What are you listening to now?
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It's remarkable that one can buy a recording and one of the best things (besides the performance) is how "quiet" the vinyl is, and how there's no surface noise. It's almost as though you expect it to be flawed and are surprised when it's not.Yeah...I'll get off your lawn."Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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I'm never going back to vinyl. I did used to really enjoy buying it, but it's too much of a PITA.
Then again, I did used to really enjoy buying it, and the album covers are great, so who knows....
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@George-K What is so hard to understand? It's the hunt and the pursuit of sound in a medium that's, well, fun! Streaming is not fun. There is no going to a mom and pop record store and hunting for something that might not even be available to stream. To find, clean, and place a piece of vinyl on the turntable that is older than you are and listening to it for the first time or even having it played for the first time in 50-60 or more years.
Reading the gatefold or liner notes and caring for something that can be older, much older than you.
It is the pursuit of trying to get such a noise prone medium to be noise free and marveling at it when it happens.
And sometimes, when it is unavoidable, the noise brings back memories of days gone by.
Yes! You get off my lawn, with your newfangled, soulless, digital bits and bytes.
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@mark said in What are you listening to now?:
It's the hunt and the pursuit of sound in a medium that's, well, fun! Streaming is not fun. There is no going to a mom and pop record store and hunting for something that might not even be available to stream. To find, clean, and place a piece of vinyl on the turntable that is older than you are and listening to it for the first time or even having it played for the first time in 50-60 or more years.
Reading the gatefold or liner notes and caring for something that can be older, much older than you.
It is the pursuit of trying to get such a noise prone medium to be noise free and marveling at it when it happens.
And sometimes, when it is unavoidable, the noise brings back memories of days gone by.
I think what you're describing is beyond fun. I think you just described why experiencing vinyl is more meaningful.
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Sometimes you hear a song that takes you right back there - 1969.
Maybe it is because I haven't heard this for decades.
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In honor of my Ireland trip.(Though the song does not mean me, but the style is fun and what is heard in the pubs.)
Link to videoThe below is not my video but similar to what I saw in the pubs. Lots of fun
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@mark said in What are you listening to now?:
Again, unavailable in digital format or on streaming platforms.
Not to be a buzzkill, but based on the song titles and recording dates I'm pretty sure those are actually Charlie Parker Dial recordings with Miles as a sideman. You can stream them under Parker's name.
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in What are you listening to now?:
@mark said in What are you listening to now?:
Again, unavailable in digital format or on streaming platforms.
Not to be a buzzkill, but based on the song titles and recording dates I'm pretty sure those are actually Charlie Parker Dial recordings with Miles as a sideman. You can stream them under Parker's name.
Interesting. You are most likely correct but I wonder what this album is all about? It has this text on the back cover.
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@mark said in What are you listening to now?:
Interesting. You are most likely correct but I wonder what this album is all about? It has this text on the back cover.
Not sure - it's a bit weird attributing them to Miles. Also, I'm pretty sure the master tapes still exist, so there was really no need to take the sound from a 78. It's still kind of fun seeing these albums from the 70's.
Presumably they're the same recordings I'm thinking of - here's an example (with the greatest alto-sax break in history)
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"The composer John Adams has long shown a flair for catchy titles. “Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?,” a piano concerto commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, takes its name from a saying attributed to Martin Luther—alluding, perhaps, to the seductions of secular art. A fun-house-mirror distortion of Henry Mancini’s “Peter Gunn” riff drives the burly, funky opening; a limpid central reverie prefaces a finale whose rhythms possess a demoniac swagger. In this recording, Yuja Wang, the soloist, performs with athleticism and grace; the orchestra, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, matches her with power and atmosphere aplenty. Wang’s splendid account of “China Gates,” a brief piano work from 1977, provides an agreeably dreamy coda."
I'm not a huge fan of Adams, but I'm enjoying this.
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