Music Thread: Year-End Wrap...Of What? I have No Idea!

Garrett...just stop...it's a sickness!

Spotify is now pretty much all I listen to in the car, although occasionally I will go old-school and listen to songs saved on my phone. Yeah...I know...I'm a dinosaur.

But recently something extraordinarily irritating has appeared on Spotify! They inserted some sort of AI DJ who talks on what used to be just music feeds. And to make it worse the voice has a ghetto accent which is completely out of place considering the music I listen to.

Dear Spotify; Just because you Can do something doesn't mean you SHOULD do something. Just. Stop.

But they also have a fun little thing that tells users what they listened to over the course of the year. Wow! John Prine!

In Spite of Ourselves

That's the Way the World Goes Round

The Crickets w/ John Prine - Oh Boy

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Enjoy! and keep this light. No politics or other sh*t.

Posted by: CBD at 07:30 PM

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1 Top ten?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 16, 2023 07:32 PM (9yWhg)

2 Number one? Really?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 16, 2023 07:32 PM (9yWhg)

3 Dvorak rules!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 16, 2023 07:32 PM (9yWhg)

4 Hey, CBD!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 16, 2023 07:33 PM (9yWhg)

5 When I listen to "radio" it's Pandora. I'm pretty sure that makes me the most dinosaur of all.

Posted by: LASue at December 16, 2023 07:34 PM (llS7k)

6 5 Pandora let all of the music out of the box.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 16, 2023 07:36 PM (9yWhg)

7 Rock on

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2023 07:37 PM (fwDg9)

8 As I've noted, I've gotten back into vinyl, listening to Exile on Mainstreet, sounds like an entire album of the bands b-material.

Not really a stones fan.

Next up, Head on The Door.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 16, 2023 07:37 PM (JEM8I)

9 Here's an Earl King song that would be at home on the Pet Thread:

https://youtu.be/K6OEKyBysOE

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2023 07:38 PM (q8Zx5)

10 Can't say for listening to modern ( as in not oldies) music since 1997 have liked REM

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2023 07:38 PM (fwDg9)

11 I have had Pandora for 10-12 years. Very early on, I listened to Mozart and jazzy stuff. Now, it's Butthole Surfers and John Mellancamp.

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at December 16, 2023 07:39 PM (Eeb9P)

12 Slow night for a music thread…

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 16, 2023 07:40 PM (9yWhg)

13 Nobody rocks a chunky funky heel like Garrett! The hang glider lapels and slim fit Sansabelt bell bottoms in orchid crushed velvet accentuate his sinuous hips.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 16, 2023 07:40 PM (brrec)

14 And last 2 weeks at work the Electrician had a radio with oldies station that now plays 90s and 2000s

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2023 07:40 PM (fwDg9)

15 @10

>>Can't say for listening to modern ( as in not oldies) music since 1997 have liked REM

REM were awesome before they blew up, they were still great after they blew up but everything became about, The Message.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 16, 2023 07:40 PM (JEM8I)

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Spotify is now pretty much all I listen to in the car, although occasionally I will go old-school and listen to songs saved on my phone. Yeah...I know...I'm a dinosaur.

I listen to radio and CDs in the car.
What came before the dinosaurs?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2023 07:41 PM (63Dwl)

17 Good evening everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 16, 2023 07:42 PM (qoGsy)

18 I gave up on all of the radio stations around here long ago.

Posted by: vic at December 16, 2023 07:42 PM (A5THL)

19 Enjoy! and keep this light. No politics or other sh*t.
Posted by: CBD at 07:30 PM
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Are bewbs discussions allowed before #100? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Ciampino - Banana trees in Wisconsin? at December 16, 2023 07:42 PM (qfLjt)

20 @14

>>And last 2 weeks at work the Electrician had a radio with oldies station that now plays 90s and 2000s

Well, at the oldest point it's 33 years old, in the 80s oldies were late 40s to the 50s, which sounds about right.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 16, 2023 07:43 PM (JEM8I)

21 I liked R.E.M. until their album "Automatic for the People," which only had about two songs I liked ("Drive" and "Monty Got a Raw Deal.").

Their earlier stuff before that is great. I don't much care for the more recent music.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2023 07:44 PM (BpYfr)

22 I'm not a big REM fan, but I have always liked "It's the end of the world as we know it..."

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 16, 2023 07:44 PM (S6gqv)

23 Saw the Ramones at the 930 club in the capitol city... a long time ago. My to be 1st wife and a female co-worker.

All leathered up.

I was hot. Literally.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2023 07:44 PM (Q4IgG)

24 I have it all: records, CDs, iPod, iPhone.

But I love YouTube for letting me listen to whatever whisp of a musical memory floats through my head. I just listened to Kate Bush's "L'amour Looks Something Like You" having not heard it in ages.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 16, 2023 07:45 PM (brrec)

25 Doyle Bramhall , a good compliment to John Prine.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 16, 2023 07:45 PM (oqF5P)

26 Martini Farmer, I've seen many great shows at the 930. Have you been to the new iteration? It's not nearly as sticky as the old 930.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 16, 2023 07:46 PM (brrec)

27 Their earlier stuff before that is great. I don't much care for the more recent music.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2023 07:44 PM (BpYfr)
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Agree. I date their work as "Before/After Stipe in that SOY BOMB T-Shirt at the MTV Awards".

Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 16, 2023 07:48 PM (brrec)

28 Platform crocs?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 16, 2023 07:49 PM (di6C2)

29 I really like one hit wonders. Nothing to criticize.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 16, 2023 07:51 PM (oqF5P)

30 I'm a Metal Head.

Been spinning this album for a few days now.
Neil Fallon of Clutch side project from like 2014.

https://tinyurl.com/28pre39z

Posted by: Reforger at December 16, 2023 07:52 PM (B705c)

31 Legal Insurrection:

Darth Lloyd and Joey Bidet want to remove the memorial grave marker for the designer of Arlington National Cemetery. Sir Moses Ezekiel is buried under this monument that is dedicated to the reconciliation of the North and South after the Civil War.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2023 07:53 PM (48jan)

32 I've been watching Korla Pandit videos. He's mesmerizing. Here's "Miserlou".

https://youtu.be/G9ytSC8rz84?si=0zgtuSYL9oHdm806

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2023 07:54 PM (vFG9F)

33 Listening to Sibelius No. 5 right now. It's Beethoven's birthday today.

Posted by: Tuna at December 16, 2023 07:54 PM (oaGWv)

34 Korla nearly got himself banned because it was claimed he was hypnotizing his audience over live TV.

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2023 07:56 PM (vFG9F)

35 Listening to Chritmas collection. Leon Redbone is up.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 16, 2023 07:56 PM (oqF5P)

36 I'm going through a retro phase. Bert Kaempfert, Harry Nilsson, Henry Mancini. Also Melanie Gardot and Diana Krall, who are not quite so retro.

Posted by: HTL at December 16, 2023 07:56 PM (RAGWM)

37 > Martini Farmer, I've seen many great shows at the 930. Have you been to the new iteration? It's not nearly as sticky as the old 930.
Posted by: All Hail Eris
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I haven't lived in the area for 35 years or more.

My dad used to go there. That's how old I am. But, back in the 80's when I did frequent the "downtown" scene in Washington it was wild. My best friend's mom was a ballet teacher and a lot of her students where Eastern European, really thin, chain-smoking, foul mouthed girls who didn't give a fuck about anything other than getting wild.

We had a lot of fun. Not sex. Faux. Pretending to be a couple so we'd be left alone. It was like that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 16, 2023 07:58 PM (Q4IgG)

38 "How'd you like to spend Christmas
On Christmas Island..."

Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 16, 2023 07:58 PM (brrec)

39 FWIW, Joey Ramone has a very impressive monument on his grave in Hollywood.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 16, 2023 07:59 PM (ovxwt)

40 I had that John Prine song on my computer bot lost id due to a computer crash. too bad I can not copy it to a use able format from here.

Posted by: vic at December 16, 2023 08:00 PM (A5THL)

41 All Hail Eris, hahaha, you know it too! 500 quatloos if you know Santa Claus is coming on a boogie woogie Choo Choo train

Posted by: Ben Had at December 16, 2023 08:01 PM (oqF5P)

42 Oops. Johnny. I apologize for the inconvenience I may have caused.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 16, 2023 08:01 PM (ovxwt)

43 USB drive for drive music, mainly anime.

Hush of 200 Million Years, Diamond Crevasse, What About My Star, Dearest, Hey Boy, Akuma no Tenchi, Asu e Touchdown, Konya wa Hurricane, Adesso e Fortuna, Shangri-la, and so on.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2023 08:01 PM (48jan)

44 >>But I love YouTube for letting me listen to whatever whisp of a musical memory floats through my head.

My favorite band put out a huge amount of live music and didn't just allow their fans to tape it they encouraged and helped them do it. And now many are returning the favor by posting songs and whole shows on YouTube.

Not the greatest sound quality but some fantastic music and memories.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2023 08:02 PM (ZLI7S)

45 I've been watching Korla Pandit videos. He's mesmerizing. Here's "Miserlou".
Posted by: fd

I had forgotten about him. He did okay for a black kid from Missouri.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 16, 2023 08:03 PM (IaTa3)

46 Why does SRV look like a cro-mag in that picture?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2023 08:05 PM (VwHCD)

47 Brought up before that I am a Bardcore and Postmodern Jukebox fan playing modern music in medieval or old style like jazz or swing

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2023 08:09 PM (fwDg9)

48 All this dinosaur talk, nope. I still listen to CD's and the radio in my car.
The Pass Reports are on AM as a matter of fact so important for winter travel here.
I don't have my phone connected to any of that stuff either. When, I bother to have it with me.
Can't stick around long, I'm being Christmas Caroled here by the choir from the local German Baptist Church. They have a nice choir.

Posted by: Winston, GOPe, McFailure wing of the Uniparty at December 16, 2023 08:11 PM (KCc/j)

49 "I've been watching Korla Pandit videos. He's mesmerizing. Here's "Miserlou".
Posted by: fd

I had forgotten about him. He did okay for a black kid from Missouri.
Posted by: Tonypete "

It's an odd story from the early days of TV. He only got the TV show gig because he agreed to do the music for "Time For Beanie".

Posted by: fd at December 16, 2023 08:15 PM (vFG9F)

50 I've been stuck on a couple of things:

Disturbed, "Sounds of Silence" > https://tinyurl.com/569msupk

Disturbed is a heavy Metal band but this cover is great, in a word.

Secondly I've been following a young Russian girl who has an amazing voice and presence. First one from a Russian talent show performance of an old Russian folk song when she was 14 years old.

https://tinyurl.com/55aj8say

Second one is the same song sung in a studio when she was about 20 years old. She is a dramatic contralto, damn near a baritone. Amazing.

https://tinyurl.com/4rrekhvy

Diana Andukinova. Heck of a back story as well, on Wikipedia.

Posted by: javems at December 16, 2023 08:15 PM (8I4hW)

51 I listen to radio and CDs in the car.
What came before the dinosaurs?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2023 07:41 PM (63Dwl)
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AM radio

Posted by: Black JEM at December 16, 2023 08:16 PM (UVyKP)

52 Enjoy! and keep this light. No politics or other sh*t

Herbert!!

