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| What does it take to be a die hard Beatles fan? @bdp24 You didn’t answer the question. I’ll ask it another way: how can playing sitar “ruin” a guitar player’s guitar-playing ability? | |
| What does it take to be a die hard Beatles fan? @nakam I included “I Should Have Known Better” from A Hard Day’s Night. “This Boy,” which I included, was released just 2 months prior (only 1 month prior in the US) to the A Hard Day’s Night sessions. “If I Fell” from A Hard Day’s Night is on... | |
| What does it take to be a die hard Beatles fan? @bdp24 “That damn sitar ruined George as a guitarist” What could possibly support such a statement? “John & Paul increasingly wrote apart not together (they really needed each other, the whole being vastly greater than the sum of it's parts)... | |
| Taylor Swift Concert Prices The Live Nation/Ticketmaster merger 13 years ago is roughly neck-and-neck (non-scientific moral judgement metrics) with the ubiquity of digital pitch correction (Autotune) as the worst things to happen to popular music in my lifetime, maybe anyone... | |
| Tina turner Dead at 83 From “I’m Blue (The Gong-Gong Song)” in ‘61 all the way to “Sexy Ida,” in ‘74, she has an absolutely astonishing discography that stands with the best in the history of popular music. Onstage? Forget about it. One of the true all-time greats.... | |
| Can the level of pleasure derived from music be measured? @bdp24 🤣 +1 I’m sorry, but this is too funny. Leave it to audiophiles to pose such a question unironically. I can see the articles in audiophile magazines right now: “The only way to properly evaluate an audio system is to listen to music while ... | |
| How can you evaluate a system with highly processed music? @simonmoon Define, “accuracy.” ”Sounds exactly like a violin does in person”? “Sounds exactly like a piano does in person”? This may be true to the listener. Sure, it’s possible someone may “get it right,” or “as close to ‘right’ as possible... | |
| How can you evaluate a system with highly processed music? The only “evaluation” is whether it sounds good to you or not. If it sounds good, the evaluation is: “A”. If it doesn’t, then hopefully you can make some sound, sensible choices to improve what’s lacking (you’re in a good spot here on this for... | |
| How can you evaluate a system with highly processed music? “Audio systems deliver qualitative experiences. Electronic or processed music sounds different as delivered by different systems. Live music also sounds different from different systems. The salient question is: how does it sound to you?” This👆 b... | |
| 45 Singles You Just Had to Buy @mksun +1 Dick Vivian at Rooky Ricardo’s Records in San Francisco will blow your mind with his knowledge of ‘60s 45s. Between his store and his home he’s got over 100,000 of ‘em. He has a CD series of custom compilations (28 songs apiece) of... | |
| What are your favorite songs or albums for illustrating a deep soundstage? @blisshifi Yeah, I found the ability to so easily “see” the snare drum with such a “visual” presence, consistent, steady but minimal (or the opposite of ‘busy’) on “deep sounding” tracks helpful. YMMV, and you might certainly have other tracks you... | |
| What are your favorite songs or albums for illustrating a deep soundstage? Depth… I remember using, for speaker positioning purposes, “Fade into You” by Mazzy Star, “The Golden Age” by Beck and “Someone Saved My Life Tonight” by Elton John for their big, deep sound, but my choice of these tracks I think came down just a... | |
| 45 Singles You Just Had to Buy @officerat I love my “Let’s Pretend We’re Married” 12”. Mainly because it has “Irresistible Bitch” as the B-side | |
| 45 Singles You Just Had to Buy @lowrider57 Yeah, I don’t know the degree to which those transcontinental track listings were decided by the artists, if at all. “We’ll just decide for the US LP that track 3 is expendable and replace it with a single.” “This previously-released... | |
| 45 Singles You Just Had to Buy @lowrider57 technically, yes, but it kinda depended on which version of the albums one purchased. For UK releases, singles and LPs were very often mutually exclusive. The US LPs would often include those UK singles at the expense of album tracks, ... |