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Guess Who's Back?

Hello again all! It's been a few weeks since I've been able to sit down and share my thoughts with you on the music that has been rolling into thesixtyone. In this time period there has been uproar over the limitation of songs that an artist can upload and a complete reversal (Bug were told) that allowed some piano player to upload 30 tracks before reaching level 5. Only a few things remain constant at thesixtyone. They are:

1. AnnieB
2. Great music
3. Glenn Case wall postings

Now that we have that out of the way, let's listen to some music.

Two Short Album Reviews (The return of Non-Fuzz)

Born Ruffians

This up and coming band has created an album that is sure to be a mainstay in a lot of peoples players.

The first single of the album is "Hummingbird" and is a catchy and frantic track that speeds down the road of suicide without blinking an eye. That's the way that I interpret anyway. Luke Lalonde has an interesting vocal style and doesn't seem to care if he annunciates well and for me that adds to the charm. I'll warn you now that that front half of the album doesn't deliver nearly enough compared to the back end. I maintain that all should give it a listen though.

Vampire Weekend

I was a bit hesitant to check these guys out after I had heard their cover of Exit Music For a Film by Radiohead. No one really does Radiohead any justice and it nearly kept me from hearing this great band. I'm amazed that this band can sound like so many artists (Paul Simon - Graceland Days, The Kinks, The Police and many others) while still maintaining a very unique sound. This one has been stuck in my car stereo for weeks. Literally, when I hit the eject button it won't come out.

Can I Get Some Love?

Bye Polar Bear is my underrated artist of the week. With great covers of Neutral Milk Hotel and Leonard Cohen and some interesting original stuff I can see this guy at the top of the61 artist list.

Ready For Revival

The Acorn

One of my favorite acts on the61, The Acorn, have been on this site from the beginning. All of their songs have posted and should be ready for some new ears on the site. Give them a listen.

Pasta

Time again to say goodbye. It seems as if we are in for many changes on the61 but as long as the music stays great I will not be going anywhere.

Hasta la pasta!

To Revive or not to Revive

I was recently asked via tunebox why I hadn't yet revived any songs, and while I was replying, I thought back to some of the discussions on the forum.

There's been the point made that Reviving an old song gives new people a chance to hear great music that's been buried under the avalanche of more recent uploads. There's been the counterpoint made that Revived songs push otherwise deserving new songs out of the way by automatically hitting the top of the New page.

For my part I haven't Revived yet for 2 main reasons. First it's because there's too much new stuff to listen to and bump. I'd rather spend several hundred points each maxing out some songs that haven't made it yet to get them to the activity page (or if I'm lucky the homepage), than 1000 on a song that's already made it. Second is that is that some of the songs I would most want to Revive are from artists who still have great songs with high bump counts that haven't yet posted. Folks like hot bitch arsenal take quite a boatload of hits to post, and I've seen it happen with them and others that a new upload with a ton of momentum failed to post because someone revived an older track of the same artist hours before. That's a mixed blessing for the artist and the listener.

I know there are other Revive philosophies out there, but this one is mine. Still... I probably will revive something... eventually.

Now, ask me why I haven't subscribed to any other listeners so far... :-D