That Interpol album has some of the best basslines of the era. Just fantastic.

Discipline is indispensable.

@MackReed I'm more of a Beat devotee, if I needed to choose.

@ba The "Discipline/Beat/Three of a Perfect Pair" trio of albums were very formative for me, but I had to pick just one ...

I saw Bela Fleck and the Flecktones around the time of that album and was just blown away by Victor Wooten’s bass playing. I had been playing bass long enough at that point to see the cast chasm of possibilities (and shortcomings) opening up before me as the show went on, just incredible.

i almost picked Beat, which I think I listened to every day for at least the summer that I was 15. But Discipline is iconic, and it also stands for "a bunch of other prog rock" here.

I almost added Robyn's to my list too. That was a tough one.

Love Khruangbin!

JELLYFISH

@drurystephanie seconded

also, Discipline 👍👍

I'm glad to have you as a friend and so happy you're out and proud. Never apologize, never compromise.

I feel bad. I didn't know that was today. I would have worn my Haring T-Shirt!

28 years and counting!

@ellieBOA woo!!

hard to pick just 9! I listened to 8:30 quite a bit myself

@thelonius Yeah, I don't think I would have picked up bass without having listened to "8:30", early Pat Metheny albums, and Rush over and over again. Shame I didn't latch on to Brand X and Japan until much later in life, I probably would have made more of an effort to get a fretless back then.

@ardgedee few things have made me angrier than an online comment calling Percy Jones a "Jaco clone" - Jones was playing fretless bass when Jaco was still working cruise ships, and his style is quite distinct.

I have a fretless bass, but I have not ever really worked at it. It's a Peavey Foundation that I got for $120.

@thelonius I'm OK on fretted bass but I enjoy fretless so much more. I suck, for sure, but I keep working at it because it makes me happy in a way that fretted doesn't.

Sometimes I think that if I had a fretless as a high schooler (not available where I lived, and defretting what I had was simply not in the cards), I might've made enough of an effort to try to get in a band rather than treat bass as something to noodle on at home.

If i'd given myself 5 more minutes on this i would have had to swap a music album out to make room for The Great White North album.

GSYBE + Phil Glass, I know what part of your brain feels like and I am both sincerely sorry and happy to find a fellow traveler.

Right? Carol King, Michael Franks, and other '70s light-rock stalwarts could have easily qualified for mine, also Dead Kennedys and Hüsker Dü. It's a more interesting (and frustrating) exercise than I expected.

The video for “Roof Garden” definitely made an impact on me

I had to go really quick and high level on this to avoid getting into the weeds, it could easily be an all-day project

*raises hand* I have a question

Best one

@williwaw just one? Excellent!

@dogwelder Yes, just one: Do I correctly infer from this that Joe Pesci's album "Vincent LaGuardia Gambini Sings Just for You" was not as a formative album for you as it was for many other people?

@williwaw, including that would have felt like saying "one thing I often do is have a heartbeat." If everyone has the same opinion about something, then it doesn't help define anyone.

This is a level of DILLIGAF to which we unworthies can only aspire.

🏆

winner

"I wipe my private parts on your aunties, you no-good wiper of other people's bottoms!"

Glad that stayed in 😏

Anish Kapoor fires up his team of lawyers...

@1f2frfbf this paint was created by Stuart Semple as a response to vantablack, because he was so outraged by the licensing.

When you buy it there's a disclaimer you have to click that says "*Note: By adding this product to your cart you confirm that you are not Anish Kapoor, you are in no way affiliated to Anish Kapoor, you are not purchasing this item on behalf of Anish Kapoor or an associate of Anish Kapoor. To the best of your knowledge, information and belief this material will not make it's (sic) way into the hands of Anish Kapoor."

I hope thieves don't break in to steal the copper.

@pk I love Semple's stuff!

*Anish Kapoor sadly sets the phone down and stares into the middle distance...*

@thelonius this is another reason to consider shifting to the use of aluminum shielding tape instead of copper

I've been loving the new Rubber Soul mix

Love this form of enabling!

What a beauty, cool to get it back in service

I love these old beasts

Vintage receivers are great. I usually don't recommend them to people but if you're willing to put up with the downsides they can be good sound on the cheap.

The downsides can be pretty severe. A lot of electronic components aren't made, haven't been made in decades -- if a power transistor dies, it's a doorstop. Even some resistors and other basic components that were common commodities a dozen years ago aren't made any more.* And honestly with modern speakers most vintage receivers are ridiculously overpowered, and their architecture makes them big energy-guzzling space heaters.

*I've seen people in the industry say that various pro audio and consumer audio companies have been frantically hoarding things like resistors and diodes in the past couple years because the component manufacturers have effectively obsoleted all through-hole components.

