Ya know what? Spotify is actually pretty nice. I’ve already listened to a lot of albums on there. Last week, I listened to all of L7’s albums and finished listening to all the Grateful Dead studio albums.

Today, I started listening to Jethro Tull. I only listened to two albums by them: “Aqualung” and “Crest of a Knave” and both are pretty freakin’ killer albums. LOVED THEM! I’ve always loved Jethro Tull ever since I was a kid. Used to listen to them on vinyl all the time. I never got any of their music on CD, though but I think pretty soon I’m gonna start buying their albums from Itunes. Jethro Tull is one of the greats. Ian Anderson is the shit and one hell of a songwriter and live performer too. Even though Jethro Tull is all done… Ian and Martin Barre have gone solo, though, and Ian’s still performing Tull songs at his solo shows. I love Tull ’cause they are a mixture of hard rock & acoustic music. This is the band where Black Sabbath got their sound from. J. Tull was the inspiration for Sabbath ’cause Tony Iommi played with them for a brief time.

I love listening to a lot of music. It’s part of who I am. I listen to albums. I was never the one who is very selective of what songs I wanna listen to like most people are. I listen to the whole freakin’ album like a piece of art. That’s how albums should be listened to, in my opinion and people definitely stopped listening to albums that way. All people wanna hear these days are hit singles you hear in the top 40 mainstream. Not me. I listen to music. Listen to the album all the way through from start to finish. That’s how you show your love for music and it’s how you support the artist.

Glad I got Spotify back now that you can listen to it for free on the Ipad. Someday I will become a premium member, just not at this time. I’ll just go with the free version for now. There will be advertisements played but I don’t mind… it’s just like listening to the FM radio.

Kev