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Topic: In other news (apolitical thread)...

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FearlessF

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Re: In other news (apolitical thread)...
« Reply #84 on: February 05, 2025, 12:00:03 PM »
Ok boomer
not so good for the Sooners

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Re: In other news (apolitical thread)...
« Reply #85 on: February 05, 2025, 12:04:28 PM »
95, I'd have the grunge and industrial down, but the rap would trip me up.

I do remember Coolio
I remember that song!



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Re: In other news (apolitical thread)...
« Reply #86 on: February 05, 2025, 12:05:22 PM »
not so good for the Sooners

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Think baby boomer...
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Re: In other news (apolitical thread)...
« Reply #87 on: February 05, 2025, 12:09:26 PM »
I remember that damn song...

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Re: In other news (apolitical thread)...
« Reply #88 on: February 05, 2025, 12:11:43 PM »
I too know all the words.
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Re: In other news (apolitical thread)...
« Reply #89 on: February 05, 2025, 12:48:26 PM »
95, I'd have the grunge and industrial down, but the rap would trip me up.

I do remember Coolio

I did pretty well across genres, meaning I also did poorly across all genres.  

If I had to guess, the distinction with the 50% I didn't know is it was stuff that didn't get a lot of mainstream radio play or wasn't on MTV/VH1.  

....which, actually occasionally played music videos back then.  

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Re: In other news (apolitical thread)...
« Reply #90 on: February 05, 2025, 12:51:03 PM »
Personally I love movies that break the 4th wall and D&W does it very well

All the Deadpool movies did that pretty well, imo.  

My favorite was the end-credits extra scene from the second one, where Deadpool time-travels to 2011, finds Ryan Reynolds getting excited about the Green Lantern script, and kills him.  

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Re: In other news (apolitical thread)...
« Reply #91 on: February 05, 2025, 12:55:16 PM »
Listening to boomer radio 
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Re: In other news (apolitical thread)...
« Reply #92 on: February 05, 2025, 01:00:50 PM »
Listening to boomer radio
Barry Switzer at the local watering hole?

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Re: In other news (apolitical thread)...
« Reply #93 on: February 05, 2025, 02:12:40 PM »
Saw utee post in the books thread about how his library wing is also the "Vinyl Lounge"...

One of the things when he posted about that in the now-closed thread is that it inspired me to build a couple of Spotify playlists that are just single albums start to finish. There are just some albums that need to be listened to straight through... I can't go from Rage Against The Machine to pretty much any Pink Floyd song and then out of that to Dr Dre and have any flow as I sometimes do when Spotify is on random. A lot of Pink Floyd really lends itself to just listening straight through lol... 

So just wanted to give a thumbs-up for that idea, even if I don't quite have the space for a dedicated listening lounge. 

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Re: In other news (apolitical thread)...
« Reply #94 on: February 05, 2025, 02:27:58 PM »
Saw utee post in the books thread about how his library wing is also the "Vinyl Lounge"...

One of the things when he posted about that in the now-closed thread is that it inspired me to build a couple of Spotify playlists that are just single albums start to finish. There are just some albums that need to be listened to straight through... I can't go from Rage Against The Machine to pretty much any Pink Floyd song and then out of that to Dr Dre and have any flow as I sometimes do when Spotify is on random. A lot of Pink Floyd really lends itself to just listening straight through lol...

So just wanted to give a thumbs-up for that idea, even if I don't quite have the space for a dedicated listening lounge.
Exactly. I'm unsure how one simply listens to a Pink Floyd song. You really need to listen to the album. 

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« Reply #95 on: February 05, 2025, 02:34:26 PM »
+2 on Pink Floyd, and many others.

And yeah, I first started just listening to whole albums streaming, before I decided to dedicate the space to the Vinyl Lounge.

I think I may have stated it before, about my new space, is that I don't have ANY streaming setup in there.  Just the turntable and a single-disc CD player as sources.  So it sort of forces me to just listen to albums all the way through, without getting antsy and skipping around.  I find it to be very relaxing, and a reminder of how I used to approach listening to music, in the beforetimes.

Another thing I've noticed is just how accustomed I'd become to crappy sounding compressed streaming media. Both the turntable and the CDs, played through a decent amp and decent stereo loudspeakers, sound SO much better.

Don't get me wrong, there's still a place for streaming music and spotify playlists, I still love to set those up when we're out by the pool in back all day long, or hosting a lot of people in the house during the holidays. 

But for just straight up listening, I can't tell you how much nicer I've found it to be, to just sit in the Lounge and listen to albums all the way through.

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Re: In other news (apolitical thread)...
« Reply #96 on: February 05, 2025, 02:42:27 PM »
Which brings up another topic for discussion-- what do you consider to be the best albums all time, side A and side B, from beginning to end, with no bad songs?  The kind you just want to sit down and listen to the whole thing, never wanting to hit that skip button or lift the tone arm to the next track.

I'll throw out The Cars The Cars as a starting point, I love that whole album.  There are many others.


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Re: In other news (apolitical thread)...
« Reply #97 on: February 05, 2025, 03:08:20 PM »
Which brings up another topic for discussion-- what do you consider to be the best albums all time, side A and side B, from beginning to end, with no bad songs?  The kind you just want to sit down and listen to the whole thing, never wanting to hit that skip button or lift the tone arm to the next track.

I'll throw out The Cars The Cars as a starting point, I love that whole album.  There are many others.
So obviously the album as an art form has been dead for a while.  I think Dave Matthews and Oasis did the best job among "modern" artists of keeping the album as an art form.

I think Abbey Road is the best constructed album.  But I don't think it necessarily has the best songs.  It just works together better than anything I've ever heard.

If we are just talking banger after banger, these are some of my favorites.  Not saying they are the best crafted album, just albums where I can listen start to finish, these are the ones that come to mind

  • Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel
  • Tapestry - Carole King
  • Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
  • Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
  • Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
  • Songs In The Key Of Life - Stevie Wonder
  • Who's Next - The Who
  • Band on the Run - Paul McCartney & the Wings
  • Thriller - Michael Jackson
  • Joshua Tree - U2
  • No Jacket Required - Phil Collins
  • Master of Puppets - Metallica
  • Appetite for Destruction - Guns n Roses
  • Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morisette
  • Kid A - Radiohead
  • Chronic 2001 - Dr. Dre
  • Stankonia - OutKast
  • Black Album - Jay Z
  • College Dropout - Kanye West
  • FutureSexLoveSounds - Justin Timberlake
  • Come Away With Me - Norah Jones
  • White Trash With Money - Toby Keith
  • 1989 - Taylor Swift
  • 21 - Adele

 

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