@BT - Personally I like Hot Chip's last 2 albums (Made In The Dark and One Life Stand) better than their first two. It could be that MITD was the first one I got, but I just never connected as much with the others. I'm glad I grabbed their latest, too.
HOW MUCH DO YOU EXPECT FROM YOUR FREE TRACKS?
DO YOU FEEL IT TOTALLY SUCKS IF YOU'RE ONLY GETTING A 2 OR 3 MINUTE CRAMPS TRACK VERSUS A 7 OR 8 MINUTE JAZZ OR PROG TRACK?
OR IS IT BETTER TO GET A SHORT TRACK FOR FREE SO WHEN YOU GET A LONGER ONE THAT YOU HAVE TO ACTUALLY PAY FOR IT FEELS LIKE A BETTER VALUE?
'TIS A PUZZLEMENT.
I agree on the shouting, with the caveat that perhaps we have listened to so much music that we are going deaf.
As for the question itself, I pay no attention to the length of the track. One download is as good as another, regardless of price, so if it's a track I want, I'm going to get it.
Snap peas - I just found this album available on the promo - Creole Bred - link - which has some very interesting contributors. I realize I picked up the David Hidalgo track earlier in the week but didn't look up the album. I got the title off the eMu page blurb for Ann Savoy's album - link , where she is credited as the organizer.
IRONY - All Right? just downloaded Songs The Lord Taught Us this morning. Jeez.
If you feel cheated, go to Blueshound's blog and pick up a few freebies to make yourself feel better -or play the short songs twice as many times to even things out.
I know a few of my freebies have been as short as 10 seconds. But I'm a completionist. It's hard for me to skip any track. Checking the stats, I've got 21 tracks from Guvera that are less than a minute and 43 that are over 10 minutes. Guess I prefer the long tracks!
I was looking up Syd Barrett - link - and found this peculiar album Insane Times - 25 British Psychedelic Artefacts From the EMI Vaults - link - are we talking seriously obscure here? Most are unfamiliar to me. This and all of Syd on promo of course. I still want to be able to get Vegetable Man someday.
There is early Stray Cats - 3 best of's and Built For Speed - on promo - link - excepting only the less stellar Choo Choo Hot Fish album.
Am I bugging or has the number of tracks available from Piper At The Gates Of Dawn been different on different days?
I've been able to find and download 17 tracks from PATGOD, 14 of which look to be from the recent anniversary reissue. First ten songs in mono, plus Paintbox, Matilda Mother (alt. version), Apples and Oranges (mono and stereo versions), 1994 and 1996 remasters of Bike, and a 1996 remaster of Interstellar Overdrive.
If anybody likes Joan Baez - link - there is a lot here. The Vanguard Visionaries album is promo and some others at least - there were too many pages to be more comprehensive.
Hmmm. I feel like I'm still in a beta test. I did find those 21 tracks on the Guvera channel, and managed to DL the 1st tracks of the Rolling Stones that got pulled during the eMusic debacle of the Rlling Stones drop. When one could DL everthing but track #1. Guvera gets OCD points for that!
That site is one big time suck, and I have art to make instead. BUT. I think I will like it come January, if it's still around.
Never heard of Mark Nason before, but the ads look intriguing. For a guy. I am not sure what the marketeers are up to on this. Women don't buy shoes for their men online,duh.
got the swing of this thing now;
downloaded:
Psychedelic Man by Kraan
Axe Victim and Futurama by Be Bop Deluxe (best stuff in my opinion)
if nothing else this site will help whittle down that stack of vinyl waiting to be converted that keeps staring at me every time i open my closet.
i know this has been asked before, but i don't remember seeing an answer: do the free downloads rollover or is it a use it or lose it situation?
Once again I succumbed to peer pressure and stayed up until 1am trying to spend my 21+ credits (Kraftwerk - Autobahn, Harold Budd & Brian Eno - Ambient 2/The Plateux of Mirror, Julian Bream - J.S. Bach: Lute Works, and working on Michael Nyman - Prospero's Books).
They top out at 21, so whatever you don't use that day are as good as gone. I've used mine up most days, but have left one or two a couple of days, simply because I didn't feel like spending more time looking for stuff.
