Re:1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die
by oluminate on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @06:02PM
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If the idea was to just hear and not listen to the albums, the typical listener could probably finish this list in the span of a few weeks (1001 albums x 10 songs per album = 10,010 songs, 30s per song = 3,003 minutes = 50 hours). That’s less than the length of a typical AAA video game
Re:1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die
by shaftway on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @09:46PM
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I get missing the old service. We went with a YouTube Music subscription but I'm not particularly happy about it. I loved Play Music and when it folded we just kind of went with the flow. Now there are reasons for sticking (the cost isn't bad, we have a family membership, and we get no ads on YouTube).
The "radio station" functionality has been great for me. I do most of my music listening while on the motorcycle, and it's easy to thumb things up and kick off new radio stations via voice commands. So I've been able to meander through various musics and have had a pretty continuous stream of artists I wouldn't have heard of.
Re:1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die
by disposition2 on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @08:59AM
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I also use YouTube Music, it's about as good / bad as all the other services that I have tried and are available today.
One of my favorite things about Rdio was the ability to have multiple radio stations and your likes / dislikes would only affect that station. So if I'm trying to make a 60s rock station and a Johnny Cash song comes up, me disliking Johnny Cash on that station wouldn't affect my classic country station where I definitely want to hear Johnny Cash. Such a neat feature...and it really helped with discovery IMHO.
What I mean by my throw away commentary above, is that you need to hear it with your soul, not just listen to it with thine ears.
Each phrase in interchangeable, which both muddies the meaning and, for me anyway, makes it an amusing thing to say.
Also: White Men Can't Jump (wink to tedunangst)
If you want an album recommendation... how about "The Lion and the Cobra" or maybe for fun "Hysteria" by Def Leppard?
It's not just subjective, it's the generational conditioning that the music industry promotes as a monetising strategy.
1. RIP __rdio__, nothing has ever replaced the amount of music I discovered using this service (at least from an automated perspective).
The "radio station" functionality has been great for me. I do most of my music listening while on the motorcycle, and it's easy to thumb things up and kick off new radio stations via voice commands. So I've been able to meander through various musics and have had a pretty continuous stream of artists I wouldn't have heard of.
One of my favorite things about Rdio was the ability to have multiple radio stations and your likes / dislikes would only affect that station. So if I'm trying to make a 60s rock station and a Johnny Cash song comes up, me disliking Johnny Cash on that station wouldn't affect my classic country station where I definitely want to hear Johnny Cash. Such a neat feature...and it really helped with discovery IMHO.