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We have been inspired by Steve over at Eat Your Carrots. The challenge is to put your entire music collection on random and list the first 20 songs that come up. You cannot edit the list to get rid of the less cool music.
This is our list:
54 : Mint Royale
Say you will : Foreigner
Springsville : Miles Davis & Quincy Jones
Jeepster : Marc Bolan & T-Rex
Teardrop : Massive Attack
I'll keep it with mine : Bob Dylan
Astronomic : The Young Gods
I can't win : Ry Cooder
My favourite mistake : Sheryl Crowe
Get back : Beatles
Round here : Counting Crows
Hewlett's daughter : Grandaddy
Laughing gas : Nilon bombers
Heartbreak hotel : Elvis Presley
Strange : Alabama 3
No way out : Peter Gabriel
Buck Rogers : Feeder
The bright young things : Marilyn Manson
Punch up at a wedding : Radiohead
Wailing wall : Todd Rundgren
I had no idea that we were so cool. Apart from Foreigner and The Young Gods. I must tell you that Mrs McMuffin bought The Young Gods CD many years ago after suffering from drug induced psychosis at a popular music festival. When she got home and listened to her newly acquired record, she vowed never to do drugs again, and she hasn't. As a little coda to this sorry tale, The Young Gods most recent album received good reviews in the UK press! It is clear from this that Mrs McMuffin was able to spot the potential of this band at a very early stage in their development. Nevertheless, the album we have is truly dreadful!
mr mcmuffin on 26 Feb 2004 @ 05:14 PM ✲ Permalink
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Relieved to see there's not much I haven't heard of on here. Not sure it's very "cool" stuff tho :-p
Yes, I transferred all my stuff to digital as I see it as the new best thing. Everything plays mp3's these days from home hi-fi, dvd players and walkmans (even cd walkmans can now play mp3s). Of course probably some better digital format will come our year on year and I'll be stuck with a quality losing re-encoding jobby to keep up :-(
Posted by: Steve | 27 Feb 2004 08:54:21
Oh, and you bought cassettes? I never did that - not robust enough. And now of course my big worry is hard drive failure!!! (I made backups, of course)
Posted by: Steve | 27 Feb 2004 08:56:44
You're right, maybe 'cool' is the right word! How about 'hip' or 'withit'? Well, you have gone and done it well and proper now. You have got me worried about the fact that I have encoded all of my music in AAC at 128 kbps. This is great for storage and the quality is excellent to these jaded ears. I think this is the equivalent to MP3 at 160 kbps. But, what of the future? Is my lovely collection gradually going to deteriorate until I cannot bear to listen to it anymore? I am hoping that this will coincide with me getting older and my hearing failing. Anyway, this is Apple we are talking about here and I am sure they will come up with a way of maintaining the quality! Here's hoping.
Posted by: mr mcmuffin | 27 Feb 2004 17:52:00
Mr McMuffin must have extremely varied musical tastes to have so much music. I think I have about 5000 to 6000 tracks and I can't really think of much stuff that I want that I haven't got already. I guess it helps that I like so much "here today gone tomorrow" type of bands/singers. It's not likely I'm ever going have "the complete set of all 15 Rachel Stevens albums". I am going to do a "show me yours and I'll show you mine" kind of swap with a friend who has also ripped his entire collection. I doubt there's much of his that I want though - he has the musical tastes of my Grandad.
Having converted all my CDs and got my MP3 player I still feel no urge to play the crap that I've collected over the years and still really stick with the recent (past 5 years or so) stuff. Really, my musical taste from prior to that was terrible!
Posted by: steve | 2 Apr 2004 13:11:23
