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Are You Awesome?

Chris Pirillo — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 03:18:51 +0000

The new song “I’m Awesome” by Spose is a pretty big hit. Even though I’m not normally a fan of this type of music, I have to say I keep singing the lyrics. Something about part of the first verse just gets to me.

I’m awsome!
a quarter of my life gone by and
I met all my friends online
I’m awsome!
I will run away from a brawl
I’m awsome!
there’s no voice mail nobody called
I’m awsome!
I can’t afford to buy eight ball
and I talk to myself
on my facebook wall

Do you talk to yourself on your Facebook wall? If so… you’re awesome!

Are You Awesome?

What is the Name of That Song?

Chris Pirillo — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:39:27 +0000

What is the Name of That Song?

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How often have you heard a new song and liked it, only to not find out the name of it at the end? It can drive you crazy trying to Google pieces of the lyrics, attempting to figure out who sings it, and what it’s called. You can’t buy the song for yourself if you don’t know the name of it. That’s where Midomi comes in. With Midomi, you can use your own voice to hum or sing lyrics to any song, and the service will find it for you. Once you’ve found it, you can watch the video for that particular piece of music, or even record a version of your own to share with the world.

Create a profile on Midomi, and sing your favorite songs. Upload them and create a playlist of searchable songs for others to enjoy. The next time anyone searches for that song, your performance might be the top result! You can listen to and rate others’ musical performances, see their pictures, send them messages, buy original music, and more.

There are more than two million legal tracks on Midomi. You can listen to samples of original recordings, buy the full studio versions directly from Midomi, and play them on your computer.

Thanks to James for sending in this screencast, so that everyone can have fun on this awesome site. Let me know what other websites you cannot get through the day without!

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The Twelve Days of Christmas – Geek Style

Chris Pirillo — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:45:22 +0000

The Twelve Days of Christmas – Geek Style

I admit it – I love Christmas music. I like the old, traditional stuff. I like some of the funny stuff. I even like some of the new-fangled stuff! Earlier this evening, I was listening to some Christmas tunes while working in my office, and the Twelve Days of Christmas song came on. As I hummed along with this cute little song, I remembered that there’s a “redneck” version, as well. That got me thinking… where’s the Geek version?! Surely there are more than enough gadgets lying around to help inspire us, right? We demand equal representation! If Jeff Foxworthy can sing about redneck gifts, why can’t we sing about Geeky ones?

Here’s my challenge to you – come up with a whole new version of the standard Twelve Days of Christmas. The catch is, of course, that it has to be Geek style! Only Geeky gifts, gadgets and gizmos are allowed for each of the days. Make sure the song makes sense, and rhymes at least somewhat. If you want me to sing it on stream some day, you need to make sure it sounds at least kind of coherent. If I receive one that is truly awesome, you never know where you might see or hear your creation!

Get to writing, and email me your lyrics!

There are a lot of cool games and software titles available for excellent prices in our downloads center today – just in time for holiday gift-giving!

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The Twelve Days of Christmas – Geek Style

How to Sing Songs You Don’t Know: Still Alive (Portal)

coupons — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:06:33 +0000

How to Sing Songs You Don’t Know: Still Alive (Portal)

Here I am trying to sing along to a song I was hearing for the first time. I did a very poor job, and thankfully the experience was recorded for posterity.

This was a triumph
I’m making a note here: huge success
It’s hard to overstate my satisfaction
Aperture Science
We do what we must because we can
For the good of all of us
Except the ones who are dead
But there’s no sense crying over every mistake
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake
And the science gets done and you make a neat gun
For the people who are still alive

I’m not even angry
I’m being so sincere right now
Even though you broke my heart and killed me
And tore me to pieces
And threw every piece into a fire
As they burned it hurt because
I was so happy for you
Now these points of data make a beautiful line
And we’re out of beta, we’re releasing on time
So I’m glad I got burned, think of all the things we learned
For the people who are still alive

Go ahead and leave me
I think I’d prefer to stay inside
Maybe you’ll find someone else to help you
Maybe Black Mesa
That was a joke, ha ha, fat chance
Anyway this cake is great
It’s so delicious and moist
Look at me still talking when there’s science to do
When I look out there it makes me glad I’m not you
I’ve experiments to run, there is research to be done
On the people who are still alive

And believe me I am still alive
I’m doing science and I’m still alive
I feel fantastic and I’m still alive
And while you’re dying I’ll be still alive
And when you’re dead I will be still alive
Still alive
Still alive

How to Sing Songs You Don’t Know: Still Alive (Portal)

How Do You Discover New Music?

