Every once in a while, I get a wild hair to organize my music library, do tags, all that, as one does, so I plug away at it for a while and then I get bored and move on to something else.
Yesterday, it occurred to me I have a whole lot of music currently in my player and phone that I just really don’t like and don’t remember why I have it.
So, I cordoned all that shit off where it can’t leach into my player.
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Stuff my kids wanted
At the time, we had a home cloud, so I’d just throw shit on the cloud for them to download.
Ugh.
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The entirety of my husband’s inheritance
My late father-in-law had a bunch of shit on his iPhone, and my husband was in Arizona to help my mother-in-law (his stepmother, actually) settle some business. One of those things was getting the files off his gadgets and selling or disposing of them. MIL kept the money; husband kept the music.
Bobby Rydell
Johnny Cash
Willie Nelson
No. No, I really just cannot stand Johnny Cash or Willie Nelson. By all rights, I should like “Highwayman,” but it’s his voice, so … no. Just … no.
A note. When I was little and on through decades, I had this little bar stuck in my head and I didn’t know whether I’d made it up or not. Not likely, because I don’t hear music in my head that I’ve never heard before. So, credit where credit is due, I only found this fucker after my FIL died. I cannot overstate how important this was to my mental health.
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Supplementing my husband’s vinyl collection
We didn’t (and don’t) have a turntable, so I bought the digital files. His taste in music is … not mine.
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GenX musical rites of passage
I tried. Heaven knows I tried, but damn. So much stuff I wanted to like because everybody else did, I told myself I liked it, I listened to it a lot to try to like it, but … it didn’t take. See above, plus:
Judas Priest
Iron Maiden
Yngwie Malmsteen
Now, here’s where we get into some weeds, because I haven’t been able to figure this shit out. I never knew whether I liked KISS or not. I never heard them—not on the radio, not dumb kids randomly driving by blasting it, not anywhere. My husband, having grown up in SoCal, concurs. Where were people hearing this??? In my adulthood, it’s my speed, but then, as 80s heavy metal was pushed back into mere hard rock, I’ve found my niche. It ain’t heavy metal. Except Steel Panther (h/t Chafed).
Another one I never heard on the radio was Rush, but I had a Rush poster on my wall. I have no idea what that was about, but my dad found this offensive and tore it off the wall. “You know what a rush is, don’t you?!” Um, no? I don’t know when I first heard them or which was first, “New World Man” or “Subdivisions,” but damn, those got me in the feelz and ASMR, as did Steely Dan.
Confession: My first rock concert was Stryper. Shut up.
As for pop/rock, well, there were things I also couldn’t stand. Prince was among them. Genesis, Bruce Springsteen, and Tina Turner.
Let’s not get started on new wave. No. No, I cannot. I tried, but … sigh. Kate Bush, OMD, and Siouxsie and the Banshees.
I’m sorry, y’all. I’m a sucker for catchy tunes and voices that aren’t fried, and most of what I don’t like is the voice.
Re the above: I cannot explain my love for Geddy Lee.
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Story time
1. We lived in the inner-ish city, where a “butch couple,” per Dad, lived across the street. One day when I was around 14-15 or whatever, I pissed him off. It didn’t take much. He yelled at me, “Just for that, I’m not taking you to the Frank Sinatra concert, because the dykes across the street gave me tickets!”
People.
I have no words to express the devastation I felt.
(It struck me immediately that this was highly unlikely, but my dad wouldn’t lie to me, would he? Narrator: Yes. Yes, he would. It took me decades to realize that.)
2. I liked jazz. I would have listened to it more, late at night with my little panda transistor where my dad couldn’t hear because he was very vocal about it. “You don’t like that. It’s just an affectation!” I mean, Mötley Crüe was fine (and remember, this was in the midst of the Satanic Panic, and I was in a Southern Baptist private school), but heaven forbid I cut some teeth on Miles Davis. I never really got a chance to find out what, exactly, I liked, so now I feel very undereducated. I rely on Old Man With Candy to help me out with that.
