If there's one technological divide that separates your Idolators from the twentysomething hordes, it's the concept of listening to music through a cell phone. The speakers are usually crap, the available memory wouldn't even hold a shelf of our CD collection, and, well, it just feels
wrong. But Nokia's announcement yesterday that it would be expanding its mobile music services piqued our interest, mainly because its forthcoming Music Recommenders service will use suggestions from independent record stores, like the Chicago stalwart
Reckless Records, and world-famous Arcade Fire aficionado David Bowie to make its picks. Although if one of them is the Bowie "
cyber song" he recorded a few years back, we're going to cry foul.
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My post on James Brown's "Living In America" reminded me of a sorta-sketched-out theory I have about the evolution, and devolution, of recent years' musical landscape: There are few musical icons from the glory days of rock and pop who didn't make at least one indescribably awful career choice during the 1980s. (Some of the artists haven't even recovered yet.) Evidence for this theory after the jump, along with one striking exception who leads me to believe that the product of an idle mind forced to hear one too many Rod Stewart covers while waiting on line in Walgreens might actually be fact.
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Who among us hasn't wondered what a dub mix of David Bowie's "Magic Dance" might sound like? I know I say this almost as much as I say its opposite, but: God bless the Internet. [
