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All around the world with Spotify

January 26th, 2010

We can enjoy some of the CitySpeaker city audio guide collections on Spotify. These include Paris, Rome, New York , London and many others. There are French and English versions of the main cities, although right now it seems like there are more french than english guides (the company is French, after all). Theses guides are another reason to go premium so you can enjoy this city guides on the proper place (via your Iphone, Android or Symbian phone while on the actual city if possible)

The quality of this guides is superb, they’re are recorded in a jovial and entertaining way. Of course, you may want to buy the original guides as they include maps and booklets wich may be of interest.  In case you’re just trying to revive that last summer’s trip Spotify may be just enough.

Related links:

- CitySpeaker AudioGuides Online
- Also Cityspeaker in French

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The Picture of Dorian Gray performed by Hurd Hatfield

October 21st, 2009

Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) is one of his most important works, probably the most popular. Here it appears as an audiobook, narrated by Hurd Hatfield, an american actor who also appeared as the main character on the 1945 adaptation of the novel.

Related links:
- The Picture of Dorian Gray at Google Books
- The Picture of Dorian Gray at Project Gutenberg
- Hurd Hatfield (IMDB)

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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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