AVincentInSpace,

i’m curious now

usually censorship is used to replace a strong word with a milder one, or to change the meaning of the text

what word in this meme was so egregious that OP saw fit to replace it with “fucking”

wh0_cares,

My best guess is that it originally was “fucking,” someone censored it to something like “hecking,” then someone else censored the censor back to “fucking”

Misconduct,

I kinda love this journey though

kamen,

Who doesn’t love fucking?

BodilessGaze,

Asexuals?

altima_neo,
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Yeah except in 1999 you could go to Sam Goody or The Warehouse or whatever, and listen to the album in the store before buying, especially if it was a new release.

Personally, I was going to the public library and checking out it CDs from there.

MadBigote,

I used to go to Tower Records to listen to albums. Never bought a single cd.

ILikeBoobies,

Napster was 99

altima_neo, (edited )
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

I was talking those CDs from the library and loading them onto my Rio PMP

Cort,

There was also a market for used CDs back in the day so you could sell it and buy another

aniki,

Still is!

Discogs.com

altima_neo, (edited )
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

The still a few stores around here in Portland trading CDs and vinyl

Skullgrid,
@Skullgrid@lemmy.world avatar

shout out to the Dalston Virgin for showing me the world of DJ Yoda

son_named_bort,

Somebody bought the Chris Gaines album.

teamevil,

I remember seeing that on a magazine cover and thinking it was bullshit

HurlingDurling,

If it’s 1999, you would go to a record store if you wanted to buy an album and depending on the store the would have a sampler disk and could tell you if it sucked or not. Also, if the songs where good you would have billboard to tell you how good it was as well as your local radio station.

Or you could just open Napster and download the whole album for free.

samus12345, (edited )
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, I like how this is pretending that the internet didn’t exist in 1999 because there was no Spotify or iTunes.

cyclohexane,

I pirated all mine.

theangryseal,

Me too. That is when I discovered the rarest Nirvana song of all time. It was Freak by Silverchair. It took me an hour to download it.

I also had the entire collection of songs Bill Clinton sang about blowjobs and Monica Lewinsky. Like, literally that’s all the dude sang about. Talk about being obsessed.

I could go on. What a great time it was to be alive.

teamevil,

I bought 3 Monster Magnet albums for Sugar Ray’s Mean Machine…on the plus side FUCKING Monster Magnet led me to The Atomic Bitchwax, Nebula, Kyuss, Low Rider, Fu Manchu, Orange Goblin, Dozer, Spiritual Beggars and more Stoner fun.

aniki,

I dubbed mix tapes off the radio in the early 90s and got into burning CDs in the late 90s. I was a cheap ass pirate even back in the day. Also ripped a LOT of my friends CDs to cassette tape. My dad used to buy packs wholesale.

squiblet,
@squiblet@kbin.social avatar

There were so many shitty albums I bought for $16 in the early 90s (even worse, that's like $30 now) and had the exact experience in the meme. Things like we loved the first Suicidal Tendencies album, bought the second and were 'wtf is this?' The only way we had to pick out death metal was based on the cover art and record label... put it in the CD player, okay, good guitar sound... just have to wait until the guy sings.... that pretty much decided it.

Diabolo96,

Death metal

wait until the guy sings

(。╯︵╰。)

MFW the main singer guttural scream isn’t as good as in the last album.

/jk

abraxas,

Sounds like a Theatre of Tragedy problem.

“Fuck that shit. We’ll fire the singer that put us on the map because she was only supposed to be a back-up, and then we’ll go full techno”.

(as you may guess, I never got over it. Also, I know this full-techno song was still w/ Liv Kristine, but they stayed techno-ey and I picked a song I don’t actually hate)

Diabolo96,

I tried to listen the song and it’s not really my cup of tea. It felt almost psychedelic.

I for the most cases , don’t enjoy any screaming and neither vocals for that matter. That’s why I mostly will only listen to instrumental pieces of the metal genre like the doom ost. Nothing else matters is an exception but that song is more of ballad.

abraxas,

Exactly! Compare to Rose for the Dead, which is arguably (ok, my opinion) the most solid “Beauty and the Beast” genre death metal song ever written.

Of course, there ARE vocals, but as I say, totally different genre.

