If you had a 10hr drive and could only listen to one artist, who would it be?
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ThirstenHowl · M
I don't know that I believe that anyone would truly want to listen to one artist for 10 hours straight, and in this day and age I can't imagine what sudden technological catastrophe would even make that necessary. I am now spoiled to being able to load several gigabytes / hours of music onto a single USB stick / thumb drive now, so there's infinite variety to be had, without any repetition, without any limitations of radio station formats or distance from terrestrial radio towers or interruptions in satellite radio from going through tunnels or anything like that. I can cycle through dub/ska/reggae into bebop jazz into zydeco into 80s post-punk / gothic rock to krautrock to shoegaze to Afrobeat to French hip hop to illbient to drill'n'bass to classical to Turkish folk music and so much more, in the span of 10 minutes given the power afforded to us now by something as simple and compact as a USB stick.
Listening to only one artist for 10 hours is just so unthinkable to me. Even before this stage I'd have at least 150 mp3s on a CD-RWs I would burn, while daydreaming of being able to plug a USB stick into a car before that tech actually arrived.
Listening to only one artist for 10 hours is just so unthinkable to me. Even before this stage I'd have at least 150 mp3s on a CD-RWs I would burn, while daydreaming of being able to plug a USB stick into a car before that tech actually arrived.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@ThirstenHowl You ever been on a budget in the early 2000s and traveled long distances?
I really don't like the popular music as well.
I sure as heck didn't want to be apart of the Internet culture in the 2000s either. Why the long 1,200 mile trip to begin with.
Ever download anything on dialup modem? Took me a whole day to download Weird Al's Jurassic Park video for my young nephews, just a few months before I moved. 😞
I really don't like the popular music as well.
I sure as heck didn't want to be apart of the Internet culture in the 2000s either. Why the long 1,200 mile trip to begin with.
Ever download anything on dialup modem? Took me a whole day to download Weird Al's Jurassic Park video for my young nephews, just a few months before I moved. 😞
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@DeWayfarer The OP says 10hours. You say 1200 miles. Mean speed for whole trip = 120mph.
Where on Earth can you sustain speeds of over 120mph for hours on end?
I'd not want to depend on the Internet either. My car has a radio and that usually supplies what I want. When it doesn't, I switch it off.
Where on Earth can you sustain speeds of over 120mph for hours on end?
I'd not want to depend on the Internet either. My car has a radio and that usually supplies what I want. When it doesn't, I switch it off.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@ArishMell See my comment! 🤣
It took me a day and a half with a few hours rest period in between! 🤣
That rest period was on the insistence of my future roommates. Both were working that day. 😈
My car did have a CD player as well. A 2000 Toyota Ecco. Very small car that was totally packed full of my stuff. So I couldn't sleep in it at all.
It took me a day and a half with a few hours rest period in between! 🤣
That rest period was on the insistence of my future roommates. Both were working that day. 😈
My car did have a CD player as well. A 2000 Toyota Ecco. Very small car that was totally packed full of my stuff. So I couldn't sleep in it at all.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@DeWayfarer Sorry - I musthave miossed that bit!
I've a Renault built in 2008 and I'd have thought its radio is accompanied by a CD player, but no, it has a cassette player. I have very few tapes and I have no idea if they are even playable now. I might risk it on the next long journey I make, but in dry weather. It's been so wet here for the last month or so that the interior of the player is probably damp.
My longest trips now are rarely over 300 miles, and those only a few times a year, but even on those I have to stop every now and then.
I've a Renault built in 2008 and I'd have thought its radio is accompanied by a CD player, but no, it has a cassette player. I have very few tapes and I have no idea if they are even playable now. I might risk it on the next long journey I make, but in dry weather. It's been so wet here for the last month or so that the interior of the player is probably damp.
My longest trips now are rarely over 300 miles, and those only a few times a year, but even on those I have to stop every now and then.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M