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Subject: What's in your CD player right now?
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Poll: What's in that Compact Disc player of yours?  [closed]
Grizzled Ancients (1960s-1970):  5%
(3 Votes)
Old Skool (1970s-1980):  16%
(10 Votes)
Middle School (1980s-1990):  14%
(9 Votes)
Newbies (1990-present):  59%
(38 Votes)
The Outer Colonies (1960-past):  6%
(4 Votes)
Total Votes: 64

Seems like a fair question. And seems a whole lot better than a fart poll

The kind of music someone listens to can sometimes give a glimpse of what that person is about, or what their interests are. So...

I know the name might mislead you, but I'm a fan of a lot of music

For example, right now I got some (old) Ozzy Osbourne, and a little Iron Maiden. Mixed into this...mix, is some Audioslave, Guns N Roses, and Led Zepplin

I like to arrange different groups of music into different CD's, and on other CD's, I have different music

Anyways: What do you have in your CD player, right now?

Take the poll, make a reply, do a little dance...:)

  • 05.25.2004 10:43 PM PDT

Well, technically it's not in a CD player, since it's playing off my hard drive, but iTunes is currently playing Beethoven's 7th Symphony. That is awesome stuff.

I was listening to Sinatra before, but that fits in the same category anyway. Pre-60s! Pshaw!

- Reiginko

  • 05.25.2004 11:24 PM PDT
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It's old, old, OLD school. It's an old Buddhist healing chant.

It's ironic that I take such an interest in Buddhism, yet I am still so sarcastic and cynical.

  • 05.25.2004 11:27 PM PDT
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it's Händel - Sarabande from that movie Barry Lindon on iTunes, and in my cd-player it's the new album of Therion (symphonic-gothic-metal, I think).

  • 05.25.2004 11:33 PM PDT
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Great stuff

I thought I was the only one listening to anything older than anything out now; music nowadays, while you'll sometimes find some good stuff, for the majority is repetitive and extremely fake

I appreciate music more when it was created for the music, rather than money, or whatever else drives some of these "artists" today

Example: "Now everybody in the club get tipsy"

Understand?

[Edited on 5/26/2004 12:03:23 AM]

  • 05.25.2004 11:34 PM PDT

Nice work people. I totally agree with MakaVeli - music is not really an art form anymore, these days. And therefore, it's not music.

- Reiginko

  • 05.25.2004 11:42 PM PDT
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Music has become an industry, and so to find true expressive music is difficult.

Truely artistic music is still being made, but you just have to look for it.

  • 05.25.2004 11:44 PM PDT
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Posted by: ObbiQuiet
Truely artistic music is still being made, but you just have to look for it.


Yup

Examples of this, for me at least, are groups like AFI, The White Stripes, Coldplay; artists like Kanye West, Talib Kweli; examples of people who, you can just tell, put real effort into making their music; damn, I'd even say Evanescence

Rap has gone downhill, or better yet, fallen off a cliff. Money is the evil in all of this, if you ask me. Groups or artists from as early as 15 years ago made the music, and the reward they wanted was just to be recognized as as good musicians, etc etc.

Now, music is a huge industry; the motivation isn't good quality sound, but just pop culture

It's annoying, and it's frustrating that my radio is gathering dust as a result. And yea, there are exceptions to this ugly trend, but you have to look, and that's the problem

  • 05.26.2004 12:01 AM PDT
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Agreed

(having my doubts 'bout Evanescence, though)

  • 05.26.2004 12:04 AM PDT
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Posted by: Weird citizen
Agreed

(having my doubts 'bout Evanescence, though)


So did I, before I put it in my reply :)

My girlfriend loves the group, and I was skeptical because they sound...common

But after I listened to the music, and went to Bumbershoot in Seattle and saw them live, I knew they had skills, especially Amy Lee, the lead singer

She can actually sing, which is rare nowadays.

