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Thank you, Paris!

Jazz Funk Hip Hop thump.

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10 Years....10 GREAT years!

First spin of The Hazards Of Love. The Decemberists have remembered they're a rock band and lots of electric guitar on this one. I was expecting the worst after the disappointment from the Always The Bridesmaid EP but this new album redeems them (I'm saying this after only one spin).

What's the worst thing that happen in audiophilic terms? My baby, my big Mac got damaged in the move...aaaaggghh

While in the shop my handy back-up Rotel is doing it's best to make the Logans sing and, as a form of retail therapy, I felt the need to calm the beast within with a new Sony Bravia. Accordingly, I'm enjoying Pat Metheny's The Way Up-Live in all its splendor...

Aw, man, 'Sticks! F___ ! What a bummer! I'll put on Off Ramp in your honor.

Wow, the Mac daddy must have taken a hefty hit to put it in the shop. bummer...

In the past days I've gone from classics like;
Captain Beyond, Sufficiently Breathless, which I liked really well. It gives you that blacklight and incense feel.

Michael Olfield, Tubular Bells 3, I find myself throwing this on comparitively quite often. It's very good, not only is the music good but there are frequent changes throughout the album, it may be sort of Electronica then break into the female vocalist into a guitar driven part.

Then I'm going through a bit of a Metal stage after acquiring In This Moment's, Beautiful Tradgedy which led to In Flames, Sense Of Purpose, to Amon Amarth, Twilight Of The Thunder God. And FP sent a hunk of Metallic comps to crush me further.

From 1936 to 1958, Carl Stalling was the chief composer-in-residence at the Warner Brothers animation studios, which produced the Buggs Bunny cartoons and their kin. Stalling was an immensely gifted and productive musician, and he used elements of classical, jazz, folk and other melodies to produce a patchwork quilt of sounds that were seamlessly integrated into the deftly drawn characters. Within the music are all the exclamtions, screams, whistles, hoots, crashes and whirrs, giving the music a vitality that reminds listeners why these were truly "Loony Tunes".

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What's the worst thing that happen in audiophilic terms? My baby, my big Mac got damaged in the move...aaaaggghh

While in the shop my handy back-up Rotel is doing it's best to make the Logans sing and, as a form of retail therapy, I felt the need to calm the beast within with a new Sony Bravia. Accordingly, I'm enjoying Pat Metheny's The Way Up-Live in all its splendor...

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I'm sorry to hear that sticks...

I can't even imagine what it would do to me if my mac got damaged...
is it going to be repaired soon? what exactly got damaged?

NP: Lhasa - The living road
up next:
Arsenal - outsides

Keep them spinning,
Bert.

We're all feeling the pain of broken hi fi but let us pause for a moment to say congrads on the new Sony. Have you gone Blu yet?

Auric, without hearing that Warner Bros. stuff as just music it's hard to decide if I'd like it.or not. It would be an interesting listen to be sure.

Whattup gents...

Bert, good to hear from you btw, I haven't the faintest idea what the problem is. The unit gets power and lights but no juice. Having just recently moved I haven't had a chance to make it back to the other side of town with ol' Blue Eyes but rest assured that it's high on the agenda.

Mistah Peabody, good eve sir...Yes, I've gone Blu and the Sony does it with aplomb. I'm likin' the fact too that each week more and more classic reissues are coming out.

Auri, I'm learnin' to deal with adversity...the transition to U-Verse wreaked all hell on my computers but things are a lot slower out here in the country....so it'll all come together soon enough...

In the meantime I'm enjoying a night on the East Broadway Run Down courtesy of Sonny Rollins...

I've just been given a collection of a few hundred records, mostly from England and most from the 1960s. Even this 1967 classic from Mississippi native Bobbie Gentry says "made and printed in Great Britain" on it.

That would be a very cool collection to go through.

Mr. P: Well, honestly, you hafta be in the mood to det into this stuff....It's pretty rambunctious listening, more interesting as an archive source than for sitting in the dark room at one AM. Still, Stalling was a gifted arranger who artfully blended all these genres together quite cohesively to give those cartoons a lively and engaging backdrop...

'Sticks: Hey, man! Good to see your ugly mug! WTH is U-Verse?!

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Whattup...

U-Verse is AT&T's cable/internet/phone package...fully serviced, fully customized...decent Standard Def reception and great internet speed...lotta hands in the cookie jar though.

Great playlist for the evening, an evening that for the first time feels like I'm getting back into the swing of things from a musical perspective...

