• psvrh@lemmy.ca
    34·
    2 months ago

    The Walkman was the cassette player. Weren’t the CD players called the Discman?

    Now I’m sad that I’d lost my Walkman more than a decade before that, in or around 1990. The Discman sounded better, but was worse on batteries and skipped if you looked at it funny.

      • psvrh@lemmy.ca
        24·
        2 months ago

        Looks like I’m just old.

        Sony used the Discman branding in the mid 90s and went back to Walkman in the late 90s and early 2000s.

        For me, Walkman meant tape or cassette, but again, I’m old. Old enough to have been listening to Depeche Mode on tape on my Walkman.

        • Ooglieguy@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 months ago

          Same for me. I was rocking out to Cinderella, Scorpions, and Poison on my Walkman and then it sounded better later on the Discman with no need to flip or rewind for the specific songs.

        • GneissSchist@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          Depeche Mode’s Some Great Reward was the first cassette of theirs I bought and it lived in my walkman.

          I have the same understanding as you on the whole walkman/discman thing.

      • MadBob@feddit.nl
        4·
        2 months ago

        I have, and have had for almost ten years, a Walkman-branded music player which plays, among other formats, FLAC.

      • livus@kbin.social
        3·
        2 months ago

        2001 weren’t we all using mp3 players?

        I know I was. It was really big and could hardly fit anything.

        • fing3r@feddit.de
          2·
          2 months ago

          Yes, those rio ones with a hdd in it! 4 gb or something like that. Or you had a cheaper flash one with 128 mb.

    • spookex@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      First ones were branded “Discman” for some reason before Sony went back to using the “Walkman” name.

      I find it weird since all of the other portable stuff before and after like MD, DAT, MP3, and the newer hi-res players were released under the “Walkman” name

    • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      And holding the cd player slightly in the air in the car/bus because the skip protection only goes so far and this track is 🔥

  • Offbus@lemmy.world
    32·
    2 months ago

    System of a Down’s album Toxicity. Prison Song’s opening note is basically what defines the experience.

    • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months ago

      I have a salty memory about buying that album. I grabbed it based solely on the first album, which I fucking LOVED. I went to the record store in my town to buy it, and I was so stoked to get home and listen to it all the way through without ever hearing a single thing from the album. I walk up to the counter to buy it on day one, and the guy behind the counter is like, “sick album,” or whatever. Then, instead of ringing me up, he turns and changes the track on the store’s sound system. It plays the opening thrums of Prison Song, and even though I hadn’t heard the album yet, I knew moments into the track what he’d done. I was devastated. I was so ready to have a religious experience with the album, only to have some shithead ruin the first track for me. I mean, I really can’t blame him, it’s not like there is some rule against what he did. He probably thought he was showing solidarity with another fan, but he crushed me. Still love that album, though. Steal This Album is criminally underrated, too.

    • psvrh@lemmy.ca
      9·
      2 months ago

      Ooh, that’s a good one.

      This was a great era for electronica: we had this, Prodigy’s Fat of the Land, Crystal Method’s Vegas and Weekend, FatBoy Slim’s You’ve Come A Long Way Baby, just about everything from Chemical Brothers.

      I think I went broke buying music in the 1990s.

      • root_beer@midwest.socialEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        I had Liam Howlett’s mixtape, Prodigy Present the Dirtchamber Sessions Volume 1, in constant rotation for a quite a while there

  • beeng@discuss.tchncs.de
    17·
    2 months ago

    Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavoured Water

    whilst shaking it up and down showing my friends how it doesn’t skip.

  • ivanafterall@kbin.social
    17·
    2 months ago

    Metallica - S&M

    Life-changing album for me and still a top 5. First non-country album I ever bought. I heard my cousin blasting No Leaf Clover and it literally pulled me out of bed. What is that amazing sound!?

    • YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub
      4·
      2 months ago

      I stopped listening to metal in my late teens. But I came back to this album this week and it is really fantastic. Good shit. I used to fall asleep to it in my early teens.

      • ivanafterall@kbin.social
        3·
        2 months ago

        It’s hard to imagine a bigger wall of sound than Metallica and an entire fucking orchestra. I would have loved to have been in that room.

    • poweruser@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      Still perhaps my favorite album. I wasn’t quite cool enough in 2001 to listen to it though. I learned about Green Day mainly from American Idiot, then went back to find their older stuff.

      If it weren’t for them “selling out” then I wouldn’t have heard of them, living in my nowhere town. Maybe I wouldn’t have heard their subversive ideas. I might have just listened to country.

      Maybe Green Day had a part in making me who I am