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| What you're about to read is a collection of pointers to some of the music I've discovered on the iTunes Music Store, music I like enough that I want to share it. If you're an iPod owner and an iTunes fan (and if you aren't, what are you doing here?), maybe you'll find something new. Click on any of the CD covers to bounce over to the store and sample a few tracks. And then maybe stop by my other blog for a few well chosen words (and maybe a random snark or two). | 
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Mon, 22 Nov 2004 |
| To The Moon / Monster Movie | |
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Once upon a time I worked at a dotcom-era startup that had developed
software for natural language. Type what you wanted and it would
figure out what you meant. At least that was the theory; in practice
things never worked so well. An example was a demo I did for a cell
phone company in Singapore. If somebody says they want to see "scary
movie", do they mean they want to see a movie that's scary? Or do
they mean they want to see Scary Movie? I think you see the
problem.
I mention this only because it came back to me when I saw this album by a band called Monster Movie. And I had to give them a listen, if only because of that intriguing name. So I tried track 4, a sweet instrumental called From a Distance. And then went to track 7, Good Grief. Which was exactly my reaction; were these really from the same band? So I played #9, Out of Touch, a lovely vocal that was a little like the former and not at all like the latter. And by then I was hooked. Sampling on iTMS can be frustrating. I'll try an album by some new artist and like the first track I hear. And then try a second. And I like that one too, but only because it sounds just like the first. And so on with a third, although if it sounds like the others I know I'd be bored long before the end. Three strikes is all you get. But that's not a problem with these guys. To The Moon is the most diverse collection I've ever heard from a single band. And at least in this case, that's a good thing. |
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