Party People in the House Stand Up
Were I a better singer, I would annoy everyone I know by busting into song old MGM style mid-conversation when people's words jar a lyric or three. Being that I'm not a great singer, a fact I consider to be among the great tragedies of my life, I keep it to myself. But nod smugly, that I've got the song for any and every occasion.
I'm one of those annoying people that turn the music up and insist that everyone in the car just listen when a great song comes on... stop with the conversation, people, and just hear that music. I'm on of those people who make mix CDs for friends and give them album names, themes, cover art and a dossier describing why each song was included and what's so great about it. I collect music of all kinds; I love finding rare covers, b-side tracks, long lost bootleg live recordings... the more obsolete the better. Since the advent of the internet, I'm in heaven.
In short, I'm an audiophile.
Imagine my pleasure, then, to discover MOG, an all music lover's community. Similar to myspace, MOG aims to connect people through their musical tastes. You create a profile, and then upload a list of your entire digital music collection. MOG makes daily listen lists for you based on what other users are listening to who have some of the same titles in their collections as you do in yours. MOG users don't play; it's all about the music. There's a live playlist feature that allows you to link your music client (Itunes, MusicMatch, Winamp, Windows Media Player, whatever) to your blog, myspace or webpage and publish a self-updating last played list. In other words, any of you fine folks reading right now can skip your glance over to the right side of this page and check out what I'm listening to this minute, or whatever I was listening to the last time my computer was on. It's a great way to share music, get the lowdown on new things to hear and fall in love with, and generally broaden your musical horizons.
Of course, being relatively new (launched at the end of June) it still has a few kinks to work out, but as far as I can tell it's all about music loving, and has no spam, privacy violations or spyware involved.
I encourage ya'll to check it out.
MOG's main page is here. MY MOG is here. Check out my live playlist, scrolled at the right... ¶ 7:29 PM
Monday, August 14, 2006
SOOO, anyone that knows me knows that I'm a complete music junkie. If I'm doing laundry, there's a song in my head. If I'm on the train, a song in my head. In the shower, waiting in line at the movies, cleaning house, talking on the phone, doing paperwork for my job, in a staff meeting, at a funeral, WHEREVER I am, I've got an inner soundtrack.
Were I a better singer, I would annoy everyone I know by busting into song old MGM style mid-conversation when people's words jar a lyric or three. Being that I'm not a great singer, a fact I consider to be among the great tragedies of my life, I keep it to myself. But nod smugly, that I've got the song for any and every occasion.
I'm one of those annoying people that turn the music up and insist that everyone in the car just listen when a great song comes on... stop with the conversation, people, and just hear that music. I'm on of those people who make mix CDs for friends and give them album names, themes, cover art and a dossier describing why each song was included and what's so great about it. I collect music of all kinds; I love finding rare covers, b-side tracks, long lost bootleg live recordings... the more obsolete the better. Since the advent of the internet, I'm in heaven.
In short, I'm an audiophile.
Imagine my pleasure, then, to discover MOG, an all music lover's community. Similar to myspace, MOG aims to connect people through their musical tastes. You create a profile, and then upload a list of your entire digital music collection. MOG makes daily listen lists for you based on what other users are listening to who have some of the same titles in their collections as you do in yours. MOG users don't play; it's all about the music. There's a live playlist feature that allows you to link your music client (Itunes, MusicMatch, Winamp, Windows Media Player, whatever) to your blog, myspace or webpage and publish a self-updating last played list. In other words, any of you fine folks reading right now can skip your glance over to the right side of this page and check out what I'm listening to this minute, or whatever I was listening to the last time my computer was on. It's a great way to share music, get the lowdown on new things to hear and fall in love with, and generally broaden your musical horizons.
Of course, being relatively new (launched at the end of June) it still has a few kinks to work out, but as far as I can tell it's all about music loving, and has no spam, privacy violations or spyware involved.
I encourage ya'll to check it out.
MOG's main page is here. MY MOG is here. Check out my live playlist, scrolled at the right... ¶ 7:29 PM
