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021 Broads - Stay Connected 200722 I went for a wander through Bandcamp after seeing an advertisment for the new album from Broads. I'd never heard of them before, but their Bandcamp page was listed on the back page of a free beer-themed magazine I sometimes pick up at my local bar (The Welder's Dog, if you're ever in Armidale). http://www.broadsmusic.com/music.html Their website, but they also still run their Bandcamp page: https://wearebroads.bandcamp.com/album/stay-connected https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiUOFmPS0L8&t=213s Mirror, the first track on the album. The photo for the ad was the cover of their previous album, which just makes me think about how album art is created and decided, and if those decisions are sometimes made at the last minute. EDIT: And hey! We made it to page 2!
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022 The Homesick - The Big Exercise 200729 Wandering around Bandcamp is, in my opinion, a great way to find stuff you would absolutely never find otherwise (interesting threads here notwithstanding). Dutch pop music! Why not? https://thehomesick.bandcamp.com/album/the-big-exercise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzIyM_ZWX-E Male Bonding, the last track on the album. This track seems appropriate, given what I'm trying to do here - reach out to my nephew and establish something to base a relationship on. We'll be able to talk about music, after he tires of telling me about his wonderful LEGO creations (I gave him my LEGO collection as a christmas present when he was 6). Hopefully the video's depiction of monsters is not somehow prophetic.
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023 The Spirit Cabinet - Bloodlines 200805 Another Bandcamp Friday purchase, this one just browsing "metal" and staying in the Netherlands for no particular reason. https://thespiritcabinet.bandcamp.c...063f19690b981bb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0k1GFvj628 Metal is a genre I have some experience with but basically no knowledge. All I have is a collection of vague, beer-soaked memories of talking about various local bands with friends, years ago. And a Metallica album that pops up sometimes when I hit "shuffle all" on my phone.
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024 Vision 3D - Vision 3D 200812 The last of that Bandcamp Friday collection, popping over the border into Belgium and into a different genre. And into French again, a minor goal of this project: more French (and other) language music. Here, it's a partial success - most of the songs include some (or all) English singing. https://sixtonnesdechairrecords.bandcamp.com/album/vision-3d https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB2SmJzpzNc Another example of a bad decision regarding the band and album name - YOU try searching for "Vision 3D" or "Vision 3D music" and finding this band. I was only able to find this one because the track has an unusual name: Fannick. I know band names are kind of a joke most of the time, I've heard somebody crack "that'd be a good band name!" when a seemingly-random string of words are thrown together. LOL Random MonkeyCheese is probably already a name for several quasi-ironic bands. An actually random set of 2 or 3 words would probably make a good, easily-searchable band name, much better than The Music or Vision 3D. I have to assume that band names make a difference to the commercial success of the band, and that one way to fail at being both memorable and findable is to choose a name that already exists for something else or is simply too generic. Obviously, I'm not the only one thinking about this stuff. Here's another take on it: https://spinditty.com/learning/band-name-ideas And a Band Name Generator! https://www.indiesound.com/band-name-generator/ I like Cloutshame, and Briefcase Tax. What does it come up with for you?
