Coheed & Cambria: The (Almost) Complete Collection — I’ve got all the albums comprising the sequence of The Amory Wars from the initial Second Stage Turbine Blade, through In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3, to the final two-volumes Good Apollo I’m burning Star IV | Volume 1: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness & Volume 2: No World for Tomorrow.

Yes, that’s right, I even bought the vinyl for No World for Tomorrow. Second Stage and No World for Tomorrow are both the deluxe editions. I think all I’m missing is their live album and possibly a live DVD.

Boo yah.

Categories: Music
Tags: Coheed & Cambria

Artist: The Weakerthans
Song: The Last Last One
Album: Watermark EP

You always stole all my last words.
Here’s no exception then, one more for me to send.
And nothing happens in the end.
I’m thinking of you less, more concerned…
and more is less, I guess it doesn’t matter now.

Maybe we’ll never go insane.
You always said we would,
sometimes I wished we could with
you lying naked in the rain
and singing Boney M, cutting down all our old friends.
I talk to them again now.

So here’s the last one I have left.
We fell a little deep, I watched you fall asleep.
And nothing happens in the end,
but I remember when I could remember when.
Seems like a long time ago.

Categories: Lyrics
Tags: The Weakerthans

Artist: Moneen
Song: There Are A Million Reasons For Why This May Not Work… And Just One Good One For Why It Will

Lyrics:
Who’s to say the way I am
is not to blame on hating love.
Let’s be tragic, let’s be sad.
These eyes can’t seem to see the way I am.

All for love. You wait way too long.
All for love.

Cry and sob while you wait for him.
This kind of love won’t last it never did.
What if this had never happened?
What if we had never seen the light of day?
What if this had never happened?
What if we had never met at all?

All for love. You wait way too long.
All for love.

What if…
this had never happened?
We had never seen the light of day?
This had never happened?
We had never met at all?

Categories: Lyrics
Tags: Moneen

Walter just finished up a major refresh of Just An Alias and also put up a new show “Special Edition - Flip the Switch” featuring a variety of electronica music. It’s got some good grooves and is well worth checking out.

Categories: Friends, Music, The Sphere
Tags: electronica, podcast

If you purchase digital music at all (oh, I know some of you are pirates, don’t try to hide it from me), let me point out the newly born Amazon MP3 (beta). All of the songs are straight MP3s (no DRM) so they’ll work just fine on iPods or any MP3 player or can be burned to CD without any difficulty. The site doesn’t have as much selection as iTunes (at least not yet), but they’ve snagged content from major labels Universal and EMI. So you can enjoy artists such as Kanye West, Coldplay, and David Bowie.

You don’t listen to Bowie? Ok, that’s fair, neither do I.

Another advantage over iTunes: price. The top 100 songs are $.89/each and the top $100 albums are $8.99. In general though, song costs start at $.89 and depend on length.

via Daring Fireball:

Amazon’s single pricing is based on track length. Songs that are more than seven minutes long cost $1.94, songs more than 14 minutes cost even more. This isn’t necessarily a bad deal compared to iTunes — Apple makes many of these tracks album-only.

Oh, and for a sweet taste of irony… have you seen the new Apple nano advertisement? You know, this one:

iPod nano featuring Feist - 1234

The irony is that this song is the #1 (album version) and #4 (single) most purchased song on Amazon MP3, it costs 10 cents less than on iTunes, and there’s no copy restrictions.

Categories: Music, Tech, The Sphere
Tags: Amazon, iTunes, mp3