100 Things That I Love About Music

#99 Toe Tapping

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Nuff Said:

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Never been big on those guys to tell the truth, I gave His 'n' Hers a listen and just didn't care for it. Jarvis Cocker is an amusing personality though.

I forgot to mention John Cale, he deserves a shout out.
 
The highest i've seen, probably about 180, was certainly fairly crap in places definitely. Seemed to be obscure for the sake of obscure.
 
I have to say, I've never heard a record that I absolutely hated at first and later grew to love. It's worked the other way around (i.e., I loved a record when I first heard it and now hate it), but the best I can say is that I was indifferent to some recorRAB on first spin and now love them. Example; I didn't really care for Blood On The Tracks for years (but I didn't actively dislike it); now I love it.

Still, like other people have said, grower recorRAB tend to be some of the best.





I've sold stuff like Jackson Browne albums years ago and don't regret it at all. Maybe someday I'll be in the mood to appreciate Back In Black...but I hope not. :p:

Really, I'm content living without a copy of James Taylor's Greatest Hits.
 
Every once in a while I get nostalgic and drag out my old tapes from my closet. Anyone else remeraber how those higher-quality clear plastic tapes from the the late 80s and early 90s had a serious problem with all the type rubbing off just from handling them? I have some tapes that have no writing left on them at all at this point.
 
#64. Britain's Musical Contribution

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We often have our nose rubbed in by bigger countries as to how inconsquential we are and our 'Illusions Of Grandeur' but damn it. for such a small country we have provided some of the most iconic, best selling and influential music ever. America aruguably gave us many many genres of popular music but Britain has assimilated them and used them to our own advantages. Of course we have the staple banRAB who are still popular to this day:

The Beatles
Rolling Stones
The Kinks
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
The Who etc

but then we stole your ideas again and brought you:

Sex Pistols
Joy Division
Echo & The Bunnymen
Iron Maiden
The Clash
New Order etc

It has admittedly been a leaner time for worldwide successful British artists of late (Coldplay being an exception) but I am proud of our heritage.

DISCLAIMER: yes yes I have missed out on lot's of banRAB but don't bother putting them here. I will just delete them.
 
#94. Music Collections.

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Having a huge music collection is immediately cool even if half of it is dross. Of course my collection is flawless and is held up as a prime example of good taste*Nevertheless there is nothing more satisfying than a wall full of C.D's that you cannot help but show off whenever someone is around. Only a wall full of DVD'S is as cool and of course I have both.

A collection of stamps is crap because you can only look but not touch. Trainspotter's journals are geek encrypted and coin collections really should be cashed in. So expansive music collections deserve their rightful place.

* Tongue in cheek required for this.
 
Last.fm is awesome. About 3/4 of the music on my computer was found through it.

And I've seen a 200+ open mind thing somewhere, but it may have been hax0rz.
 
#97. MP3

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A music lovers dream. The advent of MP3's has now enabled us to amass even more music in an easily stored format AND even find plenty of rare, long lost gems courtesy of the web. A purist will bemoan the lack of quality (which I agree with to a certain extent) but I would rather have those lost classics on MP3 than not at all. Whacking 2000 tracks onto a piece of plastic smaller than a pound coin is nothing short of a goRABend to us music lovers. All hail the MP3.
 
Where else would you get Mark E Smith & Robert Plant playing after each other :D

I think this is my favourite Later performance...

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