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There are some things that just don't need to be expressed, not on a record. Go back to Songs for Silverman, if you want to hear an album with 6 breakup songs. A lot of people didn't notice it at the time, but listen to the lyrics. I would have heard that and gone, "There's this big glowing dedication to this guy's wife on the cover, but listen to the center of it, there's something going on here...
...Sept. 24 launch of MySpace Music has made it easier to find and listen to free, major-label music on the Web. But it's not the only game in town. As online-music aficionados already know, there are several other free sites where you can pretty much do the same thing, including Imeem, Last.fm and SpiralFrog. Among these, Imeem has the largest following and the vastest selection of free, mainstream music - something it has been offering for more than a year...
...between the two services is how they let you share music with your friends. MySpace is basically a walled garden. You can share your playlists with other MySpace users - and it's definitely fun to check out what new songs your friends are grooving to - but you can't listen to those playlists on other sites. Imeem, on the other hand, lets people export and post their playlists on blogs, Facebook, and even MySpace, using an embeddable widget. That means your friends can listen to your Imeem songs without ever logging onto Imeem (or even knowing that it exists...
Indeed, compared to MySpace, which has about 71 million U.S. users (17 million of whom already listen to music regularly on the site), Imeem is relatively unpopulated. It has about six million unique visitors in the U.S. and 17 million worldwide, according to Quantcast. "They have a dedicated but very small constituency," notes NPD entertainment analyst Russ Krupnick. Part of the problem is Imeem's jumbled interface, which is so focused on community that it's not immediately obvious what the site is even about. Part of it is legacy: Imeem, which was co-founded by engineers from the original...
...really. I'm pretty abusive with it. I pretty much beat the crap out of it. There are times when I'm under the weather and the corporate machine tries to put me in the recording booth anyway. It's always up to me to say, "Guys, listen to me, listen to what I sound like. I'm not myself...