What are you listening to? March 2025
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Unsomnambulist
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Brian Eno - AURUM (2025)
Ojai Sam
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The Beatles - The Early Beatles (Capitol comp. 1965)
Vinyl Spin of the Day.
11 of the 12 songs that Vee-Jay had released on "Introducing....", an album that was itself a bowdlerized version of "Please Please Me" with two more songs removed. Maybe the first example of Capitol slicing and dicing The Fab Four to maximize revenue.
Be that as it may, TEB still makes for a great listen today. These songs in this order with this mastering were long ago imprinted into my synapses.
Vinyl Spin of the Day.
11 of the 12 songs that Vee-Jay had released on "Introducing....", an album that was itself a bowdlerized version of "Please Please Me" with two more songs removed. Maybe the first example of Capitol slicing and dicing The Fab Four to maximize revenue.
Be that as it may, TEB still makes for a great listen today. These songs in this order with this mastering were long ago imprinted into my synapses.
Unsomnambulist
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Young Widows - Power Sucker (2025)
Ojai Sam
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Various Artists - George Martin: A Painter In Sound (rec. 1951-62, Cherry Red comp. 2022)
This revelatory 4 CD collection gathers Martin's earliest work for EMI. From classical to jazz to pop to comedy and beyond, Martin made an astounding variety of styles sound live and lively. It's easy to see that his ears were already wide open to new ideas when The Fab Four walked into Abbey Road.
This revelatory 4 CD collection gathers Martin's earliest work for EMI. From classical to jazz to pop to comedy and beyond, Martin made an astounding variety of styles sound live and lively. It's easy to see that his ears were already wide open to new ideas when The Fab Four walked into Abbey Road.
Unsomnambulist
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Gnod & White Hills - Drop Out III (2025)
axolotl
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That's the goofiest picture of Paul I've ever seen.Various Artists - George Martin: A Painter In Sound (rec. 1951-62, Cherry Red comp. 2022)
This revelatory 4 CD collection gathers Martin's earliest work for EMI. From classical to jazz to pop to comedy and beyond, Martin made an astounding variety of styles sound live and lively. It's easy to see that his ears were already wide open to new ideas when The Fab Four walked into Abbey Road.
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Nickyboy
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I'd like to hear the duet between Sophia Loren and Peter Sellers.
axolotl
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Goodness Gracious Me. Why didn't you just ask?
How Loren made Sellers's heart go boom boody-boom boody-boom
Newly discovered pictures shed light on the comedy genius's infatuation with movie goddess.
Ojai Sam
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A Brazzilion years? I can Bolivia.
Paraguay who is supposed to know music, I completely missed the Bruckner bus. But I have finally been catching up with Anton in recent weeks. His Third is a magnificent piece with a lot of fresh ideas within the Romantic idiom.
axolotl
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I'm Ghana let most of that pass. Uruguay who does know music.
Most of the hubbub that I encountered was that Romantic listeners (with their effete sensibilities) as a whole preferred the genteel, lilting melodic structures of Schumann and Brahms to the uncultivated bombastic harmonic structures of Wagner, R. Strauss, and Bruckner.
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axolotl
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I don't know. I just feel like chiming in here tonight.[Music Boxes] - Tinkle, Clang, Ring and Chime! The World's Rarest Music Boxes In High Fidelity (1959)
Vinyl Spin of the Day.
Ojai Sam
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This is a fascinating post, Axo. A surprising (to me) number of respondents were offended by the very notion of someone asking "which do you like better, A or B?" I liked one answer that Bruckner is better for symphonies and Brahms for everything else.
Zeeba Neighba
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Rodrigo y Gabriela - Rodrigo y Gabriela (2006)
Zeeba Neighba
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Rodrigo y Gabriela and C.U.B.A. - Area 52 (2012)
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