• Re: Sunday Night Music

    From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Ogg on Wednesday, April 12, 2023 06:32:00
    Ogg wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    ..When the main character explains that his music
    collection is sorted autobiographically, I could relate.

    Doesn't that just mean "alphabetical order by artist"?




    Dick: I guess it looks as if you're reorganizing your records. What is
    this though? Chronological?

    Rob: No...

    Dick: Not alphabetical...

    Rob: Nope...

    Dick: What?

    Rob: Autobiographical.

    Dick: No fucking way.

    Rob: Yep. Let me tell ya how I got from Deep Purple to Howlin' Wolf in
    just 25 moods. And, if I want to find the song "Landslide" by Fleetwood
    Mac, I have to remember that I bought it for someone in the Fall of 1983
    pile - but, didn't give it to them for personal reasons.

    Dick: That sounds...

    Rob: Comforting.

    Dick: Yes.

    Rob: It is.

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  • From Abbub@21:2/145 to Poindexter Fortran on Wednesday, April 12, 2023 08:09:49
    The movie (and the book) "High Fidelity" really resonated with me. When
    the main character explains that his music collection is sorted autobiographically, I could relate.

    Yeah, it's a great book, and the movie adaptation is fantastic. It strikes me that some people (especially when younger) really glom onto music as a way of processing emotions internally, and some don't. I definitely was one of the people that did. I had a whole clique of friends that were really into music. I have a 'playlist' that one of my high school friends gave me in the 9th grade. It was really my 'introduction' to what at the time would have been 'classic rock'. (Zeppelin, Doors, Sabbath, Beatles, etc.) I still have the scrap of paper that it was originally written on, 30+ years later.

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  • From Abbub@21:2/145 to Nightfox on Wednesday, April 12, 2023 08:47:26
    I'm curious what editor you're using? In all your replies, most of the
    text lines of your reply (except the first one) start with an accented
    'i' character, which seems to be ASCII 141 (0x8D in hex). I'm
    wondering if that might be some kind of line wrapping marker or
    something (since it seems to be at the start of eeach line starting
    with line 2 - at least on my 80-column terminal).

    Hrm. Interesting. I'm using a full-screen DOS editor called 'gedit' (not to be confused with goldedit) which is just a pretty standard external BBS editor from the DOS BBS days. I'll send another message after this one that uses the built-in T.A.G. line editor. Let me know which (or both?) are showing that character. Since I'm using DOS software on a DOS BBS system, I wonder if there isn't some sort of ASCII-to-UTF8 (?) translation thing going on or something?

    Is anyone else seeing this?

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  • From Abbub@21:2/145 to Nightfox on Wednesday, April 12, 2023 08:48:24
    *** Quoting Nightfox to Abbub dated 04-11-23 ***
    I'm curious what editor you're using? In all your replies, most of the

    This message was created using the built-in T.A.G. line editor. Are you seeing the same character on this message as well?

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  • From Abbub@21:2/145 to Ogg on Wednesday, April 12, 2023 08:52:18
    Doesn't that just mean "alphabetical order by artist"?

    It's been a while, but if I remember correctly, I believe it was 'chronological by purchase'. For instance, if he wanted to find a James Taylor record that he bought in 1979, he had to remember that he bought it as a gift for a girl he was interested in but didn't end up giving it to her for personal reasons.

    My discs are alphabetical-by-artist, chronological by release date, with the exception that the few 'greatest hits' albums are all at the start of the artist section.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Abbub on Wednesday, April 12, 2023 08:54:53
    Re: Re: Sunday Night Music
    By: Abbub to Nightfox on Wed Apr 12 2023 08:48 am

    I'm curious what editor you're using? In all your replies, most of
    the

    This message was created using the built-in T.A.G. line editor. Are you seeing the same character on this message as well?

    No, I'm not seeing it in this message.

    Nightfox
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  • From ogg@21:2/147 to Abbub on Wednesday, April 12, 2023 11:57:16
    On 12 Apr 2023, Abbub said the following...

    *** Quoting Nightfox to Abbub dated 04-11-23 ***
    I'm curious what editor you're using? In all your replies, most of the

    This message was created using the built-in T.A.G. line editor. Are you seeing the same character on this message as well?

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    I've been noticing the same effect. I don't on this message.

    ogg
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  • From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to poindexter FORTRAN on Wednesday, April 12, 2023 19:16:00
    Hello poindexter FORTRAN!

    ** On Wednesday 12.04.23 - 06:32, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Ogg:

    collection is sorted autobiographically, I could relate.

    Doesn't that just mean "alphabetical order by artist"?

    [...]

    Dick: Not alphabetical...

    Rob: Nope...

    Dick: What?

    Rob: Autobiographical.

    Dick: No fucking way.

    Rob: Yep. Let me tell ya how I got from Deep Purple to Howlin' Wolf in just 25 moods. And, if I want to find the song "Landslide" by Fleetwood Mac, I have to remember that I bought it for someone in the Fall of 1983 pile - but, didn't give it to them for personal reasons.


    Calling it chronobiological or biochronoligical would make more
    sense to me.

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  • From Blue White@21:4/134 to Abbub on Wednesday, April 12, 2023 18:30:10
    Abbub wrote to Poindexter Fortran <=-

    This sounds like some of my favorite music memories. 1982, laying on my waterbed (!), can headphones on, listening to Moving Pictures by Rush. Lights down low, just high enough to be able to flip the LP over after "Limelight".

