If I was a banker, but then again, no
Or a man who makes profits by selling this blow
I know it’s not much and not the best I can do
My gift is my song and this one’s for you

And you can tell everybody you occupied this song
It may be quite stupid but now that the pepper spray is done
I hope you don’t mind
I hope you don’t mind that I put down in words
How wonderful life is while you’re on the dole
…

Gitmo Nation

No matter how you get your musical fix now I plan to tell you how you should get it in the future. The method I suggest works only if you don’t want a specific song at your beckon call at all times –  if you want that I suggest you go buy it from the Apple store. The slightly more arduous way to listen to a particular song, and the way that I do it, is to go to youtube and search for it. Amusingly enough it turns out that this is the most popular use for youtube now – listening to music – as youtube has a built in system for creating playlists. Cool stuff and I practically live on youtube listening to music when I am not doing what I am about to talk about: streaming.

There are many music delivery platforms that all utilize what is known as streaming – if you don’t know what streaming is then you probably don’t use the interwebs at all. So where to stream from and why? Here is a brief list via google – only 125 million results. There are a few big options that I like but one in particular that I suck with.

1. Grooveshark is a cool service with a very simple interface – catch is they don’t have a huge selection of music types. their name implies a more modern grouping of music and thus that is what they focus on with one throw to Classical. In fact they have only 6 default stations in the mix which seems a bit light to me. Classical, Rock, Indie, Rap, Pop and Electronica. I give them kudos for their easy interface and alarming quick to connect streaming – you click a button and the music just starts – most systems have at least a few seconds of load time. Their playback list on the bottom of the screen is nice as well. Grooveshark alos let’s you search for music and create simple stations around your likes.
2. Pandora is the system I started with way back when nobody knew who they were and they were still in beta. Their system is all about your making the station – period. In fact I don’t think that they have their own built in stations.  Pandora is all you all the time. Basically you enter in a song or group and Pandora makes suggestions on like minded music and slowly creates a tailored list for you by you flagging music you liked or didn’t like. After a while you end up with a music profile if you will. Drawback? Getting pigeonholed. My suggestion is to flag music sparingly – unless you really love something or really hate something just leave it alone. Sometimes Pandora also goes off the rails and delivers music that is NOTHING like what you wanted. No idea why this happens but it does, just go with it.
3. Slacker is now my streaming music channel of choice – granted my friend is the technical dude behind the entire project, but that actually didn’t persuade me in any fashion as I was using Slacker before I even knew that he was. Call it Serendipity. The reason I like Slacker over the other two is that it is really the bastard child of them but much more. There are an amazing amount of pre-made channels, 17,  to select from and each one of those channels has more specific sub channels – the Alternative channel has 14 sub stations. This all sounds glorious but it gets better! You can also make an endless supply of your own stations. They also have many other features such as album viewing, artist look up etc that you can use. The one tragedy to these guys is that they apparently made a mobile device to serve up their service that failed miserably – however I believe you can download their app on other mobile devices carrying along with it your online profile. Good stuff.

In closing – why would you buy music at all? Yes artists will get bent with me here as that is how they make a living, so if you want to support the musical arts monetarily speaking then, yea, you can buy music. If you want to just mindlessly listen to music at work? I would go with streaming – unless of course you can’t do that at work, in which case I pity you.

“Hi, i heard your blog in the 3 am radioshow on RhythmTreeRadio New Jersey, these people produced a show about running a blog and web 2.0. Just after that radio show i’ll try to sally to your postage about I-69 International Highway | Blinkinblogs. Superb post mate! I hits the point – Its beneficial to find simply only one post writer out of a lot i study which is familiar with what he is publishing about! Stay on your way.”