3. In fact, what I really liked was what I labeled as romantic sophistication. I did not like Linda Ronstadt at all until … Nelson Riddle got hold of her.
I was out with my bestie on Friday night “cruising,” and I was informed, quite abruptly and with much attitude that midcentury lounge standards were not appropriate cruising music.
(Then later Natalie Cole hopped on that bandwagon. “Oh, she’s got nothing on her dad!” —guess who, repeatedly)
Other than that, I really did like most of the pop and hard rock on the radio. I’m simple. If I want happy, I don’t worry about how mindless it may or may not be.
I was taking piano lessons and of course I had to play classical music. My mother is an accomplished pianist, my dad took one music appreciation course in college and thought he was sophisticated because he liked the Grand Canyon Suite, they were members of the Columbia House Music Club and actually paid for their vinyl, so our house was full of classical music. I love quite a bit of it and loathe a bit of it, but that’s not the focus of this torture session.
You see, I had a love, the musical love of my adolescent life, the one I would have given my eyeteeth to see in concert, the one that raised the eyebrows of my entire family when I requested their second album as a Christmas present (my aunt drew my name) (she almost didn’t buy it):
I finally saw them in concert last summer.
My husband won tickets.
Because of course he did.
That guy? What’s Vince Neil gonna think?
I left Vince Neil for James Michael (Sixx A.M.).
My favorite song by Loverboy
I have been very pleasantly surprised by Plexamp, the Plex audio streaming app. It has various “Guest DJs” you can enable that do different things, such as going with similar tracks, tracks from the same artist, tracks from the same era, and the like.
Yeah, I’ve been using it a lot; I just wish it could do streaming audio too (unless I’m missing something…).
I need to dig into the DJs feature a bit more.
Doesn’t look like it. Unfortunately, some of the DJ requires you to run the audio analysis, which won’t run on my NAS, so I think my music must be sitting unanalyzed, like a chump.
I use the library for my streaming, as I don’t have ads in my music queue, and looking at my shortest genre based playlists, they all have 30+ hours of music in them. Having several bands and such that don’t appear to be on most of the major audio streamers also drives my preferences.
You pa sounds like a bit of an odd duck. Miles Davis is right out?
“Your”
(I’ve been dropping letters all day, dunno why)
To be fair, Davis was notoriously a colossal prick, and not especially fond of whitey, so ’60s and ’70s race relations being what they were, he wasn’t overly popular with the more conservative set.
He was a very complicated and highly neurosed individual. Sometimes I get his logic, but most of the time I chalk whatever up to whatever mental illnesses he had and nurturing he never got.
His thing was this: He was half-assed shady. He came up with shady schemes and then only executed them half-assedly OR bailed at the last second.
As part of this quirk, he somehow taught us to lie REALLY REALLY well. For him to be lied to with some measure of complexity was like giving him a gift. It was a puzzle to figure out and we knew if we told the truth, we’d get in trouble. If we lied, he’d spend so much time figuring out how we lied that he’d forget to punish us for the original offense.
We got out in the world and figured out this is not normal. As a result, NONE of us lie. At all. Ever. For one thing, it’s just plain exhausting and we’re lazy. For another thing, lying leaves a very bad taste in our mouths.
He contained multitudes?
I tend to only hang on to music that I listen to over and over again, but I’ve kept a few albums from my youth that I know I wouldn’t enjoy if I listened to them for the first time today, because they still bring back good memories and comfortable nostalgia from time to time.
The funny thing is that collecting music is pretty much a dead hobby. Everybody under 50 just streams on Spotify, except the insufferable douchebags who insist on listening to everything on vinyl, because clean signals are like bad and stuff maaaaaan (my apologies, as I know we have a few of them in this very community).
I’d like to know your dataset for your absurd claims.
What is the effective bit rate of vinyl?
24/192 Music Downloads …and why they make no sense
Who are these weird people who stream audio?
