Album Not Found
XoreAs a project recently, I’ve been searching around the web hunting down a variety of musical bands and styles that i’ve come into contact with. Primarily, finding album listings, so that i don’t have to manually type the damn listings in myself, and secondarily, album covers, for associated same purpose.
It’s quite interesting what you can come into contact with when surfing musical lines. Primarily, it lets you know when bands you like release new albums, so that you can go out and get them, and secondarily, it’s a great way to find out about similar bands that you haven’t heard of yet and possibly have great music also. Thirdly, you learn cool trivia. Fourthly, you run into random insane shit. Which can be cool.
An excerpt off Moonsorrow’s Website regarding brewing mead:
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9. Wait for a day,maybe two,and the fermenting should begin.However,if it doesn´t,continue adding half a kilo of normal (white) sugar and wait for a day or two.If nothing happens,continue doing that as long as needed. If that doesn´t help,throw that shit away and buy beer…. lots of beer.
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I like these guys already.
Of course, sometimes searching for music can be frustrating. One album I was looking for, an orchestrated compilation of Chrono Trigger, doesn’t actually exist. The same way you can’t see something on a really dark night when you look straight at it, but you can see it when you turn your head and look out the corner of your eye (rods and cones and irregular distribution & all that shit). You can see torrents for it on a variety of torrent sites, and searches for individual song titles yields winamp generated playlists that people post and forget about. But anywhere you go looking for official chrono trigger albums yields no hint or sign of it. Turns out, with a little bit of digging, the entire orchestra was synthesized off sheet music that some random guy wrote either distributed himself via the web or somehow other. I’m contemplating emailing him and asking him if he ever designed an album cover.
Except that would make me creepy. Maybe. But you already know i’m creepy so i guess it doesn’t matter.
Anti-props to Era, who have great music, but a shizzy website that i had to slice html source just to view the damn thing. The lesson to be learned: Do Not Build Your Website As A Single Flash File. (yes, i used capitals.) Also, I found it impossible to track down their Enae Volare remix ‘99 album cover as well as the cover of their “Looking From East” w/ Oliver Shanti. The only two albums so far (aside from the above mentioned) that i haven’t been able to find album covers for. Plus alot of the sites that talk about those albums are written in cyrillic characters and unknown languages ;_;
As a general rule, for most music in north america and western europe, you can mostly count on allmusic.com despite the fact that they sold out in the past couple of years and now have members-only areas. Media Club is useful also.
Game music and anime soundtracks are a little more difficult and usually you can’t find them on allmusic without getting a flood of misses, but you can usually find them easily on fanlistings, somewhere there’s an otaku with your album on his website. Same goes for most music out of asian countries.
Since you have read this far, I will now award you with a picture of some really good sushi i had. Takeout from Samurai Sushi.
Yum.