#accuradio

[thatwritererinoriordan]

[overthedub]

The first of the 2005 Gorillaz' Iceberg Radio takeovers, starting with 2-D! These are the bits in-between the songs where 2-D talks about his influences and music he likes with some extras thrown in.

Iceberg Radio was initially a Canadian Internet radio service back in 2005 and has since been bought and renamed to AccuRadio. The site no longer has these radio spots uploaded, so the takeovers are considered lost media.

Audio taken from Blur Archive Project’s archive folder (with their permission), which you can find for yourself here: 

You can listen to the full uncut radio takeover with songs included there!

Playlists for 2-D's picks:

Youtube playlist:

Transcript under the cut!

Radio announcer: This is 2-D from the Gorillaz taking over exclusively on icebergradio.com!

[Beck’s “E-Pro” playing in the background]

2-D: Oi! This is 2-D from Gorillaz! And I’ve invited myself along for an hour to spin some of my favorite discs.

Right, to kick my show off, I’m gonna play a track from enormous talent in a pint-sized body. This is Beck, with his song “E-Pro”!

[After “E-Pro”]

2-D: That was the latest tune from the extraordinary talent called Beck! Featuring a big Beastie Boys’ breakbeat and a Dust Brothers’ production.

Funny-lookin’ bloke [in reference to Beck]. Apparently, right, he’s only, like, about two foot (2′)? And, uh, they pack him away in a shoebox after his concerts, awright? Um, yeah.

[Interpol’s “Narc” playing in the background]

2-D: Next up, this is Interpol with “Narc”.

[After “Narc”]

2-D: Uh, that was Interpol and next up, uh...Oh, wait a sec. I didn’t put this in there! The Bravery? That’s a funny-lookin’ band, innit?

[The Bravery’s “An Honest Mistake” playing in the background]

2-D: I think they’re havin’ a right laugh tryin’a play this song with a straight face. Well, here you go! "An Honest Mistake”! You said it, boys.

[After “An Honest Mistake”]

2-D: Hey! This is 2-D! I’m the singer and the pin-up of Gorillaz! I’m taking over for an hour. I’m playin’ all my old favorites.

[The Clash’s “Train in Vain” playing in the background]

2-D: This next track is by one of my favorite bands of all time: The Clash! Mick Jones sings this one and it’s called “Train in Vain”.

*Note: Mick Jones is the lead guitarist for The Clash, but he also sings lead vocals on a few songs, including "Train in Vain (Stand By Me)".

[After “Train in Vain (Stand by Me)”]

2-D: “Walworth’s version of David Bowie, who happened to make great singles, can now afford his own place to hold his goth concert—”

Hang on! I’ve got me notes mixed up. Oh, oh, wait a sec, that’s meant to be for Gary Numan. Uh, comin’ up is a song from Blur’s last album. This is an excellent track, although I think the vocals on this sound like the singer’s tryin’a copy the way I sing! Rude!

[Blur’s “Battery in Your Leg” playing in the background]

2-D: This is the last time Graham played guitar with Blur. Outstanding!

*Note: Gary Numan was the lead singer for the English band Tubeway Army before becoming a solo artist. Graham here refers to Graham Coxon, the lead guitarist for Blur. He has since returned to playing for the band in 2009.

[After “Battery in Your Leg” / “Hallelujah (Club Mix)” by Happy Mondays]

2-D: That was, uh, the Happy Mondays with “Hallelujah”! With singer Shaun Ryder. You’re listening to me, 2-D from Gorillaz.

Right! This next track, right, is a killer Gorillaz tune from our new Demon Days album! And it features the geezer Shaun Ryder. From the Happy Mondays. That you, uh, just heard singin’ on that last record. Yeah.

This is “DARE” by Gorillaz!

[After “DARE” / “I Predict a Riot” by The Kaiser Chiefs

2-D: That was the Kaiser Chiefs, a brand-new British band. Uh, they’re also great live. Singer looks a bit like Damon Albarn, bloke from Blur.

All the last Kaiser Chief singles have been great, and here’s something else to put a smile on your face: Joy Division! With “24 Hours”.

[After “24 Hours” / “The Headmaster Ritual” by The Smiths]

2-D: That was a song by the miserable Morrissey bloke about getting caught smoking cigarettes in the school bulbs and getting spanked by a load of teachers. You’re listenin’ to me, 2-D!

