I don’t care that the year isn’t half through, Devin Townsend’s crowd funded Casualties of Cool is my album of the year for 2014.
Author: loserx
Scientificised!
When Kurt Cobain committed suicide in a Seattle suburb 20 years ago, the idea of the 27 Club entered the public consciousness. “I told him not to join that stupid club,” his mother said at the time of death, and the quote was subsequently picked up and distributed worldwide by the Associated Press.
2CELLOS – Highway To Hell featuring Steve Vai
Rocking. Would have preferred no percussion à la early Apocalyptica, but that’s just personal preference.
Jeff Beck Ensemble with Billy Gibbons – Sixteen Tons
That old Tennessee Ernie Ford classic updated as a techno-blues rocker.
RIP Harold Ramis
King Crimson – Starless
Live 1974
Sagisu Shirō – Eerie Blank
Not been a fan of Bleach in years (though that first arc was amazing) but with Sagisu Shirō handling the music duties you can expect some outstanding moments musically. This is one such moment, off the Memories of Nobody soundtrack.
Puddles Pity Party – You Don’t Know Me
A huge clown absolutely killing the Ray Charles classic, never mind that ridiculously good physical delivery on top of it.
Puddles Pity Party a.k.a. Big Mike Grier
Carlo Gesualdo – O Vos Omnes
Carlo Gesualdo (Venosa, 8 March 1560 — Gesualdo, 8 September 1613), also known as Gesualdo da Venosa (Gesualdo from Venosa), Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, was an Italian nobleman, lutenist, composer and murderer.
As a composer of the late Renaissance, he is remembered for writing intensely expressive madrigals and sacred music that use a chromatic language not heard again until the late 19th century.
Quintessential Music Player
5 years ago today, the last version of Quintessential Music Player was released. It was, in my opinion, the best available audio player on Windows at the time.
That was unfortunately the last gasp of a lineage going back to 1997, when in an earlier incarnation as Quintessential CD it was the best audio CD player software available. QMP together with the early P2P protocols such as Naspter and AudioGalaxy expanded my musical horizons to a breadth that would have been unimaginable without this technology.
I stuck with it till probably 2011 or so, when I picked up a Squeezebox Touch (what is it with me and music tech?). It was also around that time I assembled a new desktop PC running Windows 7 64 bit which QMP didn’t play very well with, and so ends a short but significant phase of my life.