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Too many tracks?
Posted by badartdog on 6 July 2009 - 8:26pm.
I have 349 Clash tracks on my iPod. That's probably too many isn't it? Much as I love 'em I don't need so many live versions of the same tracks. Should get round to choosing the definitive versions and deleting the rest. But who has time? It was so much easier to just put all the live cds on along with everything else.
Anyone else's mp3 players a little choked by any particular artists?
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Retropath2
He's going to win this by a mile
I think Signor Stimpy...
might have rather a lot of Led Zeppelin on his iPod.
Oddly enough, I only have a 4gb iPod
and select stuff to go on it - usually a bunch of podcast episodes and one carefully chosen Zeppelin show at a time, as well as one carefully chosen Dead show.
The iTunes library currently shows 4191 Dead tracks and 4623 Zeppelin tracks.
I reckon the Zeppelin collection is getting close to complete in terms of available bootlegs, whereas there's many hundreds - probably thousands - of new Dead shows for me still to listen to. Archive.org alone lists 6,825 Dead recordings - obviously not all unique concerts!
Blimey!
4623 Zep tracks! Whilst they were more prone to improv and rearranging of their stuff than Strummer and co that's gotta be a whole lotta whole lotta love.
Retropath seems to have disappeared...
since discovering that he is the numero uno blogger. Come back! We need more Fairport and RT japery!
Hope he's OK
Not just me that's noticed his musical preferences then
No, you are not alone...
however I do think that he leaves us the odd little clue as to his musical preferences.
349 - they released that many?
Or are "unauthorised" copies included?
I probably have more Waterboys tracks than any other band but it won't be anywhere near 250.
Delete the lot and when you pine for something add it back in.
aye,
lots of live bootlegs. Deleting all is too extreme - I just need to find time to listen and delete accordingly.
Archie's Amon Duul 11
collection is extensive I'll warrant
The mighty Elvis
492 by the mighty Elvis Costello. I am too scared to count the Bowie, Springsteen, Weller/jam and XTC tracks.
508 and 639
508 Clash tracks, though a lot of them are repeated on Black Market Clash,Clash on Broadway,This is Dub Clash,12" mixes. etc
On the Pc i have every night from The Bonds New York Residency,but that's more a Collecters thing i use to trade online.
Thanks to 2 Bear Family Boxsets i have 639 Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys tracks.
I think I have a stack
of more Clash live CDs that I haven't come across yet too as I bought a lot on ebay that I haven't come across yet. I have shows ranging from Screen on the Green with the Pistols and Buzzcocks up to the Cut the Crap Tour.
Lee Perry
About 15 gigs of The Scratch. About 3000 tracks. About 20 gigs, including repeats, of Motown.
Every single live track officially released
By Iron Maiden is currently on my player. Even if I´m a fan it may be stretching it a bit. Especially since it´s only a 4gb player.
I tend to use it mainly during my daily - oh yes - walks and thus I want music with tempo. Give me metal, mom!
Stoned
622 Rolling Stones songs, which includes all the (lets be honest) not very good latter day albums... 1.6 days worth of listening..
Latter day albums...
in other words, since 1981.
You stuck with them that long?
What do you rate after Some Girls, Patrick?
I like 'Tattoo You'...
I think it's a good record. The last time the Stones sounded like the Stones.
Ah yes
Two good singles and one rotten one (Neighbours). I'll Spotify it when I'm able.
Steel Wheels......
Has it's moments.....
There's a chap I have met..
..called Bolle Gregmar.
He has a very large collection of tape recordings, still being expanded, of every gig ever played by Blue Öyster Cult. I don't know if he's got round to digitising them yet. It might take him a little while. A very rough calculation by me puts it at about three year's work, assuming he goes for eight hours a day at normal speed. And works weekends. I have yet to calculate how many tracks this might tot up to.
I'm not admitting the paltry number of Favourite Artist tracks on my ipod. I cannot hold my head up in such company.
Fear not Len, your head...
...shall be held high in mine, for I am indeed The Last Man Alive Who Doesn't Have An iPod.
If I did, it would, at the moment, contain 'Hosianna Mantra' by Popol Vuh. There may need to be some umlauts in there, but I've no idea how one does that. I see you had no problem with the Blue Oyster Cult one, though.
