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Posted by peppermintpatti (U1472081) on Wednesday, 27th February 2008
What is your most music 'nerd' moment.
This is close to dufferdom, but not quite.
Let's take it as read that if you've a lot of records, that they are probably in alphabetical order - it's quicker to find them that way, so that doesn't count, but. what is your music nerd moment?
My girlfriend's is a fantastic one.
She bought 'This is Uncool: The 500 Greatest Singles Since Punk and Disco' by Garry Mulholland, but it wasn't enough to just read the book, she had a new project to do.
Painstakingly she went through her whole collection and recorded the whole book.
We now have a set of cds that go with the book and a wonderful listen. -
Message 2
Posted by the_roofdog (U9532299) on Wednesday, 27th February 2008
Oh dear oh dear, I did that with 'This Is Uncool' too - except in the form of one long iSpod playlist. It does mean I've got a few random artists listed like Mark Morrison and (urgg, unclean) Moby that have been the source of much derision upon a random pub shuffle with friends.
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Message 3
Posted by laurencea (U4486044) on Wednesday, 27th February 2008
in my internet show days i did a two hour (all music, no chat) show of songs starting with Add it Up and Counting Backwards then numbered songs, in sequence until Now Nothing by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra
think the highest number was 27.
then there was the show of cover versions with each artist covering the next.
i am sad. -
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Posted by jasonaparkes (U3653332) on Thursday, 28th February 2008
I once made a compilation of songs with shared song titles, you'd get Torch by Soft Cell followed by Torch by The Sisters of Mercy, followed by Love Song by Simple Minds, followed by Love Song by The Cure...and on and on...not sure what the point was...maybe a way of getting control of a random record collection?
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Message 5
Posted by the_roofdog (U9532299) on Thursday, 28th February 2008
Would it be possible to make a compilation album of ten or so songs with the same name (but different songs!)
'Since You've Been Gone', is the closest contender I can think of - allowing for 'Since You Been Gone' and, of course, 'Since U Been Gone'.
Wouldn't it be hilarious if you then gave the album a different name? No? Oh, please yourselves then... -
Message 6
Posted by laurencea (U4486044) on Friday, 29th February 2008
i seem to remember a feature on the G*R saturday afternoon show where two songs with the same title were played back to back. there was also "you probably think this song is about you" which featured a song with the same name as a band and also the Eponymous song.
i remember these as i came up with them, all borne from the hanging around being nerdy in the record library days in Marylebone High street.
i'd go for a love song for multiple titles.
you could do songs about the same colour and put the CD in a sleeve to match. -
Message 7
Posted by GDkitty (U11178953) on Monday, 3rd March 2008
I'm sure you could create a whole album out of somgs called 'Wake Up' Goldfinger, Linkin Park, Hey Gravity, Hillary Duff, Coheed and Cambria, RATM, and so on...
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Message 8
Posted by Bowshi (U11180774) on Monday, 3rd March 2008
i think total nerdy would be buying radically different genres..i usually do this all the time say an old 1960's Barbra Streisand & The best of EPMD...clerks usually ask me if one of them is a gift for someone
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Message 9
Posted by laurencea (U4486044) on Tuesday, 4th March 2008
i do believe in throwing in one very odd purchase if possible. it's fun watching the clerk's face as they routinely scan the CDs to see if they flinch. alas, the days of multiple purchases seem far away.
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Message 10
Posted by The Count (U2021715) on Wednesday, 5th March 2008
Rob da Bank recently played loads of version of Love Will Tear Us Apart one after the other.
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Message 11
Posted by ELuxoSo (U11189857) on Wednesday, 5th March 2008
That's quite an assumption that records are filed alphabetically (thread intro).
Although I have finally sucumbed to this for the last 15 years I have had mine arrnaged by record label.
It was great - all the 4AD stuff together (Throwing Muses conviniently right next to Pixies and The Breeders), Sub pop all together etc...
This all falls apart if you like The Fall for example (200 different labels in as many years), but I always go around this by "declaring" a label for such a band and keeping them there even after they moved.