They mostly come out at night. Mostly.
Ah, I see – Aliens.
Pat, interesting link on encoding. Thanks.
Hey now. I’m not 50 yet! I don’t own vinyl, and I’m perfectly fine with compressed MP3s for most songs. I’ve got quite a bit of music that… has not aged well, but it still makes me smile, some of it even winds up as my music links.
I’m over 50 so it is presumably okay that I still have MP3s of all my ripped CDs and still buy albums in digital form. My problem is more that sometimes my digital archives are missing files I know were there (iTunes in particular seems to like messing with things sometimes, I suspect based on it being in Apple Music or not… and while I thought I had at least one archive it never sees… I could be wrong…).
Music directory is a measly.. (checks)… 130GB or so.
At one point, after I got my Diskstation, I re-ripped all my CDs to FLAC. But it’s still not really that much music.
Never trust the cloud – it’s someone else’s computer, their machine, their rules, their control.
OTH it took days to re rip all my CDs to FLAC.
When storage was costly I had the at mid fi MP3 compression.
I can’t hear the difference between FLAC and mp3 of sufficient quality. I don’t know if it’s my ears (first guess) or my speakers (second guess) but there isn’t anything that registers to me.
Nothing is on the cloud — just local to HDDs via USB to the mac or on the NAS… but I swear iTunes “cleans up” things sometimes… it shouldn’t see anything but its drives, but since I have a copy on the mac, a copy on the NAS, a copy on the Windows machine, sync’d to my phone stuff… I think sometimes I may have messed up a library trying to unify is all.
Downside to being a digital pack rat.
Why, pray tell, are you using iTunes if you have local copies?
I have good equipment. On portables and the like it is much less likely to be heard.
The effects of compression are much more noticeable in higher frequencies on absolute basis and also it is where your hearing is more sensitive.
Newer compression schemes are quite good like Bluetooth aptX for earbuds.
Like my palate and expensive wine, I don’t think my hearing is so great that I need the highest quality, but storage at the point is cheap enough that there’s no reason to scrimp on space – lossless FLAC seems like a no-brainer at this point.
Little from column A, little from column B. MP3 and its successors discard the bits of the spectrum that are overlapping while only retaining the part that’s the loudest, because our brains prioritize sound that way. 192 kbps MP3 is mostly transparent. 320 kbps is completely transparent; even if you think you have so-called “golden ears” (protip: if you’re more than 5 years old, you don’t). FLAC is more for archiving; you can transcode to another format or edit it without further compression.
slumbrew once you know what to listen for you will know. It’s a mixed blessing.
For example dynamic compression made me stop listening to new music. Followed by autotune.
Because the whole reason for the mac mini is to stream to the Apple TVs in the house and that’s how I buy music on my iPhone. That’s my setup and I’m fine with it in general.
Oh… and if someone is about to snark “Don’t you really mean the AppleTV app on the mac?” No, no I don’t… Mac is pre-A* processors and I held it to OSX Sierra and the version of iTunes before they screwed up the Unwatched counts so badly…. I’ve seen no reason to upgrade since.
My son (30yo) collects vinyl, cassettes, and has a wee business building custom playlists on Spotify.
He just loves music.
I would collect vinyl, as it is a more immersive experience, but as I already collect books, I don’t need another dead media hobby.
I collect digital. There was a streaming service I used to use to discover new music jeez at least 15 years ago but nowadays I can’t be bothered. Sometimes bandcamp points me to something new but my days of listening to random shit in hopes of hearing something good are happily long gone. I can barely keep on top of what I already own.
When my son was in HS, put put this up on Bandcamp
https://christmaslights1.bandcamp.com/album/christmas-lights?from=search&search_item_id=3184360966&search_item_type=a&search_match_part=%3F&search_page_id=4306132201&search_page_no=1&search_rank=4&search_sig=41d432ae4b024ea83e9ad893a8529106
I never knew whether I liked KISS or not. I never heard them—not on the radio, not dumb kids randomly driving by blasting it, not anywhere. My husband, having grown up in SoCal, concurs. Where were people hearing this???