Chris Pirillo — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:47:40 +0000

How Do You Discover New Music?

I love listening to a wide variety of music. When I’m working, I will often have music playing, which can be heard over my stream. People send me emails all the time with recommendations of different music, songs and artists I should check out. I always take the time to do so, since you never know what I might find that I enjoy and would have never heard of otherwise. I tend to discover my music this way. I had to ask my friends how they discover their new tunes.

I’ve had this dilemma until recently. I don’t use radio anymore, and I haven’t had cable in years so no MTV or VH1. I’ve recently discovered Pandora, quite happy with it. – Kevin Etter

On the radio ? – Charlie Anzman

Hype Machine is good although its hard to keep track of everything on there its updated constantly. – Sean Davis

I use Pandora constantly. – Morgan

last.fm, browsing iTunes & eMusic. Metafilter and various blogs also introduced me to a few bands – Mike Cohen

Definitely Last.FM ! – Éric Senterre

Pandora is definitely the way I find new music. I haven’t tried Last.FM in a while, I may need to rediscover it. – JT Perry

last.fm – nicerobot

Pandora and here. – Yolanda

I recommend Binaerpilot. – Vezquex

I have some friends whose raison d’être is finding new music, and they toss it to me. – Kirk Kittell

I don’t listen to radio at all. I don’t watch videos. Primary source of music is Last.fm and I find new/different stuff via FriendFeed. If I can’t find anything I like…I create it. – Rahsheen Porter

Cool friends – Noah Carter

Any and every way I can. I especially like getting recommendations from people I trust. Then, if I really dig the music, I will always have that connection to reflect on. – Josh Haley

last.fm, eMusic, and Jamendo. – Steven Perez

Madison, Wisconsin enjoys the benefits of a fine community station and a killer student station (i.e., WORT, WSUM). Always way ahead of the curve. Plus the internets are a bonus. – Dave Martin

Last.fm, Pandora, a few choice blogs and–every now and then–the radio. – Aram Zucker-Scharff via twhirl

Pandora, BBC 1 (it’s new to Americans) and a few di.fm programs. – Andrew Leyden

I don’t listen to radio or watch TV since I moved to the UK, so my primary sources now are Last.fm, eMusic, FriendFeed and Rolling Stone. I’d say I’m purchasing about as much music as I used to though – mostly CDs when Amazon or HMV has a sale. DRM sucks. – Jon Price

Pandora, Last.fm, podcasts, & sometimes radio. Friends too :) – zoblue

primarily – last.fm and amazon.com recommendations. secondarily – friend recommendations. I have the benefit of having friends with impeccable taste in music. – Jason Toney

last.fm, hypem.com and podcasts oh and of course friends. – Got80s via twhirl

Corie Allison – Bren

Friends, last.fm, radio, newspapers, movies, tv shows, magazines, concerts, nightclubs, festivals, and FF. – Pete Delucchi

Oh, music blogs and podcasts, too. flux, gramophone, soul sides, rock insider, and the fader are go to blogs. KCRW top tune, kexp song of the day, and indiefeed are my go to music podcasts. But, damn, now y’all know all my secrets. How will I maintain my rockist/soulist cred? – Jason Toney

All I use is last.fm, because somehow it amanages to find new related artists each week despite my massive music collection – Bartek Gniado

I tend to rummage with radio, and internet cause I don’t get music suggestions. – Shawn

Last.fm – Roger Benningfield

I’m a bit of a new-music freak and take a lot of time out to find new music. I don’t ell se last.fm but I am hooked up on the site. While Pandora was available in the UK that was by far the best way I found new music. Since then I browse my iLike Activity page weekly, as well as check my iTunes weekly mail of new tunes from my favourite bands. I also check BBC Radio 1′s and xfm’s playlists and isten to the hottest tracks from sixtyone.com. Lastly I check the music page on MySpace nd anything the London Timeout lists in its weekly magazine. For my type of music I listen to Zane Loe on Radio 1 A LOT! Huw Stephens and the In New Music We Trust programmes are very good too. I’m a member of Blip.fm and several others but they don’t seem to give me good results. – Kol Tregaskes

