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IUG posted:So you’re just giving your nephew whatever you come across without any care as to what it is then? No, not "without any care". There's plenty of space between "no care at all" and "an agonising, months-long decision making process that results in the absolutely best possible gift". Goons are a cynical, simplistic lot, I guess. This whole project is the gift. Any one album is a tiny fraction of the overall gift. I have accepted that some albums are going to be duds - he won't like them. I cannot predict which ones will be duds, and which will be ecstatically received. The thought and care I put into this gift is the thought and care that goes into this whole project. Some albums will have more inherent meaning than others. That's fine. I'm confident the whole project will be something that he deeply appreciates, in complex and contradictory ways. We live 15 000 km apart, and he does not yet have his own phone or computer or any other device he could use to communicate with me independently of his mother. That's up to them, not me - I will not be criticizing anyone else's parenting decisions here. I do not know him well as a person, and he doesn't know me well. Part of this project is opening a line of conversation that we can use to connect - we'll talk about music. What do you talk about with your distant (physically or relationally or both) relatives? The weather? Elderly relatives who have died? The minutiae of daily life? I'd rather talk about music, or rather, music in addition to those other things. BigFactory posted:This last one is closest to music a 10 year old might like, although he’s 14 now and hasn’t gotten any of it. And yeah, he hasn't gotten any of it yet because I'm generally slow and I'd procrastinated making the decision about hardware - which has been made, and now I'm busy procrastinating the skype conversation we'll have where I let him choose between the red MP3 player or the (otherwise identical) blue one. And I'm still thinking about a playlist to include rather than simply "Here's a device with 1800 songs on it. Call me sometime." Nightmare Cinema posted:I assume things have changed since 2002.
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114 King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland 220504 https://kinggizzardandthelizardwizard.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLP8rFrL1W0 Crumbling Castle, an actual video for a song from this album rather than the abundant "full album - just a static picture" versions on Youtube. I'd been bouncing the Gizz around in my head for a couple of years for this project, and one of my semi-regular wanderings around the internet told me they had released an album for free, including Master versions formatted for easy creation of bootlegs (CD, vinyl, etc.) entirely and enthusiastically supported by the band. They'll even sell your bootlegs on their website. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are the subject of a thread here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3932986 a recent comment included " it works in the same way Beck would do it. " and I think that's pretty apt for most of what this band does. They move across genres and spin together things that very few others would think to combine.
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115 The Slocan Ramblers - Queen City Jubilee 220511 https://slocanramblers.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QueWdm-YOxw Hill to Climb - the fifth track on this album. I saw The Slocan Ramblers at "Hillside Inside" in 2021, all wearing masks because, you know, COVID. They performed mostly covers, in what looked like a living room. My wife grew up on bluegrass and when I played this album the other day she demanded I buy more. Whether my nephew likes this or not (he will like it, I think), he's getting more. They're Canadian, which I hope doesn't offend any bluegrass purists that might insist that only true-blue 'Mericans are allowed to play this kind of thing. Actually, if somebody gets that particular bee up their bonnet, I'm happy to wave maple-leaf emblazoned banjos at that person.
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116 The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets - The Shadow Out Of Tim 220519 https://thickets.net/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FMsfPzXb6A A Marine Biologist, my favourite Thickets song, partly because it contains the lyric "and you can publish your findings in a peer reviewed journal" This is the second album in this project from the Lovecraftian / Chthulu-esque rock band, the first was way back at #9. I still love these guys and their doom-laden songs. Someday I hope to see them live; I am very happy they're touring again.
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Hell yeah, Thickets rule. I didn’t know they were doing anything though. Haven’t heard much from the band since their latest album, and I follow the vocalist and band accounts on social media.
