#9albums

mmmmm spite ...

No offense but a spotify logo to represent new music blows.

Pets is a big one for me.

chai lattes

My wife today, in dreaded anticipation of the coming winter: "I haven't liked snow for 50 years, and I'm not going to start now!!"

“… season of low vitamin D“

And federal elections. (*SOB*)

@MackReed ++ SOB sob
@otaman I actually love the snow, I'm bummed that we don't get as much as we used to here
@dad agreed

Hydrating every day so I can one day piss like a mountain stream on their graves

Spite is my current jam.

I've been in my atticand crawl space a ton lately while we're remodeling our kitchen so I clearly need to up my mask and eye pro game with some costume action!

Félicitations! ✨

Awww, huge congrats!

Congratulations!


🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼

Congrats!

Wonderful!

Congratulations!

Mazel tov!

Congratulations!

Congratulations! \(^_^)/

❤️🎉❤️🎉❤️🎉

woot!

whoaaaaaaaaaa, congrats!

Congrats!

Awesome!

Grand!

Congratulations!

Yay! Congratulations 🎈🎊🍾

Congratulations 🎊🍾🎈🎉

Hooray! Congrats!

Woo!

Mazel Tov!

Hooray for love! Hooray for joy! Hooray for you two!

Congrats!!! 🥳❤️

Mazel tov!

yay!!!

So cool, I hope my card got to you before the big day❤️😊

Thanks all! And it did @Argie, thank you so much!

Congratulations!

Congrats

@ellieBOA wooohooo 😁

they move pretty quickly once they can get out

Oh man that ending was not at all what I expected

my dog has killed three this year 😩

Three time loops?

https://pbfcomics.com/comics...

@bezt Thanks! I must not have saved that field before. Updated now.

I think about something like every time i see one of those signs.

Like, do some people just slam on the brakes?
Is it a command like Gandalf to the balrog?


I also like to think that “end construction “ signs as protest signs by agents of entropy

Heathcliff costume looking good

"she's going way over the ham limit!"

FunFact: One could sing 'Boo Radley' in Shirley Basie's voice to the Goldfinger theme, if one were so inspired.

“Going ham” on something is one of my (adult) kid’s favorite neologisms.

Meet the meat

Ponyo loves

I love me some Grickle!

@m3moellering https://mltshp.com/search...

100 duck-sized horses

@bezt 🧡

😍

Cosmos are always nice to plant because of their willingness to bloom in the fall ... one of my favorites.

That's basically what I read, and they're doing their best but you can tell they're not happy with the temperature

*sigh* Wish I could be that cool.

I showed this to my wife and she asked what the fediverse was. It was literally the perfect unintentionally funny response.

@vosechu that's amazing lol

haha I remember when people thought this was a viable alternative to twitter

@owl It still is. Depends on what you were using Twitter for. If you were expecting high traffic and vast karma from celebrity retweets then no, the system's pretty optimized to escalate the difficulty.

If you were using Twitter to hang with some online friends and dgaf about cultivating a massive following it's really good for that.

Kinda tangentially, though, one of the things I've seen frequently mentioned by people who sell their creative work online is that while followers and "retoots" of their posts on the fediverse tend to be much smaller than on Bluesky, Twitter etc., the conversion rate (number of views that turn into sales) is considerably higher. People on the fediverse who are into your stuff are more likely to actively support rather than passively cheer you on.

@vosechu lol

Like every form of social media, it's as good as the people you find. There's a lot of good people there.

@ardgedee that's great to know!

Average Tech Bro

Literal skull grind

A young Gary Larson sees the tail... and a universe opens before him.

The kind you don’t take home to motherrrrrrr

Poor Stegosaurus did nothing to deserve this

The famous last words of Thag Simmons.

have then seen trump?

I'll say. Though surely that would start to chafe after a while 😬

I’m just as god made me,sir.

The Final Sacrifice (1990, dir. Tjardus Greidanus)
ROWSDOWER!

Knorozov and his co-author, Asya.

We noticed your alphabet across the room…

Is this the dood who included his Siamese cat in his scholarly articles as a co-author?

@m3moellering Knorozov listed Asya as co-author on a single paper, and a heartless editor revoked it.

My secret dream is to one day have my official photo for something be a homage to this glorious shot

@bezt But this is the fly leaf photo of his book, I believe?

@m3moellering The fun ruiners at Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/news...

> Kettunen also said that he doubted the claim about Knorozov attempting to include Asya in his headshot, given that "there are many other photos of Knorozov that editors could have used." Tokovinine said that while Knorozov "sure liked that photo," he had never heard of Knorozov including Asya in his headshot — and added that there are other pictures where Knorozov looks "marginally happier" that editors may have preferred.

@bezt But necessary fun-ruiners!

now THIS is a format i like

(also, a few months ago, my local record shop got a pristine 70s japanese pressing of "white light/white heat" and i'm so mad someone beat me to it)

@niikuneko Oh wow, that would have been awesome to have. My copy is from the Sundazed Mono Boxset, which is fun but not necessarily the most fulfilling copy to have.

