New Music on My Station

I uploaded a bunch of different music to my station today and put it on shuffle; I've had the same stuff rotating for over a year, so obviously . . . overdue. ;)

Hope you enjoy listening to some of the music I have fun hearing. And someday that I'll have more time to play with the "radio" thing!

Note: it seems like live365 forces some pop-up ads on you because I don't have a pro account; I'm sorry about that. I think if you do the vip thing it won't do that to you. I think.

5/10/12

1. Obsession - Animotion
2. You Owe Me Some Kind of Love - Chris Isaak (I *love* this older self-titled album - totally wore out my cassette as a teenager driving around listening to it)
3. Abracadabra - Steve Miller Band
4. Hesitation Blues -Earl Hines
5. Fix Up, Look Sharp - Dizzee Rascal
6. Strange Brew - Cream
7. Hesitation Blues - Nathaniel Street West (from Light out for the Territory)
8. Repeat of above BECAUSE IT'S SO SEXY
9. Time of the Season - The Zombies
10. Walk on the Wild Side - Lou Reed
11. Spin Spin Sugar - Sneaker Pimps

A note about Walk on the Wild Side: I first heard it (and my fave, Coney Island Baby) on The Best of Lou Reed - I didn't really know anything about Transformer when I bought that tape, I just wanted to hear where Cowboy Junkies got Sweet Jane. So it was news to me to watch this classic albums documentary and find out:

• the true hero of Walk on the Wild Side was the bassist who needed to make twice as much money so suggested laying down TWO bass tracks
• everything I love about Satellite of Love is actually David Bowie (FYI: my fave Bowie song is Sound and Vision)

A Very Purple Playlist

In order, the songs that inspired my very purple camshow 7/12/12:

1. The Beautiful Ones - Prince (from Purple Rain)
2. Computer Blue - Of Montreal (from Spin Presents "Purplish Rain")
3. Purple Rain - Lavender Diamond (from Spin Presents "Purplish Rain")
4. I Would Die 4 U - Prince (from Purple Rain)
5. The Beautiful Ones - Fol Chen (from Spin Presents "Purplish Rain")
6. Take Me With U - Prince (from Purple Rain)
7. Darling Nikki - Prince and the Revolution (from Purple Rain)
8. When Doves Cry - Prince (from Purple Rain)
9. (When Doves Cry AGAIN! Because it brings back dirty memories/ confused longings)

It's really saaaaad that you can't buy the covers off of Spin's "Purplish Rain". I am particularly fond of Lavender Diamond's version of Purple Rain (and when I was looking for it on Amazon I discovered Etta James covered that song too), and glad I was reminded of Fol Chen via the Spin album:



Purple Rain will always be one of my favorite albums; aside from the big classic hits on it, the sounds of I "Would Die 4 U" and "Take Me With U" are uniquely shiver-making. Nothing sounds like them or makes me feel like those songs do: because they're so 80's Prince and because of the age I was when they came out.

7/11 Playlist

In order, the songs from my morning session on July 11th 12th:



Note: click the play button and it will show all the songs in a list.

Amazon didn't have an .mp3 download for the last track, a favorite of mine called "Velvet Guitar" covered by Nicholas Tremulis Orchestra on this beautiful tribute album:

Downgraded (but not Disheartened)

Recently I had to downgrade my broadcaster account because we just couldn't afford it. That means I now have less storage space for songs and fewer people can listen at one time.

We can deal with that for the summer, but by fall my goal is to upgrade to an even better broadcasting package than I had before with twice the storage space AND transition the name/channel to TrixieRadio (instead of the old whipsofopinion/human condition thing). It costs almost $500 for a year (by buying a year it's $240 less than paying monthly) so I'm asking for your help in raising that money since I can't really justify spending the dough otherwise:


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In the meantime I'm doubling the sound quality of my broadcast. It may be a bad time to do it since I already have HALF the storage space I did before for songs (and this will slice that in half again, so I'm left with 25% of the space) but I'll try to spend more time deleting and uploading tracks so there's a better rotation or, at least, as good as there was before (which wasn't very good, I know, but I've been fighting a losing battle with such limited space, having to spend hours deleting and uploading tracks to offer anything fresh and different on a regular basis which, again, I can't justify since it takes so much computer time that I *should* be spending on work that actually makes money).

Anyway, I'll also add a few links to the sidebar here for people who want to donate in other ways by helping me buy new music on Amazon (which has become my .mp3 downloader of choice).

Thanks for all of the awesome feedback and support; it makes me happy knowing people are out there listening to music I love and want to share. Ultimately my goal is to get a professional broadcasting package from Live365 so people can listen for free with NO ADS from them, but that's a little more than I can justify spending until business is better. It's much more cost effective (I'd be able to add tons of storage space without upgrading the whole package, for example) but I wouldn't have time to utilize and promote it anyway AND I don't want to upgrade it unless I have the budget to KEEP it. Someday I will bring you sexy guest dj's and live broadcasts ad-free, though!

PS - in the process of clearing out old tracks that exceed my storage space AND uploading new tracks at a higher bitrate, there MIGHT be some dead air. But at the end of it? New music! Thanks for your patience.

New Blog Address

I'm making some changes, including moving the blog to this new home here on blogspot.

Check back soon for more news on the changes!

Prince Covering Radiohead at Coachella

Weep now to "Creep":