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| What you're about to read is a collection of pointers to some of the music I've discovered on the iTunes Music Store, music I like enough that I want to share it. If you're an iPod owner and an iTunes fan (and if you aren't, what are you doing here?), maybe you'll find something new. Click on any of the CD covers to bounce over to the store and sample a few tracks. And then maybe stop by my other blog for a few well chosen words (and maybe a random snark or two). | 
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Mon, 25 Apr 2005 |
| Passive Aggressive / Nicola Hitchcock | |
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If you've spent any time wandering the iTMS, you'll agree with me that
it's hard to evaluate an album from 30 second snippets of its tracks.
But how hard must it be to decide which clip will best represent a
song. Not everything has an immediately recognizable theme. And of
course the situation becomes even more problematic as an album's
tracks get longer.
Passive Aggressive is a case in point. The barely readable label on the cover announces Nicola Hitchcock as the voice of Mandalay. (Which would be useful information, assuming I had any idea who Mandalay is. Or was, in this case.) But listen to the clip of the first track, called You Will Feel Like This; it's all instrumental. Nice instrumental, but still. Ms. Hitchcock's voice shows up with three seconds to go on Moving Into a New Space and Feel. Are they trying to torture us? Is this some "Absence makes the heart grow fonder" deal? Because from what little I've heard, it's certainly a nice voice. I guess if I want to hear more of it, I'm gonna have to buy the album. Hey, maybe that was the idea all along... |
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