When the company supplied work truck has only an AM/FM radio, you have to eat the E36 M3 sandwich.
When the company supplied work truck has only an AM/FM radio, you have to eat the E36 M3 sandwich.
freestyle said:I honestly don't know many folks that listen to the radio or CDs these days. All streaming. Including me. And I'm old.
My shouting NO! at the songs is in my car listening to Sirius where the stations are quite specific. I can love a music genre and HATE more than half of the songs in it - I'm special that way.
We had Sirus on a 6 month trial when we bought our last car. After a week I ended up listening to a talk station.
In reply to akamcfly :
I still listen to CD's. Especially on trips. My old bass player still does as well. He has a collection of thousands and adds to it pretty much weekly. When he gets downloaded music, he burns it to a CD. He also still uses a 5 disc CD changer in his house. Music is pretty much his life and he listens non-stop.
The car has no CD player, but I realized recently that I missed listening to albums. I fell into the Spotify shuffles (either radio or playlist), and wandered off from listening to albums for a while. I had a six-disc changer in the 2002, and it was something of a ritual deciding which six albums to put in next.
Putting a bunch of stuff on a thumb drive; I don't know what the Mini's interface for that is, but hopefully it'll allow me to listen to albums from that drive without too much difficulty. There's a bunch of stuff in my collection I haven't been listening to because it's not on Spotify or Bandcamp.
Ransom said:In reply to Curtis :
On the intersection of Bluegrass/Newgrass and GRM, I recommend Split Lip Rayfield's Kiss of Death (to cars). Dang, that mandolin...
With a nod to Wheelsmithy and poopshovel as well...
Some of my favorite things are bluegrass covers with a novelty twist. Like:
Cleverlys Walk Like an Egyptian
Of course, Steve 'n' Seagulls Thunderstruck
The bar last night played a Blondie song that I was unfamiliar with. Saw them in concert I'm sure 15 years ago and they were awesome. Whatever the song was it was as good as any of their hits but I hated it. Maybe I just hate old music nowadays. Except for Linkin Park and their hits anyway. 
I can essentially listen to everything, at both jobs we stream in a non local station and it just becomes background noise to drown out the fluorescent overhead lights.
Like a lot of others posted here I can't stand the 'bro country' stuff, and I really can't stand the 'screaming because I can scream' style of metal, which sucks because usually those same style of songs have really good stand alone instrumentals if not for the high pitched incoherent screaming that is just straight horrid sounds.
Christmas music. 7 years of Chorus, from September through December. Plus over a decade in retail.
Brian said:Plus over a decade in retail.
Oh yeah... that brings back a flood of memories when I worked at Pep Boys. Listening to a canned rotation of the same songs for 8+ hours can drive you insane. Fortunately, at my other retail jobs we had control over the radio station.
How did I miss this thread? Let's see...
-Pop/Bro Country. Every song is the same and formulaic. And stupid. And it insults my intelligence. And..
-Modern pop. It's factory-produced garbage with no soul or flavor made for the lemmings. It's the food equivalent of plain Ramen Noodles without seasoning.
-99% of Nu Metal. Especially Godsmack. Berk them. 99% of their songs have the word "Away" (pronounced AHWAYEEE) in it. That little gnome Sully Erna needs to crawl back into his hovel and stay there for good.
-Butt Rock. This was born out of Nu Metal, and just like it's parent, it sucks too. It's like Bro Country for people with piercings and tramp stamps.
-Modern "hip-hop" that's played on the radio: I don't get it. I don't understand it at all. I like the occasional hip-hop here and there, but my knowledge basically ends at Wu-Tang Clan around the year 2000. Things got a lot worse after that. A lot worse.
-Adult Contemporary (excluding Yacht Rock): I also worked in retail and in a grocery store for a total of 10 years in high school and college. There's only so much Richard Marx a man can take!
-Most Christmas music. There's like, uhh... 6 or 7 Christmas songs. There doesn't need to be 96,261,715 versions of each one. And there most definitely doesn't need to be radio stations that start playing them NON STOP from September-January. STOP IT.
I'll listen to almost anything at least once, but I can't stand the factory produced stuff.
What is the stuff where they take a sample of a good song, have a woman sing beautifully, and the dude whos name is on the record says stuff like "Uuh..ooh.. yeah...ohh..uuh..yeah. Shut up, dude. You are ruining a perfectly good song.
Ransom said:The car has no CD player, but I realized recently that I missed listening to albums.
This. I miss great albums and feel the art has been lost to the 'hot single' and streaming we have today. There are still some out there, but hard to find.
On topic, the music I hate most is the music of loud love coming from the room next to me in the hotel. Mostly because it isn't me and I am trying to sleep because I am usually traveling for work and have to get up in the morning.
former520 said:On topic, the music I hate most is the music of loud love coming from the room next to me in the hotel. Mostly because it isn't me and I am trying to sleep because I am usually traveling for work and have to get up in the morning.
Ever consider grunting along, but louder? Or shouting instructions and critiques?
DjGreggieP said:I really can't stand the 'screaming because I can scream' style of metal, which sucks because usually those same style of songs have really good stand alone instrumentals if not for the high pitched incoherent screaming that is just straight horrid sounds.
I'll come right out and say it - whether screamers or growlers, most metal is ruined by the vocals.
Never thought about that, not really into metal, but you're probably right
Prog. Jam bands. Plus pretty much all of their fans.
K-pop isn't good, most western pop music isn't much better, Christmas music is horrid and Bro-country makes me unreasonably angry.
Duke said:DjGreggieP said:I really can't stand the 'screaming because I can scream' style of metal, which sucks because usually those same style of songs have really good stand alone instrumentals if not for the high pitched incoherent screaming that is just straight horrid sounds.
I'll come right out and say it - whether screamers or growlers, most metal is ruined by the vocals.
You are definitely right about screaming and growling although i do like Dio and other singers in metal.
Of course i also very much enjoy Pelican which is all instrumental
Tk8398 said:. I generally like music that you never hear on the radio,
Your hipster is showing.
I get excited when I hear Livin on a Prayer, as should everyone!
Rap/Hip Hop hands down
Appleseed said:When the company supplied work truck has only an AM/FM radio, you have to eat the E36 M3 sandwich.
I was almost home from somewhere 10 hours away once, before I realized I never turned the radio on.
Streetwiseguy said:What is the stuff where they take a sample of a good song, have a woman sing beautifully, and the dude whos name is on the record says stuff like "Uuh..ooh.. yeah...ohh..uuh..yeah. Shut up, dude. You are ruining a perfectly good song.
I found a "remix" of The Doors' "Roadhouse Blues" that consisted of the "artist" simply adding in an "Uh-huh" and "Awright" every now and then.
I felt ripped off, and I grabbed it off of P2P.
Ransom said:
I don't hate Led Zeppelin. When I was younger, my mom said that every teenage went through a period where their Walkman had a Led Zeppelin tape in it for a long time, and I was at that age where I had to prove my parents wrong, and I am STUBBORN. I make mules look downright agreeable. I blame my Eastern European genetics, which I largely got from her anyway....
One of the tracks that came in on rotation on the way home from work was a remix of Whole Lotta Love. Since I downloaded it from YouTube, I can link it to you here.
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