Getcha passports ready - the middle-aged dummies are going to the British Isles! Top 31 song countdown. (1 Viewer)

[Manster]

So when I click the link to the playlist, the little green play button also has a shuffle symbol below it. When I hit play, it shuffles the list. I have no idea how to change it......I don't see where you can.

Also, the version of Breadfan I submitted from YouTube is waaaay better. The video footage is cool too.... The sound quality of the live version in the Spotify playlist isn't great.

 

[Ilov80s]

I only have one artist left that hasn't been taken yet - but he's also part of a band that has been taken.

2 for me. I wonder if one of them is the same guy.

ETA: Nevermind, this person was picked today lol

 

[Ilov80s]

So when I click the link to the playlist, the little green play button also has a shuffle symbol below it. When I hit play, it shuffles the list. I have no idea how to change it......I don't see where you can.

Also, the version of Breadfan I submitted from YouTube is waaaay better. The video footage is cool too.... The sound quality of the live version in the Spotify playlist isn't great.

I think only paying members can turn shuffle off.

 

[landrys hat]

For nearly eight years, I lived around the corner from the Chicago club The Double Door.*

Were you at the Ben Harper show there (prob mid 90s)?

 

[Yankee23Fan]

I have 9 different artists remaining for the rest of my songs. 4 of them already had a song on my list.

Like I said, Maalox (Maylocks?) (Maelox?) (Maaylox?) I'm getting heartburn trying to spell the damn thing.

 

[titusbramble]

I’m happy to see that @scorchy selected them today, too! Both OH and I got doubled-up today (sexy!) on new artists to the countdown.

ETA: Turn was my pick and my personal favorite from the album. The CD-single has a great cover of Baby One More Time.

Lol, completely forgot that cover existed, despite it being one of my earliest "acquired" songs off of dial up internet

Not sure how well The Man Who has aged, still a solid album but not really sure why it got quite so much hype in 99 as it did, and frankly the follow up (must resist urge to say second album) was better

 

[Manster]

So when I click the link to the playlist, the little green play button also has a shuffle symbol below it. When I hit play, it shuffles the list. I have no idea how to change it......I don't see where you can.

Also, the version of Breadfan I submitted from YouTube is waaaay better. The video footage is cool too.... The sound quality of the live version in the Spotify playlist isn't great.

I think only paying members can turn shuffle off.

Well that's stupid......not a fan of ol Spotify

 

[zamboni]

So when I click the link to the playlist, the little green play button also has a shuffle symbol below it. When I hit play, it shuffles the list. I have no idea how to change it......I don't see where you can.

Also, the version of Breadfan I submitted from YouTube is waaaay better. The video footage is cool too.... The sound quality of the live version in the Spotify playlist isn't great.

I think only paying members can turn shuffle off.

Well that's stupid......not a fan of ol Spotify

Spotify is definitely a rough listening experience if you don’t pay up.

 

[Don Quixote]

So when I click the link to the playlist, the little green play button also has a shuffle symbol below it. When I hit play, it shuffles the list. I have no idea how to change it......I don't see where you can.

Also, the version of Breadfan I submitted from YouTube is waaaay better. The video footage is cool too.... The sound quality of the live version in the Spotify playlist isn't great.

I think only paying members can turn shuffle off.

Well that's stupid......not a fan of ol Spotify

You can’t turn shuffle off on phone, but it does not shuffle on iPad. Just have to deal with the ad breaks.

 

[Ilov80s]

Well that's stupid......not a fan of ol Spotify

I personally love the service. Given how much I listen and how much music is available to me anywhere I go, I can understand them charging a fee. Truth is I would pay way more.

 

[Eephus]

@Hawks64 , note that Eephus wants the mono version of his pick and that OH wants the shorter version of his song (of course) that was from the movie Blow-Up. Relevant scene from the movie, which is totally worth watching (both the scene and the movie).

