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  1. DownIsTheNewUp

    Cats / Dogs and vinyl

    Hey guys. Been collecting for a roughly a decade, and have had a shed free doggo for 2 years now. While my turntable was out of commission over the past 3 months, I decided to bring a 8 month old kitten home. He is now nearly a year old. Sweet as can be, destructive as hell. I knew cat hair...
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    Cartridge Alignment

    Hey ya'll. I know this is gonna come across qs a novice post but essentially.... after a cross-country move, I'm in the process of reseting my turntable. And the one aspect of vinyl that has always left me uneasy is aligning a cartridge as I have a bit of a "spacial learning disability". I'm...
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    "Desert Island" Discographies

    If you could only listen to the discographies of 15 musicians for the rest of your life, whose would they be? Rules- 1) You can name musicians who are in multiple groups and gain access to all of it. Or bands and snag the solo projects... 2) You would be granted access to any and all future...
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    The best concerts you've ever seen:

    Apparently we likely won't be seeing concerts again until 2021. Which is basically the most depressing aspect of this whole thing. Like what's even the point of living ;) The best live shows of my life (one show per artist): 30. Tool / Primus: @ Glen Halen Amphitheater 2017 29. The Pixies @...
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    Ranking the years of this decade in music

    So-- because nerding out to music is what we do, and I've seen people get into "what year from this decade was best" discussions more times that I can count on this forum... I took my list from the "best albums of the decade" thread and tried to create an aggregate that measured quality vs...
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    The 10 albums that "made an impact" thread

    So... this is not dissimilar to the Pitchfork-inspired 5-10-15-20-exc thread except that it will along the younger members here to really express the trajectory of their musical tastes. (I'm basically stealing this idea from Facebook but...) Choose 10 (or eleven if you need an "extra") albums...
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    The World is a Mess but Music is Still Magical: A Mid 2019 Guide To 2018 (or) 50 Releases From Last Year Worth Your Time

    Hey guys, It took longer than I wanted- because I had to learn some coding- but my Grantland-inspired, hyperlink rabbit-hole of a blog piece on my 50 favorite albums of last year is finally ready. I wanted to share it with this community of music lovers without blasting too many threads. So I...
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    Hey guys- I wrote a blog piece on 50 essential albums from 2018 and would love some notes

    I know it's 2019, but I thought this would be a good place to share a retrospective blog piece I wrote on 50 essential albums from 2018. I'm hoping to gather some notes from those who are willing. It's a long read, but I'm not as worried about that as making sure every moment is well written...
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