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| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. I agree, "What is Pop music?" is an interesting question, one perhaps without a definitive answer. It originally referred to songs written in the classic two verses, chorus, bridge (middle 8 in England), third verse, chorus, out form. Or a close ... | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. How about "Pretty Ballerina" by The Left Banke, written by Michael Brown? Also their "Walk Away Renee", done in a great version by The Four Tops as well. | |
| Interesting videos about sounds and music Geez, it’s been only one day, and I have to recommend this video about Jim Gordon in place of the one above. Please do yourself a HUGE favour and watch it, it is truly incredible. It is an interview with Joel Selvin, longtime music writer for T... | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. @tylermunns: Does your copy of the Song Cycle LP have the beautiful gold Warner Brothers center paper label? Both my copies (one has the rear cover with lyrics, the other without them but full musician credits) have the later ugly green WB label. ... | |
| Acoustic advice re: building a room (in wall or on wall) treatments Look into the wall construction products made by ASC. I have heard a room constructed with them, and the structure of the room---especially the walls---was the least resonant I have ever heard, by a considerable margin. Rapped with one’s knuckl... | |
| Five feet from the front wall @dsper: Yes, measurements are always made from the baffle the loudspeaker drivers are mounted onto. The 5' figure is especially apropos for dipole planar loudspeakers. 5' allows the speaker's front wave to be heard 10ms before the rear wave (sound... | |
| Please help me to define diagnosis of the following illness. I too often focus on one artist or composer at a time, listening to nothing else for maybe a week at a time. That makes for a deep dive into what it is the artist/composer was all about. | |
| MM Phono Stages With Greater Than 40 dB of Gain? 40dB of gain was the standard back in the pre-moving coil days, and very few phono stages DON'T provide that amount of gain for moving magnet and moving iron pickups. The Herron VTPH phono amps (both the VTPH-1mm and VTPH-2) provide 42 or 44dB of... | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. @tylermunns: A songwriter/bandmate and I discovered Randy Newman’s first album through Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson. Because of Van’s work with Brian on the Smile recordings (I discovered the Smiley Smile album in early-’68, and turned him on t... | |
| Tune of the Day "The Way" by Fastball. Power Pop to the max! | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. One of my very favorite early-60’s songs/records is "On Broadway", sung by The Drifters, written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin’s Brill Building songwriting team competition: Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann. The song/recording is very haunting, an... | |
| Interesting videos about sounds and music This is a good overview of the great drummer Jim Gordon, one of my half-dozen or so favorites. https://youtu.be/HToM-FY_xCc?si=A9pD_eS6aVkSJUzB | |
| Tune of the Day Paul Revere & The Raiders: "Just Like Me". | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. Brian Wilson cites Gershwin as a major influence. He in fact recorded an album of Gershwin tunes---entitled Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin---in 2010. Dave Edmunds included a beautiful version of Rodgers & Hart’s "Where Or When" on his Get I... | |
| Growing list of current modern artists Another deep pool of talent worth diving into is the music made before the era you grew up in, and have yet to hear. There was a lot being made in the 40's and 50's, a time before most here were alive (or at least listening to music). Louis Jo... |