Music talk

hahaha ikr?

Rachel should sing this song on Glee (when she breaks off her engagement to Finn)- "Where I Stood"- Missy Higgins

I love you Freddie! song of the day..... and one of my all time favourites to sing in the shower.

Good song

Missy Higgins- All For Believing. That was my song today.

(why do i still not know how to spell "believing" properlyyyy?!)

Lol, Rosie! You're so cute.

So, I was listening to the radio on my way home from work and it played:

Echo & the Bunnymen - Killing Moon
Nirvana - Come As You Are
Thin Lizzy - Whiskey in the Jar

I was happy with it. Hehe.

Doesn't this just make you want to crawl into your bed and cry?

Bon Iver

That's beautiful, Dina.

Everyday I see new additions here in this thread and I can't keep up, because when I'm working I can't listen to videos. One day I want to just sit here and listen to all of your recommendations, guys. It's like a goal or something.

I'm the same, I can't listen to/watch this stuff while I'm in work. Unless I find a spot with really good signal to load it on my phone. I feel like I'm always catching up with something. Lol.

I can't watch most of the stuff because it's all blocked in Germany... thanks GEMA -.-

That sucks.

Aaaaaand my point is proven: can't see it

That sucks, Dina!

I can watch it perfectly. Not really my kind of music, but I like it.

You can't even see a WT vid, and they're from your neighboring country? That is bad!

It has nothing to do with where they're from. It has to do with the GEMA, a performance right organisation here in germany. GEMA = Society for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rights

So they attend to their duty to protect the rights of authors and artists, but blocking their videos is actually damaging their careers more than it helps them.
Youtube and GEMA can't seem to find any common ground so that's why so many videos are blocked for us.

The funny thing about me being so mad about that: I'm a member of the GEMA myself Not like I really had much of a choice but still somehow ironic

So, how does that work? You're only allowed to watch videos from Germany? What about official videos put out by the bands accounts themselves?

No videos from german artists are blocked, too
Of course not all are blocked - but as you can gather from my constant 'Nope, can't see that!' quite a few

Official videos are blocked, too.

When you become a member of the GEMA they become your organisation to 'take care' of your rights as an artist.
For example legally, whenever I play a concert with my band where we cover a song of another band or just play our own songs since I had to have them registered, I would have to "write a letter" (so to speak) to the GEMA and tell them.
The locality would have to pay so called GEMA-fees and I - as an artist - and the Band which we covered would get royalties.

THEY supervise your rights as soon as you sign the membership, you can't do it halfway and say "But I'll just release this".

Of course for me that's very theoretically, because I doubt that the GEMA cares about every little concert we play but still... that's how it works.
It's really complicated! Before I signed the membership I called our produer and was like "I don't understand anything they are saying here. Could you please explain this to me because I'm really confused!"

In short: Whenever there is music, which rights are preserved by the GEMA here in germany, the video will be blocked for us.

That is some confusing deal right there...
So they also preserve rights of foreign artists since they block those from you as well?

So, what are you allowed to watch?

foreign artist that have the rights of their work also preserved in germany: yes
BUT of course youtube and the GEMA don't find and block them all, so they still are videos on youtube that I can watch, though normally they would be blocked.

And if all fails you can always hide your IP with a proxy

First time listening to The Birthday Massacre. Not bad. Not bad at all!

Song of the day. god, I love jazz