OK fine, so it’s a confluence of two of my favorite things.  Whatever.  Watch and enjoy the new video for “Can’t Go Back Now” directed by Brad Aldous

One of the projects I’ve been working on at Sony is a video series entitled 60 Second Soundtracks.  The concept is simple.  I work with some of the biggest music geeks I know, but we’re rarely given the opportunity to share our love of music professionally from a personal viewpoint.  The series was conceived to give us all a place to talk about our favorite albums and why we love them so much.

There was no direction given as to which albums to choose, other than that they were in the SonyBMG (now Sony Music) catalog.  I encouraged people to pick albums from deep in our catalog rather than the obvious choice (I strictly forbid anyone from picking “London Calling,” for example, we have so many Clash fans!)

The result is, I think, a really interesting collection of stories of people’s love of a wide range of albums and songs, and reminiscences of their own personal histories.  Nobody picked albums we ‘happened to be working on this quarter’.  There was no business reason behind the choices, other than that they felt that these albums needed to be heard by more people.

Thanks to Chris at Etc. Productions and Joe at Vella Interactive for making the vision a reality.

I hope you enjoy them.

This is the part of the blog post where I would embed a YouTube player, except that my companies YouTube strategy is to disable sharing on all the videos that we deliver to them.  So you will have to make do with a:

Link: 60 Second Soundtracks playlist on YouTube

Update: here’s a widget with some of the vids, not all.

…or anything, really.

Can’t decide if I like the album version. It was definitely great live:

Listen Here:

Since I am a music geek, I am also a Rhapsody subscriber, and find it totally invaluable. Their new tagline “Think It, Hear It” is quite accurate to describe the experience. They recently launched a new Facebook application that has similar functionality to other FB music apps, except it now allows LEGAL FULL-TRACK STREAMING of their entire library. I can’t wait to see what else these guys are up to in 08!

BusinessWeek seems to agree with me. Check out their article: Stars Are Aligning for Subscription Music

One of my top tunes of ‘07

• One of my top albums of 2006, The Format’s “Dog Problems” is being given away.. FREE and at no cost! Get it now!
• Apparently theres an email going around at Microsoft HQ about life at google. I was surprised to hear that its not all steak and blowjobs. Okay, not really. It sounds more like beer bongs and sorority girls, actually.
• There are no words for how cool this PhotoSynth demo is, but here’s a shot: Imagine taking a bunch of photos of a building and having a piece of software automatically recognize where you are in 3d space and build a model of the building. Now imagine that tied into flickr.
• Hum a song into your computer to identify it with Midomi
• For all the worker drones: How to write a do-able ToDo list via lifehacker
• Are you a sexualist or a sensualist? Nerve may help answer the question.