A place for the discussion of all things not closely related to the sport and its competitive side. (Locked down several times a year during the major championships)
tandfman wrote:I have around 1,000 LP's, mostly classical and opera. I am painfully aware that I will probably never again listen to even 10 percent of them, especially since most of the things I really enjoy listening to I also own in CD form. And all of this stuff takes up a helluva lot more space than an iPod, which I don't own. None of this is ever likely to change.
I bet chances are good that you also said you'd never own a CD player, a DVD player, a cell phone, a smart phone, a.........
None of those involve carrying around bulky headphones or having little things sticking in my ears. But I must confess that I was among the last kids on my block to acquire all of the other toys you've mentioned. I have them all now, but you probably had each of them years before I did.
If you live in California--and I assume other states by now--to use your phone while driving requires little things sticking in your ear (or an expensive speaker-box system)
CA, CT, NJ, NY, WA plus DC and the Virgin Islands. A few others (AK, LA, MN) ban text messaging while driving. (Oddly, NY lets you text message but not talk on a cell phone.)
I have a deep philosophical question. Since I no longer own an iPod (my iPhone holds a quantum number more tracks) can I qualify for being "stranded" on a desert island if I have a phone?
gh wrote:I have a deep philosophical question. Since I no longer own an iPod (my iPhone holds a quantum number more tracks) can I qualify for being "stranded" on a desert island if I have a phone?
I'm assuming that the reception on an uncharted desert island might be a bit weak. Or is this a satelite phone with global coverage?
did anybody ever mention than unless everone's iPod has a solar panel (or there happens to be a socket in the nearby coconut tree) nobody would get through their play list many times anyway?
gh wrote:did anybody ever mention than unless everone's iPod has a solar panel (or there happens to be a socket in the nearby coconut tree) nobody would get through their play list many times anyway?
Knowing Apple that will be next. Or the nuclear battery that JRM keeps mentioning.
Anyone checked out Netflix for their collection of music videos? They have a ton. Just watched "Genesis: The Gabriel Era", which was a reasonable 110 minute documentary with commentary from seven or eight music critics, footage of studio performances a la early MTV, and live footage of "The Knife", "The Musical Box" and others. Seeing vintage Peter Gabriel from c. 1972 was pretty cool for this kid who missed the Genesis party.
gh wrote:did anybody ever mention than unless everone's iPod has a solar panel (or there happens to be a socket in the nearby coconut tree) nobody would get through their play list many times anyway?
AS wrote:In search of my desert island preferences I have begun listening to each album in my collection at least once... I'm 25 in, about 1200 to go...
gh wrote:oh crap! I had no idea what a tough task I was setting. I can't believe I've come up w/ a top 10 that doesn't have any Van Morrison on it. Here's today's top 10; tomorrow I could easily do another(s)!
Beatles--Hey Jude Dire Straits--Why Worry Bob Dylan--Desolation Row George Jones--Color Of The Blue Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson--Reasons To Quit Simon & Garfunkel--April Come She Will The Doors--The End Leonard Cohen--The Partisan Rolling Stones--Dead Flowers Metallica--One
I would, of course, trade all of those for Götterdämmerung. .......
wow, was it 5 years ago already I made these choices? Can't say I'd dupe it today, but anything different that comes on the list hasn't been made in the last 5 years.
Current top 10 from my reviews (but I've only done the letters A & B (plus 7 from C):
The Black Keys – “Rubber Factory”
The Beastie Boys – “Paul’s Boutique”
James Brown – “Star Time Disk Two”
Buffalo Tom – “Let Me Come Over”
Lily Allen – “Alright, still…”
James Brown – “Star Time Disk Three”
The Audreys – “Between Last Night and Us”
Ryan Adams – “Heartbreaker”
Dan Brodie and The Broken Arrows – “Empty Arms, Broken Hearts”
James Brown – “Star Time Disk One”
Just got in from seeing Yes and Asia in Denver. Excellent show. Don't care too much for Asia's music, too pop, but they covered "In the Court of the Crimson King" and "Fanfare For the Common Man" and both were great. Carl Palmer is drumming for Asia and at about age 60 is still a beast. However, Alan White on drums for Yes looked like he was close to needing the defibrillator at the end of the show. Steve Howe played both bands and was really on and having a great time. Yes's chat room has two gals that rival Marlow with some 36,000 posts each. Both were at a pre-show beer and burgers gathering we attended, one coming from Australia for four western shows. The gathering was like going back through the Time Tunnel to the 1970s. It was a hoot.
