as the music slowly fades...

i can remember the most obscure trivia about bands from when i was in high school and college. i can remember the lyrics to songs i haven't heard forever. i could probably pick up a geeter and wing my way through some even. but alot of the music i hear out nowaday i couldn't tell you who produced it or anything about them. i seem so distant from the music any more. has music become this mass produced commodity that isn't worth knowing about?

i blame the dj, i blame the ipod generation, i blame bittorrent. problem is, of course, i am all of those. so i guess i have to blame myself. hell some of the records i own i only can ID them by the color of the label or the picture on it.

gone are the days of album art to draw you in... to make you pick up that album, flip it over, see who the band members are. read some lyrics. find out what city they are from, what label they're on. tapes were awful, tiny art and unfolded to have tiny lyrics printed inside. cds were a little better, back to the square art format and had a booklet that was readable. and way more info than on a record jacket. at least i never had to deal with reel-to-reel or 8-track!!

now we just forgo the whole concept and get to the meat of things and just "find" the music. no more, no less. just the almighty mp3. no longer do we have to search though bins and the back pages of

i've been trying to make more of an effort to read about artists in the last.fm program. songbird has mashtape which pulls info, pictures, and videos into a panel which is pretty neat. songbird has problems right now pulling songs from my itunes. bah humbug. hopefully songbird gets sorted out, because itunes sucks, and i can't stop using it. it's like a bad addiction that you know you would be better off without, but just can't stop. ... just one fix. all i need is just one fix.