- psvrh ( @psvrh@lemmy.ca ) 14•8 months ago
The Walkman was the cassette player. Weren’t the CD players called the Discman?
Now I’m sad that I’d lost my Walkman more than a decade before that, in or around 1990. The Discman sounded better, but was worse on batteries and skipped if you looked at it funny.
- Ech ( @ech@lemm.ee ) English10•8 months ago
It says walkman right there on the device.
- thedoodlenoodle ( @thedoodlenoodle@lemmy.ca ) 3•8 months ago
I had a CD player with Walkman branding on it back in the early 2000s
- psvrh ( @psvrh@lemmy.ca ) 12•8 months ago
Looks like I’m just old.
Sony used the Discman branding in the mid 90s and went back to Walkman in the late 90s and early 2000s.
For me, Walkman meant tape or cassette, but again, I’m old. Old enough to have been listening to Depeche Mode on tape on my Walkman.
- livus ( @livus@kbin.social ) 2•8 months ago
2001 weren’t we all using mp3 players?
I know I was. It was really big and could hardly fit anything.
- fing3r ( @fing3r@feddit.de ) 1•8 months ago
Yes, those rio ones with a hdd in it! 4 gb or something like that. Or you had a cheaper flash one with 128 mb.
- livus ( @livus@kbin.social ) 1•8 months ago
My first mp3 player was a SoulMate omg.
I think by 2001 I probably had something smaller with more storage though.
- Bob ( @MadBob@feddit.nl ) 1•8 months ago
I have, and have had for almost ten years, a Walkman-branded music player which plays, among other formats, FLAC.
- beeng ( @beeng@discuss.tchncs.de ) 11•8 months ago
Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavoured Water
whilst shaking it up and down showing my friends how it doesn’t skip.
- Kcg ( @Kcg@lemmy.ml ) 3•8 months ago
Skipping. Damn how annoying that was!
- ivanafterall ( @ivanafterall@kbin.social ) 10•8 months ago
Metallica - S&M
Life-changing album for me and still a top 5. First non-country album I ever bought. I heard my cousin blasting No Leaf Clover and it literally pulled me out of bed. What is that amazing sound!?
- Godort ( @Godort@lemm.ee ) 4•8 months ago
This is a slept on album. Good choice
- YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH ( @YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub ) 3•8 months ago
I stopped listening to metal in my late teens. But I came back to this album this week and it is really fantastic. Good shit. I used to fall asleep to it in my early teens.
- ivanafterall ( @ivanafterall@kbin.social ) 3•8 months ago
It’s hard to imagine a bigger wall of sound than Metallica and an entire fucking orchestra. I would have loved to have been in that room.
- kindenough ( @kindenough@kbin.social ) 10•8 months ago
Massive Attack’s album Mezzanine, played that on repeat for a long time
- psvrh ( @psvrh@lemmy.ca ) 5•8 months ago
Ooh, that’s a good one.
This was a great era for electronica: we had this, Prodigy’s Fat of the Land, Crystal Method’s Vegas and Weekend, FatBoy Slim’s You’ve Come A Long Way Baby, just about everything from Chemical Brothers.
I think I went broke buying music in the 1990s.
- root_beer ( @root_beer@midwest.social ) English1•8 months ago
I had Liam Howlett’s mixtape, Prodigy Present the Dirtchamber Sessions Volume 1, in constant rotation for a quite a while there
- GBU_28 ( @GBU_28@lemm.ee ) English2•8 months ago
Till present right? It’s 10/10
- don ( @don@lemm.ee ) 9•8 months ago
Fatboy Slim - You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby / Better Living Through Chemistry
- Dempf ( @Dempf@lemmy.zip ) 4•8 months ago
Right about now
- don ( @don@lemm.ee ) 2•8 months ago
The funk soul brotha check it out now
- Y|yukichigai ( @yukichigai@lemmy.sdf.org ) English8•8 months ago
Something I custom burned myself. Either a mix of ska/punk or an abridged version of The Fragile.
- metaStatic ( @metaStatic@kbin.social ) 2•8 months ago
I really want to cheat and say “and all that could have been”.
I knew NiN from radio but that album was life changing.
- Y|yukichigai ( @yukichigai@lemmy.sdf.org ) English1•8 months ago
NIN is one of those rare bands where the live performances are often way better than the studio albums. Live or rehearsals. I think the live rehearsal version of The Collector is the best version of the song ever recorded and I will die on this hill.
- reagansrottencorpse ( @reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml ) 7•8 months ago
NIN the downward spiral
- Zathras ( @Zathras@lemm.ee ) English2•8 months ago
Great album but that was 1997 for me.
- Aggravationstation ( @Aggravationstation@feddit.uk ) 7•8 months ago
Slipknot - Slipknot or maybe Papa Roach - Papa Roach.
- BubbZ ( @BubbZ@lemmy.ca ) 6•8 months ago
Weird Al - Running with scissors
- dumbass ( @dumbass@lemy.lol ) English5•8 months ago
My burnt cd of " Cool Music" I downloaded off LimeWire.
- audiomodder ( @audiomodder@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 4•8 months ago
Moby-Play
- JeSuisUnHombre ( @JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.ee ) 4•8 months ago
Mine was one of those rugged ones. I don’t remember if I had picked up STP yet or if it was still weird al
- Razzazzika ( @Razzazzika@lemm.ee ) 4•8 months ago
One of my many mp3 mix cds of course.
- Pulptastic ( @Pulptastic@midwest.social ) English1•8 months ago
Oh man I forgot all about that. My portable CD player could play mp3 so I ripped all my albums onto like 8 burnable CDs.
- some_guy ( @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ) 4•8 months ago
311 Soundsystem and a lot of trance.
- Rai ( @Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 1•8 months ago
Hell yeah Astral Projection
- Jake [he/him] ( @j4k3@lemmy.ml ) 4•8 months ago
Can I get a piracy playlist? Where Napster at?
I bought almost every CD mentioned but own none of them now.
- Incubus - Fungus Amongus
- Alice in Chains MTV Acoustic Album
- Metallica, Nirvana, Van Halen, Scorpions
- Disturbed, System of a Down, SlipNOT, Korn
- Stevie Ray Vaughan, Clapton, etc. too