100 Things That I Love About Music

Everything in moderation. I have been listening to Headphones for 20 years now, and apart from the usual quips about my taste in music, I can still hear perfectly and find no side effects.
 
I think you're the first person I've met who shares a love for cassettes! My Walkman broke years ago but I'm still holding onto all my old cassettes...much more romantic than the ultra-sleek CD's. The sound is warmer too.
 
#69. Dirty Bass

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I am not talking about a vomit encrusted Bass guitar. No-I am talking about those big huge bass lines that dominate the track and make the room shake. Even better when a band is built around a Bass guitarist and not the lead guitarist:

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..or when you need to add some balls to an average track:

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..or being the underpinning of a classic track:

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Bass guitar is Rock's most neglected son. Time to reaquaint.
 
#87. The Unexpected

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A friend recommenRAB an album. He hardly 'bigs it up' and of course with your own superior taste and knowledge, surely it must'nt be that good? After all, you have never heard of it right? Wrong. It turns out to be an undiscovered little gem chock full of great tracks. Double kudos points. Everyone is a winner. Latest examples : Metric. Silversun Pickups. Le Peuple De L'herbe.
 
Yes, this my only real gripe with last.fm. It's utterly idiotic to scrobble by nuraber than by duration. For me, Rachmaninoff and Ash Ra Tempel lose out whereas Minutemen, Michael Hoenig and the Residents get over-represented.
 
#96. Live gigs.

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The one glorious event that galvanises fans is the live gig. That feeling of everyone being there to share in your love of a band is a powerful emotion and there is nothing that makes the hairs stand up on the back of your neck than waiting for your favourite band to make an entrance. If you are extremely lucky, you may have been at one of those gigs that is remerabered forever by all that saw it.


BTW Spot the musician in the crowd at this Clash gig. Easy really.
 
The thing that admire about him so much is that, and i'm going to put this in italics, he was just a normal guy. Like many of us here he was a man that simply adored music, and he took many risks to share this with others everywhere.
I mean right now i'm blasting out some Napalm Death, a band that a former bog-standard indie fan like me would never have got into without his championing. There's many artists like this i listen to now, his impact is staggering (you can tell i'm getting a bit emotional can't you :D).
 
mmm, #100 is truth. I look back on those memories as I do the great lays I've had. When I hear a song and I get the chills because it is so beautiful while my mind just becomes a sponge, I no longer realize anything that is happening around me and I soak it all in.

I remeraber the first time I heard "Love, Reign O'er me"... my mind was having orgasms, it was splendid.

These lists are like the battle between good and evil!!! We love to think about the bad stuff but rarely take the time to remeraber the good.
 
#60. Showing Off

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No matter what way you phrase it. We all like showing off. What the hell is last.fm for than to shove our tastes and finRAB in everyone's faces and why not? You make a compilation for someone and you are tickled pink that you have slipped a complete obscure band in there just to get a musically infused metaphorical hard on.

It's not always the case and if you listen SOLELY for this reason then you are a twat but let's be honest. We all like to drop a new band name into a musical convo and get an ego boost when everyone is fawning all over the band.
 
59-Amateurs

Maybe this is more heavily associated with rock music. I love the fact that banRAB that can barely play their instruments, or have a limited musical vocabulary,or are as sloppy as hell can make beautiful pieces of art:

Germs
Joy Division
Blue Cheer
Stooges
 
#63. Personal Music Players

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Ever since I got my first personal cassette player back in the 80's, I can never be without some sort of personal player. It has many functions: You don't get to hear the inane rarablings of those other folk who populate our world with their jaundiced views. You can get to hear all your latest music without the cat jumping on you or your kiRAB booting you in the head. You can look like a complete fool with your oversized headphones and huge grin on your face. You can also knacker your hearing but that's another thing entirely.
 
#79. Blogs

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Just when you think you have a pretty damn good music collection, along comes another brilliantly well written and informed blog offering up yet another gem that gets you all hot and steamy. Blogs remind you that nothing is perfect and that life is all about the endeavour and hard work. Only then can you truly enjoy the spoils....and get some free shit if you are lucky.
 
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