Enigma did some digging and found that the reference to RhythmTreeRadio is in reference to a real station – albeit online on live365.com. The amusing part is that there really is no way that BB was talked about on that show as it has nothing to do with what we talk about on BB. Apparently they stream music as they have a DJ that does rhythm and what not. With even more digging here I found this comment:

“Broadcaster Comments

Oh well the worlds financial problems are also hitting RhythmTree Radio. With the fall in the dollar to the pound the station has become very expensive to run as a private individual. It costs $75 a month to host the stream from Live 365 and this was a good price back when the dollar was almost 2:1 to the £. Things have changed and it is no longer possible to keep going without any other funding. RhythmTree does not attract many Radio 365 VIP listeners so income from them is almost zero. It has always been the policy of the station to be free for both musicians who contribute their music and for listeners to have an advertisement free stream. Please keep listening as there are a few weeks left of funding. Thanks for listening in. Gerry AKA Cyberdidg If you would like to support RhythmTree Radio with a donation please eMail. If enough of you do this to keep the station going for at least another year I will send out an eMail with a PayPal donation button. Please eMail rhythmtree@me.com with DONATE in the subject panel.”

It seems their attempts at SPAM aren’t working out for them. Tragic – I enjoy a good try.

What is little known, at least I had no clue, was Weird Al Yankovic apparently owes his success to Demento as Demento introduced Al to the world when Al was just 16 years old. I have included a video of Al here.

Van Canto – and the comments are a must read.

There appears to be some debate over their lyrics though, and thus this kind fellow was nice enough to illustrate them for us.

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Intro:
my baby left me, left me sad and blue
I didn’t know what to do
and then I met his best friend
and he took me to his house
and I said…I said…
(what you said baby) let me tell you what I said
Put it in my mouth
She said put it in her mouth
I said my muthafuckin mouth
I mean her muthafuckin mouth
Put it in my mouth
She said put it in her mouth
my muthafuckin mouth

Verse
You wanna go down why not
I be like Herbie and han you a cock
and tell you that my name is AK
get on your kness, make like the breeze begin to blow
but dont give me no Ralph Loren grin
if your not down to go low >deep in my mouth
I’m all about mouth fuckin
only if you down for dick suckin
if not, be chair and a beer…keep truckin
and fuck chap sticks
I’m comin ashy as hell, wit chapped dicks
for your chapped ass lips >down in my mouth
creamin your teeth like dentists as Im rubbin them
with an erection like injections
fuck it I be druggin them
numbing up your tonsils
like ambesol anesthetic
cummin down your throat like chloraseptic no time for
apologin..girlfriend if you…..
swallowin{gurgle}….gagolin
I’m givin bitches permanent beers
put your lips here
and catch these damn facial hairs in your mouth

Put it in my mouth
Put it in your mouth
I said my muthafuckin mouth
I said your muthafuckin mouth
or you can just eat me out
or I can just eat you out
you can eat me out
yeah, whats that all about
Now you can lick it, you can sip it, you can taste it
I’m talkin every drip-drop, don’t you waste it
baby, slurp it up, its enough to fill your cup
its finger lickin good
and Im wishin it would
go down kinda slow or even fast
I’m always sprung once I feel your tongue
In the crack of my ass, just eatin me-nigga
goin out like that boy you pack such a tasty treat
and you can e a t m e o u t
but put it your my mouth
put it in your mouth
I said your muthafuckin mouth
I said your muthafuckin mouth
and you could just eat me out
what do ya choose to lick
you could eat me out
pussy or dick?
put it in your mouth
people through out the world
I said your muthafuckin mouth
man it’s your pick
put it in my mouth
what do ya choose to lick
put it in my mouth
pussy or dick?
I said my muthafuckin mouth
people through out the world
just put it in my mouth
yeah it’s your pick
muthafuckin mouth
what do you wanna lick
and you could just eat me out
pussy or dick?
in my mouth
people through out the world
put it in my mouth
its..your..pick..hah
baby-baby in my mouth
its your pick..pick
let me go down
uhh, uhh
people through out the world

PS Not all cats are evil

Just wanted to share this awful thing with the world I hope you enjoy it.

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