 
|
Audio Asylum Thread Printer Get a view of an entire thread on one page |
For Sale Ads |
|
|
Audio Asylum Thread Printer Get a view of an entire thread on one page |
For Sale Ads |
129.6.108.78
I took a break from work this morning and cranked this one..
Gsquared
Follow Ups:
and Oh Well by Fleetwood Mac.
Regards,
Steve
Every track on The Stooges "Funhouse" album.Try this one for size (and it's the mildest one on the album): "Dirt" (link below)
Addendum: I just remembered this -Back in 1978, after returning to my apartment after a night out, I turned on my stereo, put on my Koss Pro 4A headphones and played this album. I took off my headphones after the side ended only to hear the sound of the needle in the run out groove coming out of my speakers, and it was loud. My Kenwood KA-6004 integrated amp did not automatically turn off the speakers when headphones were plugged in. Man, did I feel bad. Even if my neighbors were banging on the floor or wall or door to get me to turn down the music, I wouldn't have heard them. I immediately turned off the stereo and went to bed.
"Political correctness is America's newest form of intolerance, and it is especially pernicious because it comes disguised as tolerance."
- George Carlin
Edits: 08/13/24
This song used to be the WWF or WWE now's theme song.Cruise Control by the Dixie Dregs. You just got to crank it...-Mark Korda
David Bowie - Young Americans
"Coconut" Harry Nilsson, also "Jump Into The Fire"
That's just for this morning.
Jimmy Smith, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Dire Straits, Simon & Garfunkel, Count Basie, Santana, Doors, Rossini Overtures just off the top of my head get played pretty loud.
But the highest volume level I think I have reached was on Elvis is Back "Fever".
m
I have a 12" copy that I acquired somewhere along the line. It's tonnes of fun. ;)PS I assume you mean Pete Townshend's Face the Face . :)
all the best,
mrh
Edits: 08/17/24
ZZ Top
.... by one of the great bands. I saw ZZ Top here in Las Cruces (NM) a number of years ago and La Grange brought the house down.
For perfect tone use Columbia Needles
For Best results use Victor Needles
For best results use OKEH Needles
I remember seeing ZZ Top in '73 in Nashville, opening for Uriah Heep. Strange bill, but that happened sometimes back in those days. "Demons and Wizards" had been a fave with my crowd, and Heep were touring the followup, which was lame. ZZ Top totally blew them off the stage. Ridiculous. Tres Hombres was just on the verge of coming out. Their set was brief, but outrageously tight and energetic. Uriah Heep was okay, but I think they knew they couldn't measure up. Never paid much attention to them after that night.
. . . in theory, practice and theory are the same; in practice, they are different . . .
Edits: 08/11/24
I had dinner with Billy and asked him in person how he recorded that song.
He told me that he used the legendary pearly gates les paul and the secret to the tone of the first record was due to the use of that guitar ,,,, a vintage marshal amp and German tube mics
That's my favorite ZZ Top album. And, I love the way it sounds.
"Political correctness is America's newest form of intolerance, and it is especially pernicious because it comes disguised as tolerance."
- George Carlin
.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
Thousand eyes
Not to be confused with cartoons.
Spill the Wine
Spirit in the Sky
Radar Love
We Gotta' Get Out of This Place
Back Stabbers
It's Your Thing
Time of the Season
Tears of a Clown
No Time
Dance to the Music
Everyday People
I just Want To Celebrate
She's a Woman
I Feel Fine
I Get Around
Soul Man
Green Onions
I'm Your Captain
Fortunate Son
Mama Told Me Not To Come
Liar
Suspicious Minds
Papa Was a Rolling Stone
Drift Away
Ride Captain Ride
Dancing in the Moonlight
Devil With the Blue Dress
Venus
Cry Like a Baby
And many more.
I love crankin' the music of my youth while drivin'.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
a
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
for oldsters like us. ;)
Jimmey Thackery at his best
For perfect tone use Columbia Needles
For Best results use Victor Needles
For best results use OKEH Needles
Thackery has a live album out that also has "If You Go". This version is also quite good, a bit more mature than the Nighthawks' version.
Jack
Both versions are terrific, but I prefer The Nighthawks version on Ten Years Live. You just can't go wrong listening to Jimmy Thackery.
