Hard News: Heads up for music
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I will miss the end of perfectly compiled, beautifully packaged, and intelligently annotated compilations in a physical format as they become less and less viable to do.
Personally, I find it weird when someone plays one song I know, and then not the next song on the album. It's one of the reasons I don't like greatest hits albums. There's comfort in knowing that the song that you really like is next up, when you love all the songs on the album.
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Simon Grigg, in reply to
There's comfort in knowing that the song that you really like is next up, when you love all the songs on the album.
One of the reasons EMI issued those two boxes of the US Beatles albums on CD a few years back was because American were really unhappy with the fact that the UK albums (the real ones, not the butchered US cut'n'paste jobs) had replaced their much loved versions when they went to compact disc in 1987.
A whole generation thought that Rubber Soul began with I've Just Seen A Face and there was an album in the Fab's canon called Beatles '65.
Large parts of which were drowned in horrendous reverb by some hack called Dave Dexter at Capitol.
It always struck me as odd that most Americans - who bough the Beatles stuff in the millions - had not heard much of the catalogue as it was recorded, or the real albums. Ever.
It's one of the reasons I don't like greatest hits albums
To be fair though, there are a great number of acts who are far better suited to hits albums and should perhaps only be heard that way.
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Rich Lock, in reply to
You don't listen to anything recorded before 1975?
So no real need to listen to anything before year zero, eh? :)
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Danielle, in reply to
So no real need to listen to anything before year zero, eh? :)
I feel like I'm back on the Elvis Costello discussion list, suddenly...
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Simon Grigg, in reply to
I feel like I'm back on the Elvis Costello discussion list, suddenly...
I'm still trying to work out what some of those letter groupings meant. TAWTWMRS was obvious to even the most casual observer, but HIAWYHYH still keeps me awake at night.
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3410,
Home Is Anywhere You Hang Your Head. :)
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Simon Grigg, in reply to
You just knew that, right? I feel small.
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3410,
You just knew that, right?
Er... let's say I did.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
a similar thing worked for Marvin Gaye
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Danielle, in reply to
TAWTWMRS was obvious to even the most casual observer
I love that I’m drawing a blank on it. Wha?
(Also, he is doing the Spinning Songbook tour again right now in America. The lucky sods.)
ETA: we no longer even have CDs. We just got Sonos. I wish to marry it.
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Simon Grigg, in reply to
The Angels... (you can fill the rest in....)
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Danielle, in reply to
Oh for goodness' sake. Some fan I am.
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Simon Grigg, in reply to
(and Paul Young)
What was it with Essex kids and their need to ritually slaughter great soul records around that time (ok he was from Bedfordshire but spiritually he was from Chelmsford)?
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The local indie music community lost nearly all its regular venues.
Local Musicians T'Nealle Worsley (Bang Bang Eche) and Jasper Bryant-Greene .... have created a NEW venue - The Archive which opens tonight (Fri 13th) at 336 St Asaph Street. 8pm with Valdera, The Transistors and Bang Bang Eche (BYO) - have fun kids!
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Simon Grigg, in reply to
I wish to marry it.
You can't. The Elvis Costello list already did that bit for you.
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recordari, in reply to
You can't. The Elvis Costello list already did that bit for you.
If you type TAWTWMRS into Google, it takes you straight to your blog in 2005, which brought me to this. Go figure?
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Essex and Goliath...
Yeah! They were all kinda Luton,
Rapine and Pillaging......the sort of behaviour you'd expect from towns like Houghton Conquest, Leighton Buzzard or even the sinister sounding Pulloxhill.
Whereas Roxton Music never got off the ground... -
recordari, in reply to
I love that I’m drawing a blank on it. Wha?
SWWYSGAI?
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Russell Brown, in reply to
ETA: we no longer even have CDs. We just got Sonos. I wish to marry it.
Ooh. Local retailer?
We snuck in Cat 6 cabling to our renovations and I'm still not quite sure how best to exploit that for music in the house.
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Simon Grigg, in reply to
Go figure
Why not:
Saw Mantronix live twice, at the 1989 and 1990 DMC Champs - man, they were something.
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Kris V, in reply to
We snuck in Cat 6 cabling to our renovations
just about the only thing we have decided about our yet-to-be-designed house, is that it will be totally set up for a household full of geeks... which means cabling, wireless points & inbuilt bookshelves :)
I bought a large number of the Harbour Union CDs at the Wundy re-opening shindig. Will happily hand over a copy when you're down our way Russell (I bought them to share round!)
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Danielle, in reply to
Sadly no. 'Twas on Ebay, I believe.
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I bought a large number of the Harbour Union CDs at the Wundy re-opening shindig.
How good is that? I listened to a couple of 30 second samples and couldn't get into it, but ran out of time to go back and pick some more.
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nzlemming, in reply to
You will have the opportunity of playing Dark Side Of The Moon in one seven hour session shortly
Oh, fuck. There goes my deposit for the holiday home in the Seychelles…
ETA That said, what is an "Immersive" release when it's at home?
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recordari, in reply to
ETA That said, what is an "Immersive" release when it's at home?
Audio-visual meditation session with binaural sound beats for focal meditation.
You are feeling very sleepy. Please send only cash.
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