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My world without music (briefly)

maca — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:06:59 +0000

Porter Wagoner wrote:

Once my world was filled with music sweet and low
When your love was mine and mine alone
Now my world has lost its melody and my world is without music since you’ve left me

Substitute the chic in the song for an mp3 player and you understand how I felt when my Creative Zen MicroPhoto died mid song a few days ago. Maybe it was old age or the particular Metallica song it was playing at the time which caused the hardware failure but numerous reformats and firmware installations (the PMP equivalent of defibrillation) failed to bring her back to life. I managed to transfer bits of 5 or 6 albums and she’ll play these fine but i’m unable to transfer any more music without it crashing.
I got a refurbised Creative Zen to keep me going for now but I miss my Zen MicroPhoto; it was a top class player. I still refuse to buy an iPod though have to admit I like the iPod Touch. But my Creative served me well in the past so i’m sticking with them. The Zen was a disappointing buy for 3 main reasons:
- it feels cheap and plasticy compared to the metal covered Zen Micro Photo
- the button clicks are annoying
- the navigation button is a nuicance; I prefer the touch slider on the Zen MicroPhoto.

Having said that the big clear screen is excellent and sound quality is good so I guess it will keep my going for a while. At least I have music back in my life!

There’s no accounting for some people’s taste…

maca — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:09:21 +0000

A couple of bloggers have commented on U2′s inclusion of the previously unreleased Red Hill Mining Town in their latest DVD, some aren’t impressed.

I care not. Naff 80s, I fucking love it. So here it is, Red Hill Mining Town, de vid.

Let’s go down on Red hiiiilllllll!

FFS U2

maca — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 14:18:45 +0000

Bit late with this one. It was during the recent Rep.Ireland match I noticed the ads for “U2 18“. “Gifted!” sez I, “A new U2 album”. Boy was I disappointed, it’s just another fucking greatest hits album. WTF U2???
I’m proud of my U2 collection. I have most albums on tape, what I don’t have on tape I have on CD and I have just about everything on MP3. But this is one album i’ll find very hard to buy, I already have all the songs bar The Saints Are Coming and Window In The Skies. We need an album with new material lads! If you would be so kind as to get your collective fingers out, i’d greatly appreciate it. Thanks.

More music downloads

maca — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:48:29 +0000

Just downloaded a few more albums in the past few days. Johnny Cash‘s American V – A Hundred Highways (which I notice is on Rick O’Shea‘s Favourite New Albums list) and N.E.R.D.’s Fly or Die since my CD got a bit fucked up.

One interesting album I downloaded is Billy Joel‘s An Innocent Man.

I ammmmmmmmmmm … an innocent maaa-an, ohh yes I ammmmm … an innocent maa-aan, oh Oh OH ohhhhh dum dum dum dum da dum

Interesting (sort of) because this was actually the first album I ever bought (excluding that breakdance album, but we won’t talk about that anymore), way back in 1983 I scrounged and scraped together IR�5.99 (if memory serves…) and bought it in the music centre in Longford. I still have the tape 23 years later.
I just found myself in the mood then for some oldies [when I say oldies bear in mind i'm a 70's child], check out these downloads…

• Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights
• Clannad – In A Lifetime (with Bono)
• Simple Minds – Belfast Child
• Hothouse Flowers – Dont Go
• Jim Diamond – I Should Have Known Better
• Feargal Sharkey – A Good Heart

An odd selection perhaps but sometimes it’s nice to hear the popular songs from your youth, brings back memories. I’ll have to add to that list today.
Maybe Rick O’Shea will play us an oldie, ~~I’ll have to send him a request~~. Done!