hmn

Andrew Gold-Never let her slip away.

Smlatzy sentimental seventies...

Old musique and grand designs

http://simonallen10.blogspot.com
The old site

Downloading - Such a grey area

One thing I must state that the US probably has the worst record for what people download and for what the authoroties do there. In the UK it is only 5 years after the p2p revolution that the government has finally made a statement(see link below).
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/9160/IFPI+Wants+ISPs+to+Filter+Content%2C+P2P+Programs%2C+and+Websites


We are told by television and the media dont download, but then the BBC turns round and launches the Iplayer (which is a p2p application). Videos sites like google video and youtube accept videos posted by record companies as a means to generate more income off the back catologues of certain artists.

Working in record shops you realise that the new music is actually provided free by the reps of the record compnaies, the money is made in this sector by the sale of albums. Videos are promotional for the purposes of singles, the singles are promotional onto the albums.

That is where the main problem lies for record companies in the UK much of their income is generated by the back catologue of main artists. So They will be the first to say that dowbnloading is wrong. I find that downlaoding poses questions

is it OK to download something for your own personal use?
Is it OK to download something that has long since been deleted and is not available on LP
Providers giving highbandwidth , retailers selling 250GB-Youd be hard pressed to find that many legal downloads.!

Its like they use to say to record off the radio was wrong, but then if you go out and buy the album thats OK. Confused I sure am.

I think it is ok to download for your personal use and I like the way that using programs like Soulseek you can transfer stuff between one other user. But then on the other hand emule means you upload sometimes more than you can download, which is wrong.

50 Top albums....Written in 2008

Was looking through blog sites and noticed Musique and grand designs 1, that was the original web site I did in 2007 -2008. Cant access it now due to lost password....Anyway I wrote this in 2008, not in any particlar order....



1 Prefab Sprout- Steve Mcqueen
2 Cocteau Twins- Garlands & Head Over Heels
3. The Chameleons-What Does anything mean basically
4. This Mortal Coil - It wil end in tears
5. Killing Joke - Nightime
6. Siouxsie and the banshees- nocturne
7. Talk Talk - Colour Spring
8 . Goldfrapp-Black Cherry
9. Roxy Music - Avalon
10. Cure _Kiss Me, Kiss Me , Kiss Me
11 Keane - Hope and Fears
12 Metalica - Master of the puppets
13 Muse - Abosolution & Black Holes and revelations
14 Xymox-Twist of shadows
15 Xmal Deustchland-Vivo
16 delerium-Faces , forms and illsuions
17 Skinny Puppy- Cleanse fold and maniupulate
18 Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the moon
19 Waterboys -Waterboys
20 Tangerine dream-220 Volt Live
21 Tori Amos- Little earthquakes
22 Suede - Dog Man Star
23 James Taylors-greatest Hits
24 Goldfrapp-Supernature
25 Coldplay - X and Y
26 Manic Street Preachers-Genroation terroists
27 Chameloens-Script of the bridge
28 new Order-Lowlife
29 Joy Division -Unknown pleasures
30 U2- October
31 Big Black-songs About fucking
32 David Slyvian - Brilliant Trees
33 . Dead Can Dance -Spleen and ideal
34 The The -Soul Mining
35 Christian Death - The Ashes.
36 Soundgarden - Superunknown
37 Durutti Coulmn -LC
38 Marillion - Fugazi
39 The The - Infected
40 Verve -Urban Hymns
41 Prodigy- fat of the land
42 Stone Roses-Stone roses & second Coming
43 The cure-head on the door
44 this Mortal Coil-Filgree and Shadow
45 Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Welcome to the pleasure dome
46 Cabaret Volatire - Drinking Gasoline
47 Killers-Sams Town
48 Front 242- Back Cataolgue
49 Skinny Puppy- Vivisect
50 New Order-Power Curruption and Lies.

Cream Chilled out Electronic-various artists

A really good triple album thats out, this must be an official avert for the album. Features some really rare tracks and some old ones to, like the Grids -flotation single from 1990

Sound archives.......

