IdRatherBeSkiing's Top 20 (Sunday, June 21st, 2020 version)

Aaron said:
Did you keep all the CDs?
I still have mine, but I don't need them anymore.

When we evacuated for Katrina in 2005, I packed all the music CDs in boxes in the car - I did not want to take a chance of losing all my music!!

Now it's easy, the music is all safe in a cloud.
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Yes, they are all in little plastic shelves. Interestingly, now side by side because 2 on top of each other collapsed the shelving unit. Heavy little bastards.

I am missing a handful. I had teenagers.
 
I had a LOT of my CD's ripped and backed up on a couple of hard drives.
Then I had a couple of hard drives fail very close to the same time.
I'm still not done re-ripping everything I had before.

I prefer real CD's for the packaging and liner notes, but it's getting harder to get them.
 
HecticArt said:
I had a LOT of my CD's ripped and backed up on a couple of hard drives.
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I back mine up on DVDs. Those are 'supposed' to last a lifetime, but we'll see.
HecticArt said:
I prefer real CD's for the packaging and liner notes, but it's getting harder to get them.
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THIS! There's a few new albums out that aren't on CD. Drives me nuts.

On the flipside, yesterday I went to a CD store in Keene NH (Bull Moose) and it was nice to see a thriving CD shop with new releases and ton of used CDs.
 
A number of years ago, I started ripping CDs on my desktop PC while working. I got through 150 CDs (not quite as much as sadchild), but since then, I haven't had a laptop with the drive. It's mainly for the beach, and it's adequate, but I'd like to do all 500 or so.

I should also note that for listening on a hi-fi system, it's got to be CDs (or vinyl); unless you're ripping lossless.
 
HecticArt said:
I had a LOT of my CD's ripped and backed up on a couple of hard drives.
Then I had a couple of hard drives fail very close to the same time.
I'm still not done re-ripping everything I had before.

I prefer real CD's for the packaging and liner notes, but it's getting harder to get them.
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You also can't have dollar bins for used digital downloads.
 
And if you meet an artist at a show, they can't autograph a digital download. I haven't asked for an autograph in several years, but I used to do that.
 
sadchild said:
And if you meet an artist at a show, they can't autograph a digital download. I haven't asked for an autograph in several years, but I used to do that.
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The last autograph I got was from Juice Newton in 1981 on her Album. She was very nice and she signed the album but she did not ask me to join her as her boy toy as I had hoped.
 
More entries from the **** list.

Blue Collar Man (Long Nights) - Styx



Blue Jean - David Bowie



Blue Morning, Blue Day - Foreigner



The Boxer - Simon & Garfunkel



Boy Inside The Man - Tom Cochrane
 
sadchild said:
I back mine up on DVDs. Those are 'supposed' to last a lifetime, but we'll see.

THIS! There's a few new albums out that aren't on CD. Drives me nuts.

On the flipside, yesterday I went to a CD store in Keene NH (Bull Moose) and it was nice to see a thriving CD shop with new releases and ton of used CDs.
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I've got a mirrored backup drive (2 actually) that I keep everything on now. I theory, if one drive fails, the other one still has everything. I manually copy music to a 3rd portable drive and to a drive I use at work. If the worst happens to my main drive at home, at least I'll have most of it somewhere else. I need to get back in the habit of ripping more disks again. I've only got about 7,000 songs ripped at the moment. It's probably 20% of my collection, but the stuff I'm most likely to listen to.

Thank god Tool still gets how important CD packaging is. The packaging for Fear Inoculum is insane.
 
HecticArt said:
I had a LOT of my CD's ripped and backed up on a couple of hard drives.
Then I had a couple of hard drives fail very close to the same time.
I'm still not done re-ripping everything I had before.

I prefer real CD's for the packaging and liner notes, but it's getting harder to get them.
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Put them on SSD (or Solid-State Drives) there's less of a fail rate there since there aren't any moving parts.
 
