Does anyone buy stereo equipment anymore? Or is our music experience almost completely limited to the iPod experience? I have some old stereo equipment collecting dust, but I also don't use an MP3 player.
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i had a full component stereo system, but it was also starting to collect dust. amp, equalizer, cd, tape, record player, and some real decent speakers i picked up real cheap. when the wife and i made the move from winona to chi-town, that was one of the things "we" had to get rid of. i miss that thing. inherited it from my dad, grew up with it, it followed me through all my apartments, provided with some good tunes for good times. *sigh*
“i hope that i don’t fall in love with you” – tom waits – closing time
“virus” – deltron – deltron 3030
“loving cup” – the rolling stones – exile on main st
“falling slowly” – the frames – the cost
“soma” – the strokes – is this it?
“helpless” – crosby, stills, nash, and young – déjà vu
“silence” – portishead – third
“the next messiah” – jenny lewis – acid tongue
“buzz” – throwing muses – limbo
“city hall” – tenacious d – tenacious d
bonus: “as tall as cliffs” – margot & the nuclear so and so’s – animal!
'Glory Days' - Bruce Springsteen Born in the USA
'Bang on the Drum All Day' - Todd Rundgren
'If God Will Send His Angels' - U2 Pop
'Blackbird' - The Beatles The White Albums
'Walking Contradiction' - Green Day Insomniac
'Interstate Love Song' - Stone Temple Pilots
'Suffergate City' - David Bowie Ziggy Stardust
'Act Nice and Gentle' - The Kinks Something Else by The Kinks (bonus tracks)
'Underneath the Neon Lights' - The Kinks The Kinks Present A Soap Opera
'It's a Long Way To the Top (If You Wanna Rock N Roll) - AC/DC High Voltage (I forgot I even Had this song on my player. It might be the first time its ever come up)
Joe Cocker -- With A Little Help From My Friends
Charlie Rich -- The Most Beautiful Girl
Dar Williams -- You Rise And Meet The Day
Johnny Cash -- Home Of The Blues
Gin Blossoms -- Til I Hear It From You
John Williams -- The Raiders March
Jewel -- I Won't Walk Away
AC/DC -- You Shook Me All Night Long
Sarah McLachlan -- Adia
Barenaked Ladies -- Celebrity
*thumbs up* I like this list
Only one song on my mind today...
Hope - Descendents - Somery
Down The Street To 301 - John Cash - Guess Things Happen That Way
Whiskey River - Willie Nelson - Revolutions of Time
Peddel (sic) - Houston - Overhead
Stop Breathin' - Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Eight Line Poem - David Bowie - Hunky Dory
More like the moon - Wilco - More like the moon
What If - Lucinda Williams - West
Pink Mountain Rag - John Doe and The Sadies - Country Club
Your Cheatin' Heart - Hank - The Ultimate Collection
11. We're All In This Together - Old Crow Medicine Show - O.C.M.S.
Wow! Nice list. Your back five is really top notch.
Pacing and playing Wagon Wheel from OCMS on a loop was the only way I could get my son to fall asleep for the first two years of his life. Nice list.
Day After Day - Badfinger
Atttila Marcel - The Triplets of Belleville Soundtrack
All Along the Watchtower - Bob Dylan
I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash
Peggy's Kitchen Wall - Bruce Cockburn
No More Mr. Nice Guy - Alice Cooper
Too Much on My Mind - Kinks
Redemption Song - Bob Marley
From the Hips - Cursive
Hackensack - Fountains of Wayne
I've still got the same five speaker system (haven't been able to afford a sub-woofer yet) and ridiculously long lasting Yamaha receiver that I've had since college. Of course, I rarely play music on it, since its mainly for movies and gaming. My main musical listening experience comes in my car. The one I recently bought still has the factory speakers, but they're the better factory speakers that VW puts out. Someday I hope to have the money to waste on better ones. (no subs though, learned my lesson on those.)