I listened to KISS on the radio. Some of the Philly stations played them in their rotation.
I also saw KISS in concert.
I never liked Prince and never understood the appeal. Springsteen was hit or miss with me.
New Wave – I liked a lot of it.
I never got why everybody dick rides Prince. I guess he’s supposed to be some kind of guitar god, but I’ve seen scant evidence of it in any of the shit he recorded. John Mayer falls into that same category as well. Even if you can get people to relent on that front they’ll move on to his groundbreaking production. Which sounded like… literally every big label studio in the ’80s. There’s probably never been a decade with a more distinctive pop production style. Every artist on a major label sounded that way.
I’m with you on Prince and I only like some early Springsteen (not that I’m an expert).
My friend described Springsteen’s later stuff “sweaty authenticity” – I don’t care for it.
Throw U2 on the pile of ‘meh’ for me.
Early U2 had some energy.
Stryper was not one single iota worse than the secular cock rock of the same era; better than some. Nothing to be ashamed of.
My first concert was Margaret Becker. My parents brought me along when they went to see her at the Spokane Opera House. We got tickets through our church. I was 5. I fell asleep halfway through.
Thank you. That was very kind.
I gave up on fitting in with my peers’ musical tastes in junior high, resigning myself to a life of being a musical weirdo. When we were allowed to bring in records to play in class on Fridays, my classmates brought in Ohio Players and I brought in The Manhattan Transfer. My first college roommate flat out told me, “You have terrible taste in music!” Hey, just because I would listen to “Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris”….
I just figure my peers had terrible taste in music.
Given the demographics of my neighborhood primarily listened to Rap, so I wasn’t wrong.
*points at Gender Traitor and taunts “musical weirdo!”*
Who wants to listen to the boring popular stuff?
::lifts chin:: Badge. Of. Honor. 🎖️
I think it was Dr. Demento who said “There is no bad music.”
He was wrong.
Eh, it’s popular for a reason and so what if I’m a drop in the ocean of people who like X popular music. It makes your social life easier when you can talk to people you know (or don’t) about something you both like, and maybe make friends that way.
Same here. I tell people my music tastes are divergent, and they will generally say something along the lines of, “I like all kinds of music.” Then I’d play something like this.
Neff listens to BOTH kinds of music, country AND western!
My first concert was Rush – Signals Tour in 1982.
Hold Your Fire in ’87, at MSG.
Rush is one band that I really lament not going to see. But I fucking hate stadium shows.
Same at the long gone Spectrum.
Mine was Pixies with Love & Rockets, Metro in Chicago, maybe 1988? I am still proud of that.
I used to save all my concert ticket stubs, and in a fit of spring cleaning in my 20’s, threw them all out. That is one of my biggest regrets.
I was following all those minimalist gurus’ advice about scanning or taking pictures of your keepsakes, then throwing them out, and I decided that was bullshit because if you can scan it, it’s not taking up that much room.
Anyway, if I ever get around to it, I’m going to do this for some of my trinkets.
First concert wa Huey Lewis, at the fair. Had a chance to see the Pixies in ’89, but blew it off.
Stupid, stupid me.
Re Huey Lewis: In case you have never heard this (I hadn’t), it was a revelation: https://youtu.be/k5rdXGM0CUE?si=Jbwyytfc414ENBaa
Re Huey, this is great if you’ve seen American Psycho.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk15H6PjBis
Hey, Rush was my first too but Power Windows in Augusta GA. Drank too much Everclear and Dr. Pepper on the way though and don’t remember a damn thing about it although I was told it was awesome.
Finally saw Rush in their Snakes & Arrows tour with my husband. I was so happy. Wish I could’ve seen Steely Dan, but them’s the breaks.
Husband won Alison Krauss tickets, so I’m a happy camper.
