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    Downloading old friends

    While perusing iTunes I came across a favourite of my old Mum - Johnny Mathis. After buying one song I remembered what she saw in him - what a fantastic voice.

    Have you rediscovered artists in this 'easy to track down' downloading era?
    "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
    - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

    #2
    no. I use allofmp3's cheap prices to download albums when I hear a good single from a band I don't know. If it's a good album then great, keep it and chalk up a newly discovered band, if it's crap, they're so cheap I don't worry about binning the whole album.

    I'd never use itunes or napster or any of the over inflated music services.

    Older and ...well, just older!!

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      #3
      I downloaded the billboard top 100 for the years 1946 to 1969.

      Ah the wonders of torrents...

      1610 songs for the cost of leaving my PC connected to the internet...

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        #4
        I don't rate downloading music. Unless you back it up to CD you risk losing your music collection if your PC HD goes down.

        I burn my own from CD's from HMV and Amazon. I've just discovered the pleasures of Benjamin Britten. Marvelous stuff. I recently got 7 Britten CDs for £7 in a sale. Who needs downloads.

        iTunes eh? That means you are one of the sensible people who have the best music player i.e. an iPod. I bought a Creative Micro Zen from a High Street store, but took it back a few days later for a refund. It was tulipe. Aren't iPods brill.

        Do you sleep with the lollypop in your mouth?

        Fungus

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          #5
          I was thinking of a discussion of music rather than the stuff it was loaded from or on.

          Should have known better...
          "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
          - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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            #6
            Yeh, like Nat King Cole, Billie Holliday, loads of old Blues sorts, Muddy Waters etc and of course the one and only, PJ Proby.
            bloggoth

            If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
            John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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              #7
              When you said "downloading old friends" I thought you meant porn flicks from the 80's.....

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                #8
                Can't beat a nice bit of Edith Piaf on one of those aluminium cylinders.
                I'm Spartacus.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by cojak
                  While perusing iTunes I came across a favourite of my old Mum - Johnny Mathis. After buying one song I remembered what she saw in him - what a fantastic voice.

                  Have you rediscovered artists in this 'easy to track down' downloading era?
                  Courtesy of the Beeb doing internet radio broadcasts I heard Paul Anka's big band version of Van Halen's "Jump".

                  I'm still chuckling at the rendition, especially when the backing singers give it with a very indifferent sounding "Jump".

                  Details of album at http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/produ...6&ob=bf&src=lb
                  Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Churchill
                    I downloaded the billboard top 100 for the years 1946 to 1969.

                    Ah the wonders of torrents...

                    1610 songs for the cost of leaving my PC connected to the internet...
                    With the amount of modern artists doing "old" songs..I'm surprised you have to bother with a top 100 from that era!

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