It’s Salguod Update Saturday!
Music is a big part of my life. I love a whole bunch of different kinds of music. There’s not many types that I don’t like. For example, my CD collection includes both Jane’s Adiction and Amy Grant; Aerosmith and the O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack. I’ve added a few online links to great music for those with high speed connections.
In recent years I’ve discovered the beauty of the diverse music available on public radio. Ironically, I discovered it through a boss that would play the morning news from NPR. At 9:00 the music would come on. He didn’t like the music much, but never changed the station (unless the music got too wierd, which it would sometimes do). I grew to love the music more that the news. Here in Columbus, we’re blessed with some great local music shows as well as national ones on our local station, WCBE. You can listen to WCBE online at the link on the right.
On WCBE in the evenings they play the World Cafe from WXPN in Phillidelphia. Well, it turns out that the World Cafe is a much bigger show than the 2 hours a night on WCBE, playing from 2:00 PM until 7:00 PM Monday through Thursday, 2-5 on Friday. Additionally, there are other good music shows there as well, including one just for kids. You can listen to WXPN online at the link on the right.
I also added a link to Launch from Yahoo. It’s a subscription service, but you can listen for free if you don’t mind a lower quality stream. There a bunch of stations to choose from, but the best thing is the ability to create you own station. You go through and rate different genres, artists and individual songs. Then Launch plays music from it’s library based on your preferences. Once you get a bunch of stuff rated, it actually works pretty well. The more you rate, the better it is. The ‘Listen’ link at left is to my Launch station.
Lastly, I added a link to the Singing Buckeyes , a local barbershop chorus I sing with. I love to sing. I got my love for singing, and probably for music, from my Dad. He’s been singing barbershop with the Maumee Valley Seaway Commanders in Toledo for some 37 years. He’s been a part of probably a dozen quartets, two of them Johnny Appleseed disctrict champions, and placing as high as 13th in SPEBSQSA international contest. The Singing Buckeyes are an incredible organizaition. Each August they operate Harmony Camp where 200+ High School kids come to learn the secrets of barbershop harmony. It’s the largest camp of it’s kind in the country. They also put on the Buckeye Invitational Harmony Festival, singing valentines, spring and Christmas shows and competition in the fall.
Doug, you’re a machine! Four posts in one day! Now if you were really smart, you would have written them all today and posted one a day for the next week, so you could take a break… 😉
As far as music goes, I share your diverse tastes. My collection ranges from Whitesnake to the Eagles to Amy Grant to Celtic Traditional. And includes the Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack. My latest addition is the soundtrack to Amelie, which I saw 3 times while bedridden last weekend. Fantastic movie if you haven’t seen it yet.
One of my current favorite online radio stations is folkalley.com. If you at all like acoustic/singer-songwriter/Americana/folk/celtic, you’ll love the eclectic mix they play. It requires registration, but it’s free and the bitrate is excllent (128kbps streaming MP3).
Music has the ability to move me like no other media. It’s the only thing that seems to let me shut off the analytic side of my mind and experience pure emotion, be it joy or anguish.
I’ve been meaning to post this stuff and add the links for a while. Maria promised me a day to myself yesterday becuase I spent father’s day in dance recital for my girls and having the family over afterwards. Sort of father’s day delayed.
I’ve been meaning to checkout Folk Alley since you posted about it a while back, I just haven’t gotten there yet. I listen to most of my streaming music at work where they have a T1 connection (soon to be fiber optic). The home connection is pretty fast, but not that fast. A couple of my favorite local programs at WCBE are Blue Collar (all blues) and Roots and Offshoots (‘Roots’ music) on Sunday evenings.
Music is amazing, it is something that can move the soul, can inspire or depress, just look at how it is used to influence moods during movies. When I first really started believing in God and reading the Bible, in a bold move I took all my cassette tapes (ok this was about 10 years ago) (it was 200 tapes) and destroyed them. My philosophy went with the theory garbage in, garbage out and music is a sly little thing where un-Godly principles can be brought out in lyrics and disguised very easily. More so depending on the group. Of course I was into AC/DC, Def Leppard (who I saw twice in concert), Metallica and Scorpians…I like the metal but was did not have the metal persona or typical stereotype look of one that listened to that music. And I still like to hear some of their good songs. It is funny to go and look at the music I do have because you can see the phases of music I went through. 80’s rock, heavy metal, country, christian and now some children’s music. So I am very partial to the 80’s rock since that is when I grew up. But my music ranges from Randy Travis, Johnny Cash, DC Talk, Audio Adreneline to one of my favorites, Newsboys. Unfortunately, I do not have a computer (I am always a little behind technically) so I have not tried any of the online music.
Sherri,
You certainly don’t strike me as a metal person, but that’s cool. I’ve got a Metalica CD here on my desk at work.
FYI – Of course you can listen to WCBE if you’re here in Columbus the old fashioned way, tune into 90.5 FM. (If you’re in Philly, WXPN is 88.5 FM)
Thanks for being here and leaving some comments.
Excellent post, especially about the using a high speed internet connection to listen to music.
T1 high speed internet access is the future of broadband internet technology.