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This is a cool loving project OP, and I hope the youngin can appreciate at least some of the music. I mean with 500 albums gotta be at least one they'll like, in the far future where music has cycled back to smooth jazz being the most mainstream genre. Seriously cool as beans 😎
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/\/\ Thank you! 025 Shred Kelly - Archipelago and Like a Rising Sun 200819 I broke one of my own (loose) rules with this, a two-fer from one of my favourite bands. This was a Bandcamp Friday purchase and I indulged my own completion-ism, buying the last two albums from Shred Kelly I needed to complete my ownership of all of their stuff. Of course, they released another album later (spoiler: I bought it, too, for this project, but later). http://www.shredkelly.com/ https://shredkelly.bandcamp.com/music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3Iy1mBzpdQ The title track from Archipelago. I saw Shred Kelly at the Ness Creek Music Festival in northern Saskatchewan in 2016. They gave a fantastic live show and among the photos I took - I like to take pictures at concerts when I can - are some of my personal favourites. Like this one, of the guitarist, Ty West, that I had printed and hangs in the hallway of my home.  Shred Kelly 44 by Martin Brummell, on Flickr
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026 Fight Songs: The Music of Team Fortress 2 And now we start getting a bit broader with the definition of "album", with some video game music. This showed up in my Steam account because I have TF2 (and I've played it, a little bit, many years ago). For a few dollars, I got some instrumentals that might make good background music for something, someday. Rather than link to Steam or some weird internal page, I'll just post a Youtube video of the whole album from some random person. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZdnG60BiI8 I like the music from TF2, it provides an interesting somewhat timeless atmosphere to a frenetic shooter. ExecuDork fucked around with this message at 08:52 on Jun 2, 2021 |
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027 Queen - Queen 200902 I bought a boxset of Queen on Amazon, 10 CDs in total covering 5 albums. September 2020 had 5 Wednesdays, and all of them are Queen albums in this project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JofwEB9g1zg The first track from the first album in the set. Queen has so many best-of and greatest-hits and other compilation albums that I decided to just dive in and choose this band as one I can justify getting a bit completionist. Keeping to my rule that if I find a band I like I should avoid buying a second album in the same year of the project, I decided that this boxset counts as one purchase in that respect (all of the CDs did come in the same box, 5 jewel cases containing each album and a paired set of live recordings). This means I'm free to continue moving forward in Queen's timeline. There are 10 tracks on this album, with live versions of 5 of them on the bonus CD. Those live versions are from Deceember 1971, all labelled "De Lane Lea Demo", plus an additional track, Mad The Swine.
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028 Queen - Queen II 200909 The second compilation album in the boxset I bought. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7e4Tr9IH5U For some reason, Seven Seas of Rhye is on both this album and the previous one.
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029 Queen - Sheer Heart Attack! 200916 Third album in the box set. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNdFeUywHLI
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030 Queen - A Night at the Opera 200923 Fourth album in the box set. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ Bohemian Rhapsody was awarded the #1 spot in Guitar World's Top 50 Greatest Solos of All Time and the singing is so good they included just the operatic part on the bonus CD for this album.
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031 Queen - A Day at the Races 200930 With the end of September 2020 we also come to the final album of this box set. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0LSuY2TDwE White Man. This song (which I really like) fits into a category in my mind, "White people singing about colonialism and related historical/current racist problems". Also in this category, Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills, and plenty of other songs. I have no strong opinions one way or the other about whether this is cultural appropriation or something else that gets people arguing. I just find it interesting, as a clueless white (cis, het, priviledged, etc.) man from Canada, where we are slowly coming to terms with the genocide and other atrocities in Canadian history, that this kinda falls out as a sub-genre of music. Am I being completely ridiculous and mildly offensive? Or just being insecure and weird? My nephew has Canadian First Nations heritage and his mother (who is white), my sister-in-law, is a tireless champion of anti-racism and pushing back the darkness of discrimination and oppression. So I do think about how he might react to songs like this (positively, I hope). One of the comments under this YouTube video* is "As an indigenous person this song and wounded knee by redbone are my anthems." which makes me lean towards this being an even better song than I thought. * I know, never read the comments. But I couldn't help a quick skim and it was non-terrible.
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032 Danko Jones - A Rock Supreme 201007 I heard Danko Jones once in a while when I was in Canada, and they played a couple of shows at the excellent little local venue in Waterloo, Ontario, Maxwell's around the time I lived very close to it, though I never managed to see them live. They always seem like just a fun, rock-and-roll band and they mostly sing about partying and generally being rockstars. Something to crank up to 11 and run around screaming along. https://www.dankojones.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMEWmtoxpTk I'm In A Band, an example of their attitude. I need to get more Danko Jones.
