MrBrau1
ONE love, blood, life
I love my Itunes library. It’s the best radio station on the planet.
8,600 songs waiting for me every day. All in one place. All ready
at the click of a button.
And I love the internet as well. Finding a hotly anticipated release
that leaked 2 months early is a great thing. Fresh. Fast. Easy.
It’s all there on my Mac or in my Ipod.
It’s a world away from how I used to listen to music. I remember
buying cassettes. Cassettes blew. They warped in the sun, and a shitty
tape deck could destroy your only copy. Fast forward was a bitch
and put your only copy of an album at risk.
So, in general, you listened to albums all the way through. Over, and over
and over (anyone else remember when “auto-reverse” seemed high tech?)
Hell, making a mix tape was a real-time experience. You really had to plan out
what was going on the tape. Nothing was worse than having the finale of side A
cut off cause you ran out of tape. It took planning. For real geeks, it took a paper
and pencil as well. Calculating how you could get as much music as possible on
those 90 minute Maxell cassettes.
Cds made the whole function better. You could scan to tracks with no risk of
destroying the CD. You still had to pick out a CD to play, and actually put it in
the player, and making mix tapes was the same chore (but CD’s gave you the
exact time of each track, something cassettes couldn’t do.)
All these little chores have been erased with the computer. Thousands of songs
at your fingertips. Make a mix CD without listening to 1 song on it. Like track
3 and 8 off a record? Only put track 3 & 8 on your computer. Download the new
Tom Petty CD 2 months before release. Breeze through it with some quick mouse
clicks, and form an opinion w/o even really listening to it. Poor kids today.
They’ll never discover that gem of an album track, cause the technology let’s
them avoid it.
I used to have a giant cassette case in my car. 30 tapes or so. Maybe 350 songs.
And I listened to those 350 or so songs over, and over, and over. Now I go to
My car with my Ipod and carry 3600. That’s insane. There’s only so much time
in a day.
I dunno. It's snowing, I’m drinking beer and rambling.
(look at that margin go further and further to the right)
8,600 songs waiting for me every day. All in one place. All ready
at the click of a button.
And I love the internet as well. Finding a hotly anticipated release
that leaked 2 months early is a great thing. Fresh. Fast. Easy.
It’s all there on my Mac or in my Ipod.
It’s a world away from how I used to listen to music. I remember
buying cassettes. Cassettes blew. They warped in the sun, and a shitty
tape deck could destroy your only copy. Fast forward was a bitch
and put your only copy of an album at risk.
So, in general, you listened to albums all the way through. Over, and over
and over (anyone else remember when “auto-reverse” seemed high tech?)
Hell, making a mix tape was a real-time experience. You really had to plan out
what was going on the tape. Nothing was worse than having the finale of side A
cut off cause you ran out of tape. It took planning. For real geeks, it took a paper
and pencil as well. Calculating how you could get as much music as possible on
those 90 minute Maxell cassettes.
Cds made the whole function better. You could scan to tracks with no risk of
destroying the CD. You still had to pick out a CD to play, and actually put it in
the player, and making mix tapes was the same chore (but CD’s gave you the
exact time of each track, something cassettes couldn’t do.)
All these little chores have been erased with the computer. Thousands of songs
at your fingertips. Make a mix CD without listening to 1 song on it. Like track
3 and 8 off a record? Only put track 3 & 8 on your computer. Download the new
Tom Petty CD 2 months before release. Breeze through it with some quick mouse
clicks, and form an opinion w/o even really listening to it. Poor kids today.
They’ll never discover that gem of an album track, cause the technology let’s
them avoid it.
I used to have a giant cassette case in my car. 30 tapes or so. Maybe 350 songs.
And I listened to those 350 or so songs over, and over, and over. Now I go to
My car with my Ipod and carry 3600. That’s insane. There’s only so much time
in a day.
I dunno. It's snowing, I’m drinking beer and rambling.
(look at that margin go further and further to the right)