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What is your favorite 1 hit wonder from the 70's?
The Bugles were the first video played on MTV. 
What is your favorite 1 hit wonder from the 70's?
Louie / The Stories 
What is your favorite 1 hit wonder from the 70's?
Mexican Radio / Wall of Voodoo 
SME 20/3 or Oracle Delphi VI or Garrard 301
You know what an Oracle sounds like and I hear the new Mark V addresses the bass shyness. I have owned an Oracle for over 20 years and have modified many times.I know this is a pain but listening to all these tables is the only way you can be happ... 
New Album from The Cars "Move Like This"
Panorama is my favorite The Cars album. Their first two recordings were filled with catchy tunes that went down like a shot of smooth Boubon,easy on the ears. But Panorama was different,it took some time for that album to settle in on me which str... 
Noobie. Vinyl reissues. Am I expecting too much?
We sometimes forget that there is a whole generation of people whom were raised on the CD medium or digital age. Myself i was brought up listening to vinyl so Im accustomed to the meduim and its flaws. I enjoy vinyl and its suttle clicks and the o... 
Noobie. Vinyl reissues. Am I expecting too much?
If your bottom feeding as you say then you get what you pay for. People mostly part with less than perfect pressings.let them become somebody else's headache. I stay away from Blue Note re issues,they do not imo sound all that great and the qualit... 
Great sounding CDs out there...
Recordings(remaster)/ Porcupine TreeLabor of Lust(remaster) Nick LoweLive in Amsterdam / Counting Crows 
Zappa question
I would go from there to Uncle Meat. It has some improvisional tunes as well as straight ahead Frank. 
Sophomore Slump? The best 2nd albums of all time
well Layla and other Assorted Lovesongs is probably a no brainer. I did not care for his debut but Derek and the Dominoes came to play on this recording and it doesn't hurt that Duanne Allman was on it neither. 
Sophomore Slump? The best 2nd albums of all time
Gasoline Alley by Rod Stewart was a great sophmore realese. It was a snapshot of what was to follow with Every Picture Tells a Story 
Three best audiophile CD/LP in your collection
Hotel California / The Eagles / LP MFSLBreakfast in America / Supertramp / LP MFSLBand of Gypsies / Jimi Hendrix / LP Toshiba 1/2 speed master. 
Need Blues Rec--burn the house down guitar stuff
The first three are the ones to own (self titled, 2nd season, The Hard Way). They then became splintered with new personal and started going more mainstream. I've seen em on vinyl on ebay. 
Need Blues Rec--burn the house down guitar stuff
Isn't that a great looking guitar on the cover of Johnny Winter's Progressive Blues Experiment. That is a National register steel guitar made from a cash register. Yup,in the depression so many business's went under that they made guitars out of t... 
Art Blakey, king of the drums.
Another thing about Blakey is he invented tapping his drum rim( the metal ring around the drum that holds the skin on) when he wanted one of the members in The Jazz Messengers to solo or improvise during live gigs and he would then tap it again wh...