[Misc] Will You Just Never Learn?

Madafwo · 2025-02-21T13:39:20+0000

The Rasmus was mine, although in reverse. I liked their earlier stuff and have Japanese releases of their debut album and then various special editions and different regional releases. Now I have to buy any old shite they put out to keep the collection complete.

Still got my CD collection going and growing, just put up a couple of IKEA Gnedby CD towers to keep them organised.

Harry Wilson's tackle · 2025-02-21T14:15:42+0000

Goldstone1976 said:
Picking up on your wider theme…

YES! Kitchen gadgets: 4 air fryers (all promising something that sounds novel or useful), 4 pizza ovens (ditto), 2 vacuum sealers (ditto), 11 (I’ve just counted them) potato peelers (the first one I bought, the cheapest, is of course the best at actually peeling potatoes)… and on and on and on.

‘It’s a hobby’, I say.
‘It’s f***ing weird’, says my partner.
She’s right, of course.

Hello, Diogenes :thumbsup:

Because my ex wife would tell me she would buy whatever (bog roll) and would then buy something else (a vase) with hilarious consequences....
And because she would also leave empty packs of food in the fridge, making it look like there was loads of stuff to eat....
I have spent the last 40 years overbuying.
I still have a cupboard with essentials which I keep topped up:
Tootpaste, deodorant, shampoo, ketchup, dish soap, etc., and an overflow fridge in the shed with milk . . . . .

I managed to overdo it before I got organized, and one time found I had 9 cans of deodorant and 30 bars of soap.

This is entirely an autistic over reaction to running out of bogroll, and a futile search for food in a fridge packed with empty packaging and no food, back in the 1980s.

I am hyperventilating just thinking about it :down:

Pevenseagull · 2025-02-21T14:20:21+0000

I've got over 50 Robert Pollard lps. Guided By Voices, solo, various side projects.
Throw in a couple of dozen singles and that's well over £1,000... And I've never been remotely wealthy.

That's less than half of his output.

Ideally I would have more. There's been 3 LPs in the last 12 months that I haven't got ... yet.

But it is far too many.

Binney on acid · 2025-02-21T16:42:04+0000

Stato said:
Are you saying that he's been running on empty?

Thanks. I've a few of his albums and have been tempted by used copies of others going cheap on the web. If I add more, I'll be careful not to start with the later stuff.

I bought an import copy of ROE prior to its release in the UK. It's possibly the most disappointing album I've ever bought, being a banal follow up to the virtually life changing 'The Pretender', an album that IMHO was only eclipsed by 'Late for the sky'.

Mellotron · 2025-02-21T17:06:40+0000

Interpol

First 2 albums - phenomenal.
Albums 3 and 4 - Good
Everything since then (when Carlos D their original bassist left) - boring and bland.

I've bought every album (seen them live about 7-8 times) but I'm not convinced I've given the latest album a spin even once. Pure loyalty.

Cheshire Cat · 2025-02-21T20:55:15+0000

Harry Wilson's tackle said:
Hello, Diogenes

Because my ex wife would tell me she would buy whatever (bog roll) and would then buy something else (a vase) with hilarious consequences....
And because she would also leave empty packs of food in the fridge, making it look like there was loads of stuff to eat....
I have spent the last 40 years overbuying.
I still have a cupboard with essentials which I keep topped up:
Tootpaste, deodorant, shampoo, ketchup, dish soap, etc., and an overflow fridge in the shed with milk . . . . .

I managed to overdo it before I got organized, and one time found I had 9 cans of deodorant and 30 bars of soap.

This is entirely an autistic over reaction to running out of bogroll, and a futile search for food in a fridge packed with empty packaging and no food, back in the 1980s.

I am hyperventilating just thinking about it

I finally used the last of my covid bog roll stash about six months ago.

One at a time......

Albion my Albion · 2025-02-21T22:26:59+0000

Eeyore said:
You and I used to be firends

What are fir-ends?

fire-nds?

