2004 best sellers; How many do you own?

jermmd · « **Reply #21 on:** 6 Jan 2005, 11:41 pm »

0.
Albums/songs by any of these artists=0.
I'm still working on getting everything I want from the 70's.

Joe M.

R_burke · « **Reply #22 on:** 7 Jan 2005, 12:39 am »

So far the most is 3 and the average is .666667 or 12/18

Does this mean that AC members don't follow the crowd, the crowd mostly listens to crap, or is there some deeper meaning to it all

mcrespo71 · « **Reply #23 on:** 7 Jan 2005, 12:53 am »

No, it just means we are old and irrelevant. We aren't of the "unit moving" demographics.

Michael

zachslc · « **Reply #24 on:** 7 Jan 2005, 02:52 am »

I am young--21, and proud to be pop music free.

nathanm · « **Reply #25 on:** 7 Jan 2005, 03:09 am »

I bet many of us listened to Top 40 popular crap at some point in our lives. Past pop tunes we liked tend to get romanticized I think, even though they were probably as drecky as the stuff today. Maybe. I don't really want to believe that, but...

Rob Babcock · « **Reply #26 on:** 7 Jan 2005, 03:10 am »

One- the Norah Jones one. I didn't realize it was that popular. To be honest, I haven't listened to it three times. The first one was much better. I guess it was more fun when no one knew who she was.

bob82274 · « **Reply #27 on:** 7 Jan 2005, 05:14 am »

Sitting at the big fat zero. Though to be fair my music collection did not grow all that much this year. Oh who am I kidding I wouldn't have bought any of that crap to begin with (except maybe Norah but from the sound of things I'm glad I passed). I can't tell you how happy I am that Simpson got booed at the Orange Bowl.

lonewolfny42 · « **Reply #28 on:** 7 Jan 2005, 05:25 am »

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the crowd mostly listens to crap

Tyson · « **Reply #29 on:** 7 Jan 2005, 06:05 am »

What can I say, I'm an Eminem fan.....

ctviggen · « **Reply #30 on:** 7 Jan 2005, 11:51 am »

I can honestly say that I never listened to popular music and still don't. That doesn't mean that I don't like certain bands that have been popular; it's just that I've not let their popularity make me choose them. I choose artists with one or more of good writing, good musicianship, and unique style. I do think I'm going to buy some critically acclaimed (not best selling) CDs -- I already have Brian Wilson's Smile and would like to buy the new Wilco.

jpsartre · « **Reply #31 on:** 7 Jan 2005, 01:21 pm »

C'mon you bunch of hypocrites, you know half of you are spinning Ashley as we speak

...pieces..pieces...pieces of me

Hantra · « **Reply #32 on:** 7 Jan 2005, 02:39 pm »

Donut.

What I find amazing is that the record companies can look at this sad, sad list and STILL think that the reason they aren't selling sh*t is because their customers want all this CRAP for FREE?

mjosef · « **Reply #33 on:** 13 Jan 2005, 06:56 am »

I have none of those 'top 10' ...I do have a Norah Jones DVD of her Live...somewhere. Pop music is so pathetic lately.

Rob Babcock · « **Reply #34 on:** 13 Jan 2005, 06:57 am »

CD sales in '04 were up by 5% or so. I guess their thousands of lawsuits against music purchasers must be paying off.

soundboy · « **Reply #35 on:** 15 Jan 2005, 12:55 am »

Zero.

Although I purchased over 100 CDs/SACDs.

orthobiz · « **Reply #36 on:** 16 Jan 2005, 12:24 am »

I have Zero on the list also

Fiery Furnaces: Blueberry Boat

Definitely worthwhile
Definitely different
Does not yield its charms easily, requires
3 or 4 listenings

BUT

You will either love it or hate it
Does not inspire any middle of the road sentiments

Which can't be said for most of the stuff that sells nowadays

biz

Tonto Yoder · « **Reply #37 on:** 16 Jan 2005, 01:06 am »

Quote from: mjosef

I have none of those 'top 10' ...I do have a Norah Jones DVD of her Live...somewhere. Pop music is so pathetic lately.

Is that the DVD on which Gillian Welch/ David Rawlings appear??? I'm a big Welch fan (but so-so on Norah Jones) and didn't know whether it was worth buying the DVD just for Gillian's part in it??

Rob Babcock · « **Reply #38 on:** 16 Jan 2005, 01:51 am »

I really love Norah Jones work on the Peter Malick Group's CD "New York". I much prefer it to her own solo stuff.

Bemopti123 · « **Reply #39 on:** 16 Jan 2005, 02:07 am »

I have an album called

"A girl called Eddy"

I picked it up in Barnes and Nobles and sounds good to me. It gives me a feeling of being in a smoky bar somewhere in some wet island nation (UK.)

Not bad at all....but most of the pop now, for what I can tell is rather, so ordinary.

Who here used to remember some of the 1980s English New Wave? I get a kick around listening to some singles from that Era.

Faves:

Ultravox
Split Enz
Duran Duran
Earlier U2
Depeche Mode

Darn, everything was more interesting, back then. Maybe is an on set of nostalgia.

I cannot listen to contemporary POP shit at all. It hurts my dignity as a music listener.