Things that piss you off that shouldn't

[blandy]

3 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

I retire to the gentleman’s smoking room and play some records and bully people on Twitter.

By posting pictures of Welsh Dub LPs

[chrisp65]

5 minutes ago, blandy said:

By posting pictures of Welsh Dub LPs

Yeah, I’m playing the long game.

It’s very subtle, almost subliminal bullying.

Like there’s this one guy that **** hates celery, so every now and again...

[blandy]

3 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

Yeah, I’m playing the long game.

It’s very subtle, almost subliminal bullying.

Like there’s this one guy that **** hates celery, so every now and again...

Evil Rhubarb, you mean. Different gravy.

[Follyfoot]

19 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

Transitional, the youngest just went to Uni, but is now back again for Chrimbo!

But, no I don’t think that’s relevant, it’s always been my ‘thing’ and they’ve only just left. 

The routine most evenings is they watch The One Show or Holby or Strictly or whatever, and I retire to the gentleman’s smoking room and play some records and bully people on Twitter.

 

 

Fair enough but from the evidence of most things you bang on the 'what are you listening now to' threads I would imagine the royalty periods would have expired anyway 

Edited December 16, 2020 by Follyfoot

[chrisp65]

Just now, Follyfoot said:

Fair enough but from the evidence of most things you bang on the 'what are you listening now to' threads I would imagine the Royalty periods would have has expired anyway 

Llwybr Llaethog might look dead, but I can assure you they’ve looked like that for a long time and are very much still alive and constantly sticking stickers all over Cardiff and denying it when the council ask them to please stop.

[Seat68]

4 minutes ago, Follyfoot said:

Fair enough but from the evidence of most things you bang on the 'what are you listening now to' threads I would imagine the royalty periods would have expired anyway 

Its all bloody britpop and bob marley over on twitter, makes me think he doesnt own any of the records he posts here. 

[Designer1]

33 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

 

Given a choice of supporting the artist, and supporting the record shop and getting invited to little in store gigs... or, renting the music off apple and the artist getting 0.001p and the record shop closing, I’m going with option A.

There’s a much longer version than that, but that’s essentially the argument. Plus a little bit about aesthetics and memories and socialising and the nerdy side of upgrading speakers and yada yada yada.

I’m not a technophobe, I do put a copy of a record on a usb and play them in the car or listen to 6 music.

It’ll just be a cold day in hell when I rent music off the man.

 

I think that's all fine - for me, I buy a lot of music and go to a lot of gigs to support the artists I like. But I also like the convenience of being able to walk into the kitchen / bedroom and shout at Alexa to put some Sleaford Mods on while I make a bit of lunch / tidy up. 

 

[chrisp65]

1 minute ago, Designer1 said:

I think that's all fine - for me, I buy a lot of music and go to a lot of gigs to support the artists I like. But I also like the convenience of being able to walk into the kitchen / bedroom and shout at Alexa to put some Sleaford Mods on while I make a bit of lunch / tidy up. 

 

Yep, it’s whatever floats your goat.

I’m not suggesting everyone should go get a record player.

I’ve been using the same record shop for 40 years and they could probably do with all the help I can give them at the moment. So I look at stuff on the net, then I ask them to order it for me. It’s archaic, but if it limps them through until the Spring then I’ve done my bit.

I’m not religious about it, I’m not trying to evangelise everyone in to getting a Crosley Cruizer.

Are we way of thread now?

 

[Mark Albrighton]

I don’t buy anywhere near as much music as I used to, but when I do it’s still in a physical format. I then convert them to mp3 or whatever it is and play it through a decent(ish) docking station. 

Maybe I might download a single tune if I liked that song and nothing else by that musician - maybe. But more often than not in that instance I’ll find it on YouTube and play it that way. Never used Spotify or Alexa, not “owning” the music outright doesn’t quite sit right with me. 

Not quite a technophobe, but am a bit sluggish in adapting. I suppose because I assume once I do catch up it will have changed again I’ll have to learn another new way.
 

[mjmooney]

1 hour ago, Follyfoot said:

Any reason, you are not restricted to  the confines of one CD, just shout what you want and it plays, also got all DB radio stations on, again just shout and play. Bottle of wine on the go whilst cooking, all good

Yeah, like that's going to work for me. 

"Alexa - play the slow movement from Beethoven's ninth. The Von Karajan/Berlin Philharmonic one. Not the fifties recording, or the one from the eighties. The 1976 one. After that, just play the bonus tracks, you know, the alternative takes, from the second disc of the 2 CD reissue of Coltrane's "Ballads" album. Thanks". 