Posted by: Dr. Sevrin at December 16, 2023 08:17 PM (lvINn)

53 Yma Sumac -- "Chuncho/ The Forest Creatures":

https://tinyurl.com/4wmc2ah5

Freaky.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 16, 2023 08:18 PM (brrec)

54 Heavy Christmas music now. Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians in heavy rotation now.

Otherwise its music I can play my bass with as I try to learn the instrument - Radiohead, America, Stereophonics, and Psychedelic Furs

Posted by: Black JEM at December 16, 2023 08:18 PM (UVyKP)

55 Evening Horde, thx CBD. I've seen REM , The Ramones, Stevie Ray Vaughan and the Goo Goo Dolls. All good to great. Never saw Amy Winehouse. Too late. Always thought that it is the height of irony that her most popular song was Rehab. She should have gone

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2023 08:20 PM (IZPBd)

56 I see gov wants millions of Americans want seniors to cough money that the Gov overpaid by mistake.

Posted by: vic at December 16, 2023 08:22 PM (A5THL)

57
Two great slide players feeding off each other. Derek Trucks is probably well known to many here. He's playing with Sonny Landreth who's been a solo artist and session guy for years. Congo Square is a Landreth composition that the Neville Bros have covered-

https://tinyurl.com/LandrethTrucksCongo

Landreth also fronted a band called the Goners. They backed up John Hiatt on some of Hiatt's best albums and toured with him. Saw them early 2000's in HOB Las Vegas. One of my favorite shows all time. Here is Hiatt on Letterman, Sonny is way in the back playing lights out-

https://tinyurl.com/LandrethHiatt

Posted by: Leon Sphinx at December 16, 2023 08:23 PM (UIngH)

58 Yma Sumac -- "Chuncho/ The Forest Creatures":
https://tinyurl.com/4wmc2ah5
Freaky.
Posted by: All Hail Eris

WHAT IS THAT NOISE? GET HER!!

Posted by: Chuncho's Revenge at December 16, 2023 08:24 PM (vFG9F)

59 I have a mini JBL speaker that I Bluetooth my phone music when I'm hobbying. I also listen to comedy channels I have on Pandora.

Posted by: Drive By redo at December 16, 2023 08:24 PM (PCUPG)

60 Flash Cadillac has a great Christmas album and features our very own Mr.Bassman.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 16, 2023 08:25 PM (oqF5P)

61 My Mom says Bolero and Barry White have something in common, but I can't figure it out.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 16, 2023 08:27 PM (a3Q+t)

62 Used to scrub a parking lot down on my knees. Then I got fired for bein' scared of bees, and they only paid me fifty cents an hour.

Posted by: OCBill at December 16, 2023 08:28 PM (SUECK)

63

Filipino Christmas party. Bizarre mix of music, but everyone is dancing and having a great time.

Also, 15% of the ladies are cover model quality stunners...

Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at December 16, 2023 08:30 PM (tpIVB)

64 I'm listening to lots of Christmas music on Pandora now. As of January 1, it ends with no further play until Thanksgiving day 2024.

Posted by: PabloD at December 16, 2023 08:30 PM (fuKa8)

65 Heavy Christmas music now. Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians in heavy rotation now.
Posted by: Black JEM

Waring was very involved with the Waring blender also.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 16, 2023 08:31 PM (IaTa3)

66
I like The Little Known Band
you probably haven't heard of them
they're really good

Posted by: Don Black at December 16, 2023 08:31 PM (geLO8)

67 I've got 400+ CDs, and somewhere in this room is the cassette tape collection I amassed in HS.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at December 16, 2023 08:32 PM (8sMut)

68 Every December 16, "A Small Victory" by Faith No More must play at some point.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at December 16, 2023 08:33 PM (8sMut)

69 The local station plays 70s, 80s and more! Sometimes they slip in interesting stuff. I despise Madonna.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 16, 2023 08:33 PM (L8hCM)

70 Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin. With the kittens.

Posted by: Eromero at December 16, 2023 08:34 PM (NxC5+)

71 I really like one hit wonders. Nothing to criticize.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 16, 2023 07:51 PM (oqF5P

One hit wonders are good. Two hit wonders screw you because you bought their album.

Golden Earring is my favorite two hit wonder band.

Posted by: Drive By redo at December 16, 2023 08:34 PM (PCUPG)

72 I have the KUSC classical Christmas link on pretty much all day now:

https://tinyurl.com/3792e364

Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 16, 2023 08:35 PM (brrec)

73
I'll see your Yma Sumac and raise you Siberian babes Otkyen

https://tinyurl.com/OtkyenPhenom

Posted by: Leon Sphinx at December 16, 2023 08:36 PM (UIngH)

74 My Spotify playlists don't have the AI Spotify DJ (who BTW sounds like a white Venus flytrap).

My top songs for the year were "YOIMIYA" by Batten Girls (yeah, I repeated that one a lot. Great tune.) and "Night Time" by The Fin which came out nine years ago but I only found last year and played in heavy rotation.

Top artists: BiSH (Japanese Idol Punk), Boards of Canada (IDM), N. Flying (K-Pop), and Sackanaction (Japanese Indie). Pretty eclectic.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 16, 2023 08:37 PM (9yUzE)

75 Joey Ramone is buried at a Jewish cemetery in NJ. Johnny has the impressive monument in Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Dee Dee is buried in that same cemetery.

Posted by: Ramones 4 Ever at December 16, 2023 08:38 PM (83IzV)

76 Which Ramone looked like Howard Stern?

Posted by: Drive By redo at December 16, 2023 08:39 PM (PCUPG)

77 Disturbed, "Sounds of Silence"

One of my favorite performances, ever.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 16, 2023 08:39 PM (V8he0)

78 Never mind this comment. Go on to the next one. 😉

Just before Thanksgiving, we finally got Mom's piano out of storage and into the new house. It's a beautiful baby grand Knabe that was, IIRC, a wedding gift to Mom from Dad's mother. Mom always took great care of it. Only slightly out of tune after two years in storage. Dominates the main hall, but really classes up the joint.

I was discouraged from playing it in my youth (siblings!). After college, I became self-taught on a cheap honkey-tonkey upright, more fitting to my kinda-goofy talents than this fine instrument; but I sure enjoy playing it. Late in life, Mom even seemed to like my playing. I wasn't going to take it, but MiladyJo encouraged me to, so here it is. Neither of my sisters plays.

