My Music

Here are some of my favorite musical artists... Some are Christian some are Secular, but there is a wide variety and are all really wonderful... To know the kinds of music I like to listen to know is to know me a little better. So feel free to get aquainted...

-Andrew.

I'm just getting started with this area. Here is a bit of a list that I will flesh out over time: Jon Astley, Audio Adrenaline, Bjork, Edie Brickell, DC Talk, Frente!, Amy Grant, Information Society, Natalie Merchant, Newsboys, Presidents of the United States of America, They Might Be Giants, Weird Al Yankovic, Michael W. Smith, Jill Sobule, Steve Taylor, etc.

Information Society:

 They call Information Society (or 'INSOC') a 'Synth Pop' group. Or at least that's what the Newsletter I got when I wrote in to the Information Society Fan Club address calls itself -- The Synth Music Network (also Control-Alt-Delete). I'm not sure if I like the term... It seems a little cheesy. I prefer to call it a Pop Techno blend. But either way, Information Society is one of my favorite groups. (insert Image of Information Society album artwork here...)A lot of the songs are very cyber. I get the feeling of a very technically advanced future, where people are truly 'jacked in.' But the songs are usually about the humanity in the middle of all the technology. Lots of great samples in this music, too. This picture is the cover art from their most recent album... (I'm hoping for a new one soon!). On this album is a track called "300BPS N, 8, 1" which is a ascii download of an electronic message -- just to show you how 'geeky' they can be. The song mirrorshades is one of my favorites -- makes me want to go and get some so that I can be a cyber-punk. (I hate using the word cyber, BTW). My housemate Noah and I used to run a BBS, and before the Internet gained widespread popularity, I was thinking about starting up a new BBS named "Peace and Love, Inc." but never got around to it... Now, I just use "Peace&Love,Inc." as my 'Process Name' on our school's VAX/VMS system. As an Information Technologist, I dig the name 'Information Society,' too. I look forward to their future stuff and would buy it instantly (although the band will probably be a little different... they partly broke up). My only gripe is that INSOC (or at least Kurt, the driving force behind the group, who is also obsessed with Descent, it seems) is PC (anti-Mac) biased. Oh well, nobody's perfect.

A few Information Society sites:

Natalie Merchant:

 When I was younger, we never had cable at my house, but for a little while, there was this strange channel called something like "Hit Video USA", that came across one of the regular VHF channels. This was while everyone else was watching MTV and the like, but I couldn't do that. Apparently record companies would pay to have their videos played on this channel in hopes that people would hear the songs and buy the albums... Well, it worked. I wound up buying a 10,000 Maniacs tape after hearing the song "Peace Train" (and a Jon Astley tape, BTW). So I got the "In my Tribe" album and listened to it a lot... I think I bought a few others in the years that followed. (insert Image of Natalie Merchant here...)Ironically, the group decided to stop publishing "Peace Train" on their "In my Tribe" album because Cat Stevens apparently agreed with the 'Satanic Verses' death sentence thingy. Doesn't matter, I still like the song a lot (and actually got one of those "collector's versions CD's" that still had the song on it. Anyway, 10,000 Maniacs actually came to RIT in 1993 (right before they parted ways) and gave an awesome concert (even if Natalie did get a little irked at our mosher dorks and walked off stage twice). I still think she's wonderful and a sweet woman. Truth be told, I'm a Natalie Merchant fan and not a 10,000 Maniacs fan. (Sort of like how I'm a big Bjork fan and not a great SugarCubes fan, except the 10,000 Maniacs still exist with a new lead singer). I'm not an obsessed, die hard fan, by any means, but I do think she is beautiful and has a wonderful voice. I've since bought her album "TigerLily". And the enhanced CD single for "Wonder" where I took this video frame clip from...

A few Natalie Web sites:

more to come...
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