Pandora.com is a new website that allows you input musical artists and/or songs. The site will select similar music for you to test drive before buying (another option offered in addition to creating a "favorites" list for you). You can minimize the window and continue with other computer projects to musical accompaniment. You can give a thumbs up or down to each selection. If you ask, the program will tell you the musical criteria it used to select a particular song for you to hear. Registration is free for the version including ads. You can buy a premium version that eliminates the advertisement component.
You create virtual radio stations (multiple stations allowed) according to the type of music you select. Remember it's your original selection and additions you make which determine what kind of music will be selected for you. This is a wonderful idea and I love it. Hope you love it as much as I do.
Sunday, May 28, 2006
Sunday, May 07, 2006
ModerrnTimes
Quality degrades?
Time passes and I lament the loss of quality in most things: my soap operas, the romance novels that used to be such caramel chocolate substitute pleasures, movies, the music I hear on the radio or television, the sodas I once drank, the television dramas/comedies. Sometimes I wonder if I'm just jaded because I've partaken of these things for so many years.
Naaahhh. They really aren't as good as they once were. Too many people seem to be settling for too little. We talk about soap operas on a forum I belong to (yes, I know it's ending with a preposition, so sue me!!). The members in their teens, twenties, thirties know the soaps have declined in quality. But they'd rather watch crap than fight for what they want.
Apathy rules. They quote banal song lyrics from recordings made by singers who can't carry a tune. I'm disgusted by the hopelessness. Yet, if these younger people don't have the will/energy to turn things around. . .I'm too old. And stubborn. I can manage without the new stuff, living on memories. The younger crowd aren't so lucky. Their memories will suck.
Time passes and I lament the loss of quality in most things: my soap operas, the romance novels that used to be such caramel chocolate substitute pleasures, movies, the music I hear on the radio or television, the sodas I once drank, the television dramas/comedies. Sometimes I wonder if I'm just jaded because I've partaken of these things for so many years.
Naaahhh. They really aren't as good as they once were. Too many people seem to be settling for too little. We talk about soap operas on a forum I belong to (yes, I know it's ending with a preposition, so sue me!!). The members in their teens, twenties, thirties know the soaps have declined in quality. But they'd rather watch crap than fight for what they want.
Apathy rules. They quote banal song lyrics from recordings made by singers who can't carry a tune. I'm disgusted by the hopelessness. Yet, if these younger people don't have the will/energy to turn things around. . .I'm too old. And stubborn. I can manage without the new stuff, living on memories. The younger crowd aren't so lucky. Their memories will suck.
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