The Depths of Despair and Your Music Collection

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Okay, what lurks in your collection? Why does it remeain? Provide photographic evidence if you so desire! This could go on ILM but it's not.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v210/jel2004/tapes.jpg

yep, that is an Alannah Myles tape bottom left hand corner. I haven't played it in 15 years.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

sir, i think you might be a packrat.

― Ian John50n (orion), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember Junkyard. Is this the "teen shame" part of your collection?

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Teen Shame, yep, it's the pre-CD stage! Junkyard were great, formed by ex-members of Minor Threat IIRC, but I can't seem to find their second album which is the best one as it features "Slippin' Away"

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

i have that NME tape and possibly that Free greatest hits somewhere as well. also is that a handdrawn iron maiden logo i see?

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

is that the Afghan Whigs' Gentlemen lurking over there? I bought that in high school..
I have a huge bin of tapes that looks like that, I used to collage my mix tape cases too, back when I used to care.

― daria g (daria g), Thursday, 25 November 2004 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I have several large shoeboxes fulla tapes too... most of them are hand-taped C90s tho, full of indie randomness. Most of the shameful stuff is in my (rather small) vinyl collection.

I mean I have shit like the Alarm, and Howard Jones, and King. *cringe*.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 25 November 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey Trayce, dance with me!

"THAT'S what my heart years for now, love and priiiiiide!"

"And if you feel scared OHHHH I DOOO but I won't stop and falteeeeer, and if we threw it all AAAAAAWAY, things can only get bettahhhhh!"

― Drama Queen Wannabe (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 25 November 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

(Secretly, or not-so- , I don't mind King and I actually really like Howard Jones.)

― Drama Queen Wannabe (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 25 November 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

(And it's "yearns", not "years". Ackage deluxe.)

― Drama Queen Wannabe (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 25 November 2004 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i like my tape drawer. it's fun to dig out some random unlabelled c90 of stuff i've taped off the radio. it's surprising what mix of music i used to listen to when i was 13/14

― jellybean (jellybean), Thursday, 25 November 2004 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

"Love and pride" is a great song

This is probably the worst tape I own (although there are lots of other contenders in a similar vein):

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Club/2660/conquer.gif

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 25 November 2004 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

lurking in my collection: the bang tango tape with "someone like you" on it, and the thelonious monster tape with the tom waits duet on it.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 25 November 2004 04:15 (twenty-one years ago)

on the spine:
RELAXATION/STRESS MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
PRACTICE THIS EVERYDAY FOR 90 DAYS

on the liner:
UNTYING THE KNOTS
BASIC TRAINING IN STRESS MANAGEMENT BREATHING AND VISUALIZATION.

PASSIVE VOLITION

NARRATED BY:
DR. DAVID ENGSTROM [...]

GOLDEN VOYAGE
THE GOLDEN VOYAGE INTO RELAXATION. PART III

― youn, Thursday, 25 November 2004 04:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i think i have that relaxation/stress management tape!

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 25 November 2004 04:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Did it work?

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Thursday, 25 November 2004 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 25 November 2004 04:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes?

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Thursday, 25 November 2004 05:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Um, good answer. I was going to say just that, being a casual observer and all.

― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 25 November 2004 05:04 (twenty-one years ago)

meep

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 25 November 2004 05:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Junkyard were great, formed by ex-members of Minor Threat IIRC

what?!

GOLDEN VOYAGE
THE GOLDEN VOYAGE INTO RELAXATION. PART III

wow

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 25 November 2004 05:17 (twenty-one years ago)

i have this urge to purify my collection all the time, so i don't really keep random stuff around very long--i don't get attached to things really, i mean *things* as in the actual cassettes or cds. i'd be happy to keep all my cds on a computer if i could do so and retain the sound quality and the liner notes and if i had an ipod and stuff like that. anyway. i think i still have a bunch of tapes down in the basement, but it's mostly good stuff like a lata mangeshkar box set and the smiths peel sessions.

― amateur!!st, Thursday, 25 November 2004 05:24 (twenty-one years ago)

musical eugenicist

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Thursday, 25 November 2004 05:25 (twenty-one years ago)

my "urge to purify" = "selling cds for beer money"

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 25 November 2004 05:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I have some weird Minnesota-centric shit lying around -- some tape by The Odd with a bunch of songs not on (and better than) Oh My G*d It's The Odd, and a Mark Mallman demo from somewhere around 1990.

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Thursday, 25 November 2004 05:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Brian Baker, who was in Minor Threat and Dag Nasty and later in Bad Religion, was in Junkyard. Doesn't mean they were good, though!

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 25 November 2004 05:36 (twenty-one years ago)

my "urge to purify" = "selling cds for beer money"

-- stockholm cindy (theundergroundhom...), November 25th, 2004.

bingo

― amateur!!st, Thursday, 25 November 2004 05:57 (twenty-one years ago)

sixteen years pass...

winter hibernation pursuit: listen to all 3k songs in the music collection in order of date added, starting with newest first

― calstars, Friday, 25 December 2020 02:26 (five years ago)

all 3k songs in the music collection

Oh you poor deprived child. *stares at Excel spreadsheet listing ~1200 albums purchased or downloaded in 2020 alone*

― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 25 December 2020 03:02 (five years ago)

17,888 songs as of today, about 98% of which have been vetted. I don't keep music I don't like, if I never deleted anything it would be around twice that amount of songs.

― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 25 December 2020 03:43 (five years ago)

No despair, though, at least about my music collection.

― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 25 December 2020 03:44 (five years ago)

My project has improved (survived?) via changing approach from going song by song to going album by album

― calstars, Saturday, 26 December 2020 20:30 (five years ago)

During shutdown I realized that I had been storing my 2,000+ records in a way that was bad for them. Each record was in a plastic bag but the sleeves containing the vinyl were outside of the cover, but inside the bag. So if I wanted to listen to something instead of unbagging it I could pull out the sleeve and get busy. I was noticing slight ring wear on my oldest “new” records. So I spent two weeks rebagging them and putting the vinyl inside the cover as the good Lord intended. Turns out they took up less space that way as well.

It turned out to be a fun project, but when I realized what must be done I was very put out.

― Cow_Art, Saturday, 26 December 2020 23:00 (five years ago)

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