What's in the Box?

Yeah yeah, I know. I need a better pic. I'm working on it. The top part is a Pioneer Premier head unit that provides single disk input, radio input, and controls the changer. The bottom part is the Pioneer DEQ 9200 that serves as my crossover, DSP, main volume, level adjuster, timing adjuster, and some other happy stuff. I wasn't too impressed with the voice command unit but it's novel and has been priceless once or twice in the past.
.....I've found that you can learn a bit about a person based upon what kind of music they listen to and how they feel about other music. Here, I will list all the CDs I have in my car's 51 disk cd changer as well as any cds I have in the glove box. If someone asks me about a certain band, I'll be more than happy to tell the world what I think of them. I recently tried to put my CDs in alphabetical order but the first attempt was while I was really drunk and there was a cop trying to arrest me. Luckily, two cute women started crying and talked him out of it. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't have finished organizing them as quickly. A couple of days later, I realized that I did a horrible job of sorting them so I spent a few hours trying to do it over again. As you can see, they're still not done and I managed to get the cds for The Wall reversed. I'm a donut.
Presently, in the head unit, I've been listening non-stop to a couple of CDs that Heather made for me. She now part-time DJs at a couple of clubs down in Tallahassee and was good enough to burn me a couple of mix CDs with all kinds of groovy stuff I haven't had the pleasure of hearing before. You would expect someone like me who spent so much of his time in goth clubs to have heard some of this but typically I was either drinking and playing foosball, drinking and making friends outside, or not drinking and trying to get into trouble. I even knew the DJs that have spun for the past three favorite clubs and I still hadn't paid much attention to it. Besides, there appears to be a -big- difference between the musical stylings of the Tally goths and the K-Town goths. Atlanta? Who knows. There's a club beside every other sushi bar it seems. That's a lot of clubs, and an ass-load of sushi but I digress...
Oh yeah, if you are a fan of the MP3 movement, you might find the collection we ripped from various CDs we got our hands on (mostly ours) and the occasional upload from a friend. To see the full list, click here and be prepared to wait for a while.
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The changer-
  1. Beasty Boys, Ill Communication (It's a good album. Not as cool as Licensed to Ill, but it's nice to have)
  2. Beasty Boys, Pauls Boutique (Probably their best album ever)
  3. The Beatles, best of 1967-1970, Disk 1 (Who doesn't like the Beatles? They pioneered alternative rock and created the hippy scene of the 60's. Now if only today's hippies were as cool as they were 30 years ago)
  4. Bloodhound Gang, Use Your Fingers (Their first ablbum. IMHO, their best.)
  5. Bloodhound Gang, Hooray For Boobies (Their third album. I liked their second album for a while but I think I listened to it too much. The third album goes on the same musical style of the second one and that's a shame.)
  6. Martin Bennett, Bothy Culture (It's kinda like irish folk music, but it's been remixed into a sort of etherial techno trance type thing. Pretty cool overall but I have to be in the mood to listen to it.)
  7. Day Trip to Brisco (It's BReakbeat meats dISCO. Kinda funky.)
  8. Chemical Brothers, Dig Your Own Hole (I really like this band. Great beats, lots of energy, very etherial at times, and if played loud enough, you are guaranteed to get pulled over for speeding.)
  9. Chemical Brothers, Exit Planet Dust (A damned good album to listen to if you are still driving at 3am and you are on your 6th hour, 8th Dr. Pepper, and 10th caffine pill. You know when your skin starts to prickle, you have permanent goose bumps, and every hair on your body is picking up the vibrations of the music. It feels soooooo good!)
  10. The Crow soundtrack (You can't like gothic music and not love this album. I loved that movie!)
  11. Crystal Method, Vegas (It's great! Try it if you like techno like the Chemical Brothers or Prodigy and not this breakbeat/trance/house/DJ shit that we see too much of these days. First rate!)