I don't have a big preference about what version of "It's All Over Now" goes on the playlist. I just exported my personal Spotify playlist to my PM to krista and the (mono version) tag came along for the ride.

The curious thing is that what Spotify labeled as the mono version is pretty clearly a stereo mix with Brian's guitar on the left and Keith's on the right.

 

[Tau837]

My top 10 from the 10 point round, excluding my own selection:

1. Doug : In The Air Tonight – Phil Collins
2. @Doug B : Games Without Frontiers - Peter Gabriel
3. @cosjobs : Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
4. @Don Quixote, @Chaz McNulty : Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve
5. @jwb : White Wedding – Billy Idol
6. Mrs. Eephus : Lips Like Sugar - Echo & the Bunnymen
7. @KarmaPolice : Photograph - Def Leppard
8. @higgins : China Girl - David Bowie
9. @Yankee23Fan : Help! – The Beatles
10. Scooter : Where The Streets Have No Name – U2

Another outstanding round. I'm glad Lips Like Sugar made it. It was another one I considered but couldn't fit in.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Well that's stupid......not a fan of ol Spotify

most music services are the same for non-subscribers.

 

[Eephus]

Dr. Octopus:

Cigarettes & Alcohol - Oasis
(new song)

In 1999 I went to a New Year’s Eve party at Chap’s shore house in Lavallette. One of our buddies Mark (Derby) was originally from England and had brought a few other Englishmen and women to the party. At one point I went upstairs and all the English men and women we standing up on the coffee table singing this song at the top of their lungs. It’s always been a favorite since.

Rod Stewart covered this song. That's one of the strongest endorsements you can get.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Dr. Octopus:

Cigarettes & Alcohol - Oasis
(new song)

In 1999 I went to a New Year’s Eve party at Chap’s shore house in Lavallette. One of our buddies Mark (Derby) was originally from England and had brought a few other Englishmen and women to the party. At one point I went upstairs and all the English men and women we standing up on the coffee table singing this song at the top of their lungs. It’s always been a favorite since.

Rod Stewart covered this song. That's one of the strongest endorsements you can get.

I did not know that - listening to it now.

 

[MAC_32]

So when I click the link to the playlist, the little green play button also has a shuffle symbol below it. When I hit play, it shuffles the list. I have no idea how to change it......I don't see where you can.

Also, the version of Breadfan I submitted from YouTube is waaaay better. The video footage is cool too.... The sound quality of the live version in the Spotify playlist isn't great.

I think only paying members can turn shuffle off.

Well that's stupid......not a fan of ol Spotify

You can’t turn shuffle off on phone, but it does not shuffle on iPad. Just have to deal with the ad breaks.

Similar for desktop. I can play straight through or shuffle, just have to deal with ads. Worst part about the phone app is limited skips, even if you don't hit skip until the final minute. This is why I generally only listen during the work day. We pony up for amazon premium music, but aren't doing a second.

 

[Eephus]

MAC_32:

Rock & Roll Queen - The Subways
(new artist)

The Subways released a new album a couple of weeks ago. It's their first new music since 2015.

 

[Hawks64]

So when I click the link to the playlist, the little green play button also has a shuffle symbol below it. When I hit play, it shuffles the list. I have no idea how to change it......I don't see where you can.

Also, the version of Breadfan I submitted from YouTube is waaaay better. The video footage is cool too.... The sound quality of the live version in the Spotify playlist isn't great.

And that was the better of the two live options

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Listening to the playlist... When the Alexandra Burke song came on I thought it was a commercial.

 

[jwb]

Well that's stupid......not a fan of ol Spotify

I personally love the service. Given how much I listen and how much music is available to me anywhere I go, I can understand them charging a fee. Truth is I would pay way more.

I tried them all over the past year looking for a Spotify alternative (mostly because I like Neil so much and like him in my playlists). Could not find one.
Apple, Amazon, Tidal... they are all clunky. Especially amazon - their app is awful - the worst of the bunch. And you would think Apple would be a leader, right? But even on Apple devices, Spotify is better. Yea, go ahead and try to remove a song from an Apple music playlist on your ipad - you can't do it. And why are your library and playlists different? Why do I even have/need a "library" on a streaming service... These are all relics from the itunes era that they can't seem to drop.

