Good MP3 blogs?

[bookem_dan-o]

Ever since Matt's Fluxblog has spawned thousands of lame imitators, I've found it hard to sift through the crap to find the good mp3 blogs out there.

I just got an awesome app called Peel (Mac only...sorry Windroids) that automatically downloads the mp3s from nearly every mp3 blog you point it at. Now I just need stuff to feed it.

I only have Vinyl Mine in it, so far...what else should I check out?

[Emerson]

Bookem,
This has come up a couple of times. My suggestions on this thread still stand:

http://www.friendsoftom.com/forum/index.php?topic=451.msg3049#msg3049

A couple more (infrequently updated):

http://toestubber.com
http://cakeandpolka.blogspot.com/

Also, don't forget the best site on the thing that I will never call "the internets":

http://blog.wfmu.org

Thanks for hipping me to this Peel biz.

~EmD

[Jason]

Do you really think the WFMU blog is good?
I think its an awful, ill thought out hodge podge of desperate try-hards and reluctant supposed-to-bes.
Its just a mess that clearly needs an editor. Sure the mp3s are great but sometimes there's too much of a good thing.
The 365 project (and blast of hot air) has been shoe-horned into the mix and Trouble is posting a new photo for every day in February, by themselves and on their own merits these things are great but right there you've got two repetitive articles a day, one for a month and one for a year, that just smacks of filler.
You strip away stuff like that and you can see there's some quality stuff there,a lot of well written informative offbeat articles but again there's still a lot of filler.
This week in sex! What's the point in this? There's sex on the internet, wooh!
A link to a David Lynch interview, or any one sentence post with a picture and a link belongs on a message board.
The Aquateen bomb scandal?!? Please! It was only covered in great depth in every newspaper, on every news site and on every tv and radio news broadcast, but there it is on WFMU. There wasn't even a unique angle or some edgy analysis, just the cold hard facts faithfully reported. It's laughable. What's next? The weather?

I couldn't argue against WFMU being the best radio station in the world and they pioneered web broadcasting, but the blog isn't just going to be great by association.

[Sarah]

You remind me how much I miss the WFMU message board.  I hardly ever look at the blog because it's too damn cluttered, and I just don't have the patience to look for those gems you mention.

[moonshake]

i too agree about the wfmu blog. with so many posts every day, the quality is bound to suffer. so much of the stupid stuff on it can be found anywhere on the internet. it lacks focus and wfmu listeners certainly can't be the target audience for most of the posts. a lot of it seems like attempt to draw new traffic. i heard station manager ken mention in one of his recent state of the station programs that the blog is turning a lot of new people to the station.

some mp3 blog recommendations:

http://somethingold-somethingnew.blogspot.com/
http://www.bradleysalmanac.com/blogger.html
http://www.afterbirthofthecool.com/

[Emerson]

I don't mind the "clutter" and unevenness at all - that's what tags are for. I like some contributors more than others. I'm occasionally frustrated by the volume of MP3s and novella-length essays, but I chalk that up to my own mortal dread, not to some fault of the blog. Wm. Berger, Amanda Barrett, Mark Allen and Chris T (among a few others) write so compellingly that I don't mind reading their thoughts on things that otherwise wouldn't interest me. And it seems ill-advised to generalize about what "WFMU listeners" want, unless you're Andy Breckman.

I think of it like Metafilter - more quality crap than I could ever check in a lifetime, some less-quality crap, and some crap that might be someone else's latke. Quality control is overrated, IMHO. Good blogs (like good zines, back when) are a shotgun blast of jokes, experiments and ideas. I've been wrong before.

PS: Last year, I took one look at the old WFMU message board and decided to go clean my toilet instead. It looked like a bunch of in-jokes, bridge trolls and bullshit to me. Of course, not every board can be the FOT board.

~EmD (calmly waiting for someone to post dozens of links to the "My Brother and Me" music)

[Jason]

I loved that messageboard as if it were my own and it was heartbreaking to watch it go down the shitter.
It was poorly moderated and they had a hardline policy on anything that bordered on criticism which pretty much killed any real discussion of the station.
They feted raadman, an admittedly pretty funny, provocative and annoying troll, yet they banned Tor, a genuinely annoying, provocative and funny mental case.
We FOT are a breed apart and ultimately a board belongs to its posters.

[Sarah]

But I never got to find out what happened to Pete in JC.  And I miss Fatherflot, even though I often only skimmed his lengthy cut-and-pastes.  I came to the board late, and I know it fell apart, but for a while there checking it was an important part of my morning procrastination, and I mourn it still.

[Emerson]

Fatherflot makes regular appearances in the blog comments section.

The Aquateen bomb scandal?!? Please! It was only covered in great depth in every newspaper, on every news site and on every tv and radio news broadcast, but there it is on WFMU. There wasn't even a unique angle or some edgy analysis, just the cold hard facts faithfully reported. It's laughable.

The initial post was pretty dry, but it touched off a wild comment war. A lot of the posts got deleted, mostly the angry back-and-forth between "DanO" and "Clayton." So there is some moderation at work, at least for guests.

As for the topics not being original, I don't see that as a problem, necessarily. The headline-based gags, rants and links won't always be inspired, but are you going to tell Tom that Donald Trump is off-limits? Play some marching band music!

~EmD

[Chris L]

Jason has exposed the WFMU blog.  Sure enough, there's a pointless Anna Nicole Smith post up now.  Where else can you find that kind of coverage?

[John Junk]

I liked the FOT board because it was like you were constantly engaged in arguments with the members of the Sad Hippy Parade who you'd never get the chance to converse with in real life because they'd be too busy counting splotches of gum on the pavement or some such.

[Jason]

I liked the FOT board because it was like you were constantly engaged in arguments with the members of the Sad Hippy Parade.

You mean WFMU board right?

Jason has exposed the WFMU blog.  Sure enough, there's a pointless Anna Nicole Smith post up now.  Where else can you find that kind of coverage?

Oh boy, what waste of cyber-space.

[John Junk]

I liked the FOT board because it was like you were constantly engaged in arguments with the members of the Sad Hippy Parade.

You mean WFMU board right?

Oops...  Yeah.  Darn, that would've been totally cutting and snide but I had to screw it up.

[Jason]

Hay guyz, Anna Nicole Smith is dead.

Also this candy bar will make your doody look funny......



just like the Iraq war.

[Omar]

Hay guyz, Anna Nicole Smith is dead.

Also this candy bar will make your doody look funny......



just like the Iraq war.

Anna Nicole Smith really had her ups and downs.  I always had a lot of fun keeping track of her turbulent stay in the pop culture maelstrom.  I hope she's "jamming"* with GG Allin right now.

*In this case, GG will actually be making "jam"