1. King Diamond - "Tea", Them
2. Arch Enemy - "Instinct", Anthems of Rebellion
3. Dark Tranquillity - "Dreamlore Degenerate", The Mind's I
4. Jag Panzer - "Twilight Years", The Age of Mastery
5. Primordial - "To Enter Pagan", Spirit the Earth Aflame
6. Epica - "Memory", We Will Take You With Us
7. Iron Maiden - "Infinite Dreams", Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
8. The Black Dahlia Murder - "Apex", Unhallowed
9. King Diamond - "I'm Not A Stranger", The Graveyard
10. Megadeth - "Hangar 18", Rust in Peace
Uncle Tupelo - Shaky Ground - March 16-20, 1992
The Call - Expecting - Into The Woods
The Allman Brothers Band - Dreams - A Decade of Hits 1969-1979
Jet - Last Chance - Get Born
Anthrax - Burst - Sound of White Noise
The Church - A New Season - Starfish
Johnny Cash - Like a Soldier - American Recordings
Dead or Alive - In Too Deep - Rip It Up
Los Lonely Boys - Senorita - Los Lonely Boys
Depeche Mode - Behind The Wheel - 101
I was really hoping a song from the Lost Boys soundtrack would come up this week.
1. Jill Can Drive -- Trip Shakespeare
2. Her Majesty -- The Beatles
3. Wait Up -- Uncle Tupelo
4. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry -- Cowboy Junkies
5. Bodies -- Sex Pistols
6. I Can See Clearly Now -- Soul Asylum
7. God Damn Job -- The Replacements
8. My Oklahoma Home - Bruce Springsteen
9. You Can't Do That -- The Beatles
10. Just a Closer Walk With Thee -- Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash
Bonus: That Lucky Old Sun -- Johnny Cash
Hey Algonad, same UT album, different song.
Lucky Old Sun is a great little song. I especially enjoy Ray Charles' version. I'll have to find the Johnny Cash version for a listen.
Maybe if you weren't such a Dope-Smoking Moron, you could find a God Damn Job. I better Go now. I'm starting to Stink.
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01. Against Me! - 8 Full Hours of Sleep Against Me! Is Reinventing Axl Rose
02. John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman - Autumn Serenade John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman
03. Beastie Boys - No Sleep Till Brooklyn Downtown
04. The Channels - That's My Desire The Doo Wop Box, Vol. 2
05. Tomasz Stanko Quartet - Suspended Variation VI Suspended Night
06. Soul Asylum - Endless Farewell Ten Disc Box
07. Scott Walker - Sons Of Scott 3
08. John Lee Hooker and The Coast to Coast Blues Band - I Didn't Know Live at the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center
09. Sonny Boy Williamson II - Temperature 110 The Essential Sonny Boy Williamson
10. Bill Frisell - Answer #1 History, Mystery
i like the dichotomy of "8 full hours of sleep" and "no sleep till brooklyn".
I have an old 3 CD changer, 4-speaker setup that I recently installed in the basement. It's great for listening to Twins games and CD's and okay for movies/games. I predominantly use the good ol' iPod, though.
Goldfinger, "Bro", Stomping Ground
No Doubt, "You Can Do It", Tragic Kingdom
John Michael Talbot, "Canticle I Peter", Chant From the Hermitage
Reel Big Fish, "Beer"
U2, "Electrical Storm", Best of 1990-2000
The Tim Malloys, "Celtic Symphony", Drunkards, Bastards, and Blackguards
John Michael Talbot, "The Pleiades And Orion", Master Collection, Volume 1, The Quiet Side
Saint John's University Men's Chorus, "St. John's University Alma Mater", At The Beginning of a New Millenium
Taize, "Tu Sei Sorgente Viva", Laudate Omnes Gentes
Green Day, "Jason Andrew Relva", International Superhits!
