What Are You Listening To?
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CMonster
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Kazaam said:
I was able to use dBpoweramp to go right from FLAC to Apple Lossless and it retained 96/24. However, AppleTV outputs everything at 48 kHz (including lossless CD rips at 44.1 kHz) and my SB3 / Logitech Media Server shit the bed (had to reboot the computer) trying to handle the hi-rez FLAC (that could've been the fault of my ancient laptop running WinXP - wikipedia mentions 96kHz support for the SB Touch).
Kazaam
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Dwight Yoakam's new one. "3 Pears".
It's dang good music. Right up there with the best of his stuff, IMO. (Like he's ever made anything truly bad!) That said... there's something about the way this album sounds. What I mean is that the music lets loose plenty, but yet it always sounds somehow restrained to my ears. I dunno. Maybe it's all just my imagination. Great music, regardless! Can't hardly say that enough.
It's dang good music. Right up there with the best of his stuff, IMO. (Like he's ever made anything truly bad!) That said... there's something about the way this album sounds. What I mean is that the music lets loose plenty, but yet it always sounds somehow restrained to my ears. I dunno. Maybe it's all just my imagination. Great music, regardless! Can't hardly say that enough.
Kazaam
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PaulyT said:
A friend loaned this one to me, pretty interesting, listening to it now for the first time. Sorta vaguely Mumford and Sons-ish, acoustic instruments, vocal harmonies, kinda folksy feel.
That's the impression I get, too. Not that I own it yet. But I've been seeing that album a lot lately in online stores. Like only in the last couple of weeks now. Must be fairly popular, I suppose.
Kazaam
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PaulyT said:
Uh-oh... I've outed myself as just a very casual (and fairly ignorant) King Crimson fan. :angelic-green:
But I actually do have a couple of their earliest albums. And I would've recognized Red, too. I guess they just have way more stuff than I've ever bothered to explore.
The discography of King Crimson consists of 13 studio albums, 25 live albums, 8 compilation albums, 3 extended plays (EPs), 14 singles and 6 video albums.
Studio albums
In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)
In the Wake of Poseidon (1970)
Lizard (1970)
Islands (1971)
Larks' Tongues in Aspic (1973)
Starless and Bible Black (1974)
Red (1974)
Discipline (1981)
Beat (1982)
Three of a Perfect Pair (1984)
THRAK (1995)
The ConstruKction of Light (2000)
The Power to Believe (2003)
Info above comes from Wikipedia
Studio albums
In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)
In the Wake of Poseidon (1970)
Lizard (1970)
Islands (1971)
Larks' Tongues in Aspic (1973)
Starless and Bible Black (1974)
Red (1974)
Discipline (1981)
Beat (1982)
Three of a Perfect Pair (1984)
THRAK (1995)
The ConstruKction of Light (2000)
The Power to Believe (2003)
Info above comes from Wikipedia
Kazaam said:Today's free Google Play MP3 of the day was "California Love" by 2Pac. I was never big into Tupac back in the day, but I always liked this particular groove. And maybe nostalgia is kicking in a little bit, too. So, of course, I downloaded it.
That's a good song. Like you, not a Tupac fan, but this is one of those songs that just begs to be cranked!
My introduction to the Crim was the third lineup, the quartet of Fripp/Belew/Levin/Bruford, beginning with Discipline. I could've sworn it was SNL, but it was a show called Friday's, and they played Elephant Talk. My jaw hit the floor, I'd never seen/heard anything like that before, never seen a Chapman Stick, never seen anyone abuse a Strat like that before, never seen high-speed arpeggios as Fripp was doing. I bought the album the next morning. It's one of the 3 or 4 albums that have changed me, deeply.heeman said:
50 Bonus BotchPoints™ to the first person to identify the pattern in the verses; and you will rarely see Fripp smile. Ladies and Gentlemen, Elephant Talk:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTQrlDzqUCA[/youtube]
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