Dear Steve Jobs,iTunes is fantastic. I imported all my CDs a few years ago on my iMac, and never looked back. My poor stereo has been gathering dust bunnies ever since, unable to compete with playlists and online music stores. I could go on and on about how iTunes changed my music-listening habits forever. But there's one feature you don't have that I want - nay - need on iTunes....a wish list! It
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Posts by Michael P
iTunes wish list
duke ellington starting place?
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Can anyone recommend a good starting place for Duke Ellington? I know, I know - for someone who wrote so much, it's nigh impossible. But I'm looking for something that covers the "greatest" hits. And - it's gotta sound good - or, at least as good as recordings in the late twenties and early thirties can sound! I own a few Ellington CDs, and the sound quality has always turned me off. I purchased o
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lust and consequences
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When I was twelve or thirteen (many moons ago), my friend Steve was in love with The Who. Specifically, he was in love with "You Better You Bet", and he'd play it - constantly - on his Walkman as I'd walk with him on his paper route. Steve did a great job of sneering as he sang the chorus, and I was amused by his Roger Daltry impression. But the song didn't do much for me. I heard the song on the
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My Mom Likes Thievery Corporation!
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I invited my Mom over for dinner last night (homemade chili...yum!), and The Mirror Conspiracy was playing on my iMac in the other room. As we were saying goodnight, she surprised me by saying that she liked it! It makes sense - it's essentially easy listening for hipsters (which isn't a bad thing - I love it). It just caught me off guard! There was a time when I wouldn't have wanted to share what
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Sloan Makes The Onion Hall of Fame
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The Onion's AV Club recently announced that they're starting their own musical Hall of Fame (for real, not a smartass version), and their first inductee is Sloan's Between the Bridges. I was floored. I fell in love with this record the first time I heard it at one of those listening stations in Borders, and it was the soundtrack to my life for several years, as I moved from Kansas City back to my
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the funniest error message EVER
As I was editing a blog entry, the site crashed. When I logged back in, I got the following message: Sorry. MOG farted. Can you tell us what you were doing when it happened?Is that not the funniest error message you've ever read? Can you imagine how many smiles (not to mention goodwill) Microsoft could generate if Windows had a similar message each time it crashed? Kudos to MOG for the unexpected
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who doesn't love a pie chart?
Here's an idea...what if MOG had a widget that could generate a pie chart of your music collection, categorized by genre? I think that would be awesome. But I'm a sucker for graphs and charts. Yeah, I'm a geek. :-)
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welcome to my mog
I've only been on MOG for a few days, and I'm already hooked. If you look at the big picture, it's kinda ironic. On one hand, people are wringing their hands about online privacy. Google and AOL are making headlines for keeping (and in Google's case, refusing to hand over) detailed records on what users are searching for, who they're IM'ing, and so forth. And on the other hand, sites like MOG and
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