Finally got a bit more techny savvy (lookout world) --an ipod

Oh, my heavens! My iPod has everything on it from Alabama and Beethoven to Queen to Connie Dover to Enya to Tom Jones to Mozart to the Chieftains to the Blues Brothers to Loreena McKennit to Tori Amos to Colin Raye and George Straight and Los Lobos and Salina and Celine Dion and Prince to Ricky Martin and Rod Stewart and Sarah McLachlan and Sting and Tina Turner and Mary Jane Lamond and Capercaillie and Everly Brothers and Elvis and Richard Marx and Vangelis and... and... and...

Why, yes. I do have an eclectic taste in music. Why do you ask?

There's an MS-DOS version of iTunes?

::dodges hurled IBM PC::

Bee Gees. You can't go wrong with Bee Gees.

I'm still looking for an MP3 of "(One of These Days) Sunday's Gonna Come on Tuesday" by The New Establishment. You'd think between Amazon and iTunes, SOMEONE would have it.

Do you have it on CD? There are great conversion programs...

If you like Loreena McKennit, try Blackmore's Night: Fires at Midnight, The Village Lanterne, Ghost of a Rose, etc.

Individual songs: Santana's "Into the Night", Styx "Come Sail Away" (and album The Grand Illusion), Rush "Mystic Rhythms".

I bought an MP3 player last year and have been copying my CD collection to it. It's been wonderful rediscovering all those songs I hadn't listened to in ages.

Happy listening!

I've been getting really into Amos Lee lately. Heard one of his songs (Colors) on House a few years ago and just checked out more of his stuff. He's got a great voice, and a jazz-feel to his music which I love.

iTunes also had a good song on their weekly free downloads this week: Ain't No Rest For the Wicked by Cage the Elephant.

Welcome to the great world of iPods! I used to hate carting around those bulky cd players. Or heavy cassette tape players. Or did you ever carry a record player around?! Geez, strap that thing over your shoulder....

Anyway, Coldplay. Hands down. Most any songs by them.

Imagine only reading books from authors who had appeared on the New York Times Bestseller list.

I say that provocative statement because so many people do that very thing with music! With the Internet there's a lot of good stuff out there that's not published by the Six Five Four Major Labels or however many there are nowadays. I ordered Dorene's CD from her ten years ago when she only had one or two songs available as MP3's:
http://www.dorenekedney.com/
(you know how to take an MP3 link on a website and load it in your iPod?)
Okay, the MP3's were (imho) the best two songs on the CD by far, but there's a quality difference between a CD and the same song converted to (the usual 128k bitrate) MP3, and that's another incentive to get the CD. And I understand you can load "straight" unadulterated .wav files on an iPod, though they take up ten times the space for the same playing time.

I recall when the Rio came out circa 1997, it held barely an hour of MP3-compressed music, and the RIAA was threatening to SUE the manufacturer!

Just my little rant...

Ol' Fashioned Girl said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCYD3U-FZSY

Click to expand...

Yeah, saw it, and even tried to extract the soundtrack with Audacity. Boosting and cleaning up the sound added a strange outer-spacey artifact.

The search goes on . . .

"All The Pretty Little Horses" by Michigan Jake.
"I'm a Believer," by Realtime.
"Beethoven 5.1" by the Gas House Gang.

C'mon, throw some acappella on there. You know you wants to.