Friday Music Day

FMD: noPod

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I left my iPod at home today for no good reason.
Looks like I'll be listening to 1) Youtube, 2) Pitchfork, 3) the few CDs I keep at work for such unfortunate happenings.
What's your backup?

17 thoughts on “FMD: noPod”

  2. I keep all of my music on my phone, so I never forget it. At work, I stream from Google Play.

    01. Metalium - "Mental Blindness", Nothing to Undo - Chapter Six
    02. Dark Tranquillity - "Zodijackyl Light", The Mind's I
    03. Tristania - "Opus Relinque", Beyond the Veil
    04. Windir - "Byrjing", Valfar
    05. Kreator - "All of the Same Blood", Violent Revolution
    06. Darkthrone - "I en Hall Med Flesk Og Mjod", Transilvanian Hunger
    07. Mercyful Fate - "The Bell Witch", In the Shadows
    08. Overkill - "Play the Ace", Relixiv
    09. Iron Maiden - "Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter", No Prayer for the Dying
    10. Testament - "Demonic Refusal", Demonic

  3. I'm now to the point in having a few paychecks built up for disposable purposes, I've purchased replacement parts for my iPod. I'm not sure if it's the battery or the HDD, so I'm replacing the battery all together and upgrading the HDD to a solid-state CF card. Parts are en route from Amazon. This time next week, and I should have a fully functioning iPod that will weigh less and have no moving parts in the storage, so it should be much less prone to something going wrong. Here's the kicker, all this will cost way less than a brand new iPod.

  4. I pretty much just listen to Pandora at work.

    I don't even have an iPod. My wife has an iPod mini from... a long time ago.

    1. “American Patrol” – Glenn Miller
    2. “Piano Man” – Billy Joel - Piano Man
    3. “Where Is My Mind” – Maxine Cyrinn
    4. “No Light, No Light” – Florence + The Machine - Ceremonials
    5. “Samson” – Regina Spektor - Begin To Hope
    6. “40 Mark Strasse” – The Shins - Port Of Morrow
    7. “Ana Ng”- They Might Be Giants - Lincoln
    8. “Two Weeks” – Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
    9. “Change Your Mind” – The Killers - Hot Fuss
    10. “Seven Nation Army” – The White Stripes - Elephant
    B: “Ticket To Ride” – The Beatles - Help

    3. A cover of The Pixies’ song, with just piano, no lyrics.
    5. I saw someone suggest that she should have done the song for the upcoming Bond movie. Some missed synergy there...

    1. I don't think Pandora or a similar service would satisfy me. I'm guessing there are limited options for Aaron Dilloway, Will Oldham bootlegs, and Bird calls, just to name a few.

      1. It does get a bit redundant at times. I try to freshen up my seeds, and rotate through a bunch of different stations.

        I've been occasionally impressed with the depth of the cuts, but never with the diversity of them.

  5. 01. “The Black Angel’s Death Song” – The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & Nico
    02. “Words & A Piece Of Paper” – Hanne Hukkelberg – Little Things
    03. “Bring It On Home To Me” – The Animals – Animal Tracks
    04. “Only The Young Die Good” – Saintceneca – Dark Arc
    05. “Mood Ring” – P.S. Eliot – Sadie
    06. “Seagull” – Shout Out Louds – Howl Howl Gaff Gaff
    07. “Introduce Myself” – Kye Kye – Young Love
    08. “Oh, My Darling” – Basia Bulat – Oh, My Darling
    09. “Hostile, Mass.” – The Hold Steady – Almost Killed Me
    10. “Sunken Treasure” – Wilco – Being There

  6. 1. Just A Little Lovin' -- Dusty Springfield -- Dusty In Memphis
    2. Bulldog Skin -- Guided By Voices -- Human Amusements At Hourly Rates
    3. Good Earth -- The Feelies -- Good Earth
    4. God Damn Job -- The Replacements -- Stink
    5. My Valuable Hunting Knife -- Guided By Voices -- Alien Lanes
    6. Shore Leave -- Yung Wu -- Shore Leave
    7. In The Ghetto -- Elvis Presley -- Top Ten Hits
    8. Waste Not Want Not -- The Pretenders -- Pretenders II
    9. Life And How To Live It -- R.E.M. -- Fables Of The Reconstruction
    10. Suffer For The Trust -- The Ike Reilly Assassination -- Junkie Faithful

    B1. Granadaland -- The Wedding Present -- Bizarro
    B2. Try Again -- Big Star -- #1 Record

  7. Turns out I also missed a new Robyn mini-album with "La Bagatelle Magique", which was begun with Christian Falk before he passed away.
    I also missed that Christian Falk had passed away. Here's my favorite of his songs (The Robyn-album version without Ola Salo really wants for his bgvox) :
    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rjY_vie0lM
    The two in the video are actors; not Robyn, Salo, or Falk.

