one should never be disturbed by listening to lots of Harry Nilsson. He is fucking great.

Best Friend?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saLVbJ_tP9Y

Might pay to plug the group on one or two future Field Theory or Hard News Friday music wrap ups as I'm sure there are quite a few more musicly inclined folks who may not have followed this…

Here we go. The PAS Rollers last.fm group is live and kicking for anyone that wants to join up and show the love.

Thanks Pete. I've signed up as knowyourproduct. I'll let the rest of the massive know during the week.

He is fucking great.

Say what you mean, Danielle :)

But agreed. I think I'm the only person on the planet that loves Pussycats (the album that is...)

really disturbed at just how much Harry Nilsson I actually listen to

Oh-so-belatedly because I was in Melbourne (seeing Supergrass, as it happens) one should never be disturbed by listening to lots of Harry Nilsson. He is fucking great.

So was the PAS group set up because I finally signed up.

Here we go. The PAS Rollers last.fm group is live and kicking for anyone that wants to join up and show the love.

I sometimes think I'm the only person ever to love the KOC in this country.

And I'm afraid to admit I only know of them because of Erland Oye (please excuse lack of Nordic slashes and diacriticals), and I only know him because of his two tracks with Royksopp (ditto).

Nightmares on Wax, Peter? Nice.

Thanks Jackie, I'm generally a big fan of the Pork Recordings whanau including Fila Brasilia, Solid Doctor and trippy breakbeat house in general.

Osbourne Ruddock, nice.

Heh, I gotta get more of the Tubbster into iTunes though, all mine is on CD.

Re: vinyl – MP3, like everyone else, I consider my collection chocka of unique and beautiful snowflakes. I was thinking about getting one of these, and flogging it back on TradeMe once I was done.

The Grauniad advertises something similar for around a hundred quid. I don't know if the…

I have about 40 sides done.

I use Audacity. Typically I record the file using maximum bits and sample rate, chop silence from the beginnings and ends and run "Normalise" to set the levels correctly. I'm using a Technics SL-1200, a Pioneer DJM-600 mixer and a Hercules DJ-Console soundcard. I…

Re: vinyl – MP3, like everyone else, I consider my collection chocka of unique and…

So you're saying I need to sign up to Last.fm? I used to listen to Pandora at a previous place of work, until they were all like "would you mind not eating up all of our internet with your streaming music?"

You don't need to be streaming from Last.fm. The…

I've yet to see my Stridulators 7" single ...

Now there is a classic.

It would be cool to set up a PAS group on Last.FM so all this playlist playing could be shared and seeing a Top 20 for PAS would be kind of interesting as well.

So you're saying I need to sign up to Last.fm? I used to listen to Pandora…

Soulseek or those naughty Scandinavians works fine for more popular or well-known stuff, but obscure New Zealand releases it doesn't handle too well at all

True, although it's pretty good for non-mainstream international stuff.

BTW – has anyone found a workabel way to rip vinyl to MP3?

Yep, install Soulseek and grab a decent digital copy of all your vinyl tunes. Trust me, it may eat some bandwidth but it'll save you a whole load of pain and suffering. And it's kind of legit…

It would be cool to set up a PAS group on Last.FM so all this playlist playing could be shared and seeing a Top 20 for PAS would be kind of interesting as well.

Hmm, I often wonder about the point of that kind of thing for groups that aren't…

OK. I still reckon I can make better play lists though.

Agreed. Playlists are like baking. They should only be done with the greatest of love and care in mind. I'll stick to the home baking thanks.

BTW – has anyone found a workabel way to rip vinyl to MP3?

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the pirate bay

Ah: I had to admit that I didn't know of that site until now. For a moment I thought that you were confusing the Kings of Leon with Kings of Convenience.

I listen to my Ipod @ work and on the bus etc, and play more CDs and vinyl @ home – I like…

but when I'm out walking in public I like to be aware of what's around me rather than shut off in my own world

I love walking with music because I harbor fantasies that everyone will suddenly burst into song and dance (Fou de Fa Fa!).

those crazy Scandinavians

Sorry,…

Sorry, who?

Too right. Wacky but decorous, that's the Scandinavian way.

music and computers. Mainly it's about how the two have combined to seriously alter how I listen to music

The two have always combined for me, since most of the music I listen to was created on, with or in some cases by computers.

In fact I listen to more…

I do hope that Genius when I ask it about any of the Phoenix Foundation tracks or SJD doesn't just indicate that these are like any (every, or ALL) NZ music, like last.fm

Like Jake said, it shouldn't. However whenever I pick a hip-hop song/artist it will always fill the…

Various people have noticed that it doesn't work with the Beatles, and surmised that Genius can…

I don't know Darling Violetta, but two places to start are Apocalyptica and Rasputina

Ta. Darling Violetta are the people who did the theme tune for Angel. My daughter won't let us fast-forward through the credits, she loves the music so much.

Looking here: http://www.last.fm/music/Darling+Violetta/+similar
about a third of these…

Especially when working and listening to music, I don't…

Was a bit perturbed that Apple wanted to know what I had in my system (Digital rights enforcement anyone?), although they claimed anonymity (what's the bet the terms and conditions change sometime in the future?)

Funnily enough, it won't produce Genius recommendations…

Playlists are the new mixtapes.

Weird playlist behaviour? Almost all the writers at Bardic Web have 'character' playlists – music that gets us in the right mood to write a particular character. Crazy obsessives? Why yes.

Genius sounds fabulous though. My daughter has just discovered that she likes the music…

But will I ever buy an entire album again?

Thanks to Jamendo, I may never buy an entire album again ...

the RIANZ folk would HATE me.

... and RIANZ can't touch me. The music on Jamendo is all free and perfectly legal. Some of it's quite good, too. If…