Discussion » 03:39 06 August 2002

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Posted by cal, 08:39, 6th August 2002:
 
Kimya Dawson from the moldy peaches has a blog/journal. She sings on Ben Kwellers albums too. Neat crossover huh?

I know that you are almost in love with me
I can see it in your eyes
Strange lights shimmering over the sea tonight
And it almost blows my mind

Someone put Ash's Girl From Mars on the stereo today. very cool

My work computer has a cruft force of around 9. [via ste]

Stephen, ex-co-worker, has finally got back to running a site of his own. It probably wont last long, so read now.

This is such a good tool, replacing sam spade for whois. [via darren]

Need to find the words to a song? Then lyric tracker is pretty good. It allows you to submit new lyrics and make corrections. Ace.

According to this dumb article, i should throw away the following ten albums. Err, no.
Nirvana - Nevermind
White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Radiohead - I Might be Wrong: Live Recordings
No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever, Amen
Green Day - Dookie
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
R.E.M. - Out of Time
The Presidents of the United States of America - Self-titled
The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
Posted by chris, 09:21, 6th August 2002:
 
I think that person is just a idiot.

U2 - Joshua Tree
Nirvana - Nevermind
Lou Reed - Transformer
Oasis - What's the Story (Morning Glory)
Beck - Midnite Vultures
The Who - Tommy
White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever, Amen
Green Day - Dookie
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
U2 - War
The Beatles - Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Counting Crows - August and Everything After (I add - this is my Fav album!)
REM - Out Of Time
Presidents of the United States of America - Self-titled

I don't think that list was made by a very good person.
Posted by cal, 09:25, 6th August 2002:
 
(s)he lists albums just because they're popular. hardly a reason not to own something. reminds me of indy rock pete
Posted by chris, 09:40, 6th August 2002:
 
lol, mmmmmmmmmm sweeties :)

I agree though
Posted by Victor Menendez, 09:53, 6th August 2002:
 
I'm not losing the Joshua tree for anyone.

I'd re-think that No Doubt album though Cal.
Posted by cal, 09:55, 6th August 2002:
 
it's good!
Posted by chris, 11:00, 6th August 2002:
 
Both those mentioned albums rock in such different ways!
Posted by Sul, 11:26, 6th August 2002:
 
maybe she's deaf?
Posted by Victor Menendez, 11:33, 6th August 2002:
 
She's bang on about Sting and Beck though
Posted by cal, 11:39, 6th August 2002:
 
i like beck :(
Posted by chris, 12:27, 6th August 2002:
 
i like beck too - that album is catchy - and i like sting!
Posted by Gary, 13:20, 6th August 2002:
 
That person is soooooo right! Absolutely every single one of those albums is from the worst genre(s) of music known to man!
Posted by jeff, 14:43, 6th August 2002:
 
whilst i dont agree with a lot of them, that person is entitled to their opinions, and i think they meant to get up peoples noses.. dont rise to it kids...
if you like music, and it makes you happy, then listen to it. I hate when people over analyse stuff.. so maybe beck does sound like rick james and prince, but that doesnt make him, or his music crap.. ooh there i go, rising to it.
yes, its all wanky pretentious bollocks. nuff said

(oh and cal, i SO hadnt read this when i was taking the piss out of you earlier! doh!)
Posted by Gary, 15:10, 6th August 2002:
 
Well said, Jeff.
Posted by Victor Menendez, 15:17, 6th August 2002:
 
Becks crap music makes Beck crap.

But then again i like Elvis and Neil Diamond, so i'll just go back in my glass house and shut my face.
Posted by cal, 15:33, 6th August 2002:
 
gary: dance is not the only kind of music people listen to. infact, people don't usually listen to dance (hence the name). welcome to minority city, population you.
Posted by zxenor, 15:40, 6th August 2002:
 
solution: all music is good

there, you all happy?
Posted by Sul, 15:42, 6th August 2002:
 
no! those pop idols should be shot
Posted by jeff, 15:47, 6th August 2002:
 
ooh theres nothing like music to bring out the hatred in people!
for interests sake (or not), i'd have to get rid of the following:

Nirvana - Nevermind
Beck - Midnite Vultures
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Chemical Bothers - Dig Your Own Hole
Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Mogwai - Come On Die Young
No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
Green Day - Dookie

and unfortunately i own a COPY of alicia keyes, i copied it from my housemate based on the single.. dang that was a mistake..

and you know what... I like indie, pop, rock, punk/ska and dance.. all at the same time.... stick that in your smoke and pipe it
Posted by Sul, 15:49, 6th August 2002:
 
you'd have got rid of Dookie? Why?!
Posted by jeff, 15:49, 6th August 2002:
 
no no, i wouldnt get rid of it, those are the ones on the list that i own.. sorry didnt make that clear..

