About 2 years ago when Flickr had just launched I heard about it and signed up. They used to have this live chatroom called FlickrLive, which for one security reason or another shut down after they started getting bigger and focussing on the tagging and photography end of things. What I loved about FlickrLive was the totally abitrary way you could just insert bizarre pics into a live chat environment, and save them to what was known as your “shoebox”. It wasn’t like it is now, full of stunning Photography, more it was other photos found on other sites like Worth1000.com, and people would just curculate each others pics. I mean even Stewart (Flickr head honcho) was playing with it. This was why after 6 months of not using Flickr, which subsequently blew up in populrity, that I found my self banned from public view for having lots of idle poached photoshopperie, and found my account not capable of being viewed in public. Fortunately they were nice enough to unflag me once, I’d removed the nicked stuff.

Anyway, back to the Live connection. One thing I remember being really into at the time was bad and banned album covers.

I even made a Flickr Group about one of my favourites -

While I’m there allow me to post a link of some new contenders for the Worst Album Covers ever in this great new Flickr group I found this morning.

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Q-Unit

Not blogged much for ages, but this has prompted me. I love a good mash-up album, but I can’t help but think that most sound like they’ve been done by a spotty 16 year old on a cracked copy of Acid (the music sequencing program). Now 50 Cents was never my bag…moody post-gangsta noodling, but now I realsie it’s not the rapper it, the crap tunes he had underneath. Now stick Queen’s greatest hits underneath and you have a veritable don of rap on your hands worthy of the praise lavished on the half dollar-ed one of late. The first album I’ve downloaded lately and listened to in full several times, I cannot reccommnd this enough, especially track 1 “This is How We Bite The Dust”. Was John Deacons finest bassline ever designed for anything else but a hiphop tune? Didn’t he kind of nick it off Chic’s Good Times anyway? Who cares the track rocks.

There’s plenty more where that comes from, with some inspired sampling that matches the mood of both bands at times.

just grab it…it’s a naught free bootleg, that might just possibly be the greatest album 50 Cents never released (borrowed rent-a-quote).

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50 Fun Things To Do With Your iPod (kottke.org)

I just got one of these sexy 20 GB beasts, and filled it up same day, and it rocks. The only thing is that it’s an older 2nd generation model and lacks a little functionality that the newer ones have, still this list gives you a good idea o what I’m missing out on, plus a few silly ideas should I get bored with the sexy silvery white box.

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Oops I Did It Again: The Original

Ooops I Did It Again was originally recorded by Louis Armstrong in 1932, but at the time was forgotton relegated toa dusty old warehouse until Britiney Spears matde it a hit in the 90’s

Er….no he didn’t….this is a very funny and clever cut up anyway.

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Ramallah Underground

It’s funny that you sometimes bump into the most interesting links from the most unlikely places. Take tonight. I just pm’d a guy on Soulseek to compliment him on his music collection and he points me to his site which contains a load of his work which has a nice down-tempo feel reminiscent of Warp Records, but with a unique Arabic twist to it.

Well, I’m always up for giving interesting music a plug so check the site and download some of Boikutts stuff.

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BBC Radio Player

One of the best things about getting ADSL is the ability you suddenly have to listen to streaming music without it cutting out every 5 seconds, due to lack of bandwidth. Now I can listen to Radio Nottingham in the heat of the Songkhla summer. Why I enjoy this I do not know as I used to hate it back in England.

By the way if you’re still on shitband..the BBC radio Player does work fairly reliably, but the quality of the sound is a bit variable.

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Museum of bad album covers: the worst album covers ever!

I’ve blogged about three of these kind of sites in my time…I love bad album coves but these feature some of the worst even by the standards that have come before.

Here’s a couple of my faves.

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Just a quick plug for my mate Parf aka iSMN back in Nottingham.

He’s got a band called The Good Livers and they’ve got a new album out and he’d really like lots of people to go and check out his site and listen to the samples on there.
So do it alright?

Right, I’ll have me cheque now then mate.

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Music-Map - The tourist map of music

This is briliant if you can’t think of anything to download (as I frequently can’t) when confronted with a search field on your favourite P2P app.

Enter your favourite artists and a whole bunch of related artists will start ogranising themselves according to how likely you are to enjoy them based on your first search.

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Thai Music, Thai Lyrics and Thai Songs - Learn Thai through music

Great idea, found via the excellent Learning Thai site. I think it might appeal to my students more as a tool for learning English, as sorry, but Thai pop just doesn’t do it for me, though I was interested to discover some of my fave Thai hiphop artist Dajim’s lyrics on there which I might go an annoy/amuse my wife with upstairs now.

ใครเกิดวันนี้ขอให้มีอันจะกิน
krai gert wun nee kor hai mee un ja gin
If you were born today, I hope you will be wealthy

ขอให้รวยล้นฟ้ายิ่งกว่าคุณน้าทักษิณ
kor hai ruay lon fa ying gwar koon na tuk-sin
I hope you’ll be richer than “Uncle Thaksin”

ทั้งคนหนุ่มคนสาวขอให้เป็นดาวดวงเด่น
tung kon noom kon sao kor hai ben dao duang den
For all the young ladies, I hope you’ll be a star

มีชื่อเสียงโด่งดังยิ่งกว่าบินลาเดน
mee cheu siang dong dung ying gwar bin la den
Have a big name, and be more famous than Bin Laden

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