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  2. Before The Internet

    in General Music Discussion

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    I got to thinking the other day about how easy it is these days for us to find out about bands/songs/albums/tours, etc. thanks to the internet ...

     

    Those of us with a few years under our belts probably still remember how a lot of news/recommendations came via 'word of mouth', and I thought back to all the albums I've bought over the years without hearing a single note of the music simply because someone told me it was good, or because a review raved about it, or even just because I liked the picture on the cover. Off the top of my head, I came up with:

     

    Guns n' Roses: Appetite For Destruction

    Faster Pussycat: Faster Pussycat

    Van Halen: 1984

    Def Leppard: Pyromania

    Kiss Of The Gypsy: Kiss Of The Gypsy

    Motorhead: No Sleep 'til Hammersmith

    Black Sabbath: Mob Rules

    Krokus: One Vice At A Time

    Black Sabbath: Heaven And Hell

    AC/DC: Highway To Hell

    Elixir: Son Of Odin

    Motley Crue: Too Fast For Love

     

    I don't know about the rest of you, but discovering new music this way was always exciting ... or maybe I'm just getting old and longing for 'the good old days'? :)

  11. Last movie you watched?

    in Exquisite Entropy

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    Django Unchained

     

    Loved it. Great dialogue, action scenes, etc. Plenty of excitement and laughs. Possibly too much gratuitous blood, but that's the Tarantino M.O. The first hour is fantastic, the film slows down a bit after that and the ending is a bit over the top, but it's great, escapist fun. (Mrs B wasn't as impressed as me though.)

     

    Was Mrs B saying things like 'That's NOT the best way to do that, you know' during the more gratuitous scenes? ;)

  18. Your latest KILLER tune!

    in General Music Discussion

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    All heavy stuff at the moment:

     

    Abysmal Grief - Hidden in the Graveyard (just can't get enough of pipe organ in metal!)

    Mortal Form - Storm Before Calm

    Mortal Form - Dungeon

     

    (Mortal Form - The Reckoning is by far the Death Metal album of the year so far imo.)

     

    Have you recommended any of these to me?

  19. Song of the Day

    in General Music Discussion

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    Saxon: ... And The Bands Played On (now set as my ringtone :))

     

    I'm sure you didn't know that track when I mentioned it to you last year.....

     

    One of only 2 songs ever that I prefer the live version!

     

     

    I fear you are mistaken, sir ... I speak as a fella who had 'Denim And Leather' on good old vinyl, back in the day ... always liked Saxon ... :)

  21. My $1.00 Find

    in Dumpster Diving

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    My best finds for a buck were Simon Says ....Spin This I found in Pittsburgh in a book store that had cd's. I turned around and sold it for over 300$.

     

    However the best buck find, actually I think it was 10 cd's for 5$, included a copy of The Stuff, a crazy rare and unkown indie...at the time. It sold for over 1,110$.

     

    Just recently, in February I had one of my best finds through Kijiji, a Canadian styled Craig's List. Some guy was gonna throw out over 600 cd's, unless someone came to pick them up, which he simply just left in front of his garage. I drove from Niagara Falls to Toronto and rescued those cd's. The vast majority were crap. However I did keep about about 80 to 100 titles to sell on Ebay and traded the rest to a seller at a Flea Market. I traded the remaining 500 or so for about 75 of his titles, he thought I was nuts, but those 75 titles were all quality. In the end I got over 150 really good cd's for the cost of half a tank of gas and two sandwiches at Quizno's....my ten year came along for the ride.

    Awesome job! I'd make the trip for the 600 jewel cases alone.

     

    Yeah, good work, I wonder how much you'd get if you sold all the CDs you've ended up with through this 'deal'. I can't imagine anyone giving anything away for free in the UK!

     

     

    When the Golden Disc in Saouthend shut (permanently, this time), the guy who owned it was offering a discount of 25% on everything ... the fact that most of his stock was either rubbish or ridiculously over-priced for what it was probably tells you exactly why he ended up going out of business ... at the other end of the scale, there was another place, in the basement of a clothes shop, that was clearing everything out for £0.50 per CD ... I picked up stuff by Mercyful Fate, Sven Gali, Bruce Dickinson, Gorguts, Def Leppard, Poison, King Diamond ... I spent about a tenner in the end ... THAT was a good day :)

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