Bodian · 2025-02-21T23:11:24+0000

Harry Wilson's tackle said:
Hello, Diogenes

Because my ex wife would tell me she would buy whatever (bog roll) and would then buy something else (a vase) with hilarious consequences....
And because she would also leave empty packs of food in the fridge, making it look like there was loads of stuff to eat....
I have spent the last 40 years overbuying.
I still have a cupboard with essentials which I keep topped up:
Tootpaste, deodorant, shampoo, ketchup, dish soap, etc., and an overflow fridge in the shed with milk . . . . .

I managed to overdo it before I got organized, and one time found I had 9 cans of deodorant and 30 bars of soap.

This is entirely an autistic over reaction to running out of bogroll, and a futile search for food in a fridge packed with empty packaging and no food, back in the 1980s.

I am hyperventilating just thinking about it

I have to buy my own separate supplies of things like plasters and ibuprofen - because the domestic manager will keep moving them, or putting them in a different drawer. It's actually quicker for me to nip down the shop with bog roll wrapped around my finger than it is to try and third-guess where she might have put the plasters this week....

So, we eventually end up with too much of it.

My fault....obviously.

Triggaaar · 2025-02-21T23:50:41+0000

Harry Wilson's tackle said:
Loved the dig at Queen though.
I hate Queen.

I'm not cool enough to dislike Queen

Triggaaar · 2025-02-21T23:53:37+0000

Harry Wilson's tackle said:
While musing on singers I dislike, several popped into my head.

I shall share the list:

Gene Pitney
Neil Diamond
Harry Nilson
Tiny Tim
Bryan Adams
Les Twat of Mud
Freddie Mercury

No Phil Collins? You're standards have slipped.

Triggaaar · 2025-02-21T23:58:01+0000

Goldstone1976 said:
Picking up on your wider theme…

YES! Kitchen gadgets: 4 air fryers (all promising something that sounds novel or useful), 4 pizza ovens (ditto), 2 vacuum sealers (ditto), 11 (I’ve just counted them) potato peelers (the first one I bought, the cheapest, is of course the best at actually peeling potatoes)… and on and on and on.

I bet you can add bottle openers to that.

Goldstone1976 said:
‘It’s a hobby’, I say.
‘It’s f***ing weird’, says my partner.
She’s right, of course.

Well yeah, of course she is.

Triggaaar · 2025-02-22T00:02:53+0000

WildWood said:
(The one on the left if you're asking.......)

Obviously

(sorry Constanze)

ozzygull · 2025-02-22T00:52:13+0000

I have every Genesis related album not just the bands but every single member solo effort even Tony Banks, all on vinyl each addition from first pressing to colour vinyl, remasters as well as all 45s 7” and 12” singles. I am too old to give a sh!t what other people’s opinion are of the band, wether it’s all rubbish after Peter Left or Steve left, or it too artsy before ABACAB. I love this band in all its forms.

The first album I bought for my own money was Invisible Touch on cassette tape in Woolies, London Road, when I was 15. I knew nothing about the band and it took me years to realise Peter Gabriel of sledge hammer was the original singer. I bought the VHS of the Invisible Touch tour and played until It went alI wobbly, and I had found my band. I used to go in to Wax Factor and buy the back catalog and books. I used to get teased by my friends because I liked a “grandad band” while they listened to bros and curiosity killed the cat. Ironically I was the musical “misfit“ at the time.

Goldstone1976 · 2025-02-22T02:43:47+0000

Triggaaar said:
I bet you can add bottle openers to that.

Well yeah, of course she is.

Yes. Yes, I can…

tedebear · 2025-02-22T07:09:42+0000

Binney on acid said:
Jackson Browne is my all time musical hero, slightly edging it over Springsteen. Since 1976 i've bought pretty well everything that he's released, or been associated with. That includes loads of inferior quality bootlegs. In reality, he's released nothing that I could eulogise over since "I'm alive", in 1993. I only ever end up playing a few of his tracks, mostly from 'Late for the sky', (1974) and 'The Pretender', (1976). They are the two finest albums that I've ever heard.