Oh and once I do find a new band I hck them out on Amazon and AllMusic and seek out the similar artists/Albums they list. ALso, Radio 1 has lots of podcasts to listen to. – Kol Tregaskes

If the last.fm feeds on FF all hd lay buttons then I would check them out more too. – Kol Tregaskes

I don’t, really. Most of my new music is soundtracks. I just don’t listen to music. – Brent Newhall

a href=”http://www.freeformrock.com” rel=”nofollow”>http://www.freeformrock.com (traditional FM freeform, including contemporary Americana, from one of the legendary freeform DJ’s) and Pandora for stuff that’s new to my hearing, but I somehow missed over the years ( http://pandora.com/share/stati… ). – Malcolm Gault-Williams

Through friends and Amazon.com. Occasionally through the BBC’s 1Xtra and the NY Times Arts section. My friends are musical omnivores and voracious consumers. They’ve introduced me to most of the new music I’ve purchased in the last year. – tiffany

i am in the black/electro scene – new music i find via last.fm, listening to my friends’ music and – like last weekend – by visiting festivals :) – Carsten

How do you find new music to listen to? Do you just turn on a radio and listen? Do you take recommendations from others? Or do you just happen across new stuff occasionally online?

How Do You Discover New Music?

Has Anyone Ever Written a Song About You?

Chris Pirillo — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:29:16 +0000

Has Anyone Ever Written a Song About You?

Recently, one of the regular members in our community wrote a song about me. How cool is that? I asked my friends if anyone has ever written a song about them.

Actually yes. – Vincent X

Could’ve sworn Carly Simon did but she denies it. – Akiva Moskovitz

That song was pretty good! Talented guy. – Vincent X

George Kelly wrote one for me on my birthday! If the iPhone had cut and paste, I’d be able to easily link it here for you. – Schlomo Rabinowitz

yes, to the tune of an REM song naturally – Ethan Kaplan

Sure: The Theme from Shaft. I’m very proud of it. – Chris Baskind

Oh lord, it’s hard to be humble, when you’re perfect in every way! Yup – Tad Donaghe

does i hate you die in a sing song way count??? if so, yes! – Mona N

Uhm…not written, but improvised in a moment of passion…LOL – Rahsheen Porter

I’m Henry, your bartending friend; No songs, but there was this girl in AP English who wrote a love poem to me and read it out loud to the class. – RAPatton

Yes but no one ever heard it and, it was silly. Just an ex-boyfriend messing with his guitar and making up different ways to sing my name and add rhymes to it. – Candace Holly

Does it count if I have written songs about myself? – Bren

yes. This one was (supposedly) about me: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg… – nathan

Yes… my hubby wrote me a few when we were dating. heh – Daynah

I’ve had a movie made inspired by me. Does that count? It was a short, and actually got produced with real actors and a director and stuff. An ex-girlfriend wrote and starred in it — after we broke up — so I’m not telling you how to find it. – Dan Kaplan

Daynah…are you only here becuase Twitter was down? hahahaha (btw, that song thing? SO super sweet!) @Dan, are you killed off? HA – Mona N

My boyfriend did…which is probably why he’s my husband now. – Evangeline

For $10 I will create a song for anyone and sing it on video – Allen Stern

Mona: She used her interpretation of the end of our relationship as the central metaphor. I wasn’t an actual character in the flesh. It was crazy – Dan Kaplan

Isaac Hayes wrote some song about me, but he changed the name so as not to tip anyone off about how cool I was. – Harvey Simmons

Allen Stern (allenstern): That’s really really cheap advertising! :) I wish I can pay you! Can we find a deal? ;-) – directeur via NoiseRiver

Found it! One of the greatest gifts I’ve ever gotten, by the one and only George Kelly: http://www.vimeo.com/233431 – Schlomo Rabinowitz

directeur – sure just paypal the $10 and answer 20 questions about yourself and I will create a great song – just watch my twitter song for an example of my singing voice :-P – Allen Stern

+4 Akiva – Marco

Wait, we getting paid? If you would like a personalized song, please refer to http://last.fm/music/rahsheen for samples and price can be discussed at a later date…LOL – Rahsheen Porter

Yes. – Cecily Walker

oh, sure, Akiva. i bet you think this thread is about you. don’t you? – Trent Olson

yes. – edythe

Yup. My pop has. – Jason Toney

Gosh! So many people have songs written for them? Okay, Who do we pay over here to get a song written? – Parth Awasthi

Has anyone written a song about or for you? Why not leave a comment in this post, and let all of us see or hear it!?