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117 Fovndlings - Fovndlings 220525 https://fovndlings.bandcamp.com/album/fovndlings (Bandcamp page; the band's only other official page seems to be Facebook). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zujj-31VE5M The Quiet Room - the only video of Fovndlings on Youtube from this album. I saw a post from a page I follow for local musicians for these guys. I have a free account on Spotify, and the FB post was pointing out the release of Fovndlings' second album on Spotify. For some reason - possibly the free status of my account - I could not listen to anything from the second album on Spotify. I found this, their first album, on Bandcamp and I was very happy to see lyrics for all of the songs on this album. It's two guys from Walcha, a town within the Shire (kind of equivalent to a county) of the small city where I live. Their first-ever performance was in a hotel bar about 6 blocks from my house, in November of 2019 (when I lived further away on the other side of town). Searching for the video for this post, I discovered that they will be playing a live show at my favourite local bar, even closer to my house, this Saturday. I like to include musicians I've seen live at various venues in this project, such as The Trews, Shred Kelly, and The Arrogant Worms. This is the first album in this project where I will see the live performance after I bought the album. I'm hoping it won't be the last, though I do seem to have a tendency to buy music from defunct or inactive bands, or from bands with deceased members. Still, I'm looking forward to editing this post in a couple of days with pictures.
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IUG posted:Hell yeah, Thickets rule. I didn’t know they were doing anything though. Haven’t heard much from the band since their latest album, and I follow the vocalist and band accounts on social media. I follow Toren on the socials, too. I've been aware of him as an interesting person who lives in Vancouver since I lived there back in the early 2000s, though I never had a chance to see the Thickets live in that time. One day... He does voice-acting work (he mentioned this in a Facebook post back in about October) and I hired him to do some fun voice-over of a bunch of footage I put together as a christmas present for my wife - if you go to his Youtube channel you can find it, it's the one about the flying fox.
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118 The Police - Outlandos d'Amour 220601 https://thepolice.com/#/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4B-TmQhCjk The lyric video for Roxanne - because it's a drinking song. June 2022 is Police month - five albums for five June Wednesdays. Roxanne was a drinking-game song when I was at university. Two teams, one drinks every time "Roxanne" is sung, the other every "red light". I always suspected the Roxanne team had to drink harder, but a quick look at the full lyrics shows that "Roxanne" is said only a couple times more in the song than red light, and that both are said often enough - and in quick succession in some parts of the song - that both teams are likely to get shitfaced in short order. I had listened to The Police a little bit in the past, and not just when drinking to excess. This project lets me explore some music I know a bit about more deeply, and I've found that I quite like this music. They're among the highest-selling musicians of all time, so I suppose I'm not at all alone in this. I hope my nephew enjoys The Police enough before he starts exploring his alcohol tolerance.
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Not being in Canada, I miss quite a bit of Canadian-music news. I only found out this week that Dallas Good, of the Sadies and many, many collaborations and temporary super-groups, died suddenly in February. I like this tribute from CBC Music. It makes me homesick because of how loving Canadian it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdcc6sFGmgc The Sadies were one of my all-time favourite live shows, at Ness Creek in 2018. I got hyperthermia dancing my face off in the pouring rain when they closed out the Saturday show. I've included the Sadies in this project already, and I'm sure I'll add more from them. #43 #66 At Ness Creek, the Sadies played with the three teenage girls of The Garrys (sisters who named their surf-rock band after their father) on the second stage on Sunday morning. After the set, one of the girls told Travis Good, "You make our music sound so much better". I think that's what the Sadies did for many musicians.  The Sadies and The Garrys at Ness Creek 2018-0002 by Martin Brummell, on Flickr The Sadies at Ness Creek 2018-0011 by Martin Brummell, on FlickrRest In Peace, Dallas Good
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119 The Police - Regatta de Blanc 220608 https://thepolice.com/#/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbXWrmQW-OE Message in a Bottle, track 2 on this album. Part 2 of 5 in The Police month.