Next up...oh, right. I-I’m sensin’ a theme here. Joy Division, Smiths, and now this track is called “No Fun”. Hm. Mind your backs. It's The Stooges.

*Note: Morrissey was the lead singer for the band, The Smiths. He has since become a solo artist since the band broke up.

[After “No Fun”]

2-D: That was Iggy Pop, suffering for your sins. And now, the biggest selling 12″ of all time and born out the remnants of Joy Division: the fantastic New Order with “Blue Monday”!

*Note: Iggy Pop was the lead singer for the band The Stooges, who have broken up and reunited multiple times.

TW: Suicide - Joy Division initially broke up due to their lead singer, Ian Curtis, committing suicide. Later, the lead guitarist and vocalist, bassist, and drummer of Joy Division reunited to form the band New Order.

[After “Blue Monday”]

2-D: Hi! This is 2-D from Gorillaz, uh, and that was New Order. Comin’ up next are the very influential Kraftwerk band! They-They along with Das Kotzen Bots were the pioneers of minimalist electronic music. I think this track is about, uhhhh, sexy robots or something? “Das Model”!

*Note: I couldn't find the other band 2-D is talking about, so the band name may be wrong.

[After “Das Model”]

[Bloc Party’s “So Here We Are” playing in the background]

2-D: Ooooh! That is just so German! And here’s another great band from Britain: Bloc Party! And this is one of my favorite singles to come out in a while. Apparently, they’re great live, too, so check ‘em out! You’re listenin’ to me, 2-D!

[After “So Here We Are” / “Just Like Honey” by The Jesus and Mary Chain]

2-D: Uhhh, that was The Jesus and Mary Chain! They were like The Velvet Underground meets the Sex Pistols with spotty shirts and curly hair. Basically, they’re black rebel Motorpsycho for grandads!

Next we have...huh? I don’t believe it! Someone’s been muckin’ ‘round my record collection! Who put this in ‘ere? Huh? David Gahan?!

Right. Uh...well, I guess I better play it. This is “Peo-ple are Peo-ple” with a song called Depeche Mode.

*Note: David Gahan is the lead singer for the band Depeche Mode. 2-D mixes up the song and band name here.

[After “People are People”]

[N.E.R.D.’s “Things are Getting Better” playing in the background]

2-D: You’re listenin’ to me, 2-D from Gorillaz! N.E.R.D. are the band that the Nexus wanted to produce, and this is “Things are Gettin' Better”.

*Note: Nexus here may refer to Nexus Music, a Danish music label. I'm not quite sure what 2-D says there, so it may be a different label.

[After “Things are Getting Better” / “Elephant Stone” by The Stone Roses]

[Buzzcocks’ “I Don’t Mind” playing in the background]

2-D: That’s The Stone Roses. And from one monkey-based singer to another, I’d like to say that The Stone Roses are a great band! This is the Buzzcocks!

[After “I Don’t Mind”]

2-D: That was the Buzzcocks, who were like a punk-rock version of The Beatles. And that was called “I Don’t Mind”. If you don’t already have it, you should get your hands on a copy of the Buzzcocks’ Singles Going Steady album.

Next is The Jam with *singing* “Goin’ Underground”!

[After “Going Underground” by The Jam]

2-D: Well, that’s it! My time’s up. This is the last track from me, 2-D from Gorillaz tonight, and it’s by a band called Wire! A long-time favorite of mine.

[Wire’s “Mannequin” playing in the background]

A lot of their work was quite abstract, but they were intelligent artists who could also do, like, pop melodies? Uh, this is one of ‘em! You’ve been listenin’ to me, 2-D from Gorillaz, muckin’ about. I hope you enjoyed it! I’m out of here like I stole somethin’! See ya!

[marblebees]

So I’ve been listening to more R&B recently since the accuradio hiphop station for 2020s is hiphop and R&B? And like damn. R&B’s been getting soooo fucking good recently. Its genuinely hitting a new peak with its crossovers in hiphop, using the same type of vocals and cadence to make the rhythms more complex and multilayered and it rlly slaps. So many ass shakers, as a certain someone would say

[moviesludge]

I hit the accuradio artist ban limit for my radio station. anybody want to recommend an internet radio??

[antiquesintheattic]

my shift so far has been eating cooookiesss and blogging and drinking Diet Coke and playing solitaire and 2048 and listening to accuradio and answering one phone call and going up in the mezzanine storage room which was really scary.

