Before I start with substantive, and insubstantive posting, let me give a huge thanks to John for the opportunity to contribute. John’s nonpartisan attitude (some would call it equal-opportunity grumpiness) has spawned a comments section that in my opinion offers one of the most moderate and intellectually honest places for posters from both sides of the fence to meet and generally knock each other about the head and shoulder regions. All four sides of the fence if you throw in that autocratic/libertarian/permissive/Buffy-watching mumbo-jumbo.
So to start off with, let me answer the most pressing question in the blogosphere today: what’s in your iPod?
Answer: I don’t own an iPod. I listen to practically the same seventeen or eighteen CDs and that’s mostly when I drive.
In other news, in honor of poster KL I’ll probably start up a tradition of Friday beer blogging. Expect typos.
More soon!
TF
***Update***
Tunch is safe. I changed my password.
srv
I don’t know, I haven’t taken it apart.
Ancient Purple
I have an iRiver.
srv
Actually, recent playlist:
Johnny Cash, Live at Folsom Prison
Alabama 3, La Peste
Bill Frissel, Unspeakable
Miles Davis, Jack Johnson Sessions
Miles Davis, Silent Way Sessions
John Scofield, Bump
Buddy Guy, Sweet Pea
Liquid Soul, Evolution
Stevie Ray, In Step
Groove Armada, Goodbye Country
Massive Attack, Mezzanine
Beth Hart, Screamin’ for my Supper
Vernon Reid, Mistaken Identity
California Guitar Trio, Whitewater
Some Doors and NIN
ppGaz
Don’t own one, too lazy to manage a playlist.
I own two XM Radio receivers and over time I listen to pretty much every music channel they have at one time or another. The receivers are portable and go where I go.
Opera one day, R&B the next, techno the third. You name it, I’ll listen to it, except for rap. I won’t listen to most rap and I won’t listen to Dick Cheney, so I do have standards.
oscar wilde
What’s an ipod?
Horshu
I refuse to refer to a multimedia player as an iPod unless that brand is specifically what I own. And I don’t buy Fischer-Price…err, Apple…products anyway.
a guy called larry
No iPod, but since I’m an idiot and own a macintosh, iTunes (it’s always about “i,” isn’t it?) does work pretty well. I like to take the entire library, and select the ‘time’ column, then stab somewhere and let ’em fall as they may. For instance, the first half of songs coming in at 3:56 are
AC/DC: Beating Around the Bush
Butthole Surfers: Human Cannonball
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Mississippi Kid
Richard Hell & the Voidoids: The Plan (Robert Quine, RIP)
Dwight Yoakum: Fast As You
Booker T. & the MG’s: Hang ‘Em High
Dead Kennedys: Dead End
Danny Gatton: Beat Of the Night
Ry Cooder: Taxes on the Farmer Feeds Us All
Harry Nillson: Without You (demo)
Dave Alvin: Engine
Bob Dylan: Positively Fourth Street
Van Halen: Beautiful Girls
Albert Collins: Iceman
Garbage: Only Happy When It Rains
David Allen Coe: Whips & Things
Nine Inch Nails: The Downward Spiral
Lyle Lovett: If I Were the Man You Wanted
Ned Raggett
Everything? All 3600 songs? That takes a bit.
I know I’ve got Bloc Party’s Silent Alarm in there, as well as the Fall’s complete Peel Sessions box set. But I should do an update and put in the utterly brilliant new Depeche Mode album.
oscar wilde
It seems a quite time so can any techy tell me how to reset this electronic gizmo so that it opens with a full page as default as opposed to the half page I get.
Would appreciate it.
It’s late this side of the pond so I am off to my pit.
will check back tomorrow.
TVM
Steve S
I also don’t own a Fisher Price computer, or any of their toys.
Quirkygrl
IK proudly own Apple(R) products, including an iBook(R) notebook computer, iTunes(R) music service, and iPod(r) portable music device, on which my mostly recently played playlist consists of:
Zachary Richard – “One Kiss”, “Burning”, “Roll Me” and “Zydeco Jump”
Slaid Cleaves – “Broke Down”, “One Good Year”, “Bring It On” and “Horseshoe Lounge”
James McMurtry – “Valley Road” and “Choctaw Bingo”
Keb Mo – “Perpetual Blues Machine”, “I’m On Your Side”, “You Can Love Yourself”, “Hand It Over”, God Tryin’ to Get Your Attention”
Iris Dement – “Wasteland of the Free”, “I’ll Take My Sorrow Straight”, and “Trouble” (Duet with Delbert McClinton)
Billy Bragg & Wilco – ” Walt Witman’s Niece”, “California Stars”, “Hoodoo Voodoo” and “She Came Along to Me”
Quirkygrl
P.S.: Welcome Tim F.
