What would shock me the most to find on your IPod/MP3 player?

[LynneSin]

For me, its the fact that I have 3 Creed songs even though I think Scott Stapp is a pompous asshole. I also have two Kid Rock songs.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. I have a couple of Goo Goo Dolls songs on mine.

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[taterguy]

2. classic rock

If you knew me in real life you'd assume I was a quintessential music snob. However, I do occasionally voluntarily listen to the Who, the Stones, Zep and Skynyrd. I admit it, I play those songs more often than my collection of Peter Blegvad tunes.

[Squeech]

3. You know me too well

Nothing I listen to would shock you.

The most shocking thing I can say in this thread is that I don't have an mp3 player, and no intention of ever getting one.

But I do love Peter Blegvad. (Just got the original mix CD of In Praise of Learning! :bounce: )

[LynneSin]

5. I use to think like that but now I'm glad I have one

I travel alot and a must have travel need is music especially if I'm travelling by train or plane. I use to have to carry along my CD player along with the 3-4 CDs (i'd put them in a carrying case. So I would have all that extra bulk in my luggage.

My first MP3 was the SOny Mini-Disc which had removeable discs. That was a vast improvement; the player was half the size of my CD player and I only needed about 5-6 discs to carry all the music I wanted to take on my trip.

But just this past year I switched to the Sony Netman. It the size of a lighter and holds about 600 songs on it. With all the space I'm saving I have room in my luggage for a small set of speakers that have great quality if I wanted in room music

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[Squeech]

6. Actually

my problem is that I can't decide what to put on it. And it's not just a question of what music I'm going to want to hear on any given day, it's how I'd expect to use it. Music for walking around has to have a fairly consistent volume level, because ambient city noise is so pervasive, so anything with a wide dynamic range (including practically all classical music and "Baba O'Riley") won't work.

And then there's the part that I like to be surprised, which won't really happen if I think through what I want on the iPod. For instance, yesterday I played Rush's Grace Under Pressure, which is not one of my favorites, hadn't heard it in something like 20 years, and would never think of loading it up on an iPod-- but it was compelling because I'd forgotten so much of it. (Better than I remember, or maybe it's just that its dour paranoid mood fits the Bush regime so well.)

What I really want is to hear the music that's in my head, properly recorded, especially the parts I don't know how to play (yet). I really should start a band...

[LynneSin]

7. I'm the same exact way

My MP3 player is setup with sets that I use for excercizing and walking. And about once a week I revisit what is on my player and change the songs around. And if I really don't want whats on there my player has excellent FM capacity.

It took me awhile to figure out which player because I knew anything less than 500 songs would not be able to properly hold all the music I want and yet I really didn't want to be spending $200-$300 for one of the massive MP3 players like the Apples.

My SOny was reasonbly priced ($139) and it has 1gig capacity which is normally about 250 songs. But Sony also uses Altrac3 technology which compresses MP3 to an even smaller size without compromising quality. It's suppose to be able to hold 695 songs but with 3 different 30min versions of Dazed & Confused and a host of other really long songs I was able to get 599 songs on it

[no name no slogan]

4. Al Wilson, Throbbing Gristle and the Gipsy Kings

All on my iPod currently. Ol' School 70s soul, industrial noise and Gypsy Rumba living happily together on one piece of flash memory.

[LSK]

8. ABBA's greatest hits

[stanwyck]

10. another closet ABBA fan

but only at the gym. I also have Christmas music on my Ipod.

[Initech]

9. I have almost all of Al Green's entire back catalogue

Which would be surprising since I really dont have a lot of soul on it.

[ghostsofgiants]

11. Maybe the one No Doubt song I have on there.

Otherwise, it's all pretty standard stuff for me.

[Midlodemocrat]

12. That I don't have one?

:shrug:

[dolo amber]

13. Led Zepplin "Nobody's Fault But Mine"

A friend sent it to me on IM to illustrate the point that Bonzo was better than Moon. WHATever. :eyes:

:D

[LynneSin]

14. But he was better than Moon

I can send you many many more examples if you like! Nobody's Fault but Mine isn't one of the better LZ songs

[dolo amber]

15. Perhaps, rabbit, perhaps

But they've very different, and besides, Moon played like Animal. Thus, he wins. :D

[LynneSin]

16. Moon may have played like an animal but John Bonham WAS an animal

He played with some of the heaviest sticks made for the drums and would line the insides of his drums with aluminum foil.

[dolo amber]

17. Not *an* Animal...

[Squeech]

19. Exactly

Bonham was a well oiled machine (including all intentional puns on the word "oiled"), and it was his genius to play exactly what the song called for, no more and no less.

Part of the enigma of Moon was that he was half Bonzo's size and played with near equivalent force-- pure adrenaline (or Dexedrine). But that's the least of it; there was no predicting what he would do at any point. (Entwistle was his best friend in the whole wide world, and still complained about how hard it was to follow him.) The downside of that was that whatever he did sounded exactly like Moon-- he used to describe himself as "the best Keith Moon style drummer I know," and for proof of that, consider how little diversity there is in the drum parts of Live at Leeds.

Nevertheless, spontaneity is a big part of what I'm after in music (I'd rather play with a tyro than a drum machine!), and for that reason I have to give pride of place to Moon. To my way of thinking, Bonzo's best bits are all really early in Zeppelin's career-- my favorite being the intro to "Good Times Bad Times." (He totally carries "Achilles' Last Stand," but he doesn't stand out.) Moon was still compelling even on "Who Are You;" even in the near-collapse conditions of that last session in The Kids Are Alright.

I refer to Neil Peart as "Keith Moon sober." I think that's high praise.

[ismnotwasm]

18. Certain Cradle of Filth songs

And a whole lot of metal I'm getting too old to listen too. But I don't care. My 24 year old son is going to see Slayer this summer and I'm jealous.
Well not really, but ten years ago I would have been. He should take me I took HIM to Metallica....
I also have some Eminem as well as old school rap.
Lots of other genres as well.

[chookie]

20. The Barking Beatles

Songs by the Beatles as barked by dogs.