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| Is R.E.M. underrated by new music nerds? @onhwy61: Don Dixon---NOW yer talkin'! I love his stuff, and his gal Marti Jones' as well. As for The Ramones and The Byrds peaking out of the gate, I must disagree. The Ramones took a giant leap forward when Marky replaced Tommy on drums (the Ro... | |
| Is R.E.M. underrated by new music nerds? If you want to impress a young person, play he or she a Rockabilly song. Try "The Train Kept A-Rollin’", for instance. Jeff Beck got The Yardbirds to record their pretty good version of the song (the first one I heard), but in pales in comparison ... | |
| Sound quality of new vinyl recordings. Yep Rock is another current label releasing new LP’s "cut" from analogue tapes. The label has a world-class artist roster, including Nick Lowe, Alejandro Escovedo, Amy Helm (Levon’s daughter), Dave Alvin, Fountains Of Wayne, Jim Lauderdale (great... | |
| What CDs to buy - Rodney Crowell: The Houston Kid. A perfect album. - The Notorious Cherry Bombs (Rodney Crowell, Vince Gill): s/t. Joyful singin’ and pickin’! - The Johnny Staats Project (Bluegrass super-session): Wires & Wood. Virtuoso musicianship. - Ir... | |
| Do you find yourself turning down the bass on Coldplay albums? I like the joke about Cold Play in The 40-Year-Old Virgin. | |
| Is R.E.M. underrated by new music nerds? When R.E.M. were hot I was already too old for them. By then I was listening to NRBQ, John Hiatt, Ry Cooder, Tom Waits, Lucinda Williams, Los Lobos, Steve Earle, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, The Blasters, Marshall Crenshaw, Nick Lowe, etc. You know.... | |
| Sound quality of new vinyl recordings. "99% or more of new pressings are sourced from digital files." "Only a few specialist companies like Classic Records will use all analog tape." Let’s take care of the simple one first: Classic records has been out of business for about 15 years. ... | |
| What CDs to buy Here’s a great sounding CD; whether or not you are interested n the music is a different matter: Country Hits...Feeling Blue by Tennessee Ernie Ford. Songs by Hank Williams, Willie Nelson, Don Gibson, and Fred Rose. Swinging guitar by Billy Stran... | |
| What CDs to buy @curtdr: Yes indeed, finding music you like that was recorded in good sound is the audiophilic music lover’s dream. Unfortunately, as J. Gordon Holt often said in his Stereophile reviews as far back as the early-60’s, the two are often mutually ex... | |
| Iris DeMent, past and present. Oops, Emitt died in 2020, not 2000. | |
| Iris DeMent, past and present. In the late-90’s a very long-time friend of mine (we met in "home room" our first day of 7th grade, in September of 1962---in what was then referred to as Jr. High, now called Middle School) told me his wife---knowing I had kept up with "modern" m... | |
| What CDs to buy While my instincts warn me against wading into such waters, I can’t resist. To come onto an "Audiophile" site in search of recommendations for recommendations of CD’s to purchase does nothing less than provide evidence that audiophiles care about ... | |
| Iris DeMent, past and present. I took Iris’ My Life CD (no LP release of the album in 1994) to the Vegas CES in the late 90’s (enabled by my pal and hi-fi retailer Brooks Berdan), to use as audition material. Big mistake; with "No Time To Cry" played back through Jerry Crosby’s... | |
| Tune of the Day I don’t remember if I’ve already nominated the following (the memory ain’t what it used to be): "West" by Lucinda Williams, the closing song on the album of the same title. I don’t possess the ability to convey in words how deeply beautiful and r... | |
| The Forgotten Fulton Musical Industries (FMI) Model J loudspeaker. Music Reference RM-9, RM-10, and RM-200 vacuum tube amplifiers, all in Mk. 2 iterations. Designer/tube expert Roger Modjeski's death a few years back was a major loss to hi-fi. |