[thedragonchilde]

I've been listening to AccuRadio for twenty years now (I've kept up with a lot of contemporary musicals via AccuBroadway especially)

I'll always talk up internet radio stations because I don't think the average person is aware that they're free, can run in your browser (or in any program that can connect to them), work on your phone, run better than a youtube tab, and give you a much better selection of music than you could get from a general algorithmic playlist

(also lots of them have live shows which you can tune into for free)

[xtruss]

What's The Perfect Song Length? A Statistical Analysis! Investigating The "Ideal" Song Length, And Whether Such A Thing Exists.

— Daniel Parris | March 19, 2025

Photo By Jason Rosewell on Unsplash

Intro: When Does The Average Listener Lose Interest?

The 2024 box office bomb Here—a Tom Hanks melodrama that takes place in one room—is a bad movie with a surprisingly good trailer. The trailer was so compelling that I rushed home to hear a song that soundtracked this preview. I can't remember the last time I discovered music in the wild, so I was rather excited.

Listening to this track in its entirety was an emotional rollercoaster:

After Minute 1: I had found my next great song. I was a person capable of discovering new music—no longer a stunted cultural dinosaur approaching middle age.

After Minute 3: This song was still great, but I was unsure how this band was going to land the plane. Maybe the music would simply fade out. 🤷‍♂️

After Minute 5: The song was still going, for whatever reason. At this point, the musicians were just making random noises. 🙃

After Minute 6: I had completely lost interest.

After 7 Full Minutes: The song finally ended, and I was back where I started—a stunted cultural dinosaur approaching middle age.

I'm convinced this tune would be a masterpiece if it ended after three minutes and fifteen seconds—a decidedly hot take that got me thinking about the ideal song length. Does such a thing exist? Can we pinpoint a threshold after which the average listener loses interest, or is this topic simply too nuanced for a one-size-fits-all answer?

So today, we'll try to pinpoint the ideal song length, examine how this hypothetical varies by genre, and analyze recent trends in popular music runtimes.

What's The Perfect Song Length?

AccuRadio is a free, human-curated internet radio service that offers over 1,000 customizable music channels. The site logs over 1.8 billion global trackplays per year and has decades' worth of data on listener behavior.

AccuRadio allows its users to rate songs on a scale of 1 to 5. A "5" means you will hear a lot more of that song, and a "1" or "2" means that track is effectively banned from future listening sessions.

So, how do AccuRadio user ratings change as a function of track runtimes? Well, counterintuitively, listener acclaim improves as song duration increases.

Does this mean the answer to "what's the ideal song length" is simply "as long as possible"? Surely, a limit must exist.

Perhaps this trend is a product of self-selection: listeners who dislike extended runtimes skip longer songs and, therefore, never rate a 7-minute track. As such, we'll need to analyze:

Those who listen and rate songs (Which we've already done)

Those who do not finish a track

To examine the latter, we'll measure user "skip" percentage as a function of track duration.

This trend is even more counterintuitive: people are more likely to skip songs that run three to five minutes than a track that lasts seven minutes.

How is this possible? I thought this analysis was going to be straightforward: I run one query, get a simple answer—something like four minutes—and move on with minimal follow-through. Yet the interplay between song duration and listener preference is decidedly complex, meaning there's no "golden" number—just like most things in life.

Ideal track length—if such a thing exists—is shaped by myriad factors, including genre conventions, audience expectation, age, and the realities of digital discovery in a streaming-dominated landscape.

What's The Perfect Song Length? Part Two: Investigating Genre, Age, And Changing Norms

Running just over eight minutes, "The Prophet's Song" is Queen's longest studio track, appearing as the seventh title on their album "A Night at the Opera." During the heydey of CDs, cassettes, and vinyl, listeners averse to the song's eight-minute runtime had no choice but to skip this track. In today's world of algorithmic recommendations and hand-crafted playlists, the song's lengthy runtime is punished through lack of exposure. People can simply avoid this tune altogether, which means the track sees fewer plays, appears on fewer playlists, and is rendered obscure relative to Queen's other works. While this phenomenon does not affect every long-running song, it disproportionately penalizes grander compositions that lack a committed fanbase.

Nearly 90% of streaming activity converges on tracks lasting between two and five minutes.

