kraftdinner
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posted on June 5, 2003 06:24:10 PM new
What have you been listening to lately? 
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clivebarkerfan
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posted on June 5, 2003 06:32:06 PM new
Grade 8, old Rush, Indigenous (awesome, overlooked blues band), Slayer, Mike Patton.
I can't stand most of the music played on the radio up here so I stick to cd's I already have and get ideas from record labels I like (Ipecac Records)
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CBlev65252
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posted on June 5, 2003 06:57:17 PM new
The sound of silence.
Cheryl
My religion is simple, my religion is kindness.
--Dalai Llama
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bear1949
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posted on June 5, 2003 07:14:18 PM new
Reruns of Miami Vice
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Twelvepole
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posted on June 5, 2003 09:10:35 PM new
Country Music.... 
AIN'T LIFE GRAND...
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clarksville
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posted on June 6, 2003 11:58:01 AM new
Long haired music, New Age cds, Bill O'Reilly, some country (minus the chicks), various audiobooks, just finished all four Harry Potter books.
And you kraftdinner?
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msincognito
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posted on June 6, 2003 12:33:12 PM new
Lately I can't get enough of Norah Jones' CD. Nothing else leaps out at me.
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clivebarkerfan
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posted on June 6, 2003 01:22:51 PM new
I dont' know very much about Norah Jones. My girlfriend says she reminds her of Basia, Diane Krall, with a little Nina Simone thrown in (her words, I'm just typing!)
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Helenjw
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posted on June 6, 2003 01:42:06 PM new
She reminds me of a Peggy Lee song popular in 1970... "Is That All There Is".
Helen
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Helenjw
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posted on June 7, 2003 03:38:47 PM new
Top Country Songs of all Time.
Country Music fans have ranked "Stand By Your Man" as the number one country song of all time. LOL!
Here's the complete list of the top 100 country songs of all time, as ranked by a "panel of experts" selected by Country Music Television.
Helen
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ebayauctionguy
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posted on June 7, 2003 03:44:43 PM new
Rush Limbaugh in the morning while I get packages ready to ship. Classic rock when I'm working on projects around the house.
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neonmania
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posted on June 7, 2003 03:44:49 PM new
Clive - if your girlfiend knows who Nina is I have great respect : ). Nora Jones actually names Nina as one of her great influences - one of the few current artists that do - funny thing is, those select few all not so coincidentally are considered some of the best artists in the business today. Quality begets quality.
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CBlev65252
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posted on June 7, 2003 03:52:20 PM new
She reminds me of a Peggy Lee song popular in 1970... "Is That All There Is".
Wow, I haven't thought about that song in years. Now it's going through my head over and over and over again.
"Let's break out the booze and have a ball.
If that's all. . . ."
Cheryl
My religion is simple, my religion is kindness.
--Dalai Llama
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clivebarkerfan
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posted on June 8, 2003 06:56:44 AM new
Yeah, she knows Nina. Loved her voice for a few years, but no one could tell her who the woman singing was! She said she finally put two and two together during that remake of La Femme Nikita with Brigett Fonda.
I had to pry her off the computer after Nina died, she kept searching songs on Kazzaa! We've got some cd's by Nina, but sometimes the records haven't been transfered over yet or out of print.
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ferncrestmotel
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posted on June 8, 2003 07:19:16 AM new
I've been relieved to find a few newer artists who understand what a melody is. They include:
Butterfly Jones (formerly the group Dada)
The Merrymakers (drummer from Jellyfish and two Swedish guys)
Porcupine Tree (prog rock)
The Wondermints (Beach Boy Brian Wilson's touring band).
There's still some good music being made - you just have to sort through all the rap, boy-bands, and female spokespersons to find it.
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Helenjw
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posted on June 9, 2003 04:35:40 PM new
Cotton Fields!!! by CCR
Helen
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kraftdinner
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posted on June 9, 2003 07:39:43 PM new
Hey clarksville! Sorry I missed you.
And here I thought you were probably the Nine Inch Nails/Marilyn Manson type, Helen.
I've been listening to Business As Usual by Men at Work. That CD never goes out of style!!
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Helenjw
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posted on June 9, 2003 08:39:13 PM new
And here I thought you were probably the Nine Inch Nails/Marilyn Manson type, Helen.
Only listen to that when I'm feeling frisky.
LOL!
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kraftdinner
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posted on June 9, 2003 09:49:22 PM new
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neonmania
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posted on June 9, 2003 09:55:26 PM new
Clive - Luckily there is a lot of her stuff avaiable online - I am limited to Limewire since Kazaa doe but support Mac but I have found tons of her music that way. After she died I did my own version of a eulogy on here but I think mos people thought I ws simply insane. 
I actually got turned on to her by the movie - walked out of the theater and into a record story.
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profe51
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posted on June 10, 2003 07:05:57 AM new
neon, be glad you can't use Kazaa. Limewire's all right but the RIAA goons will have it shut down before long. Have you tried Apple's new iTunes music store with your Mac? You need to have iTunes 4 installed on your machine, and be running OS X. It's really slick. LEGAL downloads cost .99 per song, and whole albums rarely cost over 10 bucks.It has become the largest online legal music download service in the few weeks it's been running. You are legally allowed to burn the songs to disk and share them with up to three computers. Here's a screen clipping of the Nora Jones search I just did. I can't put up the Nina Simone search, it's too big. It turned up 250 songs and 4 albums.
