loomisjohnson
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| Your favorite LP nobody has ever heard of it's an extreme longshot that anyone here has heard it, but i have an 80s lp by a band call sponsors (s/t) which is absolutely brilliant--ten tight, hooky sorta new wavy guitar power pop gems. from what little i've been able to glean, they were fr... | |
| Best rock bass player a couple not mentioned above whom i've always admired:graham maby (joe jackson, freedy johnson et al)--a really lyrical player who really frames some excellent-sounding records. i have a special weakness for him cause he also played with they migh... | |
| Best beer thanks, marty. since we're logrolling here, i agree with you wholeheartedly on the hop/malt balance thing--the trap i think many of these young gun microbrewers fall into is overamping the hops and/or alcohol to give their potions more "character"... | |
| Speakers for Vintage Marantz ? Plus other Qs see if you can find some energy 22 with the tweeters intact on canuck audio, get 'em | |
| Kanye West - Grammy comment, re Beck fwiw, the pazz and job (national critics) poll had beck 16th; deangelo was first, followed by run the jewels (?), war on drugs and st. vincent. to arnettpartner's point, i think there's plenty of talent out there, but i agree the less of it is rea... | |
| Kanye West - Grammy comment, re Beck i can't comment on beyonce's music, which i haven't heard, and i agree with the general sentiment that kanye is an attention whore whose dis of beck is completely classless. however, i've always thought beck was a bit overrated--to me he's more cr... | |
| CD Recorder Died - Best Replacement Option? i used a philips cd765 for years--it was a very well-built piece which made great copies. easy to find used on ebay for $100 or less. if you must have a new unit, look at teac cdrw890, which is around $200 and looks pretty solid. | |
| Attn Vinyl lovers - what CD Player do you use? i was as skeptical as anyone, but the sony ps1 (currently around $20 on ebay) really does sound vinyl-like--there's some basis for all the hype. i stopped using mine because i felt silly fooling with the controller, but it was sonically impressive. | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report bark psychosis--hex (criminally underrecognized, electro newwavy postrock; in the same vein as talk talk)absolute grey--greenhouse | |
| If you have ever bought anything from HSU research like seemingly everyone else here, i've had only positive dealings with hsu, both in terms of product and service. i don't doubt that the op sincerely believes he's been wronged in some way by hsu, but you would think that given the op's stated le... | |
| Rembering the 80s: College Rock joy division was awesome--they influenced essentially every gothy/angsty/postpunky band in existence. they only had two real records, as i recall, but they still sound fantastic after thousands of listenings | |
| Rembering the 80s: College Rock glad this thread is revived--these 80s bands are what turned me from an admirer to a fanatic. sonic youth, meat puppets, husker du, windbreakers, thin white rope, lets active, comsat angels, lyres, neighborhoods, murmur-era rem, rain parade, and s... | |
| Which used speakers $300 to $500 per pair? among the ones you've listed, for rock and blues i'd opt for the vr2s first and then the psb golds. if you can get either for | |
| Apple to Acquire Beats Audio i saw in passing today that spotify now claims 15 million paid subscribers, while beats music is believed to have only 300,000. (according to the same story, apple's itunes radio has some 40 million listeners; most, i presume, using the free servi... | |
| Advice Request - Sonus Faber Toy Speakers? since you asked, with a similar budget and placement limitation, i auditioned the sf toys and concertinos, along with dynaudio xcite and lots of others (didn't hear the cremonas, which are quite a bit pricier). i ended up buying the rega rs1, whic... |