Weekly Observations: 2011 Week 49
Since I have many thoughts that – on their own – are not long enough to make an entire post, I am starting a new weekly feature called "Weekly Observations" which will contain all of my music related thoughts from that week. I intend to release one every Saturday or Sunday, so be sure to check back. This week’s updates are focused on eMusic problem resolutions, NPR faux pas, and Megadeth.
Over the holiday weekend, I received an e-mail from eMusic stating that they believed the problem I was experiencing should be resolved and asked me to try downloading again. I waited until Monday to download anything though since I download music to my work computer and rsync my music folder to my Linux box at home (thus giving me an offsite backup). I am pleased to announce that everything went extremely well! I had to retry two tracks (out of around 30 or so), but I started having connectivity issues (including dropped packets) for about a 2 minute period so this is expected and not a problem on eMusic’s end. Even better, I am able to download in both Firefox and Chrome again. It looks as if most of their major user-facing issues have been resolved.
Wednesday on NPR when announcing Billy Idol’s birthday, he was referred to as a Pop musician. I am not entirely sure that whoever wrote this sound bite has ever listened to his music as his style has always felt like a fusion of Metal and Punk to me. Wikipedia claims that he falls into the Hard Rock, Punk Rock, New Wave, and Post-Punk genres, so there you go. I realize that this was just intended to be a simple birthday announcement, but a little fact checking would still have been nice.
Also on Wednesday, I received an e-mail announcing that my "Cyber Army" quot;Ultimate Soldier Megapack" had shipped! I signed up for Megadeth’s fan club over Halloween weekend because they had a limited time offer which – besides everything else in the welcome package – included a copy of their new album Th1rt3en signed by the band.
That’s all of my random music-related thoughts for this week, or at least the ones that anyone would be interested in.