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Maximum Beatles: The unauthorised biography of The Beatles

October 10th, 2009

An hour long biography, including some short interviews, but, sadly, no Beatle’s music. These is part of the Maximum interviews and biographies series at the Chrome Dreams (Spotify Link) label. It has a concise introduction and chapters for every major stage of The Beatles history, specially the beginnings, explaining the reasons for their success and also studying all the changes in musical styles through their career. We’re still waiting for the music…

Album Maximum Beatles

Year 2002

  1. The Wheels Of The Universe 5 minutes, 51 seconds
  2. Before The Beginning 5 minutes, 12 seconds
  3. Hamburg 3 minutes, 58 seconds
  4. Enter Brain Epstein 6 minutes, 38 seconds
  5. Exit Pete Best 8 minutes, 37 seconds
  6. Ordinary Lads 5 minutes, 12 seconds
  7. The Final Tour 5 minutes, 17 seconds
  8. Lonely Hearts 7 minutes, 41 seconds
  9. One Bad Apple 7 minutes, 14 seconds
  10. The End Of The Beginning? 5 minutes, 47 seconds
  11. Beatles Forever? 7 minutes, 38 seconds

(Track names link to Spotify URLs)

Related links:
- Maximum Beatles: The Unauthorised Biography of The Beatles (Maximum series) (Amazon.com)
- The Beatles Official Web
- The Beatles (Wikipedia)

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The 50th Law (50 cent audio book)

October 9th, 2009

Spotify anounces on its blog they’re giving for their premium users the complete ‘The 50th Law’ audiobook by 50 cent and Robert Greene. Luckily for nonpremium users, they’ve also put a sampler edition, with about an hour of audio. The audiobook is about 50cent struggle to fame and his philosophy of life (you may call it that way). Let’s hope this is the beginning of many more audiobooks on Spotify.

Related links:
-The 50th Law on Amazon.com
-Book review at Shelf Life Blog (Entertainment Weekly)

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Peter Sellers Radio Comedy Classics

October 9th, 2009

I didn’t know Peter Sellers had so much success before making it as an international movie star. Quoting from Spotify biography:

On an international level, Peter Sellers is most famous as a screen comedian, starring in Dr. Strangelove, The Pink Panther, Being There, and other films. Actually, he was an all-around performer who was a household name in England long before Dr. Strangelove made him a big star overseas. Although his film career was well underway by the end of the 1950s, he first rose to prominence as a radio performer on The Goon Show (collaborating with other comedians, especially Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan). His radio success almost immediately led to solo comedy recordings (many of the Goon Show broadcasts were eventually issued on record as well, especially on the BBC’s own label).

Related links:
- Peter Sellers at IMDB.com
- Fool Britannia review at Record Collector (doesn’t get much praise)
- The official site of Peter Sellers

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How to travel on a budget (Spotify edition)

October 2nd, 2009

I guess this is what they call ‘niche market’ as I don’t know many people who would buy an audio travel guide, not about a particular place but about how to travel on the cheap. It includes advise on planning the trip, cheap hotels, traveling with kids  and what can go wrong. Huge tips as: ‘if you want to travel cheap, book cheap hotels’ (duh!) or ‘Australia off-peak is not that expensive’ (?)

Anyway, if you really are into audio travel guides, I recommend you to go to The Guardian website, where they have serveral guides, many of them by famous citizens of those places (look for the ‘My Home Town’ series). Also check The Amateur Traveler podcast or the Travel section of any Podcast directory, like digitalpodcast.com.

Related links:
- Audio Travel guides at The Guardian
- The Amateur Traveler podcast

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Ringtones? Yes, ringtones…

October 1st, 2009

Of all the things I thought I could find at Spotify, phone ringtones wasn’t the first I thought of. There seems to be an extensive collection of these short audio recordings, from the ‘Best friend calling’ collections to the ‘Your Name Ringtone‘ (my favorite is ‘It’s your …. calling‘ ones, with someone singing something like ‘It’s your (insert friend/family), don’t you wanna pick up and find out what’s going on, find out what’s going on…oh yeah yeah’ or the one-hit wonder ‘Your (familiy name)’s calling you, wants to see what you’re up too, if you wait till the sun gets through you might just miss her’ (pure magic :P ) There’s even an ‘SMS Text edition‘, you can imagine… ‘Hey (insert friend), you’ve got a text message’. You can check them out searching for  ‘Your Name Ringtone’ or clicking on the link… you know, if you wait till the sun gets through…

Related links:
- Mobile9, a ringtone directory.
- Howto: Make a ringtone from any MP3 (Lifehacker)

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