Dusty Chalk

Preface -- there's no way on earth that I can list every single one of my favourite albums, I love music just way too much. I'm one of those people that listens to an album and thinks, "this is my favourite album ever" for hundreds of albums. Perhaps thousands. So I'm going to do them piecemeal. I'm not going to do them in any particular order -- the ones I do first are neither my favourite nor my least favourite of the bunch, they're just the ones I decided to do first. And there are going to be some I'm never going to do. The reasons for leaving albums out vary from "I just plain forgot about them" to "I listed this other album, and that album was close enough to it that I didn't feel like listing them both" to "I'm lazy" to "I got tired of typing". Here's my current working list of albums from which I'm going to have to work: Aerosmith, Rocks Afghan Whigs, Gentlemen Alan Parsons Project, I, Robot Altered State, Dos Amorphis, Tuonela, Am Universum Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes And One, Bodypop Laurie Anderson, Big Science, Mister Heartbreak, United States Live, Live at Town Hall/New York City/September 19-20, 2001 Android Lust, Devour, Rise and Take Flight, The Dividing Apex Theory, Topsy-Turvy/Random Bursts Aphex Twin, Selected Ambient Works II Apoptygma Berzerk Welcome to Earth, Apopcalyptic Manifesto, 7 Fiona Apple, Tidal, When the Pawn... The Art of Noise, 'daft', Who's Afraid Of? (The Art of Noise!), In Visible Silence, In No Sense? Nonsense!, The Best of... (blue cover) Ayreon, Human Equation Bauhaus, In the Flat Field, Mask, The Sky's Gone Out, Burning from the Inside Jeff Beck, Wired, Blow by Blow, There & Back Black Sabbath, Paranoid, We Sold Our Souls for Rock'n'Roll, Technical Ecstasy, Heaven & Hell Blue Oyster Cult, Agents of Fortune, Spectres, Some Enchanted Evening, Cultosaurus Erectus, Fires of Unknown Origin Blur, Park Life, Modern Life is Rubbish, Blur, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Lyre of Orpheus/Abbatoir Blues Clan of Xymox Clay People, Waking the Dead Conscious Structure, Non-Human Figure Crack the Sky, Safety in Numbers, White Music Cure, Disintegration, Blood Flowers Curve, Pubic Fruit, Cuckoo, and Come Clean Miles Davis, Birth of the Cool, Circle in the Round Deep Purple, The Book of Taliesyn, Machine Head Depeche Mode, A Broken Frame, Construction Time Again, Violator, Black Celebration, Some Great Reward Al Di Meola, Casino, Elegant Gypsy, Splendido Hotel, Electric Rendezvous Thomas Dolby, Blinded by Science (EP), Golden Age of Wireless, Flat Earth Doubting Thomas, The Infidel Rob Dougan, Furious Angels Duran Duran (both the first one and the wedding album), Rio Einsturzende Neubauten, Silence is Sexy, Perpetuum Mobile Danny Elfman, So-Lo Matt Elliott, The Mess We Made Evil's Toy, Angels Only The Faint, Danse Macabre Bryan Ferry, Boys & Girls, Bete Noire The Fixx, Shuttered Room, Reach the Beach, Phantoms Edgar Froese, Ages, Stuntman Garbage & Version 2.0 Front 242, Pulse Peter Gabriel (aka 3 aka melt), Security Genesis, Foxtrot and Nursery Cryme Philip Glass, Koyaanisqatsi, Glassworks, and Einstein on the Beach Golden Earring, Moontan, Cut Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom, Days of Mars Steve Hackett, Voyage of the Acolyte, Please Don't Touch, Spectral Mornings, Defector, Till We Have Faces Halou, Wiser Haujobb, Polarity, Vertical Theory Heart, Dreamboat Annie, Little Queen, Dog & Butterfly Human League, Dare, Reproduction, Travelogue In the Nursery, Hindle Wakes Chris Isaak, Silvertone, Heart Shaped World Japan, Gentlemen Take Polaroids, Tin Drum, Oil on Canvas Jean-Michel Jarre, Equinoxe, Magnetic Fields, The Concerts in China, Zoolook Keith Jarrett, Sun Bear, Vienna Concert, Paris Concert Jethro Tull, Thick as a Brick, Passion Play, Aqualung, Minstrel in the Gallery, Songs from the Wood, Heavy Horses, Stormwatch, Broadsword and the Beast, A Katatonia, Last Fair Deal Gone Down Kidneythieves, Trickster, Zerospace King Crimson, Discipline, Red, Islands Kraftwerk, The Man-Machine, Trans-Europe Express, Computer World, Radioactivity Labradford, fixed::context Lamb, What Sound, Fear of Fours, Between Darkness & Wonder Lassigue Bendthaus, Render Led Zeppelin, I, II, IV, Houses of the Holy Legendary Pink Dots, The Golden Age, Four Days, Crushed Velvet Apocalypse, Maria Dimension, Shadow Weaver, Malachai Lhasa, La Llorona, The Living Road Lords of Acid, Our Little Secret Manfred Mann's Earth Band, The Roaring Silence and Nightingales & Bombers Marillion, Fugazi, Script of a Jester's Tear, Misplaced Childhood Chris Meloche, Recurring Dreams of the Urban Myth Mentallo and the Fixer, Vengeance is Mine Metallica, Kill 'em All, Master of Puppets, Ride the Lightning, ...And Justice For All Ministry, With Sympathy, Twitch, Land of Rape & Honey, The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste My Bloody Valentine, Loveless Neurosis, The Eye of Every Storm New Model Army, Thunder and Consolation New Order, Power, Corruption & Lies, Low-Life, Republic, Substance Nine Horses, Snow Borne Sorrow Nine Inch Nails, Pretty Hate Machine, Broken, The Fragile Notwist, 12, Shrink, Neon Golden Gary Numan, Replicas, Pleasure Principle, Telekon, Dance, I, Assassin, Warriors, Metal Rhythm/New Anger, Exile Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder Oingo Boingo, Only a Lad, Nothing to Fear, Good for Your Soul and Dead Man's Party, Boingo Alive Mike Oldfield, Tubular Bells, Hergest Ridge, Ommadawn, Incantations, Exposed, Platinum, QE2, Five Miles Out, Crises, Killing Fields, Amarok Orbital, In Sides Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Organisation, Dazzle Ships, Architecture & Morality, Junk Culture Pitchshifter, www.pitchshifter.com Planet P Project, Pink World Pop Will Eat Itself, This is the Day...This is the Hour...This is This! Porcupine Tree, Stupid Dream, The Sky Moves Sideways Propaganda, A Secret Wish Queen, A Night at the Opera Return to Forever, Romantic Warrior Ride, Nowhere Rorschach Test, Unclean Roxy Music, Avalon, Flesh + Blood Rush, 2112, A Farewell to Kings, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures, Signals, Grace Under Pressure, All The World's A Stage, Counterparts Klaus Schulze, Mirage, X Shape of Despair, Angels of Distress & Shades of... Shotgun Messiah, Violent New Breed Sigur Ros, () Skinny Puppy, 12" Anthology, Too Dark Park, Last Rights, Singles Collect, B-Sides Collect, VIVIsectVI Slowdive, Just for a Day Jenifer Smith, Code Mesa Snakefarm, Songs from My Funeral SoulWhirlingSomewhere, Hope Was Supersystem, Always Never Again Stabbing Westward, Darkest Days David Sylvian, Gone to Earth, Brilliant Trees, Secrets of the Beehive Talk Talk, Colour of Spring -- actually, I love their entire catalog, from the synth-pop masterpiece of The Party's Over to their genre-defining endcap (together with Spirit of Eden), Laughing Stock. Talking Heads, Remain in Light Tangerine Dream, Force Majeure, Tangram, Logos, Encore, Ricochet, Exit Tear Garden, Tired Eyes Slowly Burning, Last Man to Fly Timeout Drawer, Nowonmai, Alone The The, Soul Mining, Infected U2, Achtung Baby, War Ultravox, Vienna, Rage in Eden, Quartet, Lament Underworld, dubnobasswithmyheadman, Second Toughest of the Infants Vangelis, Albedo 0.39, Spiral, Heaven & Hell, Direct, Soil Festivities, Blade Runner, 1492, China, Chariots of Fire Vast, Turquoise & Crimson Voivod, Nothingface, Angel Rat Jeff Wayne, The War of the Worlds Xymox, Twist of Shadows Yello, Stella, One Second, Flag Yes, Fragile, The Yes Album, Relayer, Tales from Topographic Oceans, Going for the One and Drama Various artists compilations: Advanced Electronics Vol. 2 Cyberflesh Conspiracy Dry Lungs V Risky Business Songs of the Witchblade This Is Electronic Body Music This is the New Beat ...and of course, my two favourite albums of all time: Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here and Animals I made this image as some iconic images from some of my favourite albums from some of my favourite artists. Not necessarily my 15 favourite albums of all time, but 15 of them from which I could rip iconic images and eliminate the text (for no reason other than I wanted to do it that way).