My current strategy is to use most of the credits to get full albums, and then use the remaining few to chip away at an album, acquiring that album over a 4 day period. In the case of the later, it's usually an album I already own, but that has been remastered, so it would be nice to have the upgrade, but no biggie if I don't get it all.
I just found how I may coast out the month there by entering Blue Note as an Album search, then just ignore the ones that are "at The Blue Note" which seem to be on other labels (so far). 35 pages, candy in most aisles. Sweet.
Today's take:
Andrew Hill, Black Fire
Andrew Hill, Andrew
Grachan Moncur III, Some Other Stuff (completed today)
Hot Chip, Made in the Dark (8 tracks, one track is missing)
i finally made it through all the available artists, then after many head scratching brick walls of no available downloads at
an artist of interest, realized the daily 21 were only available for emi related stuff.
same here as far as strategy, most of what i am finding is stuff i haven't converted from vinyl yet or remastered versions of digital i
already own.
downloaded:
Chris Spedding
The Groundhogs (one of my all time favorite bands).
got my sights on Taste (Rory Gallagher's first band-excellent stuff)
Roy Wood-boulders
Steve Hillage
Spent a number on 1981's The Lounge Lizards by The Lounge Lizards - link . Now have to research who the Austin Lounge Lizards are - rather different vibe.
I'm still in a state of shock. I joined the party a little late, but I now have dled 38 albums for free. I did do a reality check and immediately deleted one, but tons of great stuff from Blue Note, great international music from Real World, and decent rock from EMI (Ben Harper, Sinead, Kings of Convienence) and one modern jazz album (Robert Glasper - highly recommended). Best of all, three albums I had been meaning to get but kept putting off (Herbie Hancock's Isles, Inventions and Dimensions, and Maiden Voyage) I got as well.
What a great find - do you think they'll have an October promo?
@Thom: if you like Indian/Central Asian classical, check out Sampradaya by Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma.
Pacific Jazz/World Pacific are part of the Blue Nota catalog, but apparently Blue Note hasn't seen fit to make them available. I might nevertheless try the Jazz Crusaders.
Today:
Steeleye Span, Below the Salt and Commoners Crown (two albums) complete with tracks previously dl from Amie and from compilations (my wife complete Parcel of Rogues and Now we are Six yesterday)
Donald Byrd, A New Perspective and Ethiopian Knights
@BT - Thank you, that sounds gorgeous. And it also made me realize that at least some Real World records were licensed through Virgin. Just found Afro Celt on there, too. How many days left in September?
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DO YOU FEEL IT TOTALLY SUCKS IF YOU'RE ONLY GETTING A 2 OR 3 MINUTE CRAMPS TRACK VERSUS A 7 OR 8 MINUTE JAZZ OR PROG TRACK?
OR IS IT BETTER TO GET A SHORT TRACK FOR FREE SO WHEN YOU GET A LONGER ONE THAT YOU HAVE TO ACTUALLY PAY FOR IT FEELS LIKE A BETTER VALUE?
'TIS A PUZZLEMENT.
None of us are deaf, or we wouldn't be buying so much music!
As for the question itself, I pay no attention to the length of the track. One download is as good as another, regardless of price, so if it's a track I want, I'm going to get it.
Craig
IRONY - All Right? just downloaded Songs The Lord Taught Us this morning. Jeez.
If you feel cheated, go to Blueshound's blog and pick up a few freebies to make yourself feel better -or play the short songs twice as many times to even things out.
Places and Spaces (1975), with Change on Essential, three differen versions of Wind Parade
Caricatures (1976), wiht the first track Dance Band on a comp (with wrong art).
Moving on to Sam Rivers
Dimensions And Extensions (1967), missing two tracks!
Bobby Hutcherson
The Kicker (1963)
Components (1965)
Stick Up! (1966), plus the track 8/4 Beat
There is early Stray Cats - 3 best of's and Built For Speed - on promo - link - excepting only the less stellar Choo Choo Hot Fish album.
Fixed the links -oops.
