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Yes!Hey Devil, did you ever hold a tape recorder up to the radio as a kid to record songs and make your own mix tape?
I hate MP3s with a passion. I don't mean to take this off on a tangent, but the quality just isn't there, however more than that, I hate that it chops up the songs. On album or CD there are so many songs that are continuous and flow from one song into the other, but when I create MP3s to listen on my player it chops them up and puts in unnatural breaks that the artist never intended to be there. DSOM is like that, on the album "On the Run" blends seamlessly with "Time." But when I put that onto MP3, it puts a stop in there that annoys the crap out of me.I welcome the technology. The internet and MP3s have chopped the former musical gatekeepers off at the shins. I still have yet to hear My Morning Jacket on local radio, and I don't watch MTV but I doubt they're on there either. Yet I was introduced to them through a message board, ordered their albums online (because the local chain record store didn't have them), converted the CDs to MP3s and loaded them onto my Zen. I can listen to them anywhere, anytime, without phoning some loudmouth DJ to beg for it.
I'd have given anything for this easy access to new music as a kid. I'm just glad it arrived during my lifetime.
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And my PC organizes my album files in alphabetical order.
This probably shows my age, but I still buy CDs and keep my music organized in album collections. I don't buy single tunes.
Can we ban this embryo? Maybe offer his carcass up to that cryogenics...or whatever it is...DEEP FREEZE...Rock has always been relevent to YOUNG people.
Maybe you guys are just too old to recognize what the current relevent trend in rock is.
Ya bunch of old farts.
That's it!How about Barry Manilow?
No offense Ferret, but I'm thinking I might a have been a kid just a little bit later than you were a kid, because albums were generally in the $8 to $15 dollar range when I was a kid. $15 for a double album like The Song Remains the Same.And as a kid we ALL had easy access to new music, it was called AFFORDABLE PRICING. Albums cost all of $3
That's understandable. And kind of my point. I grew up with a group of kids that hated popular music so much we resorted to raiding our older siblings' collections. My oldest sister was 7 years my senior - she was the one bringing home Abbey Road and Get Yer Ya Yas Out before I'd lost my baby teeth - and a lot her stuff is still a staple of my vinyl collection (shh, don't tell her).Sorry, DL, I assumed you were older because you kept talking about vinyl and groups that I enjoyed growing up.
My first rock album, not counting say, The Archies, or The Beatles, or Rare Earth, or Stephenwolf, I mean the first album that punched me in the nose and said, "Here! This is what matters!" was Black Sabbath Vol. 4. And I realized there was more to music than happy harmonies and pop sensibilities. (Don't get me wrong, I still like the Beatles, Rare Earth, Stephenwolf, and yeah, I'm not embarrassed to say, I love Sugar, Sugar.)
Captain Fantastic was the first new release album I ever bought. I got it in the basement at Kresge's, a downtown dimestore.I had those two too. The Yellow Brick Road was fantastic. I also had Captain Fantastic...and it came with this HUGE poster I had up on my wall. Cartoon boobies. For a 7 year old, that's pretty spectacular.
I got all the posters I wanted from the record store, so I always had my walls covered with rock posters. Until later when I muraled all my walls.
The basement of ours was great. There were toys, a record display, and small pets. Yep, they had a lunch counter too.Kresges! Man...I miss that store! We had one close by. I loved the milkshakes there. Ahhhhhhhhh.
The girl across the hall from me in college brought her Cure LP into my dorm room and demanded I play Close To Me, which she called "the breathing song." You could say we bonded over Head on the Door. All these years later, she's still my best friend. And I may even let her stay my best friend, if she'll hurry up and finish beta reading my novel.
HOTD was my first Cure album and will always be a favorite, but Disintegration is the holiest of holies, to me.lol. Head on the Door was an incredible album. One of those albums where every song is gold. Then again, I was already incredibly hooked by the time HOTD came out. Still...I think it was flawless. I get the 'breathing' comment too.
Much of the time, yes. But he can rock out on occasion. Funeral For a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding from Goodbye Yellow Brick Road springs to mind. I saw a bar band open their set with that once and it royally kicked ass.OK, I'll say it.
Elton John is not rock.
Elton John has written some of the catchiest songs on the planet, but he's always been pop. Not rock.
Sorry. Back to your regularly scheduled Kresge's nostalgia.
Sorry, DL, I assumed you were older because you kept talking about vinyl and groups that I enjoyed growing up.
My first rock album, not counting say, The Archies, or The Beatles, or Rare Earth, or Stephenwolf, I mean the first album that punched me in the nose and said, "Here! This is what matters!" was Black Sabbath Vol. 4. And I realized there was more to music than happy harmonies and pop sensibilities. (Don't get me wrong, I still like the Beatles, Rare Earth, Stephenwolf, and yeah, I'm not embarrassed to say, I love Sugar, Sugar.)