At the theater I went to a couple weekends ago, they had self-dispensed fake butter topping. Oh, and me: Nestle Crunch Stixx -- dark and milk chocolate varieties, both are sublime

What the L is that, a passive attenuator? Are these bare wires? And capacitors? Doing what? They look like friggin' batteries. My favourite. Sweet ride

From he that created Happy Bunny:

It was a reference to this thread.

Oh, look, amps in cribs

Esoteric SA-60 -- new universal player without video. I thought one of the biggest criticisms of DVD-A is that they're not easily played without the ability to see the menu? I'm curious how they approached that problem.

That's true if it's a different model, or, as in the case of the Beyers, not even true at all. Oh, well, good thing I don't like most Grados. [/delurk]

I haven't heard either. I'm afraid very few people have heard both. Do you have the ability to audition both? In your home system?

You spelled Invisible correctly. Oh, and: LOL.

It is. People are going to ask me what time it is, and I'm going to hit myself in the face just from sheer momentum.

If one is going to mention holiday reading, I highly recommend Orson Scott Card, Lost Boys.

Or 2 1/2 RS-1's

Creeper -- Welcome to Creepsville Steve Niles is my new favourite comic graphic novel writer.

For how long?

I actually listened to one of those enhancer disks once -- it cleaned my ears. I was an audiophile by the time it was done. But I don't think it was one of those Isotek ones -- different brand (single track, custom made).

The biggest difference is that it's purple.

I look good in my trench. On the bright side, I didn't have to go to work today. Lounged around with my kitty, took a nap, did some shoveling...

Well, hopefully "...and because I qualified my statements enough" works its way in there, too. grawk -- thanks for the info. I will take someone's personal experience over my theoretical knowledge any day, but alas, have not the budget for yet another mic in my arsenal. Perhaps when we get down to serious recording I'll rent a good one to see what I can do. I have to admit to not having much luck making field recordings. I was tempted just to get this and stop worrying about it.

Finally getting around to watching BSG season 2.

Except...isn't it the same exact headphone, other than cosmetically? Has anyone reported any audible differences yet? (ducks behind rock)

(shrugs) I don't know. Here is more information about the 51-30, of which this is a special edition.

That's awesome.