Overall, the pool of long-running songs is small, and they don't draw substantial listenership—at least in aggregate. Yet this 3,000-foot view obscures the idiosyncratic nature of listener preference.

Track duration is heavily influenced by genre conventions, with most musicians adhering to the norms established by their peers and predecessors. Long-running songs—which we'll define as any tune exceeding seven minutes—are relatively scarce outside specific genres.

Instrumental formats such as classical and jazz favor lengthier compositions, as do guitar-driven styles like rock and metal.

Devoted fans of these genres are disproportionately responsible for the high ratings and low skip percentages observed for longer-running tracks. A nine-minute song does not deter these listeners; in fact, it's precisely what they expect from Beethoven's "Symphony No. 6," Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven," or Miles Davis' "So What." Here, we actually see self-selection in action since listeners drawn to longer runtimes are more likely to be matched with these tracks. Optimal song matching is a principal benefit of music streaming and algorithmic curation—a feature, not a bug—though I know using the words "algorithm," "streaming," and "benefit" in the same sentence is heresy (Spotify bad!!! Boo streaming!!!).

Meanwhile, pop and hip-hop—two genres that dominate contemporary music—tend toward shorter runtimes. With the decline of rock and the rise of shorter song formats, the once-beloved "toilet track" has become a thing of the past. What's a toilet track, you ask?

In radio parlance, a "toilet track" is a longer-than-usual song that allows a DJ to go to the bathroom. In 2022, Jacobs Media polled several radio personalities to identify the greatest "bathroom break" songs of all time. The top five songs highlighted were:

1–Peter Frampton's live version of "Do You Feel Like We Do"

2– "American Pie" By Don McLean

3– “Free Bird” By Lynyrd Skynyrd

4– "Stairway to Heaven" By Led Zeppelin

5– "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" By Iron Butterfly

The commonality amongst these classics is that they were all released in the late 1960s and early 1970s when rock dominated popular music.

Unfortunately, radio DJs may struggle to find a "toilet-worthy" tune released in the last decade. Since the late 1990s, the average duration of Billboard-charting songs has consistently declined.

If an "ideal" song length does exist, it evolves with each era's prevailing musical style.

This 30-year decline in average song duration can be traced to three paradigmatic shifts in music economics and taste. First, we have the death of rock and the end of long-running tracks with extended guitar solos. Second, the arrival of iTunes and the rise of streaming platforms led to a decoupling of songs and albums. Artists began focusing on the commercial maximization of individual tracks over cohesive album concepts. Third, streaming services moved the industry toward a pay-per-play revenue model, rewarding artists for the number of listens instead of total listening time. Streaming ten 31-second tracks pays more than a single stream of a 310-second song.

The recent decline in average track duration has also been accompanied by a sustained dip in the variability of Billboard-charting song lengths. Said differently, popular music (mostly) falls within a narrowing range of ever-shortening runtimes.

Somehow, limitless cloud storage and infinite streaming selection have yielded a runtime uniformity comparable to the 1950s and the days of 78 RPM records. How silly.

Tracing the historical progression of popular music runtimes brings us to our final explanatory factor for "ideal" song duration: listener age.

Overall, younger listeners prefer shorter tracks, while those ages 30 to 70 prefer longer runtimes. Interestingly, average track length drops again among listeners over 70, falling below that of middle-aged cohorts.

These runtime preferences can be explained by my *grand unifying theory of music listenership*: in short, we gravitate toward the music of our adolescence.

A 2021 New York Times analysis of Spotify data revealed that our most-played songs often stem from our teenage years, particularly between the ages of 13 and 16.

How does this phenomenon influence ideal song duration? Well, listeners under 30 and above 70 likely favor shorter tracks that shaped their teenage years, while those between 30 and 70 prefer longer-running classics popular in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.

The naively simple question of "optimal" song length has an even simpler answer: "It depends." Our preferred track runtime is driven by a mix of formative musical experiences, the machinations of popular culture, and genre preferences:

If you grew up on "Free Bird," Stairway to Heaven," and DJ toilet tracks, your platonic ideal might entail a longer runtime.

If you enjoy Miles Davis, Kenny G, or Beethoven (an admittedly eclectic trio of instrumental musicians), you might also favor longer track lengths.

If your childhood was defined by Roy Orbison and Nat King Cole pop standards on 78 RPM records, you might prefer a crisp two-minute track.

