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  1. I'm pretty out of touch lately with pop culture as I don't go to see movies and have been boycotting most new bands since Brittney Spears but I have a few thought on the rest.

    Best Movie: Didn't see any, Return of the King I saw three times in '04 but it came out in 2003

    Best CD: Feedback by Rush

    Best Song: "Meant to Live" by Switchfoot, bought the CD and the rest of it sucked

    Best Reality Show: tie, any of the ones that got cancelled were tops on my list

    Best Regular Show: "The Wire", HBO, still hoping this isn't the last season

    Best Comeback: personal, Jerome Bettis of the Steelers and group, the Red sox in the Yankee series down 3-0, trailing with one inning left.

    Best Sports Moment: tie, Red Sox with the comeback and sweep and Lance Armstrong for winning a sixth Tour de France, something no one has ever done before

    Hottest Girl/Boy: Maria Sharapova, Andy Roddick, I'm a tennis fan, what can I say?

    Best Commercial: Anything by Geiko and I still love the Polar Bears who drink Coke

    TV Show you were most glad to see get cancelled: Any of the reality shows that didn't get renewed

    Band you were most glad to see break up: Did Nsync have anything new this year? Get rid of Timberlake and all our lives will be better

    Best Moment or event (personally): RETIREMENT I now work three or four days a week for a total of less than twenty hours, it's wonderful, everyone should try it

    Most Shocking Event: The attack on Christmas, what's wrong with people if you can't like Christmas?

    Your Rating of 2004, overall: C+ but would have failed miserably if not for my retirement and GW getting reelected

    And someone mentioned I-Pods. Why would anyone want an I-Pod where you have to pay for the music when you can get it free and play it on any MP3 player? I would really like an answer to this since it still makes no sense to me. Is it the cool looking player? Anyone have an I-Pod and want to explain the situation? Is there something I'm missing about the I-Pod experience?

  2. Although Stairway is one of the greatest recordings known to man, I won't say it's the "best" song ever because music is a matter of taste, to each his own right? But, what were the likes of Dolly Parton, Dave Matthews and the Foo Fighters (are they even a real band?) doing when they decided to remake, or shall I say desecrate this timeless classic. If you agree with me give me a ^5.

    Wow, lots of points but seriously, what about "Limelight" by Rush? It's all I ever wanted to hear and all I ever hope to hear. Many other songs might make the list but for example, "Crackerman" by STP is a great song but I couldn't stand it for thirty years.

  3. Frank Sinatra is definately king. Tony Bennett, and I like that new bubliea guy.

    Sinatra rules all. Non dead people would include Sting and Bono. I'm listening to Jon Anderson right now and I'm real impressed. David Gilmore is one I like on songs like "Us and Them" and "One Slip". Art Garfunkel was pretty impressive also. Peter Gabriel wasn't the greatest but was so distinctive that I can't leave him out.

  4. What pop songs do you like that were made from 2000?2004?

    ~Lizzie :rockon:

    This isn't going to make me look very good but I like, "Miss Independent" by Kelly Clarkson. I didn't even know she was from the TV show when I first heard it. Anyone else? Want the mpeg? It's not like I was actually going to buy the CD or anything that drastic but I did download both the song and video.

  5. The Van Halen version of Pretty Woman that is actually considered a separate song, "Intruder", but leads right into the next. I was listening to it today in my car and the intro is better than the song. I know there were a lot of covers on Diver Down, but I think it's probably the groups best album. "Little Guitars" is brilliant and could any other group do the song "Cathedral"? Eddie did it all with one hand, amazing. Also cool to hear the Dave is now a paramedic and doing something worthwhile. I didn't like the years where everyone called him a jerk because he meant so much to me as a child. I was 14, I had 4th row seats and still Dave didn't want me backstage, his loss. I would have thrown my bra but I hadn't quite started to develop yet and didn't wear one at that age. I'm still skinny, I should shut up now, but I won't because I had another idea. In school an 'A' is good but for a bra size for an adult woman its bad. A 'D' is a horrible grade in school but for a bra size its top notch. Why is that? Are they trying to make dumb, well-endowed girls feel better. "Sure you are making D's in school but so are your breasts and you can make tons of money in porn even if you can't spell your own name."

  6. I keep my CDs in notebooks that hold 24 so I have a lot in my car. What I have in the player is,

    Black Grape -- Stupid, stupid, stupid

    Enya -- Watermark

    Simple Minds -- Once Upon A Time

    Van Halen -- Diver Down

    Puddle of Mudd -- Come Clean

    Stone Temple Pilots -- Core

    The best one is the Black Grape. If you've never heard them, they are worth 10 bucks at the used CD place. They have the guy from the Happy Mondays but the music sounds different.

  7. No, you aren't the only one. We are trying to keep our country safe and as long as 'profiling' is not allowed we have to do these things. Personally I liked the idea that we are at war with Islamic fundamentalists (18-25 year old middle eastern guys) and we should behave like that. But every time that a 'profile' is done Tim McVey's buddies start to feel more secure. Personal note: my stepfather was searched and patted down as he went to vistit my stepsister in Hawaii. He's 84 and was in WW2, on our side. He was mad, I made fun of him, but we need to be able to define our enemy better than thinking it's an 80 year old man wearing colored socks with tennis shoes.

  8. Where as a record is recorded as sounds that are converted to magnetic fluctuations picked up by the needle and amplified so that the sound can be heard.

    It's actually like how when you are driving and bumps in the road produce a sound as your car hits them. Cassette tapes have to do with magnetic fluctuations whereas vinyl albums have to do with the vibration of the stylus as it passes over bumps in the grooves of the record. Each time you play the vinyl record these bumps are worn down slightly which is a drag if you play something a lot. You will lose sound quality over time. I could stick to the politically correct line I have taken in my two posts to this thread but why.

    Vinyl sucks compared to CDs. Unless you are a DJ don't bother.

  9. I have never heard a record but have heard that they have a much deeper and defined sound then cd's do.

    What people usually say is that vinyl sounds warmer than a CD. There is a reason for this. Much of the high frequency, 10k-20k hertz can't be captured or replayed using vinyl. Played at the same volume levels you must turn up the volume on the vinyl to reach the same decible levels as CDs. What you effectively have done is to increase the midrange and bass of the recording. If you like that sound, just take your CD, turn down the treble or higher frequencys on your equalizer and then turn up the overall volume. I spent ten years listening to vinyl then switched in '85 when CD players finally became affordable. I have never missed it. The comments on ease of track selection also matter but the dynamic range and lack of background noise are much more important. Unless you are a DJ I would say not to waste your money or your time. Also, anytime you play a vinyl record you wear away a small portion of the information on it. So unless they are to be used only as collectors pieces, you will be slowely ruining every album you play, every time you play it. CDs do wear out but that is due to oxidation, not to wear. And finally, you can't play vinyl in your car.

  10. What is the incomprehensible chatter at the end of "A Day in the Life" by the Beatles? :stars:i cant figure it out.

    Cool, I know this one. At the end of Sgt. Peppers on the original album in the run-out grove they placed the phrase, "never do see any other way" along with some laughing so it would keep repeating on a turntable that would not pick up the tone arm. They recreated this effect for the CD version of the song and it repeats several times. If you were playing the original album with a turntable that would not pick up the tone arm when it reached the run-out grove you would hear the phrase over and over again and even in the sixties a stoner would get up off the couch to make it stop.

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