Damn you, Pandora!!!
Jan. 17th, 2006 02:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wombat1138Pandora.com continues to play music at me that I've never heard before but am instantly compelled to click on their "buy this album from Amazon" links. So far they're just accumulating in my shopping cart, but still.
Today's damage: Secret of the Runes, by the group Therion, is a concept album based on Norse mythology with heavy-metal instrumentation and operatic choral voicework; the selections I've heard so far sound like Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" turned all the way up to eleven. All Wood and Stones, by Joh Batdorf and James Lee Stanley, covers the Rolling Stones' greatest hits in a mellow acoustic style that still somehow manages to retain the essential intensity of the originals. Pandora still needs to get a better grip on soundtracks and cast albums, what with randomly indexing them by show/film titles, character names, performers, composers, lyricists, or I don't know what-all else; also, I wish they could provide a continuous stream of something like the Coverville podcast, though I was delighted to hear Pat Boone's cover of "Stairway to Heaven".
Today's damage: Secret of the Runes, by the group Therion, is a concept album based on Norse mythology with heavy-metal instrumentation and operatic choral voicework; the selections I've heard so far sound like Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" turned all the way up to eleven. All Wood and Stones, by Joh Batdorf and James Lee Stanley, covers the Rolling Stones' greatest hits in a mellow acoustic style that still somehow manages to retain the essential intensity of the originals. Pandora still needs to get a better grip on soundtracks and cast albums, what with randomly indexing them by show/film titles, character names, performers, composers, lyricists, or I don't know what-all else; also, I wish they could provide a continuous stream of something like the Coverville podcast, though I was delighted to hear Pat Boone's cover of "Stairway to Heaven".