A few years back, Rolling Stone magazine published a list of the top 500 albums of all time. The list included albums from all different genres with the exception of classical. Rock, pop, metal, rap, hip-hop, folk, blues, R&B, Grunge, Jazz, a really nice cross section. Is it perfect...no, of course not. I think a list like this, aside from the fact that it would change every day as new material is released, would need to be made by you to really be perfect. Anyway, what they did do was actually pretty interesting. They put together a panel of 271 artists, producers, industry executives and journalists and asked them to pick the greatest albums of all time. This means that you can't ...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
A few years back I decided to start ripping all of my CDs onto my hard drive. I have over 3,00 CDs, so this was not to be taken lightly. I wanted to write this post to help anyone who wanted to take this step. First of all, why bother? Well, a few reasons. My entire collection can now be backed up. It can also go with me pon a portable hard drive (you can get one for less than $100 dollars). Every computer on my home network can access my collection and play anything instantly. They even share access to playlists. My Playstation, that is in my living room far from my office, but hooked up to my home theater system can also play my collection and playlists. I can also sync any tracks I want ...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
So...my cousin is one of those people who are always looking for something different in music. You know the type, they don't like the mainstream artists, because they are too common. They want to find those undiscovered gems. I can be like this too. When I first heard Coldplay, years ago, I listened to them for about 15 seconds and quickly decided that this was not for me. They are a whinny, deppressing band that seem to attract the type of people who think they are hip just because they listen to them. A few weeks ago I heard the song 'The Scientist' in a movie and thought , "That's a pretty cool track." So I did what anyone else would do, punched up the music search ap on my phone and it ...