My fingers aren't as limber as they were just a couple of years ago, less of a span, and I'm terribly out of practice. But I play for myself, and Milady doesn't complain. Neither does the dog.

https://youtu.be/uSIT1j2MoMc
Songs on this vid are me recording at Mom's several years ago.

Posted by: mindful webworker - stiffening hands at December 16, 2023 08:39 PM (2he9d)

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61 My Mom says Bolero and Barry White have something in common, but I can't figure it out.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 16, 2023 08:27 PM (a3Q+t)

Baby making music 50 years apart?

Posted by: Leon Sphinx at December 16, 2023 08:39 PM (UIngH)

80 I liked it!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 16, 2023 08:40 PM (brrec)

81 Ben Had @ 60-
Mrs. E is very fond of Flash Cadillac’s Christmas album.

Posted by: Eromero at December 16, 2023 08:40 PM (NxC5+)

82 70 Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin. With the kittens.
Posted by: Eromero at December 16, 2023 08:34 PM (NxC5+)

The very first song I played upon visiting the UK for the first time.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at December 16, 2023 08:40 PM (8sMut)

83 Anyone else think Journey and Survivor sound exactly alike?

Posted by: Drive By redo at December 16, 2023 08:41 PM (PCUPG)

84 I love jamming to Boards of Canada; it was my go-to for driving around Oahu and grooving on the waves.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 16, 2023 08:42 PM (brrec)

85 Immigrant Song?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcjiYn3xXMg

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2023 08:42 PM (48jan)

86 75 Joey Ramone is buried at a Jewish cemetery in NJ. Johnny has the impressive monument in Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Dee Dee is buried in that same cemetery.
Posted by: Ramones 4 Ever at December 16, 2023 08:38 PM (83IzV)

I have visited the graves of Dimebag Darrell, and later went back when his brother joined him; and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Oh, and Jim Morrison.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at December 16, 2023 08:43 PM (8sMut)

87 Peter Gabriel's new album, "I/O" after 12 years is out.

In a weird little twist, the same twelve songs are given different producers and separated into "The Light Side" and "The Dark Side".

"The Light Side" sounds a bit like Adult Contemporary Peter Gabriel. And, in parts, even harkens back to the old Genesis sound...unfortunately it's the old Genesis sound of the Phil Collins led Genesis of the 80s.
On "The Light Side" the music meanders a bit and it sounds like PG is waving goodbye.

I like the "The Dark Side" better, it sounds more alive. The attack of the instruments is sharper and the bass is used to propel the music along. This PG sounds like he's ready to start again.

This isn't prime Peter Gabriel like "So" and that's a disappointment. Still plenty of good stuff here and a good listen.

This is the song that sticks with me the most:
"The Court"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6chvzqAVCnI

Give it a spin!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 16, 2023 08:47 PM (QzZeQ)

88 Buffalo's own Goo Goo Dolls.

Let's see... Goo Goo Dolls, Rick James, Spyro Gyra, Green Jelly... that's about it.

Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at December 16, 2023 08:48 PM (5YmYl)

89 But recently something extraordinarily irritating has appeared on Spotify! They inserted some sort of AI DJ who talks on what used to be just music feeds.

pretty certain there was a wkrp in cincinnati episode about this

Posted by: anachronda at December 16, 2023 08:48 PM (edU/H)

90 I spent three weekends this summer building a new gate on the backyard fence and played Boards of Canada continuously through the whole project.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 16, 2023 08:49 PM (9yUzE)

91 Supertramp holds up pretty well, which suprised me. So much music then was just boring.

I gotta dig out my Hawaiian slack key guitar Christmas album! Should put me in the holiday spirit.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 16, 2023 08:49 PM (L8hCM)

92 "Which Ramone looked like Howard Stern?"

Joey.

Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at December 16, 2023 08:49 PM (5YmYl)

93 Songs on this vid are me recording at Mom's several years ago.
Posted by: mindful webworker - stiffening hands at December 16, 2023 08:39 PM

Well done. I really enjoyed that. Bravo!

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 16, 2023 08:49 PM (V8he0)

94 Maybe I have so far avoided the DJ because most of what I listen to is Asian.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 16, 2023 08:50 PM (9yUzE)

95 Anna never heard of them, pretty good

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2023 08:50 PM (fwDg9)

96
This is an oddball depresso song form Nick Cave that I heard on "Invincible".

"Avalance" by Nick Cage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3ipk9ro4R4

I haven't heard much or any of him but dude's got something going on, Sharp, smart writing.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 16, 2023 08:51 PM (QzZeQ)

97
I was hoping for Dodie Stevens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW0a3sR0Usw

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 16, 2023 08:52 PM (XeU6L)

98 54 Heavy Christmas music now. Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians in heavy rotation now.

Otherwise its music I can play my bass with as I try to learn the instrument - Radiohead, America, Stereophonics, and Psychedelic Furs
Posted by: Black JEM at December 16, 2023 08:18 PM (UVyKP)

Fred Wearing…I see you’re a person of taste and tradition .

Might I recommend Robert Shaw and his Chorale…

Posted by: browndog digging up the interwebs at December 16, 2023 08:53 PM (TTAGa)

99 Korea horned in on Japanese Kawaii metal this year, and I gotta say, it works for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vp1of6Z0ro

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 16, 2023 08:53 PM (9yUzE)

100 Also watched Ballroom Blitz, no idea how they can perform in those costumes

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2023 08:54 PM (fwDg9)

101 Somehow I got fed The Col. Bogey March , and now I’m going down a John Phillip Sousa rabbit hole .

Marches are actually pretty good for gym time

Posted by: browndog digging up the interwebs at December 16, 2023 08:55 PM (TTAGa)

102 Which Ramone looked like Howard Stern?"

Joey.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at December 16, 2023 08:49 PM (5YmYl)

Thanks.