For perfect tone use Columbia Needles
For Best results use Victor Needles
For best results use OKEH Needles
Nt
Have many, but Eddie Cochran's "C'mon Everybody" comes to mind...-.
Crimson and Clover
by Chris Cornell from the music of a movie I never saw, Great Expectations
so far...
View YouTube Video
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
Hearth of the sunrise by yes
Lip of ashes from porcupine tree
Whole a lotta love led zepellin
Won't get fooled again
Dance infernales and firebird from stravinki
The good the bad and the ugly from ennio morricone
The great gates of Kiev from Mussorgsky
Run and great gig from sky Pink Floyd,,
"London Calling" or anything by the Clash before "Sandinista""Sweetnighter" or anything by Weather Report before "Heavy Weather"
"Raw Power" or anything by the Stooges, even the bad live stuff
"Repeater" or anything by Fugazi before "Red Medicine"
"Master of Puppets" or anything by Metallica before "And Justice For All"
Anything from the Miles Davis "Jack Johnson" sessions
Anything from "L.A.M.F."
Anything from "Marquee Moon"
Anything ever recorded by The Jam
Ask me tomorrow and you'll probably get a different list.
. . . in theory, practice and theory are the same; in practice, they are different . . .
Edits: 08/09/24 08/09/24
nt
It's got to be there.
Three cuts are on my system test:
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
And for the drums....
Hotel California - Eagles
Oh Romeo - Mindy McCready, for the drums and female voice
A couple others....
Lyin' Eyes - Eagles
Whiskey Lullaby - Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss
And of course, Landslide - Stevie Nicks
And way too many that just have to be cranked up.
-Rod
Too many to list. I have more "11 worthy" tunes but some of these older ones from my youth come to mind:
Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
Jump - Van Halen
Black Dog - Led Zeppelin
Surfing with the Alien - Joe Satriani
Back in Black - AC/DC
First heard it off a "Chucky" movie soundtrack. Then got into several Kidneythieves Albums.
Jonesy
"I know just enough to get into trouble. But not enough to get out of it."
Crazy was written by Willie Nelson.
I did not know that. Thanks!
Jonesy
"I know just enough to get into trouble. But not enough to get out of it."
m
View YouTube Video
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
The afrobeat style rhythm guitar reminds me of Talking Heads.
Makes me wonder which direction Talking Heads would have taken/how their sound would have evolved had John Cale started producing their albums instead of Eno.
"Political correctness is America's newest form of intolerance, and it is especially pernicious because it comes disguised as tolerance."
- George Carlin
Doug Schneider
SoundStage!
It one of my favorites cranked in the car.
Gsquared
BTW, "You Shook Me All Night Long" is really well recorded and, for me, a good test track. Play it on your system -- loud if you can -- and it should sound like a real band in a real room. It's well done.
Doug
SoundStage!
My old ProAc Studio Monitors do it justice. The same system with my Maggie LRS not so much.
Gsquared
AC/DC came out with "Heatseeker" in early 1988. Most of my friends were nerd girls, some of whom (including my future wife) were in the high school orchestra. "Heatseeker" was one of those stealth rock songs, which, while no one was looking, the nerd girls found infectious. Its combination of riffs and drumming was different from anything the orchestra played.
Whether played loudly or softly, "Heatseeker" is a real acid test for audio products. If the product doesn't do justice to "Heatseeker," next!
Nt
Makes sense. You need speakers that can really "kick."
Doug
My classic rock days are long gone. Here are few from what I guess can be called World Music, Italian film soundtracks, Lounge, and Early Rock and Roll
Jorge Ben - Africa/Brasil tracks 1,3 & 7
Serge Gainsbourg - Ford Mustang, 69 Annee Erotique
Piero Piccioni - Charms
Piero Umiliani - Lady Magnolia
Bobby Darrin - More
Frank Sinatra - That's Life
Count Basie - From Russia with Love
Little Richard - Long Tall Sally, Good Golly Miss Molly, Slippin' and Slidin', Rip it Up, Ready Teddy, True Fine Mama, Lucille
Buddy Holly - True Love Ways
Jimi - VooDoo Child Slight Return
Cream - Crossroads Live
Deep Purple - Highway Star
Edits: 08/09/24 08/09/24
Thumbs up!
