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The Daily Loper – October 3, 2008

October 3, 2008 by Lopy

I Don’t Even Know What Animal It’s From Edition

Todays links of interest:

  • What’s Who Doing There?
    What are you doing here?
  • 2008 Ig Nobels honor best, weirdest scientific research
    Some of these findings are obviously very very important.
  • Copyright board leaves rates unchanged, iTunes lives for another day
    Well, we all know that iTunes wasn’t really going anywhere anyways.
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23 Musical Moments to Die For

October 3, 2008 by Jim Connelly

James Brown, The Godfather of Soul!!You can talk about genres, artists, albums, or even songs, but sometimes what keeps us coming back to music is the discovery of the transcendent musical moment. For me, “the moment” is the part of the song that fully and utterly engages me; the reason that I keep coming back to it.

I’m not necessarily talking about hooks here, because the purpose of a hook is the draw you into a song. I’m really talking more about traps: the part of a song that that keeps you there.

The is the third in a series. The first one had 25, the second one has 24, this one has 23.

Every single moment I’ve listed below kills me single every time I hear it.

Oh, and this isn’t in any kind of order, despite the numbering.

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Filed Under: Music, Musical Moments To Die For, That's What I Like Tagged With: Ambulance LTD, Bangles, Boston, Hole, Husker Du, James Brown, Jesus and Mary Chain, Mekons, Sonic Youth, The Church, The Who, White Stripes

23 Musical Moments to Die For, Part 2

October 3, 2008 by Jim Connelly

NOTE: Because of a godsdammed bug between Flash and Firefox for Windows, I’ve had to break this up into two parts in order for the players to work for those with that particular configuration. Stupid internets.

If you’re running Firefox and get stuck on “buffering,” restarting your browser should work.

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Filed Under: Music, That's What I Like Tagged With: Beach Boys, Camper Van Beethoven, Cheap Trick, Jeff Tweedy, Los Campesinos, Neil Young, Robyn Hitchcock, The Brains, The Byrds, Tommy Stinson

The Daily Loper – October 2, 2008

October 2, 2008 by Lopy

I’m Not Going to Answer Any of Your Questions Edition

Todays links of interest:

  • IPhone Steals Lead Over Kindle
    In eBook reading that is. Although Kindle still holds a substantial lead in available content.
  • Copyright board leaves royalty rate unchanged
    Thereby making Apple and others very happy.
  • TBS: The anti-Fox
    Here’s an idea: no more postseason Baseball on FOX. Ever.
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The Daily Loper – October 1, 2008

October 1, 2008 by Lopy

Man, We Make Our Own Movies Edition

Todays links of interest:

  • Apple drops NDA for iPhone developers
    Great news! This can only help to improve the quality of iPhone Apps.
  • RealNetworks, MPAA in a cage match over RealDVD
    We’re rooting for RealNetworks, as the MPAA begin to make all of the same exact mistakes that the RIAA are still making. That despite the fact that the experiences of watching a film and listening to a song are vastly different. As always, the issue is C-O-N-Control.
  • ‘Orphan Works’ Copyright Law Dies Quiet Death
    Apparently something called a "economic crisis" takes precedence.
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Why I Won’t Miss iTunes

October 1, 2008 by Jim Connelly

So here’s the deal: The National Music Publisher’s Association has said that they want to increase the royalty rate for each legal download from $0.09 to $0.15 per song. Apple has responded by threatening to shut down iTunes.

I assume that “iTunes” means “iTunes Music Store,” and this has nothing to do the the TV Shows, Films and Applications that also go through iTunes, because, well, that would just be stupid.

I’m not here to argue the merits of what one side will say is only a six cent increase and the other side will say is a 66% increase, nor am I going to point out that this is Apple’s way of saying that if they don’t continue to get exactly what they want, they’re going to take their ball and go home.

But I will say this: if the iTunes Music Store went away tomorrow, it wouldn’t even be a blip on my radar.

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Filed Under: Actual Mileage, Amazon, Apple, DRM, iTunes, Music, The Long Tail Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, emusic, iPod, iTunes, Rhapsody

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  • Certain Songs #2696: that dog. – “hawthorne”
  • Certain Songs #2695: that dog. – “long island”
  • Certain Songs #2694: that dog. – “minneapolis”

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