@ardgedee One of the great joys of the modern age of internet forums is finding people who recap and then also go back and test the 50 (!!!) year old caps and compare them to initial spec. Every unit is different but few seem to have drifted more than 10% from where they should have been. I don't know if my ears are golden enough anymore to hear ten percent of drift, and I certainly don't begrudge anyone who wants perfect sound forever, but I'm happy enough to enjoy them for what they age into, and they'll still be be viable for pretty good sound for a long time yet.

@1f2frfbf Very few types of capacitors have a usable lifespan shorter than a human's. Recapping tends to be one of those things dudes do with electronics because they don't actually understand how it works but they know how to solder and read an oscilloscope, and they've fixated on capacitors because community wisdom has taught them that since *some* kinds of caps (which are probably not in any given piece of electronics) are known to be problematic, *all* of them have to be replaced regularly.

I've got a 45 year old McIntosh receiver and a >50 year old Heathkit receiver. I had both inspected for problems when I got them, and they both continue to work perfectly on their original capacitors. Despite the Heathkit having been evidently rode hard and put up wet before I found it.

@ardgedee Good to know! I always like having my laziness vindicated...

Funnily enough, I did have to have the speedo in my Volvo recapped because they blew out and it quit working. Didn't sound any better after, tho.

My uncle had one of these and as a kid I loved that tuning dial. Just a wonderful balance to it.

@jordanbrock https://knobfeel.tumblr.com/

@1f2frfbf Yeah, things like oil/paper caps are known to leak. Your receiver doesn't have any of those. Then there's the "capacitor plague" caps from 25 years ago. Your receiver doesn't have any of those either, they were used in power supplies and digital electronics.

Dudes have weird fetishes about capacitors. Don't get a guitarist started on "orange drops".

@ardgedee

The Fool: The caps are probably fine
The Acolyte: No! You should replace all the caps!
The Guru: The caps are probably fine.

Seventies transistors and relays, however... these are my next deep dive.

Goddammit now I got the Katsmsri Damacy theme running in my head.

Beelzebubba is on my list, too.

Omg the Milkmen and the DKs yes. The format is too limiting for anybody with an eclectic palate. Top 25 might be more apt - and probably still too limiting.

Tim is in my next nine

I was hoping so much that someone had done a major remodel with some fun materials.

My Little Pony, house.

I unabashedly ADORE this.

Fuck yea. There is hope.

i'm here for this!

honestly, unabashedly happy for the kids able to carry the music with them wherever they go, but: *especially* happy that this gets them to experience music on its own, without the spotify algorithm guiding them, without the ads bombarding them, etc, etc, ad nauseam.

(also, it reminds me that i have a TI cassette [drive] that i salvaged years ago but never got into working order. should pull it out and give it a proper cleanup.)

Coolest woman at the campus radio station used to carry a Fisher Price cassette player c1985.

Nature is healing

Time for the iPod Nano to return.

@grantbarrett That’s the other link I showed. This seems like devolution.

would you like some making fuck, Berzerker!

I am trying dark rye, w/wheat, cocoa. I have ended up Frankensteining it, adding yeast, more water, sugar, flour. Going for rolls, uf it will rise. Your loaf is gorgeous, salute.

What makes this so much more terrible (morality aside) is that these costs should actually be *higher*. China really saved our asses this summer but that's over now. There's going to be so many books written about the manipulation that's happened in the past few months to keep prices down in the U.S. The crack spreads are completely untenable - I'm super dreading what prices are going to be after the midterms when Shithead doesn't care anymore. It's already happening with vessel costs, which have absolutely exploded. We're talking 20x costs compared to January this year.

And then on top of it all, the Clown Prince of Saudia Arabia pulled one of the most boneheaded tactical blunders of the past 100 years in Yemen. We're paying (and will continue to pay) with the cost of oil. They might end up paying with their kingdom. Regional people are paying with their lives. Just today the Houthis managed to get the largest oil field in the world as well as Aramco facilities elsewhere. (The airport is part of this, too, but that's tourism etc.) One drone, one missle, one covert operation - they can fix pipelines and pumping stations and refineries all they want, it doesn't matter when it can get hit again the next day.

Add in El Nino and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. . . Americans are going to feel it in 2027. What makes me cry is that while we Americans just "feel" it for the most part, in other parts of the world people are going to die. And all a bunch of crappy people care about is that it costs $150 to fill their grossly huge Dodge Rams.

Wiltshire born
Wiltshire bred
Strong in the arm
But thick in the head

Thick as a brick. Dumb as a bagga hammers.

I am framing this.

EINSTEIN
WRONG AGAIN
Neils Bohr Says
Nothing Funny About
American Idiocy