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As far as we can tell, Amazon.com started this business of "People
\n who bought this book\/CD\/movie also bought" and "If you like these, you’ll
\n also like this". Nowadays this technology, with varying degrees of sophistication,
\n invites us to try everything from wines to life partners.<\/p>\n
One new company we have been looking at, Predixis<\/a>, One of the problems is that we have all sorts of music on our hardrive What we would really like is something simple and straightforward, down This would be both a way of finding people with eerily similar tastes Just for the record, the TEN ABSOLUTELY GREATEST SONGS ever recorded Close runners up include Atom Heart Mother, Chan Chan, Uncle John’s Yes, this clearly brands us as an old fart, burn-out hippie. In addition, it has not escaped our attention that the list includes nary a female except As far as we can tell, Amazon.com started this business of "People who bought this book\/CD\/movie also bought" and "If you like these, you’ll also like this". Nowadays this technology, with varying degrees of sophistication, invites us to try everything … Continue reading
\n claims to understand the "deep characteristics" of your favorite
\n music; using pattern recognition to analyze timbre, timing, harmonics
\n and
\n other acoustical attributes. Supposedly, after you downloade and install
\n it on your computer, it analyzes your entire music collection and tells
\n you what you are missing, and what you would like. Hmmmm. Tempting, but
\n we always go through an agonizing crucible of cost\/benefit and risk analysis
\n before installing unknown shit on Old Betsy, as we have begun referring
\n to our aging hemispheric iMac.<\/p>\n
\n that we HATE, but for one reason or another refuse to delete: sappy Christmas
\n carols, croony Latin pretty boys in the Englebert Humperdink mold with
\n nicknames like "El Puma" and "El Maximo" who Norma
\n Yvonne listens to, post-Apocolyptic acid industrial house mix from number
\n two son, etc.
\n We can’t imagine the effect this would have on the recommendations,
\n and finding and segregating all the offending tunes would too closely
\n resemble work to seriously contemplate.<\/p>\n
\n and dirty. Enter your list of the 10 absolutely greatest songs ever recorded,
\n and find out A) did anyone else pick EXACTLY the same ten songs, and
\n if so who are they and what are they doing with their lives, and B) of
\n all the people who agreed with us on NINE out of TEN, what was the differing
\n tenth?<\/p>\n
\n in music (and other thing?) and of finding new stuff you would probably
\n like.<\/p>\n
\n are (in no particular order):<\/p>\n\n
\n version by the Gypsy Kings from the movie the Big Lebowski – spectacular
\n guitar<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\n California Guitar Trio; who knew Bach’s organ classic was really intended
\n to be
\n played by a guitar trio? Mind blowing…<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\n choices<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\n Salsa song ever recorded, by Fruko, a Colombian triple murderer who
\n sang his
\n way out of prison.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\n we first heard it on the radio in 1967 (for what its worth, the Dowbrigade
\n was 13 at the time), the DJ played it three times in a row, he couldn’t
\n believe it either.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\n celestial<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\n Let the Healing Begin<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\n it for me<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n Band, Always With me, Always with you, Water Song, Glycerine, Like a
\n Hurricane, Girlfren, so many more.<\/p>\n
\n in the song titles. Misogyny? Actually, the Dowbrigade has a whole section
\n of female vocalists in his vaults but usually only listens to them when
\n he feels sad, or it is raining. Go figure.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"