I'm sure anyone who has found this blog will have found Pandora by now but i had to mention as i am listening to new great stuff on my Camera Obscura station, that Pandora is nothing short of awesome. If you haven't heard of or heard Pandora you must, immediately, before they start charging something.
If you didn't get the memo, as i didn't for a long time, Pandora is a website wherein lucky music whores such as myself create their own radio station. So first you put in the name of a song or an artist you particularly like. Right now that is Camera Obscura and naturally enough it starts off with a song by them or that particular song. But that is not where it ends.
Pandora is part of the Music Genome Project, which means that it takes some basic similarities between music you like and music you don't know about and it gives it to you. For free. Okay so you don't get to steal the song. Which is fine as i believe that good musicians are rewarded for doing good work by our cash. If you like it enough, however, you may buy it. Having no external MP3 device right now this isn't all that important to me bu i can see losing paychecks to it at some point if i ever do have such an external device.
Granted, if you have a varied emotional look on things and set up a Camera Obscura radio station be prepared for having the Glasgow blues. Given a choice between the Glasgow blues and the Delta Blues...well it would be a toss up but i know that the delta blues would make me sweat whereas the glasgow blues would make me feel like i've been standing in a steady piss for days on end. Oh wait. I have. I'm living in southeastern wisconsin.
It is probably in your best interest as an avid listener to have a more balanced view of your radio stations for fear of falling into a serious funk. Which is pretty much where i am but that, of course, is complicated by having many sad things to think about right now. Besides, it may be blue but my lord is it gorgeous.
Well. Not much else to say really. Go forth good people and listen.
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