How do you usually listen to music? – Poll
It’s time for a new poll!
The way we are listening to music has changed dramatically over the years and decades. So we would be really interested in learning via which mediums you are enjoying music most often nowadays. Have you switched to the more modern ones or do you still prefer the more old-fashioned mediums?
You can select up to 3 answers:
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Thanks for taking part in our poll, we’re looking forward to checking out the answers! 🙂
Stay groovy,
Mona & Lisa
USBs in the car
There’s actually more than the 3 allotted choices. I listed CD, vinyl and live as my preferred modes, but I will do YouTube and Streaming as well as FM and Satellite radio feeds. Depends on my needs and availability of formats. My newest truck disappoints me in that I had to sacrifice my 6 disc capability from my old beat up GMC so I have to make do with a single play option if satellite and FM aren’t filling my desires for tunes. I use my I-pod on my Goldwing for long distance travel/road trips, don’t plug it into the truck (yet).
I’ve mentioned elsewhere I spent my career in IT with social media websites, so I have limited patience with them. I’m not surprised that YouTube leads in the polling.
I can get Amazon Music for free and it’s worth every penny of that. YT is so much better.
When you’re doing website design, if you let people find the content they’re looking for fast, easy, and free you’re going to be a winner. It needs a logical design that supports real use cases, to put it in IT terms.
I also voted for both FM Radio and Online radio. But I listen to the same station on both.
Cds in the car usually. I love watching music clips on YouTube especially stuff from 60s and 70s. The best show we could get in my area was the “Midnight Special” with Wolfman Jack every Friday night. Even then they would have mostly pop bands and the biggest hits. Now on YouTube you can find anything. I like some of the stuff from the European bands that we never got to hear in the states. Faces, Thin Lizzy, Slade just to name a few that had a lot of great music.
My son has 1000’s and 1000’s of downloaded songs, all Rock N Roll. In my lets say Man Cave I go onto U Tube Premium and go through as many Busker People mostly in the UK. There is a lot of talent on the streets as you both know. But I do listen to 60’s and 70’s music on anything I can find. I also listen to your CD’s going to work. I know this was quite a while ago but who cares. Stay Groovy and stay cool. It’s been around 100 degrees here in Denver, Hot Hot!!
I like things that are obsolete, such as mini disc cassettes and 8 track cartridges. The quality may not always be 100%, but I find it an experience. I have just bought Substance by Joy Division on DAT tape, which I had been looking for, for a long time.
Actually, I usually listen to MP3 files on my phone through either headphones or Bluetooth speakers.
Interesting question! I do most of my listening via Windows Media Player with a nice pair of Bose speakers. When I get a CD, I immediately rip it to my desktop PC. I always rename the album … so “Abbey Road” isn’t the first album when I pull up “The Beatles”. Instead, it is “Beatles 1963 – Please Please Me”, followed by “Beatles 1963 – With the Beatles”, etc. When multiple albums within a year are not named alphabetically, I add an extra space after the hyphen to put them in sequence. For example, “Beatles 1967 – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”, with two spaces after the hyphen, appears before “Beatles 1967 – Magical Mystery Tour”. Approximately 4000 albums. I back everything up periodically to flash drives, with the most recent backups stored in a safe deposit box and the older flash drives at home, ready to do the next backups.
We also keep a laptop on a docking station behind our TV in the living room. All the music from the desktop is copied to this laptop. The TV is our monitor, and we have wireless mouse and keyboard with a lap-desk that we can take to the sofa. And we listen through our home theatre.
I have also constructed a set of “albums” with Album artist = “Billboard Hot 100 – 1950s”, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s. Each “album” is for a month, featuring songs that peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 chart that month, sequenced by peak position, with peak position/debut date/peak date appearing in the subtitle field. These albums include every song to reach the Top Ten of Billboard’s Hot 100 from 1955-1989. (The # field is the ranking among all songs that peaked that month.)
Another set of “albums” are for Album artist = “Billboard Top 10 plus – 1950s”, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s. Instead of monthly albums, each year has a “19xx Top Ten” (including every Top Ten song) and a “19xx Best of Not Top 10”. I was more selective for the “Best of Not Top Ten”, so there are fewer songs here than in the monthly albums (for the 1960s, the 3502 songs in the monthly albums reduces down to 2599). It is this set of albums that we have copied to the hard drive in our car. There, we can drill down to an artist and essentially have a greatest hits album for everyone who was anyone, 1955-1989. Great for travelling if we ever attain post-pandemic status!
Finally, there is a set of albums for “Billboard Very Best Of 1990 & Beyond”. Here, I made no attempt to accumulate all the Top Ten songs, because so much has been outside of my taste range since that time.
You Tube for videos, cd’s and mp3’s for music listened mostly with over the ear headphones!
I have a HiDef audio player that I listen to constantly, but I always have a hard copy back-up (if available)and use YouTube Music for videos. My favorite online music stores are Bandcamp and Qobuz, because they offer higher def music files. Hope this helps
Mostly I listen to it very loudly.
Just found paint it black and that is now my new new favourite. More songs from the stones please. You are so so good ????????????????????????????
