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A la recherche des disques perdues
Mar. 24th, 2007 11:59 pmI've been ripping my CD collection to MP3. This had led me to listen to albums I haven't played in several years. I've dodged these albums for one reason or another: some talk to a person I haven't been in years, some just suck and I need a reminder every couple years.
Since I listen to the most music when I'm in the car, my car's disc changer had been a major filter for my music options until this project got underway. I have a six-disc changer with a penchant for temper tantrums (as I've discussed before, this does not mean it has a tantric temperment). I've tried cleaning the lens but that doesn't seem to be the problem: maybe the shock damper is worn out or the laser's tracking is sloppy. In any case, it's annoying to load the discs, so I don't tend to change discs except every couple months.
Since some albums only have one or three good songs, those albums haven't been worth giving three months of possible air time. Of Montreal's Cheery Peel is the epitome of this: it has one great song on track one, "Everything Disappears When You Come Around". After that the album tapers down to boring pretty quickly and eventually ends. I bought the album because I hear that one track on the radio and really liked it. I consider that song a bait-and-switch tactic on the part of that band and its record label.
( Nothing geek in here! Give it a click, won't you? )
Just as I have been rediscovering emotions and sounds I've sealed in plastic since the Nineties thanks to my iPod, I have also found songs I'd downloaded that turn out to be from albums I want to buy. Hot Hot Heat's "Make Up The Breakdown" is one I want to pick up. I'd heard the radio track "Bandages" and liked it enough. Then I found other tracks and liked those a lot more. Now I want the rest of it. Similar things have led me to fill up my Dismemberment Plan and Squarepusher collections. I may be aging, but my taste in odd music grows and growls happily.
-content to be the last Death From Above 1979 fan on the planet, Dante
Since I listen to the most music when I'm in the car, my car's disc changer had been a major filter for my music options until this project got underway. I have a six-disc changer with a penchant for temper tantrums (as I've discussed before, this does not mean it has a tantric temperment). I've tried cleaning the lens but that doesn't seem to be the problem: maybe the shock damper is worn out or the laser's tracking is sloppy. In any case, it's annoying to load the discs, so I don't tend to change discs except every couple months.
Since some albums only have one or three good songs, those albums haven't been worth giving three months of possible air time. Of Montreal's Cheery Peel is the epitome of this: it has one great song on track one, "Everything Disappears When You Come Around". After that the album tapers down to boring pretty quickly and eventually ends. I bought the album because I hear that one track on the radio and really liked it. I consider that song a bait-and-switch tactic on the part of that band and its record label.
( Nothing geek in here! Give it a click, won't you? )
Just as I have been rediscovering emotions and sounds I've sealed in plastic since the Nineties thanks to my iPod, I have also found songs I'd downloaded that turn out to be from albums I want to buy. Hot Hot Heat's "Make Up The Breakdown" is one I want to pick up. I'd heard the radio track "Bandages" and liked it enough. Then I found other tracks and liked those a lot more. Now I want the rest of it. Similar things have led me to fill up my Dismemberment Plan and Squarepusher collections. I may be aging, but my taste in odd music grows and growls happily.
-content to be the last Death From Above 1979 fan on the planet, Dante
