Save for live music, first there was radio and recorded analog music.
Then after decades digital music came along and has changed the way we experience music forever.
There are just an unbelievable, at least when I was young I could not imagine, number of ways we receive music these days including; cable TV, satellite TV and music radio, internet music radio, the torrents,etc. Even the devices we listen to music on these days, i-pods, cell phones, media servers offer such a wide array of music listening possibilities.
Some of the best sources of music I have found on the web besides the obvious like YouTube and DailyMotion are as follows:
Live365.com (Thousands of independent online music stations with every genres of music you can imagine. I play live365 stations almost every day on my media servers that are attached to my entertainment systems.)
Pandora Radio (Where you can set up your own online radio station based on specific artists and musical genres. I love my Pink Floyd and Yoko Kanno stations for example. This is an app on my phone as well.)
Video2MP3 (An incredible web based tool that takes YouTube videos and converts them to MP3. I already took a bunch of videos people have posted over time and collected them and burned a couple CDs with them.)
Playlist.com (Another unbelievable site where you can set up your own play list from hundreds of artists and thousands of songs. Sometimes I set up my play and just listen all day long when I’m online.)
BBC Radio (My favorite online radio site not just for music but for news, comedy and mysteries as well. Kalima turned me on to their programming.)
These are just a few of my favorites mostly because they are all free to use. Sure they all have ads and sponsors but so few sites do and they are a minor inconvenience. I’ve excluded many mainstream and all pay sites because they tend to have more limitations and ties to corporate interests.
Here are a few videos I’ve converted to MP3s to get us rolling.
CoCo Tea doing
Barack Obama
Um [shuffles feet], no one minds if I post some Melvins, do they?
Well I don’t mind…but….what can I say….that was WEIRD!!!!
I see why your daughter hid the cd from you in the car….
that was weird!!!! What else can I say???!!!
Noticed KQuarks Japanese Ska…thought I’d throw this Fanastic little number out there…Coffia by
Mute Beat
Real Japenese Ska at it’s finest!!!
at about 2:22 this bass player just falls into the beat!!
Awesome! Very old school.
Love it!
In this digital age, too many times people decry autotuning and misunderstand sampling is fine – when it is a sampling or make puritanical claims that organic is best. In any case, in the digital age, if you have a good laptop and shell out money for Pro Tools (and musical composition talent helps a great deal!), the boundaries can be pushed. This is what the digital age has done for music itself.
Fischerspooner – Sweetness
Embedding disabled, and Dailymotion sound quality sucked. Brilliant video.
Do this, though there’s another audio version I like better.
VNV Nation – Legion (Live)
There is no fast rule that electronica can’t be thoughtful.
By the way, someone posted episodes of a show canceled a long time ago that I grew up with. At about midnight or 1 AM, the local channel would play a show with the craziest music – not on MTV (most definitely not!) – and long, long before YouTube. It is to a great deal to “blame” for who I am today. Bohemian Afterdark.
The wonders of YouTube!
The only organic music is a cappella as far as I know.
The tools to make art over time change but the spirit of true art does not. You can tell I don’t like music or art snobs.
Perpetuum Jazzile, Buenos Aries, March/April 2008; a spontaneous rendition of Libertango composed byAstor Piazzolla.
Beautiful boomer, thank you!
The woofers are pouting something fierce.What don’t they get about being fed, housed, loved, walked all at no expense to them?
Kalima, what’s up with me not being able to reply to your last response?
Is that God’s way of preventing inter-linguistic relations?
He’s a quirky and irregular entity.
I’ve heard bran is good for that.
Nite, all.
We are on comment rationing for bad behaviour.
It was great to see you, try not to be a stranger, you know, balance and all that. 🙂
Woof woof and Gute Nacht FlyingLotus.
Night FL. Take care.
So it turns out God is just a slob like one of us.
Joan Osborne – One of us
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Well, it may not be music but as long as we’re “praising God”:
“Oh Lord, ooh you are so big! So absolutely huge. Gosh, we’re all really impressed down here, I can tell you.”
😆 don’t get me going on movie quotes. I’ve been playing with soundboard apps on my new phone and I forgot how many great lines there where by the gunnery sergeant in “Full Metal Jacket”. I was laughing so much I almost pulled out my sutures listening to a few.
LMAO!The genius of Monty Python is hard to transcend.
Another great thing about the YouTube age? I can discover new music from around the world! About a year ago I started dabbling in Chalga. From Wikipedia:
I’ve kept coming back to this one like a moth to the flame in the past week:
Mira – Ostavete Ni Na Mira
(Cameo of Bulgarian megastar and gay icon Azis. Google translator says song title means “Leave us alone” – really?)
That is absolutely one of my favorite things about YouTube. As an Anime fan too you can find songs from the medium that you usually cannot find in the states even on MP3 sites. It also let’s you explore the bands that do perform songs in Anime.
This is one of my favorite ska bands I found on YouTube that way.
“You are Sid Vicious for me”
Mmm…
A little Japanese Madness, the second one was entertaining for the Engrish. I think it’s cute.
That’s what I love the playfulness of ska.
Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious My Way
I think I’m in love too. 😉
I’m sure that you guys just love it, but hey, I was eating a sandwich!
OK we’ll be good, promise.
😆 Better be or I’ll blab to you-know-who.
OMG she who must be obeyed must never hear of this
Ok, your secret is safe with me for now but watch your step. I’m only letting you off the hook because you’ve just had surgery and I want you to feel better soon.
