cindy17838
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Why Blink 182, at least those boys write their own music and play instruments and stuff like that.
I hate the boy bands, the Back Sync Boys, which includes everyone starting with New Kids on the Block.
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Dark Side was my first Pink Floyd album then
The Wall then
Wish You Were Here then
The Final Cut and finally
A Momemtary Lapse of Reason
in the order of when I bought them not when they came out.
I have listened to some of their earlier stuff and haven't liked it all that much. Their later stuff like The Final Cut and A Momemtary Lapse of Reason seems to get overlooked as well although I really like it. I put A Momemtary Lapse of Reason in the player while I'm writing this. I know Waters isn't on the CD but I still like it. Syd Barrett wasn't on Dark Side either.
The vinyl, digital idea must work for some but not for me for several reasons that I thought it would be fun to list.
CDs have a greater dynamic range (highest decible level of the song minus the lowest decible level of the song) than does vinyl. This is more important when listening to classical music than rock but it bears mentioning because a CDs capability to record both soft and loud sounds is almost twice as much as vinyl.
CDs can record high frequency sounds better than vinyl, again, not as important when just listening to rock music.
CDs don't get damaged, vinyl does.
CDs can be played anywhere, vinyl can't.
People who love vinyl often says it has a 'warmer' feel than does a CD. High frequency sounds are difficult to get onto vinyl without a good deal of distortion. Getting your turntable to reproduce the high frequencies is even more difficult. With less high frequency sound being heard the listener often turns up the volume. By doing this you increase all the volume but since there is less high frequency sound getting through it sounds like the bass and midrange are louder in comparison to the high frequency sounds. Some could call this sound, 'warmer'.
Another thing to consider is the distortion that is a part of anything on vinyl. The turntable's tonearm is only in the proper position for playback one time on each side of the album. The angle that it is off is +/- 3 degrees, +/- .5 degrees for linear turntables, however I don't believe they make linear turntables any more. Anything rubbing against something else (stylus against vinyl) also makes a noise no matter how high-end your equipment is. All of this adds distortion that should be avoided not celebrated.
Finally, high-end turntables just cost too much money when you can buy a CD player for 40 bucks. I never bought cassette tapes, always albums until CDs came out. I switched happily. I wasn't old enough to drive before we had CDs so I avoided that 'buy the album, then record a tape to play in the car' ordeal that some people went through. It's not that I'm cheap, almost none of my stereo stuff came from Best Buy. It's just that I like the CDs better than vinyl for all the reasons I listed above.
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The Kieth Moon comment would make more sense if it was spelled Lead Zeppelin. A zeppelin is a blimp that has internal supports. They are also typically larger than blimps. An internally-supported oversize blimp made out of lead wouldn't go over very well at all.
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Stone Temple Pilots
Oasis
Smashing Pumpkins
Foo Fighters -- in my opinion, much better than Dave's other band
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Musik, I don't know what happened to Deisel. Space Hog only had the one song that I liked. If you hadn't listed "Counting Blue Cars" I would have. It's like with Don McClean, "Day the music died" is one of my favorite songs. I can't even listen to some of his other stuff, Vincent for example. Did inspiration only strike once? What about a group called David and David? I have one of their CD's and almost every song is good, then nothing new. And the Lloyd Cole you mentioned, my favorite by him is "Downtown", what was the problem? Was he popular in England but not in America, like Cliff Richard? In his case it would have to be airplay that got him in the one hit wonder category, because he has a lot of good songs.
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Enya for women
Bono for men
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"Hot Summmer Night in Sausalito" by Diesel
"Connected" by Stereo MC's
"Ready to Go" by Republica
"Battle Flag" by the Low Fidelity All Stars
"In the Meantime" by Spacehog
"Flood" by Jars of Clay
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I like the intro to the song "Little Guitars" by Van Halen on Diver Down.
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I scanned some CD covers for the 'cover art' thread, put them on a CD and brought it to work. Now I can't get the pictures to show up in my message. The image command would seem like the logical choice but it didn't work. Some help please.
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Rush
Beatles
Pink Floyd
Genesis
Linkin Park
Stone Temple Pilots
Cure
Led Zeppelin
Van Halen
U2
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Could have to do with Orwell's book also
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Hendrix had his career and life ended by drugs. That's quite an 'influence'.
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Stone's "Gimme Shelter" or "Sympathy for the Devil"
Of course they have many other good songs, those are just my two favorites, but something by the Rolling Stones would have to be included.
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Dave, no one "eased the seat back" quite like Dave but now "he's unemployed" and "his folks arn't overjoyed"
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Thanks, I always wondered who Waters was talking about. And she sang about the ending of the war and coming home something his father never did. Very interesting.
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According to last month's Songfacts quiz a British artist named Vera Lynn was the first to top the US charts. She did so in 1952. Is this the same Vera Lynn that Pink Floyd was singing about on The Wall with the line
"Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn
Remember how we said we would meet again
some sunny day"
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Any soundtrack from those John Hughes movies in the 80's. Pretty in Pink is the only one I own. The movies were about high school, and I was in high school at the time.
Less than Zero
The Saint, if you like that type of music, Orbital, Moby, Chemical Brothers, Sneaker Pimps
Stewart Copeland did the music for the TV show "The Equalizer" which I enjoyed. For me, he's second only to Neil Peart in terms of drummers.
Orgy, Poe, the Cranberries, Goo Goo Dolls, Crystal Method, Depeche Mode, and Michelle Branch have all appeared on the tv show Charmed. I know, the show is kind of stupid but it has good music. It also comes on at 8 in the morning on TNT and is a welcome distraction from the required watching of CNBC that goes on in my office. I've also been caught watching the ER and Law and Order reruns shown on that station each day.