Talking about music and downloading, there are several things I just cant get my head around when it comes down to downloading music is theft and all that stuff. browse through any argos catalogue and you will find about 40-50 devices that have greater than 2 gig of memory. So if you are to download legally then I think you would be hard pressed to find music to fill it up. Unless you download music by unsighned bands who have waved away their copyright.I think over the last 20 years there has definately been a shift into companies who existed to make money from artists(publishers) and also a business model for records that hadnt changed much since the 50s.

The music industry (espceially in the Usa) is struggling to cope with the sheer amount of downloaders. The Riaa is randomly picking people to sue, but this is just a drop into the ocean, so for example them suing 10 people when there are 10 million downloaders. Some artists like Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails are embracing new ways of getting their music across to a wider audience by using downloading of new albums.
The way in which online record shops are taking off and how high street shops are decreasing like HMV shows that even the way we buy records is going to change.

My main things that puzzle me about downloading is.

1) what happens if you download a album by 23 skidoo or some other relitavely unheard of band and say the album was released in the 1980s. The record label that promoted it folded two years after release and it was not picked up by any other record label. So in that case the songwriter would be the main copyright holder. In that instance its unlikely you would be sued as who would pursue you for copyright.
2) When you upload videos you recieve a message saying that the music is owned by Sony music and is taken off youtube. When the music is something on a indiependant label....
3)Some multinational companies advertise on sites like Pirate bay and other downloading sites, when they sell copyrighted music but advertise on downloading sites.
4).There is a demand for products that carry greater storge capabilities(like TB hard drives), wherfe as internet providers monitor downloaders and restrict the speed. So hard drives getting bigger and more storage available but greater risks....hmmnn.

Brian Eno-An ending Ascent

Always assiocated with Trainspotting soundtrack, which is a shame as the song and the album its from are truly brilliant pices of ambient music and no body more so than Brian Eno has put ambient on the map in musical terms

Brian Eno-Backwater

Reposted....mad track

Anelka (Chelsea or Liverpool)

Eno and Cluster -belldog

Brian Eno and members of Cluster. This sounds really cool. Very ambient but also driven by a snyth sound and not sounding unlike Tangerine Dream.

Above and Beyond-Uplifting trance

The Who-Live at Isle of wight 1970

The legend that is the who, I just love how Pete Twonshend holds it all together. I would of like to embed this onto the web page. But here is the address to find it

http://www.56.com/u68/v_NDk1NjUwODk.html

Jean Michel Jarre-Equinox 5

Solar Stone-More expanded than the first video

Jean Michel Jarre-equinox 1

Solar Stone-Seven cities(ambient mix)

Found this on a compilation of trance music, quite like it.

Musical Family Tree

I think tonight I could probably draw a rock family tree, in that I can see a link between all the videos Im posting. Started listening to brian eno initially, then onto Robert Fripp and then eno and fripp and then onto Roxy Music, then onto eno, manzenera then onto David Gilmour. You get the picture. I was watching a documentry on youtube tonight and you realise how many artists Robert FRripp has been involved with. Such an intelligent artist and man.

Frank Zappa-Muffin Man

Featuring Fran Zappa

Eno and Fripp all music review

Bowie-Heroes on top of the pops 1977

David Bowie and Berlin

David Bowie-Sons of the silent age

Phillip Glass-Sons of the Silent Age

Phillip Glass and David bowie

King Crimson-elephant Talk

king crimson - elephant talk
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from 1995 live concert

King Crimson-heartbeat

King Crimson - Heartbeat
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map of visitors

Hmnnnn...On picasa

http://picasaweb.google.com/102201686734704427592/MusiqueAndGrandDesigns2?authkey=Gv1sRgCL2L1O6UzPzcvQE#

Cocteau Twins- Head Over Heels album 1983

Intro track from same album

Cocteau Twins - Musette and Drums - Full version, Live 1983

I remember the head over heels album, it was always a good entry point to discover the cocteaus. Where as Garlands and other albums were always harder to find. Looking back at this album, some of the tracks were absolutely out of this world. The above video is from the tube in late 1983, 2.29 and Robin Guthrie hits the audience with etheral and swiriling feedback. People want them to reform but they can never recapture these days. Brilliant

Cocteau Twins - Millimillenary (live 1984)

Inner City-Big fun...1988

Blimey 1988....Thats some time ago, I really liked Inner Citys first two albums extremely powerful and dance driven. where as the last albums have been more soulful

King Crimson-heroes...2000

What a brilliant version. But then Fripp did play on the original and Belew an ex bowie guitarist.