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120 The Police - Synchronicity 220615 https://thepolice.com/#/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcEumfNE9vM Tea in the Sahara (video by somebody because the official upload is just the static image of the album cover), my favourite track from this album. Part 3 of 5 in The Police month
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ExecuDork posted:120 The Police - Synchronicity 220615 Couldn’t you just do all 5? It’s not like there are any surprises
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121 The Police - LIVE! 2 CD 220622 https://thepolice.com/#/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ne6JYkigRQ So Lonely, live at the show in Atlanta in 1983 - the performance that makes up the second CD here. I was going to separate the two CDs here, but I decided to do this 2-CD set as a single week. Of course, I got distracted last week by various things, and I'm a week late posting it. So, here's 4 and 5 of 5. And so endeth The Police month. BigFactory posted:Couldn’t you just do all 5? It’s not like there are any surprises **** There's a sub-theme in this project exploring the differences between live and studio versions of songs. Live versions feature audience interaction and audience sounds (cheering, sing-along, wild screaming) and a chance for improvisation. I particularly like it when, as in the video above, the singer calls out each other musician in the band who then plays a solo on their instrument. On the other hand, studio versions have been produced, almost always by somebody who knows how to make the music sound great and balance the competing demands of the different components. Sometimes, as in the Fire Fight CD (#6), the song is so well known to the audience that the band just lets the crowd do the bulk of the singing, obliterating any chance to understand the lyrics by an unfamiliar listener. The strong overlap between the songs on the LIVE! double-album - many are repeated at the two concerts that were made into these hemi-albums - and the other three albums in this project creates an opportunity to consider this in detail. Someday I hope to have a conversation about this with my nephew. ExecuDork fucked around with this message at 01:56 on Aug 15, 2022 |
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An aside for a technical question. I do most of my posting in this thread from my home desktop; I also own a laptop I use mainly for work but I keep the music and my notes and plans about this project on the home desktop. To rip CDs I bought a cheap usb-external CD burner. It cannot read some CDs that I know are not inherently flawed because they play fine on the stand-alone CD players I have. But I cannot include these CDs in this project unless I have a way to convert the CDs into MP3 files. None of the computers I own (I have an unreliable older laptop and my wife owns a few laptops as well) or have access to has an optical drive. The desktop tower has room inside, though not the necessary mounting positions pre-cut, including a single continuous grid piece that makes up the front of the tower. Ideally, I would like to install a CD tray in my desktop, which would require at minium removal of the front panel and probably drilling some holes in the top of the tower to allow attachment of structures to hold the CD player. This would eliminate the fiddling around with the too-short USB cable on the existing player or any, also likely quite short, cable on a replacement external CD drive. However, a replacement USB CD drive is the much easier option. The one I have is some no-name Chinese mass-produced cheapness from Amazon. When I try to search for known brands that I hope would be higher quality, all I find are very expensive and somewhat exotic units such as DVD burners from LG. Does anyone have any advice? Just buy another cheap one and use it until it breaks, too? Cut and drill my desktop? Something else?
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122 Sean Nelson - Make Good Choices 220629 https://twitter.com/seantroversy This is Sean Nelson's Twitter, he doesn't appear to have a website. https://reallyrecords.com/007.html This is the page for this album on the label, Really Records. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6oEkbWntuA The titular track from the album. Sean Nelson is a Seattle-based musician, famous for being the singer for Harvey Danger and otherwise being a kind of avatar of 90's/00's "alternative" music and the Pacific Northwest of the USA. I really like Harvey Danger, and I stumbled across a handful of tracks from different albums by The Long Winters. It wasn't until quite recently that I put these things together and discovered Mr. Nelson is the common thread here.
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I also but my music on CD form, and rip them. I also backed up my entire 1,000 or so CD collection to my NAS using XLD on my Mac. I used some Samsung USB drive to do it, and never had a problem. When I buy a new CD I just take the drive out of the shelf and hook it up. If you have a whole stack of them, then I would just spend a weekend ripping them and putting the files in a folder to go through later.
