Ten years ago today the mp3 extension was born. If it wasn’t for MP3, I would probably never get to hear Red Sox pitcher Bronson Arroyo’s debut CD, a collection of ’90s cover songs — Pearl Jam, STP, Toad The Wet Sprocket, etc. C’mon, I know ONE of you has to have an MP3. Post a link in the comments for us. Make the Fraunhofer Institute proud.
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“Covering the bases” has to be the most brilliant sports album title ever. See, baseball players are smart.
Happy Birthday MP3!! I knew you’d make it
This’ll make ya laugh, (if you haven’t heard it already)…
The late, great Barry White really has a lot of trouble reading a radio promo:
http://drewmike.file-place.com/barryreading.mp3
Team9 – Green Day vs The Eagles
http://www.team9.net/mp3/team9%20-%20greenday%20massacre.mp3
Happy birthday, MP3 (and all your chillens). You surely have enriched my life. I can’t think of how it was before you came alongs!
Only 8 more years!!!!!!!
go to hell mp3, i hope you die an burn in hell!!
Wasn’t there a San Diego pitcher back in the 90′s that was in a punk rock band?
Thank you Google:
It was Scott Radinsky, and the band was Pulley. The team was the Dodgers. The position was relief pitcher. I can’t speak for the music, but it probably sounded like every other Epiptath band back then (and still).
Did Bernie Williams ever record his classical guitar? And didn’t the Canseco brothers have a band?
Hurray for mp3 format, allowing me to easily steal music since 1995.
First mp3 I ever downloaded was Depeche Mode’s “Barrel of a Gun”, the pre album release single off of their album “Ultra”. This was fall ’96, my freshman year of college, first time I had broadband. I couldn’t believe the quality, because I was used to horrible real audio clips.
thank you mp3 for facilitating the first incarnation of napster. we love you.
Gummer how bout a classic from the boys……..and I don’t mean your friends in the village!
Cheech & Chong’s Up in Smoke
Password: “jamesir” (without the “”)
http://rapidshare.de/files/3017395/cc_uis.rar.html
I heard Bronson’s version of “Pardon Me” by Incubus and there’s (not surprisingly) a great deal of overproduction. It’s pretty bad–Scott Stapp-ish voice. Here’s the link: http://www.adamriff.com/downloads/Bronson_Arroyo-Pardon_Me.mp3
As for Scott Radinsky, he used to pitch here in St. Louis but was out for the season after about 1 inning. He gave my friend a Pulley CD when my friend was batboy, it’s a bad punk band (Epitaphish, indeed). Fun fact: when he was hurt, he used his carpenter skills to make a hat adjuster that still resides in the clubhouse today. And I’m done.
Bronson came into the radio statio I work at the other day…he has a decent voice…or at least he’s good at copying other people’s voices….but yeah…the only really bad one he does is his cover of the Standells “Dirty Water”…it’s just cheesy…lol
Yah, Bronson’s CD is actually pretty good… As far as a cover’s album, I’d give it a 7 out of 10.
Dirty Water is cheesey…but kind of funny too… They call Millar “chunk” and “loudmouth.” And Damon talks about women lifting their shirts up for him in center field.
Sometimes you can’t tell that it’s Bronson singing and it sounds like it’s actually the band that originally played it…
scott radinsky is a coach for the eastlake single A affiliaite of the cleveland baseball team, the lake county captains. here is a recent article about him from the plain dealer.
http://www.cleveland.com/search/index.ssf?/base/sports/1121160699320251.xml?sxcap&coll=2
I just followed the first link to, “the data compression news blog.” I wonder if they post pictures of brittney spears on that blog too.
i remember being a freshman in college, not having decent speed internet at home, and downloading some rare rap remix on napster, which I installed on the school’s computer. Then I would have to winzip it over several floppy disks (remember those/!?!) to take it home, only to find that this hour long process would end up in failure 4 out of 5 times due to a disk error. ahhhh the good old days
Arroyo sucks balls
What’s an MP3?
Now here I was going to say “Didn’t Ten Foot Pole have a ball player in the band, too?” …but it turns out it was the same guy. Pmeh.
MP3′s were never made for music, its been one big marketing ploy. Its a lossy compress which causes quite a decline in quality the more you covert and trade them. When they market a lossless compression to maintain quality no matter how many times you convert it or trade it, only then will I say hooray. MP3′s are garbage imo, and especially if you like to enjoy live shows. Excuse me while I go and throw on my vinyl copy of The Muppet Movie sdtk and tune out to the “Rainbow Song”
my .02 cents
My 3 cents: “Rainbow Connection”
What a coincidence, I just ran in to Bronson at a Strawberries here in downtown boston and he was signing his CD. picked up some new headphones so that i can listen to all my MP3′s on the way down to good old NYC.
See you all at Siren.
Happy b-day MP3.
What is it with pitchers and rock bands? Jack McDowell had one, too, an REM-styled trio called Stickfigure.
Actually, the same guy produced Arroyo’s CD and Bernie Williams’ jazz CD a few years ago. Marketing ploys know no cultural boundaries. Haven’t heard either, but might have to go find an mp3 (hah) of Arroyo et al’s “Dirty Water” just out of morbid curiosity. It might be made better by amusingly sucking. There was no way anyone on the Red Sox could record a covers record without it. I guess he vetoed “Sweet Caroline.”
Arroyo, Damon, and…one other guy from the team also appeared on The Dropkick Murphys’ Tessie EP, which is really only worth it if you’re a Red Sox fan.
you know i always wondered…whatever happened to mp1 and mp2 ???
Is MP3 something like Ménage Poir Trois?
Sorry to sink your shit, but actually, no, they’re not 10. They were invented by German scientists in 1987 as means to compress video files.