I’m a lefty lurker here at Balloon-Juice, who also enjoys the congeniality of the host (John) and folks here – even when not everyone agrees.
MMM
Lyle Lovett and Butthole Surfers? Two big thumbs up!
MMM
Welcom Tim F. – I am a little to the right of Mr. Balloon Juice but overall he is an OK guy (in other words, he has never slept with my wife, I think).
The Disenfranchised Voter
Tim, we must be soulmates!–I don’t own an iPod either!
Heh.
Sine.Qua.Non
Welcome Tim. Beer Blogging (can we have alternative alcohol please?)and What’s on Your IPOD sounds cool to me, even if I don’t own one,…sometimes the reality of our world is overwhelming…I could use the break. The only problem with that is that none of those morons in Washington ever stop – they can’t even leave organic foods alone. Cripes… it’s damned pitiful.
Sine.Qua.Non
Welcome to Balloon Juice Tim. So, maybe you can answer this question for me. What in the hell does “Balloon Juice” signify? I have an good idea, but…not sure I should say out loud!
Krista
It signifies hot air, which is what we are all full of. :)
I don’t own an mp3 player…yet. I enjoy music, but am not so into it as to be familiar with the more obscure bands. I guess I’m terminally uncool. Today, though, while cleaning out the storage closet, I was listening to The Arcade Fire, and then Audioslave.
Glad to see you posting, Tim. From one beer nerd to another.
Bob In Pacifica
I’ve got one of those 60 gig ones, and I’ve got around 11,000 songs on it. I like to set it to shuffle and wander around through the hills here.
Here’s a shuffle list, though:
Don’t Come Around Here No More-Tom Petty
Motor Away-Guided By Voices
I Can’t Do Anything-X-ray Spex
I Guess The Lord Must Be In New York City-Nilsson
Sugar Sugar-Wilson Pickett
Because The Night-Patti Smith
7 and 7 Is-Love
I Can’t Stand Up For Falling Down-Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Mysterious Traveller-Weather Report
Switchboard Susan-Nick Lowe
A Good Feelin’ To Know-Poco
We Just Don’t Get Along-Phil Seymour
Have A Lucky Day-Morphine
Suspicious Minds-Elvis Presley
Love Comes In Spurts-Richard Hell & The Voidoids
Place To Be-Nick Drake
Heat Wave-Martha & The Vandellas
Come On Up-The Young Rascals
Manic Depression-Jimi Hendrix Experience
God Only Knows-Beach Boys
Another Girl, Another Planet-The Only Ones
Let’s Dance-Chris Montez
All Your Love-John Mayall’s Blues Breakers
Shotgun Slim-Dyke & The Blazers
La Belle Excentrique-Aldo Ciccolini
Fairytale Of New York-The Pogues
Compared To What-Les McCann & Eddie Harris
Man Of Constant Sorrow-Bob Dylan
It’s Too Bad-The Jam
You Woke Up The Neighborhood-Billy Bragg
Love Goes On!-Go-Betweens
Jackie Wilson Said-Van Morrison
Blood & Roses-Smithereens
Television-Robyn Hitchcock
Arkansas Breakout-John Stewart
The People In Me-Music Machine
Do Ya-The Move
Brand New Me-Dusty Springfield
Cynical Girl-Marshall Crenshaw
30 Days In The Hole-Humble Pie
Modern Way of Letting Go-Idlewild
Fumblin’ With The Blues-Tom Waits
I Wanna Be Your Dog-The Stooges
Longarm-Wall Of Voodoo
Shake Some Action-Flamin’ Groovies
Buzzing-The Negro Problem
I Don’t Believe In Miracles-The Zombies
Let Love Come Between Us-James and Bobby Purify
I Can’t Wake Up To Save My Life-Richard Thompson
The Nile Song-Pink Floyd
Evening Gown-Left Banke
Whiskey Train-Procul Harum
New Jersey-Red House Painters
Get It While You Can-Howard Tate
Get Back-Zebrahead
Low-Cracker
Non-Alignment Pact-Pere Ubu
Money Changes Everything-The Brains
Mountains O’ Things-Tracy Chapman
Time Has Come Today-The Angry Samoans
Jezebel-Sade
Stay-Four Seasons
Pictures Of Lily-The Who
