Nearly 11 months after the previous mix CD/Spotify playlist in the main series, I settled upon a grouping of 22 songs totaling 78 minutes. But the time leading up to the final selections was filled with shifting priorities, indecisiveness, and being in a negative headspace. … Read More MP3 Mix 15 – ANOTHER One.
Now THIS mix CD is definitely from 2005 — and not because of the inclusion of “Gold Digger” from Kanye West and “Shake It Off” from Mariah Carey, though those are two of the three classics on this collection. (Read further for the other; you may be surprised!) I remember distinctly listening to this CD… Read More MP3 Mix 10 (2005) – Or, A Hodgepodge Of Its Time
Late Valentine’s Day night, I stumbled upon The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Leno held up an album cover with the words “The Cranberries”* on it. “Wow,” I thought, “The Cranberries must have a new album out.” And then I sighed internally, “The Cranberries have a new album out.” And they did. And they performed.… Read More Stop the ’90s Music Greed Revival
For weeks since the news that alternative rock radio station Q101 was bought and primed for a format change, many of my friends, acquaintances and strangers discussed the maligned company, nostalgia for the Q101 of our rose-colored youth (and thankfully not the days of Q101.1 — BLEH), the current and future state of rock radio,… Read More So Long, Q101
A few days ago, I returned my Microsoft Zune HD 16GB MP3 player. It had been purchased 3 weeks prior, the result of a hasty decision to replace my longtime MP3 device, a second-generation Microsoft Zune, with an Apple iPod Classic to fill the digital void in my musically longing heart. Now without a MP3… Read More My MP3 Girlfriends
A few days ago, I ripped MP3 tracks of the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club album Howl to my computer, transferring it to my MP3 player with the hope of listening to it during my trip home for Thanksgiving. As I had been looking forward to digging deeper into each individual track via headphones, I was… Read More Oh, Sony
Diary of a Genial Black Man 