I'm not too sure what these have in common beyond me wanting to hear them this AM.

Lots more on my last.fm page.

Music. I like it.

Alight, I can understand the first one on the list, but the second one? Visualize if you will, me killing some time, logging into my eMusic account and seeing _that_. Remember the sound Scooby Doo made when he didn't understand… or comprehend?

To those that complain that iPods and their shuffle play isn't as "shuffle" as you would like, I submit this.

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I wouldn't mix this myself, that's for sure.

...scott

Of course, at the time, I wanted it so one could navigate one's music without looking at the iPod while it was safely tucked away in a pocket somewhere. Semantics.

Could this be the sound of the other shoe dropping?

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The iTunes "Exclusive Edition" of White Chalk contains "Wait" as an extra, while:

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the same record(s) from Amazon's new "MP3 Downloads" does not for the same (overall) price, less the DRM and what's more, a higher overall bit rate, which should mean higher quality. While my ears are aged and slightly damaged, my brain knows that there's an incentive in purchasing DRM-free content, even if it means losing a song in the process. When will the industry learn the valuable lesson that treating your customers like suspects does not foster brand loyalty. I hope the Radiohead experiment is a smashing success. And I also hope the all of those execs in their big offices in those big buildings of steel and glass know what time it is... When I can purchase art directly from the artist, the middleman loses. And that's not a bad thing.

It seems that I go through these periods where there's nothing for me on the music landscape. When that happens I usually hunker down with my usual suspects and practice my thousand yard stare, looking, or listening as the case may be, at the horizon. And then, when I least expect it, something new pops up and totally takes over. The strange thing is that this seems to happen on a fairly regular interval. So, does that mean that i have a musical equivalent of a sun spot cycle? The difficult part is when the sharing part comes in. I hesitate to tell anyone about my new musical discovery. I keep it hidden away to myself, like a miser hoarding their gold. But there's a reason for that. I think it's a jinx of sorts. If I share said discoveries with friends, something terrible happens. The band breaks up, or worse. Then there's no more new stuff and I'm back to my thousand yard stare. And I definitely prefer the foreground to the background, although, the background seems to always be where it's at...

I'm not a music critic, to be sure, but I have read my share of reviews and I have experienced quite a lot of music in my time here on Earth. This record seems to take the grey that I am feeling and shine it to a polish. And that is not a bad thing. Not at all. I can't wait for the new record...

From the exquisite "Bubblegum" -- Strange Religion. That, and the track before it makes one pause for a moment. Nice.