I bought Cliff Hillis’ Be Seeing You on iTunes after hearing a track from his latest album on KCRW.
The first track was a bit of a surprise, though — a weird acapella/world/carribean gospel thing, instead of the jangly pop that I was expecting. OK, I think, maybe Mr. Hillis had a recent religious experience. So, I jump to the next track.
Track name: Second Dimension. Song: acapella version of Psalm 137 (Rivers of Babylon). Next!
Track name: Grounded. Song: Acapella version of the Lord’s Prayer.
At this point, I’m pretty much convinced I’ve been tricked into buying a Christian music album (It has happened before!)
Fortunately, the remaining tracks are fine. After poking around a bit, it turns out that Apple has gotten their wires crossed somehow. The first three tracks are actually from “Acapella Scriptures” by Wayne Pascall. Emailed Apple about this almost a week ago and am still waiting for resolution.
Oddly, though, iTunes isn’t the only place that has the tracks screwed up. Audio Lunchbox has the exact same problem, even though they appear to be totally unaffiliated with Apple. There must be a central company that is doing encoding and digital distribution to various vendors. Would love to know more about this…
Posted by pmk at June 30, 2004 11:00 PM | TrackBack