Web Junkie Wednesday: Online Jukebox Edition
Well, it's Web Junkie Wednesday again -- and in this week's edition I want to talk about online juke boxes. You know, those free online tune repositories that keep you singing through your workday (and distract you from any actual work as you search their catalogs).
My personal favorite right now is Soundpedia, an online collection of music, videos and community features that allows you to listen to an astonishing number of songs and full length albums in their entirety -- and even shows you the lyrics as the songs are playing.
Just sign up (it's free) and search for what suits you by album, artist, song or even lyrics.
In the mood to listen to Rufus Wainwright's Release the Stars in its entirety? Done.
How about Motorhead's No Sleep 'Till Hammersmith? Hold on to your eardrums.
Can't remember which Replacements album has the slicker version of "Can't Hardly Wait?" Browse around.
Something more current? How about Rihanna's Good Girl Gone Bad?
Old school Hip Hop? How about Run-DMC or Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five?
There are even some great comedy and spoken word albums, like Bill Cosby's classic Himself
, Patton Oswalt's Feelin' Kinda Patton and Bill Hicks' Salvation
They don't have every album -- some songs are missing or exist only as 30 second samples. But new stuff cycles in pretty quickly and regularly and there's something for everyone here.
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What about pandora.com?
That's a great outlet to get some new music - you just create a radio station based on an artist and let the jukebox go.
Ex.: A recent listen on Common radio turned up De La Soul, Wu Tang Clan, Kanye, Common, and a few new good guys that I've never heard of.
If you like the current song, click thumbs up. Don't? Thumbs down, and it skips to the next song.
Posted on November 14, 2007 4:03 PM
I do also like Pandora, and have found a lot of stuff I like through the feature you're talking about. My one complaint about it is that sometimes I hear, for instance, a Wilco song and think: "Man...I'd love to hear what's on the rest of that album..."
But I can't -- or if I can, I have to skip other stuff, wait, hit a bunch of buttons, figure out how to get them to give me some more of that.
But for laid-back zen web music enjoyment, Pandora is awesome.
Posted on November 14, 2007 4:55 PM
I don't have good luck with Pandora. I think my favorite bands are too eccentric for it: the results are almost never what I wanted to hear.
Posted on November 15, 2007 9:16 AM