  12. Daft Punk (It's funky. I can dig it. Break it down.)
  13. Rave Classics, volume 4 (At least I think it's volume 4. I call it Dueling Techno because that's the best song on it and the only reason I keep it qued.)
  14. Dune soundtrack (The duke shall die before these eyes and he'll know, HE'LL KNOW, that it is I baron Vladdimirr Harkonnen who encompases his DOOM!)
  15. Eminem (His first album. I like the second one better but I don't really like all the songs on either album. Maybe I'll just make a burn of the songs I -do- like off of the two and toss it in there instead.)
  16. Faith No More, The Real Thing (I lived on this album back in 6th grade. I still listen to it when I feel nostalgic and it's a great change of pace while my changer is on Random Mode.)
  17. Front 242, Up Evil (Fuckin' awesome! If you haven't listened to Front 242, I suggest you give it a try. They're not new, they're just Industrial and therefore weren't mainstream enough to become popular in too many circles. As a side note, the lead singer appeared in the NIN Closer video. The guy in the overalls.)
  18. Hair soundtrack, broadway recording (What? I can't stand hippy music [read: Phish, Blues Traveler, etc.] but this is good theatre music.)
  19. LA Hardcore (Cheesy early 90's techno. I like it, it's fun. Shut up.)
  20. Lawnmower Deth (British Punk. Good stuff.)
  21. Leftfield (I can't lie to ya. It's House, but I swear it sounds like it was done by the Jamaican Bob-Sled Team.)
  22. Lords of Acid (Um... I'm not certain which one it is because I haven't read the label in over a year. It's the newer one where she sings about masturbating in every single song.)
  23. Messiah, 21st Century Jesus (Another good techno group. Lots of energy and a theology theme.)
  24. Ministry, Twitch (I had no clue how long this band has been around and every one of their albums are different styles. This one is like industrial. Great stuff.)
  25. Ministry, Psalm 69 (That's the common name of this album. It's got symbols like the Led Zepplin 4 album so people refer to it by the best song on there. Great hard core metal.)
  26. Nine Inch Nails, Pretty Hate Machine (I have to admit, I actually grew into this album as I played it for background noise while I painted and I'm damned glad I did. Trent Reznor is the man!)
  27. Nine Inch Nails, Broken (You know, I didn't really like this CD either when I first got it. It took me four years to realize how damned good it is. That's the way a lot of Trent's music is. I've heard a DJ once say that "Everything Trent Reznor does, is three years ahead of it's time" and I believe it.)
  28. Nine Inch Nails, Downward Spiral (The album that changed my life and inspired the asshole I became until I died a few times.)
  29. Nine Inch Nails, Further Down The Spiral (It's an ok album. I like it. I liked it a lot more when I first got it, but I've worn it out I think.)
  30. Nine Inch Nails, Fixed (Yeah, that's right. I bought the British remix CD. I can use two words for this album. Staccato and cacophonie)
  31. Phunk Junkies (I like to think of it as frat rap music and if you ever heard it, you'd agree. I like some of the songs on this album and a particular favorite is Dalylah)
  32. Pink Floyd, The Wall disk 1 (The Wall is the quintessential 70's rock album.)
  33. Pink Floyd, The Wall disk 2 (See above.)
  34. Primus, Pork Soda (I used to have all of their albums on tape but that was back in high school when tape players were the norm.)
  35. The Prodigy, The Prodigy Experience (The quintessential Prodigy album. This was back when it was just him doing all the music and the other guys were merely dancers)
  36. Prodigy, The Jilted Generation (After it became a band and they adopted the name Prodigy. More of an industrial feel to the techno, but I am kinda burnt out on it.)
  37. Prodigy, Fat of the Land (The latest adventure from them. Modernistic styling and a really neat retro-ambient song called Climbatize)
  38. Queen, Greatest Hits (More great 70's rock from one of the most flamboyant bands the 70's and 80's ever saw. Mostly depressing songs about losing loved ones, but it's worth it just for Bohemian Rhapsody.)
