Tom's Diner by: Suzanne Vega was the first MP3 song.
The acapella version, not the bangin' Pop dance version.
this post was submitted on 03 Jan 2026
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I have the theory that MP3 played a part in the death of rock music and the rise of hip hop.
Guitars and cymbals sound awful when compressed to 128kbps, as it was common in the early days of Gnutella and Napster.
Music with vocals and beats sounds much better at those compression rates.
interesting theory. i'm afraid we'll never find out if it's true
I remember getting my first MP3s at a LAN party and it was revolutionary. You could just copy over music to your computer from other computers and they had quite the selection? Awesome! I totally filled my (tiny) hard disk to the brim and then listened the shit out of them with Winamp. I learned a while later that you could also rip CDs and that was also revolutionary. Then Napster, the first Discmens with MP3 support and so on - MP3s are awesome!
and all the great Winamp skins...
It really whips the llama’s ass.
Nice…..but the whole thing is written like an AI did it. I hate the way they phrase everything like Billy Mays “but wait there’s more!”
Yeah. Although, I must add:
^Billy Mays was tha goat. ToT^
It is most likely written by an AI
Dude, hopping on college wifi and stealing classmates music from iTunes shares was hilarious back then. my campus got sued over limewire BS and students would keep ignoring it and downloading, then get pissy when legal had them banned from campus wifi. The rest of us just abused fucking iTunes shares, lol.