music rough guide of the day
The folks at the I Love Music forum (?) have been collectivley assembling an impressive and comprehensive collection of playlists, each intended to be a “rough guide” to a specific niche, genre or oddball corner of the past and present music world. I’ve never heard 95% 98% of these songs, but I love reading about them and some time I’m going to sit down with my beloved music piracy software* and have a shot at physically (so to speak) assembling some of these.
I’m thinking of copying a “rough guide of the day” here each day. Or maybe week. Or maybe not, but just in case, let’s get started with:
the music rough guide of the day for Thursday Febuary 5th,
Thatcherism: An Indie Response
1. Newtown Neurotics: Kick Out The Tories
2. The Redskins: Unionise!
3. McCarthy: The Procession of Popular Capitalism
4. Morrissey: Margaret On The Guillotine
5. Boothill Foot-Tappers: True Blues
6. Chumbawamba: Smash Clause 28!
7. Billy Bragg: There Is Power In A Union
8. Microdisney: Past
9. Another Sunny Day: You Should All Be Murdered
10. McCarthy: We Are All Bourgeois Now
11. Mekons: Fight The Cuts
12. The Enemy Within: Strike!
13. The Jasmine Minks: World?s No Place
14. The Men They Couldn?t Hang: Ironmasters
15. Scab Aid: Let It Be
16. Wolfhounds: Rent Act
17. Big Flame: Why Popstars Can?t Dance
11 of these 18 are by acts whose name starts with either M, B or J. this seems surprising to me.
— Tim (hopkinsti…), January 15th, 2004.
*This is an interesting point: the music industry claims that file-sharing is a way to steal existing copyrighted material. Well shucks, that may be true, but it’s also a way to create stuff that would have been prohibitivley difficult to create before, such as almost any of these compilations. Any one of them is greater than the sum of it’s parts (well, except perhaps “harpsichords in pop“). In a way, file sharing generates (or at least can generate) non-existing art. Of course, that art is derivative of old art. Man, this stuff is confusing.