Pixies~Surfer Rosa
Bryan Ferry~Bete Noire
Richard Buckner~Devotion
Yo Yo Ma/Edgar Meyer/Mark O'Connor~Appalachian Journey

and NP: The Felony Boulevard Soundtrack

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What's the worst thing that happen in audiophilic terms? My baby, my big Mac got damaged in the move...aaaaggghh

While in the shop my handy back-up Rotel is doing it's best to make the Logans sing and, as a form of retail therapy, I felt the need to calm the beast within with a new Sony Bravia. Accordingly, I'm enjoying Pat Metheny's The Way Up-Live in all its splendor...

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bobsticks I am so sorry to hear the news about your amp. I am moving the 28th of this month and I am fearful for many of my things. Much has been changing for me and now I will have enough room to finish cataloguing music and making some recordings.

Dare'st I say, that's quite a heady set of tunes, Old Sticks! Have you applied your ears to this tasty morsel?

OK, this might give some one a laugh but I like this album. I was rummaging through my CD's and ran across Survivor, Eye Of The Tiger. I haven't heard that in I don't know how long so decided to throw it on. This is really a good album, maybe a couple average tracks but full of good ones. It's also interesting to hear an older disc like that, things stand out that you wouldn't notice back then like the real drums. Back then they didn't bump the bass up much either, despite that the recording wasn't so bad.

I forgot the singers name but I guess he may be out of a job again now that Anheiser Busch was sold. Maybe the new owner will continue the Real Men commercials.

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God Damn Rock 'N' Roll: A Tribute To The Cramps

A fun listen. Of course, the Cramps did all these songs so well, it's hard to see why you need to hear these mostly fairly faithful versions. Cramps songs tended to the simplistic so there's nothing here the bands can't handle and most of the songs would be hard to make sound bad if they tried. So mostly, you just get an extra little bit of fuzz here, maybe a newly cranked up guitar part there. Still fun to hear bands like Queens of the Stone Age, Jesus & Mary Chain, Hellbillies and others, including a good chunk of unknowns tear through some great tunes by a great band.

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bobsticks I am so sorry to hear the news about your amp. I am moving the 28th of this month and I am fearful for many of my things. Much has been changing for me and now I will have enough room to finish cataloguing music and making some recordings.

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John, it's great to read that you're moving especially knowing some of the travails you've had in that area. On to bigger and better, eh, sir? As far as the cataloging and recording, I've never had a doubt that special project was in the right hands...glad to know the opportunity to enjoy the tunes is coming. BTW, I emptied ye ol' PM box out, when you get a chance shoot me a line and let me know of the major changes.

NP: Andrew Bird~ Armchair Apochrypha

Spring is here, and already the warm air is moving in, bringing everything into bloom and air that is sweet as the breath of the girl who sips the wine from her glass at the table beside me. Ah, Spring! When the insects zing merrily in the banana grove, and the cat skulks through the leaves in a gentle rustle! Spring! When the....

This is a lovely CD, introduced by my Egyptian friend who owns and runs a coffee house downtown. The place is laid out in comfortable sofas and tables. Beautiful women and grateful men sit and loll about as Robin puts it on. Starting with Paul Schwartz and Isobel Griffiths' rendition of Handel's Ombra mai fu, the choir breaks out in a peal that makes you want to stop for a moment and breathe in...life!

This disc is not for purists, who will be off put by the introduction of synths which take these immortal pieces, such as Handel's Sarabande and Puccini's La Rondine to a contemporary place. Suspend that aside, dear listeners, for the playing is deft, subtle and not at all out of place.

Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cjPG_x5BZY

Madeleine Peyroux. If you like the whole jazz vocal thing, you gotta hear this.

First day back from vacation. Feelin good, not sure which of the several hundred emails to tackle first. No one else in the office yet. Morning sunshine coming in. What to listen too...

Ahh, this is it. John Coltrane Quartet: Africa/Brass

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That's a good one. I've had a fine time of late revisiting the collection as the settling in process goes on...and Coltrane has been right up there. Last night brought on some Wes Montgomery on SACD, that last Stanley Jordan, Over The Rhine, and Peter Gabriel. I found an old Naxos edition "Guitar Music of Argentina" that may get some play today before the crunk hours start.

NP:
Melody Gardot - My one and only thrill

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pretty good actually :)

next up: Madeleine Peyroux - Careless love

Keep them spinning,
Bert.