  39. Queen, Highlander Soundtrack (Oh, c'mon. You know you loved the movie too. This is the only place I could find Princes of the Universe. If you haven't heard the whole song, don't. It gets weird right where the series and movie cut it off.)
  40. Rave 'Til Dawn, volume 1 (Rave classics from the early 90's. Early techno from bands you've probably never heard of.)
  41. Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack (I loved the movie. It did a lot of good for me back in high school and it still brings back great memories of cast parties and oddities. I can't help but sing along while I listen to this album. Great to keep me awake and alert while driving on long road trips.)
  42. Romeo & Juliet soundtrack, disk 2 (IMHO, better than the first one. I keep changing the name I have programmed for this disk from mundane to obscene. Currently, it just says Leo&Claire.)
  43. Will Smith, Big Willie Style (I've heard more white people say that they like this album than any other rap artist. LaMount doesn't like it and I've not gotten Scooby's opinion. Perhaps there's a coup.)
  44. Speed Freaks, Himilayan EP (A great techno band from here around Knoxville. Hard to find album.)
  45. Snog (Really heavy techno/industrial. Not-so-subtle anti-corporate undertones. Antidisestablishmentarianist)
  46. Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, disk 1 ("Disco is NOT dead" -Mystery Men)
  47. Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, disk 2 (Not as good as the first one, but then again, most Disk 2's aren't.)
  48. Wagner, Die Valkyrie ("Wagner's music is better than it sounds" -Samuel Clemons aka: Mark Twain)
  49. White Zombie, Astrocreep 2000 (It's ok I guess. I got tired of it pretty quickly. I've got their first album somewhere too.)
  50. White Zombie, Hellbilly Deluxe (Fuckin' Awesome! Every time this album rolls around, I have to turn it up. Thirty seconds later, I find that I'm driving 20mph faster than I was.)
  51. Top Load Tray (This is where I usually put the new albums I get. Right now I don't know what I've got in there.)


.......... I also keep quite a few CDs in my glove box. These are either CDs that are either too new for me to file into my changer alphabetically and then program into the voice recognition module (I told you I spend waaaay too much on my music passion) or I don't think it's special enough to keep in the changer. Don't get me wrong, I keep a lot in my changer that will one day be replaced by the contents of the glove box but the whole process of switching out is a pain in the arse and it's just sooo much easier to toss it into the head unit instead while I'm driving if I'm in the mood.

The glove box-
  1. Weird Al Yanchovic, Running with Scissors (What? You don't like Weird Al? He's a staple music source of modern geeks, nerds, and other social miscreants everywhere. He's frickin' funny!)
  2. Led Zepplin, Physical Graphitti disk 1&2 (I'm a big fan of 80's music and 70's rock. Zepplin is a perfect example of 70's rock. You haven't lived until you've heard the Immigrants Song at top volume.)
  3. Akira Soundtrack (Yeah, I have a soundtrack to a Japanese animation. I like it. Bite me.)
  4. Sweeny Todd Soundtrack, broadway recording (Hey, I like musicals and operas. Expand your horizons. Besides, I worked Tech for this show when we did it at the local playhouse. Great memories and cast parties!)
  5. Vivaldi, Four Seasons (It's a burn of the Boston Symphony rendition of his most well known work. I am particularly fond of the Fall movement, especially Presto.)
  6. Twist This Pussy (Generally, I don't like House music but there are few exceptions and this is one of them. What a cute kitty!)
  7. Led Zepplin, 4 (It's the one with the four symbols that nobody knows if they mean anything or not. Hell, I don't even think Jimmy Paige knew if they meant anything. Great CD for when I'm feeling medieval.)
  8. Bagpipe Music (I'm part Scottish and as such, I like bagpipe music. Especially the Amazing Graze rendition. Watch 'LA Story' if you want a sample. Good movie too.)
  9. ? (...)