Comments on: An Emotional Fish http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2005/10/27/an-emotional-fish/ First in Music Analysis Mon, 14 May 2012 15:31:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Al Kooper http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2005/10/27/an-emotional-fish/#comment-202 Al Kooper Fri, 28 Oct 2005 20:13:20 +0000 http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2005/10/27/an-emotional-fish/#comment-202 <blockquote>You can't get ANY music by the band at the iTunes Music Store. Because the iTunes Music Store is just a conventional record store in your own damn home. The iPod's cool, but the store is just a slicker Best Buy. In cahoots with the labels. Selling copy protected tracks for a buck. It's not an invitation to discovery, it's the place you go LAST, after you've found out about the cut somewhere else and can't find it P2P.</blockquote><p>I GOTTA STAND UP AND DEFEND ITUNES</p><p>It has changed my life in the last two years<br />I would have to say that playlist-wise they are giving as much space, maybe more to indie labels as XM is.<br />I have discivered AMAZING music there. I cant go to P2P because it dont pay those indie bands and Bob, I'm hearing enough great music, that I can live without "Celebrate" until you email me an MP3. But Bob, have you heard the good tracks, by Deerhoof, Unbunny, Weather, Shimmer and Hella ? I doubt it if XM is your fortress. <br />This is MY modus uuperearus: Every Wednesday I go to the new release section of iTunes and do two hours.<br />I'm fast at it now but I dont miss much.  I have a Justt Released playlist on iTunes and I pop whats appropriate in there and check it out late at night, on the road, etc. The good 'uns rise to the top....before iTunes I had no arena to hear ANY of this music in. Now I could listen to XM but WHY????? I've picked what I like and programmed my own radio station - custom-made. Very little button-pushing here. I listen to what I want. I'm the fucking deejay, dammit! And there's no commercials, annual fees and the artist gets paid. Just as an example here's my top 50 from 2004:</p><p>Flaw    Todd Rundgren</p><p>Pink Lemonade    Unbunny</p><p>Red Eyeliner    P. Hux</p><p>Save Me    Jem</p><p>Shortwave    Fastball</p><p>So Fine    Mario Winans</p><p>Crush    MaiMou</p><p>I'm a Wheel    Wilco</p><p>Better Get a Broom!    Hella</p><p>Mercury    Kathleen Edwards</p><p>Museum of Idiots    They Might Be Giants</p><p>I'm Nowhere and You're Everything    Chris Thile</p><p>Don't Wait Too Long    Madeleine Peyroux</p><p>The Nearness of You    Al Jarreau</p><p>Your Body Is a Wonderland    John Mayer</p><p>Sugar    Julia Fordham</p><p>She Has No Time    Keane</p><p>Vaseline Machine Gun    Leo Kottke</p><p>I Thought You Should Know    Steve Earle</p><p>Leave (Get Out)    JoJo</p><p>Love On Me    Paul Thorn</p><p>All the Things She Said    t.A.T.u.</p><p>Exit Wound    MaiMou</p><p>Hackensack    Fountains of Wayne</p><p>Seaweed    Fruit Bats</p><p>Biblical Violence    Hella</p><p>This Magnificent Bird Will Rise    Deerhoof</p><p>Our Prayer / Gee    Brian Wilson</p><p>Heroes & Villians    Geraint Watkins</p><p>Don't Cry Baby    Madeleine Peyroux</p><p>Strollin' On the Waterfront    Cool John Ferguson</p><p>Mink Coat At the Bus Stop    Rickie Lee Jones</p><p>Can't Stop Thinking About Christmas    Universal Honey</p><p>A Hundred and Ten In the Shade    John Fogerty</p><p>Kewpie Station    Kaki King</p><p>In the Waiting Line    Zero 7</p><p>Alan Corday    The Chick Corea Elektric Band</p><p>For the Love of You    Frayne</p><p>I Can't Make Me    Butterfly Boucher</p><p>I Know    Sarah Hudson</p><p>Just a Kid    Wilco</p><p>Man Like Me    Robert Downey Jr.</p><p>Short Stacks    The Ditty Bops</p><p>Kitty Wu    Jaga Jazzist</p><p>Walking 2 Hawaii    Tom McRae</p><p>Making Memories of Us    The Cherry Bombs</p><p>I'm Just Crazy About You    Geraint Watkins</p><p>Bri's Dance    Joey Calderazzo</p><p>Non Photo-Blue    Pinback</p><p>The One With the Wurlitzer    American Football</p><p><br />Try some - even though you wont buy some. They're probably not ALL for you but they're all for ME<br />and that makes my listening perfect and moral. I dont buy CDs anymore and I spend about a grand a year on iTunes and dont feel wanting on New Years at all!!!</p><p /><p>Al Kooper</p>