.
. . . Berlioz, Bruckner, Mahler, Richard Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, RVW (EDIT: forgot to include Rachmaninoff and Rimsky-Korsakov!) - I'm talking about their symphonic works of course, not their solo instrument and chamber music.
Cranked up to "11" in Dolby Atmos - Man, that's living! ;-)
Edits: 08/10/24
Zep; The Ocean and very many others.
Ballroom Blitz.
Blue Danube.
Living Colour; Cult of personality.
Boston has a few.
Ozzy; Tinker Train.
Pink Floyd; head is exploding with options.
So many, mostly mood dependent.
In the Odyssey room at CAF last year by candle light:
Another Brick in the Wall pt.1
The Happiest days of Our Lives
Another Brick in the Wall pt.2
playing loud (for a HiFi show). The most memorable experience at the show.
Gsquared
That set of songs has been played by me either the most or close as any.
nt
.
Gsquared
nt
.
Gsquared
While everyone else was listening to some new band named Rush, I was two LPs deep into Mahogany Rush.
Yeah, Rush is great, everyone would say. Mahogany who?
Crankers:
Tales of the Spanish Warrior
Land of a Thousand Nights
Strange Universe
Your interest may vary but the results will be same. (Byrd 2020)
I can't compete with the dead. (Buck W. 2010)
Cowards can't be heroes. (Byrd 2017)
Why don't catfish have kittens? (Moe Howard 1937)
Snatched one.
After couple years lost air.
Finally trashed it when got married
I always liked when he played Robin Trower songs with just one hand to show "Nah, You ain't Jimi"
I bought a California Jam double album more years ago than I care to remember... There are some tracks by Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush on there that flat out blew me away. I've been listening to them as loud as I dare on my headphones lately!!
Regards,
Steve
Numero Uno is Boston's "More than a Feeling."
The rock band Boston's 1976 breakthrough single, "More Than a Feeling" is a song about listening to a song. Or, more precisely, "More Than a Feeling" is a song about experiencing the cascade of emotions - - nostalgia, regret, and longing - - set in motion by listening to one specific song.
The "old" song the songwriter has been listening to is...- "Walk Away Renee."
Quel surprise!
The year 1976 was a great year for the stereo business. Thinking about the differences in "the industry" between then and now calls to mind L. P. Hartley's elegant turn of phrase, "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
Looking back upon high-fidelity component audio's market-share peak, Tech Hifi co-founder Sandy Ruby observed, "Electronics retailers felt better about themselves than they should have. In the glory days of audio, we were modestly successful businessmen, buoyed by a tidal wave."
. . .
That brings us back full circle, to the rock band Boston's 1976 breakthrough single, "More Than a Feeling." As I mentioned above, this is a song about listening to a song, and its emotional tone is a mixture of nostalgia, regret, and longing. There has never been a shortage of sad songs. But "More Than a Feeling" is unusually complex, which might account for its remarkable popularity and staying power.
"More Than a Feeling" was the first single released from Boston's self-titled début album. The album "Boston" eventually sold more than 17 million copies. The YouTube music video has been viewed more than 100 million times. "More Than a Feeling" is an evergreen perennial of the Classic Rock format.
It was the astonishing success of the single "More Than a Feeling" that made Boston the first rock group in history to have Madison Square Garden as the venue for their New York City debut performance.
The complexity of "More Than a Feeling" begins in its, for lack of a better word, soundworld. Unusually for its time, the song fades in, as though we are intruding upon an ongoing reverie. The timbres are both densely layered, and distinctive in character (including guitar harmonics and harmonic chords).
Band founder Tom Scholz layered multiple guitar tracks, often using effects pedals of his own devising - - remember, back then, laying down a track, effects, and processing were all analog, and all recorded to analog tape - - and then, at emotional climaxes, Scholz mixed in singer Brad Delp, singing the exact same notes and bends as the guitars. At first listen, you might not even notice that there is a human voice in that thick mix.
I think that the ultimate complexity is, that for a song that is full of nostalgia, regret, and longing, "More Than a Feeling" moves along very smartly and dynamically.
The song that inspired "More Than a Feeling" of course is "Walk Away Renee." However, in comparison to "More Than a Feeling," "Walk Away Renee" sounds like a funeral Mass; it really makes you want to lend singer Steve Martin your handkerchief.
