The Big Noob

As Always. Great Stuff.

I dig how you choose colors from each songs album art. Tis very purty and a great use of tumblr.

Absolutely brilliant.

Looks great. Great taste in music too. Excited for you to update with more.

Really good idea.

Wonderful stuff Ryan. Inspiring (as always).

Reminds me of the days of yore when designers would do screens in flash in a similar way — the good old days. I dig it Mr. Sims.

Really great idea and well executed. Had you seen someone else do this before? I love it and might have to "borrow" the idea for my personal site. What a fun way to share music.

Love it. Love it. Love it.

Very, very nice.

Might I suggest larger target areas for the forward and backward arrows? They be tiny…

Great use of Typography, I paid a lot more attention to that on my own site. But great work on yours, it looks amazing, and I love the subtle touches like when you click on your main text, it brings you to Amazon to buy that album, great idea.

Keep up the great work!

I love seeing these experiments. This should be used as an example in typography classes around the globe. I love how you're embracing constraints with the type as well – very cool. Just don't burn yourself out. :)

Also, If you haven't already, go and check out some posts on Jason Santa Maria's site – it's a similar concept in changing the look of the page to fit the message. Great, great stuff.

Great idea, and excellent implementation. It's delightfully simple and engaging.

Wow, thank you for all the kind words. As for making the target areas on the forward/back buttons, I made this quick and dirty with little thought as to usability. When I get some free time, I'll be making some little changes. Thanks for the feedback.

Wow! Very well done! The corners of my mouth instantly curled upwards as I read the line from Elbow's Grounds for Divorce. I just listened to it a few hours ago. For the God-knows-how-manieth-time. Seen the bunch live in Amsterdam. Loved it!

Well done, Ryan.

I'm curious, how'd you get the nifty flash player in the bottom right corner to play the tunes? Is that something Amazon provides? Or perhaps something you've hand-rolled?

Kudos, at any rate. Inspiring little exercise!

this is so made kinds of awesome

@Jason: I'm pretty sure it's the Tumblr player, but I could be wrong.

It looks great Ryan. I love the colors and type and the music is fantastic, you've opened my eyes to a few new bands already. Keep up the great work.

wow

reminds me of some old school trueistrue or prate… nice.

@fathima: Thanks to you I give yourself?
@Jason: Yes, Matt is correct—I'm using the Audio post on Tumblr.
@Shawn: Well, perfect! Glad to hear it!

My life is now complete (esp. with the Frightened Rabbit lyric.) I can die a happy woman.

this is awesome – I really like the idea of simplicity that justwatchthesky has to it – it's perfect

Whoa! This is pretty sweet! So pretty, very nice.

I love this, very very much.

If you need help or ever need/would like a guest to help post I'd be more than happy to help out.

It actually might be a cool idea if you reformatted it to be a multi-author blog, so everybody could express themself in a different style everyday, etc.

I'm just babbling though, keep up the good work. :)

@jamie – Oh. Oh, oh. Good call on the guest authors. I think that would be a really nice experiment. I don't know that I'd restructure it completely as it is the closest thing I have to a personal site.

"next" link is farrrr too small

@tom: As I said before, I'll figure out a better solution, but thank you for the constructive criticism!

I like your taste in music, and that I haven't listened to any of it before. New-found artists are a good thing.

THe text and color combos definetely jump at you. I like it.

I love the concept and the execution, but I have one question:

Why offer a spiffy iPhone/iPod icon if the audio player is FLASH? Is that your way of being optimistic about the future of Flash & Apple?

Again though, lovely work. And I agree with those above that you make excellent choices for your selections.

Great idea and wonderful execution! Might try and listen to Taken by cars with the album Endings Of A New Kind from the Philippines. Might squeeze somewhere in your music taste, since I recognized a lot from your music. Keep up the good stuff.

Really nice work Simmy, as usual.

this is sweet man!