Wednesday, October 24, 2007

The joys of music

One of the great things in life, and not something you should be without. Unfortunately I had to do without* until this week.

Having been without a computer (ordered one just before starting uni, backlog and such) for four weeks it's eventual arrival was a relief. Functioning without music or the Internet (especially since my university, Sheffield, uses the Internet a lot for course material) had been pretty hard. Well, it was a new machine, and came with vista on it. Which refused to recognise my speakers.

After fiddling around with settings, drivers and all the rest of it for about three days I got it operating. Took various downloads, installs, uninstalls and reinstalls before that happened though. Infinitely frustrating. And it still won't let me use headphones in the front port (this isn't a major problem though, because my speakers have a headphone socket.)

First things first then, get my hands on the new radiohead album. I'm a big fan (favourite albums being OK Computer and Hail to the Thief) and I like the new set up. Opted to pay £4 for my download. Slightly on the cheap side but, hey, I'm a student. I liked it on first listen, but I'm going to give it a few more runs before forming an opinion. Pretty funny what it's done to the stats on last.fm:

Top ten tracks:

1 15 StepRadiohead
60,638 listeners
188,920 plays
2 BodysnatchersRadiohead
58,423 listeners
174,866 plays
3 NudeRadiohead
58,193 listeners
184,199 plays
4 Up 1 All I NeedRadiohead
56,300 listeners
184,281 plays
5 Down 1 Weird Fishes/ArpeggiRadiohead
55,614 listeners
173,025 plays
6 Up 1 ReckonerRadiohead
54,612 listeners
181,097 plays
7 Down 1 Faust ArpRadiohead
54,557 listeners
166,439 plays
8 House of CardsRadiohead
51,794 listeners
156,543 plays
9 Jigsaw Falling Into PlaceRadiohead
51,632 listeners
165,480 plays
10 VideotapeRadiohead
50,350 listeners
156,870 plays

(last.fm if you don't have it. My profile is: http://www.last.fm/user/Sharpshooter/ I know. I was young then alright? >_>)

I'm also able to listen to my Modest Mouse, Flaming Lips and all the rest of it now. Very happy about that. I've missed it. See either profile (last.fm or on here) for other music interests of mine. Last.fm does have nice graphs though.

*Well, it wasn't exactly without music. I've got a creative zen, but I haven't been able to move music on or off it for about two years. I dropped it heavily on a pavement ya see. Still works for what's on there, but it has lots of stuff that I don't really listen to anymore, and is missing a lot of my more recent music.

So, blogging eh?

How hard could it be? Well. We'll see.