tylermunns
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| I saw the back of an integrated and it depressed me. An accident caused a seemingly uber-fragile screen on a flat screen TV to break the other day, necessitating a new TV. Bought an LG at the store, set it up, realized that it had zero analog inputs. Our DVD/VHS player is YPbPr & RCA output. Som... | |
| Interesting videos about sounds and music Leonard Bernstein, The Unanswered Question lecture (‘Part 1’): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8fHi36dvTdE Glenn Gould, CBC program discussing Bach and music history plus a performance of Cantata No. 54: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uoz8u7R-aQs | |
| the meters on jackpot records mastered by kevin gray I wish I could speak to them, as I can’t, but I will say these things: - you probably like The Meters, as you started this particular topic, - you probably like vinyl, as you started this particular topic, - Kevin Gray is an elite mastering engine... | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. @bdp24 I suppose I consider the records of Charley Patton, Leadbelly, Son House etc. etc…to the records of Elmore James, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Howlin’ Wolf etc. etc…and the records of The Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, etc. etc…to the records of Bil... | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. @mdalton Do you remember that episode of Seinfeld where Elaine’s boyfriend would suddenly enter an impenetrable trance-like state whenever he heard, “Desperado?” I kind of turn into that guy whenever I hear “Time After Time” by Cyndi Lauper. | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. If it ain’t classical and it ain’t jazz (I don’t consider vocal recordings of pop songs by the great songwriters of the early 20th century I posted previously to be ‘jazz’), it’s pop. - verse/chorus - repeat - A middle section (either bridge, sol... | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. @bdp24 My original US copy of Song Cycle is one of my more cherished records. Was re-watching the Twin Peaks series (again) the other day and whaddya know…I always forget Van Dyke Parks has a small role in season 2 (attorney in courtroom scene... | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. Phil Spector’s vision was original. He was a producer, not an arranger/transcriber. He was also no dummy when it came to pop songs. “To Know Him Is To Love Him,” with it’s clever bridge chord progression/melody was written solely by Spector. ... | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. @noromance Carol was the music, Gerry was the lyrics. I don’t listen to that music for the lyrics. I don’t wish to diminish Gerry’s contributions, but that’s just how I see it. | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. @teboerio I feel compelled to note that Glen Campbell’s 1970 version of Jimmy Webb’s masterpiece “MacArthur Park” is hard to beat. IMO, Waylon Jennings’s 1976 version is right behind. Harris’ version is probably somewhere behind Donna Summer’s... | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. @jonwolfpell Indeed, Carol King wrote all those songs. Goffin was more the lyrics guy. That’s a fraction of the list, also. Those were just the ones I was particularly fond of. I didn’t mention “Take Good Care of my Baby” by Bobby Vee, her... | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. @loomisjohnson “The Porpoise Song”…written by Carole King An awesome song that will thwart many a Monkees-basher’s notions as to their mediocrity/crappiness. Carole’s demo of “Pleasant Valley Sunday” is great, and superior to the original Monke... | |
| Interesting videos about sounds and music Martin Scorsese’s documentaries: - No Direction Home (Bob Dylan) - Living in the Material World (George Harrison) - Rolling Thunder Revue (many great artists, among them Allen Ginsburg, Dylan, & Joni Mitchell and their ‘75 tour) and, my person... | |
| Is Rap a valid musical form? I would guess lots of us have read the writings and seen the footage of people from the ‘50s referring to rock n’ roll as “not a valid form of music,” “lacking in musical merit,” “lacking deep and broad emotional content,” “obscene, vulgar,” “a by... | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. No one who puts their feet up on my coffee table and says, “God Only Knows” is the best pop song ever written will get a dirty look from me. A pop song that can hit a “laymen” with authority and merely sound like a “pretty, catchy song,” but whic... |