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033 Billy Joel - The Hits 201014 This is another album that falls into the category of "songs almost everybody knows", and I decided to leave exploring the full Billy Joel output to another project, if ever. I really like several of these songs and I hope my nephew does, too. https://www.billyjoel.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxEPV4kolz0 Piano Man is probably the song I was most familiar with before I bought this album. The video and the song are interesting to me because of the peek into a different world than I'm used to. I've never lived anywhere that could support a bar so specialised as to be considered a piano bar, but I like to think they're common enough to be unremarkable in places like New York. And the video clearly shows people smoking in the bar, something I (happily) only experienced for a brief window when I was first legally old enough to drink (19 years old in British Columbia, Canada - when I was 22 they banned smoking in bars and restaurants across the province). I bought the album as a set of MP3 files, nearly instantly downloaded, directly from Billy Joel's website. Surprisingly few artists have their output available in this way. To this point in this project, only Billy Joel and Radiohead have done it - perhaps it's something only the biggest, most famous musicians can do, something to do with rights ownership and the record companies. Plenty of musicians sell CDs on their websites, or have links to a kind of online record company, a site that handles CD and merchandise sales for many muscians. Before I began this project I naively assumed that the majority of music I bought would be like this, MP3 directly from the musicians, either their own website or something like Bandcamp. ExecuDork fucked around with this message at 07:49 on Jun 28, 2021 |
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034 U2 - Joshua Tree (2017 re-re-issue 201021 Like the previous week, this is an album that provide a solid introduction to an extremely well-known band. I went with Joshua Tree rather than some greatest hits compilation album because I like the story (apocryphal, exaggerated, or basically true) behind it - that U2 sat down and wrote some of their biggest songs based on raw emotion during and after touring the USA. https://www.u2.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3-5YC_oHjE I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For seems to fit this project well - I just keep looking for music. Still, I'm finding lots of stuff I really like, including these songs.
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035 Sam Roberts Band - Lo-Fantasy 201028 I bought this on Bandcamp, but I'll link to the band's website. https://www.samrobertsband.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPYcbMADOt8 Shapeshifters, appropriate I think given the changes in Sam Roberts Band over the years. I have 6 albums by this band, but my phone insists on categorising the first 3 separately from the later albums, because formerly SRB was known as just Sam Roberts (the "band" was implied, or if written was not part of the official name). Anyway, one of my favourite bands, and I listen to this and the other albums more often than most of the music I have. This is another band subject to completionism by me, and according to the website, new album! I'll have to decide if I'm going to include it in this project, or just buy it for myself. Everything but the newest album appears to still be for sale on the band's Bandcamp page, as well as through their website. No direct downloads on the website that I can see, though. I have a note in my records for this project that I really do not like KT8 Merch, when I went looking for material from another Canadian band I found their KT8 page but it was not working well for me. I didn't write down the details, just that the website SUCKS. Maybe it's better now? Whatever, I like Bandcamp for more reasons than just the (important) reason that they provide direct downloads of high-quality audio files and I don't have to pay shipping and wait for a physical CD I'm just going to rip as soon as it arrives.
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036 Corb Lund - Counterfeit Blues 201104 I bought this CD along with another by Corb Lund from a website that handles sales for several musicians, and I got a free CD by somebody I'd never heard of. That album will appear later. https://www.corblund.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeEyAt4Ewhg Title track from this album, though Truck Got Stuck is probably the stand-out hit. I have heard that Corb Lund refuses to play Truck Got Stuck at live shows when requested, he's apparently sick of playing it. He has a large catalogue of other material, so it's understandable that he'd rather play other songs besides the somewhat silly (though, really, excellent) one. Part of this project is me forcing myself to explore genres beyond my comfort zone, including Country. I maintain that so-called Top 40 Country is bad, and not of any interest to me. But, while my younger self condemmed the entire genre, today I acknowledge that among the wide diversity falling under that umbrella there are certainly some really good songwriters, singers, and performers. I refuse to put the likes of Tim McGraw and Toby Keith into the same bin as Johnny Cash and Kenny Rogers, and indeed I'll put Corb Lund in with those latter two greats. Corb Lund is from Alberta, Canada; I mostly grew up in Calgary so his songs about the prairies and the foothills, and the roughnecks on the oil patch, and coming home to that land, resonate with me. Good Country does exist, and I'm including it in this project. And I'm not the only one thinking this way, it seems. Corb Lund's website includes This T-Shirt Design, "I don't like country but I like Corb Lund". And I've gotten a truck stuck in that Alberta mud.  Seba Beach Field Work August 2016 12 by Martin Brummell, on Flickr
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Hey man, I support this. I could put a thousand albums on a piece of silicon for the price of a stamp.