gh wrote:are you shitting me? Somebody covered Court of the Crimson King and Fanfare For The Common Man (both staples on my iPhone) in the same show?! wow.
"Court of the Crimson King" was great. "Fanfare" didn't track the studio version closely enough for me, wandered a bit but seemed to leave out some sections. Good, but not great, but it incorporated a Carl Palmer drum solo, which is hard to beat (no pun intended!)
Anyone see the 40th anniversary Woodstock documentary on VH1? I caught it the night this forum went locked for the WC. It was pretty good, 2 hours long. "Modern day" interviews with some of the protagonists such as the main organizer Michael Lang, the financial backer, folks who filmed and edited the original "Woodstock" movie, Carlos Santana, Michael Shrieve (Santana's drummer), Country Joe McDonald, Richie Havens, people who were in attendance (including the couple who are on the cover of the albumstanding togther in a blanket), and even Wavy Gravy from the Hog Farm (who, sad to say, weighs as much as a full-grown hog these days). A nice compliment to the movie "Woodstock", worth seeing if they broadcast it again.
(I don't think this violates copyright rules here . . . it's one of the most bootlegged YES shows ever, I'm pretty sure. I'm not too bright, so these copyright laws never seem clear cut to me).
gh wrote:I have a friend this weekend whose iPod is scheduled to go over the 50,000-song barrier. Make that iPods, as one is no longer enough, obviously.
If the songs average 3 minutes in length (and that's probably a bit low) it would take more than 104 days to listen to them all even if you consider it "listening" when you're asleep. So I gotta wonder if there isn't some material there that's been heard once and never again.
I recently broke the 20,000 barrier. When set on random, the Beatles, Rolling Stones, or Pink Floyd (I have the complete discography of each) appear at least once out of every dozen songs. Never thought much about how deep their catalogs were until now.
gh wrote:I've tried to keep my list to close to 5000 pieces, just for managability, so every once in a while I'll purge lesser songs from a lesser album.
I used to do that but it got to be such a chore that I bought an iPod classic with the 120 GB hard drive so I can store everything...until I break 120 GB. Then I have no idea what to do!
Cooter Brown wrote:I used to do that but it got to be such a chore that I bought an iPod classic with the 120 GB hard drive so I can store everything...until I break 120 GB. Then I have no idea what to do!
Speaking of memory capacity (and trying to get this thread to the 1K mark), I saw my first Terabyte (TB) hard-drive for sale - only $99! How long before TBs become the standard for such things as iPods? And do we really need a TRILLION bytes of info for our everyday affairs?
Marlow wrote:Speaking of memory capacity (and trying to get this thread to the 1K mark), I saw my first Terabyte (TB) hard-drive for sale - only $99! How long before TBs become the standard for such things as iPods? And do we really need a TRILLION bytes of info for our everyday affairs?
Nah, 640KB should be anough for anybody.
Note: Some quick internet research tells me that the above statement was never actually made by Bill Gates.
gh wrote:I've tried to keep my list to close to 5000 pieces, just for managability, so every once in a while I'll purge lesser songs from a lesser album.
I used to do that but it got to be such a chore that I bought an iPod classic with the 120 GB hard drive so I can store everything...until I break 120 GB. Then I have no idea what to do!
I find it easier to keep the list pared down (and to do Smart Playlists) than to have to manipulate that many pieces of data.
My children, ages 10 and 8, look to be wanting iPods from Santa this year. Boy, at that age, I was excited getting Hot Wheels and a good board game like Life.
