I've been listening to a lot of Indie rock lately. Probably my most favorite band at the moment is The Postal Service. I've also been listening to The Black Keys and 311. I don't listen to as much rap as I used to. A few weeks ago I was on an 80s kick.  :-D

 

What about you?

I've been listening to a lot of Gregorian Chant and steelpan orchestras lately... sometimes simultaneously.

Haha you're so white!

How is steelpan "white"?

 

I was talking about the Gregorian chant part. Oh well, just playing.

I've been listing to almost anything lately, but I have had my take of southern crunk music.  I swear if I hear that song, "Pop, lock and drop it" by Huey one more time, I'm going to go postal!

 

I heard that song 1000 times in Cannes!  I expect to hear songs like that in America's deep south, but not the south of France!

*Ahem*

 

"POP, lock, and drop it."  If you are going to offend St. Louis' culture of music, atLEAST get it correct.

*Ahem*

 

"POP, lock, and drop it."  If you are going to offend St. Louis' culture of music, atLEAST get it correct.

 

I stand corrected!  and that sh*t is hardly cultural and I love hip hop!

Holly Golightly

 

Hey, Ever, got any recommendations on the steelpan orchestras ?

My Gregorian chant days are way in the past.

I really need a dose of fresh music at this point.  There past few months for me I've been running through old playlists.  Looks like I'm going to have fire up Pandora.com and rip the music onto my computer at work again.

 

So yeah, no favorites, though I do HATE that song by Huey.  "Buy u a drank" is terriblbe too.  And yes I love hip hop as well.

"Buy you a drank"...I'm not really feeling that song :-/ Maybe because its so played out on the radio.

 

Theres not that much new rap out that I like. Renegade foxxx is pretty dope; My friend is involved in his marketing and promotions and wants me to get involved. Hopefully he blows up. Hes got a lot of collaborations with good artists. If you're looking for something new, check him out.

It's probably that David.

 

I was at the bar the other day in my hometown, and they had this great sound system out on the patio and played "Buy u a drank" and "I'm a flirt."  I normally don't like those songs, but the sound system and the alcohol made them sound great.  Otherwise, coming out of my cars crappy speakers  on the way to work drives me crazy. 

 

The worse was that song with Gwen Stefani and Akon.  I got that song from my friend way back in October before it was even officially released.

We played it at our parties a few times and no one knew what the hell that song was.  By December we were sick of it.  By February it was on the damn radio playing every hour.  And it's still playing!!!  Make that song go away!! 

*Ahem*

 

"POP, lock, and drop it."  If you are going to offend St. Louis' culture of music, atLEAST get it correct.

 

I stand corrected!  and that sh*t is hardly cultural and I love hip hop!

 

It's cultural for St. Louis.

 

(read between the lines)

Pshh I know Chris isn't talking...Columbus has no culture except for what it gets from MTV and BET.

*Ahem*

 

"POP, lock, and drop it."  If you are going to offend St. Louis' culture of music, atLEAST get it correct.

 

 

I stand corrected!  and that sh*t is hardly cultural and I love hip hop!

 

It's cultural for St. Louis.

 

(read between the lines)

I got it, but I wouldn't call ANYTHING in or out off da' Lou cultural

Pshh I know Chris isn't talking...Columbus has no culture except for what it gets from MTV and BET.

 

Aren't you from Sedamsville?

 

I rest my case.

*Ahem*

 

"POP, lock, and drop it."  If you are going to offend St. Louis' culture of music, atLEAST get it correct.

 

 

I stand corrected!  and that sh*t is hardly cultural and I love hip hop!

 

It's cultural for St. Louis.

 

(read between the lines)

I got it, but I wouldn't call ANYTHING in or out off da' Lou cultural

 

That's the point.

Pshh I know Chris isn't talking...Columbus has no culture except for what it gets from MTV and BET.

 

Aren't you from Sedamsville?

 

I rest my case.

