9.09.2004

 

[odds and ends as i update the ID3 tags of my MP3 collection]

two really cool things i never knew before:

• The KLF (forever remembered as the people behind 3 AM Eternal - yes, *that* mass dance song. dunno how it got picked but it's definitely off the beaten track, if you ask me), a little biography from the All Music Guide. Interestingly enough, the version of 3 AM Eternal commonly heard was recorded live at an early 90s Brit Awards, where the KLF were performing, complete with automatic rifle shooting blanks (thank goodness this was pre-Sep 11), backed up by an outfit called Extreme Noise Terror, and the cryptic ending remark "The KLF have left the building". Apparently the original, live, one was "The KLF have left the music industry." Really eccentric characters, and very very interesting!
  

  
  

• A response from Jyoti Mishra, the man behind White Town, on what the hit 1997 single "Your Woman" is about.. hilarious.
  

i've since discovered that it pays to do simple housekeeping of files - in the case of MP3s, filling up all the minutiae in the ID3 tags - as soon as you save them, before you come back 6 years later wondering what the HECK dream.mp3 or more.mp3 is. there just aren't enough clues to narrow it down (and believe me i've dug up as much info as i possibly can). spent most of this week just sorting my old ID3 tags, and i haven't even got down to the real business of ripping my entire CD collection into my spanking new creative jukebox [hard-disk type MP3 player -Ed].

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