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DamagedGoods posted:Hey man, I support this. I could put a thousand albums on a piece of silicon for the price of a stamp. Which brings up the still-unsolved issue of the hardware my nephew will need to listen to all this music. My first thought had been a dedicated digital music player, something like a Sanyo Clip but I'm pretty sure that's not going to work. For one thing, I couldn't find a player that combined all of the must-have features I want for my nephew's 10th birthday: water-resistant, micro-SD card slot, intuitive controls, not more than $100. There are Clip that hit 3 out of 4 (good controls, decent price and choose either water-resistant OR takes a micro-SD), and I tried out the AGPTEK Clip-knockoff, based on an AGPTEK player that was "good enough, most of the time" I had several years ago. This A50S also checked 3 out of 4, but the deal-breaker here is its fragility. It's not water-resistant and I managed to break it somehow, the screen is cracked and displays nonsense patterns, perhaps from just jostling around inside my bag. And now I see the link with your username, very nice! A broken player is no big deal to me, but probably devastating if my nephew has a similar failure a few weeks after his birthday. I don't want to go with something that combines ruggedness with micro-SD and good controls for lots of money because then the gift becomes the player, not the music. The music is safe as intangible files, existing as multiple independent copies of every song; if he loses the hardware (remember, this is a child we're talking about, lost/stolen/destroyed is very likely) I want to be able to re-assure him (and, crucially, his mother, my sister-in-law) that the loss is trivial. There's a whole wagonload of emotional baggage and personal relationship stuff around that, so I fully expect that in the event he does lose even a very cheap player he'll be very unhappy. But I can try to minimize that, and gifting a $500 FiiO or something is not going to help in this. When he's older, like maybe his 16th birthday, I'm planning to give him a really nice bit of kit but I want him to be able to listen to tunes on something "good enough" in the meantime. I need to talk to his mother, my wife's sister. My current idea is to get a cheap phone - a basic smartphone from a few years ago, the kind of thing marketted at people buying a first smartphone for somebody young or very old, would fit all 4 requirements. Water-resistance could be added by a decent case if the phone is not already IP67 (or whatever) hardened. But, then I'm giving a 10-year-old a phone, going behind his mother's back and whatever decisions she has made about the appropriateness of a phone (not just a phone - internet, screentime, a zillion inappropriate apps) for her son. On the other hand, maybe he already has a phone, which would make my life easier. Or maybe his mother will really appreciate my offer to buy him a phone - I know money is tight for them in a way that it's not for me. Hmmm... maybe I can pitch a phone for him as a way to streamline he and I chatting every so often? I'm assuming a phone can be set up with child locks pretty easily, to prevent downloading apps without permission and limit data use even with local wi-fi, and other stuff I probably haven't thought of. Simply not including a SIM card suggests an easy way to avoid all the issues of phone plans and service costs and so forth, which are very relevant here. If anybody reading this has children and has looked into these issues, I'd love to hear what you have to say!
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037 Midnight Oil - Armistice Day 201111 11 November, Remembrance Day (Armistice Day in Australia) fell on a Wednesday in 2020. I discovered this Midnight Oil double-album based on live performances in Melbourne and Sydney in November 2017. https://www.midnightoil.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-_s2UzdSek Power and the Passion, live at the Domain in Sydney - possibly the same performance that went into the album. And, you've gotta love Garrett's dancing, and that drum solo! I have one Remembrance Day-themed song, Highway of Heroes by The Trews, on an album I already own - and it doesn't appear on any of their other albums so I'd be re-buying a (very good) album. And, The Trews are a special, oddly difficult case of problems buying Canadian music in Australia. Short version: shipping costs by the website that handles merchandise for The Trews are stupid, more than $100 to send ONE CD from Canada to Australia. The only other Canadian song I could find about Remembrance Day was by Bryan Adams, which isn't that good and anyway, turns out Bryan Adams is kinda a racist dick. Midnight Oil are the opposite, and protest music like this is an important theme running through this project.
