Rediscovered Music

[snowsprite]

A little something about pops and hisses...

I am not ashamed to say that I am of the "vinyl" generation, and I can remember when I replaced my first vinyl record with a CD I found that I actually missed some of the distinct pops and hisses on that record.

I.e., I could never get over the fact that there were not three loud pops separating "I'm in Love With My Car" and "You're My Best Friend." I still listen for them. They are part of the music in my mind, I guess.

I guess that sometimes you get used to annoyances. They become a part of your reality and you even begin to love them dearly at some point.

Sprite

[Ripzalot]

I guess that sometimes you get used to annoyances. They become a part of your reality and you even begin to love them dearly at some point.

Sprite

true dat. i had a home-recorded cassette tape with led zeppelin III on it and it ran out about 2/3rds of the way through the song "tangerine". to this day, something seems odd when i listen past that point of the song. and the distinct crackles and pops just before "immigrant song" starts.

[mnflyfish]

my rediscoveries have of late been stuff that I had on tape or vinyl back in the day. Git a new 60GB Video iPod, and have been busy burning my collection onto that, and then decided that I needed to c0omplete my collection my either buying CD's or downloading from iTunes these gems that I owned as a young man:

Joy Division: new retrospective they just released...
New Order: power and corruption, substance
XTC: skylarking, drums & wires, oranges & lemmons
Replacements: Tim & Let It Be
Smiths: QID, MIM, Louder than Bombs
Bruce: the River, BTR
Wire: pink flag
Buzzcocks: Singles Going Steady
Clash: Sandidista
Neil: Everyone Knows...., Zuma, Live Rust
English Beat: Special Beat Service, Beat Goes On

Freshies,

You need some Suburbs on that Ipod! In 1992, Twin Tone released a best of cd, if you can't find it, PM me and I'll burn you a copy.
Jay

[Core Shot]

Jeebus. CDs were awesome. No cleaning the vinyl. And no pops.

Then digitizing every CD I owned. Having it in the palm of my hand in an iPod.

Today? Crazy town. Any song. Any album at my fingertips.

The downside? Nothing tactile. No record stack.
How do you decide what to listen to.

[SKIP IN7RO]

I miss the cd days for some reason. Less crazy town, I guess.

[Lvovsky]

Boxes full of CDs in the shed. Can’t decide what to do. Gotta fit them into a room nicely rather than collecting dust. Still have a system to play them on.

Tactile feeling was fun - proof of a prized possession. The hours browsing the store and listening to the samples.


Any album any time is nice tho. Just learned about Allan Holdsworth from this thread and, poof, it’s playing in the house.

[SkiBall]

Back when I could list every song on albums in order.
Back to the day when a song ended and you were queueing up the next song that you knew followed the previous.
These days everything is just so random. But I chose the mood.

[Lvovsky]

Back when I could list dicrographies and bands members and dates when who replaced who my brain was apparently filled with useless info.

yeah it is random these days. I still enjoy listening to albums. That requires dedicated time which is never there. Creating personal playlist makes it all less than random. And I used to despise playlists. Mixed tapes were money tho.