[meandering diatribe]
I recently bought a new(-ish, '04) car with a 6-disc changer. Thing is my old car had an after market stereo that could not only play CD-Rs but MP3s burned onto CD-Rs. This meant I could fit ten discs worth of music onto a single CD-R!
So at first I was a little disappointed having to take what I considered a downgrade in my car stereo. But, when I traded in my old car and ejected the disc from the stereo, I realized that I had literally been listening to the same, single, best-of disc for the past five years! It was the first MP3 CD-R I had made (a hard rock mix) after I installed the stereo in my old car. First, and turns out, only! I couldn’t decide which artists I wanted to combine onto single discs. Should it be by music type, year, alphabetical etc. Then I’d have to try and fit the names of all the albums onto the disc. I even had my whole CD collection already ripped onto my hard drive for my iPod clone. All I had to do was drag & drop the folders onto a CD-R! But I made that first best of and never got around to making a single other disc.
Anyways, other than having to pull my actual CDs out of archive storage (where I thought they’d remain forever) having to use them again isn’t really worse than before. In fact, its better. I’m actually listening to CDs I forgot I had!
Oh, and to answer the OP:
[ul]
[li]Def Leppard - Vault[/li][li]Foo Fighters - Color & Shape[/li][li]Mötley Crüe - Decade of Decadence[/li][li]Jethro Tull - 30th Anniversary[/li][li]GnR - Appetite for Dest[/li][li]Beethoven - Best of[/li][/ul]Seems I can’t shake my penchant for 'Best of’s…
Nice! But, 30th Anniversary? I’ve 2*0 Years of Tull, 25th Anniversary Boxed Set, The Best of Tull, Anniversary Edition, * but I don’t recall a compilation released in '98
Ian Hunter’s new CD, “Shrunken Heads” in rotation with Nick Lowe’s latest, “At My Age”. It’s been awhile for both Ian and Nick, but it has been worth the wait.
Shop and Car: 6 home-burnt compilations. Pioneers. Both use the same cartridges (house, too, but I’m only using the single-disc magazine) Lots of old, loud stuff. I like it loud.
“Feeding of the 5000”, Crass ('70’s political Britpunk)
“On the Corner”, Miles Davis
“Hot Rats”, Frank Zappa
“Raw Power”, Stooges
“Alright Still”, Lily Allen
A mix CD called “Kitchen Sink Mix #1.” Let’s see what’s on it, because I don’t think mere description will do this collection justice.
I’m Not Wearing Underwear Today – Avenue Q Soundtrack
Karma Slave – Splashdown
Eyes Like Yours (Ojos Asi) – Shakira
Kate – Ben Folds Five
Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In – Hair soundtrack
Down to Earth – Luscious Jackson
White Boys – Hair Soundtrack
Black Boys – Hair Soundtrack
Mr. Jones – Counting Crows
Drive – Melissa Ferrick
Pretty Baby – Spin Doctors
Song for the Dumped – Ben Folds Five
Kyle Took a Bullet – Tenacious D
Jack Kerouac – Primus
Devil In Disguise – Elvis
Lay All Your Love On Me – ABBA
Waterbead – Splashdown
Too Many Puppies – Primus
Immigrant Song – Led Zepplin
Irish Drinking Song – Less Than Jake
Lola – The Kinks
Take a Chance on Me – ABBA
So Ha – Splashdown
I like to keep it kind of eclectic, but not jump from Tongan throat-singing to Cole Porter tunes. So I guess I listen to risque Broadway showtunes and Primus. And ABBA.
Let’s see… bedroom - Willie Nelson Stardust, kitchen - Paul Simon Graceland, on the deck - Bob Seger Live Bullet and in the truck - Shannon Lawson Accoustic Living Room Sessions
In the computer at work: Under the Sign of the Sun: French Works for Saxaphone & Orchestra
In the cd player at work: Mercury Rev - The Secret Migration
At home: a disc from a triple Best of Chickenshack set, or maybe a drone metal (I think that’s the genre, anyway) cd I can’t quite remember the name of… the name ends ‘)))’
[QUOTE=Hail Ants]
[meandering diatribe]
I recently bought a new(-ish, '04) car with a 6-disc changer. Thing is my old car had an after market stereo that could not only play CD-Rs but MP3s burned onto CD-Rs. This meant I could fit ten discs worth of music onto a single CD-R!
Just out of curiousity was the sound quality on your 10 album cd as it is on regular cds and those you burned at normal speed?
I make my own and those mp3’s never sounded quite right to me.
In my cd player:
Solomon Burke
Iris Dement
Kimmie Rhodes
Ry Cooder and David Lindley
George Jones