I think that this is probably pretty nerdy... -
Message 12
Posted by peppermintpatti (U1472081) on Wednesday, 5th March 2008
Don't give nerds ideas!
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Message 13
Posted by eifion70 (U11195348) on Thursday, 6th March 2008
My collection is partly sorted by label (the Factory and 4AD stuff mainly) but the rest is alphabetical. This means that for bands like The Durutti Column and Cocteau Twins half of their stuff's in one place and half in another. I really should move to just alphabetical ordering, then I wouldn't spend money just filling in numerical gaps.
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Message 14
Posted by Valour Gull (U1637480) on Thursday, 6th March 2008
My collection is partly sorted by geography and what time of day the record is most suited to.
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Message 15
Posted by The Count (U2021715) on Thursday, 6th March 2008
My collection is stacked on chairs, tables, etc roughly in the order I purchased them.
When I move house the ordering becomes an out-and-out shambles. -
Message 16
Posted by chuffymcchuff (U11222195) on Monday, 10th March 2008
I was in a band once. One of the members very loosely worked in the music industry, but was consumed by it: reading every book he could to gain more knowledge about it (even though success in the music industry is largely as luck-based as beginner's spread betting).
Anyway, one fag/beer break during a rehearsal, he was talking about how we should try to release our first single within the first semester of the music industry year.
I disagreed.
What a geek! -
Message 17
Posted by sweetjayne81 (U11223973) on Monday, 10th March 2008
i have many geeky music moments, i kinda pride myself on them!! yes i am sad.
in 2002, me and a friend were bored.
we decided to play a song from each year starting from 1960. the songs had to come from our own record collections (no internet at the time). my friend even went home to collect some of his cd's!!
we made our way through the years, playing just one song from each.many hours later, when we got to 2002, we really really wanted johny cash, hurt, to finish off with. neither of us had got it so we rang a friend and got them to play it down the fone!
it passed a good few hours and we even made a list of the songs we played!!
bless us music nerds!
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Message 18
Posted by guyincognito76 (U10408061) on Monday, 10th March 2008
As mentioned my CDs are in alphabetical order (and of course then chronologically) but after buying the first Zutons album, and filing it away, I noticed that that was the first album I owned by a band beginning with Z. Looking through the rest of my collection I noticed that only 'X' was now missing. Ten minutes later English Settlement by XTC was ordered from Amazon. It was pretty good too.
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Message 19
Posted by adthedoor (U6790770) on Tuesday, 11th March 2008
My collection is sorted by label and era.
4AD (complete to 2000), Creation (complete), Subway, One Little Indian, etc are all sorted by label number.
The eras: 1960s, early 1970s, Punk/New Wave, 2nd Wave Punk/Oi, Indie, etc are filed in alphabetical order.
I have recorded the 200 best tracks of the 1980s on 16 CDs and am now working on the 200 best tracks of the 1990s. All with proper artwork.
Have to say they are fine collections! -
Message 20
Posted by thomashworth (U11344042) on Friday, 28th March 2008
does attempting to name all the full time members of king crimson from 1969 to the present day count as nerdy?
a drummer i used to be in a band with had albums sorted by brand of drum kit played on them... -
Message 21
Posted by thegreatgalah (U11243211) on Saturday, 29th March 2008
Instead of sending cards last xmas I decided to make a 'Pete's Festive Twenty' CD for my muso friends. Good idea. But, rather than compiling a single playlist to represent my year in choonage, I ended up tailoring the compilation (around a hardcore of say, 8 or 9 tracks) to each of my friends individual tastes!
I really do have too much time on my hands... -
Message 22
Posted by Ben Gallivan (U10571576) on Saturday, 29th March 2008
Most probably where I followed Stereolab around on tour for 4 shows circa 1996 in order for me to practice my French and try and impress the female French contingent of the band. Never a good thing to try and chat to Morgane Lhote in very basic, nay drunken French after 4 or 5 pints of Scrumpy Jack at TJs in Newport - not that anyone else would ever try such a thing I'm sure.
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