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rebjukebox: johncagecale: iggy pop - real wild child this...

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:13:00 -0700

rebjukebox:

johncagecale:

iggy pop - real wild child

this song is seriously so awesome on so many levels.

(via coketalk) “Life is either a daring adventure or...

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:27:34 -0700

(via coketalk)

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing”

Helen Keller

Cut Copy Remix - New Album of Summer Songs by Cut Copy - Esquire

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:09:16 -0700

Cut Copy Remix - New Album of Summer Songs by Cut Copy - Esquire: (via celestronicablogs)

fuckyeahfreealbums: We have been informed by Tumblr that we...

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:52:00 -0700

fuckyeahfreealbums:

We have been informed by Tumblr that we have to shut down this blog. This comes as no surprise to us running it. It was an experiment to see A. If sharing albums we love desperately would be something people would be interested in and B. How long we could do this for. It turns out we were surprised on both fronts. The amount of interest was just enormous and unprecedented. Thank you for everyone who wrote in, downloaded, re-blogged, liked, etc. It was really inspiring.

We were never trying to make any sort of point about copyrighted information or music downloading. We were just sharing albums as we do between friends. Getting excited about music and wanting to expose like-minded people to new bands. I suppose that comes from us being a product of our generation. Additionally, we talked about starting a separate blog outside of the realm of tumblr serving a similar purpose with the same stylistic choices and you can feel free to follow us on our personal tumblrs (StrangeIdols & AlyssaPandaEyes) to see if/when that project will start. We have also put up a mailing list if you would like to subscribe to be notified of what we do next.

This blog will be shut down by the end of the night.

With Love

awwwwww, too bad so sad

not really.

In case you’re reading this well after the blog has closed, this was a tumblr page that had a pretty brief run, in which they made available many great albums completely for free.

I had kind of mixed feelings about this blog - because they had such great taste and were putting up many of my all-time favorite bands and albums, it is always great to see someone else that shares your obscure (and refined) tastes that wants share their good taste and expose others to the music… BUT, that doesn’t excuse the fact that they were completely in the wrong, and doing something that was not only illegal, but really disrespectful to all these great artists.

I wrote to them after they started with the recommendations that if they were going to promote file-sharing and give away entire ALBUMS, that they focus on out-of-print, unavailable, or extremely rare releases - meaning stuff that is really hard to track down, both physically or digitally - or at the very least, put up links to purchase said albums, again both physically or digitally, if applicable.

They didn’t respond, so I can only imagine what they were thinking. I said to them I don’t want to get all long-winded and preachy about file-sharing, and I feel the same way now, BUT this is fucking wrong, plain and simple. I can think of a bunch of ways that they could have done this better: made only a few songs available for download instead of the entire album, linked to streams of the music as opposed to downloads, kept the audio out of it entirely and just plugged the record with writing, etc. I plug music that I like all the time, and the most I’ll do is to upload one track for people to STREAM - thats it. Anything beyond that I feel is disrespectful to the artists, and above all else that is the one thing that I do not want to do. I honestly cannot even imagine the sense of entitlement and laissez-faire attitude that someone must possess to actually be apart of something like this - you claim you love the music so much, and then you completely devalue it and give it away for free without any concern for the people that may be affected. As far as I’m concerned this is sociopathic behavior and I just cannot understand it. As a devoted fan of these artists and as a MANAGER with a stake in the industry, it genuinely hurts.

So even though I really loved the music they posted and would probably geek-out talking music with them in a bar, I say GOOD RIDDANCE to this blog. I hope they grow up and see what they are doing, and figure out a way to promote & share the music without completely raping the artists of their material.

update: now they’re basking in the glow of their “farewell” praise and posting the comments. The last one I saw said “Thank you for doing god’s work”… yeah, god’s work. Whatever.

Let me be the one to say thank you for giving away albums of the artists you claim to love under the auspices of sharing and spreading good music… the way you guys post this praise seems like you’re really full of yourselves, feeling like martyrs or something. Yeah, you should be sooo proud. Well done.

Top 20 reasons Pitchfork shouldn't be allowed to review records

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:57:36 -0700

Top 20 reasons Pitchfork shouldn't be allowed to review records: this had me at #20: “you...

rebjukebox: lilian-lies: fuckyeahjulianplenti:somekeepsakes: ...

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:21:38 -0700

rebjukebox:

lilian-lies:

fuckyeahjulianplenti:somekeepsakes:

Julian Plenti - A Horse With No Name (cover)

nice! I never knew Paul covered this… the original of course was by the band America and is FANTASTIC, one of my favorite songs ever. It has been covered before but nothing that I would call that memorable. This is a live recording, unfortunately - would be great to have a proper studio rendition, but oh well.

theplanetofsound: window-window: (via cravves) so the BBC...