I’m A Long Gone Daddy-Hank Williams
Long And Lonesome Road-Shocking Blue
Brick House-Commodores
Nova-Bizarros
Natural Woman-Aretha Franklin
Black Clouds-Jenni Muldaur
Guns-Negativland
Too Animalistic-Vom
As We Go Along-The Monkees
Ventilator Blues-Rolling Stones
Real Love-Cretones
The Future-Leonard Cohen
Some Other Sucker’s Parade-Del Amitri
21st Century Schizoid Man-King Crimson
Day Tripper-Beatles
Faro Annie-John Renbourn
Hollywood Swinging-Big Boys
Candy Man-Roy Orbison
Paper In My Shoe-Boozoo Chavis
Ain’t That A Shame-Brian James
If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody-Eddie Floyd
Turd On The Run-Rolling Stones
Effloresce And Deliquesce-The Chills
One Nation Under A Groove-Funkadelic
From Home-Troggs
Turn Off The Light-Nelly Furtado
Homeless-Loudon Wainwright III
Eyesight To The Blind-Mose Allison
Drunken Angel-Lucinda Williams
I Had It Made-Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
Game Of Pricks-Guided By Voices
No Laphroig, though.
Larry, when did Robert Quine pass away? He and Richard Lloyd did some stuff with Matthew Sweet a few years ago. Tasty guitar licks. No one here gets out alive.
caleb
ipods are the pet rocks of the aught years.
ppGaz
Great minds thinking alike … sort of?
I cleaned an oven, and watched a football game. Great way to spend a Saturday.
Angry Engineer
I’ll avoid listing all 3400 songs and podcasts, and simply offer up the lastest album added – Coheed & Cambria’s “Good Apollo…”.
Stormy70
Now we are getting somewhere. I like the relaxed atmosphere of the weekends. We can all duke it out M-F.
Dwight’s Fast as you? Perfect. My favorite XM station is the Country Gold. It reminds me of my grandparents kitchen, and the smell of homemade biscuits with sorghum and butter slathered on them. Don’t make fun of the culinary selections please. :)
ChristieS
Heh…similar to my Granny’s kitchen. Hot, fresh bread with unsulfured molasses and sour cream. Yum…
Bob In Pacifica
I remember my Grandma’s kitchen, in Bogue Chitto, Mississippi. I remember one of my uncles bringing in a bucket of milk from the cow, steamy and creamy. I remember the bacon on my Uncle George’s plate.
Grandma never had an iPod, though.
Bob In Pacifica
Caleb, pet rocks did a lot less (but were a lot cheaper).
There are social issues revolving around the insularity of personal audio systems going back to earplugs on transistor radios, but the iPod alienates the listener more elegantly than anything in the past.
Otto Man
Nah, I’d have to say giant ribbon stickers are the pet rocks of our time. There are so many there’s one for every color (and now one with every color, for autism). And like the pet rock, they just tend to sit there and make their owners feel better about themselves. (Yes, yes, the causes are all good, but slapping a sticker on your car is quite literally the least you can do.)
The iPod, meanwhile, does a lot. Like keeping me from strangling the loudmouth on the cellphone next to me on the train.
Stormy70
I admit that Goldigger is pretty catchy, too. The Black Eyed Peas, however, should be disbanded post haste.
Otto Man
No, they should be dismembered post haste. What an abomination of a band.
Halffasthero
Beerblogging? Great, just what I need. Another reason to hit the liquor cabinet.
Speaking of which…aw, damn. Its still only morning. Carry on.
Tim F.
Question: doesn’t 11,000 songs cost 11,000 dollars on iTunes? Or can you import stuff from your CD collection?
Otto Man
It only costs if you download the songs from iTunes. You can and should import everything you own on CD, everything your friends own, etc. etc.