* We Insist – Zoe Keating - Natoma
* The Mountain – Heartless Bastards - The Mountain
* Dancing Through Sunday – AFI – Sing the Sorrow
* Crawl Away – Tool - Undertow
* Strange Desire – Black Keys – Magic Potion
* Off the Cuff – Suicide Machines – Steal This Record
* Ripe [With Decay] – Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
* Down By the River – Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
* Milk It – Nirvana – In Utero
* The Last Baron – Mastodon – Crack the Skye
huh? (still, great album)
As someone said using his words on another song.
"I am doll parts."
Week 2 of listening to my entire iPod from A to 9. I'm only 56% of the way through.
1. Ministry "N.W.O." ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ
2. The Knife "N.Y. Hotel" The Knife
3. The Knife "Na Na Na" Silent Shout
4. Bare Jr. "Naked Albino" Boo-Tay
5. Trentemøller "Nam Nam" The Last Resort Bonus Disc: The Singles
6. Eric Copeland "Narc" Al Anon EP
7. Burial* "Near Dark" Untrue
8. Mylo "Need You Tonite"** Destroy Rock & Roll
9. Monster Magnet "Negasonic Teenage Warhead" Dopes to Infinity
T. Dub Colossus "Negus Dub" Return to Addis EP
*I'm getting bored with the two Burial albums. I did not expect that, I thought they were so fantastic when they came out.
**Mylo basically remixed Judie Tzuke's "Stay with Me till Dawn" and called it his own.
Burial goes in stages for me, I just wish there was a little more material out there that sounded like it (particularly Untrue).
Kode9 & Spaceape "Memories of the Future" is a bit more muscular than Burial, but more atmospheric than most of the other dubstep I've heard. (Zomby, the Bug, MRK1).
The Lata EP by Blackdown fits in nicely, too.
Listened to a little bit of 'Memories of the Future'. Liked it better than what I've heard of Burial, but I felt like my coolness quotient wasn't quite high enough for it.
Thanks a lot, I'll check those out right away. I'll admit my knowledge of that whole "scene" is next to nonexistant.
Try the vocal album "The World Is Gone" by Various. It's like a Portishead with dubstep instead of trip-hop.
But it draws a bit more from British Folk so that while using the sound of urban south London, it's more bucolic than Portishead.
Last song of the day at the office:
Ministry "No W" Rock Against Bush
Nice bookends there.
Ministry sound so much better when there's a Bush in the White House to sample from.
1. The Beatles, "Eleanor Rigby," 1962-1966
2. Living Children, "Now It's Over," Garage Beat '66 Vol. 3: Feeling Zero...
3. Simon & Garfinkel, "Mrs. Robinson," Bookends
4. Gary Lewis & The Playboys, "All Day and All of the Night," Classic Album
5. Steve Earle, "The Unrepentant," I Feel Alright
6. Mary Chapin Carpenter, "I Take My Chances," The Essential Mary Chapin Carpenter
7. James McMurtry, "Peter Pan," It Had to Happen
8. The Black Crowes, "She Talks To Angels," Greatest Hits
9. The Band, "The Weight," Music From Big Pink
10. Otis Rush, "Every Day I Have The Blues," Live at Montreaux 1986
I don't need no bonus track.
Indeed you don't.
New computer next week, until then, Pandora again...
Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band "Big Black Nothing" Outer South
The Strokes "Last Night" Is This It?
George Jones "Wrong Is What I Do Best" The George Jones Collection
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club "Howl" Howl
Roy Acuff "Cold,Cold, Heart" Roy Acuff Sings Hank Williams
The Shins "We Will Become Silhouettes" Such Great Heights
Ben Kweller "I Don't Know Why" Ben Kweller
Eddy Arnold "What Is Life Without Love" Early Hits Of The Tennessee Playboy
Beight "Block it Out" File In Rhythm
Pernice Brothers "Clear Spot" Nobody's Watching (Live)
I haven't gotten around to setting up the stereo system since we moved back here from Chicago ... nearly three years ago.