Posted by: Drive By redo at December 16, 2023 08:55 PM (PCUPG)

103 This is an oddball depresso song form Nick Cave that I heard on "Invincible".

That's where I heard it; fit the episode too.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 16, 2023 08:55 PM (9yUzE)

104 I guy in the field I worked in was best friends growing up with Joey Ramone. The guy I know is somewhere on the Asperger's spectrum so those two hanging out together must have been a psychologists wet dream

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 16, 2023 08:55 PM (IZPBd)

105 The Christmas spirit will continued to be shown here via candy cane coffee (thanks H-E-B!) and Hershey's candy can Kisses, a.k.a. Crack.

Music, not so much.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at December 16, 2023 08:56 PM (8sMut)

106 Spyro Gyra, seen them 3 times, great show!

Posted by: Eromero at December 16, 2023 08:56 PM (NxC5+)

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88 Buffalo's own Goo Goo Dolls.

Let's see... Goo Goo Dolls, Rick James, Spyro Gyra, Green Jelly... that's about it.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at December 16, 2023 08:48 PM (5YmYl)

Grover Washington Jr & Ani DiFranco (I denounce myself for knowing that about Ani)

Posted by: Leon Sphinx at December 16, 2023 08:57 PM (UIngH)

108 We are re-watching Ozark, and just finished the last episode of season two. The whole ordeal is one big tragedy after another, and the tenth episode, the last, is particularly dark

The music is apt. Beethoven concerto no. 2 for piano and orchestra, second movement, adagio.

I had to look it up after the show ended. I thought Mozart, but Mo ain't that dark.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at December 16, 2023 08:58 PM (KiBMU)

109 107
88 Buffalo's own Goo Goo Dolls.

Let's see... Goo Goo Dolls, Rick James, Spyro Gyra, Green Jelly... that's about it.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at December 16, 2023 08:48 PM (5YmYl)

Grover Washington Jr & Ani DiFranco (I denounce myself for knowing that about Ani)
Posted by: Leon Sphinx at December 16, 2023 08:57 PM (UIngH)

Cast your net into WNY and you can add Natalie Merchant / 10,000 Maniacs, and Chuck Mangione

Posted by: browndog digging up the interwebs at December 16, 2023 09:00 PM (TTAGa)

110 101 Somehow I got fed The Col. Bogey March , and now I’m going down a John Phillip Sousa rabbit hole .

Marches are actually pretty good for gym time
Posted by: browndog digging up the interwebs at December 16, 2023 08:55 PM (TTAGa)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVcZEUlmkyU

THE march

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at December 16, 2023 09:01 PM (8sMut)

111 …oh, and session king Tommy Tedesco of The Wrecking Crew fame

Posted by: browndog digging up the interwebs at December 16, 2023 09:01 PM (TTAGa)

112
Oh, and Jim Morrison.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33
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I feel left out.

Posted by: Oscar Wilde at December 16, 2023 09:02 PM (XeU6L)

113 I have the KUSC classical Christmas link on pretty much all day now:

https://tinyurl.com/3792e364
Posted by: All Hail Eris

I and my better-half thank you!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 16, 2023 09:03 PM (30Enh)

114 THE march
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at December 16, 2023 09:01 PM (8sMut)

I’ll make that my walk out to the platform song

🤣

Posted by: browndog digging up the interwebs at December 16, 2023 09:03 PM (TTAGa)

115 Fred Waring did an album called the Story of Christmas, and was used for years as part of the Christmas Day service. Pastor did narration, choir sang the songs, and used slide show of appropriate religious scenes as illustrations.

Posted by: Lirio100 at December 16, 2023 09:03 PM (I5U35)

116 Might I recommend Robert Shaw and his Chorale…
Posted by: browndog
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Nice choice. All of their Christmas recordings are very good.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 16, 2023 09:04 PM (XeU6L)

117
Here's....The Rutles!!!!

Cuz you can never have enough fake early Beatles:

"I Must Be in Love"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iejvs7YW0Gc

Posted by: naturalfake at December 16, 2023 09:05 PM (QzZeQ)

118 Grandma, reindeer, & etc.

Posted by: Eromero at December 16, 2023 09:05 PM (NxC5+)

119 115 Fred Waring did an album called the Story of Christmas, and was used for years as part of the Christmas Day service. Pastor did narration, choir sang the songs, and used slide show of appropriate religious scenes as illustrations.
Posted by: Lirio100 at December 16, 2023 09:03 PM (I5U35)

My dad would play the Night Before Christmas signaling that it was time for all us wee folk to get to bed…so Santa could come.

Posted by: browndog digging up the interwebs at December 16, 2023 09:06 PM (TTAGa)

120 If I hear Al I want for Christmas is You, one more time, imma lose my shit!!

Posted by: Montec at December 16, 2023 09:06 PM (6hR6T)

121 Hi Eromero! Give Minnie a scritch behind the ears for me.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 16, 2023 09:06 PM (brrec)

122 Hi Eromero! Give Minnie a scritch behind the ears for me.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 16, 2023 09:06 PM (brrec)

123
All I want for Christmas. The Eugene Ormandy Columbia stereo recordings, 1958-1963, on 88 CDs.

https://a.co/d/6CJC9G4

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2023 09:07 PM (MoZTd)

124 Double post!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 16, 2023 09:07 PM (brrec)

125
"I saw Three Ships" by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAKz9VHmuDc

Cuz you can never have enough whacked-out super traditional Christmas music.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 16, 2023 09:08 PM (QzZeQ)

126 Scritch, scritch! Done and done, Eros! And Madison got scritched ditto.

Posted by: Eromero at December 16, 2023 09:09 PM (NxC5+)

127
111 …oh, and session king Tommy Tedesco of The Wrecking Crew fame
Posted by: browndog digging up the interwebs at December 16, 2023 09:01 PM (TTAGa)

Didn't know that about Tedesco, so I googled him real quick. Legend. His son Denny made a movie about the Wrecking Crew- "The Wrecking Crew" 2018. Free on Crackle, also on Hulu and Peacock. Think I'll check it out soon

Posted by: Leon Sphinx at December 16, 2023 09:10 PM (UIngH)

128 Puck just dropped

⚔️ vs 🐕

In Arizona

Posted by: browndog digging up the interwebs at December 16, 2023 09:11 PM (TTAGa)

129 Miss these times. Sometimes.

Kongo's. "I'm Only Joking"

Posted by: javems at December 16, 2023 09:11 PM (u3z76)

130 Think I'll check it out soon
Posted by: Leon Sphinx at December 16, 2023 09:10 PM (UIngH)

They debuted the movie in Buffalo.

