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rs and suddenly i miss blogging i rarely tweet i facebook a bit but don t find it conducive to and kind of in depth discussion i want to write longer messages and frankly not really worry whether i m flooding anyone s feed if you want to follow follow if you stumble across a post that interests you cool say something i ll try to find the time to restart the trek books website too the star trek the fall novels have been pretty damn enjoyable so far so maybe i can get excited about star trek again this isn t just a music blog any more though no doubt i ll go on about music occasionally oh and i ll try to make this and lj mutual mirrors no need to follow both and speaking of record stores april 3 2010 posted by sjroby in life in general music add a comment various artists steppas delight 2 i was in toronto a month ago i used to love going to the big record stores in toronto the sam s and a a on yonge originally and then the tower records down the street because ottawa didn t really have anything that could compare for sheer size and selection well sam s a a and tower are all gone and the last major chain standing hmv has a big store where sam s used to be so i went into hmv and it had a lot of stuff but not much of what i was looking for i was hoping to find among other things dubstep allstars volume 7 but settled for the second steppas delight compilation anyway getting to the point at last there was a security guard at the entrance it seemed ironic record stores are going out of business because some people are stealing music from the comfort of their own homes and people are still shoplifting physical cds another record store gone march 14 2010 posted by sjroby in life in general music add a comment various artists skull disco soundboy punishments purchased at sounds unlikely in june 2007 i don t know how long ago it happened but sounds unlikely an ottawa record cd store that opened in 2007 following the closing of the somewhat similarly oriented and much missed organised sound went out of business i went there fairly often for a while not least because they were the only store i knew of where i might reasonably expect to find some dubstep albums i figured i d be spending a lot of time and money there and then i lost my job in the seven or eight months between my first visit to sounds unlikely and my last day at telesat i bought 14 albums there in the two years since losing my job only 10 albums and i was surprised to see that the last thing i bought there i got last july because i know i ve been there a few times since then but i also know that i went a few times eager to buy something and found precious little that was new in the store there were staff changes and less of the kind of stuff i was interested in was showing up the last dubstep cds i bought there i bought in august of 2008 but there didn t seem to be much else that was new and i rarely saw other customers or the friendly chatty staff who used to be there and the myspace updates about new stock and in store events stopped coming a long time ago too i sometimes blame myself for buying mp3s from emusic and cds from online retailers because we still need record stores for finding the things we didn t know we needed a record store s sound system may introduce you to some of your favourite albums a knowledgeable employee may let you know that if you like this you should try that plus hell it s good to get out of the house sometimes but i can only do so much laura said you only bought two dozen cds there in just over two years in addition to all the other cds you got everywhere else most people don t buy that many cds period and didn t even when people did buy cds so farewell to sounds unlikely and thanks for letting me buy cds by cyrus random trio ulrich schnauss githead burial boxcutter pinch disrupt these new puritans grievous angel wire dusk and blackdown and cadence weapon and a lot of compilations my final purchase being the soul jazz records double cd dancehall the rise of jamaican dancehall culture in memory of sounds unlikely end hits organised sound record runner spinables records on wheels shake records and all the other places we ve lost over the years and good luck to compact music birdman sound cd warehouse and the rest that are still going if i can get more financially secure i ll do my bit to make sure you are listening september 23 2009 posted by sjroby in life in general music tags emusic add a comment telepathe dance mother at the emusic bulletin board one regular user announced that he was leaving not because of the changes at emusic but because he has too much music he never listens to and emusic s subscription model just makes that problem worse i m not going to quit emusic any time soon i hope but i can see his point i ve downloaded two albums and an ep from emusic today telepathe and tv on the radio i m halfway through listening to one album haven t listened to the others yet and if i give into the strong temptation to go have some coffee and something to eat i may get caught up in doing something else and not get around to the other stuff i downloaded and then i may forget about it i downloaded the new maximo park and julian plenti albums a few days ago i don t think i ve listened to either one all the way through yet i know i listened to the new lavay smith all the way through once or twice the new sally shapiro two or three times the new robin guthrie and the xx half a dozen or a dozen times probably robert hampson a few minutes of it andrew liles most of it once though i liked it a lot as great as it is to be able to access so much music so quickly and easily and relatively inexpensively as great as it is to hear about an interesting new band or genre and be able to hear some of it right away it s breadth at the expense of depth downloads from emusic don t come with liner notes or lyric sheets that old experience of opening a record or cd and putting it on the stereo then settling back with the sleeve jewel box whatever to read through while listening to the music doesn t happen so often now it s more about downloading something while doing something else on the pc listening to it for a little while until there s something else to do and maybe getting back to it i do sometimes listen to something while googling for reviews and articles about it but my interaction with the music and the material i m reading is more active less immersive i like getting to know an album getting to the point where as one song ends i m hearing the beginning of the next before it actually starts playing having songs pop up in my mind at times when i m not listening to music not that long ago i came across a reference to a guitar solo in a particular david bowie song how did that solo go again i basically played the whole song in my head from memory oh yeah that solo but that song is on an album i bought when i only had a few dozen records and it s one i still love so i ve heard it a lot of times i can t do that with anything from the last several years the downside to that familiarity is that sometimes the music has made such well worn grooves in my memory that the album plays through and never really grabs my attention it s over before i notice it that s why i sometimes like using shuffle or listening to alternate versions of old favourites live peel sessions demos etc i actually hear everything again i guess that s part of the point of this blog that no one reads it s