Spotify is the king, by quite a bit. Their app is a pleasure to use - even on a PC their player is excellent. The others... you fight with them. Well worth the $10/month.

 

[Eephus]

They did start to get buzz from this album (fronted for Oasis on their national tour) and murmurs that they’d be the Next Big Thing, but somehow it never happened for them. It should have. They had superhuman talent and, when you talked to them, seemed like capital R “Rock Stars” in the best of ways. Anyway, this is the song I remember most from that show, and it brought the whole ****ing house down.

We saw Travis open for Oasis on this tour.

I love their song Slide Show. I wanted to draft if for the Genrepalooza Meta category because the chorus shouts out the Manics, Beck and Oasis songs but unfortunately the album came out during the peak of hidden track nonsense so the song is followed by five minutes of silence and another untitled song.

 

[MAC_32]

MAC_32:

Rock & Roll Queen - The Subways
(new artist)

The Subways released a new album a couple of weeks ago. It's their first new music since 2015.

Only reason they ever entered my orbit was because of The OC

 

[scorchy]

We saw Travis open for Oasis on this tour.

I love their song Slide Show. I wanted to draft if for the Genrepalooza Meta category because the chorus shouts out the Manics, Beck and Oasis songs but unfortunately the album came out during the peak of hidden track nonsense so the song is followed by five minutes of silence and another untitled song.

 Slideshow was my other choice here.  Turn got the nod for the exact reason you mention.

 

[Doug B]

So when I click the link to the playlist, the little green play button also has a shuffle symbol below it. When I hit play, it shuffles the list. I have no idea how to change it......I don't see where you can.

Also, the version of Breadfan I submitted from YouTube is waaaay better. The video footage is cool too.... The sound quality of the live version in the Spotify playlist isn't great.

I think only paying members can turn shuffle off.

Well that's stupid......not a fan of ol Spotify

Spotify is definitely a rough listening experience if you don’t pay up.

I've had a free Spotify account for about 2 years, and I never really have dived in to use it. I wasn't finding a lot of songs I was trying to find, so I moved on. I can find anything on YouTube, and it's free (with not-really-in-the-way ads).

The only thing I really can't do conveniently is make a playlist on YouTube. I know it's do-able, and probably simple if you get your hands dirty. I just haven't been bothered to do it. One song at a time it is.

...

I had got to thinking recently that a paid Spotify subscription ($10/month?) could replace Sirius XM in our car (which has really gotten too expensive at $22/month IMHO -- we're cheap).

 

[falguy]

would replace Sirius XM in our car (which has really gotten too expensive at $22/month IMHO -- we're cheap).

Every year when my subscription is about to end I call to cancel. They put e through to the "cancellation department" and ask me why and eventually present a new lower priced offer. Sometimes it's a good offer and I accept and other times I say it's still too high and they will then come back with an even lower offer. I usually end up getting a year for about $5-$10 a month. It's silly but I've done this for about 15 years now. Once they didn't really budge and I did cancel. Six months later I got an offer for about $10 for 6 months. Total. I did that and the whole song and dance started again.

I'm not much of a negotiator and would definitely cancel if I felt the fee was still too high. But when it gets down to $10 a month or lower I'm good with that.

 

[Eephus]

Mrs. Eephus: Lips Like Sugar - Echo & the Bunnymen
At the show last night, I asked her why this was her favorite song by the band. I thought for sure she'd say it reminds her of me but it was all about Mac instead (Ian McCulloch not Mac_32). She loved the song back in the day and emphasized how great it is to dance to even though it's relatively mid tempo.