Flume, Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever Ago
Brainy, The National, Boxer
I Saw the Light, Spoon, Transference
Hard To Tell, Old Crow Medicine Show, O.C.M.S.
Neighborhood 3 - Power Out, Arcade Fire, Funeral
Crazy Eights, Tapes 'n' Tapes, The Loon
Nothing, Mason Jennings, Mason Jennings (Where did that come from?)
Bad Times, Michael Yonkers with the Blind Shake, Cold Town, Soft Zodiac
Tiger Boy, Haley Bonar, Big Star
Grindstone, UT, March 16-20, 1992
Bonus: Basic Space, The xx, xx
I haven't gotten around to setting up the stereo system since we moved back here from Chicago ... nearly three years ago.
Heh. We are ten years and counting since moving from Champaign. Speakers, receiver, CD player all still packed and stored in a closet.
Wow, that's three from March 16-20, 1992.
UT must be taking the place of Big Star this week.
I love The xx's album. But when given the chance to see them live, I had to pass. Seems like it would be quite the bore.
From live clips that I've seen, I think I would agree. The album took some getting used to, but it ended up being one of my favorites, but yeah... I don't think that it would translate very well into a live show.
I agree with both sentiments, but I read somewhere that they were actually a fantastic live show. So I looked into when they might be coming to town. As you probably know, their show at the Varsity is sold out, but there are tickets on Stubhub, where $15 tickets are going for $60-95. So, yeah, no.
Oh yeah. I saw that. Of course, I was deciding whether to go when tickets were still $15
1. Hands in the Air - The Waiting
2. Licking Cream - Sevendust
3. Crash Into Me - Dave Matthews Band
4. Cryin' - Aerosmith
5. Doll Skin - Toadies
6. The Dolphin's Cry - Live
7. Haunted - Evanescence
8. Momma's Boy - Chromeo
9. Instead Laugh - OneSideZero
10. Never There - Hoobastank
Only Sevendust song I know.
I bought the first two Skunk Anansie albums, so I quite liked that single. I think I need to download that tonight.
Magnetic Fields - Washington D.C. - 69 Love Songs Vol. 2
Styles P - Good Times - A Gangster and a Gentleman
The Beatles - I Feel Fine - The Beatles 1
Muse - Time Is Running Out - Absolution
The Clash - I'm Not Down - London Calling
Firewater - So Long, Superman - The Ponzi Scheme
Arctic Monkeys - When the Sun Goes Down - Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not
Felt - Gangster Ass Anthony - Felt 2 (A Tribute to Lisa Bonet)
The Heavy - Dignity - Great Vengeance and Furious Fire
Ghostface Killah - You Know I'm No Good - More Fish
Today's List brought to you courtesy Last.FM
I like Last.FM because it tracks what you've been listening to. For example, my most listened to artists are currently Spoon and The Subways.
Kaiser Chiefs - Never Miss a Beat
The Fratellis - Flathead
Interpol - Pioneer of the Falls
The Strokes - Automatic Stop
The Libertines - Two Steps Down
The Vines - TV Pro
The Bravery - Above and Below
The Little Flames - The Day Is Not Today
Interpol - Mammoth
Yo La Tango - Satellite
This is 'The' List.
as a bonus, to try to come to terms with the departure of my favorite contestant, a video from Alex Lambert who was unceremoniously dumped by America last night.
If he had a better haircut, he'd still be on.
Or if he had ever performed in front of a group of more than 5 people before. Oh well.
Do they allow re-contestants? I know they allow people dumped from tryouts and Hollywood week to come back. I think A_Lambert_2 could work on performing over the year and come back ready to set America's hearts on fire in 2011.
Pretty sure they do not. Once you make the semifinals you are ineligible to audition ever again.
