Music listening thread

What do you actually use tapes to record from? Or is this just experimentation?

Where do you still get chrome tapes from?

I don't mean to seem condescending, and I do get the appeal of analogue stuff, but is there a reason (besides fun) you don't just burn CDs?

"Burn" to what? I'm so ripvanwinkle I dont even know  what "burning" is. Dubbing to blank cd? To computer? I'm trying to get away from the clangy jarring piercing skranging digital sound not fuck with more of it.

Maybe cos thats what your used to. I grew up with tapes. CD's have always sounded glassy and uninviting to me

Recent scabs 

Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs - abandoned this band after Boces in 1993 when they dumped the mental singer and "sold out". The first song has very "nice" vocals I guess everyone lost their shit about back in the day. After about 5 songs it got dull and not weird enough
Ministry - Filth Pig - another old one I was curious to rehear. man I LOVE tis thing. The hyperspeed industrial skronng is out, this is way more slowed down mid-tempo munt. Almost doom sludge
Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull 
Earth - Hex; Or Printing In The Infernal Method - both deeply relaxing but absolutely fuckall happens. It's basically elevator music for miserable cunts.
Windhand - Soma - this thing is hell on toast. The low end frequencies and distortion rumble are off the charts
Swervedriver - Raise - not as epic as I remembered from 1991
Cop Shoot Cop - Ask Questions Later - reacquisition from my youth. doesnt hit.
Primus - Suck On This - another from my youth I was curious to rehear. Funny how bands best shit is so often on their first couple of releases then after that they spend 30 years trying to replicate the thrill of it with such incredibly limited results
Frank Black - Hang On To Your Ego 12" - liking this wayy more than I though I would. 
Neil Young - Decade 3xLP - dirt cheap 3xLP cos the jacket is trashed. FFS this might be the single most essential Neil Young release
T. Rex - Bolan Boogie - cannot go wrong here. Instant good cheer
Ministry - ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ -- too hyperactive industrial for me these days 

Yerself Is Steam: 10/10
Boces: 8/10

Had cassette copies for years, wore em out. Have dubbed tapes now but need them LP's. Prohibitively expensive though ffs.

It might have dated a bit from my heyday of 1991 but I think of Yerself as one of the Alltime Burnout LP's. Up there with a few of Neil Young's, Dinosaur Jrs and Sonic Youth's Daydream.

It's a fucking crime they sold out and went all Top 40 bullshit after making those 2 albums. Goddamn fucking crime.

I only have 5 percent hearing loss in the highest register an ear can discern so I basically have the hearing of a 15-year old. The one and only time I saw The Melvins must be when I lost that 5 percent. Fuck me fuck me fuck me. They passed out earplugs at the door. I scoffed at them and walked by. I soon returned once The Melvins were on the bloody stage. Great show. Just left my only hearing loss there at that show. I have probably said this before, but it was just too bloody loud to describe. Saw The Clash and it was almost like it was coming from inside my empty head. Still, The Melvins just overpowered me. I could feel the vibrations when I would take a break and go outside. Small earthquakes, really. I was helping a band who opened for The Offspring in 2001 or 2002. I thought it would be loud. Hah! It was like Sammy Davis Jr. in Vegas. I could even discern the guy behind the scene's voice who could hit the high notes Dexter had long since not bothered with. I don't know. I had sort of hoped that The Offspring would make my ears bleed. No such luck. I didn't really know any of their songs so having to hear them at a reasonable volume level was not what I had hoped for. I wanted a more "Sonic Youth" noise experience. Sonic Youth, well, they never let me down in the noise department. Never.  

That's weird, I do too. My ear got blocked one day so went to hospital for unblocky block and after they ran some tests they got about 4 other doctors in the room and told me I'm hearing things I "really have no need to hear" or some shit. Fucken dog frequencies or some malarkie

Bizarre considering the volume I've had my headphones on for my whole life ffs

I reckon it's why we like cassettes more than most other folks do. We can discern the lower frequency range just fine, plus cassettes sound way better. I have thousands of classical CD's where the dynamic range is useful, but for The Melvins? Nah, not necessary.

Hasselhoff Experiment band guy brought all the DEAD MOON lp's into my shop for consignment around 1999. The records looked fairly primitive and very D.I.Y but were all such a great standard of music. Reasonably priced too. Still reasonably priced now on the discogs too. The Fugazi of garage punk?

ffs had no idea about this:

Yeah the tall guy, Andrew. Best dude. Have to bear in mind the times, late 90's, garage was out, metalcore and emo were king. He was fighting the tide

Him bringing the entire Crypt catalogue into my shop on consignment actually introduced me to the Country Teasers and The Oblivians ffs. Beats the Promise Ring and Earth Crisis ffs

I was lucky enough to see Dead Moon in a little club called, Max’s in Eugene, Oregon. It was a great show, I like their pre-show tradition where they light the candle. 54/40 or Fight was the song I remember from the performance.