chashmal
Responses from chashmal
| Favorites Alone In Quiet Darkness Schoenberg string quartet #4, third movement, Julliard Quartet performance ON VINYL | |
| When will rap music be less mainstream? Darkmoebius: I am so tired of that argument. Just because 2 things have similarities does not mean they are related. Yes, it is true, similar things were said. However the context was completely different. It is just like the red scare of the 1950... | |
| When will rap music be less mainstream? I am actually quite surprised that there are so many audiophiles who would consider rap anything other than total garbage. The intellectual and emotive content seems fitting only for not very bright adolescents and criminal low lifes. I am surpris... | |
| When will rap music be less mainstream? Whoa...the music industry is GETTING cheesy? | |
| What would you chose? VPI MKIII vs. Linn LP-12 Both great, but I pick the Linn LP!2 (I own one). From what I have heard it is both sweeter and more detailed with the right cartridge than the VPI which (to my ears) sound a little clinical. I like a Lyra on a Linn. | |
| Any Zorn fans? The new one "Femina" is simply astounding, and extremely well recorded. | |
| Looking for Wagner recommendations It is an undeniable fact; that great music is sometimes made by total dickheads. One must simply have to accept that and enjoy what is to be enjoyed. Wagner was a genius, and neither his egotism, zenophobia, nor anti-semitism should stand in the w... | |
| Artists of the Decade Bongofury: you didn't really read anything I wrote, did you? | |
| Best blues vocalist Silly is right, but harmless fun. Good 3 Rnm4. | |
| Artists of the Decade 'Good' is based on opinion, but to a point there is a greater cultural standard. Who determines that? Not the consumer, IMO. Thus:"The only objective measure is record sales"I am surprised Mapman, I usually end up agreeing with you. I think you mi... | |
| Best blues vocalist The beauty of making such a list is in its impossibility. Forcing a choice gets your critical thinking cookin'. I have already changed my mind about what I wrote. It is inevitable.NOTE: Maybe Tommy Jonson instead of Robert Wilkins? | |
| Artists of the Decade Bongoman, you weren't reading me right. I like degenerate stuff! BUT IT HAS TO BE GOOD. I have never heard rap that wasn't simpleminded and ignorant. To me it sounds like the backwash of the tech age. Those 'performers' don't reject melody, they a... | |
| Best blues vocalist Pre-war for me has to be Robert Wilkins, who became the reverend Robert Wilkins, however I draw the line at the sixties rediscovery material which is weak. His 1927-1930 sessions are sublime. My favorite electric vocal accompaniment is Sonnyboy Wi... | |
| Artists of the Decade There is the dark side, and there is the dark side. Artistic merit ultimately doesn't distinguish light or dark; it just has to be good. I like my dark side same as the next man, but it has to transcend the common denominator of the ordinary...tha... | |
| Artists of the Decade It is a tough issue for me to discuss rationally because rap/hip-hop is really the only music that I actually 'hate'. I ordinarily would not want to hate any music at all, but...I really do hate it. Absolutely nothing makes me cringe like that thu... |