@ditkaburgers: All Night Long - Alexandra Burke
ditkaburgers went away to college in the fall of 2010 (can it really be going on 13 years?). It was just before the emergence of Spotify so downloading songs was still the way to. She was concerned she wouldn't be able to download on campus so before she left, she sent me a list of songs she wanted me to grab for her. She was and is an Anglophile so a lot of the songs were by UK artists. Rather than search them out individually I found a torrent of the top 100 singles of 2009 with a ton of peers so I just gave her the whole lot. All Night Long was among them and it's become one of her favorites over the years. So I guess you can blame me if you don't like the song.


Eephus: It's All Over Now (Mono Version) - The Rolling Stones
It's definitely not the Stones' greatest song but I've always loved it and was my favorite when I was making the list. It's a cover of a Bobby Womack/Valentinos song and is the finest of the R&B covers the Stones were doing while Mick and Keith were developing their songwriting chops. It's such a fun song with the ringing guitar intro and the chanking rhythm guitar part. Mick's vocal sounds vaguely countryish and Charlie holds the whole thing together. But that highlight for me is Keith's crude but oh so effective solo around the midway point.

 

[Doug B]

would replace Sirius XM in our car (which has really gotten too expensive at $22/month IMHO -- we're cheap).

Every year when my subscription is about to end I call to cancel. They put e through to the "cancellation department" and ask me why and eventually present a new lower priced offer. Sometimes it's a good offer and I accept and other times I say it's still too high and they will then come back with an even lower offer. I usually end up getting a year for about $5-$10 a month. It's silly but I've done this for about 15 years now. Once they didn't really budge and I did cancel. Six months later I got an offer for about $10 for 6 months. Total. I did that and the whole song and dance started again.

I'm not much of a negotiator and would definitely cancel if I felt the fee was still too high. But when it gets down to $10 a month or lower I'm good with that.

I figured as much ... just didn't feel like hassling. But, yeah, I'm getting ripped, I think.

Now ... on to the PITA-to-cancel TV-streaming subscriptions. Others cancel and pick up monthly, no sweat. Us? We have to call our bank to stop the streaming charges if we want to cancel a service. Doesn't help that we're constantly forgetting passwords and my wife and kids are (without my knowledge) signing up for monthly subscriptions to watch one show one time

 

[krista4]

I first heard the main single from their first album on a Q magazine sampler CD in early 1998. Liked it enough that I was at the record store on the day The Man Who was released in spring 1999. By the end of the year, Travis was one of the biggest selling bands in the UK, with 4 top 15 singles and the album itself finishing third in total sales among 1999 releases. They won best band and best album at the 2000 Brit Awards and headlined that year's Glastonbury. All with barely a peep over on this side of the Atlantic. I was fortunate to see them at one of those Oasis shows as well as a headliner later that year. Start to finish, The Man Who is still one of my most treasured records.

I'd intended in my write-up to refer to their not becoming a big thing to specify in the US but realize now I didn't. Probably implied, though. Very cool that you saw the Oasis/Travis tour.

Blew my mind however many years go it was that I found out Dusty was British. The song sounds so American and even the name Dusty Springfield. I would have bet my life that she was a Black woman from Atlanta or Louisville or Little Rock.

Someone chose her in the US countdown before realizing their mistake!

 

[krista4]

For nearly eight years, I lived around the corner from the Chicago club The Double Door.*

Were you at the Ben Harper show there (prob mid 90s)?

No! That would have been great.

 

[simey]

That I couldn't believe this whole time the lyrics were "Hare Krishna" and that he'd better watch out at the airport or something like that. (I was thinking of the movie Airplane! and the role the TSA was playing in our lives back then. It was like 2007 or something. It was not a comment about Islam, which I think most people thought it was. I was commenting on the movie and the TSA, not confusing Hare Krishnas with Islamists.)

I couldn't believe that anybody would be down with the Krishnas that wasn't a complete and utter loon. So I wrote him and the song off in my head all over again.