David Bowie-Absolute beginners

propaganda-dream within a dream

Absolutely love propaganda, did at the time and still like the album now. Such a brilliant album ' a secret wish from 1985'.this features Derek forbes who was with simple minds for a time.

Dream Theater-As I Am

Modern prog

Facebook No.2

Sort of like a recurring theme. Im starting to find facebook a bit limiting and I think the initial surge of people joining it has died off a bit. I have noticed alot of other sites are now sharing links to and from facebook. Examples being twitter and video sites, also music applications like spotify.

In a few years time things would of moved onto another application or site and facebook will struggle to keep a hold on its market share. In the Uk we think its a world wide thing and in some ways it is, but in the US I beleive that myspace is still dominant. Also there has been recent articles saying that a high percentages of divorces and court cases are mentioning the social networking site.

To be honest I will just follow a path of posting directly to my web site and share what I want to share. With facebook being used randomly rather than staying a dominant open web page on my browser

Brian Eno-Any one recieving

from 1977 album, sounds like Stay by Bowie. But from the same period

David bowie-Adrian Belew-Fame

From 1990

King Crimson-Frame by Frame (1982 OGWT)

Kenny dalgliesh- Return of .....

Unusual for me to post a football thing on here. I have to say the return of Dalgliesh is absolutely brilliant for football. In the early 1990s he crafted one of those most attacking teams I had ever seen, they were completely dominant and would pass the ball around and leave teams trailing in their wake. The problems for Liverpool and the manager was that the hillsborough had formed a heavy cloud over events at liverpool, the horros of that day must have lived in the memory. With hindsight liverpool should of held onto Dalgliesh in that they should have left the door open for a return. Within 2 years of leaving liverpool he was at blackburn and within two years they had won the league.

Dalgiesh was one of those players that I grew up watching. That beaming smile everytime he scored, such intelligence ona football field. In a way Dalgiesh going to newcastle and briefly celtic were just stop gaps. As Dalgiesh is only 59 he could build a future dynasty, in that it only took Ferguson four years from when he took over to start winning trophies. Liverpool at the moment are a good side, but just weak in certain areas.

Killing Joke-European super state

off their new album

Killing Joke-Eighties

Kraftwerk-Musique Non stop

Kraftwerk - Music non stop [1986] bY ZapMan69 Vidéo ZapMan69 sélectionnée dans Musique

Sounds better on this video than the youtube version

Bryan ferry and David Gilmour-Is your love strong enough

Robert Fripp

Blimey what solos

Mike Oldfield- north Star

A cover version of the Phillip Glass track called 'Etoile Polaire'. . The fashion on this video leaves alot to be desired, however features the brilliant guitar work of oldfield and voice of Maggie Reilly.

Robert Fripp-Exposure (1979)

Adrian Belew-commercial 2

Adrian Belew- Commercial

Guitarist from King Crimson. These clips are from a japenese advert.

Forgotten Towns - Bbc article

Intresting piece about towns that have dissapered or been taken over. Living In Middlesbrough a experiencing places that have shut down is quite spooky. reading the artcile it must be wierd for the people that have grown up in these areas to be moved away.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11765712

Sergey Tkachev-Alien and Butterfly

Serguey Tkachev-Alien and Butterfly....Trance Russia

Porcupine tree-The Blind House

Kraftwerk-official Site

Sometimes less is more. Brilliant site as well....

http://www.kraftwerk.com

King Crimson and Robert Fripp

Really Like this site, Robert Fripp is definately a hero of mine. Such intelligence in this music and the various avenues he goes down outside of it. Various photos outside of his house in worcestershire but never the less a good site.

http://www.dgmlive.com/kc/