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123 Cherrywood - Book of Matches / First Four Songs / Broken Heart for Christmas 220706 https://cherrywood1.bandcamp.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIpLWmsgWPI Pentridge, a live perfomance not from Facebook. My wife asked for more bluegrass, and I searched around Bandcamp for something to fit the bill. There's a lot of not-great stuff there, but these guys from Melbourne are close enough in most of their songs. They were flogging the first three "albums" for a combined price less than the sum of each individually, so I got that. I now have many repeats - the proper album, Book of Matches, contains three of the other songs, including the single, Broken Heart for Christmas. In an interview here: https://beat.com.au/cherrywood/ the band members complain about how some Australian country musicians try to sing with an American accent. I've heard this myself, and it's not something I like. Sing a cover song, sing it in your voice. Unless there's some very special reason to invoke a fake accent, like a funny-character voice in the song, just go with what you've got.
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124 Sheppard - Watching the Sky 220713 https://www.wearesheppard.com/home-3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyxFt9ecT28 Coming Home, one of the songs they performed at the Armidale Big Chill 2022. Sheppard came to my attention via my wife, who had been following some of their social-media activities a year or two ago. They had a viral hit with Kiss My Fat rear end, and went I looked into including them in this project I discovered an announcement that they were working on an album, one song per month - back in early 2021. So I decided to wait for that to finish up, hoping to see Kiss My Fat rear end there. For whatever reason, they have not included that song on any of their albums. Here's the video, it's a good song and I hope they release another album and put it on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjqjvD8He70 They also performed Kiss My Fat rear end live at the Big Chill, though clothes were kept on and there were no additional dancers. Understandable, considering that while it was unseasonably warm for Armidale in May, it still wasn't really underwear-dancing weather. **** I'm posting this early to compensate for the recent pattern of posting late. Next Wednesday I'll be away from home so I'm putting this up now. Also, I seem to have solved the CD problem for now. I bought another USB external optical drive, branded BlueFire on Amazon but wearing no names at all when it arrived. Oh well, another cheap Chinese device, but it managed to rip a couple of CDs that the previous device couldn't.
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125 Sheppard - Kaleidoscope Eyes 220720 https://www.wearesheppard.com/home-3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ikKAN42JU0 Die Young - the first real track on this album. The title track is just an intro track, without lyrics beyond some wordless singing. To mirror the 1-week-early posting of the other Sheppard album, this one is a week late.
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126 Punch Brothers - All Ashore 220727 https://www.punchbrothers.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y64KTlk6N_s It's All Part of the Plan - the first non-live-performance video that came up in my searching for a song from this album. Seems fitting. More bluegrass! Again, my wife is a big fan of bluegrass in general, and she came across these guys on one of the late-night shows she watches from time to time. Not every bluegrass song has to be very very fast, though those are the songs I tend to prefer. Sometimes it seems like all it takes to get the up-tempo going is to put the mandolin and the banjo next to each other and they'll start to accelerate, and everybody else just tries to keep up. These are one of the more popular and widely-known bands that I found on Bandcamp. I still really like Bandcamp, and I'm glad rising and established stars are using it. ExecuDork fucked around with this message at 07:38 on Aug 14, 2022 |
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127 Punch Brothers - Hell on Church Street 220803 https://www.punchbrothers.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TytbMZUcurI Church Street Blues, the title track from this album of covers and re-interpretations. According to the band's website, this album is an important tribute from the band to their heroes, particularly Tom Rice. ExecuDork fucked around with this message at 00:54 on Aug 26, 2022 |
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128 Buddy Guy - Stone Crazy! & A Man And The Blues 220810 https://www.buddyguy.net/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLHgxnGVeEA A Man and the Blues, title track to the album here (Stone Crazy! has only 6 tracks and counts as an EP to me) and central to what I was trying to do here: obtain some real blues. Let the arguing commence - what counts as "real" or not in any particular genre of music is as arbitrary and subjective as anything else about music genres.