zxenor, how about all music is subject to personal opinion and not really worth arguing over..??
Posted by cal, 15:54, 6th August 2002:
 
how about, everything's good, except opera and country and western?
Posted by jeff, 16:14, 6th August 2002:
 
well country and western goes without saying...
Posted by zxenor, 16:23, 6th August 2002:
 
there's a difference between country and western?
Posted by cal, 16:24, 6th August 2002:
 
i wish it had gone without saying, but you don't seem to shut up! (waynes world, waynes world, party time, excellent)
Posted by zxenor, 17:01, 6th August 2002:
 
yay for andy warhol day at google
Posted by Victor Menendez, 17:17, 6th August 2002:
 
What about Kenny Rogers Cal?
Posted by cal, 17:24, 6th August 2002:
 
no idea who that is?
Posted by luke, 20:31, 6th August 2002:
 
Nirvana - Nevermind
Oasis - What's the Story, Morning Glory?
Chemical Bothers - Dig Your Own Hole
No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
Green Day - Dookie
Offspring - Smash
The Presidents of the United States of America - Self-titled
The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation

Well....I suppose my music collection just isn't cool :)
Posted by Gary, 22:05, 6th August 2002:
 
gary: dance is not the only kind of music people listen to. infact, people don't usually listen to dance (hence the name). welcome to minority city, population you.

Pah! If people didn't listen to dance music then they wouldn’t dance would they? :P

No, seriously Cal, I don't mean to come across as hating everything apart from dance music. I have said before on this very site I am very versatile when it comes to my musical tastes!

My younger brother listens (at full blast) to most of the music everyone here talks about, as well as some other horrifying rock/heavy metal stuff, and I've just come to hate it with a passion.
Posted by Joe, 00:46, 7th August 2002:
 
I agreed with the sentiment of the "throw away your CDs" article. How many albums do you own that are classics but you never listen to? I can't remember the last time I listened to any Nirvana, let alone all of Nevermind. The only Green Day album I own is Dookie and I only got it because Tower were having a sale last year and I loved it when I previously owned it x years ago and thought I should get it again. Listened to it twice since then if I'm lucky. It's not that the music is bad - I just don't need it any more.

As for the computer cruft link, this phrase almost made me wet my pants:

"something has pooed a Paradox lock control file there, too"
Posted by zxenor, 04:20, 7th August 2002:
 
I listened to Dookie this morning.
Posted by cal, 08:53, 7th August 2002:
 
joe: not true. (nearly) all of my CDs are ripped to mp3 which are then played on shuffle all the time. i listen to all of the listed albums.
Posted by jeff, 12:12, 7th August 2002:
 
same here. infact i dont even take my cds to uni with me. so in a way, yes, they do just sit on my shelf untouched, but if you had to fit your life into the back of a bmw coupe, you'd do the same..
Posted by cal, 12:16, 7th August 2002:
 
you say that as if fitting your life into the back of a bmw coupe is a bad thing...
Posted by Grim..., 13:15, 7th August 2002:
 
How DARE she suggest the removal of the Prodigy, Beastie Boys, NIN,And Pink Floyd?
And what the fuck is she on about here:
(The Prodigy) being a pioneer of the combination of rapping and the Big Guitar Sound and can be at least partly blamed for the pallid rock/rap wasteland that is pop music these days.

What?
Posted by November Eclectica, 13:20, 7th August 2002:
 
Just because one person suggests that those CDs should be thrown away, doesn't mean that you have to.

Would you jump off a bridge if someone told you to? *don't answer that cause I know some of you would*

Point being ....YOU and only YOU can decide what you want to keep and throw out, no one else.
Posted by ell, 16:45, 7th August 2002:
 
Unless it's the government.
Posted by cal, 16:56, 7th August 2002:
 
heheh
Posted by Joe, 07:47, 8th August 2002:
 
Cal,

I guess I'm a bit different. Where I work there's nigh on a months worth of music on our servers but we spend most of listening to the new stuff that comes in, about 10 new albums a month.

We have a bit of a tradition on Friday nights where we take turns playing two tracks at a time and that's probably the only time the older stuff gets out.

Sometimes we stream two track Friday. Next time we do, I'll post a pointer here.
Posted by cal, 08:39, 9th August 2002:
 
ooooh, cool
Posted by GregM, 14:13, 30th April 2004:
 
I somehow stumbled across this site and was outraged to see that article. I own soo many of these cd's that i will list. I dont know how many people view this but if you do INSTANT MESSAGE ME ON AIM at DASHCONF33. Well here are the cd's i should "Throw out"

U2-joshua treem,
Nirvana- Nevermind,
Beatles- let it be,
The police - synchronicity,
Led Zeppelin- Physical Graffiti,
Oasis- WTSMG?
Pearl Jam- VS.
Death Cab for Cutie - Something About Airplanes
Beck - Midnite Vultures
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
White Stripes - White Blood Cells,
Beastie Boys- Hello Nasty
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Radiohead - I Might be Wrong: Live Recordings/Built To Spill Live
No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever, Amen
Green Day - Dookie
Rush - Moving Pictures
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience
The Wallflowers - Self-titled
Sublime - Self-titled

I own 1/4 of those albums. The question is, WILL I THROW THESE OUT?! HELL NO! Someone IM me if you would like. DASHCONF33 on AIM