Cloud is actually relatively safe since there are people monitoring it 24/7/365, I'll be one of them after I get my degree.
 
This is cassette playlist that never made it to cassette. It was built as background music for a church dance. The dance was done by a live band. But they wanted middle-of-the-road type music before the dance and during the band's break. The drummer of the live band was a member of The Kings and a member of our church. This was the reason I put the Kings song as first song going into the break. I had threatened him I would do it and I did. I liked the end result so much, I converted it into a playlist. I would later take this playlist and enhance it and keep enhancing it into a playlist I now call "The Ultimate Playlist" which has 432 songs. All of the songs in this cassette playlist are at least **** with most being *****. So most will be on the 424 and the rest on the **** list. I will mark the **** with **** and mark position on 424 if that position has already been revealed for rest. So you might not want to look any further if you don't want spoilers about what songs may lie ahead.

Cassette BF Recorded Fall 2016

Intro Music:
Driving My Life Away - Eddie Rabbit
Tide Is High - Blondie (308)
Take It Easy - Eagles
Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
Tubthumping - Chumbawamba (271)
Soul Man - Blues Brothers (304)
Arms of Mary - Chilliwack ****
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
Night Moves - Bob Segar & The Silver Bullet Band
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Let's Go - The Cars
Losing My Religion - R.E.M.
Ride Like the Wind - Christopher Cross
All I Wanna Do - Sheryl Crow
Dreams - Fleetwood Mac
Just Between You and Me - April Wine ****
Our House - Madness
In a Big Country - Big Country ****
Gloria - Laura Branigan
Take On Me - a-ha
Superman's Song - Crash Test Dummies
Break it to Them Gently - Burton Cummings
Hallelujah - Lenard Cohen

Break Music:
This Beat Goes On / Switching To Glide - The Kings (332)
I'm Alright - Kenny Logins ****
Hotel California - Eagles
Queen of Hearts - Juice Newton
Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver
Sundown - Gordon Lightfoot (272)
Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffet
Against the Wind - Bob Segar & The Silver Bullet Band
Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin (335)
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
Thunder Island - Jay Ferguson (273)
I Love Rock & Roll - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
Don't Bring Me Down - Electric Light Orchestra
Life's Been Good - Joe Walsh
My Sharona - The Knack (356)
 
More **** songs.

Brass In Pocket - The Pretenders



Break My Stride - Matthew Wilder



Breathe - Faith Hill
This song was everywhere in 1999.



Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel



Brilliant Discguise - Bruce Springsteen
What's not to like about a song that incorporates the phrase "wee-wee hour" in it?
 
Break My Stride - Matthew Wilder

I like this one too. But my son had this to say when he was 11.....



Brilliant Discguise - Bruce Springsteen

Not only "wee-wee hour" but "disguy hy hy hy-hy-hyze"

And what the heck is he talking about when he says, "I saw something tucked in shame underneath your pillow" :oops:
 
This cassette also not on cassette. It was inspired by playlists I made for a church fundraiser. Opening music, music for intermission and music for after. All middle of the road stuff.

Cassette BH

Before Music:
Gypsy - Fleetwood Mac
Kokomo - The Beach Boys
I'd Like To Teach The World - The New Seekers
All Time High - Rita Coolidge
Drift Away - Dobie Gray
Lay Down Sally - Eric Clapton
Sundown - Gordon Lightfoot
Time Passages - Al Stewart
Against the Wind - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
De Doo Ron Ron - Shaun Cassidy
Sara - Fleetwood Mac
Ride Like the Wind - Christopher Cross
Southern Cross - Crosby, Stills & Nash

Intermission Music:
Take It Easy - Eagles
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
Don't Stop Believin' - Journey
Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
Night Moves - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Africa - Toto

Closing Music:
Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffett
Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
Year of the Cat - Al Stewart
Right Down The Line - Gerry Rafferty
Dreams - Fleetwood Mac
Shake It - Ian Matthews
An American Dream - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
 
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