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first mp3 you ever downloaded?
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Bruce Vilanch
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Lou Bega- Mambo Number Five
Idle Will Kill
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File me under the "How the hell should I remember this type of thing?" category.
Error Macro
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Aqua - Doctor Jones, in February of 1998. I shit you not. I used Mp3Play95 to play the file. It was 112k. It was one of the best experiences I've ever had with computers. No, actually, it was one of the best experiences ever. Now look at it. Everone's on this darn digital music bandwagon.
shoplifter
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Jesus....
I -think- it was either the recalled version of KMFDM's Naive or some obscure Information Society demos back in '96...when it took frigging AGES to rip CDs and convert to MP3.
I -think- it was either the recalled version of KMFDM's Naive or some obscure Information Society demos back in '96...when it took frigging AGES to rip CDs and convert to MP3.
RevenantKioku
PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS oh god i am drowning in them
Zeppelin's Kashmir. I was on AOL, and god damn that took forever on the 14.4 modem.
I remember when people were going all "OMG NAPSTER!" and I was saying "Damn, I tried out napster months ago, IRC is the place to get stuff."
How things have ..er..changed.
Haha! I totally listened to KMFDM back then amongst other shit that I can't remember.
I remember when people were going all "OMG NAPSTER!" and I was saying "Damn, I tried out napster months ago, IRC is the place to get stuff."
How things have ..er..changed.
Haha! I totally listened to KMFDM back then amongst other shit that I can't remember.
Flizzzipper
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I can't remember exactly but I know I downloaded Wrong Way by Sublime in the first wave of me discovering mp3s.
I first discovered Napster and mp3s the fall of 99, my freshman year of college. The only mp3 I remember downloading that first day was some blues song titled something like "I Eat Pussy". It was some old black guy singing "I eat pussy baby....alllll night long" or something. I thought it was hilarious.
shoplifter
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I remember when mp3s started showing up, they were all over (and not just IRC). People had webpages with links to hundreds of megs of them before the old crackdowns started.
How I long for the good old days when the Internet was a truly lawless frontier.
How I long for the good old days when the Internet was a truly lawless frontier.
Chairman85
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Operation Ivy - Knowledge
i don't remember the first MP3, but i remember the first set of MP2s i got were off a Sailor Moon fansite i got off of Anipike back in 95/96. Can't remember which came first, "Moon Revenge" or "Morning Moon de Aimashoo", but i remember they sounded great , and those 112kbps MP2s sounded much better than most of the 128kbps MP3s i'd download for years to come. i found them years later on a Zip disk (should've named 'em RIP disks) and they still sounded great.
Late Stage Marxist
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I remember downloading Miles Davis' "So What" and the rest of 'Kind of Blue' off of Hotline Client years ago. I went to the mall and bought it almost immediately afterwards. It ended up being the first (and hitherto most treasured) jazz album in my CD collection.
Boogie9IGN
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Bon Jovi - It's My Life on Napster
It always seemed like 90% of the first mp3s out were 80's tunes, so I think mine was probably Toto "Africa" or something. It was only a 128kbps mp3, but I remember it sounded badass! I think the Africa's synthesizer sound just catered perfectly to the mp3 compression cause it was near flawless.
After that I proceeded to get whatever rare punk tracks I could find.
After that I proceeded to get whatever rare punk tracks I could find.
"Around the World" by Daft Punk. I remember destinctly because my mother was annoyed as I played it for 3 hours on repeat one day.
So the next day, I downloaded "Barbie Girl" by Aqua. And thus, my mp3ing started. I think I got them both from Geocities webpages.
Man, the DMCA took away all of our fun!
So the next day, I downloaded "Barbie Girl" by Aqua. And thus, my mp3ing started. I think I got them both from Geocities webpages.
Man, the DMCA took away all of our fun!
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
The Dracula's Castle intro track from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, right after the game came out in Japan. MP3 was strange and mysterious back then, and it was from an ancient and obscure website by a Japanese speaking gamer who was, AFAIK, one of the first to try and get widescale exposure to Japanese game OST albums on the net. He'd post selected tracks from OSTs with info on the composer, date published, proper name of the album, etc.
The Video Game Midi Archive was a hot thing at that time, so you can imagine the magical quality this one side had to it - very often it had the same tunes from the same games that you'd see sequenced or remixed on the VGMA, except in this new, stunning quality format.
The Video Game Midi Archive was a hot thing at that time, so you can imagine the magical quality this one side had to it - very often it had the same tunes from the same games that you'd see sequenced or remixed on the VGMA, except in this new, stunning quality format.
I used to download a lot of MP2 samples off of the old SoundtrackCentral site (game music reviews)... the first actual MP3 was, when the technology first came out, someone sent me FF5's Battle With Gilgamesh song. First non game song I downloaded in MP3... I dunno, Veracocha-Carte Blanche maybe?
The Bookerman
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Limp Bizkit - Nookie.
I still have that Mp3... dated 1999.
I still have that Mp3... dated 1999.
I'm pretty sure it was some Spice Girls song, and it was before the Winamp days. I forget the name of that player that was popular before Winamp and the others came along. I do, however, remember having to crank the rendering quality down or else it would skip on my badass 486/SX-33...
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