Listening to new music in the car.

I find a vehicle to be a perfect place to listen to music, be it new or old.

When I buy new music, they get loaded onto my computer and then they get put on my media tower. I don't always update my iPod right away, so I take two or three of the cds to the car for driving music. Today, it's Body Count's Carnivore and Jinjer's Micro and Macro albums.

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What's your ideal way to listen to a new album for the first time?

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Back porch through my newish Klipsch speakers.

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I find a vehicle to be a perfect place to listen to music, be it new or old.

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I lived away from family for most of my adult life, which has made for some long drives over th years. I love finding a new artist and going through their discography on those long drives.

But there is nothing better than listening with headphones to get some of the layers you might miss in the car.

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When I was younger and didn't have children tearing through my house

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I've learned over the years to get up earlier to have an hour to myself for this type of activity :)

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driving music.

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I've never liked to listen to new music when I'm driving, because it's always been my thing to completely figure songs out, when I first hear them, especially lyrics. If they had liner notes with lyrics, that made it easier, but some artists never included them. Dylan never included lyrics back years ago, you had to listen over and over again and figure it out. I always did that in my car, parked in my driveway. Then also when I thought I had figured out a guitar part, I could go in the house and try it out.
The good thing about that was, you started figuring out how he went about writing songs, and how he used symbolism. he was really good at that, better than anybody. Once you kind of figured out what the songs were really about, that would help you figure out the lyrics. It was really helpful in learning to write, not that I can, or even try to write that way, but the way he could turn phrases around was incredible, and it helps to be able to do that at least just a little bit. Just using him as an example, I use to learn everything before It would become my driving music. Didn't matter if it was Black Sabbath, Dire Straits, Boston, whatever.

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I've never liked to listen to new music when I'm driving,

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Depends on what the music is. Most of what I listen to in the car is gonna be rock or metal. 'Bout the only slower tempo stuff I'll put on in the car is Steely Dan or Frank Sinatra. Maybe some Motown.