In contrast, between its clap-along chorus and listeners' near-universal desire to play Air Guitar on the bridge (the guitar solo itself is a tribute to the melody of "Walk Away Renee"), the up-tempo ballad "More Than a Feeling" can make you feel pretty darn good about feeling bad.
Now, of course, Tom Scholz did not invent the concept of emotional cognitive dissonance between a song's music and the meaning of its lyrics. That has been a feature of art music for centuries. Still, it's a bit unusual in popular music.
One can't end an analysis, however brief and superficial, of "More Than a Feeling" without mentioning the sound effect I refer to as the "stinger." This first happens at 0 minutes 40 seconds into the song. I had assumed that the effect was electronic, but musicologist Rick Beato says that the effect is a "pick drag," wherein the guitarist slides the edge of the guitar pick up the string at a right angle, and as he or she does so, the windings on the string create resistance and vibration.
Of course, the pick drag does not just sit there passively, in one place in the soundstage! No! There has to be a stereo effect, too.
However it was done, I am sure that that arresting sound sold many pieces of audio gear in the mid-to-late 1970s.
That's because you can't sell audio gear without there being music that is worth listening to more than once.
(Is a corollary of that, that when the "music in the air" is not worth listening to more than once, it's more difficult to sell audio gear? And now, do I have to go into rehab?)
OTHERS:
"I've Been Waiting" (Slocum), Sixpence None the Richer, from "Divine Discontent." Reprise WD2-886010.
This is "Christian" rock music that packs a real wallop, with some of the best drum sounds ever to come out of Nashville. Just crank it up. However, this album comes with the caveat that lead singer Leigh Nash's voice might be a taste that some will be less willing to acquire than others.
"Black Velvet" (Ward and Tyson), from "Alannah Myles." Atlantic 81956-2.
More music that just begs to be cranked up. Upon first casual hearing on the car radio, I thought that the title referred to the Canadian whiskey; but it seems to be a reference to Elvis Presley's favorite hair dye. Be that as it may, another great song to pressure-test loudspeakers with.
"Tariqat" (Sharifi), from "A Prayer for the Soul of Layla," Jamshied Sharifi. Alula ALU 1005.
This is my ULTIMATE "crank it up" track. Jamshied Sharifi was born in Kansas, graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in Humanities, and continued his musical education at the Berklee College of Music. (Color me very impressed.)
Sharifi has composed soundtracks for many major-studio and independent films, most notably the remake of "The Thomas Crown Affair." Sharifi is a true artist of the synthesizer. However, lest you fear the result will be New-Age-y sighing, moaning, and droning, this track is propelled by multiple layers of driving Middle-Eastern percussion.
ciao,
john
That's interesting, John - I didn't know that Walk Away Renee gave rise to More than a Feeling. I went to school in Brooklyn in the 60's with Michael Lookofsky who changed his name to Michael Brown when he formed the Left Banke and the song took off. We spent a lot of time together but I didn't know he was as talented as he was musically.
I always enjoy hearing Mike's Walk Away Rene and also Linda Ronstadt does a good version that I like.
Ron
Most anything by the B-52's - they even print it on the record label lest you forget to turn it up.
and their live record, Blow Your Face Out. Says right on the cover "Made Loud to Play Loud"
Always the urge to crank a good B52s song.
Mother Russia this early morning
I'm still in Love with her. All women singers should be envious
4th Mvt. of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
ELO: Rockaria (from 'A New World Record')
Maynard Ferguson "MacArthur Park"
Aaron Copland "Fanfare For The Common Man"
Joe Cocker "You Can Leave Your Hat On"
Robert Palmer "Addicted To Love"
And others...
*********
We are inclusive and diverse, but dissent will not be tolerated.
Edits: 08/09/24
First CD I ever bought.
Pictures at an Exhibition, particularly "The Great Gate at Kiev."
I dream of an America where a chicken can cross the road without having it's motives questioned.
| FAQ |
Post a Message! |
Forgot Password? |
|
||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||
This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:
Top of Page ]
[ Contact Us ]
[ Support/Wish List ]
[ Copyright © 2025, Audio Asylum, all rights reserved ]