If you're a teenager today, chances are you prefer shorter songs—and you'll inevitably be told it's because your generation has a short attention span. But it's not your fault; you're simply living in an era where song lengths are shrinking and variety is scarce.

Final Thoughts: The "McDonald-ization" of Song Lengths

Photo By Fath on Unsplash

As a freshman film major, I took a course called "Analyzing Cultural Contexts." Because I was a freshman with a poor work ethic, I did not pay attention during this class (as is my right as an American! 🇺🇸). As a full-fledged adult professional who writes about culture, I wish I had applied myself during this course.

I do, however, remember one lecture concerning the homogenization of culture—which the professor snidely referred to as the "McDonald-ization" of art. According to this lecture (and my subsequent Google research), cultural homogenization entails the emergence of a uniform global culture in place of local customs—driven by technological advances and globalization. Now, I know what you're thinking: you didn't sign up for some liberal arts lecture—you want to know about music and data.

So, how does all of this relate to ideal song runtimes? Well, consider this thought experiment: somehow, you are transported back to 1700s Vienna, then the music capital of the world, home to Amadeus Mozart. After deciding that you are not a space alien, the people of Vienna investigate your Spotify playlists and are shocked to see that nearly all songs run between two and five minutes. Your music is both short and uniform in duration relative to Beethoven's "Symphony No. 6" and Mozart's "Violin Concerto No. 3." According to these 18th-century folk (who have somehow mastered the iPhone), your songs are confined to a strict range of runtimes, inconsistent with their diverse spectrum of composition lengths.

If there is an ideal duration for popular music—and this is a big "if"—it falls within today's narrowing range of contemporary song lengths.

Over the last century, popular music runtimes have become increasingly standardized. Anything below two minutes is too short; anything above five minutes may be too long. This process of homogenization is driven by market forces—mainly, musicians worldwide are rewarded for tunes that fall within this accepted range (and are given less money when they ignore market demands).

If a track runs longer than six minutes, it inevitably begs the question of why. What's so special about these extra two or three minutes.

Two of my all-time favorite songs, LCD Soundsystem's "All My Friends" and Bruce Springsteen's "Rosalita," run longer than seven minutes and, in my heavily biased opinion, benefit from the epic scope provided by their runtimes. Though I hate to admit it, my fondness for these longer songs is a one-off. The extra two minutes of music is worth the emotional pay-off—though that's not always the case.

I realize it's rather callous to reduce music's value to a time optimization problem. Yet, cultural norms skew so heavily toward two-to-five-minute songs that anything beyond this range is easily identified and critiqued.

Our cultural reference points are a product of nurture, learned through the ubiquity of "McDonald-ized" music. When 90% of popular songs follow the same pattern, we naturally assume that's how music should be. As such, our perception of ideal song length is emblematic of our environment—more specifically, your environment when you were fifteen years old and extremely hormonal.

[queer-ragnelle]

Would AccuRadio work for you? It’s free and it has nice selections of music genres.

That's a great suggestion thank you! Listening to Spotify on desktop now to make due since I'm trying to get stuff done in a timeframe I don't wanna mess with another program rn but handy for the future. I appreciate it!

[maximuswolf]

Spotify having issues; what are some good alternatives to Spotify that aren't seemingly locked into listening to a list?

Spotify having issues; what are some good alternatives to Spotify that aren't seemingly locked into listening to a list? So my Spotify on my ten-year-old MacBook had been acting up where even with an adblocker it seemingly rapid-fires through songs not even playing them and one time even started looking like it was playing a song with no audio coming out (and no my sound wasn't muted)Now I've just got a new Mac a few days ago and when I try to get to spotify.com in Firefox it says the browser isn't supported and I need to use the app and when I try to open the app it says I need this thing called Rosetta that I've never heard of before.Part of me wants to see if I can get this working again as I don't know how. Part of me sees what I've heard about the ethical issues surrounding Spotify and wants to find a replacement with as wide a range of music (as at least I've known Spotify for having, listened to it from around 2013 up until I started having these issues about a year ago), the capability to make mixes (as I'm kinda obsessed with making fanmixes and miss 8tracks.com (it still relatively works if you use ublock but no one's seemingly active on there) and wish there was an alternative to that) and perhaps even a Discover-like feature but something where my listening habits are more free than they are on sites I've been using instead like accuradio and jango where you're basically locked into a station unless you keep skipping around and can't just play only the tracks you know from a list or somethingSo does either a viable solution or alternative to my Spotify dilemma exist Submitted December 06, 2024 at 04:00AM by StarChild413 https://ift.tt/6kUhGQp via /r/Music

