caddyman | Downloaded Prog on Jukebox

I am listening to some downloaded music by a band called Explosions in the Sky At least I think that's what they're called. There should be an international convention on writing MP3 tags.

Anyway, they're pretty good and cost me nothing, courtesy

romney and his broadband access to the Usenet. I'm not entirely sure that they're good headphones material since a couple of tracks are mixed on the left with nothing on the right for long periods of time (it's clearly deliberate) and I hate that; it makes your head feel heavily lop-sided while listening. The odd squeak in the other speaker would lose that effect. Whoever ripped it had the levels up a bit high, too, since there's some annoying distortion; I may have to look them up and do the decent thing (by which I mean find and purchase the album, not hunt down the ripper, like the dog he undoubtedly is)..

Indeed, a cursory search of google (what would we do without ye...?) reveals them to be a Texan band from Austin. It seems that I may be flogging a dead horse in attempting to buy this album, which I now discover has the beguiling title, How Strange, Innocence. It seems that the distortion may be more to do with wayward production techniques rather than one man and the jolly roger.

I move now, to a band called Puppet Show, and the album Traumatized....

Mmm. Pretentious, incomprehensible lyrics and an inability to stay away from weather sound effects. Lead singer a bit like Gabriel in the early days. Plus ca change...

I have to get broadband.