yeah meme i know lots of iPod-owning exceptions to the lapsed fan rediscovering music through IPod but it is quite a common syndrome
dominic said:
the automobile and the radio -- commercial, college, community, pirate -- are the perfect fit in my book
we went out of town recently which i always like doing as it's the only time we rent a car and get to experience the Great American Radio Experience -- in that context all kinds of thing i wouldn't normally listen i find myself digging -- like 'rock me like a hurricane' by the scorpions --
that's the other thing i don't like about the iPod -- it's like Radio Me -- but the whole point of real radio is that about the collective and the connective -- shared experience -- and also the possibilty of surprise, of being confronted by stuff you didn't know you'd like -- or indeed stuff you DON'T like
(iPoddies are always gurgling about 'my ipod seems to understand what i wanted to hear next, it went from X to Y to Z, incredible' -- duh, that's because you're the playlist programmer at Radio Me)
the wife has an iPod actually, it has rekindled her lapsed enjoyment of music somewhat -- i've borrowed it now and then, on long journeys -- i can see the point of it here, as a sort of uber-Walkman w/o having to lug around 500 C90s
but then i was never
that big a fan of the walkman -- again, alleviating the tedium of long journeys, great -- although there's an irony that the places they're most useful are places where the background noise is so loud - tube, rail, bus, airplane -- you have to turn it up to deafening levels to even halfway hear it proper
but the thing of walking around the city cocooned in your own private soundtrack -- i've never seen the appeal really -- i like to be exposed to the city's own noise and bustle not shielded from it
the one exception i can think of -- going across London w/ a C90 of Loop' s heaven's end and the thief of fire ep -- with the wah-wah overload it was like walking through a city in flames -- apocalyptic -- that was cool