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"Music-wise, what was the first 45, single or download you bought?"
Submitted by Paddy Melt Wagon.

I was a kid in the early 90's so I probably wasn't buying any 45's, and the Napster phenomenon didn't start until I was at least 15, so I downloading anything, either. I used to watch MTV with my dad on Saturday mornings and always had young babysitters, so I was exposed to some weird shit at a young age. He used to buy me cassettes when we'd go shopping, and I think the first was The Raw & The Cooked from the Fine Young Cannibals. I was 6 years old and totally nuts for  'She Drives Me Crazy.' By the time I was 9 years old I had moved onto the cassette single of Weezer's 'Undone, The Sweater Song,' and S.W.V.'s Remixes album. In fact, I think I got them both on the same day.
 

With all of the "Radiohead-destroyed-the-music-industry" hype that's circling the net right now, you've doubtlessly heard that NIN & Madonna have (in their own way) followed suit. So I'm not gonna talk about that. I also feel like there's a more important issue at hand--this weekend something horrible happened: my external hard drive crashed and took with it my 100+ GB music library. As a result, I've freeloaded from the internet's countless mp3 blogs. This is post #1 in a series of what we can call, "Desperate Picks" or, "My Hard Drive Ate My Music Collection And These Are The Highlights Of What Was Available To Highlight."

Through The Wilderness: Tribute To Madonna
Scheduled Release: 27 November 2007

I've heard some of this, and I must say--it's certainly not bad. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Lavender Diamond, Giant Drag, and Mountain Party are all great artists and I am definitely interested in hearing them do their best Madonna. If you're interested and would like to hear more, I've taken the liberty of directly linking to some available downloads (courtesy of stereogum). But please consider the fact that all proceeds benefit Raising Malawi, so buy it (even if you only buy one album for the next 6 months). Orphans with AIDS need the ten/twelve/however many dollars you know you'll only spend on cigarettes anyway (after you download the album from someone on soulseek).

Official Track List (Manimal Vinyl, 29 October 2007)

Golden Animals "Beautiful Stranger (Blues)"
Winter Flowers "Live To Tell"
Mountain Party "Material Girl"
Jeremy Jay "Into The Groove"
Ariel Pink "Everybody"
Giant Drag "Oh Father"
The Tyde "Hung Up"
Alexandra Hope "Lucky Star"
The Chapin Sisters "Borderline"
Apollo Heights "Dress You Up"
The Bubonic Plague "Who's That Girl?"
The Prayers "Cherish"
Lion of Panjshir "Crazy for You"
Lavender Diamond "Like A Prayer"
Siddhartha "Holiday" (iTunes only)
Pangaeans "Impressive Instant" (iTunes only)

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What's the best music documentary or concert film you've seen?

this video is cute.
i hate me for not being able to buy tickets to anything.

Question of the day: What was the release date of Portishead's last studio-recorded album? Anybody?....
IT WAS 1997, which, for the mathematically challenged, THAT WAS A FREAKING DECADE AGO. Well, good news, guys. The 10-year dry spell is soon to end. UK based music journal twistedear.com posts,

"Portishead's regular blogger, and founder, Geoff Barrow has posted an update on the third album progress: apparently it's on day from being finished, which given the time delay in the news being leaked, could well mean it's finished NOW!"

Subsidary question of the day: Aside from my own ignorance, was anyone else completely in the dark about this? Or was it common knowledge?

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