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038 Corb Lund - Losin' Lately Gambler 201118 This is the other Corb Lund album I bought, separated from its sibling by 11 November and the need for an appropriate album on that day (see previous post). https://www.corblund.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoMCLGdzsUA Feel free to skip forward past Jian Ghomeshi's blather, the music starts at 2:10. Actually, it's probably a good idea to skip through any video that includes Jian, he's not worth paying attention to. I chose this song to show here, despite that unfortunate period for CBC, because I met my wife and completed my PhD in Saskatchewan, I spent 6 good years there. The flatland province is also a citizenship test, you have to at least try to pronounce it.
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039 Richard Thompson - Electric 201125 This is the free, bonus album I received when I bought 2 albums from Corb Lund, through the third-party website that handles merchandise sales for several artists. https://www.richardthompson-music.com/new-home-page https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTpjoaFcyvg Salford Sunday, one my favourites from this album. Here's the whole album on Youtube as a playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBKBueXI50BeLOZiyKfOk4TZOqErqVgdK I was half-expecting something I wouldn't like, a CD destined to become a coaster for drinks, but I really like this album. There will be more Richard Thompson in the future of this project. As is often the case, here's a very well-known musician that I'd never heard of before. This is an excellent feature of this project, that I'm constantly discovering great music I'd never heard before.
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040 Green Day - Kerplunk & Dookie 201202 When I was in university and establishing and ossifying my musical tastes, these two albums were owned by many of my friends. https://greenday.com/ https://warnermusic.com.au/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSIESlBMdAs Welcome to Paradise is on both albums, very slightly different versions. I tried to buy Green Day's most recent album, because I have American Idiot (around here somewhere) and I like Green Day's take on President W - how would they respond to Trump? But, their website was completely unable to take my money, something about my Australian credit card didn't play well with their system and I couldn't even buy the physical CD from them. So I picked up this pair of their early stuff from Warner Music Australia. Opinions are divided about both Green Day and Warner (and the other big, old record companies), but I like GD and I'm OK with exploring this doubly-anachronistic relic of a previous age for this project.
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041 Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill 201209 One of the main goals of this project is for me to explore genres and artists I'm unfamiliar with - and uncomfortable with. Lauryn Hill is cited by a tremendous number of artists as being strikingly influential. https://mslaurynhill.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6QKqFPRZSA Doo-Wop (That Thing), sorry about the YouTube edits (some of the lyrics have been bleeped). Hip Hop is prominent among genres here for me, I have had much less exposure to Hip Hop than I have had to Rock and the various offshoots and permutations broadly described as Pop. Also, female artists are still badly underrepresented among the highest-selling musicians, and I want to change the way I think (and maybe how my nephew thinks) so that when somebody says "name a musician" or "name a band" I won't come up with a list of only men. Also, this album has a hell of a story around it, from abundant awards at its release to Ms. Lauryn Hill's retreat from publicity, to the afore-mentioned influence on all who came later. The storefront through her website never seems to work for me, so I bought this album from Amazon.
