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May 99-cent droning sustain us indefinitely. I'll have to look into that one and work on differentiating between the good and bad with experimental stuff. For my 99, I've most enjoyed the albums on ROHS! lately.
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@confused Everyone's gotta game the system in their own ways to make it work nowadays; that's for sure. When my monthly credit comes in I'll make a point of sampling what you e…
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I think their earliest listed album is from 1980, and sorry if they were already posted. Budka Suflera are definitely of the old school of progressive rock:@confused I had high hopes for the Spire Organ Works but was disappointed; ditto for newer stuff from The Black Dog. Is all the Vitor Rua pretty similar? Dan Deacon, Kerridge,…@peterfrederics always appreciate your encouragement and receptiveness. If the site can hang on to what it's got now, I think we and hopefully more folks can too.@Plong42 I'd only sampled their Pino album, but anything that's crosslisted as Ambient/New Age/Hard Rock/Alt. Rock at the same time deserves a listen just for the apparent contra…I was going to pitch a subscription to a lover of the obscure with the Residents as a centerpiece and had to change plans abruptly. Cryptic Corp bit it in the last few weeks.Here's some quick & dirty charts of the label list above, by genre and geographic location. Lemme know if anyone wants to talk intercoder reliability ;-) in Emusers Label & Linernotes Database Comment by omnifoo August 2019@peterfrederics Just downloaded that, and it's a very strong entry on my 99-cent list. Since prog is of special interest to you, I'll try to remember to point out individ…
Fellow cheapskates, lighten the clutch of your pinched pennies! And for a moment, put aside worries about the marginal compensation actually going to the artists rather than directly into eMusic’s tattered, hole-ridden pockets. Here’s 50 unduly…
@confused I forgot there were still a Paul Schutze and Foetus (though I wish it still had his newer classical stuff as Manorexia and Steroid Maximus) albums. Looks like a good …@peterfrederics The Sun City Girls are hilarious. I tried to lure a fan of theirs and other "outsider" music onto eMusic with their catalog, but he said he already owned …@greg yeah, I don't understand the pricing system, and half the time I think the 99-cent stuff is an error. If ever there were a reason to have a VPN outside of China, a U.S. eMusi…@idiotprogrammer That's a great list of resources and picks; you've been at this a long time, and help is needed lately more than ever. It seems there's a mass exodus go…@Jon Thanks. That one does look important and good. Going by brute force is bound to miss some...definitely a work in progress.Unusually frequent "album not available" msgs in the past few days. Also got a "site down for maintenance" msg and hope it's just a temporary hiccup.
Most of the complaints about eMusic’s decline focus on the lack of new stuff that you’re going to buy in some format, from some source, no matter where. I agree that eMusic is no longer a reliable source for that in most genres, unless you can s…
@peterfrederics Added what wasn't there. Thanks. It's going to take teamwork to get through 2019. Also, OHR looks like prog.
These labels have worthwhile maxi singles (haven't seen that word very many places lately), EPs, and full length albums for 99 cents: Youngbloods, Audio Antihero, Civil Music, Feeding Tube, Humo, LOaF, Akuphone, OHM Resistance, Pinecone Moonshine, …Lots of talk about what the last straw is for everyone, and the rate of attrition sure will make it hard to keep any list updated. I'd say there's still a lot of worthwhile stuff available, but I gather most everyone's patience is pretty worn.It would be most delightful if anyone who's jumped ship but still on the fence could be persuaded to return by this list of what's still available. I personally would gleefully plow through $75 boosters if funds were unlimited:-)@peterfrederics Other than Golden Core having some Wishbone Ash and maybe a little else, I wouldn't know a good prog label if I saw one. I.e. I can't tell what kind of ro…See http://www.omnifoo.info/pages/eMusic%20Labels.html for brief, flippant descriptions of subgenres, quality, …
Given how rough things are getting on eMusic, making 2015 and even 2018 seem like cornucopia by comparison, this is a good excuse to organize my list of labels still on eMusic by genre (in very approximate order of my interest in their offerings rat…