{"id":2737,"date":"2010-05-12T13:46:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T17:46:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-05-12T13:46:20","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T13:46:20","slug":"help-me-lala-rock-town-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/help-me-lala-rock-town-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Me Lala, Rock Town Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/dkpresents.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/faces-ooh-la-la.jpg\" alt=\"null\" title=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Have you heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/lala.com\" target=_blank><strong>Lala.com<\/strong><\/a>? It&#8217;s sort of a one-stop online music shopping\/listening site. You can buy legal MP3s and the like. You can make playlists. I believe you can load your home MP3 library virtually, so you can listen to it on another computer without having to actually transfer all those gigabytes from one machine to another. Most enticingly for me, you can stream entire albums completely free, one time. It&#8217;s a great way to sample an album you&#8217;re thinking of buying. You can avoid a lot of unnecessary purchases this way.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, <strong>Apple<\/strong> bought Lala, and they&#8217;re shutting it down. The site will cease to be on May 31, 2010. So I&#8217;ve been streaming a lot of music on there while I can, trying to plug in some of the gaps in my rock knowledge and just generally having some fun. Some of the things I&#8217;ve played:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>X<\/strong>&#8216;s <i>See How We Are<\/i> and <strong>The Dream Syndicate<\/strong>&#8216;s <i>Medicine Show<\/i>. These albums made me sad, and made me think about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/stations-of-the-boss-7-bruce-falls-the-second-time\" target=_blank>Bruce Springsteen<\/a>&#8216;s pernicious influence on rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll over the years.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Mekons<\/strong>&#8216; <i>Heaven and Hell<\/i>. Good-to-great stuff.<\/li>\n<li>Unrest&#8217;s <i>Imperial f.f.r.r.<\/i>. I actually went out and bought this after playing it. <\/li>\n<li>That <strong>Fall<\/strong> best-of from a few years ago. OK, I get it. This is the kind of thing I can get into, when I&#8217;m in the mood. But I don&#8217;t see myself buying much Fall right now. I gotta be fiscally responsible these days.<\/li>\n<li>I think I also listened to some <strong>Embarassment<\/strong> and didn&#8217;t like it as much as I thought it would.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also, earlier in the year, I was listening to as much &#8217;80s <strong>Neil Young<\/strong> as I could find on the site: <i>Re-ac-tor<\/i>, <i>Everybody&#8217;s Rockin&#8217;<\/i>, <i>Life<\/i>, <i>This Note&#8217;s For You<\/i>, etc. I want to pick up this project at some point this month and listen to a few more &#8220;weird Neil&#8221; albums, like the all-feedback <i>Arc<\/i> and that one about his electric car.<\/p>\n<p>So suggest other albums\/artists I should listen to on this site, Townsfolks. If it&#8217;s any help, lately my tastes have veered towards dirty, noisy, smart indie rock with guitars. Have at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard of Lala.com? It&#8217;s sort of a one-stop online music shopping\/listening site. You can buy legal MP3s and the like. You can make playlists. I believe you can load your home MP3 library virtually, so you can listen to it on another computer without having to actually transfer all those gigabytes from one <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/help-me-lala-rock-town-hall\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[56,52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}