And that’s how we roll.
My earbuds broke. Now it sounds like my iPod is playing through a concrete wall — and only in one ear.
I guess there’s nothing wrong with a fresh set of buds, though. Or should I consider something else? Do you know of the perfect headphone — sleek, unobtrusive, high-functioning?
The only thing I can’t handle is the noise-canceling headphone. It freaks me out a little that I would be so immersed in my soundtrack that I might not know a bus is about to run me over, or that someone is yelling, “THERE IS A BEE ON YOUR BACK. A BEE! ON! YOUR! BACK!”
I’m missing the music, though. I really am.
Which lets me know how much I love it.
So.
- How many hours in a day are you either directly or indirectly listening to music?
- How often are you in charge of said music?
- Do you need music as a part of your day?
- What band and/or solo artist have you been a fan of for the longest period of time?
- What three albums could you not do without?
- What’s the last concert you went to?
- Name two songs your friends/family associate with you?
- It’s Karaoke Night. Let’s say you’re the karaoke type. What do you sing?
- If you could sing/play an instrument like anyone else on earth, who would it be?
- What musical format do you use most often (CDs, mp3s, vinyl, 8-tracks, live instruments, squeezed cats…)
- Do you own an iPod or mp3 player of some sort?
- Do you listen to music when you exercise?
- And finally… dedicate a song to MegFowler.com!
July 28th, 2006 at 3:12 am
I’m the queen of headphones. I wear them all day for work so my life’s goal is to find headphones that sound good, don’t hurt and don’t cost a small fortune. I’ve tried just about everything short of custom ear molds and my current preferred headphone is the sports ones that you wear like reverse eyeglasses (like this http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=6794515&type=product&id=1091099112606 ) The sound is good, the fit is comfortable, the price is cheap. You’re right to distrust the noise cancelling kind, except for the really high end ones, they don’t actually cancel ambient noise, they just amplify what you’re listening to.
Why are my answers always so long?
July 28th, 2006 at 6:06 am
i wear the shure E2c isolating earphones. they keep the music going without truly canceling out the hazards of the world. you can check ‘em out here. the price on them has gone down considerably as well. as for your question round?
1. 2-3 hours of NPR and about 1 hour of booty shakin
2. always
3. no, not really
4. David Wilcox (out of North Carolina…kind of
like James Taylor)
5. Danny Elfman - Music for a Darkened Theatre
RENT - orig b’way cast
Muse - Absolution
6. Willie Nelson and Blues Traveler…together
7. The Gambler - Kenny Rogers
Bust a Move - Young MC
8. Hotel California - the Eagles
9. trumpet like Miles
10. MP3
11. iPod 2nd generation….old Skool!
12. exercise? hmmmm….exercise. can’t remember
doing that.
13. You Can’t Stop the Beat - Hairspray orig b’way
soundtrack
July 28th, 2006 at 6:55 am
1. Three, but depends on the day.
2. 50% — my husband’s probably in charge the other 50%, but that’s okay because we have similar tastes. Except for the weird music, though. He’s famous for weird music.
3. Yes.
4. Little Feat. I’ve been a fan ever since I heard “Willin” on the radio as I woke up one morning in college (um… over 30 years ago…).
5. Dixie Chicken, Little Feat; Nick of Time, Bonnie Raitt; Deuces Wild, B.B. King and many others.
6. The Dave Brubeck Quartet at the Washington National Cathedral. It was a holy thing.
7. Fat Man in the Bathtub, by Little Feat (do you detect a theme here?), and Respect, by Aretha Franklin.
8. Motown tunes — Temptations, Supremes, Four Tops, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas. Simple stuff that requires very little talent!
9. I’d love to play guitar like Bonnie Raitt, or piano like Dave Brubeck.
10. My knees. No, I tell a lie — mp3. Or is it AAC? Whatever it is that the iPod plays.
11. Why yes, yes I do.
12. Yes, it makes the time go by faster.
13. How about “A Song for You” by James Taylor for a sweet soothing song, and “Jessica” by the Allman Brothers Band for something joyful and rocky?
July 28th, 2006 at 9:30 am
I really like these little questionaires.
1. maybe 2?
2. the whole time, usually in my car, or else just at home playing piano, or listening to the radio, or a cd.
3. need? I think I could live without it, but I go through times when I’d say I need it.
4. probably Counting Crows, though I’ve really fallen off that band wagon in recent years. I’ve loved Coldplay since they came out too.
5. Jack Johnson - in between dreams
Simply Red - home
Ron Sexmith - retriever
6. Coldplay
7. I don’t know….I’d have to ask them.
8. “cruising” by Gwyneth Paltrow and Huey Lewis (and I’d sing it with my darling)
9. sing like Charlotte Church
10. live instruments, then cds
11. no
12. no
13. Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
July 28th, 2006 at 10:27 am
1. constantly
2. yes
3. yes
4. i was a huge Dave Matthews fan throughout college and for a few years after…i can’t even count the number of concerts i went to. i even got to meet him on two occasions, which of course got me all atwitter. i haven’t really listened to them much in the last few years, but their music always takes me back to college. fun times.
