Albums on your MP3 Player You Will Never Delete?
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Hmm, none, really.
I still have in my car about a hundred music CD-Rs copied from among the 750-ish originals I have. I just haven't been in much of a music mood in recent years, especially since there have been nearly no new releases that interest me. (Part of getting older is that albums that might have been interesting to your 25-year-old self lack the same appeal a couple decades later when heard for the first time. You realize the stuff you liked was just as dumb but it got in your head at the right age.) My MP3 player is used solely for audio books. It's only 2GB but it's a rare massive work that cannot fit in that space at good quality. Most come in at far lesser size.
Currently I'm listening my way through the Terry Pratchett Discworld series. I read them all at least twice when they were recent but listening to them is a whole other experience. With more than two dozen books still to go it should fill my drive time for quite a while. I'm leaning towards burning CD-Rs again. The cassette deck adapter I use to feed the MP3 player's output to the car's sound system also acts like an antenna for cell phone signals. If anybody is using a cell phone within a 50' radius it generates very annoying noise on my car stereo.
I still have in my car about a hundred music CD-Rs copied from among the 750-ish originals I have. I just haven't been in much of a music mood in recent years, especially since there have been nearly no new releases that interest me. (Part of getting older is that albums that might have been interesting to your 25-year-old self lack the same appeal a couple decades later when heard for the first time. You realize the stuff you liked was just as dumb but it got in your head at the right age.) My MP3 player is used solely for audio books. It's only 2GB but it's a rare massive work that cannot fit in that space at good quality. Most come in at far lesser size.
Currently I'm listening my way through the Terry Pratchett Discworld series. I read them all at least twice when they were recent but listening to them is a whole other experience. With more than two dozen books still to go it should fill my drive time for quite a while. I'm leaning towards burning CD-Rs again. The cassette deck adapter I use to feed the MP3 player's output to the car's sound system also acts like an antenna for cell phone signals. If anybody is using a cell phone within a 50' radius it generates very annoying noise on my car stereo.
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Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends[/quote]I kinda figured by looking at your sig that you were a Brand New fan.
Brand New - Your Favorite Weapon
Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
Finch - What It Is to Burn
Finch - Say Hello to Sunshine
The Get Up Kids - Something to Write Home About
Circa Survive - Juturna
Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends[/quote]I kinda figured by looking at your sig that you were a Brand New fan.
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Yes!
I'll bring home the bacon bits / we'll make our parents grandparents / i'll take you out for breakfast at night / and then we'll go to sleep!
I haven't listened to that cd in a long-ass time. If it had May 16th on it, then it would be the perfect album. But Sick is a
ing great song 
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Yes!
I'll bring home the bacon bits / we'll make our parents grandparents / i'll take you out for breakfast at night / and then we'll go to sleep!
I haven't listened to that cd in a long-ass time. If it had May 16th on it, then it would be the perfect album. But Sick is a
ing great song 
13 & God - 13 & God
65daysofstatic - Fall Of Math
Blackalicious - Nia
Beta Band - 3 E.P.'s
Death From Above 1979 - You're A Woman, I'm A Machine
Explosions In The Sky - How Strange, Innocence
Múm - Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today Is Ok
Outhud - S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D.
Sage Francis - Personal Journals
The Fall Of Troy - The Fall Of Troy
The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas
The Violent Femmes - 2 CD Reissue (Studio and Live Recordings)
The Willowz - Are Coming/Talk In Circles
And recently, since I finally found the LP at a little store here and threw it on my laptop:
Jim O'Rourke - Bad Timing
65daysofstatic - Fall Of Math
Blackalicious - Nia
Beta Band - 3 E.P.'s
Death From Above 1979 - You're A Woman, I'm A Machine
Explosions In The Sky - How Strange, Innocence
Múm - Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today Is Ok
Outhud - S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D.