about reminding me to listen closely to music to think about it to value it the beatles rock band 2009 september 12 2009 posted by sjroby in life in general music tags beatles rock band xbox add a comment the beatles rock band my wife laura decided to buy this game the other day and we ve played a fair bit of it looking at it as an example of musical video games it feels a lot easier to play on medium difficulty than the other rock band and guitar hero games we ve played and the main storyline doesn t take a heck of a long time to get through we suspect that this is because a lot of people who ve never played one of these games before are going to pick this one up for the beatles angle and no one wants the newbies to give up frustrated visually it s very striking and there s a good selection of songs as for the beatlesness of it we don t have a lot of beatles stuff in this house because for a very long time i soaked up the beatles from so many different directions cartoons radio friends albums etc that it just didn t seem necessary to actually own any of it if anything i wanted to avoid the beatles but hearing them in the game having to pay more attention to the songs almost makes me want to go out and buy some cds some of the old familiar songs sound fresh and fun and some that weren t quite as familiar the ones i d heard but couldn t instantly place from reading the titles e g and your bird can sing if i needed someone sound almost revelatory having listened to so much other music over the years i can hear connections to other bands and other songs i might not have made before which is not to say there aren t some duds a lot of the late beatles songs played in the last level or two of the game sound like self indulgent jams rather than well crafted songs i don t think i ll ever develop any kind of appreciation for i ve got a feeling for example in fact most of the songs from the last level the rooftop concert left me thinking the beatles should have broken up a bit earlier overall it s a fun introduction to the music of the beatles combined with a simplified and streamlined look at their career i d kind of like to see the game get opened up a little to include some solo material by the various ex beatles but i really doubt that will happen canada day listening july 2 2009 posted by sjroby in canadian content life in general music add a comment so yesterday was canada day and as usual i listened to some canadian music this time around vancougar canadian tuxedo metric live it out cadence weapon breaking kayfabe nadja when i see the sun always shines on tv caribou andorra one of the first times i thought about music in terms of where it was from was probably when we got the k tel compilation album canadian mint back in the early 70s there were some big hits and a few names that looking at the track listing now bring back no memories at all from that album or anywhere else it kind of became important when i got into punk and new wave it was cool and exciting that bands like d o a and the pointed sticks were not only canadian bands making vital new music they were doing it on small canadian labels hell some of my friends in high school did the same thing the malibu kens some of whom went on to become jr gone wild and in my show going days i preferred going to clubs to see bands which often meant local or canadian indie bands though i saw a few on campus at university too bands i ve seen that other canadian indie fans might recognize would include teenage head blue peter skinny puppy grapes of wrath moev the 39 steps jerry jerry and the sons of rhythm orchestra d o a the asexuals snfu lava hay rose chronicles sarah mclachlan jale the darkest of the hillside thickets the real mckenzies etc and i still love canadian music the albums mentioned above are all recent canadian content controversies aside in a country of 30 million people it shouldn t be surprising that there are a lot of worthwhile musicians and bands 20 albums that shaped my life february 26 2009 posted by sjroby in canadian content life in general music tags brian eno burial cocteau twins david bowie joy division jr gone wild kate bush wire add a comment kate bush the kick inside canadian lp cover inspired by kevin and allyn and geoff list the first favorite albums that come to your mind this is not a list of music you feel is of critical importance or value by noting the ones that come to mind first you should get a picture of the music that shaped your life in your formative years i know i m going to forget things and want to change things but here goes this is in roughly the order i encountered these albums 1 electric light orchestra out of the blue one of the first proper albums i ever got and the first by a band that i was fairly obsessed by for a year or two getting several more of their albums it was probably the combination of catchy pop prog rock and roll and the occasional synth that intrigued me 2 kate bush the kick inside it was a while before i got the album and not just the 45 of wuthering heights but it was the beginning of a lifelong love for the distinctive and groundbreaking music of kate bush it can beautiful or weird or both at the same time there was nothing else like it at the time and by the end of 1979 this and the next album very different though it may be helped set the course for my taste in music 3 sex pistols never mind the bollocks here s the sex pistols i didn t like the sex pistols when i first heard them being too fond of the over the top production of artists like elo queen and alan parsons project to like anything this raw and harsh it took the more smoothed off edges of new wave to lead me into the less compromising punk sound once it clicked i realized it was nothing more or less than rock and roll in its purest form my favourite punk rock is generally the first wave of late 70s uk punk but there are still bands doing fresh new takes on the sound they re just not the ones you ve heard of 4 david bowie stage my first bowie lp sort of a stepping stone from the vaguely proggy rock i liked to the stranger end of new wave this was a concert album from the time of bowie s heroes album from station to station through scary monsters is my fave run of bowie albums though there s plenty of great stuff before and after that era this was probably one of my first eno related experiences too 5 gary numan and tubeway army replicas mixing punk new wave with synthesizers alienation and the science fiction of jg ballard and philip k dick numan created an album that was influential in its own right but also brought to my attention the band he happily admitted was his top influence ultravox ultravox and its founder john foxx have since eclipsed my interest in numan to a considerable extent but this is still a fine album and i might have taken longer to discover ultravox without it 6 brian eno music for films heard it playing in a record store sparse eerie instrumental electronic music a million miles away from the usual more florid electronic music of the time plus he got bonus points for working with roxy music david bowie devo etc etc i ve got lots of his albums love most of them but this is still my fave 7 wire 154 former punk band demonstrating just how far this whole new wave postpunk thing could go a masterpiece by a great band i ve already blathered about here 8 joy division closer the first album unknown pleasures didn t click with me when i first heard it this did and then so did unknown pleasures a...