[freeoldiesmusicportal]

Tune In to Nostalgia: Discover the Best Sources for Oldies Music for Free

In a world where music streaming services dominate the landscape, there's a timeless allure to the classics. Oldies music, with its nostalgic melodies and timeless charm, continues to captivate audiences across generations. Fortunately, you don't have to break the bank to enjoy the golden hits of yesteryears. In this blog, we'll explore the best sources for accessing oldies music for free, allowing you to indulge in a journey down memory lane without spending a dime.

The enduring appeal of oldies music:

Oldies music transcends time, offering a musical time capsule that transports listeners to the bygone eras of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. From rock 'n' roll anthems to soulful ballads, these classic tunes evoke a sense of nostalgia and nostalgia, reminding us of simpler times and cherished memories. Whether you're a baby boomer reliving your youth or a millennial exploring the sounds of generations past, oldies music for free holds a universal appeal that resonates with audiences of all ages.

Streaming platform offering free oldies music:

Spotify - While Spotify's free tier includes advertisements and limited skips, it provides access to an extensive library of oldies tracks and curated playlists. Users can create personalized radio stations based on their favorite artists or explore themed playlists featuring classic hits.

Pandora - Pandora offers a personalized radio experience where users can create stations based on their musical preferences. With its vast collection of oldies music, Pandora curates stations tailored to specific genres and eras, ensuring a nostalgic listening experience.

YouTube Music: YouTube Music's free tier allows users to stream ad-supported music videos and audio tracks, including a wide selection of oldies music. Users can explore playlists, live performances, and archival footage from iconic artists of the past.

Internet radio stations specializing in oldies music:

AccuRadio: AccuRadio features a diverse range of oldies music channels, including stations dedicated to rock 'n' roll, soul, and R&B classics. Users can tune in to curated playlists or create personalized stations based on their favorite artists and genres.

TuneIn: TuneIn offers access to thousands of live radio stations from around the world, including stations that exclusively play oldies music. Users can explore a variety of channels catering to different eras and musical styles, all available for free streaming.

Conclusion:

In a digital age where music is more accessible than ever, enjoying oldies music for free has never been easier. Whether you prefer streaming platforms, internet radio stations, or public domain archives, there are countless options available for indulging in the nostalgic sounds of yesteryear. So, why wait? Dive into the world of oldies music and let the timeless melodies transport you to a bygone era filled with unforgettable tunes and cherished memories—all without spending a penny.

[overthedub]

The second 2005 Gorillaz’ Iceberg Radio takeover, now with Noodle's picks! All these songs are ones she specifically chooses, and it's very cute to hear her gush over the music she likes.

Iceberg Radio was initially a Canadian Internet radio service back in 2005 and has since been bought and renamed to AccuRadio. The site no longer has these radio spots uploaded, so the takeovers are considered lost media.

Audio taken from Blur Archive Project’s archive folder (with their permission), which you can find for yourself here: 

You can listen to the full uncut radio takeover with songs included there!

Playlists for Noodle’s picks:

Youtube playlist made by Lobotomy Pop:

Transcript under the cut!

Radio announcer: You're listening to the Noodle's Marshall Music Mix, exclusively on icebergradio.com!

Noodle: Hello! I'm Noodle from Gorillaz! And I'm going to take over and play all of my favorite songs! It's Noodle's Marshall Music Mix and it's about the music!

So, first, I'm going to play a new band from England! They're very spiky! They recently covered the "Hounds of Love" by Kate Bush, but this is their first original single. Uh, I think?

Hai. It's The Futureheads with "Decent Days and Nights".

[After "Decent Days and Nights"]

[LCD Soundsystem's "Movement" playing in the background"]

Noodle: That was The Futureheads! Hai! And coming up on Marshall Music Mix is the LCD Soundsystem with "Movement"!

[After "Movement"]

Noodle: Hello! Genki? I'm Noodle from the Gorillaz! And you're listening to Noodle's Marshall Music Mix!

Coming up is one of my favorite Gorillaz' songs from the new album, Demon Days.

