ScissorMan
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Well, the real problem is "The Star-Spangled Banner" itself - it's practically unsingable by anyone who isn't some sort of physical freak. I've been writing Senators and Congressmen for years trying to get them to change the national anthem to the C…
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Ironically, given the way the music industry is these days, running an abbey (along with your own website) is probably a better strategy for achieving pop stardom than recording a bun…
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Despite the terrible cover art, this is a fairly interesting record from a nu-gaze act in Malaysia called "Furniture" - it's streaming-only on Bandcamp, but they've put the album up on Soundcloud too, where you can in Bandcamp Goodies Comment by ScissorMan February 2011
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(Quote) Not really. There are a couple of tracks that sort of glance longingly in that direction, but overall... naaah.
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The thing is, you can't sink the stickies. If you could sink the stickies so they wouldn't stack up, I'd leave the stickies stuck, but since they can't be sunk they should be unstuck to shrink the sticky stack. Once the stack is shrunk, there'll be …
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Personally, the only problem I have with ambient stuff is that the album-cover art looks a lot like shoegazer album-cover art, so on a web forum like this it's hard to tell the difference sometimes if the person posting it doesn't actually say what …
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The Juliets is an awesome record - one of my favorites from last year, and not just among free stuff (it actually wasn't free when I got it from eMu, where it was then 12 credits and is currently $5.88).
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This is more of a conventional indie-rock jangly-pop sort of affair, but it has some very catchy tunes on it, and it's free for an e-mail address.
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Well, someone should at least tell Eireboy that CRC's in ID3 Comment tags are what you get when you have "Insert CRC Checksum" checked while ripping CD's …
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I can only guess that someone in eMu Customer Service thinks (s)he's being clever by making an oblique reference to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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I should probably say that over the past seven years, I personally have lost a job, a house, a marriage (plus a girlfriend or two after that), and a loved one (my dad). It isn't so much that I find the loss of eMusic to be worse than those things; t…
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Well, a lot of people have trouble fully appreciating the Brazilian Fuzz-Banana genre, regardless of what instrument is being featured.
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They do seem to be backloading (if not actually ignoring) the LAME-vs.-Fraunhofer encoding issue, though. IMO it's quite possible that they're running scared on that.
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@Doc M: Well, I agree for the most part... if you do most/all of your recording at home and aren't in the hole on physical costs, and especially if you don't have any more effective …
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The Sour Notes are a sort of avant-pop band from Austin, TX with four albums on Bandcamp, all of which are free. I'm continually amazed that solid, and at times very good, material like this is just being given away while mass quantities of u…
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(Quote) Well, that was the Sixties. It wasn't really about the art, it was more about trying to get in as much drugs and sex as possible before you got drafted.
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Here's an unusually Slowdive-like shoegazer act from the Phillippines - this is a free 7-track EP that they're calling "demos," but they sound pretty finished to me.
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Interestingly, this album is on Wired's list of five albums especially suited to help "grow baby brains."
in What are you listening to right now? (part 3) Comment by ScissorMan January 2011
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Me and th' boys have been playin', and we just can't find the soooouuunnnd...
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This one isn't bad, especially if you're into UK indie pop from the 80's and 90's.
in Books About... Comment by ScissorMan January 2011
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Naah, I'm terrified of any kind of emotional involvement.
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Some people consider these guys to be the precursor to much of the electronic music made in the 70's and 80's, but I always saw them as mostly a psychedelic act. They did use some of the early synthesizers on a few tracks though, like " in psychedelic pop appreciation thread Comment by ScissorMan January 2011
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Well, the thing is, if you're on a desert island you want disks that can be used for things like shoveling sand, putting together makeshift footwear, or protecting your private parts from roaming scorpions and sandcrabs. Kiss CDs have the added bene…
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(Quote) I was thinking about this the other day, and I'm wondering if that's really true...?
For 250,000 FLAC files, they'd need about 5TB of disk space, which should be easy enough these days to share among a group of computers, exce… -
What would be the upside to having them draw up such a document? I'm not saying it's a bad idea, I'm just wondering what you'd be hoping to accomplish in the unlikely event that they would make that kind of effort.
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Here's a band that I happened across on eMu about a year or so ago, and I picked up their debut EP for what was then five credits. Since…
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(Quote) Right, but in addition to paraphrasing, you're lumping together legitimate grievances (poor communication from eMu, concerns about eMu going out of business, slow/non-existent customer service) with angry and largely-pointless retaliatory…