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ExecuDork posted:An aside for a technical question. I just googled "external CD drive" and plenty of name brands show up for around the $30-40 mark. They're all listed as DVD drives. It might the case that at the budget level you're getting the same components no matter what brand you buy, not sure. But a name brand would (presumably) have support/warranty/ etc. edit: also, do any of the CDs that aren't read have some gimmick like being Enhanced CDs, dual discs, etc? Puppy Galaxy fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Aug 14, 2022 |
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Puppy Galaxy posted:I just googled "external CD drive" and plenty of name brands show up for around the $30-40 mark. They're all listed as DVD drives. None of the CDs that have not worked have been unusual - no enhanced, no DVDs, and if there's two of them (e.g. studio and live version of an album) sometimes one works and the other doesn't. It seems random. I bought a cheap Amazon external drive and it worked for the CDs that had not worked on the previous cheap Amazon drive. But the new drive failed on a newly-purchased CD and the old drive was able to read it without issue. So it seems I have two external CD drives that each work on about 99% of CDs, and the 1% they cannot handle is (mostly?) covered by the other device. A kludge, in other words, a solution that works but is inelegant. Oh well.
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I have a Samsung drive that I’ve backed up my over 1,000 album collection with an over 99% success rate, I’d estimate. Its a cd/dvd combo drive, I can look up the model number of you’re interested.
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129 Megan Nash - Soft Focus Futures 220817 https://www.megannash.ca/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgPEtb5kBkE Chew Quietly / Clean Slate - the first video from this new album. Megan Nash is another musician I saw live at the last Ness Creek music festival I went to, 2018. I was volunteering at the festival - campground 3 host - so I had a pass that got me behind the stage, but not onto the backstage itself. On the Sunday night, the last night of the festival, the coordinators (paid to work the festival) organised a staff-and-muscians party. I had a chance to compliment Megan on her set while we crowded into one of the few permanent builidings on the site to wait out a brief storm.  Megan Nash with Bears in Hazenmore at Ness Creek 2018-0012 by Martin Brummell, on FlickrI have this picture hanging in my hallway at home. I dug into older pictures after the 2018 festival and discovered something I had forgotten about in 2018 - Megan Nash had played a micro-set as a "tweener", alone in the corner of the stage, in 2015.  Megan Nash at Ness Creek 2015 2 by Martin Brummell, on FlickrI think that's the same guitar.
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130 Jamiroquai - A Funk Odyssey 220824 http://www.jamiroquai.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hHSH9sJUEo Little L, the first actual music video I could find for a track from this album. Every single track on this album is an earworm. Any song, any time, it's stuck in my head for the rest of the day. I catch myself robo-voicing "twenty ZERO one" sometimes, or quietly doing the little double-clap from Little L. This another essentially-free CD from the Tip Shop.
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131 Led Zeppelin - III 220831 https://www.ledzeppelin.com/?frontpage=true https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlNhD0oS5pk The Immigrant Song, live, the official video (and the only one not full of Marvel movie images). I had this one cued up to buy as soon as a specific piece of good news reached me: the granting of my permanent visa to stay in Australia. That happened on 1 September, 2022, so I retconned this album into the Wednesday immediately before that happy Thursday. I bought the delux re-issue CD from the band's merch store, so I do not yet have the songs in hand. The first thing I did after the email from the Government of Australia dropped into my inbox on Thursday afternoon (after I told my wife that we were no longer sitting in bridge visa limbo), was put on this video and sing along (badly but happily). We come from the land of the ice and snow From the midnight sun where the hot springs blow This is true! Canada has all of those things in abundance, and we have experienced them. The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands To fight the horde and sing and cry, Valhalla, I am coming Well, OK, here we get a bit metaphorical. The "hammer of the gods" here is my bank account, which contributed thousands of dollars to bring us to Australia and apply for the visa. The "ships" are obviously the Air Canada Boeing 747-400 that we used to cross the Pacific. And I'm not sure about "fight the horde", though there has been plenty of singing and crying.
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“Fight the horde” refers to all the deadly spiders and snakes you’ll be living with. Congrats!
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132 Hiroshi Yoshimura - Green 220907 https://hiroshiyoshimura.bandcamp.com/album/green The bandcamp page for this late musician. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx7CyMZVhHY The full album on Youtube. Duckdealer recommended this album about a year ago. I was poking around, trying to get back ahead of this project and I decided to pick this one up along with a few other albums I bought that day. Bandcamp's Android app doesn't allow me to add items to a shopping cart, I have to buy things one at a time, completing the entire purchase from selection to card details in one go for each item. When I bought this on my computer I still had to eat multiple currency-conversion charges because I bought albums from several different countries, but it was less annoying than through the app. Have some pleasant ambience.
