From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V2 #212 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Sunday, June 16 2002 Volume 02 : Number 212 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Organinzing that first CD ["richblath" ] [loud-fans] Alphebetizeration ["O Geier" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 00:59:23 +0100 From: "richblath" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Organinzing that first CD - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Mitton" To: "Joseph M. Mallon" > > New question: how many CDs have you bought more than once, because of > > remastering or rerelease with bonus tracks? "I lost it" doesn't count. > > None. But the related question: How many CDs have you bought because you > forgot you already owned it? About 10. > > --Michael Deliberate - none that come to mind, although the upcoming Uncle Tupelo reissues will be sorely tempting. Inadvertant - more than I'd care to name, THE PENNY DROPS being the most recent (I thought I recognised the title from somewhere when I ordered it from Aus - good job the Aus$ is really weak). The most spectacular being 2 copies of EXPLORING THE AXIS by THIN WHITE ROPE bought simutaneously from the same shop. Excuse; I hadn't decided which of the 2 versions I wanted to get because of various bonus tracks, so I picked up both meaning to make the decision before going to the checkout and of course, by the time I got there I'd completely forgotten about them! Richard ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 10:56:54 -0400 From: "Larry Tucker" Subject: RE: [loud-fans] questions re making CD-Rs <-----Original Message----- Subject: [loud-fans] Misc threads and stereo suggestions I tried to post this yesterday, but it didn't work. So if it turns up again next week, that'll be why... At 3:20 PM -0500 6/14/02, Miles Goosens wrote: >Then everything worked fine for nearly 14 years. But earlier this >year, within the space of a month, I got unplayable copies of >Bjork's VESPERTINE (same problem as TUNNEL OF LOVE, but 10 songs in >instead of right away) and the Chemical Brothers' COME WITH US >(sealed tight in the ltd. edition cardboard packaging but scratched >all the hell; I guess I could have done the toothpaste thing but it >was just easier to stop by Tower and make 'em give me another one). As a record retail professional (cough), I can tell you that CDs have started being returned as unplayable - usually just in certain players - at a fairly astonishing rate in the last few months. I've worked in one record store or another for three of the last five years, and I can remember maybe one or two coming back in all that time - and maybe 50 or 60 in the last few months. The major labels insist they're not doing copy protection in the US, but I've gotta say - I'm not convinced. I also had a Great CD Theft in 1995, and like Miles, I'm often really confused about what I owned then and I own now. So I've duplicated a few CDs - and worse, passed up some I really should've pounced on. The only CDs I can recall intentionally buying twice because of remastering are "Parallel Lines" and 'Eat To The Beat" by Blondie, both of which sounded pretty crappy in their original CD incarnations. First CD was "Looks Could Kill" by Mother's Finest. I actually bought my first player *because* of that disc. I'd been going to see them live after they reunited, and they sounded amazing - better than ever. So I'd been all jazzed to buy the album - but it was a huge disappointment, all danced up and slick. So then I found out there were extra tracks on the CD, and I got it in my mind that those would be where all the greatness I'd seen on stage manifested itself. Turned out not to be true. But I had to find out, didn't I? I think that covers my thread catch-up (oh, I could go into my punctuation woes for hours, as someone who worked for many years as a copy editor for advertising agencies of all things, but I think I'll spare you) so now I'll ask for advice on stereo equipment. We have a pretty good high-end system that we've cobbled together, with the CD unit (and the most plebian component) being my Phillips 2-drawer burner. Problem is, as a changer freak since the vinyl days, I can never decide what I want to listen to in terms of one or two albums. I need to put on five or six and let 'em rip. Randy is fairly convinced that I'm nuts, but I'm telling you, in the three years since we've had this setup I've spent maybe 10% as much time listening to music as usual. So I was thinking of getting one of those little bookshelf systems to fulfill my own perverse listening requirements. We don't live anywhere near an audio store, so I'm almost forced to do my shopping online. The obvious problem is that I won't be able to hear what they sound like before buying; the secondary problem is that I do NOT want one of those things that lights up like a discotheque. Has anyone got any recommendations? My funding is somewhat limited, but not absurdly so - I'm not looking to come in under $100 or anything. Thanks! - -- Elizabeth ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 12:35:50 -0400 From: Dave Walker Subject: [loud-fans] info-crack, redefined Loathe as I am to provide people with more reasons to stare, utterly absorbed, into their monitors for even more hours at a time (but hey, it's cold and rainy outside today), I have to offer a pointer to http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk/ Works on Mac OS X, Windows, and pretty much any Unix with perl (i.e. all of them), so no one has a valid excuse for not running it. :) - -- Dave Walker freeform radio and live, nude fish at: http://www.freeke.org/ffg ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 19:17:49 +0000 From: "O Geier" Subject: [loud-fans] Alphebetizeration Mavericks, by Holsapple Stamey goes next to Out of My Way by Holsapple. Game Theory in the G's, Loud Family in L's, right before Lyle Lovett. All my classical is alphebetized by composer, unless I have more than one CD with a soloist or conductor (ie all Berstein is together, after Bach, all Yo Yo Ma is together before Mahler). All soundtracks are together, alpha by movie title. Check out the 'Next Stop Wonderland' Soundtrack if you like Bossa Nova. Check out the movie as well. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V2 #212 *******************************