IRL version of this meme game is the best version

These shelves hold a lot of my outtakes. Eno/Byrne, PFunk, MBV, VU …

That is a way cool set of display shelves.

@samh Thanks - they were purchased off Etsy. I keep feeling like it is something that I should have just tried to make myself, but the construction is way better than that could have turned out. And they were made in Ukraine too, which somehow helped in the justification.

@MackReed Yeah, I see everyone else's posts and see either outtakes or albums that I forgot about - like "Zen Arcade" in your post.

@meatadelic what’s fun is noticing how the musical influences match the visual interests and comment voices of MLTSHPer

I don't keep the plastic outer sleeve on my vinyl. I let the record store keep it.

That's saying something. Boris are right up there with Sunn O))) and Mogwai for loudest bands I've seen. I'll definitely check them out!

I saw a polka band there once, which was in keeping with the vibe of the place at that time.

*ears perk up*

Hey! Freak Out, I remember toot toot, they had a swimming pool! This is the rest of my nine! Oh cool!

Once upon a time I was all-in on that Aphex Twin album.

In Rainbows ♡♡♡

Trainspotting didn't leave the CD player for a good 3 years of college.

PWEI!

@homerj I might have bought the OST the morning right after I first watched the movie. The album is such a journey, so many bangers from so many decades. And, of course, Born Slippy.NUXX, which IIRC is partly why I went hard into Underworld the next few decades.

@cwhartman I think this might be *the* most politically/socially affecting album I came across at that age. A close friend suggested it, "hey listen to this, it slaps, and the title! it means 'two fingers my friends' which means blah-blah, and it's so cool!".

So I did listen to it and from the first discordant chords of "Ich Bin Ein Auslander" I was really interested. By the time "Fatman" and "Everything's Cool" came on, I was hooked. When "Babylon" was over, I just hit Play again (and again).

@lamnatos I was petty obsessed with that album (and a few others of theirs) back when I was a teenager and it came out. The album artwork and branding of the band were also a factor that helped reinforce my interest in going to school for graphic design. My music tastes have shifted a bit and mostly settled elsewhere since then, but I'm definitely due for another listen.

Two tangential PWEI/annoying teenager stories: First, the kind of lame local alternative radio station kept advertising their fax number on air for song requests circa 1994. In fairness to them, that was the place I first heard RSVP but it quickly went out of rotation. I fax-modem requested it a few times but they never played it. Then I realized I could use the banner printing program on the computer, and set the fax-modem as the printer. After a 14 page faxed request, they finally played RSVP (and rarely advertised their fax number on air afterwards).

Second, also around the same time MTV in collaboration with one of the early online services - I think AOL or Prodigy - had a think where you could send messages online which that they would show across the bottom of the screen on MTV. Obviously human filtered, given the lack of profanity that made it on air. Most people where saying hi to friends and such, but I constantly spammed it with requests to play PWEI - and then they did. Kind of exciting as teenager making everyone watching MTV in the US (probably a lot of people around that time) watch Ich bin sing Auslander.

My roommate in college would wake us all up every Sunday morning with Stone Roses' "I Wanna Be Adored". Kind of a great way to wake up. I think of that every time I hear it.

hell yeah triple Underworld (bc also Trainspotting)

@minimumsafedistance yup, once I experienced Born Slippy and Tin There (Wipeout 2097 OST almost made the list above) I was like “So, Underworld, is it? Let’s focus on them for the next 15 years” 😂

@cwhartman thanks for the story, I love seeing how other people connect to stuff I connected too.

PWEI (and WipeOut 2097) were also my gateway into Designers Republic. I love tracing these connections and see how horizons expand, all from liking a couple of tunes.

@jpoulos The Stone Roses were my sentimental teenage years soundtrack. I used to stick that CD on a portable player, go for late afternoon walks, try to walk softly as to avoid the disc skipping and going through my sentimental teenage thoughts. I’d like to believe their music somehow helped me.

I reckon many folk, like me,would have found the restriction of only 9 artists would mean many important bands/ albums are missed. Given enough time, I could have come up with over 50 crucial artists & albums, no worries. I'm curious what fellow boomers come up with...

@joffaboy Sure. Each individual is going to leave out a lot. And there was far less overlap than I was expecting when I compiled the list. Still, it's surprising that some of the performers mentioned didn't make anybody's list even if I don't expect any specific person to cite them.

I've been surprised at the repeats of things i would have guessed to be more obscure - at least 5 people listed Eno, and 2 albums were each included twice (from memory, you probably have better stats).

Soul Coughing and Belly (or at least 4AD bands in general) would have made my list if i confined it to the '90s, they were both in heavy rotation for me.

@wjcstp > you probably have better stats

Nope. Was tempted to make a proper table with artist, label, MLTSHPpers who cited, and realized that was a hole I didn't want to fall into. So I limited myself to a list of artist names.

