Destroy your iPod!

[notamachine]

 

Thoughts?

 

 

I don't like you.

[TheLuxLife]

I don't like you.

 

 

 

 

I hope I'm not supposed to care.

 

[Raymar]

When I was in high school, a new product came out that everyone had to have called the Walkman. A portable cassette player, it allowed you to have music wherever you went, and effectively cut you off from the rest of the world. Now, the iPod has created a product even more disturbing that allows assholes to have noise on demand 24 hours a day.

 

I never considered the Walkman to be disturbing although back in the 80's I used to work with some old rightwing extremist types that thought Walkmans were an abomination probably because it allowed people to tune out their rightwing rhetoric. Durring my lunch hour I'd go for zen walks with my Walkman

for the exercise instead of eating, got quite a few put downs for that.

 

Music should be an artistic human endeavor, not a technology capable of progressing along scientific and evolutionary lines. The iPod is not progress, it's regress. The price you pay for more access to more stuff is worse content and too much detritus to pick through.

 

Did you pop out of the 19th century or something? I don't own an iPod nor intend to get one because there are a few other mp3 players with FM and voice recording using 4G of Flash memory and even more via memory cards. I'm not one to listen to music constantly but I like the idea of being able to put what I want on an mp3(or whatever) player that veers outside the limited world of radio now and then, and with a voice recorder you can spew your thoughts into it, sample world noises with it, and even use it as a scratch pad for musical creativity where ever it might strike.

 

Without the audience to winnow out the garbage, and with multi national corporations gambling millions on meager are and major marketing, a lot of the good stuff out there never gets heard. People haven't gotten less talented over the last 50 years, it's just that so many untalented people are allowed in the game now that it only seems that way.

 

I really don't care what huge corporations are interested in when it comes to music, and any of those talented artists can be heard on the internet these days. I remember back in the old MP3.com days there was this guy that used to use ACID loops and mix in porn sounds then claim he was the hot chick

that he put a picture up of on his page. He got incredible amounts of plays and money for those plays effectively causing real artists to fall behind in the charts. But this was the pre-iPod era.

[TheLuxLife]

When I was in high school, a new product came out that everyone had to have called the Walkman. A portable cassette player, it allowed you to have music wherever you went, and effectively cut you off from the rest of the world. Now, the iPod has created a product even more disturbing that allows assholes to have noise on demand 24 hours a day. I never considered the Walkman to be disturbing although back in the 80's I used to work with some old rightwing extremist types that thought Walkmans were an abomination probably because it allowed people to tune out their rightwing rhetoric. Durring my lunch hour I'd go for zen walks with my Walkman for the exercise instead of eating, got quite a few put downs for that. Music should be an artistic human endeavor, not a technology capable of progressing along scientific and evolutionary lines. The iPod is not progress, it's regress. The price you pay for more access to more stuff is worse content and too much detritus to pick through. Did you pop out of the 19th century or something? I don't own an iPod nor intend to get one because there are a few other mp3 players with FM and voice recording using 4G of Flash memory and even more via memory cards. I'm not one to listen to music constantly but I like the idea of being able to put what I want on an mp3(or whatever) player that veers outside the limited world of radio now and then, and with a voice recorder you can spew your thoughts into it, sample world noises with it, and even use it as a scratch pad for musical creativity where ever it might strike. Without the audience to winnow out the garbage, and with multi national corporations gambling millions on meager are and major marketing, a lot of the good stuff out there never gets heard. People haven't gotten less talented over the last 50 years, it's just that so many untalented people are allowed in the game now that it only seems that way. I really don't care what huge corporations are interested in when it comes to music, and any of those talented artists can be heard on the internet these days. I remember back in the old MP3.com days there was this guy that used to use ACID loops and mix in porn sounds then claim he was the hot chick that he put a picture up of on his page. He got incredible amounts of plays and money for those plays effectively causing real artists to fall behind in the charts. But this was the pre-iPod era.

 

 

 

*sigh*

 

You do know what quotation marks are...right? Means I didn't write the thing. Go back and read the post again. "Blag Dahlia" I'm sure you can find contact information for him if you really would like to have that conversation.

 

I posted the essay to see if anyone had any opinions about it...please don't respond to me as if I'm the author.

 

 

[thefunkman]

Yo, Jplux...

 

See what happens when you (or someone you quote,) dares to diss a Mac Product???

[Raymar]

*sigh* You do know what quotation marks are...right? Means I didn't write the thing. Go back and read the post again. "Blag Dahlia" I'm sure you can find contact information for him if you really would like to have that conversation. I posted the essay to see if anyone had any opinions about it...please don't respond to me as if I'm the author.

 

A thousand pardons!

Steve

[echoshock]

Sounds like my dad wrote this.

[Distortion788]

That article is retarded. Totally over-exaggerated, bias, and poorly written with an overly dry, forced sense of humor.

 

I would be here all day pointing out every dumb, arrogant, pointless thing this article presented.

 

sums it up pretty well.

[Meriphew]

I finally bought an 8G iPod Nano earlier this year. Best $250 I've spent in a long time.

[UstadKhanAli]

I've never had a Walkman...or an iPod (then again, I've never had a cellphone, either).

 

But I sure love MP3s.

 

You can make a recording of something which sounds far better than a cassette and you can email it to other band members? Gimme more of that!!!

 

We have a team of eight people doing the Tibet Connection radio show, and two of the people live in Dharamsala, India. They've been able to record their interviews on that portable M-Audio recorder thingy and then email high-res MP3s back here so we can edit it into a show that goes on the web and on radio stations. Sounds great, is convenient, and is extremely quick.

 

We record band rehearsals using a iPod/Belkin/Soundcraft mixer combination, and then email the songs to other band members. Sounds much better than when we were recording them on a four-track cassette machine.

 

I personally don't like listening to things on headphones/earphones/ear buds/whatever, which is much of the reason I've resisted getting an MP3 player. I will, however, consider getting one in the future so I can listen to tunes in the car.

 

Oh, and for my opinion on the article, I felt it was rather shrill, and I generally disagreed with it. And quite frankly, I'd be more inclined to wear headphones if people called me an asshole and proselytized this fervently...

 

Also, this curmudgeonly scribe would be one of the first people to complain about the noise if someone were listening to a boombox instead of an iPod!!