Showing posts with label songs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label songs. Show all posts

Monday, October 26, 2009

Bob Dylan Still Going Strong



" Bob Dylan's return to Berkeley, where he played one of his first electric shows with the Hawks more than four decades ago, clearly meant a great deal to Saturday's standing-room-only audience at the Greek Theatre. Where else were you going to find more people whose lives are so wholly entwined with the 68-year-old folk singer's songs of politics and personal liberation than in the city that gave the world both the Free Speech Movement and backyard hot tubs? But for Dylan, who has..." (Read more)




He's a work a holic, that Dylan. Anybody who plays that much music for that long is all right with me. A lot of people are influenced by this man...




FBLJ



Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Pandora's Box Of Confusion


"On first listen, some things grab you for their off-kilter novelty. Like the story of a company that has hired a bunch of “musicologists,” who sit at computers and listen to songs, one at a time, rating them element by element, separating out what sometimes comes to hundreds of data points for a three-minute tune. The company, an Internet radio service called Pandora, is convinced that by pouring this information through a computer into an algorithm, it can guide you, the listener, to music that you like. The premise is that your favorite songs can be stripped to parts and reverse-engineered..." (more)

Sounds more like Pandora's box...
Hmmmph....how about just playin' the damn song, listening and forming an opinion of your very own?

Try this box!



FBLJ