Audiophiles get annoyed very easily with their stereo systems. The biggie for me is the difference between listening to music on my stereo at home and on my iPod/computer speakers. There are keyboard, guitar parts, and backing vocals that pop out on the iPod headphones and computer speakers that I am shocked by, because I had never heard them in ( Read more... )

Picks the weekend I go out both Friday and Saturday night for the boss to call me into work on Sunday morning to do the weekend shift ( Read more... )

So I think we've got all the responses I'll get on the recent 25 lyrics meme, and it's time to provide the answers.

byrneout got 4, naked_irish got 3, thealmightyajax and scottydont07 got one apiece.

( Answers after the jump... )

Stolen from various folks:

Step 1: Put your media player on random
Step 2: Post the first line(s) of the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone guess what song and artist the lines come from.
( Take your shots! )

The magical mystery meme sez: List six songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your LJ along with your six songs ( Read more... )

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Frankly, I want one too.

Afghan. Whigs. Reunite.

Three more:

Holy fucking shit.

And three more for good measure:

I want tickets.

Ah, the old music meme...bonus points if you guess whose songs these are ( Read more... )

I just heard Fugazi's "Waiting Room" being used as bump music for Fox's baseball telecast ( Read more... )

I write this only because it's a genre I know very little about but feel compelled to investigate. Elvis Costello's debut album is a classic, but widely considered as part of British pub rock, and the other popular example to probably use is early Dire Straits ( Read more... )