    For me the definitive Rush album is-and-always-has-been 'Signals'. Subdivisions in particular evokes memories and feelings in me that are
    so old and deep they almost hurt. Though as a bassist, I pretty much celebrate their entire catalog.

    Subdivisions was always my jam, too. I saw them in concert on the Roll the Bones tour. I was so stoked when Subdivisions started... the friends I went with said my jaw dropped when they skipped the second verse and hurried to the end of the song.

    The crowd seemed to be enjoying it, so not sure why they were playing a
    short version. I saw them again a few months later and they had dropped it from the show all together in favor of some interlude where an "extra" ran
    on stage in a costume that made it look like he was humping a sheep. No
    idea what that was about, but it was part of the show and not just someone
    that managed to evade security.

    Despite the short version, I really loved the first show. The second one,
    not as much.

    "Signals" also has "The Analog Kid," so there is that. :)

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  • From Abbub@21:2/145 to Blue White on Wednesday, April 12, 2023 21:28:39
    *** Quoting Blue White to Abbub dated 04-12-23 ***
    Subdivisions was always my jam, too. I saw them in concert on the Roll
    the
    Bones tour. I was so stoked when Subdivisions started... the friends I

    Yep. That's the first tour that I saw them on. I think I saw them three or four times between then and when they disbanded. I went to a 'South Park Celebration' thing down at Red Rocks last fall, where Primus was playing a bunch of music, and at one point Geddy and Alex came out and played 'Closer to the Heart' with Primus. It was fantastic.

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  • From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to Thom Miller on Tuesday, April 18, 2023 22:35:00
    Hello Thom Miller!

    ** On Sunday 09.04.23 - 21:08, Thom Miller wrote to All:

    Every Sunday night I sit on the sofa down here in the
    basement, turn the lights down, put on the headphones and
    sit around and listen to a disc or two. Tonight was 'The
    Stone Roses' from 1989. A perfect album after a day of
    fighting a bunch of software from the early 90s. :D

    There are simply some performances, especially some live
    recordings or concept albums, that are best experienced with
    total focus and attention upon the material, perhaps in a dimly
    lit room, and no distractions from start to finish.

    Eg.

    Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds.
    Rick Wakeman's Journey to the Center of the Earth.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Ogg on Wednesday, April 19, 2023 08:18:00
    Ogg wrote to Thom Miller <=-

    There are simply some performances, especially some live
    recordings or concept albums, that are best experienced with
    total focus and attention upon the material, perhaps in a dimly
    lit room, and no distractions from start to finish.

    Rush's "Moving Pictures", listened to in my dimly lit high-school
    bedroom, with KOSS over-ear headphones. On Vinyl.



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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to poindexter FORTRAN on Thursday, April 20, 2023 10:02:26
    Re: Re: Sunday Night Music
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Ogg on Wed Apr 19 2023 08:18 am

    There are simply some performances, especially some live
    recordings or concept albums, that are best experienced with
    total focus and attention upon the material, perhaps in a dimly
    lit room, and no distractions from start to finish.

    Rush's "Moving Pictures", listened to in my dimly lit high-school
    bedroom, with KOSS over-ear headphones. On Vinyl.

    I still tend to prefer CD (or FLAC files would be equivalent) rather than vinyl, but that is a great album.

    Nightfox
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  • From Abbub@21:2/145 to Nightfox on Friday, April 21, 2023 08:37:39
    Rush's "Moving Pictures", listened to in my dimly lit high-school bedroom, with KOSS over-ear headphones. On Vinyl.

    I'm the same. I'm an advocate of anything/anyway that gets people to listen
    to more music, but for me personally, CD is still the way to go.
    I was a relatively early adopter of compact discs. My main 'music store' purchases in the late 80s would be one or two new discs and then a pack of cassettes to copy the one or two discs my buddies would have bought. This
    was both a strategy to maximize the amount of new music you were exposed
    to, and also a means to have music on the go. (I don't think I got a discman until the early 90s, once they'd really figured out buffering.)

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Abbub on Friday, April 21, 2023 11:29:21
    Re: Re: Sunday Night Music
    By: Abbub to Nightfox on Fri Apr 21 2023 08:37 am

    I was a relatively early adopter of compact discs. My main 'music store' purchases in the late 80s would be one or two new discs and then a pack of cassettes to copy the one or two discs my buddies would have bought. This

    I was a late adopter of Vinyl. When CDs came out, the price of vinyl dropped as people replaced LPs with CD and sold their LPs back. I wasn't making a lot of money back then, so for $10 I could buy a new CD or 10 used LPs. I chose the latter, and splurged on a lot of artists I couldn't afford to buy when they first came out.

    Those were good times. I'd splurged on my first "real" stereo system, had my first apartment on my own, and remember the music from that time fondly - all 5-10 year old LPs.
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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Nightfox on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 19:44:42
    On 11 Apr 2023 at 01:03p, Nightfox pondered and said...

    Even these days, I don't stream music very often.. That may be because I'm just not very familiar with what music is new these days. What I
    have heard, usually I don't really get into it. I have my collection of music ripped to FLAC and MP3s, and I have my MP3s on my devices, which I can play at any time.

    I have been using streaming to play on demand the music that pops into my head (often from many decades earlier)... so that's good. But some of the copies of the tracks on Spotify are not the same versions of the songs I recall. The remastered stuff can be a bit hit and miss :(

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