Totally feeling the Airplane! reference. The first time I encountered Hare Krishnas, I was sitting by the window in my English 101 class at UF and was distracted by a group of a dozen-or-so people in robes walking by with bongos and chanting the Hare Krishna song. My brain went straight to Joe Isuzu.

Turns out the Krishnas served lunch every day on the Plaza of the Americas on UF's campus. They used a pay-what-you-can-afford model that was not just great for poor college students but undoubtedly a godsend to Gainesville's homeless population. I may never have understood their whole deal, but the juxtaposition of their kindness against the attitudes of a lot of the d-bag frat boys who walked by on the way to the business quad (the Plaza was where all of us weirdos hung out between classes) was striking - even moreso when the travelling preachers would show up and scream from their soapbox that the Krishnas were doomed to hell. Anyone else have Brother Jed and his flock preach at their school for a week or two every semester?

I used to see Hare Krishnas outside of Grateful Dead concerts all the time. Similar to your description, they'd be banging on their bongos, chanting, and clapping, and both the men and women would be wearing light colored robes that looked like togas to me. I saw more men than women. They would sell (i don't think they were giving it away) food sometimes on "Shakedown Street." I remember them having a soup kitchen and veggie burritos. They always seemed happy. Maybe that's cause they don't eat onions (they really don't).

I don't remember Brother Jed being on ECU's campus, but there was a religious group that would swarm you on the sidewalks downtown sometimes, and they would give you a pamphlet (not the Watchtower), and sometimes a bible of the New Testament. We would use the bible to hide drug paraphernalia in. I think I still have one of those bibles in a box in the attic.

 

[Eephus]

Blew my mind however many years go it was that I found out Dusty was British. The song sounds so American and even the name Dusty Springfield. I would have bet my life that she was a Black woman from Atlanta or Louisville or Little Rock.

Someone chose her in the US countdown before realizing their mistake!

Well she mentioned she was in Memphis

 

[Hawks64]

Well that's stupid......not a fan of ol Spotify

I personally love the service. Given how much I listen and how much music is available to me anywhere I go, I can understand them charging a fee. Truth is I would pay way more.

I tried them all over the past year looking for a Spotify alternative (mostly because I like Neil so much and like him in my playlists). Could not find one.
Apple, Amazon, Tidal... they are all clunky. Especially amazon - their app is awful - the worst of the bunch. And you would think Apple would be a leader, right? But even on Apple devices, Spotify is better. Yea, go ahead and try to remove a song from an Apple music playlist on your ipad - you can't do it. And why are your library and playlists different? Why do I even have/need a "library" on a streaming service... These are all relics from the itunes era that they can't seem to drop.

Spotify is the king, by quite a bit. Their app is a pleasure to use - even on a PC their player is excellent. The others... you fight with them. Well worth the $10/month.

And the active song synchs across all signed in devices...I can be listening on my Mac, pause it, and then leave. Connect my phone to the car and resume the song from where I paused it.
User experience is king. Spotify has pretty much nailed it.

 

[krista4]

Every year when my subscription is about to end I call to cancel. They put e through to the "cancellation department" and ask me why and eventually present a new lower priced offer. Sometimes it's a good offer and I accept and other times I say it's still too high and they will then come back with an even lower offer. I usually end up getting a year for about $5-$10 a month. It's silly but I've done this for about 15 years now. Once they didn't really budge and I did cancel. Six months later I got an offer for about $10 for 6 months. Total. I did that and the whole song and dance started again.

I'm not much of a negotiator and would definitely cancel if I felt the fee was still too high. But when it gets down to $10 a month or lower I'm good with that.

This is great info - thank you for it! It really has gotten too expensive, but I'm not willing to cancel, so I'll try the faux cancellation route (and hope they don't take me up on it).

 

[Mister CIA]

It belongs in a separate thread, but I feel like we should all join together and crowdsource reviews of all the various streaming services, both music and television, list pros and cons. Seems like every time I go down this rabbit hole on Google I'm presented ####ty websites, stuffed to the gills with clickbait.

