tylermunns
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| Disappearing Jazz? I have several modern Analogue Productions vinyl re-issues of classic jazz LPs. They are uniformly superb. My perception is that classic jazz LPs are often reissued, often by reputable labels that produce superb masterings, thusly providing fans ... | |
| Has new music gone down the tubes? It’s painfully obvious to me that people, at one time, got to live in a world where the simple act of turning on the radio, or going to any movie theater, yielded a far greater likelihood of experiencing something good than the people of today exp... | |
| Where to buy vinyl? Discogs. Of all the bigtime vendors that sell used vinyl, the stringency that used vinyl people demand of their sellers is most likely to be observed and respected by the Discogs seller. Buying new vinyl is fine, and there are plenty of options f... | |
| Has new music gone down the tubes? Of course it’s crap. I think what we mean is the presence of good music in/around the mainstream. Anyone can always say, “well, if you dig hard enough you’ll come up with something.” Not everyone is a music nerd like me who is interested in tak... | |
| I feel bad for GenX'ers that missed out on the 60s and 70s. It’s pretty obvious to me what the OP meant; “being alive and receiving stuff like ANY Beatles album, ANY Miles Davis album, ANY Dylan album, ANY Charles Mingus album, ANY Stevie Wonder album, ANY Bowie album, ANY Ornette Coleman album, ANY Stooge... | |
| Jimmy Page, It's time to call your lawyers? I can’t speak for Mr. Faulkner, but I’m pretty he wasn’t a proponent of plagiarism and copyright infringement. I don’t think he’d have taken too kindly to Hemingway or Fitzgerald blatantly stealing his ideas. It’s easy to toss off cute aphorisms... | |
| Instrumentalists you can recognize after 6 bars..? John Bonham Carlos Santana The Edge Thelonious Monk Chet Atkins Eddie Van Halen Django Reinhardt | |
| Halloween Topic - Musicians and deals with the Devil Perhaps “the chills” or “goosebumps” or the capacity to induce tears (whether it is an insanely beautiful ballad or effervescent, joyous uptempo song) are really the defining metric for whether one piece of music, or the work of a particular artis... | |
| In praise of the duet. When I hear The Everly Brothers, Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell, Donny Hathaway & Roberta Flack, The Beach Boys, I need to be peeled off the floor. I have a smidge of parental (Mom) negative bias with Simon & Garfunkel. Just a smidge to... | |
| Halloween Topic - Musicians and deals with the Devil To tie in another current thread on this forum, I’m not sure from whence Stevie Wonder got his unfathomable gifts (‘talent’ doesn’t do him justice - I’m inclined to believe a less nefarious, more divine source would be at play here), but “human” d... | |
| Talking Book Funny, I was deep in the throes of diligently making an ultimate 40-song playlist of the pre-‘71-contract era (‘66-‘71 - I passed over the ‘62–‘66 era on the grounds of personal taste, basically Uptight through Where I’m Coming From) when I found ... | |
| The Beatles Revolver Now I’m curious. I’ve been thrilled by this album in any and every format I’ve heard it. My most recent purchase was the 1971 UK vinyl reissue. I loved it. The best version I’d heard yet (still not yet heard an original). I really enjoyed Gil... | |
| Roxy Music - The Same Old Scene This is an obvious one, but “Smells Like Teen Spirit” by Nirvana. Damn Yankees, Winger, Nelson, Poison, Extreme, Warrant, Styx, Slaughter, Cinderella, Tesla, Steelheart, Great White, Skid Row, Queensryche, Scorpions, Motley Crüe, Guns N’ Roses, a... | |
| What was the last CD you bought (Name, and year issued)? I really didn’t care for the sound of my OG vinyl so I grabbed a ‘98 German CD of “Signed, Sealed, Delivered” by Stevie Wonder on Discogs. It works. I tried to buy Kill Rock Stars’ ‘01 “Kleenex/Liliput - The Complete Recordings” CD a year or so ... | |
| The Beatles Revolver @richardmathes When people say, as many here are, I among them, that these remasterings are all about money, we’re talking about the motive behind the 4,678th remastered, re-issued, deluxe, super deluxe etc. etc. Beatles album. This observation i... |