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This morning, Chris at Gorilla vs. Bear posted a great list of his favorite songs from 2005, complete with mp3 downloads [gvb]. I've been listening to it all afternoon, and it's a great selection -- both in terms of reminding me what I liked, but also in terms of what I missed. It even includes Kelly Clarkston, saving me the trouble of actually buying "Since U Been Gone".

If you're using Firefox, there's a nifty extension that makes downloading all of the mp3s very very easy. Cleverly enough, it's called "Download them All" [mozdev].

Posted on Dec. 13th, 2005 at 03:07 pm | | Leave a comment | 9 comments |

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decklin

mine is called xargs wget

you know, i still don't understand this "since u been gone" thing.
Posted on Dec. 14th, 2005 04:40 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

joshc

the top result for "xargs wget" includes "linux-elitists" in the URL

oh, I have an occasional weakness for overproduced alternapop. For a while, it was the Bravery's "Honest Mistake." A long time ago, it was Avril Levigne.
Posted on Dec. 15th, 2005 12:40 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

joshc

lyrically deficient

I should say that I've listened to this on repeat for way too long today and still am not really sure what the song is about. But it took me forever to get the point of "sk8rboi".
Posted on Dec. 15th, 2005 12:47 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

decklin

i'm on that mailing list! no, really.

Yeah, see, that's the weird bit; if you...

s/Kelly Clarkson/Avril Lavigne/g;
s/Since U Been Gone/Complicated/g;
s/Ted Leo/Ben Gibbard/g;
s/2005/2002/g;

...shouldn't there be (have been) as many, er, hits? I had the distinct impression that there weren't, even if we were all secretly enjoying it anyway. But I did not have a music page in my RSS aggregator back then.
Posted on Dec. 15th, 2005 03:21 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

joshc

Re: i just like knowing that i /could/ get wget to run in os x if i really had to

Although I think that the whole mp3blogs saving the world thing has been blown a bit out of proportion, I think you have a point. It does seem like part of the "Since U Been Gone" phenomenon is related to the non-ironic endorsement by indie weblog set.

Sure, people have been liking infectious pop for a long time, but it's only recently that there's been a self-appointed community of people to make them not feel stupid about it.
Posted on Dec. 16th, 2005 08:44 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

ellenlouise

I also don't get the "Since U Been Gone" thing (and I have heard you singing along!) but thanks for this--been listening lots.
Posted on Dec. 15th, 2005 01:42 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

decklin

You totally should have recorded it for blackmail purposes.
Posted on Dec. 15th, 2005 03:22 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

ellenlouise

It was rather impromptu. And now I'll never get him to do it.
Posted on Dec. 15th, 2005 03:41 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

joshc

there's a reason that I've sworn off karaoke . . .

Although it's hard to believe, I think that I had only heard "Since U Been Gone" maybe three times prior to having it show up on Florian's playlist. Once at a wedding and once on the VMAs.
Posted on Dec. 16th, 2005 08:35 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply