Little things that keep me happy. (2309 hits)
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Submitted by Redskieslookfake (View user info) at 2006-02-06 08:32:29 EST
As a man, I do not particularly delight in a new pair of shoes. Neither does buying clothes leave me feeling especially pleased with my lot in life. I own no jewellery, and other than Mr T, I'm not sure if a man should ever wear jewellery.
I don't understand why a woman should require quite so many pairs of shoes or why all the tins in the cupboard have to be facing the same way. When I go to the toilet, I go on my own, I don't invite my friends to go with me, nor do act bothered if another man walks in with the same exact jacket as me.
That does not mean I don't understand your obsessions, just that I don't share them. My own neuroses are complex and I'm sure, equally incomprehensible.
I own a considerable amount of cds. It would be fair to say that I'm both attached to them, and also perversely proud of them. I watch for the look when someone walks into the room and looks at the racks. The flash of recognition, the faint head nod or even the craning your head to make sure that 'yes, that is the complete collection of The Pixies and most assuredly that is Radiohead's Com lag (2+2 is five) special import ep. Oh you've not heard of that album? Yeah, it's from before their big break through hit.'
When I see a person's cd collection I have to go and have a look. I am curious, and more than that I need to see what *you* think is cool. When you consider the average cd costs say £10 quid, then even a small rack is quite an investment.
The horror of walking into a room and finding that the person owns no cds. Or, almost worse, if there is a few compilation cds (Ibiza Club Anthems 2002!, Get The Party Started! 5 right next to Best of Steps, New Kids on The Block, and James 'Just because my surname rhymes with cunt doesn't mean I am one - but I am' Blunt all racked up in broken cases, with the inserts lying about used as drinks mats.
I know I shouldn't be so judgemental, but really, if you have no passion for music, I do kinda half suspect that you have no soul and that actually you're a zombie.
Or what about when you find someone whose musical taste covers Phil Collins, The Eagles and Santana? Yes I know there is some talent there, but really, yeuch. I don't think I could be that person's friend.
Then you get those who decided on a date - and that, as Don Mclean said, was the day the music died. 1972 - and no album after this date shall ever be purchased. Nothing new can possibly match up to Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin.
Fair enough with the Zeppelin, that's good stuff, your man Jimmy was a diva on the guitar, Bonzo nailed the shit out of his drums and Planty wailed like a recently emasculated man. It's all good - except for the aimless bluesy numbers that are not a patch on the real blues of BB King et al. I find it incredibly frustrating that someone can just say 'fuck it - that's all the music I need - I'll never need another album after listening to Dark Side of the Moon (by the way, where are my drugs?) '
Then you get the limited obsessive. They're not music fans, they are band fans. They own every single cd and piece of merchandising ever made by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but not one by Gang of Four. Sure they may be able to sing every word that The Hives ever wrote, but god forbid you mention the Rolling Stones or the Hives. Not their band see? I have to give some grudging respect for the loyalty these fans have, but it seems so closed off to ignore other options. Is that musical infidelity?
Then there's me. I like to organise my cds. Presently they're alphabetical - nice and simple. Except I have moments of doubt whether The Who are filed under T or W. And when I get a new load of cds, the pain of shuffling everything along makes me doubt my own sanity. But then I have also organised my collection by genre. Working out where the crossovers are - whether the same band can have several albums in various genres. Damn you Radiohead with your experimental stuff! Skindred you shits, why must you be Rap/Ragga/Metal, what the fuck are you playing at Skinnyman, you know I can't put you next to Dr Dre!? Death In Vegas - you make me so mad I might just gut myself.
I've tried chronological too - and the irritation of it is intense - yet, when you succeed and all those little 10cm x 10cm x 0.5cm are all in order you feel something I imagine is close to completing that capture of that new Gucci bag.
So I don't *quite* get why someone is happy to pay 500 pounds for a bag that could not conceivably store anything larger than a purse and some lipstick, yet I am quite happy to pay 50 quid to pay for a remote so that I can skip through my iTunes which is wirelessly playing through three pairs of speakers at the same time - from the comfort of the sofa.
Sorting them into order is like ordering your mind. As your hand closes on each one to slot it smoothly into the obvious gap, like a sudoko - when it all fits perfectly, it calms the mind.
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Submitted by branimal_08 (user info) at 2008-10-14 16:54:22 EDT (#)
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I'M NOT EVEN READING THEM HAHAHAHA.
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Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2007-11-08 16:59:48 EST (#)
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don't be such a bloody student Axy
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2007-11-08 16:34:16 EST (#)
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People buy music?
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-04-10 07:22:46 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Beano312003 (user info) at 2006-04-10 07:19:14 (#)
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Red, I get you.
I have a very unhealthy relationship with my CD's and Vinyl.
Likewise, I have iTunes and also a 20MB Zen for away from home activities, which are both great because they store and organise the digital copies of all my CD's. Fansastic.
But I will never, NEVER, get rid of or sell any of my recordings. You cannot beat running your finger along the back of the cases as you peruse your collection wondering what you fancy for the next hour. Then sliding one out and removing the CD/Vinyl and flipping it onto the Arcam or Thorens player.
A proper CD or Record with a proper player makes the world go round.
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I am nearly at the 40gb mark of carefully pruned music. There are a few spelling mistakes and duplicates about - but I have learned to deal with a certain amount. I do go on occasional prunes:
9544 items
32:20:47:17 total time
39.58 GB
Today it is Stone Roses day.
Submitted by Beano312003 (user info) at 2006-04-10 07:19:14 EDT (#)
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Red, I get you.
I have a very unhealthy relationship with my CD's and Vinyl.
Likewise, I have iTunes and also a 20MB Zen for away from home activities, which are both great because they store and organise the digital copies of all my CD's. Fansastic.
But I will never, NEVER, get rid of or sell any of my recordings. You cannot beat running your finger along the back of the cases as you peruse your collection wondering what you fancy for the next hour. Then sliding one out and removing the CD/Vinyl and flipping it onto the Arcam or Thorens player.
A proper CD or Record with a proper player makes the world go round.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-03-31 04:04:27 EST (#)
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From memory there's a Tim Buckley compendium, Colder cd, Lemon Jelly cd, Pink Floyd, a cafe del mar something or other, a punk compendium and a few other weird things, all laughing in the face of my careful shelf structure. I hate them.
Submitted by c1ndy (user info) at 2006-03-31 04:03:01 EST (#)
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Can't remember if I rated this.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-03-31 03:58:27 EST (#)
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Luckily I have an awesome shelf. It consists of a wall of my lounge room, with a 15mm strips of wood running horizontally along the wall, then another thin piece of wood vertically attached to that, so that the CDs slot in facing outwards. Displays them nicely. The only thing that doesn't fit in this arrangement is Jeff Buckley's Grace (legacy edition). That's the one fucking fat case that doesn't fit. Bastard thing.
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YES CUNTING JEFF BUCKLEY THING.
Radiohead's Hail to the Thief too. The big foldy out one.
But it's not all together then. Jeff Buckley is strewn hither and thither. It makes me feel itchy inside.
Submitted by Stagger_Lee (user info) at 2006-03-30 20:59:44 EST (#)
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Submitted by Dervel (user info) at 2006-03-30 10:52:53 (#)
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<Continues complaining>
And those cardboard sleeves that go round the jewel cases are annoying.
Nick Cave seems to insist on them and stupid boxes of late. The Proposition OST excluded, but then that doesn't count as it's poop.
But what really upsets me is when the writing on the side goes from bottom to top so you have to put the CD in the rack upside down...
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Ah, but because of my rack mentioned below, they're not a problem for me. The Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus case is so freaking cool, as is the B-Sides and Rarities.
Submitted by Stagger_Lee (user info) at 2006-03-30 20:58:28 EST (#)
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Submitted by Dervel (user info) at 2006-03-30 10:20:10 (#)
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Submitted by Stagger_Lee (user info) at 2006-03-30 09:50:29 (#)
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I arrange my CDs into artist, then in order of release.
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Yep, me too.
Nothing else makes sense.
Though it does call for an occasional major re-shuffle when that bands shelf in the rack is full.
I have to sort the albums and singles seperatly as the size difference distresses me.
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Luckily I have an awesome shelf. It consists of a wall of my lounge room, with a 15mm strips of wood running horizontally along the wall, then another thin piece of wood vertically attached to that, so that the CDs slot in facing outwards. Displays them nicely. The only thing that doesn't fit in this arrangement is Jeff Buckley's Grace (legacy edition). That's the one fucking fat case that doesn't fit. Bastard thing.
I tend not to buy singles, but rather only albums, and if there are rarities on the single I download them. Singles are a bit of a rip, I think.
Submitted by Dervel (user info) at 2006-03-30 10:52:53 EST (#)
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<Continues complaining>
And those cardboard sleeves that go round the jewel cases are annoying.
Nick Cave seems to insist on them and stupid boxes of late. The Proposition OST excluded, but then that doesn't count as it's poop.
But what really upsets me is when the writing on the side goes from bottom to top so you have to put the CD in the rack upside down...
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-03-30 10:27:55 EST (#)
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Submitted by Dervel (user info) at 2006-03-30 10:20:10 (#)
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Submitted by Stagger_Lee (user info) at 2006-03-30 09:50:29 (#)
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I arrange my CDs into artist, then in order of release.
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Yep, me too.
Nothing else makes sense.
Though it does call for an occasional major re-shuffle when that bands shelf in the rack is full.
I have to sort the albums and singles seperatly as the size difference distresses me.
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I fucking hate that. Or when they have booklet style cd cases. So they don't fit in the neat Ikea cd racks. Curse them.
Submitted by Dervel (user info) at 2006-03-30 10:20:10 EST (#)
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Submitted by Stagger_Lee (user info) at 2006-03-30 09:50:29 (#)
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I arrange my CDs into artist, then in order of release.
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Yep, me too.
Nothing else makes sense.
Though it does call for an occasional major re-shuffle when that bands shelf in the rack is full.
I have to sort the albums and singles seperatly as the size difference distresses me.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-03-30 09:54:15 EST (#)
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Submitted by Stagger_Lee (user info) at 2006-03-30 09:50:29 (#)
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I arrange my CDs into artist, then in order of release. Makes me happy to do it that way.
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Vaguely sensible.
Try ordering them into genre. This must be done on your own, with doors closed. Intruders must be chased away with threats of disembowelment should they 'mess up any of my piles of cds!'
I wish I had a 4 Dimensional CD shelf. Even though I never move my cds (aah the iPod and iTunes) - they still get regular reorderings.
oooooh The Zutons!
Cool
Submitted by Stagger_Lee (user info) at 2006-03-30 09:50:29 EST (#)
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I arrange my CDs into artist, then in order of release. Makes me happy to do it that way.
Submitted by xanderd (user info) at 2006-03-06 10:40:23 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by G-prime (user info) at 2006-03-05 13:48:59 EST (#)
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Although that collection in no way accurately reflects my entire musical taste. I have totally different shit on my itunes. I have that stuff too, but way more stuff, in different genres.
Submitted by G-prime (user info) at 2006-03-05 13:48:05 EST (#)
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I saw the Rolling Stones live on September 3rd, 2005. I will always remember that day. It blew my mind like you wouldn't believe. I'm still picking up the pieces of my shattered skull. To this day, I refer to the start of "Start Me Up" as "The Sound Of My Skull Shattering".
You should check out my totally badass record collection: http://www.ubersite.com/m/83743
Submitted by VelvetElvis (user info) at 2006-03-05 06:22:49 EST (#)
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Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2006-03-05 06:01:27 EST (#)
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Still don't have an Ipod or any such thing personally.
My collecton of CDs broke the 3000 barrier in about mid 2005. My vinyl is somewhere in the 500 range.
Not much on tape, though there are the few local and underground bands who in the late 80s early 90s deemed it wise to record only on tape...something like 100 recordings in that format.
If I was to calculate the money spent, well, I wouldn't.
It was all worthwhile, and wholeheartedly so.
I didn't begin to read all the reviews on this post, but did see the bit about the movie High Fidelity. I remember seeing that movie and thinking
1. This movie kicked ass. Someone who likes music as much as me, albeit a fcitional someone
2. John Cusack still kicks ass
3. That character doesn't have shit on my collection.
If you're into Brit punk and or invasion type stuff, search out Shlongy or Merlina, both have a great liking for it. As do I.
I could write a few hundred reviews on this post and not cover everything I would like to.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-03-02 17:56:55 EST (#)
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Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2006-03-01 18:05:21 (#)
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This post makes me wish I could rate it much higher than your average +2. I've all but written the same post.
I'm a woman who has infinitely more pride in my music collection (which includes The Pixies and Com lag) than I ever will in accessories. My guilty shoe pleasure ends with my Doc Martens.
I try not to be judgmental, but generally speaking, I can't help but think an absence of passion for music (or failing that, art of some sort) indicates a lack of soul in some respect.
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MARRY ME!
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2006-03-01 18:05:21 EST (#)
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This post makes me wish I could rate it much higher than your average +2. I've all but written the same post.
I'm a woman who has infinitely more pride in my music collection (which includes The Pixies and Com lag) than I ever will in accessories. My guilty shoe pleasure ends with my Doc Martens.
I try not to be judgmental, but generally speaking, I can't help but think an absence of passion for music (or failing that, art of some sort) indicates a lack of soul in some respect.
Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2006-03-01 17:40:06 EST (#)
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Fine, +2 Skindred. BABYLON UH! HEAR DIS!
Submitted by GodLovesALittleLovin (user info) at 2006-02-28 12:48:13 EST (#)
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I thought I was the only person in the world who knows about Skindred. I would say something else rather maniacal and random at this point, but this post reminds me too much of my own opinion. Music is music, I would never deny a good tune because it's classified in a certain genre. Good show.
Submitted by Jimmo (user info) at 2006-02-08 13:11:14 EST (#)
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I forgot to add that I store all my albums (LP) together seperating out only the reggae and rave.
As I like buying dirt cheap vinyl from second hand stores this leads to hilarious scenes of snob confusion when they discover: the Doors, Velvet underground and Pixies next to: 50 best children songs, The Wombles Christmass Album, Boney M, Masters of Metal and a truly hideous Dutch Karnival Compilation from the seventies (cross dressing and clogs).
To my shame (you shouldn't bait people, but Goths don't count), at a student party, I played "She Sells Sanctuary" by the Cult (12" extended mix, for all you spotters) for a bunch of Goths to much acclaim. I preceeded to slowly beatmix a standard house tune into it.
They were loving it right till the girly vocals kicked off, they came to their senses, looked disgusted and cleared off. This was cheap, but I defend myself by saying it was a good mix.
Submitted by Professional_Peon (user info) at 2006-02-08 12:35:59 EST (#)
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WTF?!? I'm not reading all that.
The answer is easy ----> ORAL <end post>
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By the way I'm putting that on a bumper sticker.... the saying... not the link.
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2006-02-08 12:29:44 EST (#)
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I read this whole thing. I don't have anything to add, I just want credit for having waded through all of this.
Submitted by Jimmo (user info) at 2006-02-08 12:16:14 EST (#)
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Great post, I've similar problems: I'm a DJ. I play a bit of everything on vinyl and CD.
Years ago I arranged all my Drum & Bass alphabetically in label order, with one offs in their own section in order of harshness. I.e. really harsh to the left, bouncy in the middle and chilled at the end.
The same sequence was carried over to my record box, I was so organised that I could lay my hand on any tune within 10 seconds. Then somebody stole the box...
I had to abandon the system, as all the best where gone, leaving hideous gaps that made me homicidal.
Currently the first division of records is between shit and good, the shit moved to storage and then it's into played regularly or not. Then it is arranged by format (vinyl/CD), then genre and finally BPM.
The tracks I play out (non DnB) are all on an excel spread sheet, which I can "sort" by genre and bpm, print off lists and use these list to order my 7" Reggae vinyl box to use an example.
This gives me a 30 second edge of other DJs.
Am currently studying Access, can't wait to use that to organize my sets.
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2006-02-08 10:16:10 EST (#)
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Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2006-02-07 13:06:12 (#)
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i file mine by how many times I have waked to the cover picture.
The first one is the cd single of 'The Snowman'. ""
yes, wanked.
stupid blackberry.
Submitted by ozzy (user info) at 2006-02-08 07:50:49 EST (#)
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Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-07 13:50:04 (#)
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Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2006-02-07 13:06:12 (#)
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i file mine by how many times I have waked to the cover picture.
The first one is the cd single of 'The Snowman'.
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I'm going to assume to meant 'wanked to the cover picture.'
As such I submit The Seahorses 'Do It Yourself' and Soulwax 'Much Against Everyone's Advice' as two which are ideal
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Is it wrong that Nirvana's Nevermind tops my list?
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-08 03:30:22 EST (#)
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Pragmatic - I whole heartedly agree.
Submitted by pragmatic (user info) at 2006-02-07 21:13:10 EST (#)
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I organise everything. Everything has to be alphabetical, parallel, square, you name it, it's been organized. My stapler and calculator etc on my desk at work have to be all straightened up, with even gaps between the next object, all parallel, I even buy things that are the same colours.
That said, my CD collection lives in a drawer and I have put them all on computer, where they handily are all in alphabetical order, and I have put them into playlists. Music for parties, music I can run to, music for road trips- the list goes on.
If you cant organise your space, how can your mind be organised?
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-07 13:50:04 EST (#)
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Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2006-02-07 13:06:12 (#)
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i file mine by how many times I have waked to the cover picture.
The first one is the cd single of 'The Snowman'.
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I'm going to assume to meant 'wanked to the cover picture.'
As such I submit The Seahorses 'Do It Yourself' and Soulwax 'Much Against Everyone's Advice' as two which are ideal.
Submitted by Sassmasterr (user info) at 2006-02-07 13:08:51 EST (#)
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floyd
zep
nuf said
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2006-02-07 13:06:12 EST (#)
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i file mine by how many times I have waked to the cover picture.
The first one is the cd single of 'The Snowman'.
Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2006-02-07 12:11:08 EST (#)
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Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-07 11:12:24 (#)
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Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2006-02-07 09:19:59 (#)
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Goddam digipack cases.
Ruin the whole look.
-Dave
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digipack? Are they those zipup black cases you put cds in?
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The cardboard type cases.
I bought one today that looks like a book.
WTF is going on there?
-Dave
Submitted by MichaelJackson (user info) at 2006-02-07 12:03:06 EST (#)
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Collecting CDs and Vinyls kick ass
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-07 11:12:24 EST (#)
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Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2006-02-07 09:19:59 (#)
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Goddam digipack cases.
Ruin the whole look.
-Dave
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digipack? Are they those zipup black cases you put cds in?
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-07 10:13:22 EST (#)
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Submitted by Teephphah (user info) at 2006-02-07 10:10:07 (#)
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I understand.
So maybe you can help me out with something that has been troubling me.
Say you've got your collection sorted simply by artist alphabetically. You consider yourself to be fairly broad in your musical taste, but you also have a few pet bands that you will buy pretty much every piece of crap single they put out.
So, by and large your collection is made of proper albums, but then you've got these limited edition, or "I liked the artwork" singles that more often than not, feature songs that have already appeared on the proper albums you have by that band or shitty remixes (I'm looking at you KMFDM.) of songs you already have that aren't really worth bothering with.
The question is, do you keep these largely disposable and/or forgetable singles (which you can nevertheless not throw away or sell) IN WITH the rest of the proper albums or do you create a whole new area for "singles and limited edition releases or 'best of's' that I probably won't ever listen to again but need to keep because I can't just NOT keep them?!"
I've never found a suitable solution to this.
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I have a separate shelf for them, as well as 'albums which are too damn big to fit in the spaces because of some dickhead designer.' They are never listened to or touched. Too much hassle.
I don't actually buy singles. Never seems like good value.
I do like the idea of putting them in with other cds though. Although, that's mislabelling. Which is a sin.
Submitted by Teephphah (user info) at 2006-02-07 10:10:07 EST (#)
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I understand.
So maybe you can help me out with something that has been troubling me.
Say you've got your collection sorted simply by artist alphabetically. You consider yourself to be fairly broad in your musical taste, but you also have a few pet bands that you will buy pretty much every piece of crap single they put out.
So, by and large your collection is made of proper albums, but then you've got these limited edition, or "I liked the artwork" singles that more often than not, feature songs that have already appeared on the proper albums you have by that band or shitty remixes (I'm looking at you KMFDM.) of songs you already have that aren't really worth bothering with.
The question is, do you keep these largely disposable and/or forgetable singles (which you can nevertheless not throw away or sell) IN WITH the rest of the proper albums or do you create a whole new area for "singles and limited edition releases or 'best of's' that I probably won't ever listen to again but need to keep because I can't just NOT keep them?!"
I've never found a suitable solution to this.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-07 09:56:24 EST (#)
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Submitted by Circe (user info) at 2006-02-07 09:51:18 (#)
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I don't get that. I mean, I like listening to music too, but all my CD's are stored in drawers.... what I display are books. I have a fair few books.
How many books is a lot? Like, how many books, lined up on shelves and a table and a couple of library trolleys and the mantelpiece, would make you go "damn, that's a lot of books."??
>>I like my bookcases too. I sometimes miss the LPs. You could pack so much onto them. A CD booklet is a dodgy little thing, that breaks the cd case when you try and rip it out. And 4pt text is not easy to read.
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Submitted by RamJetMax (user info) at 2006-02-07 09:43:09 (#)
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What color is the sky in your world?
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>>Purply pink. Like the colour of an album sleeve from the early 90s. Probably a Stone Roses one.
Submitted by Circe (user info) at 2006-02-07 09:51:18 EST (#)
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I don't get that. I mean, I like listening to music too, but all my CD's are stored in drawers.... what I display are books. I have a fair few books.
How many books is a lot? Like, how many books, lined up on shelves and a table and a couple of library trolleys and the mantelpiece, would make you go "damn, that's a lot of books."??
Submitted by RamJetMax (user info) at 2006-02-07 09:43:09 EST (#)
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What color is the sky in your world?
Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2006-02-07 09:19:59 EST (#)
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Goddam digipack cases.
Ruin the whole look.
-Dave
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-07 08:57:23 EST (#)
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Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2006-02-07 08:44:22 (#)
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Right! I've been thinking about that and I've had an idea. What I've said about music does not impact on other aspects of life, specifically emotional bonds with other individuals. It relates only to the notion of group status.
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Go read my new post before you take away my love for music with your cunning arguments!
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2006-02-07 08:44:22 EST (#)
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Right! I've been thinking about that and I've had an idea. What I've said about music does not impact on other aspects of life, specifically emotional bonds with other individuals. It relates only to the notion of group status.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-07 08:16:36 EST (#)
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Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2006-02-07 08:12:07 (#)
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I have more in common with them. And it's more likely they'll recommend a band that's new and interesting. This could get into Dawkins if we continue. I like hearing new stuff, old stuff, various stuff.
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I... don't really know how to answer that. I like to hear good stuff but can I define my relationships with others as a pure quest for compliments and pleasentries?
Perhaps I can. Hmm. Dunno. Don't really like the sound of that to be honest.
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Nor I actually.
I'm gonna make a post full of seriousness and complexity.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2006-02-07 08:15:03 EST (#)
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Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-07 08:08:40 (#)
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what is 'nossing' by the way?
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Apparently it's saying 'nothing' but in a heavily accented voice.
I have no idea what sort of accent would make nothing sound like nossing.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2006-02-07 08:12:07 EST (#)
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I have more in common with them. And it's more likely they'll recommend a band that's new and interesting. This could get into Dawkins if we continue. I like hearing new stuff, old stuff, various stuff.
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I... don't really know how to answer that. I like to hear good stuff but can I define my relationships with others as a pure quest for compliments and pleasentries?
Perhaps I can. Hmm. Dunno. Don't really like the sound of that to be honest.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-07 08:08:40 EST (#)
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what is 'nossing' by the way?
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-07 07:56:51 EST (#)
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Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2006-02-07 07:54:27 (#)
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I'd rather a fellow music van, with an equally gigantic (and thus tragic) collection compared notes on music than someone who didn't know anything, although there is the pleasure in introducing someone to a new band, so that you can vicariously enjoy the band again.
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QED. The pleasure at having an intellectual advantage, thus empowering you.
It's not a criticism, it's merely a statement of fact.
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I have more in common with them. And it's more likely they'll recommend a band that's new and interesting. This could get into Dawkins if we continue. I like hearing new stuff, old stuff, various stuff.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-07 07:55:10 EST (#)
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Berty - I don't agree - but that's an interesting review that made me think.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2006-02-07 07:54:27 EST (#)
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I'd rather a fellow music van, with an equally gigantic (and thus tragic) collection compared notes on music than someone who didn't know anything, although there is the pleasure in introducing someone to a new band, so that you can vicariously enjoy the band again.
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QED. The pleasure at having an intellectual advantage, thus empowering you.
It's not a criticism, it's merely a statement of fact.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2006-02-07 07:52:50 EST (#)
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Seriously though, it's largely true. I collect nossing. I buy a lot of games because I don't have a life except on everyother weekend. I chuck them out though. Same as I do with books and indeed all my possesions.
But what of my life? My life is hardly a paradign of perfection. Sure I have simplicity but that doesn't keep me warm at night. I'm a recluse though. That's my deformity so there it is.
Out there, in the real world, people hold on to these emblems to define themselves to one another. Not to themselves of course, I genuinly do not believe people to be that shallow, but simply as a method of definition amongst peers. It's all just a rather flimsy pretence to garner man points and cunt. No-one really enjoys music in a seriously passionate way other than a very, very small number of autistic children who know no better. Even the great musicians only persued it to define themselves in front of others, hence why they 'get so much out of performing'.
Although Bob Dylan might be an exception. I reckon he just has an addiction to stoking his ego though.
Now I would not tar all human endeavour with the same brush. Just music, because there is no real product other than gratuitous extroverted behaviour. A lot of 'look at me' and 'feel my emotion'. Bono talks a lot about motivating the people to fight baddies through music but frankly I find that condescending. Am I not a complete enough person to be convinced via snake charming? Do you think that I'll only remember the points you tell me if you set it to a neumonic jingle?
Music is, and always has been, a social badge. A rating system. In some sub-culture's the more obscure your collection the better, in others it's about size. Wherever you go it's all about the badge because no-one really cares about the music because there's not that much to care about there.
Submitted by Flying_buttmonkey (user info) at 2006-02-07 07:47:13 EST (#)
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Mine are ordered from 'Most often listened to' at the top of the left and right on-top-of-the-speakers stacks and the next-to-the-stereo 5ft stack and sort of meanders down to the 'what was I thinking' and 'isn't actually mine' collection at the bottom of the stereo-holdy-throne-shaped-furniture thingy. I have nearly 500 I reckon, only listen to about half of them. You can see how my tastes have changed radically over the years.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-07 07:44:04 EST (#)
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Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2006-02-07 07:40:36 (#)
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>>By that argument though, anyone who collects anything is only doing it to show off. What are you passionate about El Bertos?
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My fantastic suit. It makes me look like the most respectable pimp in clubland.
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Nothing but a mask behind which your true face is concealed. And suits have all the associations of major corporations and power. What power doth a Super Furry Animal's cd have?
Clothes maketh the man? Man maketh clothes.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-07 07:42:25 EST (#)
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Furthermore, I'd argue that music is something that I take joy in regardless of other's attentions. Yes, it does occasionally border on the obsessional, but obsession is none too different from passion in my book.
I'd rather a fellow music van, with an equally gigantic (and thus tragic) collection compared notes on music than someone who didn't know anything, although there is the pleasure in introducing someone to a new band, so that you can vicariously enjoy the band again.
A new Yeah Yeah Yeah's song is on now. I must concentrate on this now.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2006-02-07 07:40:36 EST (#)
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>>By that argument though, anyone who collects anything is only doing it to show off. What are you passionate about El Bertos?
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My fantastic suit. It makes me look like the most respectable pimp in clubland.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-07 07:35:54 EST (#)
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Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2006-02-07 07:26:09 (#)
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What if you're laid next to a pretty girl and you share a moment and THERE just then, a song comes on, forever marking that moment. Like a ribbon on a present. You said that the simple expressions on the faces of passerbys are worth attention - and I agree. But why not celebrate that?
I think there is something spiritual about standing in a crowd of people all singing along to the same song. It's an experience I treasure.
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The joy your getting is from the acceptance and feeling of belonging. The only thing that music adds is that you can think 'ooooh, now I belong with everyone who has a t-shirt with this elderly pikey's tour venues listed!' and the brain goes "ENDORPHINE ENDORPHINE ENDORPHINE! ENCOURAGE SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE AND THUS INCREASE OPPURTUNITY FOR PRETTY PINK CUNT I WILL! ENDORPHINE ENDORPHINE ENDORPHINE!" and that's it, only perhaps with more seratonin or something. I'm no neurologist.
>>Clearly.
In fact I would put it to you that the sole reason you have hoarded such an absurdly large collection of music is to lord it over new students and thus branding yourself with an extra attribute of 'eliteness'. That all this rhetoric you've thrown out is justification for what is essentially a social crutch. Furthermore I'd say that is the sole reason for anyone to be interested in any aspect of the music scene and that the natural state of thought on the matter reflects my own indifferance.
No disrespect or nothing intended.
>>By that argument though, anyone who collects anything is only doing it to show off. What are you passionate about El Bertos?
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2006-02-07 07:26:09 EST (#)
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What if you're laid next to a pretty girl and you share a moment and THERE just then, a song comes on, forever marking that moment. Like a ribbon on a present. You said that the simple expressions on the faces of passerbys are worth attention - and I agree. But why not celebrate that?
I think there is something spiritual about standing in a crowd of people all singing along to the same song. It's an experience I treasure.
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The joy your getting is from the acceptance and feeling of belonging. The only thing that music adds is that you can think 'ooooh, now I belong with everyone who has a t-shirt with this elderly pikey's tour venues listed!' and the brain goes "ENDORPHINE ENDORPHINE ENDORPHINE! ENCOURAGE SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE AND THUS INCREASE OPPURTUNITY FOR PRETTY PINK CUNT I WILL! ENDORPHINE ENDORPHINE ENDORPHINE!" and that's it, only perhaps with more seratonin or something. I'm no neurologist.
In fact I would put it to you that the sole reason you have hoarded such an absurdly large collection of music is to lord it over new students and thus branding yourself with an extra attribute of 'eliteness'. That all this rhetoric you've thrown out is justification for what is essentially a social crutch. Furthermore I'd say that is the sole reason for anyone to be interested in any aspect of the music scene and that the natural state of thought on the matter reflects my own indifferance.
No disrespect or nothing intended.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-07 07:08:42 EST (#)
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Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2006-02-07 07:06:46 (#)
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It's making me uncomfortably honest.
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Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2006-02-07 07:06:24 (#)
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I'm not sleeping well lately.
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It's cool. Only yesterday someone asked about my world cup tickets - I looked at them until the sadness in my soul leapt through their eyes and plunged them into despair.
They're dead now.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-07 07:07:20 EST (#)
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Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2006-02-07 06:57:44 (#)
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There's cruel reality and simple truth. Both contain aspects of joy, challenge and so on whereas music tends to be too fanciful. It's a pleasant noise, don't get me wrong, but nothing I could contemplate building any aspect of my life around. I have an MP3 player and I was listening to Massive Attack.
"I trained myself in martial arts,
As advertised..."
Now what the fuck does that mean? The Streets might have said something along the lines of:
>>>Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?
And the grateful look in a woman's eyes when you help lift her pram down the stairs.
I don't see much difference between these two things. They both please me. One is mere words or ink on a page, while the other is half imagined, and almost impossible to capture with a camera. Does that make either of them any less real?
"I looked her in the eye and said,
I didn't know but,
You wanna drink or a smoke?"
>>>Perhaps not the most profound lyrics - but they have a truth to them.
It just doesn't touch me. Older music is tired and difficult to dance to, new music is embarrasing and none of it is as pleaseant as lying down in the warm or listening to a pretty girl talk about her tits. For me music is background, not foreground. Listening to the words leaves me bored and filled with contempt.
I guess I'm a bit of a philistine but there it is.
>>>I don't think that's being a philistine. Unless music connects with you, it is cold and lifeless. Do the Pussycat Dolls make me smile? No. I consider them irritating noise polluters.
You don't have to dance to music to enjoy it. I can't imagine dancing to Jeff Buckley. Shoegazer music it is.
What if you're laid next to a pretty girl and you share a moment and THERE just then, a song comes on, forever marking that moment. Like a ribbon on a present. You said that the simple expressions on the faces of passerbys are worth attention - and I agree. But why not celebrate that?
I think there is something spiritual about standing in a crowd of people all singing along to the same song. It's an experience I treasure.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2006-02-07 07:06:46 EST (#)
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It's making me uncomfortably honest.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2006-02-07 07:06:24 EST (#)
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I'm not sleeping well lately.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2006-02-07 06:57:44 EST (#)
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There's cruel reality and simple truth. Both contain aspects of joy, challenge and so on whereas music tends to be too fanciful. It's a pleasant noise, don't get me wrong, but nothing I could contemplate building any aspect of my life around. I have an MP3 player and I was listening to Massive Attack.
"I trained myself in martial arts,
As advertised..."
Now what the fuck does that mean? The Streets might have said something along the lines of:
"I looked her in the eye and said,
I didn't know but,
You wanna drink or a smoke?"
It just doesn't touch me. Older music is tired and difficult to dance to, new music is embarrasing and none of it is as pleaseant as lying down in the warm or listening to a pretty girl talk about her tits. For me music is background, not foreground. Listening to the words leaves me bored and filled with contempt.
I guess I'm a bit of a philistine but there it is.
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Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2006-02-07 06:14:23 (#)
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Music doesn't really move me anymore. I guess it only did when I was a teenager and all messed up with the hormones.
>>>You are more susceptible to music's influence at that age. The search for identity and direction is strongest at that time.
I mean it's always so elaborate isn't it? These grand pictures of self destruction and extravegant excess. Either that or it's an intricate web of words 'sobriquets' and other complex terminology that does a better job of obscuring the truth than any nebulous employment contract I've ever penned.
>>>Well, no. It's not all sex, drugs and rock and roll. Radiohead may ponder politics, Morrissey may rumminate on the difficulties of being the only gay in his village while Mick Jagger shouts about wanting to bum love every woman ever, but the Streets first album was a salient example of the feeling of the time. Certainly it was for me. The Pixies may use clever words, but at the same time Peaches is shouting about sucking on her tits and fucking the pain away.
The truth? Is that what music should be about? That I don't know - certainly it's interesting to hear a singer bare their soul, Jeff Buckley in Last Goodbye is perhaps the finest love song written by a man, but I don't know if that's the truth - or if it would change the value of the song should it be so. Equally we get pop at it's most shallow, songs aimed at massaging the ego. Club music to get lost to - to forget about everything else. Music is a mood amplifier and a mood changer. Music certainly is tied to memories as strongly as anything else. There are songs that I can't hear without remembering events -whether they were sweet or bitter.
The reality is 9 to 5, reading the paper, checking the fellow commuters faces for new emotion, eating food that warns obeisity can kill and smoking the fags that say 'cancer gaurenteed'. Waiting for something simple and pleaseant, building and preparing for a time to come. You pay off your mortgage, you get promoted and you wait.
>>I'm not old enough for fatalism. I hope I never get sucked into that. I'd rather hope and dream.
That sounded so emo, but my point is that if you want something, it is best to try and get it. Hope -> Dreams -> Desires. And from desires, results.
That's what life is, not these pretty stories by public schoolboys and overgrown children. It's simple, ponderous and far better than any of that plastic claptrap. Well hopefully anyway. Maybe it's not, I'm still waiting. Maybe it'll never even happen.
Worst comes to the worst there's always saturated fats and tumours. Simple and real.
>>Fuck that. Not everything must be steeped in deep significant meaning. Pretty story after pretty story - and then the cruel reality? What about when reality isn't so cruel? And THERE is the woman of your dreams.
Fatalism is easy, far harder to build dreams and watch most of them collapse.
Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2006-02-07 06:20:59 EST (#)
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Christ Berty, someone kill your pet?
-Dave
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2006-02-07 06:14:23 EST (#)
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Music doesn't really move me anymore. I guess it only did when I was a teenager and all messed up with the hormones.
I mean it's always so elaborate isn't it? These grand pictures of self destruction and extravegant excess. Either that or it's an intricate web of words 'sobriquets' and other complex terminology that does a better job of obscuring the truth than any nebulous employment contract I've ever penned.
The reality is 9 to 5, reading the paper, checking the fellow commuters faces for new emotion, eating food that warns obeisity can kill and smoking the fags that say 'cancer gaurenteed'. Waiting for something simple and pleaseant, building and preparing for a time to come. You pay off your mortgage, you get promoted and you wait.
That's what life is, not these pretty stories by public schoolboys and overgrown children. It's simple, ponderous and far better than any of that plastic claptrap. Well hopefully anyway. Maybe it's not, I'm still waiting. Maybe it'll never even happen.
Worst comes to the worst there's always saturated fats and tumours. Simple and real.
Submitted by BranDo (user info) at 2006-02-07 06:01:28 EST (#)
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Good stuff here!! Davros: Cash goes under the "Few good things from the States".
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-07 05:47:05 EST (#)
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Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2006-02-07 05:42:50 (#)
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I gave up on music when I was 19. Havn't bought an album since.
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noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
2001 was not the final year of music!
In many ways, this is akin to one of my friends who got dumped by some bloke. She then went on a major crazy trip for years - refusing to go near men except to shag them and then slink away. Then she went lesbian for a while - in a militant dyke way. Occasional phonecalls at 3am from her talking about the latest 'lass.'
She's back with a bloke, and I haven't met him - but I'm gonna say that the sooner you snap out of your goddamn bushmunching for the sake of being awkward the better.
My fingers are all multicoloured from the printer I have just touched.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2006-02-07 05:42:50 EST (#)
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I gave up on music when I was 19. Havn't bought an album since.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-07 05:37:04 EST (#)
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Submitted by sinna (user info) at 2006-02-07 05:21:01 (#)
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I'm going to have to sort mine out when I get home now as well. You bastard.
200+ CDs take forever to sort out, but I'll still spend a whole afternoon putting them in alphabetic order. Only to get pissed off the next time I buy some (at least 3 a month) and have to move everything else on. It's a never ending task. I'm on my 3rd CD rack now as well, I'm running out of wall space.
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I've just paid my brother to sort my cds alphabetically. That'll teach him to be unemployed.
play.com is my bane. You order too much stuff - and then it all appears. I've still got stuff I have not even taken the wrapping off. It's like being John Peel - only not as cool. Or dead.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-07 05:35:42 EST (#)
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Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2006-02-07 05:12:23 (#)
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Interesting sound.
-Dave
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Skindred are truly immense. The lead singer is a big black rasta - born in Wales. They furthest north they play is Nottingham though. Next time they're in the country I must try and get myself down to see them.
Submitted by sinna (user info) at 2006-02-07 05:21:01 EST (#)
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I'm going to have to sort mine out when I get home now as well. You bastard.
200+ CDs take forever to sort out, but I'll still spend a whole afternoon putting them in alphabetic order. Only to get pissed off the next time I buy some (at least 3 a month) and have to move everything else on. It's a never ending task. I'm on my 3rd CD rack now as well, I'm running out of wall space.
Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2006-02-07 05:12:23 EST (#)
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Interesting sound.
-Dave
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Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2006-02-07 03:25:28 (#)
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I have problems with filing my Johnny Cash.
The early stuff is easy, but what about the DefJam/American recordings stuff. It doesn't go with country or rock.
Maybe a new section for crossover acts.
-Dave
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There are so many crossover bands. For instance http://www.skindred.com/ - impossible to catalogue.
Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2006-02-07 03:25:28 EST (#)
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I have problems with filing my Johnny Cash.
The early stuff is easy, but what about the DefJam/American recordings stuff. It doesn't go with country or rock.
Maybe a new section for crossover acts.
-Dave
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-06 16:51:26 EST (#)
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Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-02-06 16:16:11 (#)
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Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-06 15:48:48 (#)
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I'm getting upset by the thought of two incompatible systems of filing.
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then kill yourself now.
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suck my ass JonnyX you super hero you.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-02-06 16:16:11 EST (#)
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Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-06 15:48:48 (#)
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I'm getting upset by the thought of two incompatible systems of filing.
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then kill yourself now.
Submitted by punkerrjess (user info) at 2006-02-06 15:58:02 EST (#)
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I know what you mean about the organization of CDs.. mine, too, are alphabetical.
My movies, however, are sorted alphabetically by the last name of the director. That was a pain, too.
Oh, and I never understood paying a shit load of money for a stupid purse.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-06 15:48:48 EST (#)
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I'm getting upset by the thought of two incompatible systems of filing.
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Submitted by mikethescottish (user info) at 2006-02-06 15:36:46 (#)
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I always keep my cds and dvds in alphabetical order... my flatmate, however, stores them in random unsorted groups according to genre. There's gonna be blood before the year ends, I tell thee.
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It's not random if it's sorted by genre! It's a more sophisticated system that requires a lot of work to keep it going.
Submitted by mikethescottish (user info) at 2006-02-06 15:36:46 EST (#)
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I always keep my cds and dvds in alphabetical order... my flatmate, however, stores them in random unsorted groups according to genre. There's gonna be blood before the year ends, I tell thee.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-06 15:07:10 EST (#)
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Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2006-02-06 14:57:12 (#)
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James 'Just because my surname rhymes with cunt doesn't mean I am one - but I am' Blunt
FINALLY Something +2 worthy out of you mate!
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You are not wrong.
Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2006-02-06 14:57:12 EST (#)
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James 'Just because my surname rhymes with cunt doesn't mean I am one - but I am' Blunt
FINALLY Something +2 worthy out of you mate!
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2006-02-06 13:47:19 EST (#)
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blah
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Submitted by kissmyarse (user info) at 2006-02-06 13:13:30 (#)
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No I own CDs but but they don't rule my life, nor do they make decisions for the kind of people I like. I hate death metal, but have lots of friends who love it. Music is not the deciding factor for me, and I think it's really shallow for it to be for you, even in a joking way. And by the way, the extra exclamation points were used for fake enthusiasm.
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You'll note the slightly jokey sense in the writing I hope. Liking Phil Collins is not a sign of a bad person, per se, but I do occasionally look at someone's music and think 'jesus christ - this person has no taste.'
CDs don't rule my life, but I do value them both as pieces of art, and also as a reflection of my personality.
Submitted by kissmyarse (user info) at 2006-02-06 13:13:30 EST (#)
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No I own CDs but but they don't rule my life, nor do they make decisions for the kind of people I like. I hate death metal, but have lots of friends who love it. Music is not the deciding factor for me, and I think it's really shallow for it to be for you, even in a joking way. And by the way, the extra exclamation points were used for fake enthusiasm.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-06 13:06:35 EST (#)
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Submitted by kissmyarse (user info) at 2006-02-06 13:03:22 (#)
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Congratulations!!!! You ARE the Biggest LOSER!!!!!
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Multiple exclamation marks are a sign of a diseased mind.
Are you an 'I own no cds I listen to the radio ha ha ha' person?
Submitted by kissmyarse (user info) at 2006-02-06 13:03:22 EST (#)
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Congratulations!!!! You ARE the Biggest LOSER!!!!!
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-06 13:02:00 EST (#)
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http://www.thewebshite.net/nickelback.htm
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Orgasmo - that is creepy - but not surprising.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-06 13:00:41 EST (#)
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Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2006-02-06 12:57:42 (#)
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Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2006-02-06 10:39:03 (#)
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HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA*breath*HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
NICKELBACK.
-Dave
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http://www.thewebshite.net/nickelback.htm
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please please please - let this die. It is the worst mistake of my entire life.
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2006-02-06 12:57:42 EST (#)
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Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2006-02-06 10:39:03 (#)
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HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA*breath*HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
NICKELBACK.
-Dave
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http://www.thewebshite.net/nickelback.htm
Submitted by Sphagnum (user info) at 2006-02-06 12:54:51 EST (#)
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You're a bitch
Submitted by ghola (user info) at 2006-02-06 12:54:25 EST (#)
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+2 for gender confusion.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-06 12:48:36 EST (#)
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Submitted by Iago (user info) at 2006-02-06 11:58:53 (#)
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Your a dude?
Ive been thinking your a girl since forever.
- Its your name that does it.
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GODDAMN IT - I AM NOT A GIRL!
Submitted by Iago (user info) at 2006-02-06 11:58:53 EST (#)
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Your a dude?
Ive been thinking your a girl since forever.
- Its your name that does it.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-06 11:28:09 EST (#)
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Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-02-06 11:24:50 (#)
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I can decide as to whether or not I can remotely stand someone in about 5 minutes...just let me look at their CD/music collection.
Suffice to say, I auntomatically like people that listen to:
Ramones
Pistols
Clash
Elvis Costello
Nick Lowe/Rockpile
Buzzcocks
Social Distortion
The Shoes
Pulley
Eddie and the Hot Rods
Rancid
NOFX
Lagwagon
Dickies
Damned
Pete Yorn
Dropkick Murphys
Real MacKenzies
The Jam
The Heartbreakers
The New York Dolls
Lou Reed
The Undertones
Squeeze
Stiif Little Fingers
Richard Hell and the Voidoids
Television
Only Ones
Pretenders
Distillers
and for some fucking reason that I can't understand...
ELO.
Other than that ( I'm sure I left out probably another 20 but youget the idea), I pretty much don't give a good shit.
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I'm not feeling the NOFX - but otherwise you have damn good musical taste. Squeeze piss me off because of Jools Holland - otherwise they're not bad. And Lou Reed will always be a genius. I know someone who shagged Elvis Costello's wife.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-02-06 11:24:50 EST (#)
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I can decide as to whether or not I can remotely stand someone in about 5 minutes...just let me look at their CD/music collection.
Suffice to say, I auntomatically like people that listen to:
Ramones
Pistols
Clash
Elvis Costello
Nick Lowe/Rockpile
Buzzcocks
Social Distortion
The Shoes
Pulley
Eddie and the Hot Rods
Rancid
NOFX
Lagwagon
Dickies
Damned
Pete Yorn
Dropkick Murphys
Real MacKenzies
The Jam
The Heartbreakers
The New York Dolls
Lou Reed
The Undertones
Squeeze
Stiif Little Fingers
Richard Hell and the Voidoids
Television
Only Ones
Pretenders
Distillers
and for some fucking reason that I can't understand...
ELO.
Other than that ( I'm sure I left out probably another 20 but youget the idea), I pretty much don't give a good shit.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-06 10:41:30 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2006-02-06 10:39:03 (#)
Ranking: 2
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA*breath*HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
NICKELBACK.
-Dave
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Fuck. I should never have revealed that. I'm gonna go curl up in a ball now and sob myself to sleep.
Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2006-02-06 10:39:03 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA*breath*HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
NICKELBACK.
-Dave
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-06 10:36:39 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by ubetidid (user info) at 2006-02-06 10:34:25 (#)
Ranking: 2
someone broke into our home and stole all our CDs. Life has never been the same.
>>> I would hunt that person down and kill them.
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Submitted by Adereterial (user info) at 2006-02-06 10:34:00 (#)
Ranking: 2
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If by misery you mean Grandaddy's AM-Fucking-180 then you might have a point.
>>>Jeez. Do you think he could have been replaced by an alien? Akin to Noel Edmonds.
Submitted by ubetidid (user info) at 2006-02-06 10:34:25 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
someone broke into our home and stole all our CDs. Life has never been the same.
Submitted by Adereterial (user info) at 2006-02-06 10:34:00 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-06 09:45:54 (#)
Ranking: 0
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Don't feel bad. The fiance still has his.
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Leave him Anna. He's not right in the head and will bring you misery.
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If by misery you mean Grandaddy's AM-Fucking-180 then you might have a point.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-06 09:51:49 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Mr_T (user info) at 2006-02-06 09:34:40 (#)
Ranking: 2
As a man, I do not particularly delight in a new pair of shoes. Neither does buying clothes leave me feeling especially pleased with my lot in life. I own no jewellery, and other than Mr T, I'm not sure if a man should ever wear jewellery.
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Damn straight!
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erm - yeah
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-06 09:45:54 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
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Don't feel bad. The fiance still has his.
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Leave him Anna. He's not right in the head and will bring you misery.
Submitted by Adereterial (user info) at 2006-02-06 09:44:21 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-06 09:41:30 (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Adereterial (user info) at 2006-02-06 09:36:50 (#)
Ranking: 2
I've only ever given away one cd. I don't know why I bought it - but I'm glad I broke my rule for that one.
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I now need to know what was so bad it prompted you to give it away.
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awwwww
Nickelback.
Don't take the piss - I've already flayed my skin in public as penance. I'm really really sorry I did it - I gave it away as soon as I sobered up.
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Don't feel bad. The fiance still has his.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-06 09:41:30 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Adereterial (user info) at 2006-02-06 09:36:50 (#)
Ranking: 2
I've only ever given away one cd. I don't know why I bought it - but I'm glad I broke my rule for that one.
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I now need to know what was so bad it prompted you to give it away.
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awwwww
Nickelback.
Don't take the piss - I've already flayed my skin in public as penance. I'm really really sorry I did it - I gave it away as soon as I sobered up.
Submitted by Adereterial (user info) at 2006-02-06 09:36:50 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I've only ever given away one cd. I don't know why I bought it - but I'm glad I broke my rule for that one.
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I now need to know what was so bad it prompted you to give it away.
Submitted by Mr_T (user info) at 2006-02-06 09:34:40 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
As a man, I do not particularly delight in a new pair of shoes. Neither does buying clothes leave me feeling especially pleased with my lot in life. I own no jewellery, and other than Mr T, I'm not sure if a man should ever wear jewellery.
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Damn straight!
Submitted by w_t_a_y_s_t_r_m (user info) at 2006-02-06 09:32:37 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
If it weren't for music I'd have slaughtered a lot of people many times over
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-06 09:30:09 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by HighVoltage900 (user info) at 2006-02-06 09:27:48 (#)
Ranking: 1
You made me realize just how much money I have wasted on CD's in the course of my life....
God damn...
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It's not a waste. It's not a waste. They each have intrinsic value. Even the ones that you bought coz you liked their last one - but sadly disappointed even though you really really tried to like it. I'm looking at you Soulwax - Any Minute Now.
I still love my copy of OK Computer and I don't regret any of my Weezer albums.
Submitted by HighVoltage900 (user info) at 2006-02-06 09:27:48 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
You made me realize just how much money I have wasted on CD's in the course of my life....
God damn...
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-06 09:25:07 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
I shall tell him that, but I don't think he'll listen. They move at least once a week, if not more. I come home from lectures to find the floor covered with CDs or DVDs. Nor does he seem to discover any logic in his systems.
>>It's a bi-monthly task for me. More than that and the shelf I use for 'yet to be sorted overflows - and then it's all not very good.
I was looking for Shrek 2 for my niece and, oh stupid me, thought that it would be conveniently located next to Shrek. Oh no. It was located in what I was later informed was the 'sequels as good as or better than the original' genre, four shelves down. Shrek is currently located in the 'films I didn't think I'd like but did' genre. Argh.
>>I am now vaguely thinking of organising my dvds now Anna. That sounds so logical.
I'm thinking of renaming that genre the 'Anna was right, and I was wrong, and I'm terribly sorry for doubting her' genre. And refiling the 'Liverpool DVD' genre under B. For Bin.
Or E. For eBay.
>>The thought of people selling my cds fills me with a cold dread. I've only ever given away one cd. I don't know why I bought it - but I'm glad I broke my rule for that one.
Submitted by Adereterial (user info) at 2006-02-06 09:21:03 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-06 09:11:07 (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Adereterial (user info) at 2006-02-06 09:09:08 (#)
Ranking: 2
This is my fiance to a T.
Scarily so, come to think about it.
Particularly organising by genre. Where a genre is 'Anna's crap,'and putting them on the highest shelf so I can't reach them, which I think is decidedly unfair.
Claiming my CDs are his is also in evidence, looking at the shelves at the moment.
Please tell me you haven't also done this with your DVDs as well...
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I must compare cd collections with your fiance.
You do not order DVDs in the same way because DVDs have less replay value and thus are not worthy of the time and attention.
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I shall tell him that, but I don't think he'll listen. They move at least once a week, if not more. I come home from lectures to find the floor covered with CDs or DVDs. Nor does he seem to discover any logic in his systems.
I was looking for Shrek 2 for my niece and, oh stupid me, thought that it would be conveniently located next to Shrek. Oh no. It was located in what I was later informed was the 'sequels as good as or better than the original' genre, four shelves down. Shrek is currently located in the 'films I didn't think I'd like but did' genre. Argh.
I'm thinking of renaming that genre the 'Anna was right, and I was wrong, and I'm terribly sorry for doubting her' genre. And refiling the 'Liverpool DVD' genre under B. For Bin.
Or E. For eBay.
Submitted by simple_catalyst (user info) at 2006-02-06 09:19:29 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by KingDowdy (user info) at 2006-02-06 09:02:23 (#)
Ranking: -2
redskieslookfake you are the biggest nerd i have ever read about!! Infasct your that much of a nerd i wont even bother reading your next Submission, and i wont even read any of your reviews in my next submission if you bother to do that. Most peopel i know do not have a CD collection, the store their music on their PC where is actually orders them Alphabetically automatically (that means it does it without you having to sort it manually i.e. one by one.) if you had any sence in you then you would burn your CD's on the computer saving space from your cd rack...not even needing it!
Oh my days, what a pathetic life you must have to actually sort your Cd collection out...And to actually have no clue why women don't go to the toilet without another girl is just rubbish. Everyone knows it's because they have no confidence to go by them selves.
You Suck Alot!!
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Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-06 09:14:32 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2006-02-06 09:11:52 (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-06 09:02:09 (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2006-02-06 08:59:36 (#)
Ranking: 2
The iTunes saves me from spending my whole life alphebettically arranging my CDs.
-Dave
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Does it though? What happens when you find a few 'track 1's from the internet where the tags didn't copy properly. And when you sort by name, and there at the bottom are 100 songs, all without any name. Mystery songs. And clicking 'get track names' doesn't help.
My iTunes is infested with other people's spelling mistakes.
Another thing - you know when you get a cd like Basement Jaxx where every song is technically by a different artist - what do you do then? Remove the 'feat random DJ' or leave it be? This still worries me.
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I hate you.
I am going to rearrange my CDs.
-Dave
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and so the madness spreads. Sorry Dave.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-06 09:13:55 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by KingDowdy (user info) at 2006-02-06 09:02:23 (#)
Ranking: -2
redskieslookfake you are the biggest nerd i have ever read about!! Infasct your that much of a nerd i wont even bother reading your next Submission, and i wont even read any of your reviews in my next submission if you bother to do that. Most peopel i know do not have a CD collection, the store their music on their PC where is actually orders them Alphabetically automatically (that means it does it without you having to sort it manually i.e. one by one.) if you had any sence in you then you would burn your CD's on the computer saving space from your cd rack...not even needing it!
Oh my days, what a pathetic life you must have to actually sort your Cd collection out...And to actually have no clue why women don't go to the toilet without another girl is just rubbish. Everyone knows it's because they have no confidence to go by them selves.
You Suck Alot!!
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You don't burn the cds onto the computer. You mean 'rip' I think. And as for nerdiness, yes - absolutely. And I do have them all on the computer too - but that in no way decreases the importance in my crazy mind to have the actual cds organised beautifully.
You may be venting about the negative reviews I put on your posts, but I think each and every one was totally justified. Sorry and all
Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2006-02-06 09:11:52 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-06 09:02:09 (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2006-02-06 08:59:36 (#)
Ranking: 2
The iTunes saves me from spending my whole life alphebettically arranging my CDs.
-Dave
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Does it though? What happens when you find a few 'track 1's from the internet where the tags didn't copy properly. And when you sort by name, and there at the bottom are 100 songs, all without any name. Mystery songs. And clicking 'get track names' doesn't help.
My iTunes is infested with other people's spelling mistakes.
Another thing - you know when you get a cd like Basement Jaxx where every song is technically by a different artist - what do you do then? Remove the 'feat random DJ' or leave it be? This still worries me.
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I hate you.
I am going to rearrange my CDs.
-Dave
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-06 09:11:07 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Adereterial (user info) at 2006-02-06 09:09:08 (#)
Ranking: 2
This is my fiance to a T.
Scarily so, come to think about it.
Particularly organising by genre. Where a genre is 'Anna's crap,'and putting them on the highest shelf so I can't reach them, which I think is decidedly unfair.
Claiming my CDs are his is also in evidence, looking at the shelves at the moment.
Please tell me you haven't also done this with your DVDs as well...
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I must compare cd collections with your fiance.
You do not order DVDs in the same way because DVDs have less replay value and thus are not worthy of the time and attention.
Submitted by Adereterial (user info) at 2006-02-06 09:09:08 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
This is my fiance to a T.
Scarily so, come to think about it.
Particularly organising by genre. Where a genre is 'Anna's crap,'and putting them on the highest shelf so I can't reach them, which I think is decidedly unfair.
Claiming my CDs are his is also in evidence, looking at the shelves at the moment.
Please tell me you haven't also done this with your DVDs as well...
Submitted by Nellypaal (user info) at 2006-02-06 09:03:26 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
I pity you.
Submitted by KingDowdy (user info) at 2006-02-06 09:02:23 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
redskieslookfake you are the biggest nerd i have ever read about!! Infasct your that much of a nerd i wont even bother reading your next Submission, and i wont even read any of your reviews in my next submission if you bother to do that. Most peopel i know do not have a CD collection, the store their music on their PC where is actually orders them Alphabetically automatically (that means it does it without you having to sort it manually i.e. one by one.) if you had any sence in you then you would burn your CD's on the computer saving space from your cd rack...not even needing it!
Oh my days, what a pathetic life you must have to actually sort your Cd collection out...And to actually have no clue why women don't go to the toilet without another girl is just rubbish. Everyone knows it's because they have no confidence to go by them selves.
You Suck Alot!!
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-06 09:02:09 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2006-02-06 08:59:36 (#)
Ranking: 2
The iTunes saves me from spending my whole life alphebettically arranging my CDs.
-Dave
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Does it though? What happens when you find a few 'track 1's from the internet where the tags didn't copy properly. And when you sort by name, and there at the bottom are 100 songs, all without any name. Mystery songs. And clicking 'get track names' doesn't help.
My iTunes is infested with other people's spelling mistakes.
Another thing - you know when you get a cd like Basement Jaxx where every song is technically by a different artist - what do you do then? Remove the 'feat random DJ' or leave it be? This still worries me.
Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2006-02-06 08:59:36 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
The iTunes saves me from spending my whole life alphebettically arranging my CDs.
-Dave
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-06 08:56:45 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2006-02-06 08:54:37 (#)
Ranking: 2
I also have an extreme distaste for people who won't consider music of other "genres".
I have an aquaintance who is a "dance" music buff. I tried to get him to listen to the "Stone Roses" but he wouldn't until I emailed him a track with the filename changed.
He now claims to have loved them forever.
Cunt.
-Dave
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HE UNDERSTANDS ME!!
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-06 08:55:42 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2006-02-06 08:50:47 (#)
Ranking: 2
You sad bastard.
I used to be the same way with my music, but iTunes has saved me even having to get a CD out of it's case.
Take a +2 because I worry about people who don't have music.
-Dave
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I still find it hard to just trust the iTunes. Besides which my iPod had Graham Coxon's 'My Hoppless friend' (sic) for a whole week - at first I thought 'I'll cope and ignore it' - but eventually I had to find the offending track on both my iTunes and on the iPod and correct it.
What about playlists though - setting up the perfect one which will be absolutely ideal for that party? I spend far too much time on that shit.
Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2006-02-06 08:54:37 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I also have an extreme distaste for people who won't consider music of other "genres".
I have an aquaintance who is a "dance" music buff. I tried to get him to listen to the "Stone Roses" but he wouldn't until I emailed him a track with the filename changed.
He now claims to have loved them forever.
Cunt.
-Dave
Submitted by MickGinny (user info) at 2006-02-06 08:50:51 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I collected Cd's before i learned how easy it was to steal from musicians via the internet. now i never buy cd's unless it is from a favorite band, obscure and unavailable on peer to peer, or of course cdr's.
to me it is a waste of money to buy cd's...but hey, there are worse obsessions like collecting prostitute bodies in your backyard.