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133 We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls (10th Anniversary Edition) 220914 https://wewerepromisedjetpacks.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2q-X7DwlqI It's Thunder and it's Lightning, a live performance in Portland, Oregon. I find the camera work here very annoying, figure out how to focus ya dingus. This is the first song I heard from this Scottish group, through a music taste test I occassionally enter. One of my favourite songs from that set, in which my own entries were widely derided. Oh well. I found some good stuff, anyways. A Scottish accent comes through even when singing, unlike many other accents. Go ahead and argue about that one, I like how recognisable the voice is here.
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134 Bonnie Raitt - Bonnie Raitt 220921 https://www.bonnieraitt.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGTyNA0nI90 Bluebird, the first track from Bonnie Raitt's first album, self-titled. I could not find any actual videos for songs from this album, so you get this lazy audio-with-album-cover quasi-video. At least this is the remastered version, as I bought. Bonnie Raitt appeared on one of the late-night shows my wife watches on Youtube, and she asked me to pick up an album for this project. I asked in the the Recommend Me... thread and consensus for a chronological approach emerged very quickly. Her most famous songs were released on later albums, but this is a great start. I'm posting this early to 1) compensate for late posting the previous two albums and 2) because the very busy period at work I'm in right now (my excuse for the late posting) will continue for a while and I don't want to be chronically late.
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IUG posted:“Fight the horde” refers to all the deadly spiders and snakes you’ll be living with. Congrats! Australia's deadly wildlife is real enough, but the actual day-to-day threat is much exaggerated. By coincidence, today I saw my first living Red-bellied Black Snake, close to four years after we moved to this country. We're well inside the range for several ludicrously dangerous snakes, but only one (or perhaps two) dangerous spiders. The red-belly was on a gravel road my wife and I were driving on with the top down in our convertible, enjoying a well-earned Saturday afternoon cruise. We're both putting in long days in September, including some work this morning, the first early-morning Saturday I've had for a while. The spiders of note are red-backs (red is a popular colour for all sorts of things here), which are close relatives of the famous Black Widow. They're found in the same sorts of locations, mainly sheltered dry places like woodpiles or under outdoor furniture. People get bitten when they come close to squishing a spider, typically when picking up the object the spider is underneath - a log for the fire, or taking the wheelie-bin to the curb. We have both structures, and while the woodpile hasn't been disturbed for months (we're looking forward to using the backyard firepit as the weather warms), the wheelie bins get moved weekly and I've seen red-backs on and under them pretty often. They stay out of the way. The other species, also certainly present in or near our house, is the white-tail. This one is supposed to harbour dangerous bacteria rather than having dangerous venom per se but I'm not sure about that. All of this will make for fun stories when my nephew eventually comes to visit.
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135 Bridge City Sinners - The Bridge City Sinners & Witches Wrath (single) 220928 https://www.bridgecitysinners.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNi5X2NUbZ8 Witches Wrath - the single I bought to bring the track listing to 9. Eight tracks is somewhere on the border between an EP and an LP, using as we do the quaintly anachronistic categories developed during the decades when recorded music was sold to consumers on grooved black disks that could be spun at particular speeds. I like an album to have enough play time for me to accomplish something while lilstening - archetypically, washing the dishes, a task that takes about an hour start to finish. All nine tracks here don't quite reach the 30-minute mark. Which just means I'll have to pick up one or two more albums from them, probably on a Bandcamp Friday. This is a band my wife found, in her search for more bluegrass music. As you can see from the video and from the lyrics, the theme of The Bridge City Sinners is gothic even if the style of music doesn't fall into that category. Contrasts like that are fun, even if sometimes over-used.
