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USCHO Music Thread: Less Talk, More Rock

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Kepler said:
You can always buy the remastered analogs. Have you heard them? They're unbelievable on the best equipment, and I'm not the least bit an audiophile.

Of course, our originals cost 25 cents and these will cost $10 each.
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Depends on the remaster. Some remastering jobs are superior, some are perfectly fine, they just sound different, and some are a complete butchery compared to the original. All depends on who's doing the remaster, and their abilities.

As in any business, the recording industry has their fair share of hacks.
 
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rufus said:
Depends on the remaster. Some remastering jobs are superior, some are perfectly fine, they just sound different, and some are a complete butchery compared to the original. All depends on who's doing the remaster, and their abilities.

As in any business, the recording industry has their fair share of hacks.
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Certainly.
 
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From my internet browsing experience, and some with my own ears, if Robert Ludwig, Bernie Grundman, Chris Bellman, Kevin Gray or Steve Hoffman did the remaster, you can be pretty well assured that it's gonna sound amazing. There's probably quite a few more guys as well, I'm just not familiar with them.

Next on my must buy list is Gray's 2009 remaster of Van Morrison's Astral Weeks, maybe Moondance as well. Supposed to put the originals to shame.
 
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rufus said:
Next on my must buy list is Gray's 2009 remaster of Van Morrison's Astral Weeks, maybe Moondance as well. Supposed to put the originals to shame.
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I'll chip is to buy the original master of Moondance if I can destroy it.

I can't even express how much I hate that song.
 
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Kepler said:
To be fair, the hipsters saved vinyl. They suck in so many ways. This isn't one of them.
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There was a vinyl revival in the early 90s, and IIRC early 2000's, also. I swear I hear "VINYL'S BACK!" once every 10 years or so.
 
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The Rube said:
There was a vinyl revival in the early 90s, and IIRC early 2000's, also. I swear I hear "VINYL'S BACK!" once every 10 years or so.
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Yeah, but this is the first year since probably the early 90's that vinyl sales are projected to surpass sales of CDs.
 
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rufus said:
Yeah, but this is the first year since probably the early 90's that vinyl sales are projected to surpass sales of CDs.
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But that's mostly because CDs are dead. I bought my last vinyl album around 1983. I bought my last CD about 1998.

It's two deprecated technologies fighting over scraps.
 
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I've been listening to a lot of classical recently. Man, those Russians were rock stars.
 
Kepler said:
My touchstone is the Shirelle's version of "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow," written by Goffin and King. It's the best song about teenage love from a boring girl's POV.

The best song about teenage love from a boy's POV is the Undertones' "Teenage Kicks" or Iggy Pop's "I Wanna Be Your Dog").

(The best song about teenage love from an interesting girl's POV is Patti Smith's "Land: Horses/Land of a Thousand Dances/La Mer (De).")

The greatest pop song of all time is the Chiffons' version of "One Fine Day," by Goffin and King.
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Paradise by the Dashboard Light is a great one for teenage boy angst. Heck, the whole of Bat 1.0 is about a teenage boy's hormones.
 
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joecct said:
Paradise by the Dashboard Light is a great one for teenage boy angst. Heck, the whole of Bat 1.0 is about a teenage boy's hormones.
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"I'll never break my promise or forget my vow."

Well, you're an idiot, kid, and you deserve everything you get.
 
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Kepler said:
"I'll never break my promise or forget my vow."

Well, you're an idiot, kid, and you deserve everything you get.
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'I'll be praying for the end of time, so I can end my time with you".

Yep, great way to go through life.
 
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Kepler said:
But that's mostly because CDs are dead. I bought my last vinyl album around 1983. I bought my last CD about 1998.

It's two deprecated technologies fighting over scraps.
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Correct. Everything is either digital, or old-school.

That being said, I still buy a CD here and there, and it usually comes with a digital copy anyways.

Edit: my last vinyl album purchased was Pearl Jam's "Vitalogy," since it came out 2 weeks before the CD. Yeah, I loved vinyl, but also wanted to be the first to hear that album.
 
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"Ether" by Nas.

If this was Nas' best effort against Jay-Z, no wonder Jay-Z is still going and Nas faded into irrelevance. The rap beefs of the late 1990s and early 2000s were kinda lame.
 
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Yo RZA, yo razor, hit me with the major
The damage, my Clan understand it be flavor
Gunning, humming coming at ya
First I'm gonna get ya, once I got ya, I gat ya
You could never capture the Method Man's stature
For rhyme and for rapture, got n---- resigning, now master
My style? Never!
I put the ****ing buck in the wild kid, I'm terror
Razor sharp, I sever
The head from the shoulders, I'm better, than my competta
You mean competitor, whatever, let's get together

Brent, Kep, I have no idea where we're going, but let's take that road trip. Brent, you're in charge of the music the entire way.
 
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MissThundercat said:
Yo RZA, yo razor, hit me with the major
The damage, my Clan understand it be flavor
Gunning, humming coming at ya
First I'm gonna get ya, once I got ya, I gat ya
You could never capture the Method Man's stature
For rhyme and for rapture, got n---- resigning, now master
My style? Never!
I put the ****ing buck in the wild kid, I'm terror
Razor sharp, I sever
The head from the shoulders, I'm better, than my competta
You mean competitor, whatever, let's get together

Brent, Kep, I have no idea where we're going, but let's take that road trip. Brent, you're in charge of the music the entire way.
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That's either the best or worst idea ever. If I have no parameters, it's the latter.

And get a trial subscription of Netflix streaming, and watch the series "The Evolution Of Hip Hop." IIRC it's about 11-13 eps right now, goes way back to before the beginning. The latest episode gets into the Dirty South (ATL). Guessing crunk/etc will be in the future eps. VERY in depth.
 
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The Rube said:
That's either the best or worst idea ever. If I have no parameters, it's the latter.

And get a trial subscription of Netflix streaming, and watch the series "The Evolution Of Hip Hop." IIRC it's about 11-13 eps right now, goes way back to before the beginning. The latest episode gets into the Dirty South (ATL). Guessing crunk/etc will be in the future eps. VERY in depth.
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Stick to Wu-Tang and hip hop in general and you'll be okay.
 
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