5. full albums? that’s tough, but i’ll try…
living in clip - ani difranco
alive and wired - old 97s (if i had to pick one of theirs, this is a pretty good live album)
simon and garfunkel - a collection of greatest hits
6. rhett miller….purrrrr
7. two songs isaac associates with me; ‘designs on you’ and ‘adelaide’ by the old 97s. their songs pretty much provide the soundtrack for our entire relationship, starting with our very first date
8. “start me up” by the rolling stones
9. play guitar (and sing) like ani difranco
10. mp3s
11. ipod, yes, but it needs to be replaced
12. sometimes on really long runs, but my ipod has recently decided that it will not work unless docked or plugged in, so that really doesn’t work anymore
13. “she smiled sweetly” by the rolling stones
July 28th, 2006 at 10:32 am
First of all, my ears are a weird shape and don’t hold in the buds. so i bought headphones. not crazy about them so can’t recommend.
1. probably about 9-11 hours on weekdays.
2. 100%.
3. most days. but sometimes i go completely without. silence can be good.
4. dixie chicks–been a fan since discovering them.
5. i use shuffle a lot–not attached to any albums really.
6. dixie chicks! but will be going to shakira in a couple of weeks.
7. i don’t think there are any.
8. um, i don’t sing.
9. marty in the dixie chicks plays a MEAN fiddle!
10. most often i get my music from streaming audio off my computer at work. or my ipod or itunes when not at work.
11. pink ipod mini.
12. ALWAYS.
13. friend like me, aladdin soundtrack.
July 28th, 2006 at 12:22 pm
I love the questions too, but this one I really couldn’t relate to much, as you will see from my answers.
1. zero, on a normal day.
2. If I DO listen to music, I’m in charge.
3. apparently not
4. Judy Garland
5. John Denver’s Greatest Hits
Wicked, original cast recording
The Big Voice, original cast recording
6. The Band Lawsuit’s reunion concert in San Francisco in 1997.
7. Over the Rainbow and I can’t think of another one
8. I wouldn’t be caught dead singing karaoke
9. Alexandra Billings
10. CD
11. No
12. Exercise? What’s that?
13. Defying Gravity, from “Wicked”
July 28th, 2006 at 9:00 pm
I love these questionaires! Warm up soon, K?
1. 3-4.
2. 75%.
3. Yes.
4. Pinback.
5. Pinback: Blue Screen Life. Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Lemonheads: It’s a Shame About Ray (my copy is scratched. Waah!)
6. Pinback.
7. Pinback: “Summer in Abaddon” Radiohead: “Exit Music (for a film)”
8. It will never happen without a lot of alcohol, but maybe the Vapors’ Turning Japanese?
9. I’d love to play guitar like the guys from the Gipsy Kings.
10. CDs, mp3s on the computer.
11. A 1G Creative Zen player.
12. That, or watch TV.
13. The Lightning Seeds’ “Pure”
July 30th, 2006 at 5:06 pm
1. Counting me singing? About 6.
2. 100%
3. Yes
4. Pete Seger and James Taylor
5. Something from Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor and John Prine
6. Lyle Lovett
7. I don’t think there are any songs that people specifically associate with me.
8. “New York State of Mind” (The Bab’s version)
9. Sing like Bette Midler.
10. CDs … and lately a little vinyl
11. Nope
12. What is this “exercise” of which you speak?
13. “Shower the People” – James Taylor
July 31st, 2006 at 4:26 pm
1. I would say 4 and 1/2 hours.
2. Three hours of those 4 and 1/2 are controlled by me.
3. Yes!
4. Indigo Girls
5. Ani Difranco “Dilate,” Fiona Apple “When the Pawn…” and Sinead Lohan “No Mermaid.”
6. Melissa Etheridge
7. “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” by Michael Jackson and “You Can Do It” by Ice Cube.
8. “Love and Affection” by Joan Armatrading.
9. Tickle the ivories like Tori Amos.
10. Mostly mp3s and CDs.
11. Yes.
12. Yes.
13. Kate Havnevik’s “Nowhere Warm.”
August 1st, 2006 at 11:03 am
1. 8-10
2. 100%
3. absolutely… if i am not listening to my iPod or the radio/cd player in the car, then i am making my own soundtrack.
4. the beach boys/jan and dean. i love surf music and have listend to it since i was a baby.
5. A Lo Cubano by Orishas, Street Signs by Ozomatli, Oral Fixation by Shakira.
6. i am a bit ashamed and just a tad embarrassed to say david lee roth 7/29/06. i can’t wait to see shakira on 8/19/06 but maybe smashmouth at music in the park on thursday will get the taste of DLR out of my ears!
7. oh, heavens… that’s a good question, but i never asked anyone… NSM?
8. bitch by meredith brooks
9. i would just wish to be able to sing like i could when i graduated from college before i had my PE that ended my opera career.
10. all of the above.
11. blue iPod mini
12. my iPod really made all the difference in my workouts. i can go for hours now.
13. Love of my life by Santana!
August 2nd, 2006 at 9:03 pm
I will comment on my site soon. My new mp3 player crapped out on me, guess I should have gotten an ipod. Grumble grumble!
August 3rd, 2006 at 7:56 am
My (belated) responses are here.