Shade and Honey

The new version of iTunes has nifty little gadget.  It's called the Genius (hi Chuckles!!) and when you turn it on, it sends your music library info to Apple.  I know, I know, I am the first one to resist sending my info to corporate behemoths, but this, like other Apple stuff works for me.

Once they have this stuff, you can select a song, and they will generate a playlist of related or complementary songs from your library (they will also suggest other music for you to buy but right now I do NOT need suggestions for spending more of my limited fundage).  It's very kewl and a great way to explore a library, especially when you have nearly 3000 albums and 135 gigs of music like I do.

So, and this one kind of goes out to Zelmo, here's the first ten of one  of today's playlists (I won't inflict the one based on Dream Theater) based on Cloud Cult's Living On The Outside Of Your Skin:

1. Living On The Outside Of Your Skin, Cloud Cult.  Obviously cuz you gotta start someplace.
2. Like Castanets, Bishop Allen.  Got this from Atrios
3. Small Talk, The Ponys
4. Another Radio Song, Okkervil River.  Killed the Song Of the Day thread on this band over at 3 Bulls, regardless of UC's inability to get into this band this is a tremendous, building anthemic song.
5. Hyperballad, The Twilight Singers
6. Shake The Sheets, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists.  Stupid band name Ted. 
7. Concrete Seconds, Pinback.
8. Fairy Tale, Cloud Cult
9. The Jessica Numbers, The New Pornographers
10. Sideshow by The Seashore, Luna.  Saw these guys on their first tour.
11. For Real, okkervil River.

That's it, no time for comments or expositions, see you over the weekend, hey?

HI AG!!

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