[Gorillaz' "El Mañana" playing in the background]

2-D's vocals have come out very well, although, I'm not quite sure what Murdoc is playing on the bass here. And...Russel's drumming sounds like he forgot to take his medication again. Anyway, here is "El Mañana" by Gorillaz!

*Note: Genki in Japanese is a casual way of asking, "How are you?"

[After "El Mañana"]

Noodle: That was from Gorillaz there, and this next track is from Mars Volta. They're made up of two of the former members of the band, At the Drive-In. This track is called "The Widow!"

[After "The Widow"]

[Bloc Party's "Like Eating Glass" playing in the background]

Noodle: Hello, this is Noodle from Gorillaz, and you're listening to Noodle's Marshall Music Mix! This track is by a band called Bloc Party. The track is produced by Paul Epworth, and is called "Like Eating Glass". So, here it comes!

[After "Like Eating Glass"]

Noodle: Hai! That was Bloc Party. And coming up is a band called Ladytron with "They Only Want You When You are Seventeen".

[Ladytron's "Seventeen" playing in the background]

Noodle: Uh, that sounds a bit like a kind of Logan's Run sentiment, but I'm only thirteen, so I've got bags of time yet!

And you're listening to Noodle's Marshall Music Mix!

*Note: The Ladytron song is just called "Seventeen", but "They only want you when you're seventeen" is repeated a lot during the song.

Logan's Run is a 1976 sci-fi dystopia movie (later turned TV series) about a society in the far future that kills anyone over the age of 30 in an attempt to maintain a youthful society.

[After "Seventeen"]

Noodle: Hello! This is Noodle from Gorillaz! And you're listening to Noodle's Marshall Music Mix!

[After Doves' "Black and White Town"]

VOLUME WARNING!

Noodle: That was the Doves with "Black and White Town". The Doves used to be a band called Sub Sub. They formed The Doves after their studio burned down and they lost all the work from Sub Sub.

[The Rapture's "House of Jealous Lovers" playing in the background]

Sometimes, I wish our studio would burn down because it's so infested and evil aaand diseased. Hai.

Um, I'm Noodle from Gorillaz, and you're listening to Noodle's Marshall Music Mix! This is The Rapture!

[After "House of Jealous Lovers" by The Rapture]

Noodle: Hello, genki? I'm Noodle from Gorillaz playing all of my favorite songs! It's Noodle's Marshall Music Mix!

This next band are Fugazi. Fugazi were formed by Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat and a singer from a great band called the Rites of Spring! This track is called "Repeater"!

[After "Repeater"]

Noodle: Hello, you've tuned into Noodle's Marshall Music Mix! Ah, this is Noodle from Gorillaz!

[After "Race for the Prize" by The Flaming Lips]

Noodle: That was The Flaming Lips with "Race for the Prize". Next up is "This Fire" with Franz Ferdinand.

Franz Ferdinand's are recording their new album at the moment, apparently, but this was a track that they released earlier! You're listening to Noodle's Marshall Music Mix.

[After "This Fire"]

Noodle: Thank you! Arigatou, Franz Ferdinand! Coming up now is Roxy Music with "Virginia Plain".

I love this song because...um...um...yes, I think the way Bryan Ferry sings this track sounds almost mentally ill! Hai!

And also Mr. Brian Eno makes very good blobby noises! Hai! This is Roxy Music!

Notes: Bryan Ferry is the lead singer for the band Roxy Music. Brian Eno was the former keyboardist for Roxy Music and now works as a music producer for rock, electronic, and pop songs. He has also sung on Damon Albarn's solo album, Everyday Robots.

[After "Virginia Plain"]

Noodle: Woooow! That was Roxy Music when they all still looked like aliens in make-up and sung about nonsense. Ha-hai!

I'm Noodle from Gorillaz and this is Kate Bush. I think Kate Bush is a wonderful woman and a great inspiration! I cannot wait to hear her next piece of work! Hai!

Here is one of my favorite tracks from the album Hounds of Love. This is "The Big Sky"!

[After "The Big Sky"]

Noodle: That's a woooonderful song! Yeah! Okay, last treat is a track from Graham Coxon, who used to be in the Blur with our friend, Damon Albarn.

[Graham Coxon's "Freakin' Out" playing in the background]

Graham is playing this song about becoming, um, uh, mentally deranged! Hai. Uh, I think Graham is a smart guitarist!