I went to the screening.

Really good…

Posted by: browndog digging up the interwebs at December 16, 2023 09:12 PM (TTAGa)

131 Denny made a movie about the Wrecking Crew- "The Wrecking Crew" 2018.

Definitely recommended viewing.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 16, 2023 09:12 PM (V8he0)

132 The Jason Aldean song, Try That In A Small Town, is OK. But I prefer the original version by Def Leppard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_X5A-BYjO8

Posted by: Tom Perry at December 16, 2023 09:13 PM (MX0bI)

133 Since I'm already embarrassing myself linking to one of my old recordings, aaaaand since this may be the last music thread before Christmas, the nic link goes to my Christmas recording, on my website.

Politically Incorrect and Culturally Inappropriate
Pop song parodies and original tunes
sure to put coal in my stocking

Posted by: mindful webworker - red nose reign, dear at December 16, 2023 09:15 PM (2he9d)

134 Post-war, popular singers often produced Christmas albums, Crosby, Como, et al.

I have tucked away one or two of the Firestone Christmas albums. Odd, now, to think of a tire company producing a record for Christmas. I think Goodyear did also, and Goodrich. It was a different country then...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 16, 2023 09:15 PM (XeU6L)

135 Double post!
Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 16, 2023 09:07 PM

For your penance, you shall wear tow pair of pants in tomorrow's Book Thread.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 16, 2023 09:17 PM (a3Q+t)

136 tow = two

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 16, 2023 09:18 PM (a3Q+t)

137 Korea horned in on Japanese Kawaii metal this year, and I gotta say, it works for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vp1of6Z0ro

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 16, 2023 08:53 PM (9yUzE)

That was interesting. I like the drummer, very solid. I wasn't expecting the singer to sing a lot in english. Not actually metal, but has definite balls. Is pop metal a thing? Thats kinda what it sounds like.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2023 09:19 PM (VwHCD)

138 Forgot the link Kongo's >> https://tinyurl.com/3k3z74t5

Posted by: javems at December 16, 2023 09:19 PM (u3z76)

139 Just saw over at Insty that today is the 79th anniversary of the beginning of the Ardennes offensive.

Posted by: Tuna at December 16, 2023 09:20 PM (oaGWv)

140 For your penance, you shall wear tow pair of pants in tomorrow's Book Thread.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 16, 2023 09:17 PM (a3Q+t)
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OregonMuse (PBUH) isn't around to nag us about propriety. Sunday morning is for silk caftan and hookah!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 16, 2023 09:22 PM (brrec)

141 Here's one I have on my phone, and listen to a lot when driving. Herbie Mann, "Battle Hymn of the Republic," 1969.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUfWA2hSCJA&loop=0

Used by Hunter S. Thompson as his campaign tune, when running for sheriff out in West Bumfuck, CO. Or whatever the name of the town. It's on the long downhill run coming west out of the Independence Pass toward Aspen, which I did a little after a clear bright dawn after overnighting in Leadville, on a motorcycle, following a CODOT dump truck. The driver of the truck had the turns memorized, and ran it like it was Sebring.

1969, the year of the Apollo moon landing. I was field engineer working out of a job trailer with no radio, in Delaware, Ohio, the job a PPG auto paint plant expansion, and I listened to the takeoff (to me far more exciting than the landing) from the moon on my VW car radio.

In summer that year, Dylan came out with his studio album, Nashville Skyline, and I can remember my favorite from those dope-hazed days, "Girl From the North Country."

Posted by: Mr Gaga at December 16, 2023 09:23 PM (KiBMU)

142 I suddenly felt like I should being drinking some scotch...

and so I am.

This is Compass Box "Peat Monster Arcana"

a very nice and surprisingly gentle and subtle monster it is.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 16, 2023 09:24 PM (QzZeQ)

143 "1969, the year of the Apollo moon landing. I was field engineer working out of a job trailer with no radio, in Delaware, Ohio, the job a PPG auto paint plant expansion, and I listened to the takeoff (to me far more exciting than the landing) from the moon on my VW car radio."

My dad worked for PPG at that office.

Posted by: Tuna at December 16, 2023 09:27 PM (oaGWv)

144 This is pretty cool. Watch the man's little adoring daughter. Priceless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgNn6rfByAM

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 16, 2023 09:28 PM (V8he0)

145 I daily 98-04 Town Cars and most of them have 6 disc trunk mounted changers. Considering I don't like music after the grunge period CDs are bery bery good to me. You can get all the once expensive box sets pretty cheap now on EBay since most people use modern things. Works for me

Posted by: azjaeger at December 16, 2023 09:29 PM (3/XaG)

146 Mr. Gaga @ 141- As I recall, at sea onbd USS Independence when the astronauts landed on the moon.

Posted by: Eromero at December 16, 2023 09:29 PM (NxC5+)

147 OregonMuse (PBUH) isn't around to nag us about propriety. Sunday morning is for silk caftan and hookah!
Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 16, 2023 09:22 PM (brrec)
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Let's not get too wild and crazy! Santa is still watching you...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 16, 2023 09:30 PM (BpYfr)

148 , "Girl From the North Country."
Posted by: Mr Gaga
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'Remember me to one who lives there...'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 16, 2023 09:31 PM (XeU6L)

149 Just saw over at Insty that today is the 79th anniversary of the beginning of the Ardennes offensive.
Posted by: Tuna at December 16, 2023 09:20 PM (oaGWv)

During which members of the Waffen SS murdered almost 100 Americans after the GIs had surrendered. News got out, of course, and the Americans were enraged. Near the end of the battle, with Americans capturing surrendering Germans, officers looked the other way when GI's took revenge. Winners get to hold war crimes trials, and the nazi participants were convicted and hanged.

