does anybody else do this?

have allmusic as their home page and get the weekly list of releases emailed to them just so you can read through every review and determine if a new album is worth listening to, and when you do read an interesting review you type the tracklist and length of the tracks into a new notepad file and add the album's and artist's name to another notepad file titled "to-download?"

ive heard over 100 albums that have been released this year and im not even exaggerating. :H.

anybody else do this or am i just one of the geekiest music nerds on these forums?

 

i like allmusic alot, but its not my homepage, and i dont get the weekly list...but i check many music sites everyday i think 5...who knows...


except non of them update on the weekend...:/

 

nope i dont do that

 

figures. :H.

i'm sure thats one of the most loser things you've ever heard of. i've decided against hanging out with friends just so i could download music. :H.

 

No, but I'm busy updating all tags on my music and systemising the folder names even further.

Band Name with the Nouns, Verbs Etc. in Full Caps (country code of 2 or 3 letters except australia, which I spell out fully) -dash- year of release -dash- Album title with only the first word with a cap, except when it incorporates place names or personal names (including Satan, excluding jesus, because I am pure evil).

For instance

Mayhem (nor) - 1994 - De mysteriis dom Sathanas

I'm halfway down the death metal folder right now.

 

i do that, but only the artist/band name... brilliant idea with the country thing

 

to be honest, i go with an all music wikipedia combo now when im finding out about music

 

wikipedia has info on new releases?

 

I dont use allmusic as a homepage, but I regularly go to both allmusic and allmovie.com

 

never heard of "all music", but i check iTunes music store often and preview stuff tht looks interesting

 

allmusic.com is my bible, except for the bible itself.

 

reminds me of the simpsons episode in which bart procaims the Bible is the Prankster's Bible

 

You officially frighten me Chuck.

So err.. Anyway, anything good coming out soon?

 

well this past week was kind of dull, only release that interested me was Edith Frost's It's A Game though I've yet to hear it... but these last 3 to 4 weeks have been so freaking awesome; Marty Stuart, Fiona Apple, Vashti Bunyan, Animal Collective, Marah, and Merle Haggard have put out AMAZING albums, there's obviously been a lot more good albums but they've definitely released the best (that i've heard) in this past month, and also some of the best of this year.... this last month or so has just been so so awesome and exciting, musically-speaking... out of all those artists i mentioned up there, Marty Stuart's Badlands is probably the best.. probably the best-written album this year, so far.. its a concept album about the history and current life of the Lakota Indians... its very mesotheliomic, man.

wont yet find out anything about this coming week's releases til tomorrow at the latest.. probably later today though.

The Flaming Lips have a new album coming out in January, thats what I'm really looking forward to. .

 

i cant wait for the flaming lips new album!!! its been i think 4 years since Yoshimi was released...so long ago.

 

three. .

 

well it feels like 4...

 

i've only been listening to the album since july...

so its almost brand-new for me. . i imagine i'll start to get "tired" of it around january or so. :H

 

Why base your musical tastes on some random critics opinion?

I download music from FTP's and P2P, often just based on "word-of-mouth". Critics (especially those paid by, my, the music industry!) often lead toward artists in favor of cold, hard cash.

Google whatever genre of music you're looking for, and find artists of that genre that have a name that "appeals to your taste." I've found several ground-breaking indie artists (not to be confused with "indie-rock" artists, which is an industry in itself) that generally have the new, up-coming sound; not the played-out pop standard.

BTW, IPods suck. Get a non-propietary music player (Diamond) and a non-propietary service (Rhapsody...or Limewire).

 

not allmusic. pretty much every MTV artist that releases an album gets no more than 3 stars and rather harsh reviews. there are a few exceptions, but the reviewer obviously knows "good" teenpop from the bad.

and the critics arent random... there's one critic for the mtv crap, he seems to be the pop reviewer and is probably the senior reviewer at the site, S.T. Erlewine.. he's also in-depthly reviewed all of the releases by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Bob Dylan... i'm sure he knows his music.
etc etc

as have i, and then some.