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042 Various Artists - Songs Titled "Hotel" 201216 Las Posadas is the Latin American pre-christmas festival celebrating guests staying at lodging, so I went looking for songs or albums with a clear connection to the concept. I found a few dozen possibilities on iTunes and winnowed it down to 9 when the total cost came in just under $20. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2up_Eq6r6Ko Here's track 9 in my mixtape - Hotel Room Service by Pitbull. I have some probably-dumb worries about this particular track. I could go back and pick one of the other tracks I shortlisted, but I'm leaving it in for now. My only concern here is the appropriateness of this track for a 10-year old. On the one hand, at 10 he probably won't get most of the references, and on the other hand it's a song about sex, not violence or being racist or something else that our society is weirdly OK with exposing children to when shielding them from sex. On the gripping hand, I'm lazy and I've already included this track in my compilation and I don't feel like going back to find an alternate. And SomethingAwful.com got Pitbull sent to the remote town of Kodiak, Alaska for a concert. The "album" track listing is: 1. Hotel – Broken Social Scene 2. Hotel – Ceremony 3. Star Hotel – Cold Chisel 4. Largs Pier Hotel – Jimmy Barnes 5. Prairie Hotel Parachilna – John Williamson 6. Hotel – Kita Alexander 7. HOTEL – Kumi Koda 8. Hotel – Nocturnal Sunshine 9. Hotel Room Service – Pitbull In hindsight, I could have come up with a better track list for "Hotel". At the time I bought these tracks, I didn't know about Jimmy Barnes, who has apparently played with every Australian musician of the past 3 decades. So he's singing on both track 3 and track 4, and was probably involved somehow with tracks 5 and 6. I let Australian music dominate, but threw in one track each from one each Canadian, Japanese, British, and American musician.
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043 Gord Downie, The Sadies, and the Conquering Sun 201223 I never saw Gord Downie or The Tragically Hip live, but I did see The Sadies at a music festival and they're one of the best live bands I've ever seen. https://shop.arts-crafts.ca/products/gorddownie-thesadies-and-the-conquering-sun-gorddownie-thesadies-and-the-conquering-sun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7dE78uZQFQ Crater, the first track on this oddly-named album. After I saw The Sadies I bought their then-current album, Northern Passages and I listen to it fairly often. Later, I discovered that they have worked with several solo artists as the touring or studio band, especially with Gord Downie. I need more Tragically Hip in general, and specifically in this project, and more Sadies is always welcome. So this album hits two minor goals for me.
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I think it's amazing you want to expose your nephew to a lot of music but do you not worry that giving a child 100 albums in digital form at one time is just like.. an impenetrable amount?
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044 BackxWash - God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of It 201230 For the last Wednesday of 2020 I found this Polaris-prize-winning album. https://backxwash.bandcamp.com/album/god-has-nothing-to-do-with-this-leave-him-out-of-it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFbh1OR6r7A The title track, as a "Polaris Short Film". BackxWash, otherwise known as Ashanti Mutinta is a whole bag of interesting Identity. I don't want to focus unnecessarily on a person's person, but BackxWash checks so many boxes on the psuedo-census form that I feel the need to paddle in these treacherous waters for a minute. She's a transwoman, which explains some of the lyrics in this song, and she's an immigrant to Canada, to Montreal, from a small and impoverished African country with an especially difficult history of the past few decades. She has an outsider's outsider perspective on a lot of things, and she's a talented artist - which means she can express this perspective well. I think of this whole album as Art even more than as a collection of music, in addition to this album helping me approach (again) the genre of music I am least comfortable with, Hip Hop. There are some really solid tracks on this album, but I admit that I have yet to sit down and listen to it all the way through. I need to do that. The cost of this album was free on Bandcamp, apparently there was a lawsuit because she sampled a bit too heavily from other musicians for some of the tracks. I normally add $1 to my purchases on Bandcamp, but there was no way to give money through this album. I wrote a message to BackxWash in Bandcamp to offer to donate to either her or a charity of her choice but I never saw a reply. Sooner or later I'll buy another of her albums and overpay by maybe $10 to cover the should-have-been cost of this album.
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Wezlar posted:I think it's amazing you want to expose your nephew to a lot of music but do you not worry that giving a child 100 albums in digital form at one time is just like.. an impenetrable amount? My first thought is to cut it down to size as either a playlist (or set of playlists) that serve as a kind of introduction to each album or various concepts ("music genres" or "what is an album" or something). Or, I could just take one song from each album and those become the first tranche of music he gets. Or I could drip-feed the music in the beginning, just one or two albums per month, then catch up later when he's in a position to deal with a firehose of music, like when he's 15 and has plenty of free time and (hopefully) an interest in listening to lots of weird music sent to him from his uncle who lives on the other side of the world. I dunno. I still really need to talk to his mother, and that's certainly something I need to discuss with her. She'll have a better idea of his interests and his attention span and so forth. Worst-case scenario, everything just stays in the box and I push back the actual gift-giving for a few years. Absolute-worst-case, he gets a weird shitton of music on his 18th birthday. But I'd like to be in a position to talk with him about music, and about specific artists, albums, and songs, before he reaches the age of majority.
