Posted on 02/07/2021 8:53:50 AM PST by SamAdams76
One of the benefits of having a music subscription service (i.e. Spotify; Apple Music) is that you can stream pretty much everything ever recorded.
Kind of makes your carefully curated music collection obsolete. If only I knew this 40 years ago.
Since about 1975, I've been building a massive music library. Started out as vinyl, a few 8-tracks (that played mostly in my AMC Pacer), then went to cassettes for a while, finally to go to compact discs sometime in the mid 1980s.
Anyway, I probably spent a good $50,000 on recorded music between 1975 and about 2010 or so in all the various mediums.
If I recall correctly, the first album purchased (with my own newspaper route money) was Pink Floyd's "Dark Side Of The Moon." Before that, I only had what my parents bought me which ranged from Partridge Family to The Carpenters. They never would have bought me a Pink Floyd album.
Now at first I thought the "all you can eat" music subscriptions were a great deal. But I was always having trouble selecting what to stream (or download). I had no idea what to listen to since EVERYTHING was available.
A classic case of paralysis by analysis.
I missed the days of having a finite music collection, where I would pluck a CD out of my many racks and slide it into the player. I knew I would like whatever I picked because after all, I had put down my own hard-earned money to purchase it.
In recent months, since I have pretty much shut down all media and gone back to serious book reading (I'm currently into Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago"), I've been streaming music in the background. For me anyway, background music is very conducive to a good reading session. I know others prefer silence when reading but that's not me.
So since I have unlimited access to all recorded music, I've decided to explore the full catalogs of some of my favorite music artists, particularly from the 1970s to 1980s.
I will start from their debut album and take it all the way through the final album in their catalog. Including the live stuff, the expanded "deluxe" versions of their albums and the box sets as well that have all "B" sides, outtakes and alternative versions.
Tom Petty, U2, Emmylou Harris, Fleetwood Mac, Bob Dylan, Dire Straits, just to name a few.
Fleetwood Mac in particular really impressed me. Their first albums (featuring Peter Green) way back in 1968 were based on Elmore James blues. Then Bob Welch came into the band and paved the way to their massive success after Buckingham and Nicks joined the group. But I was surprised how important Christine (Perfect) McVie was to the band's transformation into becoming a pop juggernaut.
In conclusion, a lot of great music out there still to be discovered even though it was recorded decades ago. Of course,
I listened to the Asia albums much of last week. Everybody knows their 1982 debut with "Heat of The Moment" and "Only Time Will Tell" but they had a dozen subsequent albums that also deserve a listen.
And now it all fits on one MicroSD.
I don’t believe it doesn’t make your collection complete... the digital streaming from apple, spotify, etc. is super convenient but you don’t ‘own’ that music like you do a quality vinyl and there are many scenarios in which said digital music wouldn’t be accessible.
argh... *obselete.
Phil was pretty decent on the drums...
He was king of taking taking former hits, covering them and making them a hit again. Since the 90s, there hasn't been anything good, so his source dried up
Phil Collins hits?
There must be some misunderstanding
There must be some kind of mistake
Somebody fried the shit out of Phil Collins. All his later stuff is .... wallowing in who screwed him over. The love he lost.
Patrick Bateman was a big fan.
80s and 90s? I don’t care anymore.
Does anyone remember the Columbia House get 10 free albums for a subscription where you have to buy 8 albums over 3 years?
I always thought he was more partial to Huey Lewis and the News...
phil sang the Land of Confusion to slam Reagan.....never ceases to amaze me how the Left can do this and IF the Right were to do this they’d been shut down.
He may have been a decent player but apparently the way you sit to play the drums is as an important part of the technique as the playing itself. Collins revealed in 2009 that years of bad posture behind the drumkit meant his spine had crushed his spinal cord, leaving him in constant pain and making it impossible to grip his sticks. He can barely walk now much less play the drums.
I don’t know if you guys ever read the book, but there’s an entire chapter on Patrick talking about Whitney Houston’s debut LP. It was a great book.
“that played mostly in my AMC Pacer”
What color?
What year?
Was it the wagon or the standard Pacer?
The services don’t make your collection obsolete because they aren’t complete. The services have contracts with the labels not the bands. So say you’re into Neil Young, now most of Young’s career he was with WB but he did do that 5 record deal with Geffen. If your service has a contract with WB but not one with Geffen you don’t get those albums. And in fact if you don’t know your Neil Young you’ll never even find out those albums exist.
I’m all about ownership, I don’t necessarily have to own physical, but I must own. No services. And yeah deep catalogs can be fun. I don’t agree about Asia, I think most of their catalog blows. But Fleetwood Mac was so different with Green, and then the interregnum between Green and Buckingham Nicks. Honestly their popular period is their worst period.
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