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What luck for the leaders that men do not think. - Adolph Hitler
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clivebarkerfan
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posted on June 10, 2003 07:45:03 AM new
how does iTune handle live recordings? Do they charge for those, or do they have them at all? Normally I look for the live versions of songs, odd covers (again, normally live) and things that are out of print.
What I find funny is having Kazzaa hasn't really limited my cd purchasing, if anything it's increased it. I find people that listent to the same stuff as I do then see what else they listen to. Many times I end up liking it and buy the cd.
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profe51
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posted on June 10, 2003 08:07:42 AM new
I'm assuming you mean recordings of live concerts or performances. There are lots of live songs and albums, depending on the artist. You search the store by genre, artist, song or album title. They currently have over 250,000 titles up and are adding more all the time. Apple has to go negotiate with each artist and record company over download rights so it's taking some time to get going. I've had good luck with some old country and jazz stuff as well as some pretty obscure Tejano groups I like to listen to. It's a store, not a file trading service, so they charge for everything. Individual songs cost .99, and whole albums are usually 9 to 12 bucks.
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What luck for the leaders that men do not think. - Adolph Hitler
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neonmania
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posted on June 10, 2003 10:13:54 AM new
Prof - I have never checked out iTunes - I've been meaning to but never get around to it. I'll have to get off my butt and do it. I've been reading great things about it.
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msincognito
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posted on June 10, 2003 10:36:21 AM new
Is Steve Jobs brilliant or what? I can hardly wait until he rolls out the Windoze-compatible version so we poor Microclones can use iTunes as well.
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kraftdinner
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posted on June 10, 2003 11:40:49 AM new
I agree msincognito! Actually, MacIntosh is looking better and better all the time! (Didn't Bill Gates invest a big chunk into Mac?)
The 99 cent song deal is a great concept prof. Do you just record them on discs or mini discs, or do you have to have some special equipment?
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neonmania
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posted on June 10, 2003 12:33:34 PM new
Ms - I have worshipped at the alter of Steve Jobs since the old Apple IIE and Mac Classics. I will never be without a Mac. Apples darkest days were durings Jobs's absesnse and his return has brought such advancements as the very affordable iMacs and OSX. I think that if consumers understood that Windows is a clunky attempt to duplicate the Mac opperating system they would flock to it but the fear of the uknown has kept them away from an infintately less buggy and discombobulated system.
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profe51
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posted on June 10, 2003 01:40:31 PM new
kraft...you just burn them onto a cdr or cdrw like you would any other disk...you do need a cd burner, which most machines come with.The disks will then play fine on any cd player. The beauty of iTunes is you can buy the music online and burn it to disks all within the same program, iTunes, which comes as part of the system software with your Macintosh. No goofy configuring, no drivers that windows doesn't like, none of that M$ BS..The windows version of iTunes is promised, but I haven't heard when it will be out, it also will likely NOT be free like it is for Mac owners...can't imagine why Apple would give away software to users of other platforms...maybe a stripped down version so you can access the store...
Actually, MacIntosh is looking better and better all the time!
here's a little link to entice you further, when you've seen one too many blue screens, email worms or M$ almost daily "security" updates
http://www.apple.com/switch/
I have a Dell, which used to run win-doze xp, and has been converted to linux. It runs all the time crunching numbers for the SETI shared computing project. When it had windows on it it was always freezing, crashing and generally being unpleasant.We have two mac desktops and one laptop on our home network along with the dell. The macs do everthing from running the ranch books, payroll and schedules to cataloging and burning our music and keeping my school work files, photography projects, and my wife's business portfolio. When you're ready for a new machine, don't listen to all those tired old saws you'll hear from the windoze crowd. Go to an Apple Store near you and play with them, you'll be hooked in a heartbeat. Sorry for being so wordy, but I rarely get a chance to expound about a product I feel so strongly about. I'm not connected to Apple in any way, BTW
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What luck for the leaders that men do not think. - Adolph Hitler
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msincognito
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posted on June 10, 2003 01:48:39 PM new
Neon, You have to read Jeffrey Young's bio of Steve Jobs - The Journey is the Reward. It's out of print but available used for cheap from all the usual sources ... and it's old (only goes through the late 1980s) but it's one of the few biographies I've ever read that totally pulled me right along. I have actually re-read parts of it again, which I never do with bios.
Young stripped away all the image-buffing around Jobs, raising valid questions about his technological capabilities and pointing out certain less-than-desireable character traits (like the tendency to burst into tears when thwarted.) But in the end, that just made the book even more of a fascinating read. Instead of a one dimensional puff job, it was a detailed portrait of a visionary genius, warts and all. The book ends just as Jobs is starting up NeXT.
Young, a former Forbes reporter, is still writing. I really wish he'd go back and update this book.
profe51 If I could Macinize my life, I would. Unfortunately, the proprietary software we use at work will only talk to other Windoze machines, so that's what I have to have for now. I also get a jolt of cognitive dissonance switching from one OS to the other, which is a symptom of being technologically challenged, which is a good argument for getting a Mac .....but I can't! 
[ edited by msincognito on Jun 10, 2003 02:01 PM ]
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kraftdinner
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posted on June 10, 2003 02:02:47 PM new
I agree prof. I've looked at the Mac's and am really impressed. Is it true they don't crash? I can't imagine a computer that doesn't crash at least once a day.
Good joke too prof.
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