Mostly meme music these days. Just recently discovered what "gachi music" is. Also weeb music by an Aussie DJ called S3RL. He makes the songs of my people.
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I am in mode to listen to a S**T TON of the Canadian trio RUSH as the professor of the drum kit died this past Tuesday, Jan 7th 2020.
Fare Thee Well Niel Peart..........
I will be listening on DvD / CD / LD / and you tube media.
Saw my first Rush concert during the Moving Pictures tour at Cobo Hall, Detroit circa spring of 1980. Niel Peart wrote the soundtrack of my life. His mystic rhythms rocked my soul.
The man could really write lyrics. He received a Canadian award for his lyric writing abilities.
Took my then 19 y/o son to one of the R40 tour dates when they rolled by locally in 2015. Dream come true sharing their music with him. Saw the Michigan leg of R40 towards the end of that tour while visiting family there. Thankful to have done so as they threw in the towel after that last run.
Thank you Neil, Alex, and Geddy ...... Thank you with all my heart ...
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I am in mode to listen to a S**T TON of the Canadian trio RUSH as the professor of the drum kit died this past Tuesday, Jan 7th 2020.
Fare Thee Well Niel Peart.......... .
Really sorry to hear here of his passing, sad news.
I was lucky enough to have seen RUSH at the Apollo in Glasgow in 1980.
A couple of my friends back then were huge RUSH fans & they persuaded me to go along & so glad I did.
I am not a big fan as such but could appreciate a good performance & it certainly was, one I can still remember.
RIP
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Right on man, that would have been the moving pictures tour if not mistaken. Glad you carry that memory.... Thanks for sharing your condolences..... Means alot...
Cheers !
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A few years ago I was blessed to have received as a gift a very nice Gibson J-185. I’m more of a synthesizer and bass guitar sort of guy so it didn’t get a lot of use at first. I was extremely bad at it. It seemed hopeless but eventually I broke through some kind of barrier and started to progress. Now my four year old makes me practice every day and I’m learning a few songs.
When I’m done with ELP’s From the Beginning, which I probably won’t have really nailed for a month or so, my hope is that I’ll be able to start on this:
I can’t stop listening to various versions of this piece but Steve’s are my favorite, rearranged for a single instrument. Sometimes less is more.
BONUS CLIP: it’s been said that all true prog is English. I have come to accept that. As much as I like Hawkwind and Uriah Heep the true spirit of prog lies in the “English ideal”, getting stoned on the riverbank with Mole and Ratty. There is no prog that isn’t English prog...
...and similarly there is no country that isn’t American country. I was brutally reminded of this when last night I discovered the Wurzles:
Oh lord. I guess Hee Haw really was great, at least great compared to this crap. This band hasn’t stopped playing since it was founded in 1964, btw so they not only outlasted Hee Haw they predated it as well.
Sorry, I can’t remember how to post videos properly since it’s different in every forum I go to now...if so some can remind me I’ll edit this.
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This is so awesome, I have my own TK archive myself, consisting of many many MDs I made in the late '90s, about 40 CDs and more than a few LDs but this collection has the classics plus a lot of rarer TK produced tracks. Some top grade stuff I've never heard before. DOS baby baby baby is an example. There is a reason he ruled the charts in the '90s, his melodies are sublime and always distinctive. Truly a rival to Sakamoto and they even collaborated on a track I found out on this collection.
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Playing the original Japanese CD ( initial pressing ) of Michael Jackson's "Bad" released in 1987. The dynamics on this CD are so out of this world. This must be one of the very best CDs I have heard in my entire life. Playing this on repeat as it is a joy listening to a very well mastered CD and the songs are great, too. Wow. Why do so many post 1990 CDs sound like crap ? Why ? What is the reason behind this ? Why did the record companies decide that releasing CDs with terrible dynamics makes sense ? That is why I am not interested in any of these remasters. They are mostly worse than the original pressings.
A lot of Japanese re-issues still have good dynamics, we know the Japanese still care.
Yeah but any Japanese CDs I have from the '80s and early '90s do sound amazing.
My guess on why CDs went to hell in mid/late '90s was that the format stopped being elite and a lot of low end players/discmans were available. "Loudness" was more important on low end gear to cover up the limitations of cheap equipment.
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Last night and today I just switched off all the news and marathoned CDs, Got through my Seshiro Kusonose and Eri Hiramatsu collections, right now listening to Minako with Wild Cats, perfect '80s pop/rock to me.
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Playing the original Japanese CD ( initial pressing ) of Michael Jackson's "Bad" released in 1987. The dynamics on this CD are so out of this world. This must be one of the very best CDs I have heard in my entire life. Playing this on repeat as it is a joy listening to a very well mastered CD and the songs are great, too. Wow. Why do so many post 1990 CDs sound like crap ? Why ? What is the reason behind this ? Why did the record companies decide that releasing CDs with terrible dynamics makes sense ? That is why I am not interested in any of these remasters. They are mostly worse than the original pressings.
The original CD for BAD is excellent but the vinyl is even better!
Loudness War was all about "sounding heavier, compressing better in MP3"
Stick to your 80's CDs, especially the Japanese ones and avoid anything produced digital (44.1Khz, 24bit home studio) on CD from 1995 to 2010 if you can find an alternative source.
http://dr.loudness-war.info/ is a very useful database that I visit on a daily basis. For instance, a remaster of Prince's excellent album 1999 was issued a few months but it has a DR of 8 !!! I wouldn't call this a remaster. This is a mutilation of the source material in my opinion and I am not interested in spending any money on it. I have just most recently aquired a vinyl copy of said album ( original West German pressing ) and it sounds phenomenal. I usually stick with the original releases. Of course there are some excellent new SACD releases or Japanese reissues that were done with a lot of care but there is too much garbage out there on the CD market. A lot of the digital recordings from the 80s are excellent. Madonna's Like A Virgin, for instance, is an excellent recording ( my European CD from 1985 has a DR of 16!!! ). I mostly buy used vinyl from the 80s. These records are mostly very cheap and sound fantastic. Why spend 20 Euro on a most recent vinyl reissue of Madonn's True Blue when I get the original pressing for less than 5 € and chances are the original pressing is better than the expensive reissue. I always try to get the original pressing, both CD and vinyl, and in cases of albums that I am particularily fond of such as Michael Jackson's Bad I usually acquire several versions of it ( CD, vinyl and tape ) just to be able to compare and have something for my collection. There are some excellent new vinyl releases, too, but they are just too expensive. I won't spend 100 Euro on a new double vinyl 45 RPM reissue of some classic album. I can't afford that. Some of the "recent" very good vinyl releases in my collection include Daft Punk's Discovery and several Music on Vinyl releases ( I have a Music on Vinyl pressing of Michael Jackson's Dangerous that is fantastic ) that are usually much better than the respective CD releases but as I have already said I mostly buy original releases nowadays ( mostly vinyl, but CD and tape too ) that I aquire for very little money. I do not think that I have a single record from the 80s in my collection that sounds terrible or bad. The best vinyl releases from the 80s are the big 12 inch 45 RPM maxi singles that only have one or two songs on one side. The sound quality of these is the best out of all the different formats I have heard in my life incl. SACD but that's my personal opinion. I have, for example, a maxi single release of Madonna's "Into The Groove".- It sounds unbelievably good and even one level up compared to the very good CD or vinyl release.
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