The 60gb Canon

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ie - what do I need on my new ipod?

― winter testing (winter testing), Saturday, 26 August 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

Nihilist Spasm Band

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 26 August 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

Half of what you had on your old ipod but in FLAC format.

― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 26 August 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

Stuff you enjoy listening to?

― Pier Paolo Semolina (noodle vague), Saturday, 26 August 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, well of course what will really end up on there are the things I own or have downloaded and and still like... I just wanted to kick off a thread about what people think is absolutely essential, and maybe uncover a few hidden gems in the process

― winter testing (winter testing), Saturday, 26 August 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

i'm also interested in what the "Canon" is - Is there really consensus on a central body of "good" music, and if so, which artists, songs, albums etc, are "in" or "out"?

and if that sounds as ridiculous to you as it does me, why do we see the "canon" referred to so frequently, and as such a concrete thing?

― winter testing (winter testing), Saturday, 26 August 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

The canon contains whichever albums nobody can completely deny the musical integrity of without looking like a bit of a twat (unless that someone is an argumentative genius). You don't need to base your taste around the canon, though.

― Scourage (Haberdager), Saturday, 26 August 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Most of the time nowadays when people refer to the Canon they mean "you have boringly conventional taste, whilst I am a freewheeling renaissance superdude who is above such things". It's a tool, isn't it? If it helps somebody to appreciate music then fine, but I think it's a boring and unhelpful way to think about art.

― Pier Paolo Semolina (noodle vague), Saturday, 26 August 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

when i said canon it should have had quotation marks around it.

― Scourage (Haberdager), Saturday, 26 August 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

And the "musical integrity" thing is easily avoided by not giving a toss about integrity.

― Pier Paolo Semolina (noodle vague), Saturday, 26 August 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

In my experience, you fill it up with the complete discographies of all the bands you like, but in the end all you ever listen to is what you've put on it the last week. (I don't have a video ipod, mind, so your mileage may vary, but my next thingy will not need the 20Gb my current one has.)

― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 26 August 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

I've got a pathetic 256 meg mp3 player but the constraint is kinda good because I make a new compilation every couple of days.

― Pier Paolo Semolina (noodle vague), Saturday, 26 August 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

In my experience, you fill it up with the complete discographies of all the bands you like, but in the end all you ever listen to is what you've put on it the last week.

SOOOOOO TRUE. This is actually (partly) why I only opted for an iPod Shuffle: I never really need more than 8 or 9 hours' worth of music on my person, and some days I don't even want that much.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 26 August 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Well, the records that are always on my iPod are Chronic Town, Loveless, the Blackalicious Melodica record, Keith Fullerton Whitman's Playthroughs, and the Art of Fugue.

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Saturday, 26 August 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

The problem with this thread is that's it's like condensing all of ILM's arguments onto one ipod.

― paulhw (paulhw), Saturday, 26 August 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

yep, paul's very much otm .

lock thread?

― winter testing (winter testing), Saturday, 26 August 2006 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

See the ILM Rough Guides index. I frequently refer back there when I'm looking for new things to listen to/take up storage space

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 28 August 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

it's like condensing all of ILM's arguments onto one ipod.

I pity that poor ipod.

― genital hyphys (haitch), Monday, 28 August 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.akdess.com/images/cannon_small.jpg

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 28 August 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

I don't even have 60 gb of music. once again, not downloading (much) music saves the day!

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Monday, 28 August 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

See the ILM Rough Guides index. I frequently refer back there when I'm looking for new things to listen to/take up storage space

this is good advice

― rentboy (rentboy), Monday, 28 August 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

jazz, classical, brazilian, cuban

― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Monday, 28 August 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

As a 60-gigger for some 4 years now (Zen 2.0), I believe these are essential for starters:

(1) The entire recorded output of Fela Kuti (some 77 albums)
(2) Chopin's Piano Works
(3) Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music

― Huey in Melbourne (Huey in Melbourne), Monday, 28 August 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

"Canon In D" By Pachelbel would be a good start, I guess.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 28 August 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

basic channel series

― hippo eats dwarlf (lfam), Monday, 28 August 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

"Whole Lotta Love" by Goldbug 13,000 times.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 28 August 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

My Canon can only take a gig on its compact flash.
*trots off to figure out if he can transfer music via the camera*

All that aside, notions of a "canon" or canoninical works are silly. And a 60gb canon even sillier.

60gb = 40 days of music?

― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Monday, 28 August 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

you should have just invested in that hipsterpod-- all that elusive putomayo at your fingertips!

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

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