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I hope he is the kind of kid that only listens to video game soundtracks and this is a colossal waste of your time
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Jul 28, 2021 18:13
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How could this be a waste of time? I'm enjoying a broad range of music including game soundtracks and other nonsense and weirdness.
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Aug 4, 2021 08:04
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045 Various Artists - Three Kings movie soundtrack 210106 The first Wednesday of 2021 was Three Kings Day according to my Google calendar. There are plenty of Christian music albums that are devoted to the three kings in the bible story, but I thought of this movie and decided to include soundtracks as another form of album. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120188/ - IMDB link for the movie, in case you don't know what I'm talking about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpgcEbaqtVo The first song from the soundtrack, I Just Want to Celebrate by Rare Earth. I first tried to put this together through iTunes, but I couldn't find some of the tracks, because this is a hard to find soundtrack. Three Kings was a successful movie (and I enjoyed it well enough), but it's not among the pantheon of really available movies, I guess. This album set the record for most expensive single album, at just shy of $52 AUD from a seller on Discogs and shipped from Switzerland. Hopefully the next movie soundtrack I decide to get won't be so expensive. EDIT: the video became unavailable, so here's another: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iKcLDrV_V4 ExecuDork fucked around with this message at 05:29 on Mar 12, 2023 |
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Aug 4, 2021 08:20
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046 Gord Downie - Away is Mine 210113 I bought this not long after it was released, in October of 2020. https://gorddownie.lnk.to/AwayIsMine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MUmRWGJXbU The title track, Away is Mine. Gord Downie, in addition to being a leading contender for Official Warrior Poet of Canada, expressed some strong opinions about Canada's relationship with its native, or First Nations, peoples. I agree with his opinions, for the most part. Recent events in Canada - as of this writing, in August of 2021 - just add to the importance of discussing these issues. I realize there's a certain irony in using Catholic holidays that happen to fall on Wednesdays in this project, given the Catholic church's dominant role in the Residential School system and other abuses. This album might not be his most direct commentary on this history, but I like it.
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Aug 4, 2021 08:34
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Okay, I've given some serious thought to this. Don't do it. Physical media, even though it's digital, isn't going to be appreciated by your nephew's generation. Especially on some form of hardware that will be obsolete before the kid is a teenager. It's like if your dad gave you a bunch of cassettes. Mix tapes and albums, everything that ever meant anything to him. You wouldn't ever really listen to it because it's old tech. Unless it survived the multiple moves you will take as you grow from a child to an adult. Future nephew would appreciate this gesture in a nostalgic way, perhaps. Reality is your substantial effort would be better served as a spotify playlist.
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Aug 5, 2021 03:41
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Genuine counterpoint, people said that about vinyl but a big reason for vinyl resurgence wasn't because it was current or better, it was a nostalgic format that provided an experience for those who wanted it. It's still more convenient or efficient to just stream poo poo right now, but people of all ages are embracing vinyl again partially because it definitely isn't either of those. If the nephew or whatever doesn't care for the format or site or what the gently caress ever it honestly doesn't matter. In my opinion OP should continue as they are but assembling their own notes for each album into a handwritten booklet. Will the kid listen? Probably not. If they do will they even like any of it? Who knows! Will a hot shithead person appreciate the effort put in to this? Yeah. And if they don't, well, OP seems to enjoy the process and the kid can gently caress off. This is way better than buying a bottle of wine and ignoring it as many people do.