So, that's for now! I'm Noodle from the Gorillaz and you've been listening to: Noodle's Marshall Music Mix! I hope you enjoyed all the tunes I played! Bye bye!

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The "people not commenting" thing is a problem all over. People complain about it with fanfic too. People's leisure has shrunk (remember when having too much of it was predicted to be a problem? I want to live in that reality!) and their energy with it, and there's so much more internet than there used to be, with the same amount of real life, and so much is so corporatized and full of ads and spyware and spambots and whatnot, it's harder to use in community-building ways.

So comment when you can and get your nourishment where you can. All we can do is the best we can do.

ETA: Just as I posted this AccuRadio started playing Jackson Brown's "The Load Out/Stay," with its brilliant swelling passage about the muscian's take on this evergreen problem:

People you've got the power over what we do You can sit there and wait Or you can pull us through

Come along, sing this song You know that you can't go wrong

Still bad at tumblr...buried new pics behind 'read more' cut in a reblog...defeats the point of pictures!

Peni said:

(P.S., I'm pretty sure that's Mary, voted "Girl Most Likely to Pull a Cart" four years in a row in high school.)

Mary. Of course, it's Mary!

But you get all the cookies, or virtual sweets of your choosing, for making me delirious-laugh at that line. I've gotten plenty of sleep since and it still cracks me up. Maybe because she is high school age here. And with only two classmates she'd also be voting that for herself for it to stick, lol.

Doesn't surprise me that most sim stories aren't finished. When Life happens, and it will, this time-consuming hobby with no visible objective value will be one of the first things to go. It brings in no money(unless maybe you've got a decent Youtube following). And the emotional satisfaction of writing a story and of having someone read said story are, as you allude to, rather different things.

I spent a dozen years (more if you count TS1) telling myself stories with this game, with no interest or intention of sharing them. I loved that way of playing the game and at a story level there's no real qualitative difference as I am, basically, the same sims player and the same storyteller. I couldn't create my own poses then (a skill that's become both the best and the worst thing to happen to me as a simmer!) but I still made liberal use of poseboxes just as soon as they came on the scene, for pictures no one but me was ever going to see. And still it's such a different endeavour putting these things together for an audience, real or imagined.

But anyway, my point was that I'm not so sure it was always the case that most sim stores weren't finished. Maybe. I never read Exchange stories when the Exchange was around but I feel like a lot of the ones I read archived on that clockwatching site were completed. (Hope that site's still up. Been a few years since I checked...) And yeah, I guess, most of the old stories on LJ weren't really completed but a lot of them went on for years and years - with dozens or maybe even over a hundred chapters - so it didn't really feel like an abrupt, 'wait, wha' happened?' when reading them. And I think that's a function of community and engagement, which is ironic since sooo much more of the community is here on simblr, but it's not really designed for more than ephemeral engagement.

I was lucky in that even though I didn't finally join LJ until it was dying, there were still enough active simmers there that finding friends was way easier than 'accumulating' followers. (Find folks writing stories you like. Tell them why you like it. Easy peasy. Not so with tumblr which also operates on a kind of 'clout' since it's a kind of social media.) I've noticed the new Communities thing that's been rolled out (new to me) and even on those devoted to storytelling I still don't see much traction getting people to respond to words with words, which I suspect is the currency most writers most want.

Oh well, I'm just an old-head, ranting at time itself, wishing forums were a thing again.

End ramble. (But it's just wild to remember a world where a perfectly ordinary - but funny - sim story post might have 10 or 20 or 30 actual comments and responses whereas now getting 10 whole likes on a non-cc post means you're winning at simblr, lol.)

[poddyshobbies]

2022.4.24（日）

昼からゆっくり空が晴れていきました。湿度が高いようで蒸し暑さがありました。

決してステルスマーケティングではありません。ただ、昼食はここでこれだったという記録だけ。

ツツジ（右下）とウツギ。

調べてみると、花の色が変化するらしいです。

日曜日のニャン

鯉の干し物（今日はほとんど風がありませんでした。）

公園で一休み。

パン類は夕食などに。～ 昼からは椅子に座ってずっと音楽を聞き流して過ごすので。（AccuRadio 500 ‘80s & ‘90s Edition）

夕方には青空が広がりました。明日はこのままいいお天気になりそうです。

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