Mine was either Stevie Wonder or Dizzy Gilespie – both older brother choices I never would have picked myself.
Much later when I made the choice it was probably REM, Green tour. Literal “arena rock”. 🙄
Fields of wheat is lookin’ thin?
The Catholic high school I went to did a spring fund raiser festival every year. The senior class was responsible for planning it, so some extent. My junior year, some enterprising soul booked a real band out of Columbus to play in the gym. All this to explain:
My first concert was Rosie (regional hard rock band based in Columbus, never managed to hit it nationally) in a gym, in ’85. Afterwards my brother and I went to the Waffle House where his girlfriend worked and talked really loud, ’cause neither of us could hear shit.
My first concert was Iron Maiden on the Powerslave tour, on one of the nights that was recorded and released on their live album Live After Death.
What about Phil Collins?
I guess all of us from Gen X are not tulpas after all. I loathe Steely Dan and Supertramp. Generally I hate most 70’s music, I guess I don’t have fond memories of that decade.
Being in my 50’s, I’m surprised that I’ve come to reconsider some of the other 80’s stuff I was “too cool” for back then. My SIL loves, loves, loves Prince, and from her, and reading his biography, I’m now a fan. My MIL loves, loves, loves Genesis, now they’ve grown on me too. And I’m kind of into the hair metal bands now too (Poison, Motley Crue, Deaf Leppard). High school TOK would not approve.
I had phases, I was a prog rock fan early on then went to punk, goth, college radio, metal, hip hop, then electronica.
KISS was the band to like as a late 70’s kid. I had albums, face painting, and costumes. There are still some tunes that I dig.
Never much of a jazz fan till I took a college “arts” credit in it.
KISS became a bit of a parody of themselves in the end but their first album and the first two live albums are still solid.
I love Jazz, but classical and musical theater can DIAF.
I’m weird enough that while I barely remember ’70s music (being too young really to care at the time), I still have a fondness for some of the disco hits (I will survive, Xanadu, various ABBA ones…. yes, growing up I had to defend the proposition that I was not, in fact, gay….)
Of course I never went so far into heresy as to dislike Johnny Cash! Inconceivable!
Well, I mean, I could’ve done a deep dive and gone to town on a bullet-point list, but I figured this was a sampling. I really really liked a lot of stuff on the radio in the 70s when I was in single digits.
I knew “Smoking in the Boy’s Room” was a cover of a Brownsville Station song when my classmates didn’t. I picked up Boston, ELO, Steely Dan, Aerosmith, Blue Oyster Cult, and Heart in the 70s. (Of course, Boston only has one song, with variations, like Vivaldi.) I love Supertramp, but not REO Speedwagon. I didn’t find Pink Floyd till the 80s. The only thing David Bowie’s useful for is Labyrinth and I can’t stand Rod Stewart. Alan Parson’s is my boo.
I was also listening to country in the 70s and 80s, but that was a fad amongst my friend group for only about a year and I missed some rock because I was trying to like that, too. But I grew up on Hee Haw, although I didn’t appreciate what a master Roy Clark was (I was a kid; I wouldn’t have anyway). “Eastbound and Down” makes me happy. Glen Campbell makes everything better.
I have only started to appreciate Led Zeppelin, although a lot of my feelings of being impressed is dampened by the accusations of stealing, but I mean, it happens. I didn’t hear Black Sabbath anywhere the way I didn’t hear KISS, but I like both Ozzy’s and Dio’s voices, so I’m sure Sabbath wouldn’t be a leap.
I fluved (well, still do) disco, funk (Philly sound), and soul.
In any case, by late high school, I knew to keep my Manhattan Transfer and Nelson Riddle/Linda Ronstadt hidden.
Heh. My freshman year of high school, I copied the silhouette logo from the cover of TMT’s first album with marker on the cover of one of those blue canvas-covered 3-ring binders. Attracted the attention of another “closeted” fan, who introduced me to yet another (who became my HS bestie.) Made friendships that last to this day! 😁
MJ
Here is a guilty pleasure of mine from the late 1990’s.
