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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: yesno on June 09, 2008, 08:01:35 PM
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I just saw that I have music in my iTunes library that I have never played that was first added in 2003. A compilation of electronic music from Asphodel records.
Also, I bought a book 2 years ago called "The Now Habit" that is about procrastination that I haven't read yet, though I'd bet I have been carting some some books around for 12 years or more without reading them.
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Probably that vinyl copy of "Youthquake" that hasn't seen a needle since 1985.
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I have a ton of shit in my itunes that I haven't gotten around to listening to yet.
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Massive Attack, 100th Window
Polyphonic Spree, The Fragile Army
Portastatic, Be Still Please
Checked out a couple or three tracks on each CD and didn't really care for them. I feel somehow guilty that I should have been into this music, but just couldn't get into it.
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Also, I bought a book 2 years ago called "The Now Habit" that is about procrastination that I haven't read yet
Oh irony of ironies!
I have CDs that I've bought and never put in the player. The only example I can think of right now would be Finishing School's Destination Girl, but there are many others.
A kinda similar phenomenon - what artists do you not listen to that much, but you still feel obligated to buy every new album they come out with? For example, I have a lot of Will Oldham records. (Here, I feel obligated to say "Don't Judge.") I have never listened to any of them for a significant amount of time; I've never even listened to any of them enough to form an opinion about them. Yet I bought that Ask Forgiveness thing that came out recently, and I didn't even know why I was buying it. I haven't gotten around to getting his new one yet. Hopefully I was able to break the cycle.
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I definitely felt obligated to at least try Portastatic and Polyphonic Spree, and I can't explain why.
It's a great question, Matt --- the only bands about which I feel a compulsion to buy every release are probably Radiohead and Sonic Youth. I used to feel that way about the Replacements back in the day (another overused cliche). I can't say I've been disappointed, and I know exactly why I am compelled to buy all of them, but I don't think I need to feel this way. I'd get through my life just fine even if I didn't make those purchases.
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I have almost 400 CDs that I have bought and never played; the oldest ones in that group are probably Blood Brothers and Soundtrack of our Lives. And it's not like I can afford to buy CDs that I don't listen to, but I throw my pocket change into a little vase in the bedroom, and every time it gets full, I go buy 40-50 bucks worth of CDs with it.
But I am sure there is vinyl upstairs that I haven't touched in 25 years. Atomic Rooster, for example. Steve Martin. Queen post-Jazz. It's a whole hall of embarrassments up there.
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I used to be pretty draconian about selling CDs I wasn't into. Partly because I was poor and it was a good way to get new CDs.
But with all of these .coms and M3Ps I hardly know what's what anymore. I just have this accumulation of shit music.
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I've thought of dumping half my mp3 collection hundreds of times and then I pull back and don't delete any of it. I know I'll never listen to it but I can't bring myself to do it. I don't even consider it a collection, it's on a hard drive that I never look at and nobody else can see and it has no monetary value. It's worthless. Maybe I'll go home and not be able to weed it out tonight. I mean, you might as well keep it, it's not harming anything but why?
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i got a couple of chemical brothers cds for 2 bucks each a year ago and still havent listened to them. any fans? is there a certain mood i need to be in? i forgot why i bought them.
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I really love 'Dig Your Own Hole' - a pivotal album in my musical development. (http://areyougenehackman.blogspot.com/2007/03/where-do-i-start-where-do-i-begin.html)
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i got a couple of chemical brothers cds for 2 bucks each a year ago and still havent listened to them. any fans? is there a certain mood i need to be in? i forgot why i bought them.
Exit Planet Dust and Dig Your Own Hole are decent in the car--rapid pace, driving beats and all. However, I suspect that listening to either album at home would lead to a headache.
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I have almost 400 CDs that I have bought and never played; the oldest ones in that group are probably Blood Brothers and Soundtrack of our Lives.
Soundtrack of Our Lives are great. You should play that one.
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It was actually only recently that I gave the Chemical Brothers a fair shot; they're not bad. The video for Star Guitar turned me.
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(http://www.kasei.ac.jp/~student/report00/eibun00/9922045/dee-lite.jpeg)
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I have almost 400 CDs that I have bought and never played; the oldest ones in that group are probably Blood Brothers and Soundtrack of our Lives.
Soundtrack of Our Lives are great. You should play that one.
seconded.
one time at glastonbury, their singer ebbot threw me a beer from the stage.
FACT.
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I have almost 400 CDs that I have bought and never played; the oldest ones in that group are probably Blood Brothers and Soundtrack of our Lives.
Soundtrack of Our Lives are great. You should play that one.
seconded.
one time at glastonbury, their singer ebbot threw me a beer from the stage.
FACT.
Ebbot nearly ran me over with a white scooter just last week, when I was walking around in the Gothenburg harbour. FACT.
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I have almost 400 CDs that I have bought and never played; the oldest ones in that group are probably Blood Brothers and Soundtrack of our Lives.
Soundtrack of Our Lives are great. You should play that one.
seconded.
one time at glastonbury, their singer ebbot threw me a beer from the stage.
FACT.
Ebbot nearly ran me over with a white scooter just last week, when I was walking around in the Gothenburg harbour. FACT.
The thought of that guy riding a scooter might be the most terrifying image I've ever pondered. I'm surprised the scooter's motor has enough power to even move that guy - he's HUGE.
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one time at glastonbury, their singer ebbot threw me a beer from the stage.
FACT.
Ebbot nearly ran me over with a white scooter just last week, when I was walking around in the Gothenburg harbour. FACT.
You win this round of one-upsmanship, Degrell!