What are you listening to?

[Liep]

Average SAT scores based on music taste.

I'm more of a Dvořák man myself, but I do have 3 Sufjan Stevens albums I regularly enjoy listening to.

[Eddie Teach]

Like a 1200 is something to be proud of.   

[Liep]

Like a 1200 is something to be proud of.   

I just wanted to shame Lil' Wayne.

[Syt]

Stan Ridgway - Camouflage

:nam:

[mongers]

So the quest to redo my CD/mp3 collection, in part prompted by Josephus, is producing strange fruit. Besides hearing music I've not listened to in ages, I've found a lot of CD recordings of my old vinyl collections, and you know what I like the 'sound' of them.

I'm now thinking of finding the turntable and getting some speakers so I can listen to them in the old fashion way. :old.codger:

[Savonarola]

So the quest to redo my cd/mp3 collection, in part prompted by Josephus, is producing strange fruit. Besides heaing music I've not listened to in ages, I've found a lot of cd recordings of my old vinly collections, and you know what I like the 'sound' of them. I'm now thinking of finding the turntable and getting some speakers so I can listen to them in the old fasion way. :old.codger:

My brother did that and then he'd go on Amazon and get boxes of singles.  He would get 100 singles for about $5.  Some of them weren't in the best of condition and the music was always a crap shoot, but at nickle a record you can afford to take some chances.  (What he's going to do with all those albums, I don't know.)

[mongers]

So the quest to redo my cd/mp3 collection, in part prompted by Josephus, is producing strange fruit. Besides heaing music I've not listened to in ages, I've found a lot of cd recordings of my old vinly collections, and you know what I like the 'sound' of them. I'm now thinking of finding the turntable and getting some speakers so I can listen to them in the old fasion way. :old.codger:

My brother did that and then he'd go on Amazon and get boxes of singles.  He would get 100 singles for about $5.  Some of them weren't in the best of condition and the music was always a crap shoot, but at nickle a record you can afford to take some chances.  (What he's going to do with all those albums, I don't know.)

Interesting.

I do know that hipsters have latched onto vinyl in a big way, such that if you could be bothered, you could hover up old vinyl in a collectors shops here and sell it in the East End of London (hipster.epicentre) for three times what you paid. I've heard of traders doing this.

Personally I'd keep my vinyl for sentimental reasons, plus there's often a story attached to each one.

Cd's less so or none. 

[Savonarola]

Straight out of Detroit 

15 of the best Motown songs you've likely never heard

None of the songs in the article are on the level of "My Girl" or "Baby Baby," but there are a lot of good songs in there.  The Marvin Gaye songs are all great as is Tami Terrell's version of "All I Do Is Think About You."  I'm more surprised that Holland-Dozier-Holland wrote "Leaving Here" than that Eddie Holland sang it.

[Josephus]

So the quest to redo my CD/mp3 collection, in part prompted by Josephus, is producing strange fruit. Besides hearing music I've not listened to in ages, I've found a lot of CD recordings of my old vinyl collections, and you know what I like the 'sound' of them.

I'm now thinking of finding the turntable and getting some speakers so I can listen to them in the old fashion way. :old.codger:

I still use my turntable and pull out the old vinyl. Much of it is not in particularly good shape and snaps and crackles a lot...but I still like digging them out

[mongers]

So the quest to redo my CD/mp3 collection, in part prompted by Josephus, is producing strange fruit. Besides hearing music I've not listened to in ages, I've found a lot of CD recordings of my old vinyl collections, and you know what I like the 'sound' of them.

I'm now thinking of finding the turntable and getting some speakers so I can listen to them in the old fashion way. :old.codger:

I still use my turntable and pull out the old vinyl. Much of it is not in particularly good shape and snaps and crackles a lot...but I still like digging them out

Yeah, shall dig out the turntable out of storage, I've one of these dinky little hi-efficiency amps to hand and then just need to aquire/canablise/build some small speakers.   

[mongers]

King Crimson - 'Discipline' - I remember getting this on a tape in the summer holidays, listening to the first time and being amazed at what a revolutionary sound it had. 

[Savonarola]

I've been in a Motown mood since yesterday's article.

Berry Gordy first called his record company Tamla after the song Tammy by Debbie Reynolds:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew3mtNZFrMY

It's hard to imagine anything further from the Motown sound than that; but Motown singer Tammi Terrell also named herself after the song.

The first single on Tamla was Come To Me by Marv Johnson:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzLu_-S79wQ

The song is straight up Doo-Wop, but two of the Funk Brothers, James Jamerson and Benny Benjamin, were already in the band.   

[garbon]

Maroon 5 - Runaway
Rihanna - Fading

[Josephus]

King Crimson - 'Discipline' - I remember getting this on a tape in the summer holidays, listening to the first time and being amazed at what a revolutionary sound it had. 

I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat..

[mongers]

King Crimson - 'Discipline' - I remember getting this on a tape in the summer holidays, listening to the first time and being amazed at what a revolutionary sound it had. 

I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat..

The Frejus concert film has some nice visual of that performance.