Pop happy with a sample loop from a disco hit “More more more”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E1fzJ_AYajA
I knew what it was just from the description.
As featured in ‘Go’, Doug Liman’s follow-on to ‘Swingers’, which I saw it in the theater and enjoyed.
Go is a wonderfully underrated Christmas movie.
A bunch of great performances. Fichtner & Krakowski’s bit is just great.
I should re-watch.
Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights – I love it.
HEATHCLIFF!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIMEPPZxzyg
I put my musical tastes on display every morning here.
👏 🎶 👍👍🙂
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I do like Musicbee as well, Mojeaux. Thank goodness I’ve got it working via Wine/Proton/whatever — I really need to move to using just my Fedora desktop and away from Win11 before Recall is pushed down my throat.
BTW. KISS east coast band. Heard them and Rush all the time on the radio.
Nice…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/05/01/senate-vote-epa-air-pollution/
It’s a start.
Now delete the rest of the Agency.
Why do you want the Cuyahoga river to burn again UCS?
Wait till SCOTUS finally shoots down – I forget what the thing is called – some fraudulent clause that the EPA has been using for decades to hang their impoverishing regulations on. The entire klimate kaos fraud is based around it and it’s currently before the court.
The CO2 is a pollutant thingy? I thought it was shot down already and the EPA was squawking about how it completely stripped them of any regulatory power?
I cant keep up.
Yes and OK it’s called the “Endangerment Finding” and the EPA rescinded it. Perhaps I hallucinated it being in front of SCOTUS; maybe that comes soon because you know the left will fight the decision tooth and nail.
Good luck finding an honest source discussing it.
“Good luck finding an honest source discussing it.”
That is increasingly true across the board.
I really like Prince. Deep inside me is a funky little black man trying to get out. That said, he made so much music that a lot of it sucked, but the good stuff is really good. I got to see him in concert about a week before his death. I’m still kicking myself for not spending the extra money to see his concert that he held about a week earlier in a much smaller venue.
Who doesn’t smile at “Darling Nikki”?
Tipper Gore?
Deep inside me is a funky little black man
Gay…
Around 2000 or so Mrs. TOK and her sister saw Prince in Evansville, IN (yes, Evan’s Evansville). I wish I would have gone to that.
After he died they were in MN for a wedding, and toured his house. My SIL was giddy because she talked to his sister.
I just realized I’m wearing the Prince shirt they got me.
Artists that make me change / rage quit the radio station:
Willie Nelson
Dolly Parton (though I respect her as a person, I can’t stand her voice)
Bruce Springsteen
Ozzy
Celine Dion
Also the B-52’s
I like early B-52s way more than the later stuff.
https://youtu.be/rJwQuTqqPvo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHLFdptpMGA
🔥🔥🔥
Same.
Ozzy, though. He’s singing on whatever the same frequency Geddy Lee is that I like.
The B-52’s confuse and frighten me. I like their 3 popular songs, but it’s because they’re bouncy and fun, not because I like the actual music, and I certainly am not going to go find the rest of their oeuvre.
Same, sort of – I love old Black Sabbath but can’t stand any of Ozzy’s solo stuff.
Music: bluegrass for me. As for classic rock I listened to that for 50 years and I am worn out on it. All of the genres evolve towards generic very quickly. Blah.
I only caught a few words of a story yesterday and now when I search it I dont find anything. Apparently there is an effort to offer asylum to UK girls who have been convicted of and done prison time for wrongthink. They linked to or forwarded a TikTok or X thing or whatever. Either the girls are seeking it or someone here in the US is pushing the idea. I didnt quite catch it from what little I heard. Now I am searching and find nothing but sites advising on how to seek asylum, nothing specific to that problem.
Anyone know about that?
Tangentially on topic, I just finished listening to Zigzag Wombat by Foyer Red while washing my produce. Sort of Elephant 6-ish, although not related to the collective as far as I’m aware. Fun though.
