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I wonder what the most popular song title is. Purple Monkey Dishwasher? ![]() # Posted in the General section and tagged as: Music Comments (0) | Add Comment Friday, February 22, 2008The Sound of Windows# Posted by Joel Dixon at 22/02/2008 23:54:31Found this gem on a technical blog I subscribe to: The Sound of Windows A musical treat made only from the system sounds found in Windows 98 and XP. Sure, it isn't very long (though there is an extended version if you follow the link to YouTube) - but I thought it sounded neat enough to share. # Posted in the General section and tagged as: Music Comments (0) | Add Comment Tuesday, November 01, 2005iTunes Store in Australia - finally!# Posted by Joel Dixon at 01/11/2005 02:40:00Just a few days ago, Apple finally opened their iTunes store for us Australians (albiet without offerings from Sony BMG). I must say I'm very happy with this - and the timing is excellent. I'm also extremely relieved that I never ended up buying an iPod Nano like I had wanted, due to the new iPod's video capability that I would have missed out on. I'm only buying songs as I think of them (and I had a quick browse through the Triple J Hottest 100 list for suggestions). Here's what I've purchased so far: Luxo Jr. (Pixar's first film produced) Asshole - Denis Leary Be Yourself - Audioslave Believe - Lenny Kravitz Blue Monday - Orgy Deeper Water - Deadstar Easy - Faith No More Laura - Scissor Sisters Longview - Green Day Music Sounds Better With You - Stardust Not The Same - Bodyjar Plush - Stone Temple Pilots Sour Girl - Stone Temple Pilots Take Your Mama - Scissor Sisters Teardrop - Massive Attack When I Come Around - Green Day Your Woman - White Town I'm really hanging out for Sony BMG to get on board though - so I can finally purchase Outkast's Bombs over Baghdad. # Posted in the General section and tagged as: Music Comments (5) | Add Comment Monday, September 12, 2005I think I'm ready to buy an iPod# Posted by Joel Dixon at 12/09/2005 21:22:00iPod Nano I was considering taking my MiniDisc player with me to America for the flight there and back - and the US interstate trips. I wasn't too happy with the idea though, as it's battery life is too short and I don't have any of my later music on the discs. You can't directly copy MP3s to my model of MiniDisc player (I bought it one version too early), so I'd need to play each of them on the PC and record on the MiniDisc. Otherwise I'd need to play them on my PS2, and copy them from the digital output (better quality, but will need to go through each CD). The Nano's 4 GB model (black) should be fine for me, as I've only got around 3.5 GB of music - and 500 Meg of that is comedy (Jerky Boys etc). The 14 hour charge is good for the flights as well - as I'll be on the plane for about that long when going between Melbourne and LA. I think I've never wanted to buy an iPod because I didn't want to admit that the MiniDisc was a poor purchase decision - but this Nano is sweet. And you can't say I'm rushing into buying an Apple music device! # Posted in the General section and tagged as: Gadgets, Music Comments (8) | Add Comment Sunday, December 19, 2004The biggest Countdown Ever?# Posted by Joel Dixon at 19/12/2004 20:45:00The radio station I listen to over here - Triple M - are having "The essential 2005 Countdown". A little extreme don't you think? They've been gathering votes for about a week now - and the countdown will run from Boxing Day to Australia Day (26th January). They're saying that it's "something that has never been done before" - but I slightly doubt that. I'm sure somewhere - probably India - a countdown has been a little bigger than 2000 songs. One thing that I've noticed about Lists and Countdowns that are voted on by the public is that they tend to contain more of the newer material, and forget some of the better old stuff. For example - when MTV ran a "25 Greatest Video Stars of All Time" that was voted by the fans, Michael Jackson (arguably the best creator of music videos along with Madonna) polled poorly (9th off memory) - I think No Doubt even beat him. I guess the songs that are released lately will be on everyone's mind already. The station has even played nothing but older songs for the last week - and have been playing interviews of people voting for their favourites - which all happen to be released in the 80s to early 90s. So now I'm all nervous about my vote. I feel like John Cusack in High Fidelity when he had to pick his top 5 favourite albums of all time. I don't want to rush my decision - because I know I'm going to leave out some songs that should be in the list. Here's a quick draft off the top of my head (alphabetically from the CDs in front of me): Ben Folds Five - Brick Black Eyed Peas - Where Is The Love? Blink 182 - I Miss You Blur - Girls and Boys Bomb Funk MC - Freestyler Bon Jovi - Bad Medicine Butthole Surfers - Pepper Cake - The Distance Daft Punk - One More Time Eskimo Joe - From The Sea Everclear - Santa Monica Fatboy Slim - Praise You Fatboy Slim - Weapon of Choice (mainly for the film clip!) Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench Grinspoon - Chemical Heart Guns N' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle Guns N' Roses - Paradise City Junior Senior - Move You Feet Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven Metallica - One Metallica - Until it Sleeps Moby - Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? Moby - Run On No Doubt - Just a Girl Outkast - Ms. Jackson Outkast - Hey Ya! Pearl Jam - Even Flow Pearl Jam - Alive Radiohead - Karma Police Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name Regurgitator - Everyday Formula The Offspring - Come out and Play The Offspring - Gone Away Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Breaking the Girl Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Californication Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Under the Bridge U2 - Vertigo (I know there's probably heaps I'm missing - but these are all that came to mind. Any suggestions?) # Posted in the General section and tagged as: Music Comments (2) | Add Comment | Blog Search Recent Blogs Yeah ... Baby! xkcd Parody Donate money for my next stupid run Feta, Sushi and Underwear Pimpy McHat Attack Chai did it! 10 things for 2010 Party like it's 1999 Literal Music Videos Green Day - Melbourne, 2009Feed Blog EntriesRecent Comments Green Day - Melbourne, 2009 posted 3 months ago by joeldixon The Offspring is probably the one that I most want to see next - except for maybe Daft Punk. 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