Procrastinating so kindly
Right now I should be doing something that I'm supposed to finish Monday - but I'm not. Instead, I'm obsessing over The Spinto Band's song "So Kind, Stacy". I've been listening to it non-stop since Friday, since I re-discovered it as one of my thumbed up songs in Pandora.
I usually want something blaring in my earphones when I'm doing work. But then, whenever I hit a roadblock, even minor ones ( how do I store values in an array in ASP.net, again?) - I tend to easily call 'breaktime' and Google up anything that comes to mind. Yes, I'm that geeky - my form of relaxation is to surf the net and get my mind some useful or useless trivia. Since this song was playing, I googled up the band to find some interesting new facts to add to my plethora of trivia odds and ends. This is what I found out:
"So Kind Stacy" was actually an entry to the weekly online song contest at SongFight! It was an entry from a band called Carol Cleveland Sings who later became the Spinto Band. The Carol Cleveland Sings version is a cute little electronica number. Hearing the new Spinto Band version - I'm glad they remade it. Not that the old one's bad, it was actually really good the first time around (even though it didn't win) but much much better the second time they did it (so I've got two songs to listen to now!). I'm actually craving more for this band and I already got me a copy of two of their songs - the Stacy song and Oh Mandy (no relation what-so-ever to Barry Manilow's dog song). Now I wish I could download their whole album. I already used up my downloads for the month at eMusic and my favorite Russian-mafia run mp3 download site suddenly disappeared from the face of the internet world without any trace. Now, I either wait for my downloads to refill, which will take a few days or find another mp3 download site. I do miss that Russian site though, they have selections that even eMusic doesn't have - the Foals, the Concretes, I'm from Barcelona... I wish I should've dowloaded them before that site dissapeared into thin air :P
In any case, here's the Carol Cleveland Sings version of "So Kind Stacy" and the Spinto Band one. You should also try checking out SongFight.org - they've got quite an interesting music selection there. All entries are downloadable. I was listening to the challenge of the week entries and couldn't help but laugh out loud to some of the entries. It's like the being a judge at the early elimination phase of American Idol. It's also provides a nice music fix for music junkies like me whose mind's always saying - new music, now! grumble..grumble (that's like a tummy grumbling, but it's just my mind going through music withdrawal).
Oh, and yes - this is how bad I'm craving for new music...if you guys want 50 free downloads on eMusic you can send me your email and I can send an invite. I get 50 new downloads too if you do decide to open an eMusic account. I know this is kind of a longshot since (1) nobody really reads this blog (2) if somebody does, eMusic requires you to place a credit card on file to register (which nobody really likes). The credit card on file is in case you do decide to continue your subscription, since you can cancel it once all your free downloads are used up. I've actually done their free music thing (you get 25 downloads free to sign up) and cancelled after using up my downloads. It was pretty easy and painless. However, a few months after, I decided to sign up again since I found some tracks in eMusic that I couldn't find anywhere else. Help the needy if you want - send me a message and I'll send you the invite for the 50 free downloads - don't worry, I won't spam ;)