I went from genre tag minimalism to maximalism. I currently have my ~15,000 tracks divided into 25 genres, when I used to swear by under 10. Who knew I had 22 “synthwave” albums??
Oh, the day I typed “electroswing” into the genre field…
Welcome to the world of rockabillly/psychobilly/punkabilly/thrashabilly/surfabilly/gothabilly/etc.
lol I am similarly nitpicky with my “electronic” music.
@Neph, I rolled up to the CVS window with this going, and the clerk did a double-take and said, “What IS that? I’ve never heard it before. That’s AWESOME.” I told her it was electroswing and she stopped to write it down.
Mojeaux:
Both me and the girlfriend discovered Caro Emerald (through the same song even) within a couple of weeks of each other.
Reminds me of Mocean Worker.
Complete with an appearance by the artist in the comments, responding to ” This was electro swing before electro swing was a thing “
Most of my genre fields are blank, or populated from Discogs, but I think Ooh Rap I Ya by George Clanton, HOME by Odyssey and Psychic Chasms by Neon Indian from my library may qualify, depending on which ‘sperg is doing the calculation.
midcentury lounge standards
Holly Cole’s early albums have some interesting takes on standards.
She did one of the few Tom Waits cover albums that is worth listening too.
I watched dazed and confused the other night. cars nd music and beer and lust; what life is all about.
I could never relate to the hazing in that.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1d/06/96/1d069660d1af63f0ed161255b5a54f71.jpg
I really like Prince.
I was at a friend’s shop drinking beer one time and this kid who was working for him said something about going to a Prince concert. I, of course, made some casually derogatory comment and he got pissed.
“Fuckyoo, man, Prince is the greatest living guitar player in the WORLD!”
Lighten up, Francis.
Lighten up, Pizzaballa
Prince was the black dude it was OK for white dudes who hated Michael Jackson to like. Very good as a guitar player too but nowhere near the greatest.
What about these guys?
Baby, don’t fear Gozira.
I was sick of fighting with my 9 year old weed whacker, so I went looking for a new one. I found a Craftsman Made in Vietnam. It works much better A: when not set to low, B: when the batteries are charged. But it does work.
I just now found the manual – it was wedged behind some cardboard in the middle of the box, out of sight.
Something kind of Caro Emerald adjacent Pandora serves up now and then.
Now I’m wondering if Pandora has an electroswing channel. I had never heard the term before.
It does.
This is the first half of the CDs that I have ripped to my hard drive.
I have only ripped about half of the CDs that I own.
Feel free to label me by whatever stereotypical group makes sense.
Brother Cane
Bruce Sprinsgteen
Buffalo Springfeld
Bush
Carly Simon
Chevelle
Chicago
Criss Cross
Cranberries
Crash Test Dummies
Creed
CCR
David Bowie
David Essex
Dishwalla
Don McClean
Doobie Brothers
Eagles
Eddie Money
ELO
Elton John
Emmerson, Lake and Palmer
Eric Johnson
Evanescence
Everlast
Fabulus Thunderbirds
Filter
Fiona Apple
Firefall
Fleetwood Mac
Flock of Seagulls
Foreigner
Fuel
Garbage
Gary More
Gary Wright
George Benson
Georgia Satellits
Gipsy Kings
Gods Child
Golden Earing
Gordon Lightfoot
Grand Funk
Green Day
Guess How
Heart
Ian Moore
Incubus
Jackson Browne
Jake Shimabukuro
James Taylor
Janis Ian
Jeff Healy
Jet
Jewel
Jim Croce
Listening to Stabbing Westward right now.
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That sure brings me to a specific time and place.
By first name, eh? 🤨
The misspelling demographic? /ducks
I could fix them for you right now.
windows media player
I started typing artists until I got tired of it.
Let me do the spelling. The surnames you can mess with later if desired.
