NMT 35
I think they're finally getting it. Before releasing their last album, "In Rainbows" (brilliant I might add), Radiohead offered it as a download on a pay what you want platform. The quality of the download was based on the level you paid, higher bit rate for higher cost, but still far cheaper than a CD. Most people did the free download and when the CD came, it still sold well.
Earlier this month, Nine Inch Nails up the ante. They offered a whole new album on line..for free. Full CD quality (and one offer of higher than CD quality, but unless you're using high end equipment, that's useless) in several different formats. Here's the story on it on RollingStone.com I got a copy and it's really good.
I guess it was offered as a thank you to fans from an artist who has been trying to get rid of his record label and with the Internet he finally can. Obviously, they won't all be free, but he did have an instrumental album he put out earlier that was offered for $5. Why not? He has no middle man. (If you had spent $5, for say a shitty Alicia Keys album, you wouldn't feel so bad). Anyways, it's good and it's not just an album of old, unused tracks. And it was free, so really, if it sucked, how much bitching could you really do?
I mention this because it's our pick this week..sort of. No real videos for any of the new songs, but it does lead us into a new segment I want to toy with. I think I am going to replace the random pick with a segment I will call "I miss the 90's". I do. It's when I peaked. From 1989 through say 1998.
I was looking for something on You tube and found a song I hadn't heard in forever and that led to another and another, etc. Bunch of songs I hadn't heard in a while and missed. Like reconnecting with an old friend.
The Nine Inch Nails connection is this: Pretty hate machine was one of those records that reminds me of that time. My friend Nathan lived around the corner from me and during the summer between our Freshman and Sophomore year, I think, we would hang out in his front yard and listen to that tape over and over. So, since I wanted to tell you about the free album it seemed like a natural connection. Whatever.
This video isn't from the new album like I said, but is from the record "With Teeth". The lyrics are based on Fight Club (a book I used to own....ahem) and the video is directed by the director of the movie. I mentioned seeing this video for the first time here.
So, from Cleveland, OH (oh, that's right bitches):
Nine Inch Nails - "Only":
I Miss the 90's:
Two events happened to me early in this period:
My Freshman year, I didn't really have a musical direction. When I was younger, my older brother and cousins and MTV got me into the Beastie Boys and Run DMC and the early 80's rap , but by 7th or 8th grade, that wasn't plausable anymore since the rap coming out then wasn't the same and I didn't like it. So, I floated around, got into some Metal and hard rock like Tesla and Guns and Roses with my cousin (he gave me my first Metallica tape). None of it really moved me. Then, I heard R.E.M.'s Eponymous album. The tape was cued to "Driver 8" and something about it made me feel good. I think it was the combination of the melody and his voice. I listened to it 4 times in a row (and with a cassette, you know how hard that is.). It's still one of my favorite songs ever.
R.E.M. "Driver 8":
Then one day, driving to school, I heard this song...and nothing was ever the same again:
One last Random Pick of the Week:
Earlier this month, Nine Inch Nails up the ante. They offered a whole new album on line..for free. Full CD quality (and one offer of higher than CD quality, but unless you're using high end equipment, that's useless) in several different formats. Here's the story on it on RollingStone.com I got a copy and it's really good.
I guess it was offered as a thank you to fans from an artist who has been trying to get rid of his record label and with the Internet he finally can. Obviously, they won't all be free, but he did have an instrumental album he put out earlier that was offered for $5. Why not? He has no middle man. (If you had spent $5, for say a shitty Alicia Keys album, you wouldn't feel so bad). Anyways, it's good and it's not just an album of old, unused tracks. And it was free, so really, if it sucked, how much bitching could you really do?
I mention this because it's our pick this week..sort of. No real videos for any of the new songs, but it does lead us into a new segment I want to toy with. I think I am going to replace the random pick with a segment I will call "I miss the 90's". I do. It's when I peaked. From 1989 through say 1998.
I was looking for something on You tube and found a song I hadn't heard in forever and that led to another and another, etc. Bunch of songs I hadn't heard in a while and missed. Like reconnecting with an old friend.
The Nine Inch Nails connection is this: Pretty hate machine was one of those records that reminds me of that time. My friend Nathan lived around the corner from me and during the summer between our Freshman and Sophomore year, I think, we would hang out in his front yard and listen to that tape over and over. So, since I wanted to tell you about the free album it seemed like a natural connection. Whatever.
This video isn't from the new album like I said, but is from the record "With Teeth". The lyrics are based on Fight Club (a book I used to own....ahem) and the video is directed by the director of the movie. I mentioned seeing this video for the first time here.
So, from Cleveland, OH (oh, that's right bitches):
Nine Inch Nails - "Only":
I Miss the 90's:
Two events happened to me early in this period:
My Freshman year, I didn't really have a musical direction. When I was younger, my older brother and cousins and MTV got me into the Beastie Boys and Run DMC and the early 80's rap , but by 7th or 8th grade, that wasn't plausable anymore since the rap coming out then wasn't the same and I didn't like it. So, I floated around, got into some Metal and hard rock like Tesla and Guns and Roses with my cousin (he gave me my first Metallica tape). None of it really moved me. Then, I heard R.E.M.'s Eponymous album. The tape was cued to "Driver 8" and something about it made me feel good. I think it was the combination of the melody and his voice. I listened to it 4 times in a row (and with a cassette, you know how hard that is.). It's still one of my favorite songs ever.
R.E.M. "Driver 8":
Then one day, driving to school, I heard this song...and nothing was ever the same again:
One last Random Pick of the Week:
posted by Richard at 10:32 AM
2 Comments:
I second the motion to bring back the '90s and hey, while we're at, the '80s music was great too, so bring that back also!
Great tunes this week. And I just knew to expect something from Wicked (but it's good so we're all happy).
Really. I want to go dig into my tape collection. Yes, I said tapes. I don't know why I hung onto them b/c it's not as if I even have anything to play tapes with anymore!
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