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yan · Eumetazoa Joined: 14 Mar 2007 Posts: 2189

So Cliodhna mentioned in another thread that we're better off giving CSC a specific wishlist than an amount of money. We should build up and whittle down a list at the meeting, this is more for my and anyone else's thoughts to be gathered.
C+P from IRC:
yan> Hey guys so you know how I'm in the Alternative Music Society in college? We're asking for money to start a CD library, and we've been told it's better to have a specific wishlist than just ask for money
<yan> So we're each going to bring a list of 10ish essential albums to the next meeting and work out what to ask for
<yan> what do you think?
<MFbrenDOOM> 10ish is not a lot.
<MFbrenDOOM> What genres are you looking for?
<yan> We're going to add them together
<Francisco> 10ish each is a lot
<yan> any genres
<MFbrenDOOM> One album per genre?
<MFbrenDOOM> That might work.
<MFbrenDOOM> Hard as hell, but nevertheless, it might work.
<Quiroz> Charles Mingus - Let My Children Hear Music
<yan> Well more help me think of 10 albums I think we should definitely have, but that wouldn't be a bad ida
<Francisco> Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
<Quiroz> Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
<Francisco> Naked City - Naked City
<MFbrenDOOM> Hecq - Night Falls for ambient, then.
<yan> I'm thinking In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, Repeater, Funeral, Loveless, off the top of my head...
<MFbrenDOOM> Loveless is a great choice.
<MFbrenDOOM> Funeral is great, better than Neon Bible.
<Francisco> I haven't heard Funeral since the hype Arcade fire got
<yan> But I won't actually put it on my list, because Jamie will put it on his. Twice.
<Quiroz> Zen Arcade
<Francisco> which was what? 3 years ago?
<MFbrenDOOM> Not sure about Aeroplane.
<MFbrenDOOM> Sucks IMO.
<MFbrenDOOM> but whatever.
<yan> pssshhhh
<yan> it is awesome
<yan> Oh, Alopecia
<Quiroz> definitely Zen Arcade
<yan> and totally Zen Arcade
<Francisco> Red?
<Quiroz> The Shape of Punk To Come
<MFbrenDOOM> Have Heart - The Things We Carry for hardcore.
<Quiroz> The Shape of Jazz To Come
<Quiroz> Kind of Blue
<Quiroz> or Birth of the Cool
<MFbrenDOOM> The Shape of Punk to Come is a monumentally great album in hardcore, but I think there are better choices for that genre.
<Francisco> kind of blue.
<MFbrenDOOM> Kind of Blue for sure, for jazz.
<Luke> cap'n jazz - Burritos, Inspiration Point, Fork Balloon Sports, Cards In The Spokes, Automatic Biographies, Kites, Kung Fu, Trophies, Banana Peels We've Slipped On and Egg Shells We've Tippy Toed Over
<PJ> MFbrenDOOM haha glad you agree with me about Aeroplane
<Francisco> or A Love Supreme
<PJ> luke could you upload that?
<PJ> i haven't been able to find it
<Quiroz> Mingus Ah Um
<PJ> just... don't include the full title or it will corrupt the files
<Luke> i dont have it, it's on their compilation thoguh
Luke> analphabetapothology

And other thoughts: Doolittle, Wonderful Rainbow, Minor Threat Discography, Bad Brains s/t, More Heart Than Brains, Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables, F#A#Infinity, 36 Chambers, Absence, The Flying Club Cup...
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Helena · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 3:09 pm Post subject:

I recognise so few of those that i should probably be asked to leave the society ._.
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John K · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 6:46 pm Post subject:

As much as I love jazz, is it really appropriate for the alternative music society?
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yan · Eumetazoa Joined: 14 Mar 2007 Posts: 2189

Given that there's a Jazz society anyway, no. If there wasn't, I'd say some token gesture towards the genre at least, but... I'm not sure why they recommended so much.

We came up with a list of 20 albums at the meeting. Apparently they said they'd give us around €100, but we figured we'd be ambitious.
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John K · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:23 pm Post subject:

yan · Eumetazoa Joined: 14 Mar 2007 Posts: 2189

Karlusss · Primeval ooze Joined: 28 Oct 2009 Posts: 12

I have quite a lot of promo CDs from reviewing for various different people, I could donate a stack if you wanted to flesh out the library? They're mostly just cardboard sleeves etc, but it's all fairly recent stuff. I'll try drop in on Thursday with some stuff if you want it.

Jamie · Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 3:34 pm Post subject:

Deadly! Muchos gracias. The bigger our library of not-so-great stuff, the bigger the library, the more we get to make the library full of great stuff. Can you post up the list, Conor?

+1 to buying the stuff from Road.
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Jamie · Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 4:29 pm Post subject:

We should check 'em out anyway, if they've a few albums on the list going for >10e, that's about as cheap as we'd get them online anyway.
But if not then yay internets.
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yan · Eumetazoa Joined: 14 Mar 2007 Posts: 2189

That makes sense!
Though if they give us our wishlist and not a specific amount of money, we should buy as much as they have from them.
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Helena · Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 9:47 pm Post subject:

When we get sorted in terms of money vs. wishlist, or in the (hopefully) near future when we decide to build up the independent Irish bands, then we can go Road all the way.
But yay Play.com and/or Amazon. We should make sure to look at the American version of the latter too. More postage, i know, but with exchange rates right now, prices are quite good.
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clecat · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 10:38 pm Post subject:

The Wishlist, for all to see:

1: In An Aeroplane over the Sea (Neutral Milk Hotel)
2: OK Computer (Radiohead)
3: Siamese Dream (Smashing Pumpkins)
4: Loveless (My Bloody Valentine)
5: Low (David Bowie)
6: Daydream Nation (Sonic Youth)
7: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (The Beatles)
8: The Velvet Underground and Nico (The Velvet Underground)
10: Sound of Silver (LCD Soundsystem)
11: Dresden Dolls (The Dresden Dolls)
12: Strangeways, Here We Come (The Smiths)
13: Songs of Love and Hate (Leonard Cohen)
14: The Downward Spiral (Nine Inch Nails)
15: Modern Life Is Rubbish (Blur)
16: Disintegration (The Cure)
17: Pink Moon (Nick Drake)
18: Fear of Music (Talking Heads)
19: Ágætis byrjun (Sigur Rós)
20: Cell-Scape (Melt-Banana)

Fingers crossed and that jazz.
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clecat · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 10:42 pm Post subject:

Also, has anyone seen Donncha? Cause he'll need the wishlist for when he's getting us a shiny grant.
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johnners · Prokaryote Joined: 05 Nov 2008 Posts: 404

Cool list. Trying to pick out who suggested which album(s).

Helena · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:41 am Post subject:

Where'd The Blue Album go?

(Also Siamese Dream wasn't actually my idea. Yeah, i know.)
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Jamie · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 2:18 pm Post subject:

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