Musicological banter

The Adwaith (Welsh for Reaction) album is really growing on me, solid solid post-punk with a dash of shoegaze/dream pop going on here.

There it a twitter listening party replay for Bato Mato I need to check out

https://timstwitterlisteningparty.com/pages/replay/feed_1099.html

crossed posting to the potato thread, as well potatoes are involved

I stumbled upon a group that is a) almost impossible to search for and b) appear to have no web/social media presences outside of existing on streaming sites.

Was trying to figure out if a power pop band from Spain called Maryland had released a new album or not (recommended listening btw) and a group called  Whatever Happened, Maryland? came up in the search which sparked my curiosity 

Well searching without quotes you get news related results, etc… with quotes all you get what is they are on all the key streaming sites..

so here is where the potatoes com in, one of the 14 tracks on their 14 minute record is called

Give It Up for POTATOES (Tulsa Tulsa Tulsa)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6rswa-aA5A

I've listened to the entire album so you don't have to, but if you want to double their monthly $potify listenership from 4 have at it… I'll just say that this sounds like a bedroom/art school  project that hutch would affectionately call hobo rock…  substances/dares may have been involved..

of course are they truly from Maryland as they do have song called "(Barely Escaped) Ellicott City" or could it be a secret boardie project..

and yes there is an ode to Pretzels as well, the record is called "Lady Cakes" along with numerous singles..

kosmo wrote:
I've listened to the entire album so you don't have to

these sacrifices have been noted, but they are self-inflicted

siggy-Hatch wrote:

kosmo wrote:
I've listened to the entire album so you don't have to

these sacrifices have been noted, but they are self-inflicted

well you know what they say about curiosity… as i post from the great beyond

kosmo wrote:
as i post from the great beyond

Sorry you died. Hope you get to feeling better (less deader?) soon.

siggy-Hatch wrote:
Sounds promising

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jun/06/lou-reeds-earliest-velvet-underground-demos-unearthed-for-reissue

Did we ever get this?

Yes there were a bunch of copies at CD Cellar last week

grateful wrote:

siggy-Hatch wrote:
Sounds promising

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jun/06/lou-reeds-earliest-velvet-underground-demos-unearthed-for-reissue

Did we ever get this?

mine just came in the mail, have yet to crack the plastic

Should I cross-post these to Smackie?

50 Most Expensive Vinyl Records

50 Most Expensive CDs

50 Most Expensive Cassettes

Well I wish I had Can’s Monster Movie…one of the original 500…was just thinking that last week and lo and behold listening to my $1.99 cd in car right now…fantastic

Bob Dylan’s Freewheeling with withdrawn tracks recently sold for about 150K so I do think that’s the priciest record.

Justin wrote:
Should I cross-post these to Smackie?

50 Most Expensive Vinyl Records

50 Most Expensive CDs

50 Most Expensive Cassettes

Fun fact: I have owned one of these items for over 15 years. Astute boardies will pick out what it is very easily.

I can't believe someone paid $8k for a Judge record and $6k for a gorilla biscuits one
I bet neither band made that much in their whole career 

I believe this to be true

Pavement say it would be “total cringe” if they recorded new music

SoldMyPoll4RnR wrote:
I believe this to be true

Pavement say it would be “total cringe” if they recorded new music

I mean, they have such a massive catalog that I suppose it's fine… however the Malkmus/Jicks repertoire is equally impressive…. if this pavement thing is more of a one off, then fine.

However,  if they continue to tour for years to come like forum favorites Ween, they should consider releasing some tuneage.

Yeah I don’t know…..not sure I want to hear it ..I prefer Malkmus and the Jicks to Terror Album

https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/music/2022/11/09/warhol-museum-master-tracks-velvet-underground-debut/stories/202211090082

The Andy Warhol Museum announced Wednesday that it had discovered and digitized rare master tapes of the Velvet Underground’s seminal 1967 debut album “The Velvet Underground & Nico” from Verve Records.

The monophonic reel-to-reel ¼-inch tapes feature alternate versions and mixes of songs later issued on the 1967 release.


Ok was more excited than I should have been

“Although an acetate version, which was made from these master tapes, was released for the 45th anniversary of the album, it is of a different sonic quality, given the generation loss inherent in an analog copy,” according to the museum press release

Do they really even know what they have? Skeptical they do…will just have to wait

Oh and have you heard the acetate cause I haven’t? I find it hard to get into inferior outtakes…

I feel like there is a new alternate version of that album discovered every three years at this point.

SoldMyPoll4RnR wrote:
“Although an acetate version, which was made from these master tapes, was released for the 45th anniversary of the album, it is of a different sonic quality, given the generation loss inherent in an analog copy,” according to the museum press release

so they've found a better quality version of something that has already been released?  hard to get too excited about that.

Starsky wrote:
Do they really even know what they have?

the story says they digitized the tapes - so a few people had to be listening as the tapes were played back and re-recorded digitally.  so, yes, i'd say they're aware of what they've got.

for kosmo: tap your life savings and build the studio of your dreams!

Daptone Records is selling-off classic analogue studio gear, including the Tascam tape machine used to record Amy Winehouse’s Black to Black
“Most of what I know about gear and sounds and recording, I learned at Daptone,” says Mark Ronson