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venta ([personal profile] venta) wrote2005-10-12 08:49 am

Or I can sing like a bird released

Lucky Dip report #2:

Gecko - Lizard Point

After consideration, I've decided that Gecko is the band and Lizard Point is the album title. The CD cover didn't make this entirely obvious. (Aha, Gecko is a him not a them. Thank you, Google.)

Somehow, this is exactly what you'd expect an album with so much lizard credential to sound like. It's reptilian lounging music, with bits of dance and ambient thrown in.

No, I can't justify that claim about reptiles. It just is.

On the other hand, if you went to a late-night party at the house of someone you didn't know well, and found everyone lying around smoking hash and drinking tequila, this is the music they'd be listening to while doing it.

No, I can't justify that either.

I'm not sure I'd have dashed out (or rather, stayed in) and bought these tracks off iTunes[*]. But taking the album collectively, it's definitely worth the notional 10p I paid for it. I'll be listening to it again, I think.

Soundclips available here.

[*] In theory, I mean. In practice I'm unlikely to buy anything off iTunes ever again, regardless of quality. Unless they implement some kind of "free pie with every download" policy.

[identity profile] stegzy.livejournal.com 2005-10-12 08:46 am (UTC)(link)
If I-tunes is indicative of future "legal" mp3 download e-thingies then I think I'll stick to the less than savory Usenet binary newsgroups.

I spent a good 5 minutes looking up some of the not so obscure bands on I-tunes only to find "Due to licencing issues we are unable to offer these tracks for sale in the UK". Some of them are British groups!! Piss poor thats what I said!


Gecko sound good though from what brief bit I heard :-)

[identity profile] ringbark.livejournal.com 2005-10-12 11:16 am (UTC)(link)
"free pie with every download"

That sounds like an EXCELLENT idea, and it will NEVER happen.

[identity profile] bateleur.livejournal.com 2005-10-12 01:00 pm (UTC)(link)
The real problem there is that a pie costs more than you pay for the download. But if you were to download (say) an album for £5 there's no reason why they couldn't offer a free pie.

Indeed, because you can't send pies over HTTP the punter would have to collect the pie from somewhere (or pay for delivery), so the uptake rate would probably quite low making it eminently viable.

Draft ad campaign...

Some bloke: I like music and I like pie, but I've only got a fiver.
Voice: What you need is http://www.somemusicandsomepie.com !

[identity profile] broadmeadow.livejournal.com 2005-10-13 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
What you need is pieTunes.com (http://www.limetreepantry.com/online_shop.htm). Highly recommended pies.