  • 05.26.2004 12:08 AM PDT
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They have a few good songs (don't know any titles, though) and they probably have skills, but overall I guess it's just not my cup o' tea ;)

  • 05.26.2004 12:11 AM PDT
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Posted by: Weird citizen
They have a few good songs (don't know any titles, though) and they probably have skills, but overall I guess it's just not my cup o' tea ;)


Wasn't mine a while ago either, but that girl...can sing. And it's differnet because she's in a rock band

Fine female if you ask me

  • 05.26.2004 12:13 AM PDT
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hmmmm, and out comes the truth....

  • 05.26.2004 12:14 AM PDT
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Posted by: Weird citizen
hmmmm, and out comes the truth....


Meaning...?

  • 05.26.2004 12:20 AM PDT
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twas just meant as a (bad) joke, meaning that you like the band because of the lead singer's looks... srry for that one, I really should try and improve my humor...

  • 05.26.2004 12:29 AM PDT
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just listening to "strict machine" by Goldfrapp over and over again

  • 05.26.2004 2:30 AM PDT
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@ Hunt3r:

thx, I was just looking for the name of that band :)

  • 05.26.2004 3:33 AM PDT
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It is very rare that I will ever listen to music, I don't even own a CD player. But I own an X-Box and that works just fine. I picked out a bunch of songs from the 60's, 70's, and 80's. Also music from some old Westerns. The theme song for the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is really good. Then there are the Arrogant Worms. Canadian band. Sing songs about why Canada is better than all the other countries. And a few other random things.

  • 05.26.2004 7:33 AM PDT
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My CD player can play Data CD's filled with MP3's... I have a total of 165 on one CD that I listen to... They are

90% to 95% - Japanese Anime Songs (none of that American Dub BS)
1% - Japanese music (that isn't for anime)
5% - Video Game Music
4% - American Songs (Linkn Park, ect.)

  • 05.26.2004 8:39 AM PDT
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Posted by: Reiginko
Well, technically it's not in a CD player, since it's playing off my hard drive, but iTunes is currently playing Beethoven's 7th Symphony. That is awesome stuff.

I was listening to Sinatra before, but that fits in the same category anyway. Pre-60s! Pshaw!

- Reiginko


Oh man I love classical/instrumental music. But, I'm also varied.. usually anything that isn't rap/pop. Except some 80s pop. Come on, the Top Gun soundtrack was awesome.

  • 05.26.2004 9:41 AM PDT
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Posted by: Weird citizen
twas just meant as a (bad) joke, meaning that you like the band because of the lead singer's looks... srry for that one, I really should try and improve my humor...


No no, it's cool, that wasn't it

I had a feeling that you might of meant that, but I recognized the groups skills before I recognized...her

  • 05.26.2004 10:20 AM PDT
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german -blam!- like oomph rammstein eisbrecher die toten hosen and then good old american metal

  • 05.26.2004 10:21 AM PDT
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i've got the game of Halo in one drive and the Halo soundtrack in another. As if there would be anything else.

  • 05.26.2004 10:25 AM PDT
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Posted by: MakaVeli4LIfe1
Posted by: Weird citizen
twas just meant as a (bad) joke, meaning that you like the band because of the lead singer's looks... srry for that one, I really should try and improve my humor...


No no, it's cool, that wasn't it

I had a feeling that you might of meant that, but I recognized the groups skills before I recognized...her


Although, you can't argue that she isn't attractive. In the not-so-model way all the better.

  • 05.26.2004 10:54 AM PDT

-S

Nice work people. I totally agree with MakaVeli - music is not really an art form anymore, these days. And therefore, it's not music.

Careful, those waters you tread are deep. ;)

Gaming is totally an industry, now. So does that mean game development cannot be an art form? If Bungie is part of the industry, does this mean that Halo 2 is not a video game?

Sorry to get a bit off topic, I just had to point out that the logic seemed a little faulty. ;) Something I don't think a lot of people recognize about the world is that anything, if it can be considered an art, also comes with its own industry. Art in any shape or form is a commodity, and this should not be forgotten- even when making commentary on music.

Anyhow, I don't have a cd player anymore. Well, there's one in my truck, but I don't think anything's in it right now. The last thing I listened to on my iPod was a track from the Xenosaga soundtrack.

  • 05.26.2004 11:07 AM PDT

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