Mac Buckets
My iPod contains 40 gigs of what used to be called Punk (Ramones, Jam, Clash), and then became non-threatening as New Wave (Elvis Costello, Billy Bragg), and then became smart as College Rock (Replacements, Pixies), and then became snarky as Alternative (Stereophonics, Foo Fighters) and is now virtuous as Indie (Superchunk, Shins, New Pornographers, Maximo Park). A little Electronic DJ stuff (LCD Soundsystem, Dntel), some Hip-Hop (Beasties, Biggie, The Streets), and there you are — music for every occasion.
Mac Buckets
…and I hear from a friend of a friend of my brother that that there’s (cough, cough) Other Places from which to download music…but that’s just a (cough, cough) rumour.
Andrei
Promoting piracy? Let’s not queer this thread into a rant on piracy, of which I’m not a big fan of, since I made software for a living for so long. (A partisan/religious IP discussion might be a good change of pace from the partisan/religious political issues around here however.)
The only thing I’m interested in is that now John has added a center-left blogger to the mix, will Tim F be able to goad John into telling us why he’s still a Republican these days, and why on earth Cole voted for Bush for a second term? (Assuming he did of course.) Or is it time to move along?
Mac Buckets
I would imagine the names John Kerry and Howard Dean would come in to that converation quite a bit.
Krista
Stormy – what’s sorghum? Sounds intriguing.
I like the looks of that new Sony Walkman Bean…I wouldn’t be storing my whole collection on it. It would just be for my workouts, so 345 songs is PLENTY of capacity for my needs.
Krista
Stormy – never mind. I looked it up. :)
Tim F.
Balloon Juice – Now with twice the hot air!
Andrei
And that’s worse than the way the current administration has governed how?
Petty name calling against other partisans on this blog is one thing Buckets… but when you rant and rail against you’re own party for the way they have set policy time and again in the manner Cole has… well, it begs a better, more comprehensive answer than petty name calling against Kerry and Dean.
But I wouldn’t expect such an answer from you, considering the way you’ve toted the party line on this blog.
Stormy70
Try a Bloody Mary, Half…
I only drink after 5. {Angelic music playing}
Krista – you can find sorghum at the nearest feed store. They come in jars and taste like a mix between syrup and molassis. You take a dollopof sorghum and squish the butter into it with a fork, spread over flakey, southern biscuits, and consume. Then you go outside to catch grasshoppers and horny toads and play tag all day until supper. Some switch fetching occured when the playing got too rowdy, but it was a minor ditraction from the overall Grandparent experience.
Mac Buckets
A buddy made a compilation of the best song of every length, starting with the best song that’s 1:00 long, going up to around 7 minutes.
3:56 is a very weak one in my collection. Of the 80 or so 3:56s, few are truly great.
Subbacultcha – Pixies, Untitled – Interpol (my friend’s choice at 3:56), maybe Rain – The Cult
In a quirk of fate, both 3:55 and 3:57 have much, much better songs, and more recent ones, too. Just a few:
3:55
Death or Glory – Clash, Has It Come to This – Streets, Tell Me The Answer – Texas, Catapult – REM, Learn to Fly – Foo Fighters, Good Girls, Bad Guys – DMX, Daughter – Pearl Jam
3:57
Take Me Out – Franz Ferdinand, Stone Cold Yesterday – Connells, Somewhere Only We Know – Keane, Unsung – Helmet, Roll Up and Shine – Stereophonics, Testament to Youth in Verse – New Pornographers, Clash City Rockers – Clash, Long Time Coming – Delays
