. If I had the resources to hire a Strategery, I'd employ you full time. Alas...