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True. The same goes for downloads. We don't what happens. And the same with Wilco, the poster-boys of the "internet saved our careers". You can't even listen to Yankee Hotel Foxtrot anymore. The ultimate insult and irony. I never heard it, and went to find it the other week, in the "knowledge"...

And what a brilliant tangent it is. I don't know what it is called. Some sort of fatigue, lack of rush - like listening to one of these awful "music for bedwetter" bands (bless Mr Callagher for coming up with the term) - but the thing is you are not listening to Coldplay: you are listening to...

OK. I'll bite. This is where you miss for me. BIG TIME. You believe Malcolm McLaren's version of "the story", not Johnny Lydons. You think the "point" of the Pistols was Sid's idiocy and idiotic death and some conceptual art/fashion trick. You think the Sex Pistols were merely a vehicle for...

the B-side: greatness almost never mentioned The flipside of the canonical debate are bands like The Only Ones and Tuxedomoon- I think they are magical, yet they hardly ever make any sort of lists. Then bands which never get mentioned because of geographical origin: Holy Toy...

great read, but that is what I call a one hit wonder (a blog with ONE entry)

new entries to not so canonical after all Can I just add some other ones: Blur Oasis Kiss (often quoted by the HM people) Janis Joplin - does not "touch" me at all. Supposed to be "full of soul" and all that. Billie Holiday was soul - Janis was just pants. Madonna- trying the Bowie-trick...

replies to previous posts Rather late to this - in no special order and I could not possibly keep track of who said what. From the barrell. "NRC" = not real canon fodder" as I see it: that is no-one would seriously put them in a canon would they? I reckon age might be important here, I...

Bought the CD today (placed at the front of new releases at HMV). I am pleased that the track which is on my pirate excerpt (mp3, Lay Low FM) is on the album: it is No Lay's "Unorthadox Daughter". What a talent/song. I am obviously coming from the "wrong background" into this...

wrong label/place (have you read their terms and conditions they are a joke: first they say you can't even quote their content, later down it says you can't trust it anyway). I reckon you mean magnatune (which do a 50-50 split - you still have to get "signed" with them though, so while the use...

shameless cut and paste from their site at opsound.org : but the idea (at least to me) sounds neat. seem open for anything ("unfinished experiments" - sure there must be some around). If you have your own material - submit it. OPSOUNDOpsound is gathering material for an open sound pool...

> As the situation is at the moment I see an Open Source'd DRM as the best alternative forward, > the lesser of all evils, the way which can make both artists and us "satisfied". But there has to be a better way. Using DRM is "evil" whether it is open source or not ...

the Faure is lovely indeed. Totally different, but also beautiful: Durutti Column's "Requiem for my mother" from "Someone Else's Party". Simple and direct lyrics, and then Vini's guitar ...

then there's Jarre's experiment with "exclusive permanence". Can't remember the title - but he made a record which was pressed in a "run" of exactly one copy (LP around 1980 ?). Then he burnt the master. It's mentioned in "The Great Rock Discography" (Martin C Strong).

I am not really debating that the DRM (open source or not) will be broken. It will. What I am really looking for is an easy and transparent way to reward artists in the digital age. Is trust and honesty really enough? Maybe - personally I will not rip of people like Vini Reilly or Gillian...

For me it boils down to this: should musicians and writers be paid with money? I believe they should. I have yet to read about any musician saying that they should only be rewarded by "love" and "praise" - all I see and read about is disillusioned people who should have made a decent living...

Not as as clear and structured as I would have liked, but I am starting to believe in 80-90% solutions. The problems with the current digital music payment models and why Open Source DRM might be the solution. I am warming up to the idea of using Open Source Digital Rights Management (DRM) as...

when I started out my blog I thought it would be a lit one. It never will be. So I might as well put it down here (no music books just now, but I did like "Give the anarchist a cigarette"). "The Longest Silence : A Life in Fishing"/McGuane - on trout(&others) fishing, a bit too godly for me...

http://www.halvorsen.org/audio/samples/LayLowFMLondon_20050125.mp3 The quality is not that great: receiption is not that good in my part of London and it's the first time I've done Minidisc to PC convertion. LayLow FM from this Monday. Mono MP3 5mb. Enjoy. (should be OK, it's soon the end...

case in point to why web standards are important ... http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=137312&cid=11477589 "Designing with web standards is the cost effective option. Obviously they hired the wrong people to write their internal apps (or had nobody to give them proper guidance) and now...

the problem I've got with The Wire at the moment is that almost none of the reviews makes me want to go out and listen. And 90% of the music seems to get "good" reviews (or it might be that the writing is so convoluted that I think it is a good review ...) Still buy every other issue or so...