July
in my opinion, one of the best psychedelic albums from the late 60s.
they also seem to have a generous amount of 70s prog:
Gryphon
Gentle Giant
Eloy
Colosseum (actually late 60s early 70s)
Be Bop Deluxe
Babe Ruth
I've been able to find and download 17 tracks from PATGOD, 14 of which look to be from the recent anniversary reissue. First ten songs in mono, plus Paintbox, Matilda Mother (alt. version), Apples and Oranges (mono and stereo versions), 1994 and 1996 remasters of Bike, and a 1996 remaster of Interstellar Overdrive.
Julian Bream - J.S.Bach: Lute Works -link.
Hmmm. I feel like I'm still in a beta test. I did find those 21 tracks on the Guvera channel, and managed to DL the 1st tracks of the Rolling Stones that got pulled during the eMusic debacle of the Rlling Stones drop. When one could DL everthing but track #1. Guvera gets OCD points for that!
That site is one big time suck, and I have art to make instead. BUT. I think I will like it come January, if it's still around.
Never heard of Mark Nason before, but the ads look intriguing. For a guy. I am not sure what the marketeers are up to on this. Women don't buy shoes for their men online,duh.
downloaded:
Psychedelic Man by Kraan
Axe Victim and Futurama by Be Bop Deluxe (best stuff in my opinion)
if nothing else this site will help whittle down that stack of vinyl waiting to be converted that keeps staring at me every time i open my closet.
i know this has been asked before, but i don't remember seeing an answer: do the free downloads rollover or is it a use it or lose it situation?
Once again I succumbed to peer pressure and stayed up until 1am trying to spend my 21+ credits (Kraftwerk - Autobahn, Harold Budd & Brian Eno - Ambient 2/The Plateux of Mirror, Julian Bream - J.S. Bach: Lute Works, and working on Michael Nyman - Prospero's Books).
I hate myself.
They top out at 21, so whatever you don't use that day are as good as gone. I've used mine up most days, but have left one or two a couple of days, simply because I didn't feel like spending more time looking for stuff.
My current strategy is to use most of the credits to get full albums, and then use the remaining few to chip away at an album, acquiring that album over a 4 day period. In the case of the later, it's usually an album I already own, but that has been remastered, so it would be nice to have the upgrade, but no biggie if I don't get it all.
Oblique (1967), track three, Theme from Blow Up.
Patterns(1968)
Medina & SPiral (1968)
Now!(1969), plus the tracks Hello to the Wind and Black Heroes
San Francisco (1970), the first track Goin' Down South seems to be missing.
Head On (1971)
I managed to listen to the three of his I got yesterday - so very good! Love the vibes.
Today's take:
Andrew Hill, Black Fire
Andrew Hill, Andrew
Grachan Moncur III, Some Other Stuff (completed today)
Hot Chip, Made in the Dark (8 tracks, one track is missing)
i finally made it through all the available artists, then after many head scratching brick walls of no available downloads at
an artist of interest, realized the daily 21 were only available for emi related stuff.
same here as far as strategy, most of what i am finding is stuff i haven't converted from vinyl yet or remastered versions of digital i
already own.
downloaded:
Chris Spedding
The Groundhogs (one of my all time favorite bands).
got my sights on Taste (Rory Gallagher's first band-excellent stuff)
Roy Wood-boulders
Steve Hillage
What a great find - do you think they'll have an October promo?
Pacific Jazz/World Pacific are part of the Blue Nota catalog, but apparently Blue Note hasn't seen fit to make them available. I might nevertheless try the Jazz Crusaders.
Today:
Steeleye Span, Below the Salt and Commoners Crown (two albums) complete with tracks previously dl from Amie and from compilations (my wife complete Parcel of Rogues and Now we are Six yesterday)
Donald Byrd, A New Perspective and Ethiopian Knights
Grachan Moncur III - Some Others Stuff (1964)
Wayne Shorter - Night Dreamer (1964), missing track Black Nile
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil (1965) )this album id lists many songs not on the album for some reason, but not the final two tracks, Wild Flower and Dance Cadaverous, both album and alternate takes.
Wayne Shorter - The All Seeing Eye (1965)
Wayne Shorter - Adam's Apple (1966)
Wayne Shorter - Schizophrenia (1967)