Using my fathers old record player, I listen to ‘You have killed me’ for the first time on LP.
After that, I dug up his original first release 1983 copy of The Smiths first album and listened to it as it was meant to be heard.
Sounds amazing.
The You have killed me single was released today in the UK (tomorrow, March 28 in the US), you can see my copies above.
The U.K. Mini CD single (CD I) tracklisting is:
“You Have Killed Me”
“Good Looking Man About Town”
The U.K. Maxi CD single (CD II) tracklisting is:
“You Have Killed Me”
“Human Being”
“I Knew I Was Next”
“You Have Killed Me” (video)
The U.K. 7″ vinyl single tracklisting is:
“You Have Killed Me”
“Good Looking Man About Town
Hopefully if everyone uses my method and buys all 3 copies, it will push Moz to the top of the charts this Sunday, as well as having all the collectible B-Sides too.
After Isaac Hayes quit as South Park’s Chef last week and Matt & Trey wished him best of luck, it was expected that they wouldn’t just let it lie. Being the kind of people that they are.
Hayes couldn’t have timed his departure any worse, with the new season of South Park starting only a week after he left and considering the short turnaround needed to make an episode of the show.
I haven’t seen the new episode yet, which was aired last night in the US, but it is available to download from the torrent network, which I’ll be doing this evening.
I don’t want to spoil too much of the fun, but from what I’ve heard, the episode well and truly kills off Chef, with him first becoming a paedophile and repeatedly asking the children if they ‘want to make sweet love’ to him and ends with him falling off a bridge, being burned, stabbed and mauled by a lion and a bear. So, well and truly dead.
On the 21st March, 2006, the French parliament voted overwhelmingly in support of forcing companies selling music online to open up their digital rights management (DRM) technology.
What in effect this means, is that subject to approval of the French Senate, if you want to sell music online in France, it has to be compatible with all music players. Regardless of it’s format or source.
As you’re all probably well aware, at the moment, if you buy a track from the iTunes music store, it can only be played on the Apple iPod and if you buy a track using Sony’s Connect music store, it can only be played using a Sony device (eg. Network Walkman, CD Walkman, Hi-MD, Clie handheld or Vaio computer) and there are more examples.
This isn’t an ideal situation for everybody, imagine what it would be like if when buying CDs, you had to go to a specific store to buy a specific format of CD to work on your brand of CD player. And then, what if you buy said CD for the brand that your home stereo is, but wanted to take it on the road using a portable CD player, that is of a different brand?
This is the situation we are in at the moment.
The record companies, government bodies and music player makers all want us to purchase our music legally, but put heavy restrictions on the end-product that we receive.
In essence, they believe that they cannot trust us with their products anymore.
For many years recordable casettes have been available and then recordable CDs and there was little that anyone could do about piracy prevention, only traditional detection and law enforcement methods were effective.
Now that the power is there to prevent the copyright owners rights from being infringed, they decide to penalise every Tom, Dick & Harry, regardless of their intentions, we are all tarred with the same brush.
During the Napster crisis of ‘99 (not to be confused with the Cuban missile crisis of ‘63, which at the time they made out were pretty similar in severity) everything was thrown at shutting down Napster and stamping out digital music downloads completely.
Record companies didn’t recognise that people wanted to download music, their only thoughts were that people wanted the music for free.
The thought never crossed their minds that people perhaps wanted to break the chains that had been strapped around the music industry since its inception.
For years, the consumer had little choice when it came to purchasing music.
Either you bought the album with all the tracks on it, even if you actually only like 50% of the songs, or you could buy the singles, which are overpriced and don’t all get released, so you miss out on some of the good tracks from the album.
Now, you can pick and choose what songs you want to have from the album for a reasonable price, no longer do you have to use the next track key because you come number 10 is stinkier than week old cheddar. The masses rejoiced and downloaded. Napster flourished and the record companies went red in the face.
But for years they did nothing but subpoena.
They didn’t seem to understand that people are doing this because they like the freedom, the power to listen to what they want, not what the fatcats want. But all they could see, was that money was being taken out of their pockets, and it had to be stopped.
It took almost 4 years after the closure of Napster before a viable legal download service was launched, a service by the name of iTunes music store, created to compliment Apple’s new music player, the iPod.
Launched on April 28th, 2003, it has recently hit its 1billionth download worldwide.
Does that not say something to the record company executives?
1billion songs sold legally in 3 years, using just one of the many download services.
Put together Napster, Sony Connect, myCokemusic & the od2 network and we’re talking at least 3billion, surely?
3billion songs downloaded legally, by the very people that are still to this day being branded as theives and being forced to accept sub-standard products, ie. music that has no flexibility.
Why are the majority being braded as potential thieves, and end up getting the short end of the stick, when it is the minority that have the intention of using their newly bought product illegally?
This ruling in France should hopefully help the rest of the world realise that DRM is not the way forward, in fact it is several steps backward and that the consumer gets shafted so that the rich can get richer.
This is easily my favourite Morrissey video, I thought I would share it.
