Rain

Stabbing Westward - Save Yourself

Indeed. And I am probably one of the few guitar players for whom Smoke on the Water is not the first DP song they learned. That Perefct Stranger riff it was.

I got acquainted to DP with Perfect Strangers when I was 12, which I really liked, but never really had a chance to listen to older material until later, besides Smoke on the Water, maybe. I knew Highway Star because Metal Church covered it, althouhg I had no idea it was a DP song. Then one Saturday night I happened to catch a retrospective on their career, and they showed that BBC performance of Child In Time. Me and my friends were completely blown away. I purchased Made in Japan the next business day.

Motörhead - Traitor

Yngwie Malmsteen - Judas

Motorhead - Deaf Forever

Motorhead - Stone Dead Forever

The Rolling Stones - She Smiled Sweetly

Alice Cooper - Mr. And Misdemeanor

Bobby Vinton - Mr. Lonely (I had no idea who he was but the name popped up in my head and I remember my parents mentionning him when I was a kid).

I loved having a portable DAW when we travelled, so I could write and record on the road, in hotel rooms. But I can't imagine working in public. Whether it's writing music or a paper. People bringing their laptop at Starbucks to do homework and work fascinate me. Someone once told me that it was to get out of the house - a change of air. If you really have to, the library would seem a much more logical choice to me. I know it's probably me, but working on a computer at Starbucks always seems a little "poseur" to me. Most likely thee's a lot of people who need to work during their lunch break and such. But still... Starbucks?

Wow - good job, man. And the vocals are indeed spot on. One of my favorite Sabbath song (although tbh, almost everything on the first 5-6 albums is "one of my favorte Sabbath songs").

There you go, Craig. Joy Division - She's Lost Control

Sisters of Mercy, Bauhaus... I'm starting to feel right home here.

Corrosion of Conformity - Clean my Wounds

The Sisters of Mercy - 1959

Tap and hold the icon. When they start wobbling, drag it to the page of your choice. That being said, the process isn't as smooth as it could be.

Ennio Morricone - The Ecstasy of Gold

Beyonce - Hey Goldmember

I had forgotten that connextion between Winamp and Reaper, yes. I've not checked Reaper in some time, but from what I remember, the developers were probably the most aggressive on the market in terms of developing an implementing new features - they seemed to be very close to their user base. Although TBH, if I had a PC, the first thing I'd try would be Cakewalk. That's where I grew up.

I was going to post this one - butI felt I had to do my duty as a Canadian and promote Triumph.

I was a big fan of Winamp back in the days, and I often miss the simplicity. I am an album kind of guy, so for me, playlists were an exception and a spur of the moment thing rather than the norm, but when I did use them, I liked the simplicity and the flexibility Winamp afforded me. Unlike iTunes, you could just drag and drop MP3s in the playlist on the fly and Winamp would stream them from your HD. You could change the order, delete, add, drag and drop entire folders - all on the fly. It was a very intuitive process. They did a beta port to Mac but it was never as good. iTunes insists on importing the media before playing it, so if you want to audition a bunch of files, it's a rather cumbersome process. I took the habit of simply clicking the file to preview it directly in the OS finder. It will play the whole file just fine but you must do it one file at a time and thre's no volume control. I liked iTunes as a mean to curate my offline music collection (as long as it doesn't wipe all the album covers in an update). Instead of having a Music directory with folders for every album, you could browse your collection by album cover in iTunes. Which was nice. That being said, it's hard to believe that it's been plagued with the same issues for over a decade - albums getting split for no apparent reason was probably my main pet peeve. You'd see the same album cover twice in your collection and realize that one of them had all the songs but the 2nd and the 7th, which were separated and listed as a different album - by the same artist, with the same title and album cover. iTunes has now been replaced by music, but this type of behavior persists. And yeah, the duplicate/incorrect album covers... And this is not the worst - at least these are Iron Maiden albums. But how does THIS happen? Now that I have finally started streaming music, I do find it handy to have my music accessible and updated automatically on every device. And I have found this player called Elmedia Player which behaves quite like Winamp used to. But I was so used to Winamp that nothing can really replace it.

Triumph - Magic Power

Skinny Puppy - Hardset Head

Triumph - Hard Road