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[pmcd9]

Speaking of Radiohead covers, though, I highly recommend Christopher O'Reilly's album of piano arrangements of Radiohead songs.  They're good "work music" too.

Yeah, that's some good shit.  Christopher O'Reilly host a show on NPR called From the Top which features young performers.  It's a really good show.  He's played some Radiohead on there before.

~Paul

[Carlos del Vaca]

Is there a plug-in for my car stereo?  Cuz that's where I listen to music the most.

[jough]

And then sometime yesterday last.fm just stopped updating everything but my most recently played tracks.

Oh well.  I really don't know what I'll actually use last.fm for, other than letting other people look at what I'm listening to, for whatever need that fulfills in their lives.

[Gimpson]

Is there a plug-in for my car stereo?  Cuz that's where I listen to music the most.

Speaking of which, now that I'm hooked on my ipod, I'm bothered that I can't listen in my car.  Does anybody have any experience with any of the ipod radio transmitters?  I've heard that they don't work well, but there are so many of them out there I have to think that there's at least one that works well. 

[Gimpson]

Oh well.  I really don't know what I'll actually use last.fm for, other than letting other people look at what I'm listening to, for whatever need that fulfills in their lives.

I found listening to their friends radio station pretty enjoyable.  I heard some stuff that I wasn't familiar with, and it was all pretty decent.   Also, I am a stats junkie.

[jough]

We've discussed this, although I'm too lazy to look it up.

If you live in a city, forget about radio transmitters.  They'll never work, and the radio station that keeps buzzing through your songs will annoy you to no end.

What works best are those cassette adapters, unless of course you have a CD player and no cassette in your car.

A lot of newer head units have line-in jacks that work well, too, and there are other iPod car products.  You could probably buy one per day and not run out of new ones to buy for well over a year.

[pmcd9]

We've discussed this, although I'm too lazy to look it up.

It started Here and ended with me hitting a deer.

~Paul

[Carlos del Vaca]

I finally got the so-called iPlug installed in my car stereo.  Can listen to the MP3 player in the car now.  Pretty cool.

[CortJstr]

And then sometime yesterday last.fm just stopped updating everything but my most recently played tracks.

Oh well.  I really don't know what I'll actually use last.fm for, other than letting other people look at what I'm listening to, for whatever need that fulfills in their lives.

In the forum there's an admin post saying there's a backup while they get a new server up and online. Submissions are being recorded but charts are behind in updating. As always, subscribers get priority.

As for Jough's iPod -> car ideas I agree. The easiest and cheapest option is to use an old cassette adapter leftover from an old discman. Or you get get a special adapter from Belkin that plugs into your lighter to charge at the same time.

Next up would be a car stereo with a line-in jack.

Finally a stereo with full iPod support. I got one of these and honestly I'd wish I'd gone the line-in route instead. Unless you get the super top-of-the-line touch-screen faces the interface is just going to be clunky which defeats part of the purpose of an iPod. Plus now I'm locked it since I can't exactly plug a Diamond Rio into it.

[CortJstr]

I found listening to their friends radio station pretty enjoyable.  I heard some stuff that I wasn't familiar with, and it was all pretty decent.   Also, I am a stats junkie.

Have you tried any of the last.fm scripts for Greasemonkey (assuming you use Firefox)?
Last.fm play statistics! will display tracks/week /hour and /day in any users sidebar.
Last.fm Chart Changes will show the changes for each entry on your weekly and overall charts.
And Last.fm Percentage will show what percentage of your overall plays each artist/track makes up to one decimal place. Although I had to edit that last one, because otherwise it rounds anything under 0.1% up to 0.1 so I made it ignore anything under 0.5%

[Thee]

I didn't bother to read the 6 or whatever pages of what people are listening to because it's all crap anyway.


Neil Young's "Are You Passionate?" is in heavy rotation right now.  SO cheesy and yet so earnest at the same time.  I think Neil has something wrong in his head.

Bob Dylan's Nashville Skyline.

New Coat of Paint, which is a Tom Waits tribute.  Has Screamin' Jay Hawkins on it.  There is no devil, only god when he's drunk.

And Blood Brothers - "Crimes"

just to prove I am still with it

[robot_god]

Greatest music I discovered only last week:  Derek Trucks Band.

I downloaded the lastest release, Songlines.  I always thought he was just a blues player, but the album has all sorts of interesting things going on.  Instrumental guitar rock, spiritual/soul, world music influences.  Good album.

[miles]

So I got the new Built to Spill record in the mail today, and I couldn't be more pleased.  Obvious highlights are 'Goin' Against Your Mind' and 'Conventional Wisdom' (the two new songs featured on the band's myspace site), but I'm excited to finally get a decent recording of long-time personal favorite 'Just a Habit,' so that may be the highlight for me.  'Wherever You Go' seems to me a decent nod to Neil Young and 'Gone' is quickly growing on me.

It's not my favorite BtS record--not even close--but I like it better than Ancient Melodies of the Future, and it's a nice addition to Doug's discography.  And it's just so fuck*ng nice to get a new one after five long years.  Really excited for the upcoming tour.

Neil Young's "Are You Passionate?" is in heavy rotation right now.  SO cheesy and yet so earnest at the same time.  I think Neil has something wrong in his head.

Clearly.  I saw him on The Daily Show not too long ago, and I was biting my nails the entire time.  He did OK though.  And have you seen "The Last Waltz," that Scorsese concert film about The Band?  His performance of 'Helpless' is gorgeous, but he has these crazy stares and facial expressions which create an unsettling stage presence.  I think it somehow added to the performance.

[pmcd9]

Neil Young's "Are You Passionate?" is in heavy rotation right now.  SO cheesy and yet so earnest at the same time.  I think Neil has something wrong in his head.

Clearly.  I saw him on The Daily Show not too long ago, and I was biting my nails the entire time.  He did OK though.  And have you seen "The Last Waltz," that Scorsese concert film about The Band?  His performance of 'Helpless' is gorgeous, but he has these crazy stares and facial expressions which create an unsettling stage presence.  I think it somehow added to the performance.

Prarie Wind, his latest, is fuck*ng great.  He goes deep.  It was recorded between the time he was diagnosed with an aA-CAPrism and the time he had his surgery.  I haven't heard are you passionate yet, but I think i'm going to Amazon.com right fuck*ng now.  What is it, his 50th. album? or something, and he's still cranking out gold.

~Paul

[AugustWest]

What Paul said.

Also, The Last Waltz is the greatest concert movie evar.  If you have not seen it, rent it, or at least listen to the soundtrack.