Clumsy music mistakes - the headphone whiplash, etc

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OK, here's where I want to know about those times that you fucked up a friend's CD player, or caught your headphones in someone else's earrings, or dropped your discman, or spilled beer into your technics 1200s, etc., etc

― paulhw (paulhw), Saturday, 6 August 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

I can't count the number of times i've stepped on headphones.

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Saturday, 6 August 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

When I was three I thought it a good idea to try to plug a banana to the phono jack of my dad's high-end cassette.

― Zed Szetlian (Finn MacCool), Saturday, 6 August 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

I've dragged so much stuff across the room with headphones... I usually end up knocking over my drink and destroying a book or magazine.

― mike h. (mike h.), Saturday, 6 August 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

Clearly the answer is Bluetooth headphones.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 6 August 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

Tripping over one's own headphones will never look as dorky as wearing a pair of those bluetooth's.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 6 August 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

Numerous times I've tripped over the power chord to my iBook while it was recharging. Tough little machines! The chord, on the other hand, eventually got screwed up.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Saturday, 6 August 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

my friend broke my swirlies cd :(

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 6 August 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

I djed once in my student union, stood on the headphone jack and ripped the whole thing out... luckily.. some serious jamming and prayers to god. got it back in and working before I had to do a whole set without any pre-hear.

since then, I respect the headphone lead like it was gods own umbilical.

you'd do wise to heed this message,

― danny boy, Saturday, 6 August 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

My friend Jen lost my copy of the Sam Cooke Keep Movin' On compilation by mistakenly inserting it into the gap between my car CD deck and the actual car. This incident is now referred to as "the last time Jen was ever allowed to put CDs in my car".

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Saturday, 6 August 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

1) i recently left my shure earbuds in my pocket during both washing and drying. they didn't make it.

2) my old walkman lasted through years of abuse, including one time it was dropped whilst biking, sending it skidding/bouncing across the pavement for like 10 yards. incredibly, it sill played and sounded great. i don't think a single sony product manufactured today could be remotely as reliable and durable as that one.

3) placing a turntable in direct sunlight is a great way to warp records.

― my name is john. i reside in chicago. (frankE), Sunday, 7 August 2005 01:45 (twenty years ago)

I've ruined two pairs of $50 headphones by stepping on the cord a few days after buying them :(

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 7 August 2005 01:51 (twenty years ago)

I spilt beer onto/into a discman I had years ago.. It kept working, surprisingly enough.
A friend of mine fumbled his ipod and it dropped to about an inch above the street before being caught by the headphone cable he had on.

― Bn1, Sunday, 7 August 2005 02:20 (twenty years ago)

I've dropped an iPod and had it doing the funny "!" disk thing. I sent it back to apple and got one for free. yay!

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Sunday, 7 August 2005 03:01 (twenty years ago)

From what I understand, a certain club in DC had a gin and tonic loaded into its CD decks. I only have a second hand account of this, but the account came from someone who had to use the CD decks the day after.

― Xii (Xii), Sunday, 7 August 2005 03:44 (twenty years ago)

My worst is just tangling myself up with the headphone wires. I usually put my ipod shuffle in my pants pocket when I'm out walking my dog. Way too many times I bump into a friend or something, and stop and take my headphones (earbuds) off, and put them in the same hand as the leash. Then I start walking, try to put the headphones back on, and they have turned into a tangled spaghetti mess, all intertwined with the leash. So I have to stand on the sidewalk, try to untangle the mess, try to keep doggie from pulling in all directions to re-start our walk, and so forth. Huge mess. I wish that bluetooth headphones were actually tiny enough to use out on walks....

― lyra (lyra), Sunday, 7 August 2005 03:48 (twenty years ago)

A friend of mine fumbled his ipod and it dropped to about an inch above the street before being caught by the headphone cable he had on.

This is why I love the shuffle- mine has hit the pavement/hard cement floors at least 8 times and never had the least bit of problems. Yay no hard drive head to gouge into the disk!

― lyra (lyra), Sunday, 7 August 2005 03:50 (twenty years ago)

oooooh i broke my much loved sennheiser headphones a few weeks ago as i didn't realise they were dangling out of my bag as i got out of the car and i somehow shut them in teh car door. i must be the klutziest person in the world i think. i nearly cried as i can't afford a new pair right now.

― gem (trisk), Sunday, 7 August 2005 03:51 (twenty years ago)

grodie - i left my Sony MDR-V600 headphones (DJ or studio style) at a friends hot humid apt in their "protective" bag for a week ... upon retrieval, the super-thin, vinylish plastic layer on the pads that cover the ears had melted/merged/adhered the two ear phones together. i peeled them apart and it was TOTALLY like zombie skin. all stretchy and porous and sticky.....sick! the headphones survived though after i peeled all the leatherface shit off them.

― Whittier Labs, Sunday, 7 August 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

Upon hearing Taretel's "For Carl Sagan", I chewed up the actual CD in hopes of digesting & gaining the ability to make such audio nectar. I got lots of cuts in me.

― Whittier Labs, Sunday, 7 August 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)

I poured almost an entire smuggled-in bottle of red wine onto/into one of the 1210s when DJing at an Unnamed West London Venue a few months ago. I was so sloshed already that my reactions were way too slow and I...kinda...just...watched...it...gurgle...in.

THEN when I finally snapped out of my stupor, grabbed the bottle and put it upright, I promptly knocked it over *again* with a swish of my spare arm and the rest went in. The slipmat was completely drenched and there was goo seeping everywhere, and it Really Obviously Stank Of Wine, but the twin joys of a. a very dark venue and b. equally twatted promoters means I got away with it.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 7 August 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

well, i totalled my mkI iPod by trying to balance it on the edge of a high kitchen worktop in order to improve the iTrip reception. "whee", it went, overbalancing and hitting the stone floor at a rate of knots. "crunch, grind," went the HD. "thanks!" said john lewis as i handed over a big bunch of notes for a new one. (apple weren't having any of it when i tried to get a replacement.)

and i destroyed a copy of "raise the pressure" by electronic by missing the turntable and dropping it down the back of a chest of drawers instead. but apart from that, i've been astonishingly lucky. especially given i'm a clumsy twat at the best of times.

oh yeh: there's an enormous rock-burn right in the middle of "lazarus" on side four (i think!) of "everything's alright forever". but that was my mate. i think. talking of clumsy mates: this is a story of woe.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 7 August 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

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