Wednesday
Oct222008
My 80's flashback
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 at 01:03PM
Today I'm a little uninspired and I have a TON of rambling thoughts (should I go to the gym, is Jango getting better, what will we do for my Dad's birthday this weekend, how in the world will I find time to come up with a Halloween costume, why is my mac book pro so damn slow, will Obama win). Yeah, a lot of thoughts whirling in my head.
Then, I finally settled in for a trip through 80's music that made my afternoon bearable.
Let me backtrack. Yesterday I started using a new music service called LaLa and so far I really like it. I'm realizing that it's biggest service is its use as a digital storage locker. I'm still uploading tunes, so I haven't explored that part of the service to its full extent.
Basically, you can listen to A LOT of tunes for free (they estimate 6 million full-tracks) and you can play *your* music, anywhere on the web. But LaLa is not the point of this post.
I did a search for Duran Duran and found a list of similar artists, resulting in a afternoon sample that went something like this:
Duran Duran - "New Moon on Monday"
Nik Kershaw - "Wouldn't it be Good"
Spandau Ballet - "True"
Thompson Twins - "Lies"
Tears For Fears - "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"
I had thoughts of hair spray, perms, neon, gel shoes, cassette tapes, Atari, and all the low-tech stuff we had back then. Good times.
What are some of your favorite 80's songs?
Then, I finally settled in for a trip through 80's music that made my afternoon bearable.
Let me backtrack. Yesterday I started using a new music service called LaLa and so far I really like it. I'm realizing that it's biggest service is its use as a digital storage locker. I'm still uploading tunes, so I haven't explored that part of the service to its full extent.
Basically, you can listen to A LOT of tunes for free (they estimate 6 million full-tracks) and you can play *your* music, anywhere on the web. But LaLa is not the point of this post.
I did a search for Duran Duran and found a list of similar artists, resulting in a afternoon sample that went something like this:
Duran Duran - "New Moon on Monday"
Nik Kershaw - "Wouldn't it be Good"
Spandau Ballet - "True"
Thompson Twins - "Lies"
Tears For Fears - "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"
I had thoughts of hair spray, perms, neon, gel shoes, cassette tapes, Atari, and all the low-tech stuff we had back then. Good times.
What are some of your favorite 80's songs?
Reader Comments (10)
Ok, I'm finally trying out LaLa. How do you share those little graphic widget versions of songs?
Ohhh, those are grooveshark widgets instead of LaLa ones. Ok. Well, I'll build a 80's playlist with my free credits. ;)
Yeah, I chose to embed using grooveshark. But there are embed links all over LaLa. I just didn't try them out yet.
great selection!! I'm listening to "Wouldn't it be good", that's a personal favorite, reminds me of those great brat pack movies, and I would have problems naming my favorite 80's songs, because basically I listened and enjoyed everything back then... but I can mention Power Station's "Some like it Hot", Arcadia's "Good bye is Forever", TFF's "Shout", INXS's "Need you tonight"... I heard those on Grooveshark yesterday... =)
omg i absolutely love me some duran duran! just ask my sisters or my roomies. i would like to add a suggestion for a follow up 80s post. have you ever herd josie cotton (johnny are you queer, schools in) or taco (puttin on the ritz)? there pretty rad. i actually own the valley girls sound track. lol thanks for the post.
la la problems unveiled
wont play DRM songs so lots of iTunes purchased stuff is hosed
wont read small files or partials
seems to not like reading anything encoded at any quality level
craps out on reading my xml file for my 2TB of mp3s :-)
only allows you to hear stuff from your collection online anywhere that matches their catalog sooooo some of us with more eclectic taste are in trouble cause you can only listen to songs you don't own or buy once (tease!)
They actually sell some of the music on my small label and they haven't paid me at all yet for streams or purchases so we shall see
Alan - Good points. By no means do I think its a perfect service, but I still think it's worth a shot. Good luck on getting paid. Too bad I can't scrobble what I listen to on LaLa.
Phatemokid - I don't know Josie-Cotton. I''ll have to look her? up. And of course I know Taco!
tomiwk - I wish I would've thought of "Some like it hot". Thanks for the reminder!
give pandora a try if you havent it rocks
Stupid not-living-in-the-US-me... i don't get to try Lala :(
The Riddle by Nik Kershaw was amazing....
King for a Day by Thompson Twins
Take on Me by Aha
I Ran by Flock of Seagulls
Good good times :)
I think you and me are exactly the same age... scary huh?
Alan, please do not leave your iTunes tracks in their restricted format. When you convert them to mp3 you will not only be helping yourself out of their system, now you will be able to listen to those tracks on LaLa. Also, maybe it will help iTunes realize what the rest of the music world is awakening to - DRM is going the way of the dodo. Course, as a label owner, maybe that is the opposite of your thinking?