CD, or not CD?
Posted by Oeufman on 18 June 2008 - 9:06pm.
Miss Oeuf and I are chewing the evening cud, and happened to laugh our way through the lady drummer thread, until we alighted upon the Clout song from '78, 'Substitute'. The following conversation took place (edited for brevity):
Oeufman - 'Never heard of it. Who'd call a band Clout?'
Miss Oeuf - 'It's on Radio 2 all the time. That's the difference between you and I; you read about music, I listen to it. Radio is brilliant.'
O - 'Cheeky! 99% of radio is rubbish.'
MO - 'Ask the Word cognoscenti what they'd rather give up; CDs or the radio?'
Okay, I will...
P.S. MO says women are always right. Another thread, methinks...
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Laothe as I am...
To incur the wrath of Miss Oeuf, I'm not giving up my little silver discs for anyone.
Me
neither Fraser. I think this is the beginning of a ploy to rid the house of a lifetime's collection in favour of Jonathan Ross on Saturday mornings.
Not going to happen, if for no other reason than his sidekick's continually sycophantic laughter at everything the not very well paid DJ says makes me want to scream.
I'm all for R4 and some R2 (Maconie particularly), but half my fun every evening is trawling through the library for a disc I haven't heard for ages.
CDs
I'd give them up in an instant. In fact, I am, slowly. All that I own will soon be digitised and sold on. New albums will be downloaded and boot fairs scavenged for records. As long as I have Collins and Maconie and most of radio 4, what else does one need?
Sorry
Matthew, MO says that doesn't count as you'll still have the music in one format or another; it's radio or bust.
I'd question her sanity, but it might bring my continuing presence in the house into the picture.
The Radio
Never listen to it anyway. Far too many other - and superior - ways of getting to hear new music.
Pah! How unimaginative!
I'm having both! And podcasts too! Greedy beggar me!
I must admit, I do like a lot of Radio 2's output. They still do vary their core play-list and play random song (both new and old) even on the prime-time music shows. Much better than the 20-song-playlist commercial stations and some great speciality shows and documentaries. Need to be a bit careful at the weekends tho - still too much Titchmarsh and Mantovani for my tastes!
And Radio 4 for comedy and current affairs pretty much gives it national treasure status on its own.
Horses for courses... Waking up and going to bed - R2 (the Mrs can't take John Humphrys that early). Making Saturday lunch - R4 comedy and Any Questions. Driving back from playing gigs at some ungodly hour - Whispering Bob. General driving mostly radio. CDs and iPod a lot of the other time.
Podcasts and songs on shuffle on the train...
I listen to the radio infrequently....
Usually when I have run out of power in the i-pod or forgotten to put CDs in the car. And I am seldom less than amazed by how good it is and wonder why I don't do it more often. Answer: time. Without 4 or 5 extra hours a day, several days more a week and a few more weeks per years of 15 or so months, it ain't gonna happen. But I wouldn't have nearly so many LPs/CDs were it not for Johnny Walker over my formative years.
You only buy music
when you're drunk?
Saway a tellum.
A coffee/keyboard interface moment.
Via my nose. Thanks, Archie!
After a LOT of soul searching,
I have to conclude that I'd keep my CDs, but it's a close call.
I'd miss either of them, and I'd miss the radio for the (mostly illusory) feeling of connectedness it gives the listener. I say illusory since a lot of broadcasts might as well be recorded and sent from Mars. In the end, radio is essentially impersonal for almost all of the time. Only live radio counts in this discussion, I think, but even then it's a one-way thing.
I'd miss my CDs because they chart my life as a series of changing musical listening experiences and experiments, all the way from infancy to now, and they can summon images and memories from every year I've lived. So, on a personal Proustian basis, they have to stay.
Agreed
but wil less soul searching. Call me old fashioned, but I like to put a CD on and listen to it in its entirety.
I like the effort the musician(s) have made in sequencing the tracks.
I like the fact that a ridiculous radio advert or jingle isn't going to obliterate the last 30 seconds of a favoured track.
I like the fact I get to hear all the verses, not just the ones the DJ likes.
I like the fact that there will be more songs I like than songs I don't (accepting that yes, it's one method of hearing new music, just not the only, or best, one).
I like the fact there's no inane, pointless, how can I fill this space conversation with a crony.
In short, I like being in control.
I like
Not having to hear some moron gibbering on between tracks. Actually, folkalley.com is pretty perfect - endless good music, informative website, almost no chat. Ahhhhh.
I
will check it out, thanks Twango.
Radio
With the awful radio stations we have in Cape Town. I'll happily give them up. Checkout www.kfm.co.za The horror! The horror!
Apart from R4 and FiveLive I think I HAVE given up radio.
Certainly music radio. If there's one job where you don't need it, it's this one. I'm not sure I'd miss R4 and 5 all that much if they disappeared either.
Keep the CDs, ditch Moyles et al
CDs for me. I rarely listen to the radio, aside from the odd show I like the closest I usually get is a couple of Radio2 podcasts. Too many irritating DJs and too much playlisting.
Definitely keep the cd's.
Today was mostly in the car - listening to radio 5 and occasional bursts of radio 2 when the chat got a bit boring. When the whole lot got boring put on King Tubby Crucial dub and I was flying.