 

 

I wasn't the one originally criticizing cities for their lack of culture. If living in Sedamsville for 9 months constitutes being "from"there, even though I spent most of my life living all over--Price Hill, Pleasant Ridge and various parts of Columbus, then yes :) .

We should have a "What are you listening to RIGHT NOW" thread.  Unless that already exists somewhere.

 

Lupe Fiasco's Food and Liquor.  The last song "Outro" is perfect when cruising up Lake Shore Drive in Chicago at night.  Will last you the whole way.

*Ahem*

 

"POP, lock, and drop it."  If you are going to offend St. Louis' culture of music, atLEAST get it correct.

 

 

I stand corrected!  and that sh*t is hardly cultural and I love hip hop!

 

It's cultural for St. Louis.

 

(read between the lines)

I got it, but I wouldn't call ANYTHING in or out off da' Lou cultural

 

That's the point.

 

Man, you're a hot damn mess!  LOL  You crack me up!  LOL

Pshh I know Chris isn't talking...Columbus has no culture except for what it gets from MTV and BET.

 

Aren't you from Sedamsville?

 

I rest my case.

 

 

I wasn't the one originally criticizing cities for their lack of culture. If living in Sedamsville for 9 months constitutes being "from"there, even though I spent most of my life living all over--Price Hill, Pleasant Ridge and various parts of Columbus, then yes :) .

 

"Various parts of Columbus" meaning west side...then yeah...Sedamsville.

You think you know me so well!!! I lived on the east side of Columbus too.

 

There will be no roasting of David in his own thread.

Did you live anywhere near the intersection of Main St & Main St ?

Right now (and usually when i have the radio on) I am listeing to WPDR 88.1, and they are doing a Deutsche Welle concert of various German and Czech composers,  some Czech is on now.  Earlier they had Hayden, which is a classical composer I want to listen to a bit more.

 

I don't listen to much esle but classical these days, though more variety for live music (local bands and in the summer music festivals of various sorts, which you have all seen on past threads by me)

 

 

 

 

Did you live anywhere near the intersection of Main St & Main St ?

No but it sounds like a pretty happenin' place.

It's probably that David.

 

I was at the bar the other day in my hometown, and they had this great sound system out on the patio and played "Buy u a drank" and "I'm a flirt."  I normally don't like those songs, but the sound system and the alcohol made them sound great.  Otherwise, coming out of my cars crappy speakers  on the way to work drives me crazy. 

 

The worse was that song with Gwen Stefani and Akon.  I got that song from my friend way back in October before it was even officially released.

We played it at our parties a few times and no one knew what the hell that song was.  By December we were sick of it.  By February it was on the damn radio playing every hour.  And it's still playing!!!  Make that song go away!! 

 

yeah and play that akon "i wanna f... you girl" or whatever its called song instead. right to the point. heh.

 

 

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I was just watching this...pretty standard blues in E from Beggar's Banquet...until 2:15.  Okay boys take a look at the look in that chick's eyes and the way she's bobbing around and that should tell you why the heck you want to play in a band....

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDH6kNEPe00

You think you know me so well!!! I lived on the east side of Columbus too.

 

There will be no roasting of David in his own thread.

 

Oooh...eastside.  KLAZZY!

Okay, as if anyone who takes music seriously didn't realize this, but today's music IS CRAP.  Red Hot Chili Peppers needed to pack it up 10 years ago, btw.  I mean, nobody out there today has any idea what they're doing, including the recording engineers.  Part if it's digital but most of it's because people are idiots today and don't grow up around good music, the blues, etc.  See the clip in the last post.  Except for eccentrics like me nobody wants to play that stuff.     

 

 

Official, rock music is too loud

 

 

By THOMAS WHITAKER

June 04, 2007

 

COMMENT ON THIS STORY

 

 

MUSIC chiefs were blasted last night for using computer wizardry to make new albums louder than ever.

Bosses are artificially enhancing sound levels as they believe the noisier a record is, the more copies it will sell.