Let's see what Israel does when the tunnels are all wrecked and flooded, and they flush out the leaders and participants of not just the Oct 7 atrocities, but the prison guards that held, tortured, and killed captives.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at December 16, 2023 09:31 PM (KiBMU)

150 Posted by: Tuna at December 16, 2023 09:27 PM (oaGWv)

In 1969 I was three years old. I do remember 16 and 17, though. My dad watched all of them.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, 3/12 FA at December 16, 2023 09:31 PM (T/Lqj)

151 Tommy Emmanuel and Sierra Hull and excellent musicianship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlEbEBId9CQ

Posted by: huerfano at December 16, 2023 09:33 PM (Q4KYm)

152 "In 1969 I was three years old. I do remember 16 and 17, though. My dad watched all of them."

I watched the landing at the OSU student union. I was 19 going on 20 that summer. Memories.

Posted by: Tuna at December 16, 2023 09:36 PM (oaGWv)

153 Mr GaGa @ 149-
Some were punished but not Joachim Peiper, he got his later. Maybe SAS?

Posted by: Eromero at December 16, 2023 09:36 PM (NxC5+)

154 Enjoy! and keep this light. No politics or other sh*t.

Posted by: CBD at 07:30 PM

This is not complicated.

We have 50 posts each week that are serious.

Please respect the wishes of the cobloggers, and keep it light when asked.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2023 09:37 PM (gSZYf)

155 Posted by: azjaeger at December 16, 2023 09:29 PM (3/XaG)

And sound quality on CDs is excellent.

Sure...it's digital, but it still has lots and lots of data...unlike the modern systems like MP3, which flatten the sound.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2023 09:39 PM (gSZYf)

156 Spotify Christmas playlist includes a few tunes from the Ventures Christmas album. Also Bela Fleck. If you haven't heard his version of Linus and Lucy, here's an early present from moi...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSr9mBCDsfk

Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 16, 2023 09:41 PM (P3/G2)

157 just lurkin' tonight, but thanks as always for the music thread, especially the John Prine.

Posted by: screaming in digital at December 16, 2023 09:44 PM (WSDq0)

158
Listening to Sibelius No. 5 right now.

__________

My favorite recording is the Bernstein/NYP on Sony. Ormandy's 1954 recording is tremendous, especially in the last movement, but it's mono.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2023 09:44 PM (MoZTd)

159 All digital recordings, regardless of resolution transform curves into chunks. Stair steps. The only question is your hearing perception. Analog is still awesome.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 16, 2023 09:44 PM (MeG8a)

160 Analog is inconvenient as hell. Digital is a function of convenience.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 16, 2023 09:46 PM (MeG8a)

161 ZOD.

Posted by: ZOD at December 16, 2023 09:47 PM (5HQE5)

162 Vanity. All is vanity.

Posted by: Eromero at December 16, 2023 09:47 PM (NxC5+)

163 To make up forgetting the Kongo's link I offer this on in repentance.

"Come With Me Now" >> https://youtu.be/Gz2GVlQkn4Q

Posted by: javems at December 16, 2023 09:47 PM (u3z76)

164 Analog is still awesome.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 16, 2023 09:44 PM (MeG8a)

I agree, but CDs compared to every other digital system are simply better.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2023 09:47 PM (gSZYf)

165
The only question is your hearing perception.

____________

I'm afraid my hearing only picks up the clicks, pops and rumbles.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2023 09:48 PM (MoZTd)

166 All digital recordings, regardless of resolution transform curves into chunks. Stair steps. The only question is your hearing perception. Analog is still awesome.
Posted by: gourmand
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Analog vs. Digital is as controversial as crossbows vs. longbows.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 16, 2023 09:48 PM (XeU6L)

167 Joe that was different

Posted by: Skip at December 16, 2023 09:49 PM (fwDg9)

168 #137 - Yeah, not really metal, but definitely rock. And a Korean girl band playing instruments in itself is a univorn.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 16, 2023 09:49 PM (9yUzE)

169 When our kids were teenagers, they were deep into music lessons, practice, and performances. Our son plays piano and our daughter plays flute.

The piano piece I remember best from hearing it played so often is Bach's classic "Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor," which our son would play wearing a cheap black tails outfit we found somewhere, and dracula teeth, to entertain his friends. Phantom of the Opera.

The flute piece we really liked hearing our daughter do was Frank Martin's "Ballade." Here is a guy doing it on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt7nNJjR4u8&loop=0

Both kids are now adults with their own kids and families, but they both still play regularly.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at December 16, 2023 09:50 PM (KiBMU)

170 >>I agree, but CDs compared to every other digital system are simply better. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2023 09:47 PM (gSZYf)

Vacuum tube amp simply better.

Posted by: ZOD at December 16, 2023 09:50 PM (5HQE5)

171
Vacuum tube amp simply better.
Posted by: ZOD

__________

Gold cables are the only way to go.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2023 09:51 PM (MoZTd)

172 Sweet. Nice job Rangers.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2023 09:52 PM (ZLI7S)

173 Gold cables are the only way to go.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 16, 2023 09:51 PM (MoZTd)

Oxygen-free copper FTW!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2023 09:53 PM (5LuQg)

174 "My favorite recording is the Bernstein/NYP on Sony. Ormandy's 1954 recording is tremendous, especially in the last movement, but it's mono."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I like Sir Colin Davis' interpretation.

