I'm signed up to Spotify, to the Google Music beta, to Amazon. I had Rdio for a while, and might go back. I have several gigs of music on my own drives, too, largely ripped from my CD collection.
The future of music media is digital and streaming.
I have declared a personal flag day. After January 1, 2012, I will no longer buy or accept compact discs. I'll keep my collection, of course. At least for now.
I've decided to go through my music, one disc per day, and write about them. And the first one is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Stone-Roses/dp/B0000004V2">the eponymous release of the Stone Roses</a>. This was one of the first CDs I picked up, and I'm pretty sure it was used.
The first two songs to catch my ear are the first and the last. The first is "I Wanna Be Adored".
It's nice, droning, very much in line with the alternative stream from Britain at that time. I like it. It's good. Really good. What it isn't is transformative. With very little change, it could've come out in 1969 or 1979, rather than 1989.
What is new and transformative. "Fool's Gold" is.
From the 70s on, dance music and rock music were like oil and water, never meeting. This is entirely rock and entirely dance without being pop, using dance beats.
Anyway, brilliant album. See you tomorrow.
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