I was dragged along by an ex partner to a Jackson Browne concert many years ago, must have been 1999, or very early 2000’s. It was a revelation, whilst I’d heard of him previously after that evening I say was immediately a life long fan and count that evening amongst my top 2-3 concerts of all time. A stunning concert..The Load Out being simply sublime…The concert was at Jones Beach which probably had something to do with it…Have been a closet fan ever since, since most of the music I like gets short shrift in our house…

Harry Wilson's tackle · 2025-02-22T09:03:27+0000

Triggaaar said:
No Phil Collins? You're standards have slipped.

I don't hate him. Because I love the Peter Gabriel version of Genesis and Collins did an occasional bit of singing. And I have given all that Winde and Wuthering bollocks a massive swerve so my affection can't be tainted.

Or something. :wink:

Harry Wilson's tackle · 2025-02-22T09:07:30+0000

Triggaaar said:
I'm not cool enough to dislike Queen

I shared a flat with a bloke called Chris, er, 48 years ago. He owns a hotel in Brighton now, with his husband of 45 years.
Chris mocked my musical taste which included (and still does) Vandergraaf Generator.
If Chris didn't like it, it wasn't cool. Fact.
That said, I didn't, and don't actually give a tuppenny damn :wink:

PascalGroß Tips · 2025-02-22T10:00:49+0000

ozzygull said:
I have every Genesis related album not just the bands but every single member solo effort even Tony Banks, all on vinyl each addition from first pressing to colour vinyl, remasters as well as all 45s 7” and 12” singles. I am too old to give a sh!t what other people’s opinion are of the band, wether it’s all rubbish after Peter Left or Steve left, or it too artsy before ABACAB. I love this band in all its forms.

The first album I bought for my own money was Invisible Touch on cassette tape in Woolies, London Road, when I was 15. I knew nothing about the band and it took me years to realise Peter Gabriel of sledge hammer was the original singer. I bought the VHS of the Invisible Touch tour and played until It went alI wobbly, and I had found my band. I used to go in to Wax Factor and buy the back catalog and books. I used to get teased by my friends because I liked a “grandad band” while they listened to bros and curiosity killed the cat. Ironically I was the musical “misfit“ at the time.

Mrs PGTips is 2 and a half years older than me. She loves the PG Genesis but isn't interested in anything beyond. Whereas my intro to Genesis was listening to 'A Trick of the Tail' and 'Wind & Wuthering' on repeat on a little record player round a school friends house where we used to play Risk and drink loads of tea and eat all the biscuits his mum had in her biscuit tin. Great memories.

I also heard a live version of 'I Know What I Like' on one of my parent's various artists albums (pre Now). I then discovered 'Seconds Out', which was my first Genesis purchase. Saw them live in Southampton in 1980 (ironic, given I'll be heading that way shortly) on the Duke tour and then Knebworth in 1992. Seen SH lots in recent years ... his band are superb and of course it's mostly early stuff so my wife comes with me. But she again isn't keen on the post PG stuff like Squonk, Afterglow etc.

Because of the conflicting views I have with Mrs PGTips, I have two Genesis playlists. One that is just the early stuff - when my wife is listening to... and one for myself which has tracks from most albums (I think with the exception of Abacab and Calling All Station). My playlist also has some solo PC tracks from his first 4 albums).

zefarelly · 2025-02-22T10:08:05+0000

Comrade Sam said:
I find Spotify is absolute pants for rarer tracks. Almost every playlist I try to put together 1 in 8/9 tracks is either absent or a crappy version.

Agreed . . . I use it for cover band set lists to practice to and in the car.

the beauty of a good record collection is it is still unique, even old frineds with nigh on the same tastes will have records you've not heard or don't own.

albionalba · 2025-02-22T10:14:23+0000

PascalGroß Tips said:
She loves the PG Genesis

I agree with Mrs PG. Does she have From Genesis to Revelation though? (I think their very first?) I can remember buying it in my Nursery Cryme days and being a bit disappointed.

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