2009 top ten lists. please stop it.

Please I don't know who Is reading this but whenever I read a list of top ten or best albums of the year, it really diminishes something. Things should just be what they are. For example, this was the funniest joke of 2009... and now anything I type here can NOT be funny.

Stop it please.

I find the 1-10 ratings amusing cause its so stupid. But please keep doing this because it adds something like a new I-also-like-this-cause-my-parents-hate-this feeling to the songs that get low scores. Except you're not my parents. You are some random person on the internet who I can say or think anything about without consequences. And isn't that what the internet is all about?

more topics no one cares about. tape vs. CD

listen im not gonna tell you cassette is better than CD, CD has obvious advantages of adding no extra noise or change in the frequency spectrum. my boombox will not play CDs past 50% volume else it skips... tapes can go full volume. home recording on portatudios is a different story. the upper level portastudios go at double normal cassette speed, (and hopefully theres a pitch control you can go an extra 16% faster) which sounds beautiful. which begs the question why did they chose to make the official cassette tape speed so low? There are cassette tapes widely available that hold 90mins, and even 120mins at "normal" speed whereas most officially released albums barely clock in at 45, (42mins for most the good ones ive noticed). They couldve run doubl the speed they chose and actually had a competition for vinyl. then again who cares?

in case you are not sick of him yet

click his face for exp etc's uploads of like 30 or 40 of his albums.

Kurt Cobain in Spin, October 1993. “A Jandek record is next. On the cover there’s a very blurry photo of a man sitting in a lawnchair. ‘He’s not pretentious,’ Cobain says, ‘but only pretentious people like his music.’” http://tisue.net/jandek/
its as though the jandek guide website is proud of the quote but then again you have to consider how cobain always pitted himself against the magazines. just two years previous to the interview spin magazine named jandek as one of the top ten on "the most important artists of the 80s" in one of their infamous 1-100 rankings. The media really found the general disrespect cute, remember cobain on the rolling stone?

good god. check out this music blog roll...

go to http://thethingonthedoorstep.blogspot.com/ and check the sidebar for all the links.

snotty opinion alert: tone matrix synth

matrix synths are a somewhat recent fad, youve probably seen one it looks like this, you press the black squares to make em white and whala sudenly youre a minimalist composer. theres a few brands of physical controllers available at music stores. and I HATE THEM. its HATE. it fails in so many ways. its like combining a super limited sequencer environment and limiting that to loops only. its not that i take music so serious but i can think of five music toys that are a lot more fun that this. lets go.
1) kaossilator.... its a pocket kaoss pad with built in looper and headphone jack. actually makes some pretty crucial noise beats and was available two christmasses ago so i bet its out there on the used market
2)yak-baks member those things? i freakin loved the pitch changer and reverser effects also not having to answer yes-or-no questions
3)LSDJ you can probably steal this on the internet by now right? 8bit tone generators with a full equencer. its less of a toy really youll need a day or two to figure out how to program it but yeh.. you play it on gameboy or a gameboy emulator.
4)one of those voice morphers i had one with a playskool tape recorder you could choose alien robot robot two woman man child. it was awesome. i bet theres a lot of other versions out there.
5and finally the HOBNOX audiotool which is free (and actually has a tone matrix inside it haha) has a tr808 drum machine simulator eh?


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