Hype Machine’s Blog Zeitgeist = Bottled Awesomeness
Hype Machine — which for those who don’t know (and you should), is a great resource for finding music and music blogs — introduced the Music Blog Zeitgeist earlier this week and it has to be one of the coolest online music projects ever put together. The basic idea is that the music blog aggregator created lists of the top 50 most discussed artists, albums and songs of 2008 and are counting them down this week, 10 each day, and streaming each one for free.
It’s an amazing and fantastic idea that puts a metric ton of music at its users fingertips, while providing a good picture of what the larger music blogosphere has been buzzing about. It’s musical crowdsourcing that tames both the snobby tendencies of indie blogs and the impulsive and fleeting nature of popular culture to create a rounded snapshot of what people are listening to and talking about online.
So far, they’ve released Nos. 21-50, with the final pieces coming tomorrow and Friday, and I’m truly fascinated at what lands in the top 10. Below is a stream discussing and playing cuts from the No. 21-30 albums, including Kanye West’s 808s & Heartbreak, Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter III and Hot Chip’s Made in the Dark, among others. Pay attention to this — it’s a good glimpse at the future of online music.
OK, I agree that this is a pretty cool project (I submitted our top 10), but I’m not sure it’s really “one of the coolest online music projects ever put together.” Metacritic does this every year.
I do think that Hype’s version is executed better — some of Metacritics top choices seem a little odd — but it’s not exactly a radical idea.
Yeah, but you can’t play the music there. That’s what’s cool about it. It’s all right there at your fingertips. Also, notice the savvy of the record companies (and I use savvy in the least complimentary way possible) to let this happen. The Web, a vehicle for promotion, rather than simply a tool for abuse? Heavens, we’ve never thought of that.
Anyone can make a list, but combining all this stuff together is fucking awesome.
Interestingly, a lot of the songs on the top 50 songs list are remixes and covers — bloggers seem to like writing about those.
Corey – Yeah, I agree that it’s a slick update on an older concept. I’m not quite as cynical about the partnership between The Man and the blogosphere.
It might be wishful thinking, but I think the game has changed, and it’s in everyone’s best interest to find a new model where labels allow blogs to provide free samples, but also work with labels to legally distribute (read: sell) albums.
Jeremy – Good observation, I’m amazed at people’s insatiable appetite for remixes. Their are plenty of blogs that use them as their bread and butter. Personally, I think of remixes as musical junk food – very popular but pretty empty.
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