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| Ray Charles - "Rap is not music" @frogman The statement, “(I’ve) yet to enjoy anything by Ray Charles” constitutes that of a non-human or a woefully ignorant person. If even the most popular of Ray Charles music does nothing to you, I don’t know what to say. This person is either... | |
| What is the VERY BEST CD album you've ever heard? @kb673 You said, “You’re entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.” A clear insinuation I don’t have my facts straight, or am willfully denying “the facts.” That’s where my use of the words, “you don’t want to play this game” came in. ... | |
| What is the VERY BEST CD album you've ever heard? @kb673 Yeah, you really don’t want to play this game. The facts are all there for you. Some of us already have them. Some don’t. Here are some Cliff Notes, a “Fake Book,” if you will: just Google “Tin Pan Alley.” Then come and talk to me about “mo... | |
| What is the VERY BEST CD album you've ever heard? @mrmeaner Once again, as we see in this thread here, someone made a fuss about calling the Beatles, “rock.” Who cares? We all know the Beatles. Nothing bad is going to happen, no egregious misappropriation occurs if someone calls the Beatles “rock... | |
| What is the VERY BEST CD album you've ever heard? @kb673 I beg to differ. As I said, it’s all pop. It’s all rooted in “Rock N’ Roll,” which is popular music. Pop. Blues is absolutely pop. So is country. That’s “Rock N’ Roll.” (with a bit of gospel thrown in there) Songs with a verse, a chor... | |
| What is the VERY BEST CD album you've ever heard? I can’t help but laugh when people make these delineations within pop music. It’s ALL POP. If it ain’t classical or jazz, it’s just a particular shade of pop. It was Perry Como, Rosemary Clooney, etc. Then Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richa... | |
| Ray Charles - "Rap is not music" @bdp24 Well, that went well, huh? 🤣 It appears introducing a topic that may inspire a more expansive discussion than just audio nerdery is something Audiogon can’t handle. Sad, to me. That thread had potential to be fruitful and stimulating but a ... | |
| What is the VERY BEST CD album you've ever heard? A 1990 CD by the Music & Arts label called Glenn Gould - Previously Unreleased Performances of Works by J.S. Bach, 1957-1969. This is a tough CD to find. I lucked out. It’s on YouTube. There’s also a live performance on YouTube of his unbeliev... | |
| Ray Charles - "Rap is not music" @bdp24 No, I didn’t watch the video. I said my opinion on the subject. That’s cool that people are talking about this stuff. Obviously I’m happy to chime in. My opinions were merely my own. For all I know, the person in the video you suggested is ... | |
| Ray Charles - "Rap is not music" @simao I disagree. What is “pleasing” and “acceptable” is personal preference. The arrangement of notes indigenous to other parts of the world may very well be more pleasing to some than that which is predominant in Western-World-based arrangeme... | |
| Casual listening I feel I’ve finally “come out the other side,” blessedly. I was never a tech/mechanical guy. I ended up going down the audio rabbit hole because I was ignorant at the time, took the wrong steps in fixing what were very simple/cheap problems, a... | |
| Ray Charles - "Rap is not music" @bdp24 These notions that “white supremacy” and music theory are somehow intrinsically linked are so utterly preposterous as to demand any fair-minded person with a modicum of intelligence heartily laugh them out of the room. We hear a lot of nons... | |
| Passion, or ..... Precision? Yeah, this has happened to me. I previewed a NM ‘13 “blood red” vinyl re-issue of Reign in Blood by Slayer (considered by many to be the next-best-thing, vinyl-wise, to an OG pressing) on the record store’s lo-mid fi TT-headphone listening stati... | |
| Does Hearing Loss Disqualify Me from Audiophiledom? I don’t believe hearing loss disqualifies someone one bit. I suppose providing this info when conversing with others on the finer points of audio quality may be a fair self-qualification to one’s assessment of stuff. Perhaps, “I found the high f... | |
| Ray Charles - "Rap is not music" @coltrane1 For someone who says, “what do I know, I’m a jazz nut,” you sure are quick to speak with a strong sense of authority on lots of things un-jazz. I hope you could understand how silly a sentence like, “you simply cannot expect a bunch o... |