Dire Straits are great as background music not only for when driving but for almost everything else as well.
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What are you listening to? Part III
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Dire Straits are great as background music not only for when driving but for almost everything else as well.
The Africa cover had me thinking it was Toto on the first listen...
Some picks from Spoon's Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga album for me this morning. Haven't tried out their latest album but I have liked a lot of the tracks on that one. Bumped into one track on some playlist I'd made awhile back, then switched into the album to let it play through a few times.
Been a fan of Spoon since the first time I saw their Sister Jack video. Somehow it appealed to the remnants of the teenage rebel in me. They've gotten even better over the years even if I still haven't grown up...
Been a fan of Spoon since the first time I saw their Sister Jack video. Somehow it appealed to the remnants of the teenage rebel in me. They've gotten even better over the years even if I still haven't grown up...
Yeah I don't really use Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora or any other streaming service, so I guess that's what limited my options in finding music by them! But I'm keeping an eye out for Babel. Glad you liked TCTC, it's always nice to spread good music around.
Today has been all about the 70's, and one album I haven't listened to in ages and revisited today is Goats Head Soup by The Rolling Stones. A great album from a great band.
"El Nuevo Mundo - Folías Criollos - Monserrat Figures - Tembembe Ensemble Continuo La Capella Reial De Catalunya Hespèrion XXI - Jordi Savall". Gorgeous.
So this song was created in memory of Sophie Lancaster. But regardless of that, I really really really love this song, because I agree with this so strongly. I wish that I could hug a mother ****er in the street and not be arrested, I wish someone could dress the way they wanted and not be killed for it. ;(
I arrived at that Stones album by way of first owning a digital download of a cover of one of the tracks, performed (in English) by the Chilean band La Ley on their Cronicas - La Ley album. The title of the song was misspelled on the track label at iTunes back then. It was presented as "Angel (Stones cover)"... although sung as "Angie" -- but when singing that name in English as a second language, it can sound approximately like like 'Angi-eh and so, big maybe, the dudes who did the labels for the digital version weren't Stones fans and misread or mis-heard it as Angel.
Right so I played the La Ley tracks through about a dozen times, just having bought the album. I did at some point notice that it said "Stones cover" on that one track. At the time I was house sitting for a relative with a big collection of rock music. Out of curiosity I hunted around in the CDs that belonged to my bro and eventually turned up the Stones album.
And... I took that Stones CD home with me.
I may have confessed later but if the bro never asked me about it... probably not. Anyway I still do like that one cover even if I'm now a fan of Goats Head Soup and the Stones' singing of their song Angie.Here's the La Ley cover. The video's one of those awful "composite construction" jobs but close your eyes and listen. The band (as its membership evolved, before it dissolved with vague promises of coming back) has done it live at festivals with ever more complicated intros and gala decorations, but this one has the audio of the cover that La Ley first presented on an album. Don't know what the Stones thought of the early cover but Chilean fans of La Ley apparently went nuts over it and I was drawn in too. It's the song with the Stones' out-there-ness of how awkward it is to confess having been in love sanded off it
and becomes more of just a wistful and romantic ballad of looking back.
Great story about your discovery of The Stones! The Angie-cover is certainly interesting with a little bit of an 80's vibe. I like covers that aren't 1:1 carbon copies of the originals.
Big fan of Spoon ... especially for eating cereal.
*drops mic*
No seriously, I dig on them, the new album is also terrific.
I’d read that fans had requested the cover, but can’t figure out what the deal is. They did decent covers of decent songs.
The Africa cover had me thinking it was Toto on the first listen...
Just fetched it down from AM... I agree. They manage to evolve without leaving themselves behind LOL.
My post (that is stuff delivered by the postal service) - not that I have managed to listen to everything that was delivered while I was away - included at least two CDs from Haile Mergea and I have you to thank for introducing me to his music.
Syd Barrett’s original:
R.E.M. and their audience having fun leading into an earnest performance (from a show that was professionally recorded and remains unreleased):
The first version I’d ever heard:
R.E.M. and their audience having fun leading into an earnest performance (from a show that was professionally recorded and remains unreleased):
The first version I’d ever heard:
Not a what, but how Since I recently dove back into our CD collection and wound up having equipment issues, I just ordered (will be here Friday) a new CD player. I shopped the Onkyo C7030 which has (or had ... continue reading ...) an amazing Wolfson DAC, the other product that I was very closely cross shopping was the TEAC P650. Both are no-nonsense, single disc players, analog and digital out, both have a headphone amp'ed out (with discrete volume), the P650 has some neat tricks like CD ripping and a USB interface.
Well, apparently since Wolfson is gone, sold their assets to Cirrus Logic who no longer produce the DAC ship, they're apparently making them with a so-so AKM chip, and what you get is a crapshoot (you'd have to open it up, and that would likely be a refurb).
So, I decided the TEAC with the terrific Burr Brown DAC (PCM1791A), outstanding overall specs, some neat unique features, and with my planned powered monitors, this will be a nice compact music solution. I am very curious about the headphone output, clearly, it's not going to match a standalone amp, but wondering how it will on some 250ohm headphones (I have some 50 as a backup)
Since I recently dove back into our CD collection and wound up having equipment issues, I just ordered (will be here Friday) a new CD player. I shopped the Onkyo C7030 which has (or had ... continue reading ...) an amazing Wolfson DAC, the other product that I was very closely cross shopping was the TEAC P650. Both are no-nonsense, single disc players, analog and digital out, both have a headphone amp'ed out (with discrete volume), the P650 has some neat tricks like CD ripping and a USB interface.Well, apparently since Wolfson is gone, sold their assets to Cirrus Logic who no longer produce the DAC ship, they're apparently making them with a so-so AKM chip, and what you get is a crapshoot (you'd have to open it up, and that would likely be a refurb).
So, I decided the TEAC with the terrific Burr Brown DAC (PCM1791A), outstanding overall specs, some neat unique features, and with my planned powered monitors, this will be a nice compact music solution. I am very curious about the headphone output, clearly, it's not going to match a standalone amp, but wondering how it will on some 250ohm headphones (I have some 50 as a backup
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Listened to The Buena Vista Social Club, Afrocubism, Pepe and the Bottle Blondes, and Alfredo Rolando Ortiz on a series of long flights yesterday.
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Not a what, but how
Well, apparently since Wolfson is gone, sold their assets to Cirrus Logic who no longer produce the DAC ship, they're apparently making them with a so-so AKM chip, and what you get is a crapshoot (you'd have to open it up, and that would likely be a refurb).
So, I decided the TEAC with the terrific Burr Brown DAC (PCM1791A), outstanding overall specs, some neat unique features, and with my planned powered monitors, this will be a nice compact music solution. I am very curious about the headphone output, clearly, it's not going to match a standalone amp, but wondering how it will on some 250ohm headphones (I have some 50 as a backup
The next piece of tech to purchase on my list is also a new CD player. Not quite yet, but during the next couple of months for sure.
I'm already getting heart palpitations because I would like to just go to a store, pick up a player, go home and enjoy the music. The way it will probably go, however, is a convoluted mess of indecision, research, head scratching, copious amounts of swearing, some more research, bourbon, and finally a purchase. Hopefully a good one.