But the thing is, if it was actually pronounced as it was meant to, should it not sound something similar to that Seth Efrikaaaan 70s golfing icon Peter Ooosterhuis? Like, er, Blue Ooostercult... soft-rock party favourites on the after-hours West Coast golf-club circuit, momentarily popular for their arpeggiated tee-tapper 'Don't Fear The Bunker'?
If you're the last man alive without an iPod, Colin,
I must be dead.
Who'd have thought the afterlife - in which I didn't actually believe. I look pretty stupid now, eh? - would contain so many guitars, though?
"If one person hasn't got an iPod they might think he's sick..."
Can you imagine, three people walking in, saying they haven't got an iPod and then walking out again? They may think it's an organisation*.
I haven't got one either.
I haven't got one either
I have an iPhone, but I bought it in Surrey.
I guess they're a bit too advanced for East Anglia ;)
There does seem to be
a strong Ipswich Town theme running through our little subset, doesn't there?
Is Colin H a Tractor Boy, too?
No
he's from Norn Iron and doesn't like sport or Chapman Sticks
By the way, I've only got a small one
Nor me
Just don't like the sound of MP3s - especially when broadcast through a couple of Extra Strong Mints on a piece of string
That's where you're going wrong
Have you tried headphones? ;)
(boom, and indeed, boom)
There may need to be some umlauts in there..
I'm surprised that the Radical Pedantic wing of the Word Massive hasn't descended in a fit of righteous ire pointing out that they are diacritics (diacritices?), not umlauts.
Ö = Alt+0214 on the keypad. Or paste off the character map.
If I must...
Not ire, but a weary sadness prompts me to point out that an umlaut is a variety of diacritic ;-)
And if you're referring to the example in Blue Öyster Cult, it doesn't matter really whether we call it one or the other*, as the name's an invention.
* Personally I'd plump for: "a seemingly harmless affectation which paved the way for the relentless horror of the Heavy Metal Umlaut".
508 by Bowie
though I haven't included Tin Machine...or Bing Crosby duets.
389 by Led Zeppelin
593 by Pink Floyd
and 849 by Mr Thompson. The Floyd and Zep should score higher as a longer percentage go on over 20 minutes...
The Floyd and Zep should score higher as a longer percentage go
In that case, what does the Lawnmower Death fan with 32,655 tracks taking up a total of 2Mb claim?
...insanity?
My highest...
is a pitiful 117 REM tracks.
The ridiculous thing about that is that there are a few too many of the recent album on my iPod which I don't even particularly like that much.
Springsteen
619 and counting........
Hoping to add another 23 from Hyde Park this week.......!
Few gb to play with
I have a 16 gig iphone, so space is obviously limited, and the most songs I have by any one artist is 34. What's funny to me is who the most represented performers are, as they aren't necessarily my favourite perfomers per se.
34 - Mathilde Santing
33 - David Bowie
Laura Nyro
27 - The Decemberists
25 - Scritti Politti
Eleni Mandell
bit sad?
I have a 30GB iPod containing nothing but Grateful Dead SBD, AUD and Matrix recordings from 1966 through to their last good year, 1991.
The 160GB iPod I own is a tad more varied in content.
I had too much Pidgeon Detectives
when I downloaded the whole of one album from a friend. Truly bloody awful. It has now been deleted. Same with Michael Buble - put on out of politeness to a Canadian friend. Listened once - wiped clean.
Mine's full of Yes
All their albums.
I've not counted the tracks, but Topographic Oceans by itself is probably longer than half of the Clash catalogue
Mine's full of Yes
All their albums.
I've not counted the tracks, but Topographic Oceans by itself is probably longer than half of the Clash catalogue
Do I win £5.00?
extended remix?
Elvis beats the Rolling Stones, by a short head
Elvis is at 1186, beating the 1006 tracks by the Rolling Stones. I haven't included Keith's solo stuff in the count. I don't have any of Mick's or Bill's. I do have a healthy collection of the Stones live output with Mick Taylor, and not much after Some Girls.
Bob Dylan is at 995, Jerry Lee Lewis at 726, Stooges / Iggy & The Stooges / Iggy - 555.
371 tracks by Miles Davis.