Two Songs Everyone Should Hear

This song just makes ya happy!

William Fitzsimmons’s cover and total reinterpretaion of Kanye West’s song Heartless.

Been a While…

Possibly the coolest thing I've found in a long, long time.

Since I last posted something…

• I finished up my fall semester
• I enjoyed Christmas break
• I made a killing working at a snack bar over break
• Started spring semester
• And, last but not least, Kevin Durant turned into one of the baddest scoring machines I’ve seen in a long, long time.

But this post is about Last.fm. I listen to all sorts of different types of music. If you check out my library you’ll find Dave Matthews Band, John Mayer, Jay-Z, Kanye, Nas, Mozart, Morissey, Mae, Depeche Mode, Jack Johnson, Black Eyed Peas, The Roots, Korn, A Perfect Circle and plenty of other random things.

I’ve always wondered what kind of music listener I am besides a binge listener. What I mean is that I’ll listen to an artist or style until exhaustion then move on to another. I recently completed a John Mayer binge. Before that was Kanye. Before that was Dave Matthews Band. Right now, I’ve really been enjoying some classical music and some of the more modern arrangements that have been put out.

The beauty of Last.fm is that it tabulates all of the songs I listen to from any number of sources (Pandora, Winamp, it’s own player, etc.) to assemble it into data of what I truly like. Then it makes recommendations based off of that.

But it gets better.

There is a free player application that runs on virtually zero system resources that acts as a free internet radio app. Personally, I think it’s better than Pandora. You also have the option to play through things they would recommend based on your library.

The idea behind Last.fm is to take music listening in the virtual social direction in much the same way Facebook did it for personal interaction. Regardless of whether you involve yourself in the sizable sommunity there, the application is still extremely useful.

808s and Heartbreak

Cover art for Kanye West's new album 808s and Heartbreak, to be released on November 24th.

Kanye West has a new album dropping soon. The rumor is its set up to come out on November 25th. It’s gonna be called 808s and Heartbreak.

His first album, College Dropout, was amazing. Late Registeration seemed like version 2.0 of the previous album but it had a lot of outstanding songs on it.

Then came Graduation. A fantastic album. Not a bad track on it and a couple of monstrously good tracks.

808s and Heartbreak is coming out only a year or so after Graduation. It was supposed to drop in December but Kanye finished it and reportedly wants to get it into everyone’s hands as quickly as possible.

I probably can’t post them here (for obvious reasons) but on Kanye West’s blog he has legal MP3s for three tracks (Love Lockdown, Heartless, and Amazing) available for free download.

Wikipedia has a tracklisting available. Evidently, Auto-Tuning is used heavily on the album. This could produced mixed results but so far I can’t argue.

1. Say You Will
2. Welcome to Heartbreak
3. Heartless
4. Amazing
5. Love Lockdown
6. Paranoid
7. Robocop
8. Street Lights
9. Bad News
10. See You In My Nightmares
11. Coldest Winter

I’m pumped. Check out the video below and you will be too…

Needless to say, I’m excited. I’ll be home for Thanksgiving when it comes out so I should be able to pick up a copy pretty close to the release date.