@wjcstp > (or at least 4AD bands in general)

Somebody listed the "Lonely is an Eyesore" comp, which afaict is peak 4AD. So I think you're covered. 😉

College radio station I worked at had the Marbled vinyl version of Kate Bush and yikes that was hard to cue up a track (but still played the hell out of it)

i played belly's gepetto on endless repeat that entire summer because of the fuzzy/hazy guitar sound i could never capture

I absolutely wore out my cassette copy of Aeroplane Over the Sea and still return to my digital version of it multiple times per year.

"do you count Elvis Costello and Elvis Costello & The Attractions as one act or two?" One! Back when I used iTunes, it would drive me bats when I'd rip say a Charlie Parker anthology CD, and it would generate like 7 Artists - Charlie Parker Sextet, Charlie Parker All-Stars, etc. The Attractions made a solo record, I think, by the way,

@thelonius As someone who has spent well over a thousand hours on metadata management for the iTunes archives on my computer, I might be rarely qualified to be extremely tiresome about it!

I have each of Costello's separate collaborations (solo, with the Attractions, with the Brodsky Quintet, with Bill Frisell...) filed under different Artist tags, but this is because I had ripped and filed them before iTunes supported the Album Artist field and haven't been bothered enough yet to go back and re-tag everything with Costello, Elvis under the Album Artist Sort-by field.

Although it does bring to the foreground how the idea of session leader as used in jazz is used in cataloging, where records are normally grouped by the leader's name no matter who's supporting them. So for example Miles Davis's various quartets, quintets, and electric groups are filed simply under Davis. But then how you handle co-lead sessions like the Coltrane/Monk concert at Carnegie Hall album? And there are the annoying cases like "Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports", which is a Carla Bley project (she wrote all the songs, arranged, conducted, and played keys) Mason played drums but got sole leadership credit iirc as part of the agreement between record companies to permit him to play on the recording sessions. Properly and officially it should be filed under Nick Mason but I'd be sorely tempted to file it under Carla Bley instead.

When I did mine and broke it into 3 groups of 3 time periods there was so much left on the cutting room floor. Then I had the idea of doing nine "perfect" albums (which I *guess* I define as albums which are wonderful to me and which I believe cannot be improved upon but what does any of that really mean) and I'm still waffling about what should be on the list. I've got Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star on there, but shouldn't that maybe be Illmatic? I've got Aja, but what about Boston's eponymous album? And where's R.E.M.'s Document? What on my list is less perfect? It's maddening. And meanwhile I'm writing up microreviews for each of these albums explaining why I believe they deserve to be there which will wind up being an essay rather than a file description and who the hell even needs this?

I'm trapped in this damned meme 😅

@jer I am definitely dissatisfied with mine. Maybe I will do a Vol. 2, before the meme dies.

I could do this but only for today. Tomorrow will be different

@thelonius This whole exercise has also really drilled into me that I am not keeping up with new music if literally everything on my lists are old enough to vote.

[typed while listening to "To Bring You My Love" by PJ Harvey which why the fuck isn't THAT on my list? but also it was released in 1995]

@ardgedee it is most definitley a hard problem. I simply ended up as an extreme chunker. I give Black Flag, The Beatles, and Nirvana the same genre: "Rock". It has drums and vocals and guitars and short songs and it is loud. Rock. I don't care about calling some of it "Alternative Rock" or whatever. But other ways are valid of course. If there were a proper subgenre ID3 tag, I'd probably use it. Some of my best friends are splitters. As for iTunes, once I decided to "let iTunes organize my music library" and I learned my lesson.

@thelonius Genre tagging, rating and BPM are about the only fields that I completely ignore.

If I was DJing, I could see a point to the BPM field at least.

@ardgedee I would not trust BPM, people put so much trash into the metadata databases. Thed's say oh, that sounds like about 120, and enter that, but maybe it is 122 and I huess that would nmatter for beat matching

@thelonius If I was DJing a set using software files, the DJ equipment would be calculating the tempos. Depending on what I use I can probably just dump a ton of files and have it sort by speed.

Whether the available metadata is right or wrong is pretty much a dead issue.

And yeah, the big metadata databases are questionable for all info. I use them to save some effort on typing but I still have to proofread everything so in the end it's not a huge time-saver.

Semilama I like you, you’re not like the other people, here on Mltshp.

Dead Milkmen ♥️

OMG Voivod!

Killing Jooooooke

very true!

YES

"Why couldn't she be the other kind of mermaid? With a fish part on top and a lady part on the bottom?!"
--Phillip J Fry

"making broth from smoked pig neck bones"

If I'm not mistaken is also the title of an R.L. Burnside album... and if it isn't, it should be.

Won't those little trick or treaters be delighted.

@LocalStain Can I interest you in 18 pounds of unclean chitlins? https://www.youtube.com/watch...

i don't know what this refers to, but this is funny enough to be worth the AI trash effort.

oh right, the mentally ill guy that got himself Grizzly Man'd. Fersher fersher.

@minimumsafedistance and this
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@roonie right yes, the succulent chinese meal format i was familiar with