[flame.leaf]

Glad to hear it. Most people think I'm insane because of it. xD

I've used a few torrents, I admit, but I got the vast majority of my music through filehosting sites like Mediafire and Rapidshare. I don't have to worry about any viruses because I use Liunx. ^_^

And I see a lot of familiar bands on that list. Especially Arcade Fire, The Kooks, The Beatles, The Killers, MGMT, Arctic Monkeys... okay, I could literally go on for days about the bands I like. Also I'm listening to The Decemberists right now. xD

For me... the short answer is I'm into almost anything, with the exception of most Country and Bluegrass and certain Hip-Hop artists. By everything though, I mean everything. That includes obscure genres that few people know about such as No Wave, Post Rock, Slowcore, Psychobilly, Stoner Rock, and extremely experimental bands that defy genres of any kind like Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band With Choir.

I grew up on The Beatles, Phish, The Beach Boys, R.E.M., U2, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, and plenty of others that my parents listened to. When I entered junior high and especially in high school, I listened to Metal, and nothing else. I feel like that was a phase that I grew out of though. These days I mainly listen Indie Rock and Post Rock of all kinds, with a fair amount of Folk Rock, Jazz, and Electronica.

My favorite songwriter though is definitely Bob Dylan, and my favorite band for the past few years has been The Album Leaf.

[Lucid:]

:O if Florence + The Machine isn't on your list of recognized artists, you need to go listen to her right away. I lovelovelove Florence.

I'd like to use Linux, but I don't know if I could handle it. if I had a second computer (I used to but then accidentally fried the motherboard...) then I would put linux on it and have the best of both operating systems.
but what I'd really like is to get on something like what.cd, which is this crazy super-secret music torrent site that has a million rules, so I would consider those downloads safe and virus/porn free. one of my friends is a member, so whenever I get to see him I always steal his music.

I'm not listening to anything right now because my roommate is asleep (and I probably should be too). but I have Sufjan Stevens stuck in my head because I just found out he's going to be in Salt Lake in a couple weeks. but of course, like always, I'm too poor to go to concerts and have no transportation. but I'm okay with that for now.

I also went through a metal phase in junior high, but I grew out of it when I was around 15 or 16ish. I also listened to a lot of punk rock during that time, though, which I think helped me phase out of it. I grew from punk to alternative to indie and met some friends who were really into music, and my tastes grew and refined.

I don't really have a "favorite" because a lot of times my current favorite is just whatever fits my mood. I've been listening to a lot of folk right now but I'm sure within the next couple weeks I'll be hooked on electronic or broadway soundtracks or something. XD

[Espy]

Augh....Enough of studying. I just fell asleep at my desk. Half an hour ago, I fell asleep standing up if front of my sink.

[flame.leaf]

I've actually never heard of Florence + The Machine. I'll have to look them up.

The cool thing about Linux is that it comes on a Live CD, so you can test it out on your computer and make sure it's right for you before you even install it. You should also be able to shrink the partition you have your main operating system on and install Linux on a new partition with the opened free space. From there you can use GRUB to dual boot between both OSes on the same computer. And believe me... it's easier than it sounds. I dual booted before I decided I didn't need Windows anymore.

I would like to use torrents more often, honestly, but the problem I have isn't viruses, it's seeders. Most torrents of music that I actually want either don't exist, or are so old and/or don't have any active seeders. I use filestube.com for my music and it's great at finding the bands I'm looking for. xD

I haven't heard of Sufjan Stevens either. I'll add them to my list and I'll check then out first thing I can tomorrow after I'm done with my classes.

And I totally know how that is. Up until I went off to college I was completely cut off from going to any concerts. I haven't really been to any latley though because I'm low on money as well. xD

Same here! My tastes change like the wind, but no matter where they go they always fall back onto The Album Leaf. They're er... him... Jimmy LaValle is just amazing. If you haven't heard of them I seriously suggest you check them out. The Album Leaf were... well, my gateway drug into Post Rock, as well as the major reason for my rehabilitation out of being a total metalhead. They have a really distinct Indie sound too, especially on their newest album, but for the most part they're Post Rock and their instrumental songs by far outnumber the ones with lyrics. Also, they consist of half of my username. xD

[#FFFFFF]

Woah. Long ass conversations in here.