John
1. Kirsty MacColl – Caroline
2. Magnetic Fields – I Don’t Want to Get Over You
3. Virginia Astley – Melt the Snow (Part I)
4. Kate Jacobs – Destiny’s Darling
5. Belle & Sebastian – Judy and the Dream of Horses
6. June Christy – You Took Advantage of Me
7. Iris Dement – Hotter Than Mojave in My Heart
8. Primitives – Nothing Left
9. Alison Moyet – That Ole Devil Called Love
10. Kirsty MacColl – In These Shoes?
11. Stevie Nicks – After the Glitter Fades
12. Concrete Blonde – Joey
13. Sir Mix-a-Lot – Baby Got Back
14. Carly Simon – Jesse
15. B-52s – Roam
16. The Carter Family – Lover’s Return
17. Virginia Astley – The Darkness Has Reached Its End
18. The Sixths – Night Falls Like a Grand Piano
19. Bangles – Doll Revolution (Tear Off Your Own Head)
20. Aretha Frankling – Drinking Again
21. Ann-Margret – C’est Si Bon
22. Eddi Reader – Hummingbird
23. Heavenly – C is the Heavenly Option
24. 10,000 Maniacs – Back O’ the Moon
25. Til’ Tuesday – Coming Up Close
26. XTC – The Mayor of Simpleton
27. Kirsty MacColl – The Hardest Word
28. Beautiful South – Dream a Little Dream
29. Lightning Seeds – My Best Day
30. Ella Fitzgerald – All of Me
31. Keely Smith – Sunny Side of the Street
32. Magnetic Fields – Take Ecstasy with Me
33. Virginia Astley with David Sylvian – Some Small Hope
34. Popinjays – Snowblind
35. Iris Dement – Shores of Jordan
36. Lone Justice – Ways to Be Wicked
37. Cake – Sheep Go to Heaven
38. Kleenex – Die Metrosen
39. Bananarama – Cheers, Then
40. En Vogue – My Lovin’ (You’re Never Gonna Get It)
41. Blondie – Sunday Girl
a guy called larry
Last June. I always have trouble quantifying musical abilities, but that guy had loads more than a lot of well-known guitarists. He typified the word uncompromising, in virtually every aspect.
a guy called larry
Huh. My version from Trompe Le Monde is 2:09.
Mac Buckets
Mine’s from the Purple Tape, which was essentially the demo that got them signed. The original “Subba” has the chorus from “Distance = Rate X Times” stuck in after the second verse and at the end.
Mac Buckets
Who said anything about “petty name calling.” In your world, are there no substantive problems one might have with a party whose main reps lately have been Dean and Kerry?
You shouldn’t expect such an answer from me because your premise is so crap. Anyway, if only I could be as non-partisan and open-minded as you, Andrei. Something to shoot for, I suppose.
Bob In Pacifica
Tim, all of the 11,000 songs are from my CD collection. A lot of CDs in my collection are from my former LP collection. I spent a lot of waking hours over the course of two years transferring them. I haven’t gotten anything from iTunes.
Quirkygrl
“Promoting piracy? Let’s not queer this thread into a rant on piracy, of which I’m not a big fan of, since I made software for a living for so long. (A partisan/religious IP discussion might be a good change of pace from the partisan/religious political issues around here however.)”
Nah. I’m an IP rights administrator as well, and I don’t believe it’s piracy to copy your own CDs to an iPod anymore than videotaping an episode of your favorite teevee show would be. Once you buy the CD you can make a copy of it for your own (non-commerical) use. It’s the song not the medium. The question of copying your friend’s CDs might be over the line though, although your friend can always gift you with a CD and then it becomes yours.
Now, I think it would be piracy you make or facilitate the making of multiple copies, and/or do so for a fee. I’m uncomfortable with bittorent and unlicensed music sharing – but okay with licensed services like iTunes.
But it seems the IP law has to play catch up to the technology. I suspect the Sony case will end up being revisited at some point as these issues become more complex.
SeesThroughIt
The crazy thing is that the B.E.P.s weren’t always totally suck-ass. They used to be a two-man operation called Atban Klann, and they were decent. Then they became the Black-Eyed Peas and started annoying the crap out of people everywhere.
Oh yeah–no iPod. I still listen to vinyl. The last one I listened to was DJ Z-Trip’s remix of the Jackson 5’s “I Want You Back” from the Motown Remixed album.
metalgrid
I’m probably dating myself by listing the contents of my Creative Zen Micro:
Jefferson Airplane (yes all the albums)
The Corrs
Echo and the Bunnymen (all the albums)
Jimmy Buffett (pretty much all the albums)
VNV Nation (all the albums)
Sequentia (Dante & The Troubadors/Hildegard von Bingen)
Apoptygma Berzerk
CCR
Chumbawanma
Depeche Mode
Hole (and other Courtney Love tracks)
Jeff Buckely
Leonard Cohen
New Order
Peter Tosh
Seals & Crofts
Jimmy Cliff
They Might be Giants
Toad the Wet Sprocket
One of these days, I’ll actually go out and buy some new music, if I ever find anything that actually appeals to me. Seems like there’s less and less appealing music out there.
Krista
They Might be Giants — Listening to them always makes me happy.
Leonard Cohen — Listening to him always makes me sad, but in a glamorous, theatrical, rather enjoyable way.