Oh I forgot to mention, YouTube is my go to place for all of my MonaLisa watching!
I was very reluctant to buy a CD player when they first came out. They were so expensive and I was a die hard vinyl guy. I’m the type who reads everything on the record cover and cds were so small so you didn’t get the cool posters and gate folds that you got with album jackets. And nothing beats a cool piece of album jacket artwork! Well vinyl eventually disappeared and I warmed up to cds. Now we have come full circle and vinyl is back! Except the price went from $3.98 to $30.00 a shot! Well, progress! I also listen to streaming music from Amazon Prime on my Kindle. Modern technology. Gotta love it!
Grew up with Vinyl, skipped 8 tracks, then went on to CD’s. I rarely listen to vinyl now. I now primary listen on headphones using My Prime + membership and Groove music for my decades of digitized tunes. I only purchase CDs or MP3 to support artists I really like (example MonaLisa)
Over the years my listening has changed. In the beginning, it was Vinyl Albums [no 45s] [everybody belonged to the Columbia Record Club where one purchased the 1st 12 Albums for $.01 and then agreed to buy so many Albums in the next year for full price!] and AM Radio. From 1972 to 1978 it was AOR [album oriented rock] on FM while working and also in College where the nearest Stations were 80 miles away and the AM/FM came through Cable.
Depending on which car I was driving, I’d say the majority was AM top 50 Rock from 1968 to 1980. Then 1980 and beyond it was Corporate Classic Rock on FM and my Cassettes. I landed a job where I was on call 24/7/365 and I’d get a new Company Car every 2 years and had a choice from 3 Major Manufactures that were mine for personal use and my job. Each with different options and the ability to choose the color and a few other things. All came with FM and many times a Cassette Player.
In the Business that I own, we listen to Corporate Classic Rock and I still do in my Pickup and Leased Freight Trucks. I do have a separate AM/FM, CD Changer [6 discs], and a 2 Cassette Stereo for home listening.
Starting about 2004 I moved to Laptops from my Home Rolled PCs and have downloaded many videos from YouTube and watch them via VLC Player. I do support many current Artists by purchasing their Merch., CDs, and other items. I also listen via my “Advertising Platform” aka “Smart Phone” on my YouTube Playlists & recommended Videos.
I also listen to YouTube Videos via my Roku device on my TV. Bigger picture and better sound.
I have played with Streaming Services but they do not really fit my needs at the moment. On the downloads, I prefer Live Performances. Even in my Vinyl Days, I purchased those types of Albums.
I listen in the car and UTube and have a folder marked Mona Lisa Twins. I do have XM Radio so I can listen to the 60 and 70 and Beatle music. I Am just starting to get back into Vinyl thanks to my boys buying me a turn table for Christmas and the first new Vinyl I bought is Paul Mc Cartney III. And I have a ton of Vinyl records in the basement along with a Ton Of CD’S.
The majority of music I listen to is in the car, and I did have it set up so that as soon as I started the car it connected to my phone and automatically started the MLT juke box, but since the website update that doesn’t work any more, I even struggle to get my android phone to open the login page now!
I had a part time job from being about 14 years old and I used to buy a new vinyl album every week, so amassed about 400 before cd’s came out and I switched to those, I still remember queuing up to buy one of the very first cds to be released – Dire Straits, and had even more of those. Most were copied to tape to play in the car when I got one. About 10 years ago my ex-girlfriend decided that she didn’t like my big separates hifi system though and it ended up in the loft, the albums and most of cd’s followed. They were all copied to my NAS along with all my music videos first though. Since then I have bought downloads apart from the MLT cd’s. I haven’t played them though, but I am happy knowing I own them, – I have put the downloads of them on my phone and ipod for use in the car. There’s over 300,000 songs on my NAS now but I tend to use YouTube on the tv with my surround system at home these days if I want music on.
I had a reel to reel tape deck years ago, but this thread has made me realise how much music formats have evolved over the years, especially the sound quality. We can now record music at home on a phone in much better quality than vinyl 40 years ago.
I’m kinda ashamed to admit I didn’t know about the jukebox feature before reading these comments. There’s still a lot of website I haven’t had time to explore yet. I wasted no time trying out the jukebox while I indulged in a relaxing ????! First song played exactly paralleled the first MLT song I ever heard: “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” vid on YouTube. Mix was superb all throughout! Nice to hear a random order after listening to cds so often. THANK GOD you can’t see us while we listen, but I still pointed the ???? lens on my ???? at the ceiling just in case…????
What, no 8-track? ???? I converted from vinyl to CD many years ago. A lot of the change was driven by the release of a large amount of jazz recordings from the archives (alternate takes, unreleased cuts, etc.) put together in packages like the Complete Riverside Recordings of Thelonious Monk and Bill Evans; vinyl just wasn’t practical in this context, same with classical music. I rip a lot of recordings (like all my MLT CD’s) to computer and listen with headphones on my computer or iPhone (previously gen1 iPod) and in the car traveling. I listen to few modern artists/groups consistently except MLT (and I listen to them a lot!), and occasionally Lake Street Dive and Becca Stevens Band. My daughter streams everything; I stream Hearts of Space and that’s about it. Speaking of alternate takes, I hope MLT are saving a few to include in their Complete Duo Sessions Box Set!