 

 

Listening to:

Wilco's new album

Muse

Bright Eyes

Old 97's

Arcade Fire

LOL what? I listen to a lot of classic rock from the late 60s and early 70s and always wish the quality met the standards of today. Jimi Hendrix especially. I love when old music gets remastered and sounds better. I don't think the loudness has anything to do with it. Maybe they do that with some bands but for the most part, the sound quality seems better than ever before. Even if they are making it louder, it's not like people don't have volume control that they constantly adjust accordingly.

Do some recording and you will understand the difference.  Specifcially with older analog equipment when the gain was turned up on a specific mic or track it would gradually distort and that distortion could be used as a tool.  As I understand it now with Pro Tools, etc. (I've used a mini disc recorder from 1999 quite a bit but not Pro Tools), the gain can be digitally turned up past the point where analog mixing boards started distorting.  Older digital recording devices clipped when distorted but with newer stuff they're able to turn it up past the point where the clipping used to happen, hence this terribly brash sound.  There's this weird way in which the open hi-hat slosh sound is being digitally "stretched" now which is extremely annoying to my ears.  It's on all those Avrile Lavine-type pop songs and the new horrible Ozzy Osbourne record. 

 

As for a few records with great sound, put on Dark Side of the Moon, Rod Stewart's "Every Picture Tells a Story", any of the classic Frank Zappa Records like Joe's Garage and it sounds worlds different from how things sound now, aside from the guys actually having ideas about music and being able to crush today's bands when it comes to actually playing.   

 

     

^ when you say put on that old music, do you mean put on a vinyl record or put on the cd?

 

this is a big beef of mine. my understanding and experience is that most digitalized music of old analog recordings sounds like crap. they may have fixed some of the transfering problems as you say, but problem is most of the cd's out there were still done prior to that and they all generally sound like shit compared to the warmth of the old original vinyl.

 

i suppose we have to wait before "they" can get the transfer of older stuff right on cd....and i am very dubious that it can ever be done. that is, stuff like "every picture..." will never sound as good with the music digitalized. unless you hear it on vinyl, you may never hear how world's different it is (not referring to anything originally recorded digitally of course).

 

anyway it's interesting, whats your experiences with that problem?

 

ps -- most recently i am listening to some more wu, liquid swords (yeah the whiteboy friendly one, so sue me), and tosca's j.a.c. (that one is german electronica).

 

 

David if you haven't seen it here's a pretty fantastic Jimi Hendrix clip.  I watch this and I think about all the guys in recent years wearing dark rimmed glasses and trucker hats looking bored while they strum basic chords...again, it's the fact that all the early rock musicians were first blues players that gave this era so much energy.  Voodoo Child is in E so you can throw all the blues in E turns in there.  You can just let go halfway up the neck in E and hit open strings all day long which is why you're hearing different notes when his hand's not even on the neck.  In other words these guys had an enormous base to build on whereas so many of today's guys both didn't take music lessons AND listened to lousy stuff.   

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHgGTTPsvkw

 

As for records versus CD's, some CD's do sound really good.  I don't really know why some from that era sound way better than others since groups like the Rolling Stones had access to the best recording equipment in the world but some of their recordings sound weak (Gimme Shelter, most of Exile on Main St.).  I have a Frank Sinatra CD from the 1950's that sounds fantastic.  That Rod Stewart record sounds great too.  I also have a Beach Boys CD where the original mono version is followed by a remixed stereo version and the stereo version sounds way better.

 

When I was a kid we used to have a vaccum tube-powered home stereo that sounded pretty lousy from what I remember but think that's because it was just a cheap stereo.  Just like now where you can get a $20 CD player at Wal-Mart back then you could get cheap record players.  Certainly when you go to an event where they have a DJ playing records now it sounds great.     

 

I nearly got into a head-on collision today due to a new Jazz Jamaica All-Stars track on WCBE. And it was worth it.