Posted by: Tuna at December 16, 2023 09:53 PM (oaGWv)

175 Nyquist and Shannon have entered the chat

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 16, 2023 09:53 PM (XeU6L)

176 NOOD ONT

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 16, 2023 09:54 PM (qPw5n)

177 If you don't have your audio gear on pyramid legs, then the quality will suffer immensely.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 16, 2023 09:56 PM (XeU6L)

178 Years ago an audiophile pal of mine, we did an A to B comparison. The recording was Hot House Flowers by Winton Marsalis in CD, recorded at 44.1.
On the other end of the toggle switch was the same recording on LP, in phono, with a McIntosh amp and Tannoy speakers.
To me, the LP sounded better. Less harsh.
Everyone's hearing is different. Really. Your hearing is never so good as the day you are born. It's all a slow but relentless downhill trek from then on. And it's not all the same. Some have hearing deficiencies in different ranges than do others. Anyway, that is just my experience.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 16, 2023 09:56 PM (MeG8a)

179
151 Tommy Emmanuel and Sierra Hull and excellent musicianship.
Posted by: huerfano at December 16, 2023 09:33 PM (Q4KYm)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlEbEBId9CQ

Great stuff. Sierra Hull and Molly Tuttle are buds and Molly and Golden Highway have a new song-

https://tinyurl.com/MollyTuttleGolden

Posted by: Leon Sphinx at December 16, 2023 09:56 PM (UIngH)

180 CD players benefit enormously from tube front-ends!

Posted by: A Golden Ear at December 16, 2023 09:57 PM (XeU6L)

181 $#¡÷
Retry on Christmas show nic link

🤶

Posted by: mindful webworker - Bah humbug at December 16, 2023 09:57 PM (2he9d)

182 Damn! I just about to tout Edison cylenders.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 16, 2023 09:58 PM (XeU6L)

183 'cylinders'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 16, 2023 09:58 PM (XeU6L)

184 In my prior post, I forgot to mention, this took place at the advent of CDs, all were recorded at the time at 44.1khz. These days recordings are at much higher resolution. Like 196khz.
This alone smooths things out a lot.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 16, 2023 10:00 PM (MeG8a)

185 Here's a lyric I remember from a John Prine tune, "That's the Way the World Goes Down."

"Starts drinkin' early, gets a big red nose
Beats his old lady with a . . . rubber hose
Then he takes her out do dinner . . . buys her new clothes."

I loved everything he did, and can play and sing most of it. "Summers End" takes me down every time I try.

We left Pittsburgh to drive south to FL earlier this week, and went the length of WV on I-79, blue sky, sunshine, hardly anyone on the road. We were listening to a book on audible, but I was looking at the hills and hollers, thinking about that Prine tune. Opioid addiction. Family.

"Come on home."

Posted by: Mr Gaga at December 16, 2023 10:01 PM (KiBMU)

186 Vacuum tube amp simply better.
Posted by: ZOD

1000X this.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 16, 2023 10:02 PM (VwHCD)

187 As for convenience, who here remembers setting up a really good phono rig? Where you have to calibrate the rate of spin with a strobe and balance the needle just right. Adjust for the corriealis effect, the phases of the moon and so on.
And then the phono player draws more power than anything. I admit it's a total pain in the ass.
I own several phono players much in the same way that others have 3 or 4 non functioning cars on their lot. Some are just for parts.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 16, 2023 10:04 PM (MeG8a)

188 Molly Tuttle dressed like Elizabeth II the Red Queen and doing "White Rabbit" with her Alice in Wonderland troupe is a biggie with me. Great tune with a wonderful crescendo end. In Tuttle's version, the other musicians get to do cool solos.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at December 16, 2023 10:05 PM (KiBMU)

189 Something old, something new.

Listen to this and then talk to me about the clarity and purity of analog over digital.

youtube.com/watch?v=2YqZuo1WKk4

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 16, 2023 10:08 PM (9v1kn)

190 Our son is teaching his second grader to play the theremin. Know what that is? One very cool electric instrument.

Dates to 1919 and was invented by a Russian physicist. Go to YouTube, watch one played, and you'll see why physics are involved.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at December 16, 2023 10:09 PM (KiBMU)

191 Fred Waring did an album called the Story of Christmas, and was used for years as part of the Christmas Day service. Pastor did narration, choir sang the songs, and used slide show of appropriate religious scenes as illustrations.
Posted by: Lirio100 at December 16, 2023 09:03 PM (I5U35)
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It is a good one - I've got it.

Posted by: Black JEM at December 16, 2023 10:16 PM (UVyKP)

192 Might I recommend Robert Shaw and his Chorale…
Posted by: browndog
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Nice choice. All of their Christmas recordings are very good.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 16, 2023 09:04 PM (XeU6L)
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I have one of theirs. I also like Norman Luboff quite a bit. Joseph Dearest, Joseph Mine is done as well as anyone by them.

Posted by: Black JEM at December 16, 2023 10:18 PM (UVyKP)

193 I have tucked away one or two of the Firestone Christmas albums. Odd, now, to think of a tire company producing a record for Christmas. I think Goodyear did also, and Goodrich. It was a different country then...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 16, 2023 09:15 PM (XeU6L)
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This just keeps me going. I have all the Goodyear albums, there is 9 or 10 of them. Very well put together.

Posted by: Black JEM at December 16, 2023 10:19 PM (UVyKP)

194 All digital recordings, regardless of resolution transform curves into chunks. Stair steps. The only question is your hearing perception. Analog is still awesome.

And the filters smooth it all out. Look up Nyquist-Shannon.
"Analog sounds warmer." WTF is "warmer"? Some nebulous, undefined term that means "I think I hear *something* that sounds better."

You know what I remember of the golden analog days? Tape hiss. Pops and scratches and the loss of highs and dynamics as the grooves wore. I love CDs. Yeah, MP3 loses fidelity, which is why I don't listen to them at home, but my car music is all on MP3s, which I burn from CDs. 8-10 hours per disc. The better fidelity of CDs (or WAV) is lost in road noise, engine rumble (Hot Rod Music) and wind.

Posted by: buddhaha at December 16, 2023 10:57 PM (9WT2E)

195 Marvelous, what a weblog it is! This website provides useful data to us, keep it up.

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