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Kris V

Mon, 16 May 2011 17:25:05 +1200

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.

I'm enjoying it... there's only one song on it that I skip with regularity...
It may be a celebration but…

recordari

Mon, 16 May 2011 12:11:42 +1200

ETA That said, what is an "Immersive" release when it's at home?

Audio-visual meditation session with binaural sound beats for focal meditation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVbVs2hWft0

You are feeling very sleepy. Please send only cash.

nzlemming

Mon, 16 May 2011 11:40:37 +1200

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?

Kyle Matthews

Sun, 15 May 2011 08:01:25 +1200

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.

Danielle

Sat, 14 May 2011 19:42:59 +1200

Sadly no. 'Twas on Ebay, I believe.

Kris V

Sat, 14 May 2011 19:08:59 +1200

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…

Simon Grigg

Sat, 14 May 2011 00:42:11 +1200

Go figure

Why not:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z_dNHwlBzM&feature=related

Saw Mantronix live twice, at the 1989 and 1990 DMC Champs – man, they were something.

Russell Brown

Fri, 13 May 2011 23:29:18 +1200

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.

recordari

Fri, 13 May 2011 16:01:21 +1200

I love that I’m drawing a blank on it. Wha?

SWWYSGAI?

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 13 May 2011 15:12:32 +1200

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

Fri, 13 May 2011 15:10:14 +1200

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?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgD4x_SfyD8&feature=related

Simon Grigg

Fri, 13 May 2011 14:53:26 +1200

I wish to marry it.

You can't. The Elvis Costello list already did that bit for you.

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 13 May 2011 14:52:56 +1200

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)…

Simon Grigg

Fri, 13 May 2011 14:49:10 +1200

(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)?

Danielle

Fri, 13 May 2011 14:48:31 +1200

Oh for goodness' sake. Some fan I am.

Simon Grigg

Fri, 13 May 2011 14:43:45 +1200

The Angels... (you can fill the rest in....)

Danielle

Fri, 13 May 2011 14:38:13 +1200

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.…

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 13 May 2011 14:35:07 +1200

a similar thing worked for Marvin Gaye
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml86ZqL2EtE
(and Paul Young)

3410

Fri, 13 May 2011 14:31:08 +1200

You just knew that, right?

Er... let's say I did.

Simon Grigg

Fri, 13 May 2011 14:23:48 +1200

You just knew that, right? I feel small.

3410

Fri, 13 May 2011 14:17:03 +1200

Home Is Anywhere You Hang Your Head. :)

Simon Grigg

Fri, 13 May 2011 14:15:05 +1200

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.

Danielle

Fri, 13 May 2011 13:46:42 +1200

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...

Rich Lock

Fri, 13 May 2011 13:35:11 +1200

You don't listen to anything recorded before 1975?

The first ongoing music scene that was assigned the punk label appeared in New York City between 1974 and 1976.

So no real need to listen to anything before year zero, eh? :)

Simon Grigg

Fri, 13 May 2011 02:43:18 +1200

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…

Kyle Matthews

Thu, 12 May 2011 23:40:16 +1200

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…

Bruce Wurr

Thu, 12 May 2011 23:05:26 +1200

simon, absolutely. As a few people here have already posted, now more than ever the notion of an album as a complete piece (of art?) is so important, and that includes the artwork.

I'd like to say I'm a vinyl purist, I started off that way because there weren't any…

recordari

Thu, 12 May 2011 20:02:19 +1200

1975
No, no. It's just claiming I started appreciating music prior to my 8th birthday might be a bit much. Hey Jude was played regularly on record and on the piano as far back as I can remember in our household.

Simon Grigg

Thu, 12 May 2011 19:48:49 +1200

To be honest, forty years of frenzied record buying means I think I have many/most of the the old albums I may need in this lifetime (and I don't need an extra five CDs of leftover bits of DSOTM), but I will miss the end of perfectly compiled, beautifully packaged,…

Bruce Wurr

Thu, 12 May 2011 19:32:49 +1200

thanks for the 3ds russel, looking forward to that cd release......it'd be fantastic if some of the xpressway stuff was resurrected too......we've got a lot of hidden treasures I reckon

Simon Grigg

Thu, 12 May 2011 19:32:34 +1200

Be honest; you think it's the only real PF album. ;)

Isn't it?

Danielle

Thu, 12 May 2011 19:26:35 +1200

That's a little before my time. About a quarter century, in musically appreciation terms.

