![]() I hooked it onto my waistband, hit “shuffle” and listened to my own freeform radio station when I was cooking dinner (still my favorite use for the iPod). I had a 2004 1st generation iPod Mini, green, with the tiny screen and the big click wheel, and I used that baby everywhere. What a ridiculous invention.īut my first iPod … sweet liberation! Light, palm-sized, skip-proof, no physical media to carry, yet you could take your entire music collection with you - it was the best of all worlds. I still have a Discman in the junk drawer. The discs skipped and I hated the stupid foam fanny pack-type belt holder accessory. But, unlike the Walkman, it was practically impossible to be mobile while using one. ![]() Yes, CD’s sounded better and were more convenient to search than cassettes. Discman: Man, I really disliked the Discman. Walkman: On the bus, on my way to work, earphones in, listening to mix tapes. Boombox: Road trip to Asbury Park, Springsteen cassettes blasting out the windows. Transistor: On the front porch, in the summer, 10-years-old, AM Top 40 countdown. Just typing the names of those devices conjures flashes of memory. Ever since I was a kid, I carried my music with me, consuming it in my head, on a succession of ’60s transistor radios and ’70s boomboxes, followed by an ’80s Walkman and a ’90s Discman. Tech moves fast, and I made my choice to not move with it.īut it pisses me off that the most perfect portable music delivery system I’ve ever known is now - like a string of forerunners - over. Look, I know that, as an old lady who doesn’t see the point of replacing a perfectly good working gadget every five seconds with a shinier iteration of the same, I am not Apple’s target consumer. But Apple’s announcement still makes me angry. You bought an iPod, you loaded your music onto it, The End. I see the business logic to it: Unlike the iPhone, the iPod wasn’t a robust revenue stream. Apple all but abandoned iPod fans like myself when it shifted its focus to the iPhone. As the owner of a 2008 4th generation iPod Nano, which I still use every day, I’ve seen the writing on the wall for a long time now. For younger people, the iPod is as attractive as a gramophone. As music players, they were eclipsed years ago by the iPhone, and, to a lesser-degree, the iPod Touch (basically, the phone without the calling capability). ![]() ![]() Most people might have been surprised to learn that those two lower-end iPod models had been, in fact, still alive in 2017. Last week, Apple announced the death of the iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle, its last two stand-alone MP3 players. Geils Band 3.17 Ride Captain Ride - Blues Image 3.18 Walk Out to Winter - Aztec Camera 3.19 I Saw the Light - Todd Rundgren 3.My precious. Robinson - the Lemonheads 3.3 Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes 3.4 Drive - the Cars 3.5 Back on the Chain Gang - Pretenders 3.6 Girl from Mars - Ash 3.7 Rock Roll Queen - the Subways 3.8 The Cutter - Echo and the Bunnymen 3.9 Touch of Grey - Grateful Dead 3.10 Steppin' Stone - the Monkees 3.11 April Skies - the Jesus and Mary Chain 3.12 Dancing with Myself - the Donnas 3.13 Jane Says - Jane's Addiction 3.14 I Don't Think So - Dinosaur JR 3.15 Mercury Blues - David Lindley 3.16 Whammer Jammer - the J. ![]() Big 3.1 Black Velvet (Single Version) - Alannah Myles 3.2 Mrs. 1.1 Cold As Ice - Foreigner 1.2 Don't Stop - Fleetwood Mac 1.3 Cindy Incidentally - Faces 1.4 If You Leave Me Now - Chicago 1.5 Easy - Faith No More 1.6 La Grange - ZZ Top 1.7 School's Out - Alice Cooper 1.8 California Girls - David Lee Roth 1.9 Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon 1.10 Willin' - Little Feat 1.11 All Right - Christopher Cross 1.12 I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend - Ramones 1.13 Rock and Roll - the Velvet Underground 1.14 Run Run Run - Jo Jo Gunne 1.15 Alone Again or - Love 1.16 Cats in the Cradle - Harry Chapin 1.17 Born to Rock Roll - the Byrds 1.18 Return of the Grievous Angel - Gram Parsons 1.19 I Don't Want to Talk About It - Crazy Horse 1.20 Guitar Man - Bread 2.1 Listen to the Music - the Doobie Brothers 2.2 The Road to Hell Part 2 - Chris Rea 2.3 Owner of a Lonely Heart - Yes 2.4 Are You Gonna Be My Girl - Jet 2.5 1969 - the Stooges 2.6 I Believe in a Thing Called Love - the Darkness 2.7 Prove It - Television 2.8 I Can Play That Rock Roll - Joe Walsh 2.9 Keep Your Hands to Yourself - Georgia Satellites 2.10 The Other Side of Summer - Elvis Costello 2.11 Coming of Age - Damn Yankees 2.12 Highway Song - Blackfoot 2.13 I Wanna Rock - Twisted Sister 2.14 New Girl Now - Honeymoon Suite 2.15 Monkey Business - Skid Row 2.16 In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly 2.17 Polk Salad Annie - Tony Joe White 2.18 When the Children Cry - White Lion 2.19 Walking in Memphis - Marc Cohn 2.20 To Be with You - Mr. ![]()
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