I’ve spent the last week using Amazon Music/Prime Music across multiple platforms – Web, Android, PC, and iOS (everything except OS X and Roku) – and in different ways – Headphones, IEMs, Bookshelf Speakers. I’ve explored their library pretty extensively searching for around 1000 albums (see my post on the Rolling Stone Magazine top 500 Albums of All Time on Amazon Prime). There is a lot to love and room for improvement, check out the full rundown after the cut. Continue reading
In 2003 Rolling Stone Magazine published a special issue listing their 500 Greatest Albums of all time (and a related book in ’05) in June 2014 Amazon launched Prime Music as part of the Amazon Prime Service. Subscribers of the free 2 day shipping and on demand service gained access to thousands on on demand albums at no additional charge.
Later that week I compiled a list off all the Rolling Stone list that were also available through Amazon Prime as part of my quest to listen my way through the Rolling Stones Article… Here is where they overlap:
| Rank | Artist | Album |
| 4 | Bob Dylan | Highway 61 Revisited |
| 8 | The Clash | London Calling |
| 16 | Bob Dylan | Blood on the Tracks |
| 19 | Van Morrison | Astral Weeks |
| 22 | Robert Johnson | The Complete Recordings |
| 26 | Fleetwood Mac | Rumours |
| 30 | Joni Mitchell | Blue |
| 31 | Bob Dylan | Bringing It All Back Home |
| 36 | Carole King | Tapestry |
| 37 | Eagles | Hotel California |
| 40 | Love | Forever Changes |
| 41 | Sex Pistols | Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols |
| 44 | Patti Smith | Horses |
| 51 | Simon & Garfunkel | Bridge Over Troubled Waters |
| 52 | Al Green | Greatest Hits |
| 54 | Ray Charles | The Birth of Soul: The Complete Atlantic Rhythm and Blues Recordings 1952-1959 |
| 78 | Otis Redding | Otis Blue |
| 82 | Neil Young | Harvest |
| 84 | Aretha Franklin | I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You |
| 85 | Aretha Franklin | Lady Soul |
| 88 | Johnny Cash | At Folsom Prison |
| 89 | Dusty Springfield | Dusty In Memphis |
| 93 | Prince | Sign ‘O’ The Times |
| 97 | Bob Dylan | The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan |
| 101 | Frank Sinatra | In the Wee Small Hours |
| 103 | John Coltrane | Giant Steps |
| 106 | Ramones | Rocket to Russia |
| 113 | Joni Mitchell | Court and Spark |
| 123 | Run-D.M.C. | Raising Hell |
| 125 | Janis Joplin | Pearl |
| 128 | The Stooges | Raw Power |
| 129 | Talking Heads | Remain in Light |
| 133 | Bruce Springsteen | The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle |
| 134 | The Notorious B.I.G. | Ready to Die |
| 137 | The Replacements | Tim |
| 142 | Phil Spector | A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector |
| 143 | Dr. John | Gris-Gris |
| 146 | Jefferson Airplane | Surrealistic Pillow |
| 150 | Bruce Springsteen | Darkness on the Edge of Town |
| 152 | The B-52’s | The B-52’s |
| 153 | A Tribe Called Quest | The Low End Theory |
| 157 | Joy Division | Closer |
| 161 | Otis Redding | The Dock of the Bay |
| 163 | Prince | 1999 |
| 176 | Aerosmith | Rocks |
| 182 | Fleetwood Mac | Fleetwood Mac |
| 183 | Willie Nelson | Red Headed Stranger |
| 188 | Buffalo Springfield | Buffalo Springfield Again |
| 199 | The Strokes | Is This It |
| 202 | Simon & Garfunkel | Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme |
| 204 | Bob Dylan | Modern Times |
| 214 | Ike & Tina Turner | Proud Mary – the Best of Ike and Tina Turner |
| 217 | Bobby Bland | Two Steps From The Blues |
| 218 | The Smiths | The Queen Is Dead |
| 220 | The Meters | Look-Ka Py Py |
| 221 | My Bloody Valentine | Loveless |
| 226 | Bruce Springsteen | Nebraska |
| 234 | Simon & Garfunkel | Bookends |
| 239 | Madonna | Like a Prayer |
| 248 | Ornette Coleman | The Shape of Jazz to Come |
| 249 | R.E.M. | Automatic for the People |