Diabolo96,

The part from 1:09 to 1:18 was a pleasant surprise to my ears. The woman seems very talented and I totally understand why you’d feel like a it was a huge waste to fire her.

The start of the instrumental transported my mind into a bandit filled wasteland world. It’d fit soo well into ashe 2063 ( a free doom full conversions game that I highly recommend ) or at least watch a playthrough of. I guarantee you’d play it after watching a few minutes.

abraxas,

If you like that at all, their Aegis album features her much more heavily, if with somewhat less “growl”. She also has had a few bands since that did “okay” in Norway. Leaves’ Eyes does gothic twist on some traditional celtic.

Also, “Beauty and the Beast” death/doom are hard to find, but Cradle of Filth had a few phenomenal songs of that genre. Nymphetamine Fix is my favorite of theirs. It’s so hard to find good death or doom that fit my tastes.

I watched a little LP of ashe 2063. FPS’s don’t work well with me, but it seemed interesting. Me with gaming seems like you with music :) I don’t like “vocals” (action reflex games)

Diabolo96,

The dude growling voice wasn’t that bad the first time he sang. Later parts weren’t as good tho. The part at 1:22 till 1:45 was my favorite. Really digging the folklore feel.

I actually have really bad reflexes but most games allow to toggle the difficulty and juste enjoy the story with the exploration as the reward, not passing the challenges. I wish it was as easy to toggle the vocals off. So many songs I deeply enjoyed until someone sang and removed any joy listening to it, so i end up playing that first part over and over.

abraxas,

Yeah, IMO it’s definitely a step down from the growl voices I like, ex. Peter Steele or Raymond Rohonyi (but had to look him up, which shows how much more I respect Liv Kristine than him)

As for vocals. I’m so attached to vocals it’s hard for me to relate. Most music I listen to are the type of person you can immediately recognize if they sing a totally random song acapella. Everything from Enya to Celine Dion, Maynard to Trent Reznor to Peter Steele. Even bands I “kind of like” have that in common.

“Oh my god, that sounds like…” <–if I can’t say that if they do a cover or new release and I didn’t know, then I probably don’t like it.

Diabolo96,

We’re polar opposite. Nevertheless, I don’t hate all vocals, Celine Dion is indeed a phenomenal singer , but not everyone is a good singer nor have a good voice, and even then, the lyrics can be a turn-off. I have hyperphantasia and my mind tend to wonder whenever I listen to any song, vocal more often than not disrupt the process. My favorite genre is chiptune music.

squiblet,
@squiblet@kbin.social avatar

With a new band you never know. It could be a low, murky graaar like Immolation or Bolt Thrower… or a higher pitch like most Entombed (I prefer Clandestine where some bassist from another band sang, but most people don’t, for some reason). Or it could be like Deicide where the singer is mainly good then they cheapen it with this cheesy high pitched thing…. Carcass where the singer is h medium pitched and sounds good, then they also have a low guttural voice thrown in here and there, which was alright. Or maybe all is well and it’s the perfect Morbid Angel vocals.

teamevil,

Fucking Death metal was my counter to shitty alternative albums with one hit…30 years later I’m still a fan of grindcore/death metal/stoner metal…thank god for Relapse Records.

SpaceNoodle,

More like $20.

mxcory,

Got the censored version at Walmart.

massive_bereavement,
@massive_bereavement@kbin.social avatar

Uugh ..

teamevil,

Waif Me

doublejay1999,
@doublejay1999@lemmy.world avatar

If you got 3 tracks off a hip hop album you’d nailed it.

Yes, there are exceptions, we now call them classics

paultimate14,

But you owned it. So you could sell the CD and recoup almost all of your money.

Tedrow,
@Tedrow@lemmy.world avatar

Not sure who you were selling your CDs too to get almost all your money back. Maybe if you sold it to a friend.

squiblet,
@squiblet@kbin.social avatar

A used music store or pawn shop

lorty,
@lorty@lemmy.ml avatar

The person who made this meme is too young to know about reselling stuff they own.

Peaty,

Except you couldn’t? You would get $1-2 bucks for most used tapes/LPs/Cds.

paultimate14,

Maybe if you tried to sell at FYE. But a local flea market? You could totally get $10-$15 depending on what it was and how much it cost initially.

