Wow. Tori does it again.

"Scarlet's Walk" is an awesome album. Every song is achingly beautiful. Production is smooth and clean. A feast for the ears.

Yeah I'm definitely taking a trip to Circuit City soon.

In reply to:

---

"Scarlet's Walk" is an awesome album. Every song is achingly beautiful. Production is smooth and clean. A feast for the ears.

---

You said it. But now I have a question that is really starting to bug the crap out of me what genre should se be filed under?

Rock, of course.

I file Tori under Rock, then under AAA (Adult Album Alternative.) I don't love the AAA designation, I mean it's kinda strange to have to group her in with Sarah McLachlan, Counting Crows, Jewel, Nelly Furtado, etc... But it was the best I could do.

Edit: Wow, didn't notice I was approaching Carpal Tunnel. Yay me.

This album really surprised me. What I usually love most about Tori's albums are the harder "production number" pieces, like "Riot Proof" or "i i e e e". Ones that are loud and rocking. Her more somber pieces usually don't turn me on as much.

This album is nothing like that. The whole album is very soothing, there aren't any hard edges (at least not musically, haven't read the lyrics yet ), it just sort of flows smoothly. That's not usually the sort of thing that blows me away.

But then I was listening to it on the way home tonight. It was in the portable CD player going into the aux-in on the empeg. And with each song I kept going "wow, what an incredible song". I parked the car and literally sat there listening for about 20 minutes until the rest of the family got home. I just couldn't get myself to turn off the key. And this is saying something, because the first thing I'd planned to do when I got in the door was stick it in the Jupiter and listen to it while it ripped. I couldn't even bring myself to spare the 60 seconds it took to do that.

Have you seen the first video for that album? Veeeeery interesting.

I'm not a an myself, but I'm always happy for other people when their favorite artists release a new album Personally, Audioslave, despite the bad name, is the next one I'm buying.

Have you seen the first video for that album? Veeeeery interesting.

If you're referring to "A Sorta Fairytale", I haven't seen it, but I'm told it's about a leg falling in love with an arm, or something like that. Tori's face digitally superimposed on a disembodied limb, or some such? Wonder if there's a web address where I could download it.

There's always iMesh. And yeah, that's what it is. Very strange, but good effects.

There's always iMesh.

Hey, look, a P2P client I haven't tried yet. Hmm.

Haha, yeah, I guess people usually say Kazaa or Morpheus. I don't trust those programs farther than I can throw them (and since they are computer programs, and I can't physically throw them anywhere...)

I like iMesh for a few reasons:
1) availability ratings. I know other programs have these, but I find that these are more accurate. and even if something has a 1 star rating, if you leave the program open for a day, you'll probably get it.

2) multiple sources. I think iMesh does this better than the other progs. I've seen it, for more popular files, gather up to 10 sources, and had me downloading at well over 70 KB/s.

So anyway, I've heard several people say they don't like it, but oh well. I definitely used to suck, back in Napster's glory days, and now it's just a memory hog, but I like it.

iMesh only survived for about 5 minutes on my hard drive. That thing installs more different pieces of adware/spyware than any other single piece of software I've owned before. And it tended to crash a lot after Ad Aware pruned all the spyware components. Never was able to connect with it.

Got the video off of Kazaa Lite instead. Neat video. They've edited the song down for running time, I hate it when they do that to videos, but I'm used to it by now.

Dude, there's an iMesh "lite" thing out there too. Of course the normal version is terrible!

I had a link to a downloadable program, but it's broken now. The best I can offer is this link which is talking about the same basic thing I have. Believe me, it works very well. "Swarmed" downloads are fantastic.

Morpheus passed my Ad-Aware scan without any problems. It's a bit of a pop-up window monger and has a tendency to crash if you fiddle with settings while connected. It saves your pending/incomplete download list between sessions and tries forever until they're cancelled or complete, so the crashing's not that irritating. I'd give it a B.

That's my 2¢.

-Zeke

Well that's better than I remember Morpheus being, so that's good. The clean version of iMesh I linked there does all that good stuff, but has no popups or ads and has never crashed on me. So I give it an A-

By the way, I was suprized when I installed Kazaa and found that it didn't save your download list between sessions. That's pretty crappy. And it also stops trying on downloads it can't find quickly. That program is pretty bad if you as me. C-

Morpheus was doing something recently that I think is even more evil than adware/spyware. You know those random personal web sites that you go to that have links to Amazon or whoever that say ``buy this book via this link'' that gives a small kickback to the web site owner? Well, Morpheus was hijacking that somehow and getting that kickback for themselves. Supposedly, the fact that they were doing that was listed in their EULA, but still....

Was that before or after the clause about giving them your first born daughter for "beta testing purposes?"

This EULA bullshit is out of control.

Dude, there's an iMesh "lite" thing out there too.

Well, goodness, why didn't someone tell me that sooner.

/me goes to look for it...

I'll refrain from agreeing with ``Tori does it again'' only in a different context (oops -- I think I just did ), and point out how great the new Foo Fighters album is.

Hey, now that I've gotten iMesh lite working and I'm downloading a file, it looks like it's just another KaZaa network client with a pretty face on it.

Has anybody ever had any luck with WinMX? I can get all kinds of matches virtually never any downloads.

WinMX became useless when they upgraded to 3.3 and broke the old servers. The unix client (lopster) then became just another opennap client.

I hate WinMX, it seems no better than the best Opennap networks.