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WookieMan says

I love vinyl, I hate the hassle of playing it is all. My main listening spot is at this computer with studio monitors or over ear headphones. I also prefer live music.

When I worked at RCA, as a junior engineer, although I knew about Shannon's law and the Nyquist theorem and so on, I wasn't convinced that in 1995, that digital could perfectly replicate analog because in THEORY analog was said to have infinite fidelity.

Well, that's not true. I've seen this shit on a scope, where we were comparing original analog data to digital data recomposed from MP3, which is basically the signal broken down into Laplace transforms.

A lot of you guys think "I prefer analog", well since the 1980s, and EARLY 1980's, it's been digital. The analog component was just the consumer version of it. Masters have been digital for like 40 years.

The RIAA fucks up music now, just to get you to buy another version of it, over and over and over again. A CD of Pink Floyd in 1995, doesn't sound the same as one today, because they are FUCKING with the master to distort it, because it has to be different to sell it, not better, just different.

The MPAA does the same thing, constant re-releases, director's cut, director's new cut, now it's Blu-Ray, they change color and saturation levels.. I just want to see 1080p digital reproduction of the film that was shown in theaters, except in rare exceptions. The director's release of Blade Runner was better than the theatrical release. I've learned to ignore color and saturation levels. You can adjust that digitally now anyhow.

Best bay area thrash ever:

https://youtu.be/ITWXnzcQFV4

Testament - Over the wall. Alex Skolnick is one of the best guitarists this world has born. SF should get back to its roots when it produced great music. Less tech, more metal.

What a Jesuit education, psychedelics, and the Arizona desert can wrought: The Meat Puppets.

Saw this band in the misspent days of my ute, at a small club in San Diego. Was expecting mellow psychadelic rock, like in the Up On the Sun album. But just as the psychedelics were kicking in, they came on the stage and played their songs in sped up hardcore punk style, and the crowd went crazy.

From Meat Puppets II, for all of the road trip stoners out there, Lost:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEZLy1ZEWyM

Cobain liked this one, Plateau:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0IWHxvswLk

From Up On the Sun, their third album.

Title track. “A long time ago, I turned to myself and said “You are my daughter.”” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E47szeQadvk

Enchanted Porkfist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgCCEr08rDw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4KQae9oMWs

The senseless struggle for supremacy expressed through anthropomorphism.

HeadSet says

Dark Side of the Moon is better. Especially the songs "Breathe" and "Brain Damage." Mood calming without the need for booze or dope. Hearing that live at the best seat in a concert hall must be awesome.

I like long form songs is my problem. Anything under 5 minutes just doesn't do it for me generally unless it's a really well written song. With digital downloads I feel like we need to break out of the vinyl timing and CD timing or radio timing.

I've gone to live shows where they play a one hour song, no stops or 2 minute drum solos either. I honestly feel like short songs are lazy. Orchestral pieces are almost never under 5 minutes. I'm not into it, but respect the work that went into making it. I don't mind listening to it, but can't do it too much.

A song like Bohemian Rhapsody is a decent example. I get sick of Intro, verse, refrain, verse, refrain, bridge, refrain, outro format. Hell if there's even an outro. No one listens to music on radio anymore that I know of. So let's get rid of the 3m songs. Some of the most iconic songs made are all 5m plus. They just had to make single takes of it like Free Bird. Radio cut was 4:41, but it's actually a 9m song. And not saying I like that song. Easy example. People will listen to long songs and yell it out at every show.

Sorry for the rant. As a drummer I HATED starting songs. It's like let's just play. Sat in with some new guys and buddies out in Montana in January and played 30 minutes straight. It's just more fun that way for me. In high school we got our hands on a projector and played to the entire Alice in Wonderland movie just jamming. And yes, we were high as a kite. It was okay for being 17. I think my buddy has the recording.

Forgot about these guys. "Cow Punk"

I am the Walrus - Dead Milkmen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0CffkXFNIE

Their biggest hit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyaK3jo4Sl4

Continuing the 70s Art/Kraut Rock exploration:

Can - Mother Sky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDBpZdQNp9E

KYUSS - Space Cadet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq8YcRi7DD4

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

What a Jesuit education, psychedelics, and the Arizona desert can wrought: The Meat Puppets.

