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July 25th, 2009, 04:38 AM
Since the arrival of iPods, the past 5 or so years, my listening preferences have changed quite significantly. I possess two iPods, one 40G which is filled with rock only and I listen to while cruising in the car, and a 160G one which is half-full with all genres of music and I also watch a lot of movies and podcasts on, for instance when putting the kid to sleep or such.
They've completely changed the way I listen to music...I guess for most people they do.
I no more listen to complete albums...I just shuffle the thing...and from such a vast collection, I don't even remember how much but 10.000 plus songs, several thousand artists anyway (from many only 1 or 2 songs), I get to listen to all kinds of music. It could go from Cream to Abba to Laguna Coil to Dvorak to Swinging Blue Jeans to Lamb of God etc...which is great.
But it also means a lot of the time I don't even know what band/artist it is that is playing, or if that, at least not the release/year, and if those, well at least song names are complete mystery to me 90% of the time. Just a while back I checked, it was some band called 'UFO' that is totally obscure to me, but nevertheless it was quite an OK hardrock tune.
For instance I like Billy Talent a lot, have all the albums and have listened to them through several times but I think I can maybe remember two songs by name.
Which reminds me, not being a native English speaker, I suppose I don't much care what the lyrics are about. Be it about raping old women and full of F-and C- and whatever words or the other way around, children's tales it's all the same to me. I guess that differs for English-speakers.
Ah, enough babbling...
They've completely changed the way I listen to music...I guess for most people they do.
I no more listen to complete albums...I just shuffle the thing...and from such a vast collection, I don't even remember how much but 10.000 plus songs, several thousand artists anyway (from many only 1 or 2 songs), I get to listen to all kinds of music. It could go from Cream to Abba to Laguna Coil to Dvorak to Swinging Blue Jeans to Lamb of God etc...which is great.
But it also means a lot of the time I don't even know what band/artist it is that is playing, or if that, at least not the release/year, and if those, well at least song names are complete mystery to me 90% of the time. Just a while back I checked, it was some band called 'UFO' that is totally obscure to me, but nevertheless it was quite an OK hardrock tune.
For instance I like Billy Talent a lot, have all the albums and have listened to them through several times but I think I can maybe remember two songs by name.
Which reminds me, not being a native English speaker, I suppose I don't much care what the lyrics are about. Be it about raping old women and full of F-and C- and whatever words or the other way around, children's tales it's all the same to me. I guess that differs for English-speakers.
Ah, enough babbling...