What a difference half a gig(abyte) makes
I’ve been listening to music quite a lot on my Palm Treo recently. With a 512MB card and a version of Pocket Tunes I can get away with one less gadget in my pockets - even though it means my phone battery is always running out.
Anyway - having a mere half gig of music in your pocket, and half a gig that you don’t change that much suddenly means I’m really listening to some things that I’d sort of got into earlier but had left them way behind.
Jet’s ‘Are You Going To Be My Girl?’ has now taken over from Embrace’s ‘All You Good, Good People’ as the song most likely to put a spring in my step and a strange smirk on my face. Yes, I know it’s not big and it’s certainly not clever, but I have a mental picture of one day maybe DJing again and starting by putting it on and sending the previously contained crowd into an uncontrollable rock and roll frenzy.
But the real star has been the reappearance ofClarkesville’s wonderfully poppy The Half Chapter on my musical horizon. Every time I’ve been walking along listening to music and go: “Oooh, I wonder who that’s by..?” it was from that album. I loved it when it came out (ok about six months after it came out), but it’s quite rare these days that something like that sticks. You really should own it. Preferably before their next album comes out.
Here’s some samples and they keep a moblog - if you like that sort of thing.
Having completely got over the novelty of having all the music I’ve ever owned in my pocket. I think I might soon be following this ‘less is more’ trend to its natural conclusion. It’s bye-bye iPod. Hello Walkman.