It’s the meds talking not me. 😀
I have meds that talk too and on the package it says in big, bold red letters, “DON’T EAT ME!”
They must have feelings too. 🙂
Bikini in Bulgarian means “Leave us alone”.
It was translated for me when I wore one my last summer there.
I did enter it in Russian Cyrillic, and Google translator is notorious anyway. It was funny to me at the time. 😉
Another amazing thing they are doing now is digitally remastering old videos. Here is one of my favorite videos from the 80s which should be no surprise to anyone.
Thomas Dolby – She Blinded Me With Science (2009 Digitally Remastered)
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Thomas Dolby-She Blinded Me With Science
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Adlib: Heh!
Cannot be embedded?
Proof there is no God!
Yeah, the jig is up AdLib!
Not so fast there, my dear FlyingLotus, look again. An after Christmas miracle!
So nice to see you here!
I knew God had an ego.Being that we’re made in your image an all.It’s just like, totally all about you, id’nt?
Show off!
Well, of course I can’t speak for God but I’d imagine he’d admit to a sizable ego.
I hear he has big feet too.
Good thing he has a special hook up to a cobbler who can make sandals or is it crocs?In size infinity.
I know he was quite upset about Daniel Day Lewis returning to acting.Hence, he smote him with NINE.
😆 usually I’m the only one who embeds from DailyMotion. I forgot this time. 😛
I’m there for you, KQ!
Oh those MTV days !!
The Dandy Warhols – I am a Scientist
You wanna know what didn’t need to be redone?
Right Said Fred – I’m Too Sexy (2007)
Mo and I had a worse video of all time contest and I’m pretty sure that won.
And now for something completely different. Rush like you never heard it. (the band not the blowhard)
Kalima! You rock hard girrrrrl!
LOL!
😆 Not bad for a sauerkraut!
I had you turning Japaneeza in my head!
Das tut mir leid.
I turn Japanesee in my own head sometimes. 🙂
Ach was, kein Problem.
That’s just my favorite expression in German.
I use any excuse to use it.
Equal opportunist lindquist.
LOL well it certainly comes in handy in just about any situation.
“I’ve lost my cat,”
“Es tut mir leit.”
“My husband fell off a ladder.”
“Es tut mir leit”
“My money has been stolen.”
“Es tut mir leit.”
Endless uses for four short words.
But Kraut rock is the best!
Hey, missed you on Vox Populi!
Sorry AdLib, up to my eyes in trash. I’ll explain later.
I wish I could hang out longer, long day.The woofers are demanding a cuddle and a movie.Little buggers!
So I leave ya’ll with Jose James, an incredible talent!I played “The Dreamer” during the primaries often.Check it out and you’ll understand why.
But tonight it’s this one.I think I’m in lurrrrv..
Ok, I’m tech challenged.Came up as a link and not how you guys post.I’m sooo uncool and 20th century!
Also forgot to thank you, KQuark, for all the amazing links you provided.
Happy New Year everyone!
All fixed FlyingLotus and hi, how are you?
Gutenstien, I just wish there was more time in the day and evening for everything.
Insert googlie eyed emoticon!
Hope all’s well in your world..
Long time no see, that’s for sure and I know exactly what you mean about 24 hours not being enough in one day sometimes.
Life goes on in Old Edo, a week seems like day when you are busy. Hubby travels abroad a lot and the kitties are the terrors they have always been.
I hope that it’s not all work for you and that you take time to have some fun.
Take care and look forward to seeing more of you in the future.
No of course not but finding the balance is, well, a balancing act.
Sometimes, I just make like a repub and stomp my feet..”Me!Me!Me!”
Ha!
I must have that problem too, I stomp my feet a lot these days. I’m supposed to be growing calmer not crazier, yes the balance is hard to find.
Wonderful song and performance.
I start purring when the cellos come in at the end.
Btw, is there a purring emoticon?
Wonderful, much appreciated FlyingLotus
One of my favourite Japanese musicians of all time. Kitaro.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzi7zl4670Y
Song for Peace.
Wow truly wonderful I’m listening to the second composition now. What a combination of traditional, modern, Western and Eastern styles to make one beautiful sound. I really enjoy it.
There was a time I used to listen to his albums every day, it helped me relax and think clearly. For some reason I don’t listen to as much music as I used to, maybe it’s because since I started this silly dizzy illness, headphones make the room spin like a top.
Listening to Kitaro now, his music still feels fresh. I really must try to relax a bit more this year.
VOX POPULI IS ABOUT TO BEGIN! CLICK HERE TO GO THERE:
http://planetpov.com/live-events/vox-populi/
Another great piano man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBWqiFIfflI
Um, apparently I forgot how to post a vid correctly. Could someone please remind me?
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KQuark, you just made me think of something.
In my first car, a 1970 Buick Skylark, I had an 8-track and AM/FM
In my second car, a small pickup, I had a cassette deck and AM/FM
In my third car, a little Toyota pickup, I just had an AM/FM because I was sick and tired of my cars getting broken into.
In my brand new car, I got an AM/FM, XM satellite, CD player *and* iPod dock. I got more choices now than I know what to do with.
“I got more choices now than I know what to do with. ”
That’s how I feel, Pepe. 😆
That does sound familiar. The 200 Watt Bose system in my Maxima is still the best sound system I’ve ever heard.
I love these guys – they always cheer the blues away!
Very kewl. I’ll never look at PVC piping the same again. I just thought it was used to transport sewage and such.
Nooooooo! PVC is awesome. A used water cooler bottle is even sweet.