That's about 5 too many...
hater
Once I get a little more established (and out of a studio apartment) I'd like to get a nice, large sound system, but for now I'm pretty reliant on the iPod and a small single-CD player.
1. "Cheating the Polygraph" - Porcupine Tree Nil Recurring
2. "Regina Holding Hands" - White Denim Fits
3. "On and On and On" - Wilco Sky Blue Sky
4. "If Only It Were True" - The Walkmen You & Me
5. "King Eternal" - TV on the Radio Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
6. "She Wants to Play Hearts" - Ryan Adams Demolition
7. "Standby" - BLK JKS After Robots
8. "Birmingham" - Drive-By Truckers Southern Rock Opera
9. "You Are a Runner and I Am My Father's Son" - Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary
10. "Break Me Gently" - Doves Lost Souls
1. Car Built To Spill There's Nothing Wrong With Love
2. After Class Atlas Sound Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
3. The Heavenly Music Corporation Robert Fripp & Brian Eno No Pussyfooting
4. Johnny Get Angry Joanie Sommers The Best Of The Girl Groups
5. I'll Come Running Back To You Sam Cooke Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964
6. Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl Broken Social Scene You Forgot it in People
7. I See Your Face Before Me Frank Sinatra In The Wee Small Hours
8. Medley: The Loner/Cinnamon Girl/Down By The River Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Four Way Street
9. My Father's House Bruce Springsteen Nebraska
10. The Red Telephone Love Forever Changes
At home, it's an iMac with Bose speakers. At the studio, a 5(?) year-old Sony single disc boom box. Can't believe that thing hasn't conked out from all it's (ab)use. My iPod is never too far from reach. I've got a crappy little faux retro turntable that I might play an old scratchy 33 on from time to time, but these days it's more for show.
I've got a crappy little faux retro turntable that I might play an old scratchy 33 on from time to time, but these days it's more for show.
Something like one of those Crosley jobs that combines a turntable with a radio and a CD/cassette deck? Mrs. CH has one of those, and I think she wondered why I bought a real turntable just to play the old jazz records I pick up occasionally. I didn't get anything fancy - just an early-Eighties Technics in the original box that I won for $70 on eBay - but I figure if the records I buy have lasted this long I should probably play them on something nicer than that Crosley. Of course, the stupid Pioneer receiver I bought twelve years ago didn't come with a pre-amp, so I had to buy that, too...
Something like one of those Crosley jobs that combines a turntable with a radio and a CD/cassette deck?
Yep, though mine's an Emerson. It's decidedly lo-tech, but certain records still sound pretty darn good on it. Two for example, Neil's Tonight's The Night and Buck Owens and the Buckaroos Carnegie Hall Concert. (Last two I listened to.) It's real value has been as the AM radio that I listen to Dazz & Gordo with.
That's what I use our Crosley for, too, though it's Bob Uecker country out here. Nothing quite like listening to a baseball game over AM radio in the summertime.
I still listen to music mostly on the living room component system w/ the big Cerwin-Vega! speakers, or in the car. However, the tape deck died last year and may never get replaced. Lately, I use the iPod mostly for listening to podcasts while lying on my daughter's bedroom floor at night.
"Love & Communication" - Cat Power, The Greatest
"Variation 2" - Uri Caine, The Goldberg Variations
"International Colouring Contest" - Stereolab, ABC Music - Radio 1 Sessions
"Watch What Happens" - Tamba 4, Samba Blim
"If I Love Again" - Anita O'Day, Incomparable
"Bring the Mackaback (Dub)" - The Congos (Scratch Perry dub), Fisherman Style
"I'm In Great Shape/I Wanna Be Around/Workshop" - Brian Wilson, Smile
"Time" - Sly & The Family Stone, There's A Riot Goin' On
"Murmuring Sound of the Mountain Stream" - Tony Scott, Music For Zen Meditation
"Opus One-Point-Five" - Joe Henderson, Power to the People