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RE: Records you haven't listened to in forever. - 5/6/2009 4:45:02 PM

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good taste OP, true about modest mouse but i cant go a day without listening to something off moon and antarctica or earlier.

i re-discovered pavement's crooked rain, crooked rain and brighten the corners. put on abbey road for the first time in a while. im getting into happy music again now that summers coming haha.

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RE: Records you haven't listened to in forever. - 5/8/2009 12:25:17 AM

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I go through phases... I've delved back into the past occasionally many times, only to let those old familiars collect dust again once I'm sated. There is some stuff, mostly tied to personal events, that either get re-visited more often, or shunned because of associations with not so pleasant memories, times. Music is so personal and tempermental to me. It can be expressive of what you couldn't quite put into your own words, etc. or it can be just pure fun. I've bought cd's of old groups I used to like, only to listen to them once or twice, and forget them again. I revisited those old metal head days; dokken, motely crue, poison, ratt, queensryche(!mentioned by an earlier poster), metallica, and megadeth. Some is still kind fun, but then, again I've moved on. Even though I used to love Nirvana, and later, Foo Fighters, I rarely revisit that stuff these days. Sometimes when you go revisiting the past, like Tori Amos, for me, you find that the artist still is vital, and has made stuff that you really dig. I ditched Tori in the Boys For Pele era, picked her back up in the Doll era, discovering stuff I had missed. Someone also mentioned, YouTube earlier, which I have found to be a great way of sampling new music, and exploring the past as well. I more into what's kind of considered SynthPop or goth these days, but like everyone, I'm sure, my pallatte is not limited to that. The irony is Depeche Mode is my favorite band these days, and I used to ridicule them in my "Metal" years. LOL!

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RE: Records you haven't listened to in forever. - 5/8/2009 3:30:13 PM

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anyone mention Pink Floyd or Jethro Tull yet????

I loved opening a new album to see the artwork too.

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RE: Records you haven't listened to in forever. - 5/8/2009 5:31:02 PM

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Like "The Heretic" here I used to love some heavy metal music...Metallica, Alice in chains and Ozzy and a few others...others that come to mind i haven't listened to in awhile are Stone Temple Pilots, Guns N' Roses...etc...some good music there!

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RE: Records you haven't listened to in forever. - 5/8/2009 8:23:59 PM

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I was going through a bunch of records I had hidden from the step children 20 to 30 years ago and rediscovered Ruby Star.

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RE: Records you haven't listened to in forever. - 5/9/2009 5:59:45 AM

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sighs.....i am ready to admit it i think.....

i listened to a bread album last night....and i sang along withe every song....and i felt good about it...

tonight its gonna be steppenwolf

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RE: Records you haven't listened to in forever. - 5/9/2009 6:10:56 AM

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that one

(listened to that one a lot about 18 years ago *though I am getting old*)...but also...it fits a bit at the moment....though not quite sure why

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U69Dqc4WqI

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RE: Records you haven't listened to in forever. - 5/9/2009 10:32:24 PM

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I have roughly 300 albums that I've kept in excellent condition since the early 70's. Several of my favorites include: Aqualung, Tommy, Quadrophenia, Thick as a Brick, and others. I have learned by doing research online that many of these recordings do not exist in their original versions (the CD for Tommy is a good example...the masters were lost...same with Aqualung).

Most of the important ones I recorded onto my hard drive using full sampling (no mpeg for me). I could record at even higher sampling rates if I needed to but 44.1 kHz/16 bit stereo does the job. My softward also filters out any clicks or pops during recording so the copy sounds very clean.

I like:

Moody Blues
Kate Bush
Tangerine Dream
Vangelis
The Who
Jetro Tull
Black Sabbath
Deep Purple
The Stones
Led Zeppelin
The Cars
Eddie Jobson
David Bowie
CCR
Simon and Garfunkel
Peter Gabriel
Depeche Mode
Warp Brothers Trance Music
The Orb
The KLF
Seal
...many, many more.

In my opinion, music died sometime during the 90's. It's had a few blips here and there but basically everything today is manufactured money music. The people who perform rarely write the music, lyrics, or even play instruments. All they need to do is either rap (and look dangerous if a guy, sexy if a girl) or be able to do synchronized dancing a la Michael Jackson Thriller videos.

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RE: Records you haven't listened to in forever. - 5/10/2009 1:31:35 AM

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I was on lunch the other day and saw a plane on approach to a nearby airport. The airport is about ten miles away so the plane was on descent through the clouds...and I thought of the line-- "And as the nail sunk in the cloud, the rain was warm and soaked the crowd"-- from the Peter Gabriel song "Here Comes The Flood."
(See the lyrics here: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/peter+gabriel/here+comes+the+flood_20107458.html )

That was on an EP...remember those? EPs! All of my records got lost in a move, so I haven't thought of that song in forever. Great song! The power of a piano coupled with the human voice and some well chosen words. Sometimes it makes everything else seem excessive.

Other records I haven't thought about in years (that didn't get replaced in CD form):
Laurie Anderson- Big Science
David Byrne & Brian Eno- My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
David Van Tieghem- These Things Happen
U2- Under a Blood Red Sky (EP)
Bangles- Bangles (Their first EP when they had a raw, garage band sound.)
Slow Children- Mad About Town....Holy freakin' cow! I cannot believe this is on YouTube. Well, back in the 80's the Village (NYC, that is) was home to a bunch of record stores with bins and bins of records known as cut-outs. I would go home with an armload of records for 15 bucks. This was one of them. I truly believed I would never hear this again. Wow! I cannot believe it is on YouTube. I can believe, however, that only 100 people have watched it so far. Holy cow! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5bhRv7TZw0&feature=PlayList&p=6CB767D0CE5AE6BD&index=69

I had this one, too-- a Hilary EP on clear vinyl. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPfiKEDmv-k Oh, so 80's...put that back in the time capsule.

Well, I really have to thank you for this thread. Bravo!

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