Internal brainstorm in progress.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Manster:

Breadfan - Budgie
(new song)

I think Stone Temple Pilots stole this melody for Dead and Bloated.

 

[Hawks64]

Every year when my subscription is about to end I call to cancel. They put e through to the "cancellation department" and ask me why and eventually present a new lower priced offer. Sometimes it's a good offer and I accept and other times I say it's still too high and they will then come back with an even lower offer. I usually end up getting a year for about $5-$10 a month. It's silly but I've done this for about 15 years now. Once they didn't really budge and I did cancel. Six months later I got an offer for about $10 for 6 months. Total. I did that and the whole song and dance started again.

I'm not much of a negotiator and would definitely cancel if I felt the fee was still too high. But when it gets down to $10 a month or lower I'm good with that.

This is great info - thank you for it! It really has gotten too expensive, but I'm not willing to cancel, so I'll try the faux cancellation route (and hope they don't take me up on it).

Oh yeah the same dance everyone used to do with DirecTV.

 

[cosjobs]

This is great info - thank you for it! It really has gotten too expensive, but I'm not willing to cancel, so I'll try the faux cancellation route (and hope they don't take me up on it).

I thought you negotiated for a living

 

[cosjobs]

Well, as you know, I negotiate for a living, so it was probably tough sledding for him.

There it is.

 

[krista4]

It belongs in a separate thread, but I feel like we should all join together and crowdsource reviews of all the various streaming services, both music and television, list pros and cons. Seems like every time I go down this rabbit hole on Google I'm presented ####ty websites, stuffed to the gills with clickbait.

Internal brainstorm in progress.

I could use this type of guidance. We just decided last night we should be cutting the cable, which is now $250/month (bundled with internet) and insane to pay basically only to watch football. We have Hulu, HBO, Prime, and Netflix, too, so it's ridiculous. With NFL Sunday ticket going to YouTube next year, we thought we'd just add that and be pretty set, but I'm open to suggestions.

 

[krista4]

This is great info - thank you for it! It really has gotten too expensive, but I'm not willing to cancel, so I'll try the faux cancellation route (and hope they don't take me up on it).

I thought you negotiated for a living

Which is precisely why I hate it in my personal life.

 

[falguy]

Pip’s Invitation:Son Of A Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield

My #31

Yankee23Fan:Help! – The Beatles

. Can't recall exactly where I selected it in the Beatles draft thread but was in the top 10.

KarmaPolice:Photograph - Def Leppard
Mt. Man:Games People Play - The Alan Parsons Project
Westerberg:Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears For Fears
Hov34:Livin' Thing – Electric Light Orchestra

Doug B:Games Without Frontiers - Peter Gabriel

I chose between this and Solsbury Hill. Love them both.

Zegras11:Ruby Tuesday – The Rolling Stones
cosjobs:Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison

I'm not able to listen today, unfortunately as I'm not working from the comfy confines of my home office but here are my favorites of my known songs.

 

[KarmaPolice]

I get what others are saying. It's a bit of a let down when you see your top 10s getting picked off left and right. I think I am down 5 or so now with some chalk still left with a couple of the remaining ones.

 

[jwb]

It belongs in a separate thread, but I feel like we should all join together and crowdsource reviews of all the various streaming services, both music and television, list pros and cons. Seems like every time I go down this rabbit hole on Google I'm presented ####ty websites, stuffed to the gills with clickbait.

Internal brainstorm in progress.

I could use this type of guidance. We just decided last night we should be cutting the cable, which is now $250/month (bundled with internet) and insane to pay basically only to watch football. We have Hulu, HBO, Prime, and Netflix, too, so it's ridiculous. With NFL Sunday ticket going to YouTube next year, we thought we'd just add that and be pretty set, but I'm open to suggestions.

YouTube TV is fantastic, and a nice deal at $69. We use that, HBO, Prime, and drift in and out of the others when something catches our eye.