Sage Francis - Personal Journals
The Fall Of Troy - The Fall Of Troy
The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas
The Violent Femmes - 2 CD Reissue (Studio and Live Recordings)
The Willowz - Are Coming/Talk In Circles
And recently, since I finally found the LP at a little store here and threw it on my laptop:
Jim O'Rourke - Bad Timing
browneyedgal68
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[quote name='VanillaGorilla']I just don't see how people can like that much music. You could play me 100 random songs from the genres I like, and I would probably only like 4 or 5 songs.[/QUOTE]
Sometimes it's not just about the music in the right now. I'm far older than the vast majority of people here, with 40 looming close. I got my first high capacity ipod this Christmas. As someone else mentioned, I've gone through LPs, cassettes, cds, on to ipods. Ripping my cd collection alone took 16gb. Then putting all other music on from LPs, cassettes took another 10.
I then listened to my entire collection, from beginning to end. It wasn't about what was essential, but it was also about my history. I was 18 years old when some of these songs were originally purchased, and my life was vastly different. I'd never get rid of those songs, because they take me to a different place than where I am today. And yes, some are hideous, but that's not the point.
Add to that I LOVE music and always have. Now I'm getting my kids into the next gen of music appreciation, and they can find their music on my ipod, and you've got another level of music that cannot be deleted. And by the way, you have not had the shock of your life, until you're listening to YOUR music (I believe it was the Tragically Hip, Poets) and suddenly your kids' Philadelphia Chickens comes on (part of a musical written and sung by Kevin Bacon). Talk about drive you off the couch in a cold sweat!
Sometimes it's not just about the music in the right now. I'm far older than the vast majority of people here, with 40 looming close. I got my first high capacity ipod this Christmas. As someone else mentioned, I've gone through LPs, cassettes, cds, on to ipods. Ripping my cd collection alone took 16gb. Then putting all other music on from LPs, cassettes took another 10.
I then listened to my entire collection, from beginning to end. It wasn't about what was essential, but it was also about my history. I was 18 years old when some of these songs were originally purchased, and my life was vastly different. I'd never get rid of those songs, because they take me to a different place than where I am today. And yes, some are hideous, but that's not the point.
Add to that I LOVE music and always have. Now I'm getting my kids into the next gen of music appreciation, and they can find their music on my ipod, and you've got another level of music that cannot be deleted. And by the way, you have not had the shock of your life, until you're listening to YOUR music (I believe it was the Tragically Hip, Poets) and suddenly your kids' Philadelphia Chickens comes on (part of a musical written and sung by Kevin Bacon). Talk about drive you off the couch in a cold sweat!
browneyedgal68
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[quote name='epobirs']Hmm, none, really.
I just haven't been in much of a music mood in recent years, especially since there have been nearly no new releases that interest me. (Part of getting older is that albums that might have been interesting to your 25-year-old self lack the same appeal a couple decades later when heard for the first time.
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Wow, I feel sad for you. Getting older has only meant my music tastes shifted to the less in-your-face, and playable in front of the kiddies, stuff, but I'd never be without music.
I just haven't been in much of a music mood in recent years, especially since there have been nearly no new releases that interest me. (Part of getting older is that albums that might have been interesting to your 25-year-old self lack the same appeal a couple decades later when heard for the first time.
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Wow, I feel sad for you. Getting older has only meant my music tastes shifted to the less in-your-face, and playable in front of the kiddies, stuff, but I'd never be without music.
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Oh man...it has been way too long since I've listened to some Wu Tang. Can't even pretend I'm ghetto or any of that, Wu Tang is just so ridiculous I LOVE IT!
Thanks for making me think of that - I'm gonna go listen to some Wu Tang!
Oh man...it has been way too long since I've listened to some Wu Tang. Can't even pretend I'm ghetto or any of that, Wu Tang is just so ridiculous I LOVE IT!
Thanks for making me think of that - I'm gonna go listen to some Wu Tang!
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