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136 Neko Case - Wild Creatures 221005 https://nekocase.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKihA_QFbps Oh, Shadowless - the featured track on Neko Case's website from this compilation album. I bought this on Bandcamp, part of an effort on my part to legitimize my pre-existing music collection. Years ago, somebody gave me a few MP3, and I'd like to retrospectively pay for these songs. Neko Case has occassionally come up in conversations I've had with friends about music for a few decades. She was always in the category of "gotta remember the next time I'm shopping for music" but I've finally gotten around to her. And unlike the previous entry, this career retrospective includes 23 tracks and is long enough to get lost in.
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IUG posted:I have a Samsung drive that I’ve backed up my over 1,000 album collection with an over 99% success rate, I’d estimate. Its a cd/dvd combo drive, I can look up the model number of you’re interested. Similar. I bought a used USB LG DVD/CD writer off ebay probably around five years ago or so for like $30. It's been nothing but solid for ripping CDs when I've gotten them....brand new or scratched to hell. Definitely haven't ripped 1,000.....but I'd say that I'm close to 500.
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ExecuDork posted:136 Neko Case - Wild Creatures 221005 I've seen Neko Case live several times. She's great.
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I think this will be a great project to give him a chance to expand his tastes by giving him stuff he might not ever have tried. Even if he doesn't like it, he'll know what he does and doesn't like. A few possible recs: Pure Moods - a compilation album of electronic/new age stuff that was also massively popular in the 90s. Most associated with Enigma ("Return to Innocence" and "Sadeness" are on it) although it also has a fair amount of TV themes on it (from Miami Vice to Twin Peaks), which could inspire conversations of their own. There are two versions, from 1994 and 1997, that differ by just a few tracks (notably the '94 has a few older ones, and the '97 one has a remix of the X-Files theme). It's probably hard to really pick other albums that work to introduce electronic music, although maybe the Hackers soundtrack from the same time period could work. Unlike many soundtracks, the selections are all pretty similar early techno, which could be seen as either a positive or negative. The idea of this thread and the fact that you're in Australia made me think of the band TISM, as they have a song about just enjoying what you like and not giving in to trends ("The Birth of Uncool", though it's rather dated now since it puts down 'nu-' anything as being trendy). That's from The White Albun, which I think was their best-known, since "Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me" was a minor hit. It's something that you'd probably want to clear with the parents though. They have more mature themes as well as explicit lyrics, even if they do often put the obscenity to good effect, with lines like "If you can't love the one you're with, go gently caress yourself". And thinking of Australia and music also put me in mind of Midnight Oil's Blue Sky Mining which was the first album I ever bought with my own money (and later the first CD I bought). Can't go wrong with that, or Diesel and Dust alternately.
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137 The Wailin' Jennys - Fifteen 221012 https://www.thewailinjennys.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEXJJ5nZ7ng Wildflowers, the second track on this album. My wife suggested The Wailin' Jennys during a conversation we had about her times at the Winnipeg Folk Festival. She visited every year for most of her childhood and into early adulthood, and her fondness for folk festivals is what brought me to Ness Creek to my great appreciation. They're much more down-tempo and... I guess the word "gentle" applies - than most of what I reach for. I think having a broad range of moods and voices in this collection is an important feature. I want my nephew (and myself) to have something to suit nearly any occassion or feeling close at hand. It doesn't all have to be nu-metal and clumsy explorations of music from bands with recently-deceased members.
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138 Pic et les Blancs de Mémoire - Jou-z-ent Noël 221019 https://picetlesblancsdememoire.bandcamp.com/ Bandcamp, because this band seems not have an independent website of their own. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX3jXWtTkII Cartier My first really accidental purchase in this project. I had been trying to buy an album featuring a Quebecois singer/performer that my wife is particularly fond of, but somehow ended up with this jazz band. My wife does not care for jazz, so I acheived the opposite of what I wanted. Still, the only jazz-like album so far other than this one is a gimmicky-titled album by Kyle Hollingsworth (#89) and there's a need for some background music like this sometimes. Or maybe my nephew will like to put this on and just chill.
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