 

[Manster]

Well that's stupid......not a fan of ol Spotify

I personally love the service. Given how much I listen and how much music is available to me anywhere I go, I can understand them charging a fee. Truth is I would pay way more.

I already pay for Amazon music.

 

[Manster]

It belongs in a separate thread, but I feel like we should all join together and crowdsource reviews of all the various streaming services, both music and television, list pros and cons. Seems like every time I go down this rabbit hole on Google I'm presented ####ty websites, stuffed to the gills with clickbait.

Internal brainstorm in progress.

I could use this type of guidance. We just decided last night we should be cutting the cable, which is now $250/month (bundled with internet) and insane to pay basically only to watch football. We have Hulu, HBO, Prime, and Netflix, too, so it's ridiculous. With NFL Sunday ticket going to YouTube next year, we thought we'd just add that and be pretty set, but I'm open to suggestions.

I do sling, and Netflix...and we have a prime membership...there's some decent content on prime as well as Thurs night football..you don't get local stations though, which sucks if you don't have Sunday ticket, which obviously i don't....but, I got a digital antenna for like $30 on Amazon and it works pretty damn good. I get abuncha **** including the major networks, fox included

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Known-to-me favorites from #22, not including my pick or Rolling in the Deep, which is known to be on my list:

Games People Play -- The Alan Parsons Project (Mt. Man)
Tempted -- Squeeze (Just Win Baby)
Sweet Talkin' Woman -- Electric Light Orchestra (Simsarge) -- ranked right next to the other ELO "Woman" song that I love, Evil Woman
Bitter Sweet Symphony -- The Verve (Chaz and Don Quixote)
Shapes of Things -- The Yardbirds (Binky)
Games Without Frontiers -- Peter Gabriel (Doug B)
Don't Ask Me Questions -- Graham Parker (Worrierking)
Stroll On -- The Yardbirds (OH)
Help! -- The Beatles (Yankee23Fan)
Livin' Thing -- Electric Light Orchestra (Hov34)
Here's Where the Story Ends -- The Sundays (Marco)
Boys Don't Cry -- The Cure (Shuke)
Ruby Tuesday -- The Rolling Stones (Zegras11)
Cigarettes & Alcohol -- Oasis (Doc Oc)

 

[Pip's Invitation]

a nice deal at $69

I see what you did there.

 

[Manster]

Well that's stupid......not a fan of ol Spotify

I personally love the service. Given how much I listen and how much music is available to me anywhere I go, I can understand them charging a fee. Truth is I would pay way more.

I tried them all over the past year looking for a Spotify alternative (mostly because I like Neil so much and like him in my playlists). Could not find one.
Apple, Amazon, Tidal... they are all clunky. Especially amazon - their app is awful - the worst of the bunch. And you would think Apple would be a leader, right? But even on Apple devices, Spotify is better. Yea, go ahead and try to remove a song from an Apple music playlist on your ipad - you can't do it. And why are your library and playlists different? Why do I even have/need a "library" on a streaming service... These are all relics from the itunes era that they can't seem to drop.

Spotify is the king, by quite a bit. Their app is a pleasure to use - even on a PC their player is excellent. The others... you fight with them. Well worth the $10/month.

Interesting....I've never had issues with Amazon. You can make playlists just fine. Its hard for me to find artists who aren't on there. We've had a prime account for years. We order plenty of stuff from Amazon....hell, I try to shop local, and half the time I can't find it, and I can get it next day from Amazon for cheaper anyway! So that's not goin away for us......I just can't justify paying for another music streaming service

 

[Leroy Hoard]

I got a digital antenna for like $30 on Amazon and it works pretty damn good. I get abuncha **** including the major networks, fox included

Yeah definitely worth the cost if your reception is decent. Use mine mainly for network sports. Combined with an $30 Amazon stick it's the cheapest way to go, although obviously not perfect.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

I literally just realized now that in China Girl, Bowie is singing "Visions of swastikas in my head." I always thought it was "Visions of what's to come in my head."