From Andrew Duke Cognition Sent Sat, Oct 17th 1998, 22:43
Elizabeth Olson wrote: > Heh. Well, my partner and I agree on music, the vast majority of the > time, as he introduced me to much of the music I listen to... so > he appreciates my musical purchases... though he has begged me > on occasion, "Elizabeth, PLEASE stop buying so many cds!" We simply > have nowhere left to store them. It's gotten out of hand. I'm restricting > myself to only buying things which won't come around again due to > being limited/rare. But y'know. It's so haaaaard. Plus, we do have > a backlog of things we haven't quite fully listened to. Does this > happen to anyone else? ***I have never gone out with a woman who shared my taste in music, but I once lived in a big house with a few others and one couple who were like Elizabeth and her BF but took it even farther: they were both obsessed with music to the point that when they had money, they'd never eat, but hell, they sure would buy a heck of a lot of CDs--and limited edition stuff like Cold Meat Industry, Coil digipacks, numbered this, handprinted that, etc. That was maddening at times. Personally, I remember a girlfriend in high school who bought me a Skinny Puppy release (this was 1985ish), but she made the mistake of buying it on *cassette*, urgh! I used to be quite evil (which I regret now that I'm older) to girlfriends musically--the SP girlfriend, I probably dated her longer than I planned cause she had an awesome stereo system and had a double tape deck (which I didn't at the time), so I was always over there doing tape-to-tape edits, and remixes, and the likes of stuff. Another, I convinced her to sell all her CDs and buy records cos "records were better". My biggest sin is I never let the women I'm going out with choose the music we're hearing. It's not an out loud, "no, you can't put that on", and if she puts something on before I do, it's no problem with me, it's just that I'm always subconsciously "playing DJ", and have been like this since 1980, 1981, so maybe it's not something I'm going to grow out of. Hell, I have music playing even when the TVs on. I'll be playing records or CDs or tapes when the TV is on *and* the radio is on and there's a tape or a CD on in another room. And sometimes I'll be listening to all of the above and RealAudio at the same time. (Geez, if I'm single again, this sure isn't going to get me any dates, is it :) ) Most of my girlfriends have either a) not cared about music enough, so the only CDs they had were ones I gave them or b) into college kind of stuff: peter gabriel, U2/REM/etc, hippy bands, etc (not trying to offend anyone here, just using "hippy" for the sake of brevity". My current girlfriend and I share only one music connection: we both like Inner City and bought all their stuff when it first came out. Though that's as far as it goes. She likes "Big Fun" and "Good Life" cause they were good songs she grew up with; she doesn't follow Kevin Saunderson or anything. She's also into stuff like Massive Attack, Horace Andy, and the like. Any promos I get that she likes that I don't, I just automatically give to her. I made the mistake not too long ago of not joining her in an event that she thought was megaimportant (that I wasn't interested in *at all*) because I was supposed to interview some members of UR (which wasn't pretty damn important to me). I didn't realize how pissed off this made her until recently: her new line when I get to talking about music too much when she's around is: "...and I don't give a *shit* about Underground Resistance...". Well, hey, at least she knows who UR is :) re: "backlog of things I haven't listened to": back in 1987-1989 when I was in residence at college, I somehow managed to get so many promos from major labels (this was back when everything was still on vinyl), stuff like crap from Bruce Springsteen, Bryan Adams, Paula Abdul, etc, often getting the same record three or four times (I'd keep the good stuff on the independents if it was good) that I had to start skipping classes to listen to it all. And then it got to the point where every record got a minute under the needles to prove itself worthy of keeping. And then I carted the get-rid-ofs down to the local new/used store (all vinyl at the time) and traded it all in for stuff I really wanted. So at that time, I was bringing home sometimes 1 or 2 hundred dollars worth of traded-for stuff in addition to the promos I kept and there was no way possible to listen to it all. When I got the brainless idea to sell all my records and only buy CDs from then on, half the stuff I sold on vinyl got sold before I even had a chance to listen to it, and this was stuff I had traded for! One of those: if I could have lived that day over kind of things. Now, if I get a lot of stuff at once I'll try to listen to it all ASAP, but I'll sometimes be rooting around and find some things that I got a few months before that I haven't yet listened to. This comes from getting a lot of music and not being too organized about it, I supppose. (And the majors still send three or four copies of things; it's sad that some indies can't afford to do any promotion, but majors can be sending people the same promo over and over and over again). My biggest problem is this: I've accidentally given away things on my radio show as prizes to listeners from my personal "i'm keeping this release" collection and lost releases while DJing/out and about and still have no idea where they are. I'll want to listen to something I have in my collection, look for it, and realize, "hey, it ain't in my collection anywhere". Probably somewhere around here. My .08, I guess :) Andrew -- Andrew Duke Cognition Audioworks 1096 Queen St #123 Halifax NS Canada B3H 2R9 TEL 902-422-7132 FAX 902-422-1262 http://www.globalserve.net/~cognition (Cognition Audioworks/In The Mix: listen : read) In The Mix show 575: Richie Hawtin/Neil Landstrumm/Merrick Brown In The Mix show 576: John Tejada/Damon Wild/D.JeRome playing now: John Acquaviva Presents Skills:K7 world premiere playing next: John Tejada:Little Green Lights And Four Inch Faders:A13 world premiere