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| Pet Sounds: Most Overrated Album of All Time? There is a YouTube video in which a pianist sits at his keyboard, explaining and demonstrating the "bones" (chord progression, modulations---aka key changes, melody, counterpoint) of "God Only Knows" as he leads you through the musical constructio... | |
| Pet Sounds: Most Overrated Album of All Time? @stuartk: Amen, brother! Rubber Soul and Revolver are much better. | |
| Doge 8 Clarity: 12AT7 replacement for phono stage Or call RAM Tube Works! Roger Modjeski is gone, but there are some of his graded-for-noise small signal tubes still available. | |
| Pet Sounds: Most Overrated Album of All Time? One of my favorite things about Pet Sounds is how the album ends: with the far-away sound of a train running down the tracks, a dog barking in response. Brilliant! So evocative, so nostalgic, so sentimental. The album’s theme is all about becoming... | |
| Black Friday Record Store Day Haul I went back and picked up the Johnnie Johnson (Chuck Berry's pianist, this album produced by Keith Richards, with NRBQ members playing on the album), Leonard Cohen, and various artists Americana Railroad titles. The Little Feat was sold out, gotta... | |
| New In 2021 @slaw: It's funny---both Chrissie and Lucinda have new Dylan song albums out. I'm picking up Lucinda's on Sunday, to add to the Dylan albums I already have by Maria Muldaur and Joan Osborne. | |
| Tune of the Day @slaw: Good to see you giving The Rubinoos their due. Do you also have their Back To The Drawing Board album? It contains a fantastic song entitled "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend", very high energy Power Pop (with a great guitar solo by Tommy Dunbar).... | |
| Anyone Get a Degritter for Xmas? @jgreen19: The Vinyl Storage Solutions outer sleeves are fantastic, aren’t they? I recently put all my LP’s in various models of Michael’s sleeves: 2mil resealable double pocket with 2mil multi-purpose on gatefold covers, two 2mil resealable doubl... | |
| How does a REL subwoofer add dimensionality and depth to a sound system? Why are REL’s so often given credit for providing the sound quality improvement to a system that all good subs provide, as if there are two classes of subs: REL’s, and all others? REL’s are not that unique, there ARE other subs that are great at r... | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report Geronimo by Shannon McNally, produced by Charlie Sexton. Though she has albums dating back to 2002, Shannon is new to me, this being the first album of her's I've heard. Though her very strong voice is quite different from Lucinda's (less "unique"... | |
| New In 2021 Shannon McNally: The Waylon Sessions. All songs having been recorded by Waylon, Shannon is provided musical accompaniment in her recording of the songs by Buddy Miller, Rodney Crowell, and Jessi Colter. Though Shannon has albums dating back to 200... | |
| Tune of the Day Julie Miller with Buddy Miller: "When You Go Down". From Buddy and Julie's Lockdown Album, digital streaming only, but I heard the song on YouTube. The object of Julie's ire will become apparent when you watch the video. | |
| Using SUBWOOFERS internal crossover... @rbertalotto, I believe the m7-hp is for use with the Vandersteen amps and Model 7 loudspeakers, themselves rather expensive. Richard for years offered a much simpler and cheaper version for use with his Model 2 loudspeakers and subs. That version... | |
| Perfect Pop Songs Great one @cd318! I have "Johnny Angel" on a 7" 45 (one of my first), and again fall in love with Shelley every time I hear it. From roughly the same time---and also performed on the TV show he was appearing in at the time of it’s release---is "Y... | |
| Holiday Music Challenge Yeah Spencer, Greg Shaw (Bomp Magazine and Records, manager of The Flamin' Groovies, U.S.A. Garage Band expert and collector---over 100,000 GB 45's!) called San Jose Ground Zero for the Garage Band scene. I was at The Watchband's first show, saw ... |