You can’t get ANY music by the band at the iTunes Music Store. Because the iTunes Music Store is just a conventional record store in your own damn home. The iPod’s cool, but the store is just a slicker Best Buy. In cahoots with the labels. Selling copy protected tracks for a buck. It’s not an invitation to discovery, it’s the place you go LAST, after you’ve found out about the cut somewhere else and can’t find it P2P.

I GOTTA STAND UP AND DEFEND ITUNES

It has changed my life in the last two years
I would have to say that playlist-wise they are giving as much space, maybe more to indie labels as XM is.
I have discivered AMAZING music there. I cant go to P2P because it dont pay those indie bands and Bob, I’m hearing enough great music, that I can live without "Celebrate" until you email me an MP3. But Bob, have you heard the good tracks, by Deerhoof, Unbunny, Weather, Shimmer and Hella ? I doubt it if XM is your fortress.
This is MY modus uuperearus: Every Wednesday I go to the new release section of iTunes and do two hours.
I’m fast at it now but I dont miss much.  I have a Justt Released playlist on iTunes and I pop whats appropriate in there and check it out late at night, on the road, etc. The good ‘uns rise to the top….before iTunes I had no arena to hear ANY of this music in. Now I could listen to XM but WHY????? I’ve picked what I like and programmed my own radio station – custom-made. Very little button-pushing here. I listen to what I want. I’m the fucking deejay, dammit! And there’s no commercials, annual fees and the artist gets paid. Just as an example here’s my top 50 from 2004:

Flaw    Todd Rundgren

Pink Lemonade    Unbunny

Red Eyeliner    P. Hux

Save Me    Jem

Shortwave    Fastball

So Fine    Mario Winans

Crush    MaiMou

I’m a Wheel    Wilco

Better Get a Broom!    Hella

Mercury    Kathleen Edwards

Museum of Idiots    They Might Be Giants

I’m Nowhere and You’re Everything    Chris Thile

Don’t Wait Too Long    Madeleine Peyroux

The Nearness of You    Al Jarreau

Your Body Is a Wonderland    John Mayer

Sugar    Julia Fordham

She Has No Time    Keane

Vaseline Machine Gun    Leo Kottke

I Thought You Should Know    Steve Earle

Leave (Get Out)    JoJo

Love On Me    Paul Thorn

All the Things She Said    t.A.T.u.

Exit Wound    MaiMou

Hackensack    Fountains of Wayne

Seaweed    Fruit Bats

Biblical Violence    Hella

This Magnificent Bird Will Rise    Deerhoof

Our Prayer / Gee    Brian Wilson

Heroes & Villians    Geraint Watkins

Don’t Cry Baby    Madeleine Peyroux

Strollin’ On the Waterfront    Cool John Ferguson

Mink Coat At the Bus Stop    Rickie Lee Jones

Can’t Stop Thinking About Christmas    Universal Honey

A Hundred and Ten In the Shade    John Fogerty

Kewpie Station    Kaki King

In the Waiting Line    Zero 7

Alan Corday    The Chick Corea Elektric Band

For the Love of You    Frayne

I Can’t Make Me    Butterfly Boucher

I Know    Sarah Hudson

Just a Kid    Wilco

Man Like Me    Robert Downey Jr.

Short Stacks    The Ditty Bops

Kitty Wu    Jaga Jazzist

Walking 2 Hawaii    Tom McRae

Making Memories of Us    The Cherry Bombs

I’m Just Crazy About You    Geraint Watkins

Bri’s Dance    Joey Calderazzo

Non Photo-Blue    Pinback

The One With the Wurlitzer    American Football

Try some – even though you wont buy some. They’re probably not ALL for you but they’re all for ME
and that makes my listening perfect and moral. I dont buy CDs anymore and I spend about a grand a year on iTunes and dont feel wanting on New Years at all!!!

Al Kooper

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