[Follyfoot]

8 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

Yeah, like that's going to work for me. 

"Alexa - play the slow movement from Beethoven's ninth. The Von Karajan/Berlin Philharmonic one. Not the fifties recording, or the one from the eighties. The 1976 one. After that, just play the bonus tracks, you know, the alternative takes, from the second disc of the 2 CD reissue of Coltrane's "Ballads" album. Thanks". 

Yes but if you ask her to sing a Villa song she recites 'who put the ball in the Small Heath net.............................'

[Genie]

48 minutes ago, Designer1 said:

I think that's all fine - for me, I buy a lot of music and go to a lot of gigs to support the artists I like. But I also like the convenience of being able to walk into the kitchen / bedroom and shout at Alexa to put some Sleaford Mods on while I make a bit of lunch / tidy up. 

 

Me too.

I love the convenience of saying

Alexa, play songs by [artist]
Alexa, play songs from [decade]
Alexa, play [genre] songs

I listen to a lot more music than I would ever buy physically. Hopefully all the 0.0001’s add up for the artists involved. It’s 0.0001 more from me than they would have got the other way. 
 

[mjmooney]

I use Spotify to discover new music. If I find I'm playing a newly discovered album more than (say) five or six times, I buy the CD. 

Edited December 16, 2020 by mjmooney

[blandy]

1 hour ago, chrisp65 said:

I’ve been using the same record shop for 40 years and they could probably do with all the help I can give them at the moment. So I look at stuff on the net, then I ask them to order it for me. It’s archaic, but if it limps them through until the Spring then I’ve done my bit.

When I was in my local record shop on Saturday I asked the owner how it was going, with all the pandemic and whatnot, and he said that they were doing loads more internet trade, but they could do with more people coming into the shop - I think they must get pretty bored. I was the only one in there other than the owner and assistant. I think generally they're doing OK, but not great.

Anyway, it was nice to just have a chat about whatever - music, mugs and do that thing where I bought a bit extra and they gave me a discount - everyone won.

[Xela]

9 hours ago, TheAuthority said:

Will someone please teach women how to load a friggin' dishwasher FFS

I like to put a load in the dishwasher and afterwards, she kindly does the dishes. 

AMIRITE lads!

#bantz

Yes, i'm single. 

[chrisp65]

Yeah, I think we’ve got a combo here @blandy of our rules being slightly different and Ash being super cautious about the whole thing. The shop is physically very small, two behind the counter would be a contravention strictly speaking. She also doesn’t want browsers filling up the shop so actually buyers are left queuing outside. She also didn’t fancy random’s entering the shop and touching all the records and surfaces.

We have another tier 4 lockdown as of 28th December and non-essential shops are click n collect only. How records are classed as non essential I’ll never understand, but we are where we are.

She’s upgraded her card machine now, up until the summer it didn’t do ‘dab’ you had to put the card in the machine and punch your number in. It was also plugged in, so it couldn’t travel around the shop. 

But a couple of upgrades and furniture moves and she now has the door open but blocked off with a table, and click n collect working fine with a new WiFi card machine. There’s a constant, short, well mannered queue now.

[bickster]

41 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

I use Spotify to discover new music. If I find I'm playing a newly discovered album more than (say) five or six times, I buy the CD. 

Yep, this is pretty much me, with the exception that I use Spotify in the car when there's a show I don't like on 6 Music.

[blandy]

47 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

I use Spotify to discover new music. If I find I'm playing a newly discovered album more than (say) five or six times, I buy the CD. 

Me too - if someone recommends something, or I hear a track on the radio - but just one listen - not even the full thing sometimes, just a sort of scroll and then / . I'd say more of the time than not I .

It's almost better just to jump and purchase half blind. I mean for example I bought Hey Colossus Dances/Curses on the back of one track played on the radio, and it is bloody brilliant - and it turns out the one radio play track is atypical of the rest of the album. It's be right up @chrisp65 and @bickster's street I should think, bit pysch rock, a bit Hawkwindy and bit Oh Sees (but not too much - I don't "get" them).

Er, anyway TTPYO, um went into town for dinner and Greggs was shut and I was starving.

[mjmooney]

14 minutes ago, bickster said:

Yep, this is pretty much me, with the exception that I use Spotify in the car when there's a show I don't like on 6 Music.

Oh, that too. Although chances are it'll be a self-compiled playlist of which I probably own 90% or more on CD anyway. 

[bickster]

Yep either that, something that is already on my radar or the Release Radar / Discovery ones that spotify makes for me