"Ain't singing for Miller, don't sing for Bud"
Ah, but singing for Red Stripe seems to be OK for these young bucks in search of the big time. This CD came with Music Week last May. I don't like any of the songs on it, but, you know, I'm not "in the demographic" so it's not about me. Let's consult Last.fm instead to see how well each of them are doing nine and a half months on. Seems like it's a game of two halves:
| Camel One | 337 plays |
| City Royals | 50 plays |
| Rosie & the Goldbug | 199 plays |
| Rory McVicar | 3,480 plays |
| The Hair | 16,012 plays |
| The Runners | 7,635 plays |
And look what I can do with Last.fm now: (click to play) Rory McVicar – One More Lullaby and The Hair – Brick Supply. I know that in years to come this will be taken for granted (won't it?), but right now it still feels like an exciting novelty.
(Who wants to have a sweepstake on how long it will be before the embedded tracks in the last paragraph turn into dead links? For the record, here's how the page looks today. I've also made a modest change to the design of the site — do you like it?)
I've been wondering about these promotional giveaway CDs. Should I include them here as part of my collection? Those from The Wire are interesting, and those from Word usually have a few decent tracks, but these from Music Week are grim exercises in pushing, based on the most tenuous claims of quality (Red Stripe's beer is nothing to write home about, so why should the music they sponsor be different?). I know this seems like changing the rules as I go along, but it's my collection, right, so I can exclude things from it on a whatever whim I please.
By the way, The Runners won the competition.
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