Uniquitous,

And there are only 6 tracks, and also the CD was $20.

paultimate14,

They are typically 45-60 minutes. Which could be 1 long song, or 20+ short songs.

Uniquitous,

Dude, I was there. I lived it. Step off.

paultimate14,

Bruh I’m looking over at my shelf of CD’s from the time.

But let’s look at the best selling albums that came out in 1999, the year referenced in the meme.

  1. Backstreet Boys - Millennium - 12 tracks
  2. Britney Spears - Baby One More Time - 11 tracks (or more, depending on the version)
  3. Santana - Supernatural - 13 tracks
  4. Celine Dion - All the Way… A Decade of Song - 16 tracks (kind of weird as it’s a compilation)
  5. Ricky Martin - Ricky Martin - 14 Tracks
  6. Blink-182 - Enema of the State - 12 tracks
  7. RHCP - Calofornication - 15 tracks
  8. Christina Aguilera - Christina Aguilera - 12 tracks (I think? I’m only finding re-releases that include more bonus tracks now)
  9. Creed - Human Clay - 11 tracks
  10. Dido - No Angel - 12 tracks

Maybe back in the day you mistakenly bought singles instead of albums?

ThatFembyWho,

Hey that was the soundtrack to high school. I downloaded half of them on dialup, via Napster/Gnutella/whatever.

#7 is one of the only ones you’ll hear to this day.

abraxas,

Mostly THAT was EPs. Some of the best albums are EPs, but they’re short.

Rose for the Dead EP, was my favorite one. 6 songs.

NIN Broken was 8 songs.

A lot of punk albums have plenty of songs, but they’re so short some of them have terrible play times. OpIvy Energy (the first bootleg I ever had) is only about 35 minutes long and the whole thing mostly fit on one side of a (small) cassette tape.

I could probably find more, but that’s just off the top of my head.

paultimate14,

Isn’t that kind of the point of EP’s though? They’re ~half the length and should be cheaper to compensate for that.

abraxas,

“should be”

Of the above, I only remember Rose for The Dead… costing easily as much as an LP.

Uniquitous,

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jar_of_Flies I rest my case you condescending asshat.

paultimate14,

As an EP that wouldn’t have been $20 lol.

Uniquitous,

As if you would even know.

paultimate14,

You’re just mad you got ripped off 25 years ago lol

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teamevil,

That fucking album is proof there was hope, except it bankrupted London Records which killed Grotüs’ career. They are a dope ass band I found in a CD store with throwaway CDs for a dollar in 99. Definitely worth it for them. YouTube Grotüs’ Mass.

ianhclark510,
@ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I thought Dopesmoker was released by Tee Pee lol

foggy,

1999?

Try $20.

hemko,

Oh I would listen the shit album 100 times and memorize the lyrics for each song. It might have been bad album, but it was mine and I was so excited to bring it home.

But also I was very young

teamevil,

So you too owned Limp Bizkit albums

tpihkal,

Where the hell you buying CDs for $10 in 1999?

enthusiasticamoeba,

The standard price where I grew up was $13. Feels like a steal these days.

tpihkal,

I don’t think any CD I ever wanted enough to buy was less than $16. My family was poor so cassette tapes were still a thing for quite a while.

By the time I could start thinking about affording CDs, I’d already seen the movie Hackers (1994) and was convinced everything would be digital really fucking fast.

I started converting my CDs in the Napster era.

enthusiasticamoeba,

Yeah, I only had a handful of CDs because they were too expensive! I jumped on the napster train and got a CD burner as soon as I could.

teamevil,

CD Depot.

TokyoMonsterTrucker,

Worse: you’re a DJ in 1998 and spend $12 for a 6 minute B-side.

julianwgs,

It‘s 2023, you can still listen to the same shitty music, because it is yours to keep.

zammy95,

I’m assuming you’re saying still listen to the same shit music you BOUGHT back then?

abraxas,

The sad truth. I threw out my CD binders at least 10 years ago. I still have some of that uploaded to the cloud, but I’ve swapped provider a few times and probably lost some.

And more often, I Just listen on spotify or youtube music.

julianwgs,

Yes, the comment was meant as criticism of the streaming era packaged as a joke

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