The only song I heard from them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEuWE_pm5O4

Will give the rest a listen.

Okay, this is the most fucked up thing I've seen in a while.

"Nine Inch Players" - Ohio Players+NIN mishmash. "Closer Fire"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx_S5v3GTzg

Roxette Judas: "She's Got the Sentinel"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP4ahw07Xqc

Guns n' Temptations: "Welcome to Cloud Nine"
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jcu3ycJoYvA

From Hungary... Pink Floyd - "Another Brick In The Wall" -- 400 Musicians and children's choir... CITYROCKS flashmob...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWf-xWv6WIs

Led Zeppelin in the audience listening to... Stairway to Heaven

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cZ_EFAmj08

From the top comment: "When you are able to bring the actual band members of Led Zeppelin to tears over your stairway cover, you know you’ve done something right."

This is one of the most popular songs of the sixties. California Dreaming by The Mamas & the Papas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-aK6JnyFmk

An earlier recording of California Dreaming by The Mamas & the Papas had different lyrics!

The lyrics in the earliest version of the song say...

"Stepped into a church I passed along the way
Well, I got down on my knees
and I began to pray"

Vs the popular sixties version that says...

"Stopped in to a church I passed along the way
Well I got down on my knees
And I pretend to pray"

Note that this latest version is grammatically incorrect because it is mixing the Past Tense with the Present Tense.

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPSQHipkfGA

Here Michelle Philips is singing with the Beach Boys and she [IMO] says "began to pray." Note that Michelle Philips is the author of the lyrics.

God bless you Michelle!

Tonight let's go back to the early 1800s and go whaling with "The Wellerman..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNmLn6a-jqw

And then decide what to do with a "Drunken Sailor" early in the morning...
Wow, "Put him in the bed with the captains daughter?..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMOyOlmBYCU

And then just "Hoist the Colors" High...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4T5sxTVGoE

"Are you going to Scarborough fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Remember me to one who lives there
she once was a true love of mine"

Scarborough Fair is another song - an old English ballad - from the sixties made popular by Simon & Garfunkel.

This rendition is by Sarah Brightman in a clip from The Lord of The Rings!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaBA6hqpvPM

The second rendition is by Hayley Westenra of the Celtic Woman group at the Slane Castle in Ireland...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiZJP_XLmrQ

Finally, this is Simon & Garfunkel in Scarborough Fair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jj4s9I-53g

My trip tonight started with Motorhead

Went to Motorhead/Girlsschool "Please don't Touch"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Etzg3tMPXHg

Got ambushed by a Pedophile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTiqePH2yZg

... and Ended up with Britny Fox "Girlschool"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fAi8Jc2hrw

Man, did all these Hair Metal guys rip off Steven Tyler's style.

A look at We The People, The Deplorables, this Fourth of July... Our National Anthem and some American Folk Music...

• Star Spangled Banner As You've Never Heard It -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaxGNQE5ZLA

• Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCdo-KjiTlc --

Here I sit on Buttermilk Hill
Who can blame me, cryin' my fill
And ev'ry tear would turn a mill,
Johnny has gone for a soldier.

Me, oh my, I loved him so,
Broke my heart to see him go,
And only time will heal my woe,
Johnny has gone for a soldier...

• This Land Is Your Land -- Woody Guthrie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo_A-7Pespg

This land is your land and this land is my land
From California to the New York island
From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and me

As I went walking that ribbon of highway
I saw above me that endless skyway
Saw below me that golden valley
This land was made for you and me...

• America The Beautiful -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCQq6HzcXI8

Oh beautiful, for spacious skies
For amber waves of grain
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain

America, America,
God shed his grace on thee
and crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea...

• God Bless America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohxDqJCI3yY

God bless America, land that I love
Stand beside her and guide her
Through the night with the light from above

From the mountains to the prairies
To the oceans white with foam
God bless America, my home sweet home...

• Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTeUdJky9rY

Almost heaven, West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River
Life is old there, older than the trees
Younger than the mountains, blowin' like a breeze

Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads...