The uncanny thing is, he dances just like I do!
November spawned a monster
Moz officially kicked off his Ringleader of the Tormentors tour in Tulsa, Oklahoma on the Monday 16th.
The tour will arrive in Cardiff on 15th May and from the first show, we have some idea of what might be played on the UK leg.
== Encore ==
Dusting off some great Smiths classics, especially “Stop me if..” & “Still Ill“, we can only hope this setlist is similar to what we will be getting.
What can I say? This movie has been the UK’s No.1 movie in the cinema charts for the last two weeks, but why?
Well, obviously the charts only guage how many people go into the theatre and not those that leave prematurely, which I should have done.
Opportunistic and monotonous are the only ways that I can describe this movie.
The trailer boasts
From two of the seven writers of Scary Movie
We can see why the other five did not want to get involved.
I let off more laughter at the pre-feature trailer for Scary Movie 4 (which, by the way, looks great), than I did through the entirety of Date Movie.
Date Movie was kind of like the Scary Movie series disowned leprosy-ridden little half-brother. Attempts were made to rip the piss out of movies and tv-shows, to little effect. I mean, when we saw Meet the Parents, we understood that the cat was using the toilet on its own, we didn’t need 3 minutes of a feline making diorreah noises on top of the bowl to make us laugh. It was funny originally. Plus, that movie was out 6 years ago, talk about behind the times.
The Michael Jackson gag? Come on. Also, it was done in Scary Movie 3.
He was acquitted, give the guy a break.
The twists and turns, in what little storyline there was, were as bumpy as driving the swiss alps in a Robin Reliant.
Alyson Hannigan, although a talented actress, was clearly scraping the bottom of the barrel when she accepted this role.
0/5 - The lowest possible star rating, and on my first review too. Lets hope I don’t choose too many more stinkers.
IMDB link
Lets face it, 2005 was crap.
Crap for mobile phones and wireless devices, anyway.
What was the best we got?
Candybar phones with 2 megapixel cameras by the back end of the year, that was about it.
And even they weren’t that impressive.
2006 however has much brighter prospects.
In fact, I would say that I am positively bonerfide about the year ahead of us.
Most notably we have the debut of the Nokia n91 to look forward to.
The first mobile phone with a hard drive, a 4gb one too, not to be sniffed at considering that at the moment the we can get about 1gb at best, in the form of various different memory cards.
Nokia have kept us waiting, however. This handset was announced and pictures released over a year ago but still it is shrouded in secrecy and a release date has still not been set.
I can empathise however, what with this being the first symbian device to have to deal with a hard-drive & Wi-Fi, there has to be a few hurdles to overcome.
The next piece of exciting kit is the Sony Ericsson K800 which is due to be launched in Q2 2006, ie. Soon.
It will be UMTS (3G), have 64mb of internal memory and a option for using Sony Memory Stick, the defining feature, however, will be the 3.2megapixel camera that is intergrated.
I mean, jesus, thats high resolution, for a phone.
Having used many Sony Ericcson handsets, including this models predecessor, the K750, which is 2megapixels, I should be assured that this will maintain the quality that has been put out in previous models.
One feature that stands out is thus;
A completely new feature developed by Sony Ericsson is BestPic™, which ensures that you never ‘miss’ an important picture. Press the shutter button once and get 9 full quality 3.2 megapixel pictures to choose from in a time sequence – 4 pictures before and 4 pictures after the actual image you captured. All 9 pictures are displayed as icons on the display. Simply scroll backwards and forwards through the 9 images and save the ones you like best.
Kinda like some mid/high range digital cameras have, a very useful feature.
One flaw, however, is that although it has 3G capabilities, it will have limited use as a video-phone due to the fact that it has no camera on the front of the handset. The same flaw plagued the Nokia 6630 which was doomed to failure and was superceded very quickly by the 6680.
Some lustful images are also coming out from Samsung HQ, such as the SGH-i310 musicphone.
With its 8gb of storage capacity and 2megapixel camera, it is one to drool over.
Although, this handset is only GSM (Quad-band). It will serve a purpose as an mp3 player, but it will be slightly outdated when it comes to wireless data transfer.
3G is a minimum requirement now guys, get with the program!
Though, an interesting and unique feature it does have is TV-Out. Quite how a mobile phone would use this, or more to the point how a mobile phone user would see this as a necessity, is quite trivial.
I can’t imagine many situations when I would want to connect my phone to a TV and watch the poor-quality videos of friends drinking in pubs. But, I could be surprised.
A quick meme that I am setting for all Moz bloggers.
What would be your ideal setlist for the upcoming Ringleader of the Tormentors tour?
Heres mine:
Encore
And that’s my dream setlist.
I tried to be as realistic as I could, obviously he is not going to bash out National Front Disco, we all know what happened last time that happened…and also, I tried to think of what songs suit where Morrissey is now in his musical career.
He writes far more meaningful lyrics now than he did at the beginning of his solo career, I can’t imagine him playing ‘The lazy sunbathers’ for example. That’s just not where he is. In my view.
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