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Aug 7, 2021 06:27
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Thanks for the inputs, both of you. I'm enjoying this project on its own merits for just me so much that I'm gonna keep doing it even if I completely lose the relationship with the kid (like, total family meltdown ultimatum-level disruption) or he decides this is the worst thing ever. The physical media stays with me. I have a pile of CDs to go with the ever-expanding collection of digital files. If he wants the CDs, I'll send them but that's not something I'm going to even think about until he's about 15. And I doubt it will even come up. Plus, I'm in Australia and he's in Canada - that's an expensive shipment. The hardware that plays the digital files for him is a separate but related gift - I don't need something that I think he'll want to keep from age 10 to age 18. I'm planning to gift him better players periodically at birthdays/christmases throughout the next 8.5 years, starting with something very basic at age 10 and (perhaps) ending with something like the top-end Sony Walkman or FiiO player. It's important that the first player, the one I hope to give him for his 10th birthday in March 2022, is cheap and easily replaceable. He's going to lose it, damage it, something. And I want to be able to easily replace it and not have some weird guilt thing happening because of the expense. Everyone has a different definition of what "cheap" means in dollar terms, but for me, right now I'm in a pretty good place financially and $100 is an easy spend. For him and for his mother, maybe not so much. But it's my money and hopefully we can reach a good understanding. Family dynamics being what they are... we'll see. syntaxfunction posted:In my opinion OP should continue as they are but assembling their own notes for each album into a handwritten booklet.
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Aug 7, 2021 08:22
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ExecuDork posted:Excellent, thank you! I found a long guide to Bolt Thrower at The Quietus (never heard of them before, looks interesting): https://thequietus.com/articles/29400-bolt-thrower I was happy to see bolt thrower show up here, I’d start with Realm of Chaos but anything works. Also Dopesmoker is great but I’d start people off with Holy Mountain. Or the first Black Sabbath album
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Aug 10, 2021 17:31
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047 Beyoncé - Beyoncé (Platinum Edition) 210120+ I looked for the non-safe version of this album but I could not find it for anything less than silly prices or with any assurance that I was buying what I wanted to buy - Queen Bey's self-titled tour de force album. https://www.beyonce.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1JPKLa-Ofc Drunk in Love - explicit version here but I ended up with the "safe" version. I bought this on iTunes, and the explicit version simply wasn't available. Oh well, this album is produced so well that even the dropped "bad" words don't distract very much at all. On this track especially, the juxtaposition of suddenly-quiet individual words within sentences describing in explicit detail Bey & Jay's acrobatic, intense sex life is pretty funny.
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Aug 11, 2021 08:48
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048 Michael Jackson - HIStory Past, Present and Future, Book i 210127 The King of Pop, what else should I say? https://www.michaeljackson.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNJL6nfu__Q They Don't Care About Us - a tragically timeless sentiment. Listening to this album made me appreciate just how talented and skilled MJ was. He was a consumate performer, a true master of the stage, and an innovator and creator in music, dance, and probably a few other art forms as well. It's not really surprising that he achieved global name-recognition at the same level as anyone in the 20th century. I expect something more than half of the global population (something more than 7 billion, I think) would have some idea of who you're talking about if you say "Michael Jackson". I tried to buy this album directly from MJ's estate's website, but they were sold out of nearly everything and it's not like they're short of money, so I didn't feel bad at all about buying this from Amazon.
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Aug 11, 2021 09:01
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Snowy posted:I was happy to see bolt thrower show up here, I’d start with Realm of Chaos but anything works. Thanks for the reminder about Bolt Thrower, I'm gonna buy one of their albums right now, corresponding to a Wednesday in Anybody who's made specific album recommendations: thank you again, I am paying attention to those and I've been buying a few things suggested by goons lately. But because I'm about 2-3 months ahead on this project (and working my way forward from a year before I started this thread at a steady 2 weeks per week) it might seem like I'm ignoring some really interesting suggestions. Like Pet Sounds - if you've never really thought about the Beach Boys, I highly recommend both that album and spending some time reading the Wikipedia page for it. Pet Sounds is another October album, so it should appear here in a few months. ExecuDork fucked around with this message at 09:34 on Aug 11, 2021 |
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