If anyone has a copy of The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Plays the Music of R.E.M, I will love you pretty much forever if you hook me up with "Nightswimming." The internets are not surrendering it to me and the album isn't available for download on Zune Marketplace.

There are some themed mixtapes I want to make and have wanted to make for a while. Y'all have been awesome in the past developing mixtapes. Now help again ( Read more... )

Thanks to a sale at Target, we have way more Microsoft points than I would like to discuss. Suggest songs I should buy for my Zune. My current guilty pleasure, which I kind of hate myself for, is sadly unavailable for download ( Read more... )

Warning: This post tells a true story but contains inadvertent Portal jokes that you will only truly understand if you've incinerated three or more orbs ( Read more... )

So I burned a CD of music under consideration for the wedding, and Mom and I went over to mess with the sound system at the church where we're having it. After finding the right cable and getting the player hooked up, I started playing the CD to see how well the sound traveled, whether it got absorbed by the upholstery too much, whether the bass ( Read more... )

So, um, Falc and I are, at this very moment, talking on IRC about music for the wedding, except that as we do this we're going through our collections of video game music looking for stuff that would be appropriate, and we are totally serious about it.

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Okay, got some more possibilities for my Christmas mix, which brought it up to ninety minutes - too long for a CD. So I eliminated one of my new choices and two of my original choices (The Supremes, and Ray Charles), and now it's down to eighty minutes exactly (after removing ten seconds of dead air from the beginning and end of "Ghost Reindeer in ( Read more... )

After spending several hours (over several days) reaping the benefits of having a Thief in the party (with focus on the Sunken Cave, acquiring 99 Arctic Winds), I gave the final dungeon of FF3 a fourth try earlier this week ( Read more... )

On the radio this afternoon, I heard a version of "Little Drummer Boy" that started with a male vocalist and moved to a fuller group after the first verse, and it involved occasional horns and a strong backbeat. Can someone identify who the artist was so I can try to find it for download? I'm thinking I wanna make another Christmas mix CD this year ( Read more... )

Okay, so I recompiled Christmas 2005. Originally the idea was to dump the Hippopotamus song - the only one repeated from Christmas 2002 - in favor of FFT's "Antidote," but the following series of events happened ( Read more... )