Wow that is a very diverse selection indeed and your media divide is a bit fascinating lol. Any reason, do you find female singers sound better on vinyl or is that music you are willing to pay more for?
Yes :) Most of my music collection is flac and mp3 I have collected through the years but I have some cassettes, CDs and vinyl as well. I wanted to be a dj for a while so I have some electronic records, mostly from a local record label in the 90s called Drop Bass Records, that is pretty hard acid/hardcore techno, but I have some other electronic music as well. Recently I bought a re-pressing of the Fires of Ork and Dreamfish, two ambient albums, also from the 90s, which incidentally is where I learned about the vinyls weights and such. :) I have some other from Panabrite, Bluetech, and I have some records that were my folks, Simon and Garfunkel, Creedence, Beach Boys.
I don’t listen to much metal these days, I guess mostly new wave, synth pop, electronic, alternative, getting back into some industrial though as far as heavier music, Skinny Puppy is always a favorite, I kind of poo-poo’d VNV Nation when they came around before because I was more into industrial like Einsturezende Neubauten, but they have some good stuff as well, and Covenant, Frontline Asssembly, Front 242, Thrill KIll Kult :)
I guess I should listen to some new music, but honestly I have a lot I haven’t listened to yet and haven’t really found myself wanting lol. Sorry for the wall of text.
akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
Mad respect for still having cassettes! How do you listen to them?
As to why I insist on buying female centric vinyls, I’m not quite sure, but it could have something to do with my gender dysphoria. I believe the psychological mechanism is too complex for me to even begin to understand, but I think I listen to what I want to become or what I would have wanted to be in the first place, gender-wise (voice, body, clothing, etc.). Maybe vinyl, being an older medium, brings me back to and helps me imagine a childhood that I wish I could have had? I just spitballing here though…
My father loves Einsturzende Neubauten! But, speaking of Deutsche Musiker, you just reminded me: I need to get my hands on some Kraftwerk.
joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
I don’t right now :( I have a small mini system that has a tape player but I don’t trust it, I’ve been meaning to buy a proper nice cassette deck like a Nakamichi, Denon, Tascam or something like that, like the old component stereo ones with decent transport mechanisms and play heads, but I keep putting it off for other things I guess. I don’t really wanna risk mangling them as some of them have recordings of music I made ages ago lol.
That makes pretty good sense to me. I think that’s part of my attraction to 80s new wave and synth pop so much, it was a time of such androgyny and gender line blurring, not needed to be defined, maybe part of it was for band image but it was still there, and a lot of the songs had more hopeful messages as well. It’s so poppy and fun to dance and sing along to as well :) So I totally get where you’re coming from, music is so powerful in that way how it can really transport you, and even choosing which medium to listen to it on makes a big difference in the mood which is a cool effect
I’ve semi-recently re-discovered my love for singing so Madonna, Tina Turner, Donna Summer, Steve Nicks, Cyndi Lauper, Blondie, Pat Benatar/the GoGos, The Bangles, Tiffany, Bjork, Siouxsie, Eurythmics/Annie Lennox, Bananarama etc. are all some go-to’s, so many amazing, talented ladies.
Haha weeeell, I don’t listen to it so much anymore, it’s a tad noisy for me these days, but that’s rad that your Dad is a fan, any fan of EN seems like they must be a pretty interesting person, it’s so visceral and raw