What are you listening to?

[Zap Rekowski]

Well-known and always fascinating
The Who, Tommy

 

[MrA]

A free Sunday without family/grandkids means a full day of Vinyl...

Parov Stelar - Moonlight Love Affair
The Black Keys - Delta Kream
Tool - Lateralus
Riverside - ID.ENTITY
Magic Mushroom Band - Spaced Out
True Strays - Heart Of The Matter



....& if there's time, later King Buffalo - Acheron & Parov Stelar - Voodoo Sonic

 

[MrA]

Well-known and always fascinating
The Who, Tommy

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Hmm I am ambivalent about many 'classic' albums, esp 'concept doubles'

As one of my favourite bands I own only on CD but never really liked Tommy (Quadrophonic double LP on the other hand ), nor do I like The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway from Gabriel era Genesis apart from two tracks.

Same with Yes Close To The Edge (Jazz to me) & even Led Zep droney Kashmir (except the fabulous Page/Plant No Quarter version)

Sorry, I'm weird.

 

[QuarryHunslet]

My first album for today is from of Montreal.

 

[Zap Rekowski]

Hmm I am ambivalent about many 'classic' albums, esp 'concept doubles'

As one of my favourite bands I own only on CD but never really liked Tommy (Quadrophonic double LP on the other hand ), nor do I like The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway from Gabriel era Genesis apart from two tracks.

Same with Yes Close To The Edge (Jazz to me) & even Led Zep droney Kashmir (except the fabulous Page/Plant No Quarter version)

Sorry, I'm weird.

Tommy really strikes a chord with me and always gives me goosebumps. When I got my first LPs in the mid/late 70s, or rather bought them with my pocket money, Tommy was one of the first, along with The Kids Are Alright. All the Beatles records were on the left at the front, and The Who's were on the right

I don't like everything by Led Zeppelin, nor do I like everything by Yes. I have to say that if there's one band I like everything by, it's still the Beatles... The Who comes close

What I've noticed is that we used to celebrate music and give an album several chances (listening to it multiple times), and it took a while before we liked it. Today, we tend to ‘click away’ too quickly and judge it wrongly. I try to maintain this behavior from the past and not judge too quickly. What's terrible nowadays, however, are the increasingly awful productions (compressor, normalized). Many of them quickly fall by the wayside...

 

[slartibartfast]

Tommy really strikes a chord with me and always gives me goosebumps. When I got my first LPs in the mid/late 70s, or rather bought them with my pocket money, Tommy was one of the first, along with The Kids Are Alright. All the Beatles records were on the left at the front, and The Who's were on the right

I don't like everything by Led Zeppelin, nor do I like everything by Yes. I have to say that if there's one band I like everything by, it's still the Beatles... The Who comes close

What I've noticed is that we used to celebrate music and give an album several chances (listening to it multiple times), and it took a while before we liked it. Today, we tend to ‘click away’ too quickly and judge it wrongly. I try to maintain this behavior from the past and not judge too quickly. What's terrible nowadays, however, are the increasingly awful productions (compressor, normalized). Many of them quickly fall by the wayside...

Does liking everything by The Beatles include Revolution 9?

 

[Machiavelli]

may be it is not popular and will not find much consent.
not everything, but a lot of the old stuff now smells rotten. and is miserably overrated. the greatest 'consensus' heroes are sometimes the worst. but most likely i am too dumb. or many others too lazy to dig into new stuff. endless repetition makes nothing better. time proves everything. but, of course: each should have an own taste. but beatles in 2025? sorry @Zap Rekowski

 

[QuarryHunslet]

Does liking everything by The Beatles include Revolution 9?

I like Revolution 9.

 

[Zap Rekowski]

Does liking everything by The Beatles include Revolution 9?