[Fallen]

That's what happens when you put together people who love music. xD
::yawns:: Good morning, everybody. :)

[Lucid:]

so, what do you know, I looked through my unorganized mess of music, and found out that I actually do have two CDs by The Album Leaf. In a Safe Place, and Into The Blue Again. I just haven't paid much attention to it, since it's one of those bands I probably just stole from my friend at random. I'm listening right now and like what I hear so far.

I looked into getting linux onto my sister's frankencomputer, since it needs a new OS. (it's running on my old hard drive, and my windows 7 beta expired ages ago >.>) but her flash drive wasn't big enough to hold the entire linux download. I think it got everything except the ability to boot up the system. XDDD I just got a new flash drive though so I'll try it out on my computer and see how it goes.

I think you'd like what.cd; my friend says it has "literally every song ever created." but if your system works well for you, then that's great. **runs to filestube to check it out**
so...is it basically like a google of files?

[#FFFFFF]

I am always not on when people are talking about music though. xD

[NikkoGallarado]

Candy. -rolls threw thread-

[Lucid:]

well that's understandable, I should have been sleeping last night anyway. but since I'm crazy, I wasn't. XD

[Doll Wraithring]

Teh Lucid is on~!

[Lucid:]

**pokes at** yar, Lucid is here for now.

[Kamikaze Chinchilla]

*scoots into Lucid* :P

[flame.leaf]

You know, that's the same way I discovered them, actually. And I'd say those are their two best albums, well, those two and their newest one, "A Chorus Of Storytellers". "Eastern Glow" and "Always For You" would have to be my favorite songs on there.

I've also been really into Whitley, Sea Wolf, and Joseph Arthur latley. Have you heard of any of them, by chance? :3

And hold on... what linux distribution did you try? Most of them would fit on a flash drive... but I guess it depends on the drive. There's one called Puppy Linux that's designed to be installed on a flash drive so you can boot into it on any computer you plug it into. xD

I should check out what.cd has to offer then. And yeah, filestube is basically google for files, but it works really well. Out of the several thousands of albums I've downloaded using it, I can only name a handful of albums that I wasn't able to find on it. The polar opposite of that is true for torrents, but I've only been using ThePirateBay and Google for that so...

And yes! Music means big posts when I'm involved.

'Afternoon, everyone! I have to go for a bit now to wave a sword around, but I'll most likely be back soon. xD

[Lucid:]

**snuggles Kami** so cuddly. ^o^~<3


haha, I guess I got lucky in picking out random music to take, then!

I don't remember what linux distribution it was, but her flash drive was only 2gb. >.< it literally barely didn't fit.

what.cd might be hard to scope out, to be honest, because the site doesn't even let you in without being a member. apparently there was a site like it before but it got found out and closed down. so it keeps real secretive-like now. the only reason I know anything about it is because my friend got an invite to join. you might be able to poke around the internet and see if people have invites to give away, but from what I hear, it's hard to get in. >.<

I tried downloading something off what filestube gave me, but it didn't like me very much. it said I had exceeded my amount of free downloads on my IP address or something. DX but that could just be the site that it led me to.

I have some stuff by Joseph Arthur, but I haven't heard of Whitley or Sea Wolf.

[flame.leaf]

Hey, random is the way to go. The majority of the bands I listen to I discovered randomly. xD

Well 2gb should be enough, most Linux distros are easily able to fit on an actual CD, so the 2gb shouldn't be a problem. The only distro I know of that would be too big for a flash drive would be OpenSUSE. Personally I'd recommend Ubuntu or Linux Mint.

And I can see that. I tried going to the site but there was no way in other than the "Login" button. It's a little hard to believe that it houses every song ever made when it restricts it's userbase like that. I'll take your word for it, though. xD

Filestube is just a search engine. What it does is take you to multiple filehosting sites. Pretty much all of those sites have download limits, so you can only download one album at a time, and you have to wait 15 or so minutes between each download. One of the hosting sites disregards all that, though: mediafire. It's awesome because it doesn't limit your speed and you can download as many files at once as you want. The limits don't matter to me too much though, because there's a LOT of different sites so I can jump between them really easily to download the albums I want, especially if I find it on mediafire.

I downloaded a few of his albums the other day. Really like his stuff. Whitley and Sea Wolf are both Indie Folk and two of my favorites in the genre. Whitley I discovered by hearing one of his songs on the second-to-last episode of FlashForward. Sea Wolf was the opening act for The Album Leaf when I saw them live last year, and they were amazing. ^_^