David if you haven't seen it here's a pretty fantastic Jimi Hendrix clip.  I watch this and I think about all the guys in recent years wearing dark rimmed glasses and trucker hats looking bored while they strum basic chords...again, it's the fact that all the early rock musicians were first blues players that gave this era so much energy.  Voodoo Child is in E so you can throw all the blues in E turns in there.  You can just let go halfway up the neck in E and hit open strings all day long which is why you're hearing different notes when his hand's not even on the neck.  In other words these guys had an enormous base to build on whereas so many of today's guys both didn't take music lessons AND listened to lousy stuff.   

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHgGTTPsvkw

 

As for records versus CD's, some CD's do sound really good.  I don't really know why some from that era sound way better than others since groups like the Rolling Stones had access to the best recording equipment in the world but some of their recordings sound weak (Gimme Shelter, most of Exile on Main St.).  I have a Frank Sinatra CD from the 1950's that sounds fantastic.  That Rod Stewart record sounds great too.  I also have a Beach Boys CD where the original mono version is followed by a remixed stereo version and the stereo version sounds way better.

 

When I was a kid we used to have a vaccum tube-powered home stereo that sounded pretty lousy from what I remember but think that's because it was just a cheap stereo.  Just like now where you can get a $20 CD player at Wal-Mart back then you could get cheap record players.  Certainly when you go to an event where they have a DJ playing records now it sounds great.     

 

Totally agree. The stuff today doesn't compare. As far as rock music, I try to find artists that have a similar sound to the original blues musicians but its pretty hard. The Black Keys, Derek Trucks, John Scofield, David Ryan Harris, The White Stripes, John Mayer (although ColDayMan called him a wannabe Buddy Guy LMAO). That's about the best I can find. I don't know much about guitar but the guys I know in bands that play blues music are always regarded as being better guitar players by the guys I know that play punk and indie so Im guessing blues takes a lot more talent.

Im watching the clip. Wow, no one even comes close.

I listen to datempo thru internet at work.  I think they classify it as lounge music.

http://www.sky.fm/datempolounge/

 

I've also been listening to a bunch of old Chet Atkins records I recently picked up at a garage sale.  Wow.

My recent tracks:

 

 

 

My top weekly tracks:

 

 

 

My top weekly artist:

 

 

 

My all time top tracks (since February 2006):

 

 

 

My all time top artist (since February 2006):

 

Michael Stanley Band - "My Town"

Thank you Evergrey for posting this video on another site. I've only seen this video once or twice when it first aired on MTV in the 80’s. I was all about 14 or 15 and I remember seeing MSB at Blossom and at Idora Park in Youngstown.

 

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As for records versus CD's, some CD's do sound really good.  I don't really know why some from that era sound way better than others since groups like the Rolling Stones had access to the best recording equipment in the world but some of their recordings sound weak (Gimme Shelter, most of Exile on Main St.).     

 

a pretty easy mystery to solve. the drugs.

 

luckily, that swampy muddled sound is infamous and perfect for the music. exile is by far the best rolling stones album. the rs have more lives than a basket full of cats, but beggar's to exile was their peak run.

 

 

^Have you seen the movie, "Sympathy For the Devil" ?

The movie is about, uh, propaganda (?) but it follows the Stones through the recording of the song,  Sympathy For the Devil.

Interesting look at old time recording techniques.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063665/

not for kiddies

Thank you Evergrey for posting this video on another site. I've only seen this video once or twice when it first aired on MTV in the 80’s. I was all about 14 or 15 and I remember seeing MSB at Blossom and at Idora Park in Youngstown.

 

You know you're from Northeast Ohio if you consider Michael Stanley a rock star...LOL.  I saw MSB numerous times, including Blossom when he sold out 3 or 4 consecutive nights and the Front Row.

 

My taste in music is all over the place (except hillbilly music aka country) but lately I've been listening to Virgin Radio in the UK a lot.  The British still know how to do pop without making it heavily hip-hop, R&B or punk.  Don't get me wrong, I like all three of those, but....

