Music

[spaceCADETzoom]

I think I've had phases in my life. There was angry gangsta rap phase. There was a short snobby underground hiphop phase. Actualyl...those were my silly highschool phases. I just realized that I was pretty eclectic in my entire life outside of the time in HS where what I was listening to was dictated by what I thought was cool.

Nowadays I'm really drawn to anything acoustic. I was raised on a lot of folk and singer/songwriter stuff by my dad. I'm into a lot of contemporary forebearers of that now. I like pretty much everything (from rap to pop to a heay emphasis on classic rock)...but often get tired of manufactured stuff. I think I often lean to country but am constantly depressed by the manufactured sound out of nashville and country stations. I do like that there's the occasional exception of actual guitar work and vocals in there, though. Perhaps thats why I lean to it...sometimes theres a pretense, at least, of bluegrass and other basic sounds coming from country.

Ha...I don't make much sense..stream of thought all wonky.

[CrnCnn]

Any one like Little brother or Common. GURU. Lupe Fiasco.

[JHarris1385]

Any one like Little brother or Common. GURU. Lupe Fiasco.

Lupe isnt half bad. For rap I like Clipse and The Pack

[WyrreJ]

Nowadays I'm really drawn to anything acoustic. I was raised on a lot of folk and singer/songwriter stuff by my dad.

Did you watch Californication? In one scene, they were listening to an acoustic cover of Sabbath's Ironman, it's awesome and wasn't too hard to find on p2p.

[Hotsauce]

I've totally filled that rack since this pic was taken. Records on opposite wall.

Everything is burned flac to Sonos server www.sonos.com

I also listen to www.pandora.com the coolest internet station ever. You create your own stations, and vote on songs it plays. It then chooses artists based on your votes.

John C.

[ojmagg]

I tend to like a pretty wide mix...except country...I just can't get into that scene...

Old school rap...new rock...some classical...

Went to a Modest Mouse show last month...they are amazing...I highly recommend checking out "Good News" and "Baron Von BS Rides Again"...

Going to see Drop Kick Murphys in March...

[Triathlete]

Records on opposite wall.

John C.

Theres probably only a hand full of people here that even know what a "record" is let alone actually seen anything vinyl! I am one who still has vinyl (mostly old punk). Anyone own/tryed one of the new record players that connect to your computer and can convert your vinyl to CD's.

[JHarris1385]

WyrreJ - I have seen Pepper twice
ojmagg - I have seen Dropkick probably 4 times, where are they playing in March?
Tri - I have a few old punk vinlys as well I collected during high school

[etlsport]

ive got lots and lots of vinyl... some of it still in plastic wrap i had a few vinyls recorded to CD by a store like 3-4 years ago and it sounded pretty good

[nfpgasmask]

Theres probably only a hand full of people here that even know what a "record" is let alone actually seen anything vinyl! I am one who still has vinyl (mostly old punk). Anyone own/tryed one of the new record players that connect to your computer and can convert your vinyl to CD's.

I have about 150 records, most of which I have already "ripped" to MP3. You don't need anything special other than a "line-in" port on your sound card, and a decent program to record with. I use Sound Forge and it works great.
I have a lot of rare, out of print, early electro/industrial stuff that still isn't available on CD. Its nice having it ripped for easy listening. If you do it, just get yourself a good cleaner brush and some record cleaning solution...

Bart

[Hotsauce]

Thats my TT.

Records are high def. CD is very lossy, and MP3 even more so. No digital source can produce true analog waveform.

John C.

[Triathlete]

Thats my TT.

Records are high def. CD is very lossy, and MP3 even more so. No digital source can produce true analog waveform.

John C.

When I was in Japan I used to go to Diechi's and drool all over their sound floor. I remember $20,000 high-end turntables that were set in 4 inch thick slabs of marble. They were very sweet. Even though I still own vinyl, I no longer have a turntable. A lot of my vinyl has been recorded and then traded off. I probably only hane a few dozen albums left.

[bulldog]

Not sure if anyone cares or knows about these products, but it doesnt matter what you listen to if you want your music to sound amazing (im talking hearing things on a cd that you never heard before even if you listened to it a hundred thousand times) get CD Stoplight and one of those cd polishers,,my favorite is at mapleshaderecords.com,, the difference is amazing at the very least