While Driving, The Car Radio.....
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I've been going to CDs. I like El grupo Exterminador. Zach Brown band for country, and mostly 90s music for hip hop, Matchbox 20, 3EB. Unless of course it's my Saturday commute and Rush Limbaugh is on.
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Another NPR junkie, here. I also listen to Seattle's KING FM (classical) quite alot, but I almost always start with NPR.
I also like to listen to CDs while driving -- Midnight Oil's 'Diesel and Dust' has been in fairly heavy rotation lately. Overall, albums by Pink Floyd, U2, and King Crimson are probably the most listened-to discs in the car. And yes, I enjoy singing along -- on a good day I can manage to sound not quite awful.
I also like to listen to CDs while driving -- Midnight Oil's 'Diesel and Dust' has been in fairly heavy rotation lately. Overall, albums by Pink Floyd, U2, and King Crimson are probably the most listened-to discs in the car. And yes, I enjoy singing along -- on a good day I can manage to sound not quite awful.
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For Saturdays, Car Talk. Rest of the week, I alternate between Terry Gross and Alex Jones ;-)
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I'm rarely in the car on Saturdays anymore, but Car Talk is awesome. That's just scientific fact.MeDotOrg wrote:For Saturdays, Car Talk.
Heck, over the years most of the weekend programming on our local NPR stations -- KNKX (formerly KPLU) and KUOW -- has typically been pretty great. This American Life, Radiolab, The Vinyl café ... all great stuff.
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RadioLab and Wait, Wait, Don't Tell me have long been personal favorites when it comes to weekly programming. My wife wasn't a fan of Car Talk for some reason so I only listened to it if I happened to be driving or had the house to myself. I like This American Life but know a number of people who hate it for some reason. Science Friday will always have a fond place in my heart as it was part of my routine for about year due to a project I was working on requiring a weekly drive to attend a meeting just as it came on. I like Milk Street Radio for reasons, too.
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Thanks y'all!
Over the years, I have received many CD's as gifts and I never listen to any of them. I have a CD case in the car (another gift a few years ago) - full of CD"s. This thread has made me wonder why I never pop any of them in.
Weird!
Over the years, I have received many CD's as gifts and I never listen to any of them. I have a CD case in the car (another gift a few years ago) - full of CD"s. This thread has made me wonder why I never pop any of them in.
Weird!
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I remember driving to and fro on Saturday and Sunday evenings in decades past. Thank goodness for programs like Hearts of Space and Dr. Demento. The best of all was the Prairie Home Companion. Loved those tales from Lake Wobegon.
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ajax18 wrote:I've been going to CDs. I like El grupo Exterminador. Zach Brown band for country, and mostly 90s music for hip hop, Matchbox 20, 3EB. Unless of course it's my Saturday commute and Rush Limbaugh is on.
There is no surer way to foster and reinforce your ignorance and bigotry than listening to Rush Limbaugh. My guess is that is why you like him! I read his books, The Way Things Oughta Be and See, I Told You So, and I was astounded by his scientific and mathematical illiteracy and contempt for demonstrable scientific fact even more so than by his bigotry. If you rely mainly on him for your views about reality, it is no wonder you demonstrate as much ignorance and intolerance as you often do!
He was right, though, that coal fired powerplants actually emit more harmful radioactive isotopes into the environment than nuclear powerplants do. That was one of the few things he got right.
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Gunnar wrote:ajax18 wrote: Unless of course it's my Saturday commute and Rush Limbaugh is on.
There is no surer way to foster and reinforce your ignorance and bigotry than listening to Rush Limbaugh.
Absolutely. I read his post and thought, "Of course he listens to Limbaugh."
For some reason, ajax inspires pity from me more than anything, and I can't seem to figure out why. Maybe it's that I suspect his ignorance is inbred; he literally can't help himself. It's like a short person who will never be able to easily mount a bar stool. It's just not in the cards for them.
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honorentheos wrote:Xenophon wrote:I'm 100% with you on the subscription service. When I moved to premium Spotify it was a huge quality of life improvement in my listening (no ads, whole albums available, endless skips) that makes music all that much more enjoyable. Now I don't know if I could go without it.
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In all seriousness, I'm curious about this in large part because Steuss' music chops are top of the class. I started with Pandora way back in the mid-2000's when it was the Music Genome Project and did enjoy being introduced to new music through it. But it didn't take the place of wanting to listen through an album from an artist that interested me or the silly but personal enjoyment of setting up and listening to playlists for given settings. Now with my ancient 120 GB iPod, a big part of what I enjoy is setting it to shuffle all songs while working and get that jolt of pleasure that can come from having a song pop up unexpectedly that I might have listened to 10 or 20 years ago but kinda forgot about until then.
Whenever I talk to the kiddies at work who only listened to music via YouTube or streaming services their entire lives, their relationship to music seemed too foreign to me to make me give them another look. So, what's your elevator pitch for someone who grew up with albums rather than downloads?
I know you didn't ask me, but since I am a Family subscriber to Spotify, I feel qualified to answer this challenge.
I completely relate to your thoughts on how the experience of listening to music has changed. It is vastly different today than it was even 20 years ago, but especially 30, 40 and 50 years ago. In my day, we listened to whole albums, dammit! We judged artists by the album, not by the one or two "hits" on that album. We got to know the order of songs, and after a while, when one song ended, we expected a certain other to start. How can you listen to We Will Rock You without immediately listening to We Are the Champions right after? It's expected.
We also recorded albums on cassettes. We could record all kinds of different songs, but we usually recorded albums anyway. It was the way the music was meant to be heard. That's what I thought, anyway.
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Spotify is basically a huge database of albums by seemingly infinite artists. You want to listen to a whole album, search on the artist or album, and go for it. You want to create a playlist of all your favorite songs and make a personal station, do it. Want to discover something new? After you've been listening for a while, it gets to know the kind of things you like and makes suggestions. Want to listen to something offline? Save a local copy of your playlist and hit the road.
It's rare I don't find whatever I want, old and new. It's endless infinite on-demand music for 15 bucks a month (that's six accounts on their family plan, so my wife and daughter have their own accounts).
It's totally worth it. I have gigs of mp3s I never listen to because I don't need them. Frankly, there's no need to own any digital media anymore (unless you just like collecting stuff). Everything is in a cloud somewhere.
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