• Oh My Darlin' Clementine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twRr3ygK3TM

Oh my darling, oh my darling
Oh my darling, Clementine
You were lost and gone forever
Dreadful sorrow, Clementine

In a cavern, in a canyon
Excavating for a mine
Dwelt a miner forty-niner
And his daughter, Clementine...

• André Rieu in one of the most popular waltzes - The Second Waltz by Dmitri Shostakovich... What I think is special about this rendition are the human voices from the choir that sound like another instrument! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX1fiE0U1qA

• Another waltz by André Rieu - a Danube medley - except the Swans and other birds are doing the dancing - the video of the birds in this clip is just beautiful! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oEBrh8j-g

• The Viennese Waltz by André Rieu -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHYxkkzS35Q

• Finally Dmitri Shostakovich again in - The Second Waltz - with scenes from various movies... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOK8Jb76ibc

https://www.reddit.com/r/longerjams/comments/14v55l2/led_zeppelin_when_the_levee_breaks_710/

When the levee breaks- Led Zeppelin version

Rod Stewart - "Baby Jane"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrJv4G3Yyvs

Zlad! - "Elektronik Supersonik" (Parody of Laibach/early 90s industrial dance)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQhyDYQ081U

Bauhaus - "Terror Couple Kill Colonel"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeNJH5pnWXs

Loosely based on an attack by the Baader-Meinhof Group in West Germany:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bloomquist

KLF - "What Time is Love" with Scots Rave Background
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnVflMfcZvM

Chemical Brothers - "Free Yourself"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wzR_BVFsUU

Alien Sex Fiend - "Ignore the Machine"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv2PjbEmJV4

Good line: "I live in Siberia, through no fault of my own."

Rick James Dio - "Holy Mary Jane Diver"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_A6XC_EG4A

Holy shit, it's pretty good.

Danzig Temptations - "Mother and Father was a Rolling Stone"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz7RGARtAgc

Memories... Music From Movies

1957 - "The Bridge On The River Kwai" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cayfWrlWgII

1973 - "Papillon" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js69DkyaDVQ

1966 - "The Good The Bad And The Ugly" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFa1-kciCb4

1965 - Lara's Theme from "Doctor Zhivago" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yd2PzoF1y8

1970 - "Love Story" - Instrumental - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITswHbJPHhQ

Stephan Hauser is a Croat virtuoso cellist - one of those musicians who, like Andre Rieu - make music fun to watch. Here Hauser meets the beautiful American virtuoso violinist Caroline Campbell and... these two are fun to watch!

Stephan Hauser & Caroline Campbell - Czardas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk2yoOY8CTU

Stephan Hauser & Caroline Campbell - Torna A Surriento https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo4fRy4zGK4

Stephan Hauser & Caroline Campbell - America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHRLPk0HvnE

Stephan Hauser & Caroline Campbell - Quizás, Quizás, Quizás https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHdVzYZHJLs

The_Deplorable says

1965 - Lara's Theme from "Doctor Zhivago" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yd2PzoF1y8

Ha my 11yo just bought this record for $1.99.

Some more Hauser...

Here, Stephan Hauser is the Pirate in - Pirates of the Caribbean -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSYXD-uCE1g

Stephan Hauser in - La Isla Bonita -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5piCHB0b_Q

Stephan Hauser in Budapest - My Heart Will Go On -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC3PeBw3QVo

Stephan Hauser with Lola Astanova - a Russian-American pianist in - Für Elise -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb9YqX4iid0

The soundman had this playing at my last band gig. The Headstones - Cemetary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEzDwO4Z0iU

Hillbilly punk rock at it's most absurd.

"Went down to the cemetary, looking for love,
Got there and my baby was buried, I had to dig her up"

One of the best groups from way back...

Creedence Clearwater Revival -- Bad Moon Rising https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUQiUFZ5RDw

Creedence Clearwater Revival -- Have You Ever Seen The Rain? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1V8YRJnr4Q

Creedence Clearwater Revival -- I Heard It Through The Grapevine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCCfc2vAuDU

I ain't No Fortunate Son No No No... It ain't me...
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWijx_AgPiA

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Proud Mary -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hid10EgMXE

Some Instrumental hits from the 1960s...

