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What a time to be alive...
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03/31/05 10:30 AM EST
posted by JER email web |
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I've just returned from Fiji with a useless iPod (the screen is completely blank, but everything else still works) & find that a whole slew of new music is due out soon. Time to set aside some of that wedding cash for some trivial CD purchases instead of plates & silverware...
May 10
Weezer - Make Believe
The first single, 'Beverly Hills', is currently #1 on iTunes. I haven't heard much about what to expect from the rest of the album, but if it follows their current pattern of bubblegum -- goodalbum -- bubblegum -- goodalbum, we're due for some bubblegum. I thought their most recent effort, Maladroit, was far superior to The Green Album in both substance & style. It was panned by critics, though, much the way that their 2nd album, Pinkerton, was reamed after its release. Pinkerton is now considered by many to be Weezer's best album, though, so perhaps Maladroit will eventually gain some respect.
May 30
Oasis - Don't Believe The Truth
I've loved just about everything these guys have ever done, with the exception of 'Shakermaker' (it literally is the Coca-Cola song "I'd like to teach the world to sing") & 'Digsy's Dinner', so this is the one I'm most excited about. I've already got the leaked MP3 of the first single 'Lyla.' Many Oasis songs have a familiar feel, and this one is no different -- it sounds a lot like the Rolling Stones song 'Street Fighting Man'.
Noel Gallagher's hype is always a must-read, so I encourage you to click the link to his track-by-track breakdown of the album. He describes "A Bell Will Ring" as "Elvis on Red Bull."
Another plus: Unlike the latest Travis & Radiohead CDs, none of these songs seem to be anti-Bush.
June 6
Coldplay - X & Y
Critics and fans loved their previous album ('A Rush of Blood to the Head') so much that it's hard to imagine this one will meet expectations. Chris Martin has been building hype for a few months with his "it's the best material we've ever done" talk, but he also said that Coldplay might retire after 'Rush of Blood' because they'd never top it.
As Jasper said after awakening from his cryogenic slumber in Apu's frozen food section:
'Moon pies' ... what a time to be alive.
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I believe the iPod you came back with is called a "Shuffle".
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Good call, Doug2. Now that the screen is dead, the only thing I know how to get to is the "Shuffle Songs" link, which is one from the bottom. So I hold menu & select to do a reset, wait for it to power up, scroll clockwise like crazy, scroll one tick counterclock-wise and finally hit the select button to shuffle.
And I've researched this problem on the net to find that many other iPod users have the same problem & Apple's response is identical to their dead battery fix: "Send us your iPod, we'll fix it and send it back." |
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| Have you tried rebooting it? Wendy took hers to Vegas two weeks ago and on the flight over all of the music disappeared. She could do anything else, just no music. There is a way to reboot by holding a couple of things all at once. When she did this, a reboot brough all of the music that was on it back. Very odd. |
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03/31/05 11:38 PM EST
posted by Mark |
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| I seriously wouldn't trust anything called an "Ipod." Sounds pretty queer to me. |
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| Mark, this is Mr. "You bring the gay, I'll bring the lube" we're talking about here. |
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I try to start a nice conversation about music & it devolves to gay jokes. Nice work, gays, nice work.
And yes, alex, holding menu & select reboots it. Usually a big black apple appears on screen & then it loads up. When I do it now, I see nothing, but after a few seconds it clicks when I move the wheel, meaning it has returned to the opening screen w/ the default factory settings (scroll sounds are enabled by default). |
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| Hrm, that sucks, I think it's time to Wife it and get a new one. |
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| Add one more to the pile: Billy Corgan's debut solo album comes out in June! |
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| Coldplay's new album cover is hideous. Am I missing some deeper meaning in that blocky artwork that relates to "X & Y"? |
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| Now that I've bought tickets to see Oasis in Philly this June, they just announced they're coming to Merriweather... D'oh... I don't know how Michelle's going to handle that much Oasis. |
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Ah, finally Yahoo's Launch music shows a video that's not Britney or rap-related. "Lyla" rocks...
http://music.yahoo.com/ar-259327---Oasis |
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04/18/05 10:05 PM EST
posted by nate web |
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| I finally heard the new Weezer song a week or two back. The thing was, I liked it but I didn't know it was Weezer. Was it just me or did anyone else think that it was Eve 6? |
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