  8. AMR, my battery is fast diminishing, so I'll be in your boat soon. I have a small, odd pile of CDs in a desk drawer. We're not supposed to use streaming services (bandwidth!), so I try to comply most of the time.

    No list today; I'm listening to full albums as background music to drown out the sound of my coworkers who have the temerity to do such things as talk, walk, and eat.

  9. Fridays when we have FMD is the only time I bring my iPod because I have a personal cell that's an Android and a work-issued phone. Bringing three devices drives me nuts.

    As a result, I actually don't listen to much at work because cubicles and for some reason, I don't really like the one-eared ear buds. But, when I do, it's typically Spotify or Pandora. This will change today though; I'm buying an iPhone.*

    1. Jack – Tom Petty
    2. Surfin’ Safari – The Beach Boys
    3. Jack the Stripper/Fairies Wear Boots – Black Sabbath
    4. Life in a Glass House – Radiohead
    5. I Am Superman – R.E.M.

    6. Working on the Highway – Bruce Springsteen
    7. In My Dreams (Cudder Anthem) – Kid Cudi
    8. Skin and Bone – Heartless Bastards
    9. Mozart: Horn Concerto #4 In E Flat, K.495 - Mvt. 3 – Bernd Heiser; Herbert Kraus: Vienna Mozart Ensemble
    10. Tchaikovsky: Marche slave, Op. 31 – Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    B. Kiss the Bride – Elton John

    This thing was looking sooooo good ... then the Bonus track hits.

    *don't tell cheaptoy.

    1. My personal cell is four-years-old and I never took the initiative to upgrade so speed and playing music therefore sucks.

      2. I listen to music on Mr. NaCl's old phone--an iPhone 3 that no longer functions as a phone. I use it for music and podcasts (and checking email when connected to wifi). I've run out of space for music, though, so I'm going to have to come up with a new plan soon.

  10. My backup is my big 160GB iPod (~7000 songs) that I just leave at work most every night, I only take it home to update it with new purchases and such. My little 16GB one I carry back and forth with audiobooks, podcasts, and my most recent music acquisitions (~500 songs right now).

    * New - Priests - Bodies and Control and Money and Power
    * Palace Doctor - Thee Oh Sees - Mutilator Defeated at Last
    * Hang Me Up to Dry - Cold War Kids - Robbers and Cowards**
    * Green Valley - Puscifer - Conditions of My Parole***
    * Kim's Caravan - Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think Somtimes I Just Sit
    * Plough - Speedy Ortiz - Major Arcana
    * Acid House - Good Throb - Fuck Off
    * Monkey 23 - The Kills - Keep On Your Mean Side
    * Hot as Day - Wye Oak - Civilian
    * Lucky - Radiohead - OK Computer

    ** My brother named Cold War Kids and Radiohead as his favorite two bands the last time we had a music discussion, so I picked this up to form an opinion (we generally have different likes/dislikes, but if it's his favorite band, I feel like I owe it a listen).
    *** Best Puscifer song out there by a wide margin

  11. "Crimson and Clover" - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
    "Dreaming of You" - The Coral
    "Money (Thats What I Want)" - Jerry Lee Lewis (live)
    "Born Fighter" - Nick Lowe
    "Dammit" - Blink 182

    "Hard to Handle" - Otis Redding
    "Shooting Dirty Pool" - The Replacements
    "All Apologies" - Nirvana
    "A Face in the Crowd" - Tom Petty
    "Long Hard Times to Comes (Theme from Justified)" - Ganstagrass

    Bonus: I am obsessed with this song. Its called "7:30 AM" by a band called Slothrust
    httpv://youtu.be/Qz5JAu9DcrM

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