got a minute?
Mar. 27th, 2007 10:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kip_w.
We're busy people, am I right? We don't have time to mess around. Finding good music just takes too much time, and most of us just give up. Well, WFMU's "Station Manager Ken" had a contest for remixes, 60 seconds and under, of known songs. Here are 161 of them.
I already have a set of 45s that came out years ago, called the RCA Victor Listener's Digest -- versions of the great classics that take up, at most, two sides (for a total of eight or ten minutes). This version seems better than that one. (I loaned my Listener's Digest to WHRO once, so that I could request the mini-Scheherazade from them. They didn't have a 45 spindle, though, and Dwight placed the platter on the turntable as well as he could. The result was not what I'd set out to achieve.)
Anyway, WFMU does it again, with the aid of listeners. It's terrific. Start off with In-a-gadda-da-vida and see where that leads you. Maybe to Paradise by the Dashboard Light, or Take Five, or Stagger Lee, or Ring Of Fire. I could go on.
For you specialty lovers, here's Who's On First, almost short enough, War of the Worlds, Shatner's Lucy in the Sky, a Bach Prelude by Glenn Gould, Ravel's Bolero (that's two versions), or 20 years of anti-drug PSAs.
Try and fit these into your schedule. I know I will. Gotta go.
.
We're busy people, am I right? We don't have time to mess around. Finding good music just takes too much time, and most of us just give up. Well, WFMU's "Station Manager Ken" had a contest for remixes, 60 seconds and under, of known songs. Here are 161 of them.
I already have a set of 45s that came out years ago, called the RCA Victor Listener's Digest -- versions of the great classics that take up, at most, two sides (for a total of eight or ten minutes). This version seems better than that one. (I loaned my Listener's Digest to WHRO once, so that I could request the mini-Scheherazade from them. They didn't have a 45 spindle, though, and Dwight placed the platter on the turntable as well as he could. The result was not what I'd set out to achieve.)
Anyway, WFMU does it again, with the aid of listeners. It's terrific. Start off with In-a-gadda-da-vida and see where that leads you. Maybe to Paradise by the Dashboard Light, or Take Five, or Stagger Lee, or Ring Of Fire. I could go on.
For you specialty lovers, here's Who's On First, almost short enough, War of the Worlds, Shatner's Lucy in the Sky, a Bach Prelude by Glenn Gould, Ravel's Bolero (that's two versions), or 20 years of anti-drug PSAs.
Try and fit these into your schedule. I know I will. Gotta go.
.
