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I also have one i bought at a gig about five years ago, that luckily also came with a download code for the mps3

I still have quite a few tapes, I may listen to them all after I've finished listening to all my CDs

Also I still have a box of minidiscs

i have never had a minidisc

My sister had a minidisc player and a small stack of multicoloured recordable minidiscs, which she used for university purposes.

hell yeah

hooray

Nice old Sony you got there.

This be mine

This thread has taken an extremely technosexxus turn. Woah!

Does it count as listening to music if you just continue to keep mumbling to yourself the Mansun lyric: "The only pureness left is preached for me by Marx", as you watch the news?

The new arab strap album is brilliant

dng wrote: Mon May 10, 2021 8:25 pm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns4wzZVglQ0

Very nice, that. Ta!

the bare necessities as jazzzzzz

https://youtu.be/ASi7lyg5gRI

The bareknee cessities more like!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1ZvPSpLxCg

The old der i get the more i like this and now i'm starting to get a bit obsessed with it

I like the version in the sidebar from Curt and his daughter.

Foreigner Ft. Yazoo: Urgent Situation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Trrxgre44k

A sometimes slightly out of tune mashup that pleases me!

daren wrote: Sat May 15, 2021 1:34 am https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1ZvPSpLxCg

The old der i get the more i like this and now i'm starting to get a bit obsessed with it

It's a fine choon, and Roland's jetty dancing is a visual delight.

blombluss wrote: Sat May 15, 2021 3:34 pm Foreigner Ft. Yazoo: Urgent Situation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Trrxgre44k

A sometimes slightly out of tune mashup that pleases me!

Hooray that is beautiful and also gives me an excuse to segue into a completely pointless story:


I have a Stock Aiken & Waterman collection on my playlist because the older I become, the more I unironically love the shitty pop-of-the-day I accurately dismissed as cheap instantaneously dated slick plastic garbage back when I was an intolerable young music snob.

Among all the lovingly extruded prefab mediocrities performed by pretty 20somethings of marginal vocal talent "I'd Rather Jack" by The Reynolds Girls stood out to me for its tone-deafness, both in the sense of poor vocal timbre and an unusual mean-spiritedness in sniping various musicians for the sin of failing to stem the inexorable tides of time and still getting slotted onto playlists.

The line about "A-M, F-M, all that jazz/We'd rather sing along with Yaz[sic]" piqued my interest, though, so I plugged that name into Spotify, which yielded the synth duo of Alison Moyet and That Other One From Depeche Mode, and gave them a listen.
I was impressed by the dark, intimate glamour of their sound and lyrics, while being somewhat surprised that something as juvenile and artificial as The Reynolds Girls was namechecking this as the new regime of what they apparently wanted to listen to instead of poor dead Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, Dire Straits, and the Rolling Stones. (Also, in comparing dates, they made their mark in the early '80s, while Stock Aiken Etc. had their heyday in the late-80s/early-90s, which was probably antediluvian by Reynolds Girl standards)

Later on, I'm going down the wikihole on the SA&W machine, whereupon I discover that they were refering to "Yazz" with two Z'z, which, upon further research, was a perfectly generic '90s techno/pop outfit.
Also, that "I'd Rather Jack" poisoned the music-biz well for the sisters Reynolds and killed their careers even though they were only singing what the producers had foisted upon them and that S/A/W had written it as a spiteful little joke because they kept getting passed over for awards in favor of "serious" AOR pop acts "such as Enya and Steve Winwood" (thank you wikipaedia).

I kept expecting Alison Moyet to turn up in that song, and at first i thought it was a 12 inch Yazoo remix or something. Still nice though.

Also I have been listening to Gary Numan, both old and new. His new stuff is rather brilliant, has a nice industrial sound.

I've lost track of some of Numan's newer stuff, but the songs I do recall hearing reminded me a bit of Nine Inch Nails, which is no bad thing in ma book!

Also: hurrah for completely pointless stories - I enjoyed reading it! *thumbs up*

that yazz album was the first cd i ever had (in 1988 or whenever it came out)

One of the few things I remember about Yazz is that her husband was called Jazz (Summers), and he had a real bad reputation for ripping off the bands he managed.

It's been far too long 'Magic' by Ladyhawke:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fIDmPFd95o

better than David Byrne.

I laughed my bottom off, Richvuss!

Oh no bottomless homfrusses

YOU SHOULD SEE MY CLEANING BILLS!!!!

*caned laugter*

blombluss wrote: Tue Jun 15, 2021 12:51 am *caned laugter*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvKbYXUho58

Ha!

This damn New Order / Performance style/inspired track is currently lodged in ma noggin, and is simply refusing to leave!

Sea Fever: De Facto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4_7w54nXvM

thom yorke is having some sort of breakdown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYRAGR91CHQ

dng wrote: Tue Jul 13, 2021 3:33 pm thom yorke is having some sort of breakdown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYRAGR91CHQ

again

I found it more pleasurable when played at 2x speed!

doesn't that just return it to its original form

(but with added mid song synth)

oh wait is that the joke?

i don't understand jokes any more i'm afraid

dng wrote: Wed Jul 14, 2021 3:02 am i don't understand jokes any more i'm afraid

noone understands jokes anymore davuss! noone!

dng wrote: Wed Jul 14, 2021 3:02 am oh wait is that the joke?

yes Thom Yorke is a very funny mans.

Surely half speed Creep should be called Ccrreeeepp?

(Hip House Mix)

https://www.attackmagazine.com/features ... ning-quiz/

3/10

7/10 for me.

5/10 B+

I enjoyed that, despite it being a chastening experience!

no Stairway

https://youtu.be/8bawRnTYGb8

Bah, he's no Noel Gallagher, that chap!