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FFS Spotify I am not going to buy THAT

Andy — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:43:05 +0000

Spotify still has some way to come with its targeted advertising.

BBC Live Sessions

Andy — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:03:03 +0000

I launched Spotify this morning to find some of the latest additions included some BBC Live Sessions. I’m currently listening to The Specials at the Paris Theatre on 15 December 1979, and as I discovered with The Clash’s Concert Vault recording from earlier this week, the best bits of these recordings is the lecturing from the bands between songs.

In the case of The Clash it was Joe Strummer berating journalists over their constant questioning behind the meaning of The Clash’s music (to which his reply was a rendition of Police and Thieves).

“You know, we get asked, we have to talk to a lot of journalists, and they always ask us ‘Excuse me, sir! But does your music have a message?’ and if you say ‘Yeah’, then you let yourself in for ‘What is this message?’ So for all of those trainee journalists in the audience, THIS is the message!”

The Specials are equally scolding of unprotected sex (Too Much Too Young) and students (Rat Race):

“If any of you under 16s are planning to make love later on, get hold of your dads dictionary and look under the word contraception and under the word fun, and under these two words you’ll fund four words: Too Much Too Young.”

Free music - Too Much Too Young (BBC In Concert)

"If all you students are listening and thinking about your mum and dad at christmas, just stop revising for a moment, and prick back your ears, this is for you, its called Rat Race."

Free music - Rat Race (BBC In Concert)

So enjoy a few live sessions courtesy of the Beeb and our favourite streaming music services:

The Stranglers – BBC In Concert (23rd April 1977) We7

Buzzcocks – John Peel Session (10th April 1978)

The Specials – BBC In Concert (15th December 1979, In Concert Paris Theatre recorded: 15/12/79) We7

The Selecter – BBC In Concert (15th December 1979, In Concert Paris Theatre recorded: 15/12/79) We7

TV → Google → Spotify

Andy — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:22:32 +0000

Its times like just now when I really love the internet.

Watched the O2 Cash Manager Advert.
Googled for the advert, first hit gives me visitforinfo.com
Opened Spotify and listened to full track featured on the ad, I’ve Got Your Number by Passion Pit.

30 seconds. Done.

Spotify Mix Sets

Andy — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:11:27 +0000

Spotify is brilliant.

They recently launched a mobile service which allows premium subscribers to transfer and listen (offline) to music on their Android phone or iPhone. Well worth £10 a month if you regularly listen to music on an iPod or your mobile phone and ad free listening on your PC/Mac.

I will make that move to Spotify’s premium offering at some stage, but not until I think I’m going to get some serious listening done on my iPhone. Until that point I need to maximise my listening and minimise the suitopia adverts for those heads-down times at work – that’s why I’ve started a collaborative playlist of mix sets.

Spotify has millions of tracks online and many of them are continuous gapless mixsets which won’t be interrupted by ads in those times of concentration. So why not load up Spotify and see what you can find and add them to my Spotify Mix Set playlist.

Currently on the list is a 10th anniversary sets from Finger Lickin’ records (Plump DJs, Krafty Kuts) and Daft Punk’s Alive 1997 – the first live album from the Parisian electro duo.