| 250 | Jay-Z | Reasonable Doubt |
| 257 | Whitney Houston | Whitney Houston |
| 260 | Willie Nelson | Stardust |
| 262 | Crosby, Stills & Nash | Crosby, Stills & Nash |
| 263 | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman |
| 265 | Ray Charles | The Genius of Ray Charles |
| 268 | Paul Simon | Paul Simon |
| 269 | The Jesus and Mary Chain | Psychocandy |
| 272 | Sleater-Kinney | Dig Me Out |
| 284 | The Cars | The Cars |
| 286 | Al Green | I’m Still in Love With You |
| 287 | X | Los Angeles |
| 290 | Al Green | Call Me |
| 291 | Talking Heads | Talking Heads: 77 |
| 296 | The Smiths | Meat Is Murder |
| 303 | Bob Dylan | John Wesley Harding |
| 304 | Jeff Buckley | Grace |
| 312 | Jane’s Addiction | Nothing’s Shocking |
| 314 | Lauryn Hill | The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill |
| 318 | The O’Jays | Back Stabbers |
| 322 | Randy Newman | Sail Away |
| 326 | The Cure | Disintegration |
| 328 | Sonic Youth | Daydream Nation |
| 330 | Neil Young | Tonight’s the Night |
| 339 | Tom Waits | The Heart of Saturday Night |
| 340 | Black Flag | Damaged |
| 342 | Depeche Mode | Violator |
| 343 | Meat Loaf | Bat Out Of Hell |
| 344 | Lou Reed | Berlin |
| 345 | Talking Heads | Stop Making Sense |
| 351 | Neil Young & Crazy Horse | Rust Never Sleeps |
| 360 | Buzzcocks | Singles Going Steady |
| 361 | Outkast | Stankonia |
| 364 | The Doors | L.A. Woman |
| 365 | Rage Against the Machine | Rage Against the Machine |
| 367 | Madonna | Ray of Light |
| 376 | Björk | Post |
| 379 | TLC | Crazysexycool |
| 380 | Toots and The Maytals | Funky Kingston |
| 382 | Modern Lovers | Modern Lovers |
| 383 | Talking Heads | More Songs About Buildings and Food |
| 387 | Wu-Tang Clan | Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
| 389 | Don Henley | The End of the Innocence |
| 391 | Jackson Browne | The Pretender |
| 394 | Randy Newman | Good Old Boys |
| 398 | ZZ Top | Eliminator |
| 402 | Nas | Illmatic |
| 407 | The Clash | Sandinista! |
| 410 | Bob Dylan | Time Out Of Mind |
| 416 | Tom Waits | Mule Variations |
| 424 | Bruce Springsteen | The Rising |
| 425 | Gram Parsons | Grievous Angel |
| 439 | Sam Cooke | Live At The Harlem Square Club, 1963 |
| 442 | Devo | Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! |
| 449 | Big Star | Third/Sister Lovers |
| 452 | John Prine | John Prine |
| 467 | Bruce Springsteen | Tunnel of Love |
| 469 | Fugees | The Score |
| 472 | George Michael | Faith |
| 476 | The Notorious B.I.G. | Life After Death |
| 480 | Raekwon | Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… |
| 485 | Pearl Jam | Vitalogy |
| 488 | Husker Du | New Day Rising |
| 490 | ZZ Top | Tres Hombres |
| 491 | Albert King | Born Under A Bad Sign |
| 492 | Eurythmics | Touch |
| 494 | MGMT | Oracular Spectacular |
| 496 | Boz Scaggs | Boz Scaggs |
| 498 | The Stone Roses | The Stone Roses |
| 500 | OutKast | Aquemini |
| 354 | Billy Joel | 52nd Street |
Macro (Close Up) Photo of a screw in a antique lamp base, Shot on a Canon EOS-M using EF-M 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 IS STM lens, Creative Auto/Close Up, Manual Focus, with a +1, +2, +4 & +10 Close Up Filter.
“My Head isn’t in the Clouds, It’s in the stars” - Origin Unknown
Playing around with our Full Spectrum 40W 20″x12″ 5th Gen Hobby laser, etched the artwork of Joy Division’s “Unknown Pleasures” on a piece of scrap leather. The results were terrific, the smell was terrible.
Check out my Prize Winning Instructable – as seen on Lifehacker – for full details on how to cheaply and easily waterproof your canvas or cotton gear, it also makes a great conditioner for leather.
All you need is equal parts beeswax and canning wax, a double boiler, paintbrush and a heat gun or torch to apply it. I tried my jacket out both before and after waxing it and the difference was amazing.