The F00 Fenom » FØØ Fenom http://www.foomusic.com Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:08:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 F00 http://www.foomusic.com/2000/f001/f00/ http://www.foomusic.com/2000/f001/f00/#comments Wed, 27 Dec 2000 03:54:34 +0000 admin http://www.foomusic.com/?p=9

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Carolina in my Mind James Taylor At My Most Beautiful R.E.M. Jersey Girl Tom Waits Brazil Brazil Soundtrack When the King is Half Undressed Jellyfish Older They Might Be Giants War John Bird; John Fortune Baby’s Coming Back Rocky IV Soundtrack Beautiful Dreamer Batman Soundtrack The Impossible Dream Elvis Presley Somewhere Tom Waits Something in the Way She Moves James Taylor Let the Sunshine In Frente! Baby Give Me One Chance Frente! Rio Peter Breinholt Don’t Touch Me Brak Never Met a Man I Didn’t Like Keith Carradine; The Will Rogers Follies Fire and Rain James Taylor NFL some Monday Night Football theme You Want Flowers Peter Breinholt Chocolate Jesus Tom Waits NFL on Fox theme NFL on Fox Super Mario World ‘The Dark Reaches of SMW’ OC ReMix aneurysm
]]> http://www.foomusic.com/2000/f001/f00/feed/ 0 What is Foo Music? http://www.foomusic.com/2000/f001/what-is-foo-music/ http://www.foomusic.com/2000/f001/what-is-foo-music/#comments Fri, 22 Dec 2000 19:15:03 +0000 admin http://www.foomusic.com/2007/12/22/what-is-foo-music/ Foo, FØØ, F00, whatever you call it…  In the summer of 2000 I discovered the Play Count column of Windows Media Player.  I was in college, heading home for the Christmas break and was excited to show my sisters and parents all the neat music I had discovered since I had seen them last.  I needed music for myself and music to show them, and that turned out to be 20 CDs I was bringing home.  I didn’t want to take up suitcase space for that, so I went into Windows Media Player, sorted by playcount, and burned a CD of my most heard music that year.  Because it was the Fall of 2000, I scribbled “FØØ” with a black sharpie on the disc.  This quickly became my favorite mix-CD.  My friends wanted copies, and their friends wanted copies.  Eventually there became a ring of people who referred to the CD, and eventually the process, as “foo.”  Search google for it and link here… And so we are here, on the weekend I am burning “foo seven,” spelled FØØ7.  And people love this one…

** UPDATE September 3, 2010 ** As of iTunes 10, “Play Count” is now called “Plays.”  “Skip Count” is therefore called “Skips.”
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