I do mine by first name, just like I do my clients, because a) it works with my brain better and b) I get more file consistency (like if someone doesn’t have a last name or I can’t tell which it is [happens with my international clients sometimes]).
I have a naming protocol, but I have to be careful because while Windows and MusicBee can handle special characters, PowerAmp can’t, so porting playlists gets tricky if I have even one special character (e.g., umlaut).
But Moj, someone is misspelling on the internet!
He can sort how he likes.
Mistyped, not misspelled.
But it’s good to know that bothers you.
Aw, sorry, K. Just an offer.
Sorted alphabetically the first and last track of my online collection are German language by different artists.
I set up my Windows Media Player to automatically rip any CD I put in. So it’s just a matter of getting them out of the packaging, putting them in the CD-ROM drive, and waiting ~10 minutes.
I have long since ripped any CD’s I cared about into mp3 form, to the point where I ditched the whole lot several moves ago, I think it was in the early teens? Cassettes, too – except in that case I had to purchase digital which is find because cassettes suck ass.
Yeah, cassettes went in the garbage.
CD cases got ditched after ripping but the discs themselves are in binders in the basement
So, this happened.
https://ibb.co/Rq4fxN0
Fuck you, Aunt Susie.
I thought she’d been enjoined. Does she not get it a/o is she stupid?
The “coming soon” sign went up 10 days ago. It goes on sale tomorrow. I’m just so giddy that I made my mother’s problem that cunt’s problem.
Ohhhh. I misunderstood. As long as it was your listing. 😳
🎉
Yes. Susie refused to sell (or buy out Mom’s half) to cover what we thought would be Mom’s long-term healthcare. “That’s not my problem.”
Oh, honey, I’m about to make it your problem. Good luck with your apartment search.
I kept trying to play the .jpg
I KNOW!!!! It’s maddening!
I grew up a small (not Alfred small, but 25K counting transient students) college town that had one of the great college radio stations. And, being one of the weirdo kids (not at all popular when young) I was a big fan of that, and not popular music nor the rock my older brother listened to. So, it was early 80s alt/collage rock for me: Buzzcocks, Minutemen, Concrete Blond, Gun Club, and such. If you aren’t familiar with this genre, it was MTV 120 minutes type stuff. Add a ton of Punk, such as the Dead Kennedys, X, Clash, Ramones, and so on, and you have me in high school. Post HS, it was Janes Addiction, Nirvana, fIREHOSE, and that line up. Basically the same music that Tundra and Sloopy listened to.
Good times.
Speaking of which
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSv8FVJtbAk
I liked 120 Minutes and Headbangers Ball, lots of good stuff to choose from back then. Even the pop stuff wasn’t that bad.
For me the year I lived in Germany opened my eyes – shit like Depeche Mode and OMD were on the local pop station and even TV variety shows. When I got back to the states in 1987 I discovered a local high school (!) radio station playing that stuff and I never looked back. MTV played some of it but until then I was stuck on shitty pop radio stations because I didn’t know any better.
👏 I had just been listening to that.
Another concert regret of mine is not seeing Sonic Youth in the 90s. I had to be tight with my money because I was digging out of debt, so I’d only go to a show if I liked both the headliner and the opening act. Tickets were $20, which seemed like a lot. Plus a taxi ride downtown, it would have added up. The opening act was some band named Nirvana. Never heard of them. The name sounds lame. Not gonna go. About a week after the concert “Teen Spirit” was everywhere on the radio.
Heh. A friend of mine went and saw the Red Hot Chili Peppers in ’90 in think, and the opening band was Nirvana, with Pearl Jam playing the teaser.
Sonic Youth will always be the headliner for me, if only for Daydream Nation which is a freakin’ masterpiece.
I can’t stand Nirvana.
Hi ya’ll!
ZWAK, that is such an amazing song.
I hope you are all well. Sorry I’ve been MIA lately, but I hope The Pontiff of the Prairie is picking up my slack.
Big Time Rush rocks, Mojeaux is a hater
HAAAAAAAAAAAAATE!