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In Reply to: A Mix Tape I Made Long Ago ... posted by reelsmith. on September 29, 2016 at 16:11:01:
Do you have Taxi Sequel ? I think it is about one of the last things Chapin did. Excellent writing. I have somewhere where he did both put right together where he hooks up with her ten years alter or whatever but I am not so sure I prefer that. It almost stands better as two separate songs. Like chapters in a book.
Just one comment here : Look how old some of the stuff we listen to is. Really, 99 % of the new shit is garbage, just like movies and TV. We used to have five TV channels and had to discuss what to watch and now we got 300 channels and there is nothing worth watching. Quantity instead of quality. I can't listen to most of the new shit, and TV and movies is all special effects, an eight year old doing the camerawork and them switching angles or scenes 35 times a minute.
I don't even go to hulu anymore because I have watched all the old stuff. Over 80 % of my music collection, which is pretty good quality because I got it off P2P and used the right software, is over 20 years old. Some of it is older than I am.
Last week I fixed a turntable and for a test record I got handed an all dusty one. It sounded pretty good actually, apparently the dust was on the top in between the grooves. I shit you not, I could not believe that I was not hearing the noise from that. If I had wiped it off half of that dust would have gone down in the grooves and it would sound worse.
I used to do mix tapes all the time and sometimes do a mix CD when necessary, like for the garage stereo where I can't seem to get the wifi to connect to my server. But even in the old days I found very few whole albums listenable, even groups I really liked. One notable exception is Pink Floyd, and there are a few others I can't think of right now but most of them are a band's first album.
This led to a discussion of why. Why ? Why is their first album usually the best ? Because it took them a lifetime to make. After that a record company gets to them and produces and markets the album and that is all cool and the gang but they want another album within a year or two. The contract says how many minutes and all that. They sign because they want the promotion but then they are pretty much slaves. So they write filler tracks, use shit they threw away years ago or do covers.
What was Boston's best album ? Now I do admit that Foreigner put out a really good one with Double Vision, and actually I think it is better than their first album, but that is the exception not the rule.
Pink Floyd is another exception, their early work was too weird, Dark Side Of The Moon got them rolling, and it was nowhere near their first album, but then they were in England and things might be different there.
Actually they were. It was illegal in the past to transmit rock and roll on the radio stations. So some people with money put a radio station on a boat outside of their territorial waters and beamed rock and roll in there. It was call Radio Carolina. Look it up.
Online, at a chat place called Paltalk I corresponded with one of the Beatles' sound guys who now lives in California. He is old and he was there and he has a bunch of tapes from back then he plays once in a while. Yes, you can broadcast music over the net on Paltalk. You can get it for free but if you pay up you get alot better sound quality, though most members don't send all that great quality.
Anyway, his handle there is peyotecoyote and his real name is Gary. He has some seriously seriously rare shit. I stopped going there when they required a software update, but I think you can just do it through your browser now, if you care to.
In fact he sent me this little doodad :
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/29948706/VUMeter.exe
Freeware, no install it just runs on its own. It is not compatible with everything. Certain soundcards, and I am not sure about anything past XP. But it does not have any virus in it or any of that shit. If you use an external DA convertor it is not going to work.
But anyway, looking at the media I see these days indicates that it has all been written. Creativity is dead.
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