A whole hour this time with 16 songs and I'm very nearly quite happy with it. Feedback, as ever, appreciated. And isn't it about time you yourself did one?
Tracklisting
Frank Black - Subbacultcha (FrankBlackFrancis)
The Mountain Goats - See America Right (Tallahassee)
The Magnetic Fields - Reno Dacota (69 Love Songs)
1000 Homo DJs - Supernaut
Destiny's Child vs Nirvana - Smells Like Booty (As Heard On Radio Soulwax Part 1)
The Zombies - The Way I Feel Inside (Life Aquatic soundtrack)
Herby and Elena Ayers - What Would We Do Without Glass (Otis Fodder 365 Days project)
Boston - More Than A Feeling
King Missile - Take Stuff From Work (Mystical Shit)
The Fall - How I Wrote Elastic Man
Primus - Wynona's Big Brown Beaver
Neil Cleary - When All Of Us Get Famous (download mp3)
Looper - Quiet and Small (Up A Tree)
Add N To X - Buckminster Fuller (Avant Hard)
The Magnetic Fields - Kiss Me Like You Mean It (69 Love Songs)
The Plugz - Reel Ten (Repo Man soundtrack)
I good mix, and it's great to see the play list in print! I listened to the first nine tracks while walking round London the other evening. The rest on the train and at home - all through earphones. Other than Boston I have to admit ignorance about most of the other bands. Like you said, The Magnetic Fields sounds interesting, as do Plugz, which is what I am listening to right now.
One comment about long podcasts on an iPod Shuffle (and maybe on larger iPods too, but I haven't used one) is that once you start you have to go through the entire show. This means that you can't start the podcast where you left off (unless you haven't played anything else in the meantime). On iTunes you can slide the diamond-shaped slider through the entire playlist, like a fast forward on a tape. I know that some formats, like aac, are bookmark-able, e.g. those from audiobooks.
Of course, a podcast in aac format wouldn't work on all mp3 players, so maybe I'm asking for something I can't have!
The mike noise is a bit annoying. It sounds like you are not grounded somewhere in the system. It's not background noise.
Keep it coming!
Just wanted to say thanks - this stuff is all new to me, and I've got some research to do (playlists with links are a great addition). Looking forward to #5.
Until I found yours (and Jez's), I wasn't a big reader of blogs (and this is my first and only podcast), but I set myself up with a feed reader recently, and am reading quite often - somehow it still feels wrong, not knowing you, but I keep doing it - so I thought the least I could do was say, "Hi."
Good stuff, it got me through a Tuesday afternoon's paperwork with less pain than usual. Really liked the Magnetic Fields' tracks (particularly the 'blue/Pantone 292' line - I had to go and check: it's a fairly light blue with a hint of grey), Add N to X, and Neil Cleary, who I never got round to downloading when he was on your mp3blog.
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