The Shadows - Apache - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TwULx_wDiI

Neil LeVang - Ghost Riders In The Sky - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SfU56IDsb4

The Village Stompers - Washington Square - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0yFJMa9eZE

Mason Williams - Classical Gas - ORIGINAL STEREO VERSION - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mREi_Bb85Sk

Herb Alpert - A Taste of Honey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGmQXuySF28

https://samoyed.dynu.net/~public/MindWebs/

Classic, although most people won't enjoy it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yw2yKNLEPc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mSIX8G_0Mk&list=PLrnz4iRZQNlcw5pp_JuTZLuqLgDmqSHUD&index=11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu_xOl-I7Lc&list=PLrnz4iRZQNlcw5pp_JuTZLuqLgDmqSHUD&index=6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5vto70Q23E&list=PL_tKhcwp1CMJoRpDKDV4t7Bv6b7e2Tvtz&index=6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkzeeEU27Mw&list=PL_tKhcwp1CMJoRpDKDV4t7Bv6b7e2Tvtz&index=14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2WX4wUxOZk&list=PLz_wBLfXJIHd48YA4Zd8cXjv9wTLfMraX&index=7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrcDKKVkPrE&list=PLz_wBLfXJIHd48YA4Zd8cXjv9wTLfMraX&index=2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-t5coSBGFk&list=PLz_wBLfXJIHd48YA4Zd8cXjv9wTLfMraX&index=4

Music is fun...

Yes, music is a universal language... Opera at a restaurant... "Let's Drink from the Joyful Cups" ("Libiam Ne'lieli Calici") https://twitter.com/TheFigen/status/1697312042942697983

Playing the piano... Having fun playing Brahms Hungarian Dance No.5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4GFQRyZpgg

A child prodigy - 7 years old - Anastasiia Tiurina plays the balalaika and leads the National Academic Orchestra of Russian Folk Instruments. This is a child leading an entire orchestra and she seems oblivious to the fact! Anastasiia Tiurina - "Valenki" with her balalaika https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAfuMol1e-0

In 2021, 14 year old Emma Kok (14) won The Voice Kids in The Netherlands. Here she sings "Voila" with Andre Rieu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT3MFdt7xKw 1.2 Million views in less than 3 weeks.

A Translation...

Voila

Listen to me
Me, the half-singer
Talk about me
To your loves, to your friends
Tell them about this black eyed girl
And of his mad dream
Me, what I want is to write stories
Who reach you
That's it

Here, here, here
This is who I'm
Here I'm even though
Exposed, I'm afraid, yes
Here I'm in the noise
And in the silence

[Complete translation here... https://matchlyric.com/andre-rieu-emma-voila-english-translation ]

The Carpenters...

Karen Carpenter In perhaps one of the best renditions of "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" from Evita - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76ZKihNCWWE

Karen Carpenter - Top Of The World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt1MqAZ9XHw

Carpenters - Rainy Days And Mondays -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjFoQxjgbrs

The Carpenters - Please Mr Postman [1978] -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGmgHjSX0wY

The America they stole from us:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaWf1Kq5sHg

The America they stole from Us Part Deux:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh5GdUY00-k

And the most 70s thing you ever did see: The CHiPs Roller Disco with the Stars

My first dream in life was to have the White Helmet and be a CHP motorcycle officer.

ABBA From Sweden...

1975 ABBA - SOS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXTS47c6IUI
1979 ABBA - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEjLoHdbVeE
1976 Abba - Dancing Queen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFrGuyw1V8s
1974 ABBA - Waterloo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj_9CiNkkn4
1979 ABBA - Chiquitita https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4QqMKe3rwY
1978 ABBA - Take A Chance On Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-crgQGdpZR0

1992 Messiah: There Is No Law https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7ZUAGg358M
1992 Messiah: Temple of Love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNgm0VZ-Cgo

1982 Gary Newman: We are Glass https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWR8vitO6wQ

1983 Motley Crue: Looks That Kill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMhoWiaL88Q

1972 Slade: Mama Weer All Crazee Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEv6jy_7PQQ