I’ve come to the realization that I’m committing some of the top ten blogging mistakes with My Top 5, so I’ve decided to work on righting a few of my blogosphere transgressions. Not all of them at once, of course, but I am working on a couple.
Having a Domain Name Owned by a Weblog Service
I’m looking into web hosting to start my own site. I’m not quite sure how I’m going to do all of this yet, but I’m working on it.
Irregular Publishing Frequency
This is the big one. After much consideration I’ve decided that, since the main purpose of this site is to expand musical taste, the best way to do that is not to just ponder the philosophy of music, but to expose what good music I discover. That said, My Top 5 will soon be home to the Find Of The Day. I’m still working out the details, but the basic idea is that I will find an album every day that I like and write a quick mini-review of it. That’s really the only rule so far. A find for every day may seem a bit ambitious, but just in considering the idea I came up with 75 albums to start with.
More news on all this as it develops.
For some reason I just got really excited I opened up Rhapsody just now, and saw that my “Greatest Rock Guitar Solos” playlist is currently the top-rated user playlist, the top Rock/Pop Genre Mix and the top Theme Mix. That means I’m even beating out all the playlists by all the Rhapsody Music Guide Editors that actually work for them.
The only bummer is that it’s not my own personal list. I just took it from DigitalDreamDoor.com’s list. But it does give people the opportunity to see my other playlists, so maybe I should start submitting more of those.
Hmmm… I wonder if they have any openings for Music Guide Editor positions.
The track list for the fourth volume of Tooth & Nail Records’ “Happy Christmas” compilation album has been announced, and a Purevolume page set up with two preview tracks. There seems to be more non T&N artists showing up here (Switchfoot? Eisley? Copeland?) but maybe that will prove to be a profitable choice for the label.
Track Listing:
- Switchfoot – Evergreen
- Emery – (Ho Ho Hey) A Way for Santa’s Sleigh
- Anberlin – Baby Please Come Home
- Eisley – The Winter Song
- Starflyer 59 – Christmas Time is Here
- Aaron Gillespie from Underoath – Yule Be Sorry (with Kenny Vasoli from The Starting Line)
- Mae – Carol of the Bells
- Copeland – Do You Hear What I Hear
- Relient K – I Celebrate the Day
- Hawk Nelson – Last Christmas
- Spoken – Mary Did You Know
- The Fold – Oh Holy Night
- Number One Gun – Of Two Bearded Men
- John Davis – Jesus is Real (God is Alive)
