October 16, 2008
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Is it bizarre that video games are now capable of becoming the next source for finding and playing songs? Vinyl, cassette tapes, CDs, MP3s, and now Rock Band (or Guitar Hero). People nowadays are actually discovering music artists that they’ve never heard of before; past or present, because of their exposure of being in either Guitar Hero or Rock Band. Having a song in one of these “rhythm games” even gets people to actually purchase CDs or MP3s of that music artist. Music artists are now also able to sell their songs to you via downloadable content, specifically to play in games like Rock Band or Guitar Hero. People today don’t only get to listen to a song, they get to actively participate in recreating it through a video game. Imagine that. It’s almost like a slick way of the music industry to get us to spend money on music again, and honestly in this case I really don’t mind.
Right now I’m focusing on Rock Band 2, as my choice of rhythm game. The game comes with 84 songs on disc, 54 songs that I got from the first Rock Band, and at the moment I have 165 songs I acquired through DLC. If you add up the total of those songs together, I got myself 303 songs playable on a video game. That’s a lot of songs for a rhythm game. It’s unbelievable to me to have spent all that money for DLC songs, when I don’t even normally purchase MP3s, nor do I have an iPod or anything like that, and yet a video game sucks me in. This is the sign of the times folks. In the future, interactivity with music is going to be a necessary thing to have. Games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero have opened up the possibilities for what the future of the music industry may bring.
Comments (4)
I used to be a big KROQ guy but like most mainstream stations, they sound like they’re on a play loop these days. These days I find music with musicplasma.com and Indie 103.1FM. Random streaming radio stations from around the world’s pretty good too.
Then again, I’m also listening more to talk radio and podcasts these days. I end up finding a lot of music I like from the bumper music between talks. In fact, if anyone knows what the heck the “La la la” song is on the Wayne Resnick show is, I’m all ears. I know the lyrics (hint: la la la la la la … etc) but I can’t find it on the web anywhere.
Considering you put up your playlists, maybe this would be an interesting site for you:
http://blip.fm
It’s a new web2.0 site that allows it’s users to be DJ’s and lets their friends subscribe to the list.
KROQ is good to listen to once a month, just to catch up on any new songs you haven’t heard yet. Or you can listen to Rodney on the ROQ every Sunday night for the quite non-mainstream songs.
Indie103 would be a station I would listen to more often, but the reception sucks enough that I tend to shy away from it (I’ll listen to the online stream once in a while).
That “La la la” song? dude, you gotta have more lyrics than that if you want to find out what it is.
blip.fm still isn’t as robust as last.fm at this point (no much on Meg & Dia!)
More lyrics? Sure!
(high voice)
la. la.la…. lalalalala.lala
la.la.la.la.la…. lalalalala.lala
(deeper voice)
lala.lalala.lala.lalala.lala.lala
repeat above 3 times
That pretty much is all the lyrics and what makes it impossible to find.
It’s just some bizarre song that’s totally stupid but catchy.