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:50:37 -0700

theplanetofsound:

window-window:

(via cravves)

so the BBC says this is a better album than OK Computer. Now, I’m not a big radiohead fan, never was really, but I know how highly regarded that album is. Similarly, I was never a huge Arcade Fire fan, either, but I was really impressed with the two songs that they released a few weeks back, and so I’m really looking forward to this record.

fuckyeahfreealbums: New Order - Peel Sessions “Truth” –...

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:12:00 -0700

fuckyeahfreealbums:

New Order - Peel Sessions

“Truth” – 4:21

“Senses” – 4:25

“I.C.B.” – 5:19

“Dreams Never End” – 3:13

“Turn the Heater On” – 5:03

“We All Stand” – 5:26

“Too Late” – 3:39

“5-8-6” – 6:08

Notes: Recorded 8 months after the death of Ian Curtis, we find the newly formed New Order dirging through electronic-laden demos of new material. The songs feel like glaciers moving across a frozen ocean. Creeping and haunting, you can’t help but feel that you are listening to a band work out their place in the world on stage. The shining moment comes through on a very rough version of “Dreams Never End” where you can see NO finding their footing.

For fans of: Joy Division, A Certain Ratio, icy pads, mechanical drumming, synthesized white noise

Uploaded by: StrangeIdols

well, obviously I can’t condone the file-sharing of music that is still in print and readily available via whatever method of musical consumption you prefer, BUT… this is one of my favorite gem’s of NO’s catalog, and yes here is the obligatory “they’re my favorite band, so I am obviously biased” statement.

I agree with the assessment above, but I think it goes a lot deeper than that. Not only are they finding their footing, but they are a band in mourning. You can hear it from the haunting first track, possibly one of the saddest sounding songs that I have ever heard. That one always gets a ton of spins from me whenever I’m going through some female drama, but anyway… the first line is incredible: “oh it’s a strange day, in such a lonely way, I saw some children dance, I saw my life in a trance…”

the rest of the album is stellar - it includes a great cover of a classic dub song, “Turn the Heater On”, and this is the only time they ever recorded it. I had high hopes for “We All Stand” which is one of my favorite’s from PCL, but it ended up being the one disappointment on this record.

The grand finale is a stripped-down, Peel version of 5,8,6 - and in my opinion the best song on the album. I can’t get enough of their early electronic forays, and this one is particularly notable because of the way they recorded it - in the usual Peel session way of live takes with little to no overdubs. It’s the reason they are my favorite BAND - they made electronic music as a real BAND, and they actually PLAYED. It wasn’t something sequenced or coming out of a laptop. Not to knock those acts, but I just think there is something to be said for the way that New Order did it.

This one is a must listen, 9/10. But if you download it, please buy it afterwards.

sacraments: A CERTAIN RATIO ///// DO THE DU (via fostercare) I...

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:53:01 -0700

sacraments:

A CERTAIN RATIO ///// DO THE DU

(via fostercare)

I picked the name of this track as my ichat name… people always ask me what it means and I get so sick of explaining it, so… once and for all, here it is.

Future of Work - Newsweek

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:55:44 -0700

Future of Work - Newsweek: (via celestronicablogs) for LA peeps, or architectural / city planning...

Videos showing BlackBerry ‘death grip’ removed from YouTube | The Loop

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:01:36 -0700

Videos showing BlackBerry ‘death grip’ removed from YouTube | The Loop: nerdcast: lkm: Most likely...

les-deux: Earphone Note / Packaging awesome. In so many ways,...

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:04:49 -0700

les-deux:

Earphone Note

/ Packaging

awesome. In so many ways, awesome.

Everything Everything, "Schoolin" (Games Remix) MP3

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:15:00 -0700

Everything Everything, "Schoolin" (Games Remix) MP3: I absolutely love this band - their sound, and...

rebjukebox: anglophonic: bow wow wow | C30 C60...

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:43:08 -0700

rebjukebox:

anglophonic:

bow wow wow | C30 C60 C90 Go!

always loved this song, both for the music and for the lyrical sentiment… I shudder to think of kids hearing it today and not understanding what its about…

Best New Zone

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:53:14 -0700

pitchforkreviewsreviews: from altered zones: okay now i’m gonna transcribe a paragraph from the...

On being a groupie.

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:31:37 -0700

dearcoketalk: So I know it sounds bad to say this, but my friend is a big groupie of this band....

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-11)

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:40:53 -0700

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-11)

rebjukebox: moltovomito: New Order’s “Your Silent Face” When...

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:43:00 -0700

rebjukebox:

moltovomito:

New Order’s “Your Silent Face”

When the synth comes in at 0:16 it just about makes my heart explode. What a gorgeous song. New Order really humanized electronic dance music better than most anyone else.

well said.

“You’ve caught me at a bad time… so why don’t you piss off…”

Stream Mystery Jets new album, "Serotonin"

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:18:00 -0700

as usual, I’m giving love to another one of my favorites, Mystery Jets. They have a new record...

Rory Phillips Mixes

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:10:16 -0700

The always-incredible Erol Alkan just alerted me to some fantastic mixes by Rory Phillips - Check...