So, it’s that time in the day when Ken Bruce on BBC Radio 2, which is a main stay on the little pink DAB radio in the office, decides to talk drivvle to some local ‘character’ who usually happens to live in Norfolk or Bristol.
I don’t really mind what’s on the radio (although the dial mysteriously slides to 6music sometimes) but he does get on my nerves a bit, especially when he gets all chummy with Tony the window cleaner or George the driving instructor. I know he’s a radio legend and all, and maybe I’m simply being contrary for contrary’s sake but give it a rest Bruce.
Please don’t thank anyone else for their rubbish real life stories which verge on the depressing in that wise old way that you do. Just play some music… personally I like it best when you play The Carpenters.
Anyway, one day Mr Ken Bruce and radio’s other presenters, yes even Jamie and Harriet, will just be a distant memory. We will simply stream music from one of the many internet musiteers, freeing us from the financial constraints in exchange for selling our data to the advertisers of Viagra, porn and Tesco.
So now, on my computer’s desktop I have multiple applications for various online music catalogues like Last fm, Spotify and We7. I wouldn’t mind but in fear of missing out on the next big application - the facebook of UK social networking or the twitter of micro-blogging - I’m literally nowhere with any of them. They’re all in a complete state of disarray. I can’t commit to just one and therefore compared to my iTunes account, in which some songs have even been rated depending on it’s humability, evoking of a wonderfully special memory or just because I quite like that particular melody - it’s plain shameful.
Out of them all I think Spotify is my favourite, if only for the name. Last.fm have scrobbling capabilities in relation to my iphone which I’m sure I’m loving but not entirely sure how and We7 is the newest one (at least to me) to invite us to the online party and therefore the catalyst for this post. Enough is enough. I’m sticking with Spotify, but wait they don’t have an iphone application yet! Ok, Last.fm... and they scrobble too! But maybe, just maybe, We7 will be better. It’s all just too much! Come back Ken, all is forgiven.