 

http://www.virginradio.co.uk

I saw MSB numerous times, including Blossom when he sold out 3 or 4 consecutive nights and the Front Row.

 

What happend to the Front Row? I assume it's gone?

http://www.virginradio.co.uk[/b][/color]

 

I like a lot of music that comes from across the pond as well.  How funny is though that The Traveling Wilburys re-release is #1 in the UK this week.   Not that i blame them. 

I saw MSB numerous times, including Blossom when he sold out 3 or 4 consecutive nights and the Front Row.

 

What happend to the Front Row? I assume it's gone?

 

The FRONT ROW THEATER, built at an approximate cost of $3 million, was completed in 1974 and opened on July 5 of that year. It was located in HIGHLAND HEIGHTS on Wilson Mills Road near I-271. Richard R. Jencen, who lived in SHAKER HEIGHTS, designed the Front Row. The first all-weather theater to be built in Greater Cleveland since the CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE in 1927, it seated 3,200 and was approximately 300 feet by 270 feet. Since it was a theater in the round, the last row was fifty-nine feet from the stage, which was twenty-nine feet in diameter with its orchestra pit. A circular curtain concealed the stage lighting, and the entire stage slowly revolved during each performance in order to provide a clear view for all the spectators. Also, the circular domed auditorium had no pillars to block spectators' views. The theater had three concession stands, including an elegant champagne bar, and featured such Las Vegas-style attractions as Sammy Davis, Jr., Wayne Newton, Liberace, and Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme. The original five owners of the Front Row were Nate and Mollie Dolin of Bratenahl, Dominic Visconsi of CHAGRIN FALLS VILLAGE, Lawrence S. Dolin of BEACHWOOD, and Len Luxenberg. After nineteen years of operation, President Lawrence Dolin announced that the Front Row would close in July 1993, with its bookings devolving on PLAYHOUSE SQUARE Center in downtown Cleveland.

 

http://ech.case.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=FRT

 

I think the idea was to "centralize" theater downtown, I suspect involvement by parking lot owners.

 

Hell, I'm old enough to remember Musicarnival.

I saw MSB numerous times, including Blossom when he sold out 3 or 4 consecutive nights and the Front Row.

 

What happend to the Front Row? I assume it's gone?

 

Ah The Front Row.  I remember Slim Goodbody put on a heck of a performance there as well.  Must have been 20 years ago.  I don't remember when it closed but was physically removed when the shopping center currently in place there was built.

>luckily, that swampy muddled sound is infamous and perfect for the music. exile is by far the best rolling stones album. the rs have more lives than a basket full of cats, but beggar's to exile was their peak run.

 

And oft-repeated statement but I like all of the records through Tattoo You after which time it went downhill.  BTW a 55 year-old Brian Jones appeared to me in a dream recently.  He had that same stupid indifferent look on his face and didn't say anything but his face had a lot of wrinkles on it and his appearance in the dream was definitely a downer. 

 

 

>Have you seen the movie, "Sympathy For the Devil" ?

 

I haven't seen it but I have seen the more obscure (since it's banned) "Cocksucker Blues", oddly enough I was on spring break and starting talking to some dude at a party who claimed to be Martha Stewart's godson.  He had the "Her Majesties Satanic Request" album with the weird cover on his wall which started the conversation.  That movie is more interesting than it is good in my opinion, with one of the highlights being Keith Richards and Charlie Watts in what's obviously a black pool hall somewhere in Mississippi or thereabouts and it ends with a totally fantastic jam with I think Sly & the Family Stone and then a version of Midnight Rambler and then a narrator who comes out of nowhere and voices over the lyrics to Brown Sugar.

Sympathy for the Devil is definitely one of the greater pop songs out there, a genre-defying tune that's both a party song and one that's pretty thoughtful at the same time.  Nothing out there right now even comes close.