Hi Ladies
My phone with You Tube and My CD player in my car, is 95 % of my listening.
Every bit of that 95% is MonaLisa Twins Music.
I enjoy listening all the time. Of that 95%, 90% is the current release Live at the Cavern Club.
Thanks so very much for great quality music.
Best wishes.
Rick Ross
CDs, computer files and Youtube. Although I still have some records I haven’t had a turntable in several decades now. I used to be an all “Pioneer” equipment fan back in the day. I do miss the sound of records. They definitely have a much more fuller sound.
Being an old timer now, I still have a deep affection for vinyl and still have my old Sony record player too from circa 1980s which incorporates twin tape cassette decks for recording from one to the other and a belt driven (actually a large rubber band! LOL) record deck on top. Someone must have added a CD player later as that is there as a ‘separate’ as we used to call them, as part of the stack.
My wife Helen however, prefers more modern tech and has all of the MLTs songs on her MP3 player which can literally holds 1000’s of tracks. How times have changed.
Usually it musicthat’s been ripped to my computer frrom my CDs (over 500 in my database0 or from my vinyls (312 at last count). The CD’s still get played but the vinyls get very limited play, there are several that have been played once to record them on tape or rip to the computer. I have been getting lazy with YouTube lately.
Most of my current music collection has been purchased on CDs and ripped to my computer. Some of my music has been purchased on iTunes and loaded into my computer. Once its on my computer I sync it to my phone and play it from there. Recently I subscribed to YouTube Music and have been streaming new music from my phone. Of course I love to stream from MLT Jukebox for all your tunes that haven’t been released on CD yet. When I am home and watching TV I love to listen and watch from regular YouTube. Being able to see artists performing their music is my favorite way of “listening” to music.
For me the vast majority of my music are from my CDs (approx 200) I’ve collected over the past 30+ years, mostly classical, some new age, and a select few rock albums with MLT leading the pack. I’ve ripped a lot of them as MP3s onto my hard drive, and so I listen to those MP3s on my computer and smartphone for the car. Only in the last few years I’ve gone to Youtube to browse for specific songs or albums, and of course to watch MLT videos. Don’t really listen to radio for music any more, there just isn’t much good music I like as it’s mostly modern pop that I don’t care for. We use to have an awesome 60s oldies AM station, but one day about 10 years ago another station bought it and converted it to a bland modern pop station, as if there weren’t enough of those.
I wake up to a music stn that plays for an hour and a half before it shuts itself off, I still have my vinyl collection from eons ago along with cassette tapes, CDs, my Discman player, boom box with CD/cassette tape player & AM/FM Radio but mostly listen off Youtube, Spotify, occasionally online radio stns, CDs for my listening music pleasure ????
Each weekday morning before work, I play an MLT cd while fixing my folks breakfast. My Dad suffers from dimentia and poor hearing, but he still enjoys MLT vids on YouTube. Mom has become a huge fan of MLT, both musically and as inspiring, amazing human beings! Whenever practical, I listen to several MLT cds while working. Weekend mornings I let YouTube play random vids most of the morning and often into afternoon. I generally start with MLT or the Beatles, and the mix is usually about 60% MLT, 30% Beatles, together and solo, 10% others like Paul Simon, some Billy Joel, Jim Croce, etc. In the car I pretty much always have the Beatle’s Sirius XM channel on, but work is only a 10-12 minute drive away, and shopping closer yet, so that limits that a lot. No road trips in quite a while due to covid, of course. I do listen to a few songs on my phone, usually via Twitter, as well. All in all, MLT is a huge chunk of my life’s playlist, and have gifted an enormous amount of joy to me since I first discovered them last year!
Additional information. I didn’t check live music because we all know how that has gone this past year. Also, I listen to MP3s on my phone (not computer) or that I have uploaded to my YouTube music account. I don’t listen/subscribe to the streaming services because I believe in buying/supporting music from the artists I listen to. Almost all the new music I listen to is by indie artists I found on YouTube.
I’ve gotten really lazy ever since YouTube came along. I have tons of vinyl LP’s, 45’s, cassette tapes, and CD’s, but it’s much easier just to dial up whatever I’m in the mood for on YouTube. Plus it often leads me to great new discoveries, such as MLT.
I’m so old = I might be the only MLTer with two cassette players. However I can listen to Mona and Lisa now is best. I have their CDs on my phone, otherwise I’m on the MLT website. I have all the Beatles records on vinyl but I have to say even though the sound is better in my opinion, the vinyl just isn’t as portable.
Although I do streaming and youtube as my most often platforms of listening to great music at home, and CDs while driving, the list did not give me the option to include the Jukebox in the MLT Club. There are times I simply turn it on and let it randomly select music for hours and hours. Thank you so much for making that feature a part of the Club… just that alone is well worth the membership and still get to enjoy all of your content. Thanks for a great Club!!