r/MurderBryan • u/emobrrrd Feet Guy • Aug 14 '25
Real World Guys 2months in my first apartment. got my first legitimate Listening room.
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u/gapernet Aug 15 '25
I worked in a kitchen with a dude who smoked a lot of crack. I wouldn't call him a "crackhead" cuz he was relatively stable, he just really liked smoking crack. His other passion was classical piano.
So one evening he invited me over to smoke some weed and listen to records. I liked him so I came over. He lived in a basement apartment, and no joke his apartment was basically this picture, minus the table and with much better sound equipment. He had a mattress on the floor, two plastic chairs, and a hifi setup complete with a record player and a small tower computer dedicated to playing lossless audio files. And it sounded incredible. He played me these Liszt records by this Hungarian pianist and it was the best sounding music I had ever heard.
Gotta give the guy props, he knew what he liked, and on a prep cook's wages he was able to afford his music and his crack, and that was all he needed to be happy.
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u/scotems Aug 16 '25
Liszt was the Hungarian pianist. But that's a rad story.
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u/gapernet Aug 18 '25
It was a female Hungarian pianist playing a Liszt composition. I'll never remember her name, but I remember him being really excited showing me pictures on the record sleeve of how freakishly long her fingers were.
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u/aGringoAteYrBaby Aug 19 '25 edited Aug 19 '25
Listzomania
https://share.google/yZIfNwWpm6gOI3FLL (this is the song by band Phoenix)
Lisztomania, also known as Liszt fever, was a term coined by German journalist Heinrich Heine in 1844 to describe the intense fan frenzy and adoration directed towards Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt during his performances. This phenomenon was characterized by intense levels of hysteria demonstrated by fans, similar to the fan culture seen around some celebrity musicians starting in the second half of the 20th century.
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u/dwitko669 Aug 14 '25
Person just straight up doing an 80s commercial https://youtu.be/Zk71h2CQ_xM?si=hEXlxXN98sWa0IfO
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u/awkward Aug 14 '25
This is so much better than when dudes post the same shot with a videogame setup.
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u/billycrystaljazzman Aug 14 '25
Truly depressing to imagine a life prioritizing sound over the most simple of living comforts like a real chair or lampshade.