I have tons of CDs I've never bothered to rip for whatever reason. As such, many of them I have not listened to for years. Some of them I've probably not played since before moving to Russia, nearly six years ago. Now while I obviously kept all these discs because I liked them c. end-2001, some of them probably don't necessarily merit another ( Read more... )

Sometimes I think I should just forego this whole voting exercise. In the next poll (which will not be posted for quite some time actually, as I will be gone from December 3-15), one of the lead-off discs will be Violent Femmes' Add It Up. Should I just go ahead and pre-emptively rip it? One would think so, as you seem to vote for the most obvious ( Read more... )

I have tons of CDs I've never bothered to rip for whatever reason. As such, many of them I have not listened to for years. Some of them I've probably not played since before moving to Russia, nearly six years ago. Now while I obviously kept all these discs because I liked them c. end-2001, some of them probably don't necessarily merit another ( Read more... )

Step back into my time machine, back to the summer of 1996, in Athens, Greece. I was at the Virgin Megastore, all by myself, because on my first trip to Europe I had decided I should try to pick up rare CDs or something. Virgin had a listening wall, so I tried some Greek industrial band, and although I was as into Nine Inch Nails as all the other ( Read more... )

I have tons of CDs I've never bothered to rip for whatever reason. As such, many of them I have not listened to for years. Some of them I've probably not played since before moving to Russia, nearly six years ago. Now while I obviously kept all these discs because I liked them c. end-2001, some of them probably don't necessarily merit another ( Read more... )

Moscow's first snow is pretty nice, even if the city turns completely disgusting afterwards.

I first encountered Sublime on a mid-90s punk compilation called "Punk Sucks!" -- you know the type, it was retailing for under 10 bucks and had two or three dozen songs on it. As an aspiring punk rocker, it was an easy choice to buy -- value for money baby. It had a Sublime song -- "All I Need" -- on it, which was pretty good, and I ended up ( Read more... )

I have tons of CDs I've never bothered to rip for whatever reason. As such, many of them I have not listened to for years. Some of them I've probably not played since before moving to Russia, nearly six years ago. Now while I obviously kept all these discs because I liked them c. end-2001, some of them probably don't necessarily merit another ( Read more... )

Let me be honest with you: Spoon is a band I first heard a decade ago, when I found a used copy of A Series of Sneaks for cheap. I liked it enough, but never listened to it. Whenever I would dig it out to play, it was good, so I kept it. But I never had the desire to listen to it. When Kill the Moonlight came out, my friend Pasha was running a ( Read more... )

I have tons of CDs I've never bothered to rip for whatever reason. As such, many of them I have not listened to for years. Some of them I've probably not played since before moving to Russia, nearly six years ago. Now while I obviously kept all these discs because I liked them c. end-2001, some of them probably don't necessarily merit another ( Read more... )