You don't listen to anything recorded before 1975?

3410

Thu, 12 May 2011 19:06:31 +1200

the very best PF album, Piper At The Gates of Dawn

Be honest; you think it's the only real PF album. ;)

Sacha

Thu, 12 May 2011 19:06:05 +1200

Isn't there a thread about all this somewhere?

I'm sure you've provided informed links already (maybe in the thread o doom, even)

recordari

Thu, 12 May 2011 18:42:39 +1200

You will have the opportunity of playing Dark Side Of The Moon in one seven hour session shortly.

Saw Roger Waters play this at the North Harbour stadium in Jan 2007. Not bad. But seven hours? That's taking 'long player record' a bit too literally.

Simon Grigg

Thu, 12 May 2011 18:28:43 +1200

before recorded music business models changed mid last century.

later than that – early 70s really. Blame Fleetwood Mac, The Beatles and David Geffen in no particular order.

Isn't there a thread about all this somewhere?

Simon Grigg

Thu, 12 May 2011 18:25:05 +1200

At the risk of being banished, ever tried playing a Pink Floyd album out of order?

You will have the opportunity of playing Dark Side Of The Moon in one seven hour session shortly.

I do think that the very best PF album, Piper At The Gates of Dawn, works…

recordari

Thu, 12 May 2011 18:11:26 +1200

mid last century.

That's a little before my time. About a quarter century, in musically appreciation terms. ;-)

Sacha

Thu, 12 May 2011 17:47:58 +1200

The 'single' used to be quite a big deal
I'm thinking when it was the only option, before recorded music business models changed mid last century. Mr Grigg no doubt has the references.

recordari

Thu, 12 May 2011 17:43:57 +1200

Yes. Back to how things used to be..
It is an interesting point. The 'single' used to be quite a big deal, particularly for seminal bands like Joy Division and the like. An album was more of an event, and I don't think this move, or any other I can…

Sacha

Thu, 12 May 2011 17:01:48 +1200

Is this another sign of the death of the album?

Yes. Back to how things used to be..

Robyn Gallagher

Thu, 12 May 2011 16:54:10 +1200

Govt announces changes to NZ on Air music funding. Switches focus from albums to singles.

Is this another sign of the death of the album? (And when you think about it, an arbitrary small collection of songs to be played in a specific order is a bit weird.)

This has…

recordari

Thu, 12 May 2011 16:01:08 +1200

And then there’s this to think about too. More of The Adults, with Tour announced in July. That will be some tour bus. Maybe two even.

Kumara Republic

Thu, 12 May 2011 15:54:58 +1200

And still no recent MSM coverage of Hansen's visit.

Mark Cubey

Thu, 12 May 2011 15:23:24 +1200

Just had a brief chat with James Hansen, who'll be talking to Kim Hill from around 8.15am on Saturday Morning. (Then it's nonstop Auckland Writers Festival guests, including A.A. Gill and the marvellous Rives.)

And have been listening to the rather excellent new album, Est. Twothousandaneleven Lyttelton, from Harbour Union…

Carol Stewart

Thu, 12 May 2011 14:55:42 +1200

Is there any way Don Brash could be forcibly required to attend Jim Hansen's lecture?

Steve Barnes

Thu, 12 May 2011 14:01:07 +1200

Govt announces changes to NZ on Air music funding.

Great. So we fund these bludgers to sit around and sing songs and act like tools on video then we get penalised for downloading the result of our investment.
Bah, humbug.

j chosun

Thu, 12 May 2011 13:14:46 +1200

You're going to listen to James Hansen tonight? Awesome.
Please let us know your impressions and reflections on having attended his lecture.
Normally i'd be much more interested in any live music than in any lecture given at some university school of business... But Dr. Hansen and his message are…

3410

Thu, 12 May 2011 13:02:54 +1200

Govt announces changes to NZ on Air music funding.

And a brilliantly original name for the new scheme, huh?

Sacha

Thu, 12 May 2011 12:58:02 +1200

Govt announces changes to NZ on Air music funding.

Switches focus from albums to singles. Trivial increase in (ancient) subsidy for music video to $6k, with subsidy for recording of $4k per track. Total value $2m. Pffft.

Robyn Gallagher

Thu, 12 May 2011 12:22:59 +1200

And this just in from Flying Nun: The 3Ds Early Recordings 1989-90

This is exciting news! I can't wait to download it.

Public Address

Thu, 12 May 2011 12:22:59 +1200

Discussion from blog post.