Has Anyone Ever Written a Song About You?

Where do You Find Song Lyrics Online?

Chris Pirillo — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:54:04 +0000

Where do You Find Song Lyrics Online?

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When you a hear a new song for the first time, you want to know all the words to it. How exactly do you find those words though? Many sites that offer music lyrics online are shady, and can infect your pc with Malware. How do you know who to trust? Where can you find lyrics to songs you’ve forgotten the words to?

LyricsFly has a very easy-to-use interface. It’s clean. It’s simple. Best of all… it’s popup and malware free. Yes, the site is powered by ads, but they aren’t overly annoying or intrusive. You can search by artist, song, album or partial lyrics.

Once you find the lyrics to a song, there are several options that you can then choose from. You can print or email them, or submit corrections if you find mistakes. You’ll also get a few links to suggested and similar artists! Whoever made this site, thank you! I’ve been looking for something like this. Bookmark this site, y’all. It’s an excellent and simple way to safely find the words to every song you ever needed to know the lyrics to.

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Chocolate Rain: Explain?

Chris Pirillo — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:29:27 +0000

Chocolate Rain: Explain?

“Chocolate rain, Chris Pirillo’s thoughts do wax and wane. Chocolate rain, others find him to be quite insane. Chocolate rain, making people laugh by singing “Penny Lane.” Chocolate rain, Google him and you will fan the flame. Chocolate rain, bylines written like this aren’t the same. Chocolate rain, fingers point to Chris, we shift the blame. Chocolate rain, we don’t understand, we can’t explain. Chocolate rain, will you read this article while on the train? Chocolate rain, please don’t squint to read, it causes strain. Chocolate rain, are you tired yet of this refrain? Chocolate rain, fine, we’re done for now, so no more bane.”

That’s the byline I wrote for myself in last month’s issue of CPU Magazine. I started writing next month’s column a few minutes ago and decided to post ‘er here for giggles. I’ve spent a lot of time being creative with those bylines, and I’m afraid that few subscribers ever recognize ‘em.

Chocolate Rain: Explain?

12 Days of Christmas Song: A Music Geek Carol!

Chris Pirillo — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:55:29 +0000

12 Days of Christmas Song: A Music Geek Carol!

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That’s right, the 12 Days of Christmas… Geek style! Thanks to the community members in the live.pirillo.com chat room who helped me come up with the lyrics.

Going backwards, here are the lyrics:

On the 12th Day of Christmas, my geek love gave to meeeeeeeeeeeeeee

12 Cups of Coffee (Peet’s!!)
11 Fans a-Spinning
10 Million Viewers
9 Bloggers Blogging
8 Digg’ers Digg’ing
7 Hackers Hacking
6 Tix a-Ticking
5 LCDs
4 Remote Controls
3 Flash Drives
Dual Channel RAM
and a Cartridge in Atari

Happy Holidays everyone!

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Sing a Song Music Matching: Better Than Karaoke

Chris Pirillo — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 02:55:36 +0000

Sing a Song Music Matching: Better Than Karaoke

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Have you ever had a song on the tip of your tongue? But alas… you cannot remember the title, or even the artist? Well, now there’s a website that can help you figure it out.

Midomi.com is a site that can match lyrics to a song, tell you the title and artist, and even let you listen to the original music. Oh, and did I mention you can also buy the album if you want?

Creating an account is free, but not even required to search. Simply click the button at the top where it says “Click for Singing Search”. Sing the lyrics you remember… even just a couple of lines. The site will then search for the best matches. In the times that I tried it, the site was absolutely correct! How freakin’ cool is that? It knew what song I was singing! If you don’t remember the lyrics themselves, but have the melody in your brain, guess what? You can search by humming, too!

Don’t have a microphone? It’s ok, you can still search the site by inputting words the old fashioned way with your keyboard. You can contribute to the database by singing in midomi’s online recording studio in any language or genre. The next time anyone searches for that song, your performance might be the top result! At midomi you can create your own profile, sing your favorite songs and share them with your friends and get discovered by other midomi users. You can listen to and rate others’ musical performances, see their pictures, send them messages, buy original music, and more.

Do you know of any other truly cool music websites? I don’t just mean artist sites. I’m talking FUN, different, something we can all enjoy. Leave me a comment on this video, or shoot me an email to chris@pirillo.com

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