I HAS A IPOD

Yet another meme, this one glommed from magicallasso42, who I don’t know, but who liked the fact that I name-dropped Alice Cooper on thewhyfive, and highly recommends his current bestselling book on golf. Anyway, I took a look at her LJ and found this, and I have an iPod. So why not? It’s easy content, and you seem to appreciate these more than my rants about The Big Christian Takeover Of America, and who am I to blow against the wind?

THE TEAM DEF IPOD: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

How many total songs?
7,635

Sort by song title

First song: “A” by The Pancakes
Last song: “6060-842” by The B-52s

Sort by time

Shortest song: A sound drop from The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy radio drama of Ford Prefect saying “Drink up, the world’s about to end.” (0:02)
Longest song: “Crises" by Mike Oldfield (20:41)

Sort by album

First album: Abbatoir Blues by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Last album: 2112 by Rush

Sort by artist

First artist: ABBA (this is probably a pretty common answer – provided yr not an Aaliyah fan, I suppose)
Last artist: !!! (a.k.a. Chk Chk Chk)

Top five played songs

1. They Might Be Giants, “I’m Impressed” (obviously)
2. Turbonegro, “No, I’m Alpha Male”
3. Divide and Kreate, “Highway Reaper” (brilliant mashup of Blue Oyster Cult’s “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper”and AC/DC’s “Highway To Hell”)
4. Mix Market, “Happy Life”
5. Tom Waits, “Never Let Go”

How many songs show up when you search the following keywords?

Sex: 106
Death: 64
You: 891
Home: 68
Boy: 185
Girl: 156

Wasn’t that fun? Just think, you’ll never get those two minutes of yr life back again.

Just press play,

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THE GREAT MUSIC DEATH SPIRAL, PART 47

I’ve blogged before about how the music industry is in such bad shape that even MTV is going, “Dude, you don’t look so good.” The Economist has published an updated version of the 2007 music post-mortem, and sums it up brilliantly: basically, it’s the music labels’ own fault they’re losing money (which, by the way, some of us have been saying for a few years now), and if you thought 2007 was a bad year, there’s plenty more financial pain where that came from.

Anyway, there’s not much here that MTV didn’t mention already (and that’s the last time you will probably ever hear anyone say that about MTV), but it’s worth calling to yr attn for the opening anecdote alone:

In 2006 EMI, the world's fourth-biggest recorded-music company, invited some teenagers into its headquarters in London to talk to its top managers about their listening habits. At the end of the session the EMI bosses thanked them for their comments and told them to help themselves to a big pile of CDs sitting on a table. But none of the teens took any of the CDs, even though they were free. “That was the moment we realised the game was completely up,” says a person who was there.

Ouch.

Pack yr ermines, Mary,

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