I've bought the Yellow Submarine soundtrack in four different forms over a 20 year period.
The album of the soundtrack in the mid seventies
The CD in the late eighties
The VHS tape in the early nineties and
The DVD several years ago
So I suppose I liked that one also
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Apparently, Catherine has access to portions of my personal 'play-list' from the past few days. She listed 14 songs, 7 of which I've listened to during the past week. STP, Zeppelin, Floyd, Rush and the Moody Blues were all from CD's. Baker Street and Dream Weaver were MP3's leftover from the good old days with Napster. Very weird.
Anyway, yeah, "Nights in White Satin" would be at the top of my list. "Baker Street" would also make the list. For Zeppelin I would have picked "Going to California" and for Floyd, "Us and Them". Some others would be:
The Beatles, "The long and winding road"
Chicago, "If you leave me now"
Peter Gabriel, "Solsbury Hill"
New Radicals, "You only get what you give"
Lloyd Cole, "Downtown"
Foo Fighters, "Next year"
Stone Roses, "How do you sleep"
World Party, "When the Rainbow Comes"
The The, "Uncertain Smile"
Babys, "Every Time I Think of You"
Bronski Beat, "Smalltown Boy"
Cranberries, "Linger"
I could list many more. "Don't fear the Reaper" wouldn't make this list but I have the CD and love the song. Possibly my definition of melodic isn't the same. If a song getting stuck in your head is the definition then my all time number one melodic song would have to be a song from a McDonald's commercial that was used in the late '70's. Of course it didn't have a name but it started off "Keep your eyes off my fries..." That's the only line I know, but even today when I'm eating french fries and someone tries to steal some I find myself singing that line in my head. Now I'll probably be thinking about it all day tomorrow.
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I thought it was money in the briefcase. The band-aid, I didn't even notice. The girl who said, "I was in complete amazement at this film. I still don't know exactly why" has a point. Exactly being the key word. My first thought was of course the dialogue. No one writes it better than Tarrintino. In Jackie Brown, it appears to me at times like the plot exists just to explain why these people are talking to each other. But there is so much more to the movie. The contrasting images are put together so well you don't even notice how a man is being tortured while "Stuck in the Middle" plays in the background, wrong movie but same writer. Or you find yourself thinking about quarter pounders and the metric system while two hitmen kill everyone in an apartment. Jackson eating Brad's last meal was a nice touch. First I'm going to eat your lunch then I'm going to kill you. Being worried about getting your wife's linens dirty while you have a bloody dead guy in a car in your backyard. Foot massage compared to shoving a needle in someones chest. Bruce Willis's most prized possession came out of his father's, well you know where it came from. The imagry of things like Travolta going to the bathroom. Is it cause and effect, of course not but it does leave you wondering. It reminded me of an old Clint Eastwood movie where everytime something bad was about to happen, his brother would turn his hat around backwards. Whether you love it or hate it, the violence in the film has always seemed secondary to me. For some, that might be the main reason they enjoyed the film. So why 'exactly' the movie was liked is hard to say.
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A couple of ideas. I dated a guy once who actually had a romantic 'mix' that he had put together. Remember the double headphone scene in About Last Night, Rob Lowe, Demi Moore. It was something like that. I ended up not liking the guy but that had more to do with his peronality than his music. Til Tuesday's "Coming up close" is probably the most romantic song I have ever heard. Another one he got from a movie, the Thompson Twins' "If you were here" it's from the final scene in "Sixteeen Candles." One I really like is Genesis' "Follow you, follow me." Moby's "porcelain" also works.
Sometimes, however, a romantic mood is not the one that is wanted; a time and a place for everything. A string quartet fits in nicely in the clubhouse at Augusta, but at Soldier Field (go bears), you would be better off with "Who let the dogs out." So for a more 'active' evening, you could set the mood with something like BT's "Smart Bomb" or "Battle Flag" by the Lo Fidelity Allstars. Two of my favorites, but any up-tempo song with good bass will do. Now say you want to forget the dinner, forget the bottle of wine, and lose your clothes as quickly as possible. For this you will need music that inspires nakedness. One of my friends calls it 'stripper music'. Try Puddle of Mudd's "Control", Motley Crue's "Dr. Feelgood" or pull out your Back in Black CD and just hit 'play'.
But back to romance. "In your eyes" by Peter Gabriel is good but kind of cliched. "Long long way to go" by Phil Collins isn't really romantic if you pay attention to the lyrics but the melody is amazing. You can also impress your date by explaining how Sting sings back-up on the track. And if you're too lazy (or busy) to piece together a romantic compilation, you can always put in The Stranger by Billy Joel and just hit play. "Scenes from an Italian restaurant" has to be included on any romantic mix so you should have the CD already. If you like each other the music probably won't matter. Music usually isn't a closer, 'he's ok but then we listened to his CD's and I'm in love', it can however be a deal breaker. I won't stay in a house with gangsta rap on the stereo. I also can't stand country and western. I've stopped seeing a couple of guys just because of this. So be careful, have fun and if all else fails play "Shook me all night long" by ACDC and just see what happens.
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What band do you hate the most?
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All I'm saying is Blink 182 is better than the boy bands. I was hoping for something like a 'group hate thread' for the boy bands. Thought everyone could get behind that idea. I don't like the girl groups either, Salt and Pepa, Spice Girls, Destiny's Child. Anyone?