...yes, even Number 9, Number 9... we heard it often as children and even tried to imitate it with three portable cassette recorders

 

[Zap Rekowski]

may be it is not popular and will not find much consent.
not everything, but a lot of the old stuff now smells rotten. and is miserably overrated. the greatest 'consensus' heroes are sometimes the worst. but most likely i am too dumb. or many others too lazy to dig into new stuff. endless repetition makes nothing better. time proves everything. but, of course: each should have an own taste. but beatles in 2025? sorry @Zap Rekowski

The Beatles in 2025! I think that's a really silly argument, especially for someone who listens to classical music — also in terms of the fundamental reference to old material (sorry, too ).

Besides, I'm not saying that new music doesn't inspire me... time and time again!

 

[Machiavelli]

The Beatles in 2025! I think that's a really silly argument, especially for someone who listens to classical music — also in terms of the fundamental reference to old material (sorry, too ).

Besides, I'm not saying that new music doesn't inspire me... time and time again!

that is comparing apples and oranges. this 'classical' music was written down. on paper. made countless interpretations possible. 'popular' music is linked to an artist. if you say: covers. i say: lack of creativity.

 

[slartibartfast]

may be it is not popular and will not find much consent.
not everything, but a lot of the old stuff now smells rotten. and is miserably overrated. the greatest 'consensus' heroes are sometimes the worst. but most likely i am too dumb. or many others too lazy to dig into new stuff. endless repetition makes nothing better. time proves everything. but, of course: each should have an own taste. but beatles in 2025? sorry @Zap Rekowski

McCartney played Glastonbury just a couple of years ago.

 

[QuarryHunslet]

My second album was due to be Captain Beefheart Trout Mask Replica, but I can’t find it on Amazon Music, or Qobuz. I have played it previously, but it was probably available on Tidal, but I have cancelled my subscription, so I will have to miss it out, and move on to this album from Klaus Nomi.

 

[slartibartfast]

My second album was due to be Captain Beefheart Trout Mask Replica, but I can’t find it on Amazon Music, or Qobuz. I have played it previously, but it was probably available on Tidal, but I have cancelled my subscription, so I will have to miss it out, and move on to this album from Klaus Nomi.

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This is the issue with streaming services. Albums can disappear at any time. I think it might have been removed from Tidal as well. When you said you liked Revolution 9 I thought of Captain Beefheart

 

[Zap Rekowski]

that is comparing apples and oranges. this 'classical' music was written down. on paper. made countless interpretations possible. 'popular' music is linked to an artist. if you say: covers. i say: lack of creativity.

Some people approach music differently and evaluate it differently. Can't you find elements of classical music in the Beatles? Regardless, take a guess at what classical music was during the artists' lifetimes: popular contemporary music.

 

[Machiavelli]

hihi but written down! for reproducing. anywhere. anytime. anyhow. latest beethoven earned his life with selling the scores.
the gimmick with f.e. the string quartet in yesterday was already in 1965 a dirty trick to give the more 'intellectual' audience an alibi. i was only two years old. otherwise i had claimed that then already may be if i had my first sex while listening. but. as above. it was a few years too early.

 

[QuarryHunslet]

This is the issue with streaming services. Albums can disappear at any time. I think it might have been removed from Tidal as well. When you said you liked Revolution 9 I thought of Captain Beefheart

I have just searched this thread, and I played Trout Mask Replica on 19th January, and 20th January on Qobuz, so it looks like it has been removed.

 

[Zap Rekowski]

hihi but written down! for reproducing. anywhere. anytime. anyhow. latest beethoven earned his life with selling the scores.
the gimmick with f.e. the string quartet in yesterday was already in 1965 a dirty trick to give the more 'intellectual' audience an alibi. i was only two years old. otherwise i had claimed that then already may be if i had my first sex while listening. but. as above. it was a few years too early.

I'm not talking about the use of classical instruments, but rather classical harmony.
Regarding the argument about writing things down: Unfortunately, it wasn't possible to record things back then.
Even the Beatles “composed” their songs.
I am convinced that there will be Beatles interpretations in 200, 500 years. Just as there are already classical interpretations today.

I had sworn never to quarrel about music again, so that's it from me!

 

[QuarryHunslet]

My third album is from Sleep.

 

[Zap Rekowski]

If these Trees could talk, the giving Tree