Crazy, Man

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006 12:22 am
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One of the features I most treasure about my Network Walkman is the shuffle play mode. It's got to the point where I rarely listen to an album straight through, but just have the contents (currently at about 5,000 tracks) of my walkman shuffled for my pleasure.

Tonight it seems to have themes its selections. In my head I have been to the oddest gig ever. In random selection, I have just had five consecutive live tracks featuring variously, Anglagård, The Ozric Tentacles, Curved Air, Oasis and Rod Stewart. The applause between songs merged seamlessly. Fantastic.

With a single studio interlude from Ringo (Bless him), I am back on the live tracks with another Anglagård number, Jordrök.

Fantastic.

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Date: 2006-01-24 12:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] littleonions.livejournal.com
You are just so damn prog.
Jordrok, sounds orcish for something.

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Date: 2006-01-24 01:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caddyman.livejournal.com
Well, Anglagård are Norwegian...

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Date: 2006-01-24 01:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caddyman.livejournal.com
... or Swedish. I forget right now...

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Date: 2006-01-24 01:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] littleonions.livejournal.com
Ahh silly me getting mi trollish and mi orcish mixed up.

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Date: 2006-01-25 02:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] keresaspa.livejournal.com
Spot on, the second time.

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Date: 2006-01-24 08:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com
HEEEEEEEEELP! Can anybody hear me? I've just logged in and all my entries after Jan the 13th have vanished and I can't post anything new. Anybody else having trouble (sorry for shanghai-ing your journal Bryan)

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Date: 2006-01-24 08:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caddyman.livejournal.com
It sems to have affected a number of journals...

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Date: 2006-01-24 08:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oldnick.livejournal.com
The effect of the shuffle function makes your Walkman sound like the rock version of Classic FM - I love much of the music they play there, but for 90% of the time they only play one movement at a time, or dhort pieces, and they seem to mix them more based on the time to fit between advertisement breaks, than any logical relationship between the pieces.

Don't you find that you miss the contect of pieces within the album structure?

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Date: 2006-01-24 10:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caddyman.livejournal.com
I don't think it matters as much for standard rock pieces as it does for a classical piece.

Some tracks from concept albums do tend to sound a little out of place taken in isolation, though.

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