Hutch
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Re: Musicological banter
April 28, 2025 at 06:06 PM UTC
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sweetcell wrote:
hutch wrote:
New Order.
The most important musical act of the past 45 years
this take is risible.
I find you risible
sweetcell
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Re: Musicological banter
April 28, 2025 at 08:42 PM UTC
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hutch wrote:
sweetcell wrote:
hutch wrote:
New Order.
The most important musical act of the past 45 years
this take is risible.
I find you risible
noted.
Yada
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Re: Musicological banter
April 29, 2025 at 06:09 PM UTC
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grateful
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Re: Musicological banter
May 02, 2025 at 03:19 PM UTC
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What's the most sinister-sounding band you've come across?
https://www.reddit.com/r/MetalForTheMasses/s/Nwm2xFayogLotsa good stuff here if that’s your thing.
sweetcell
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Re: Musicological banter
May 02, 2025 at 06:01 PM UTC
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grateful wrote:
What's the most sinister-sounding band you've come across?
https://www.reddit.com/r/MetalForTheMasses/s/Nwm2xFayog
Lotsa good stuff here if that’s your thing.
my pseudo-dyslexia kicked in, and i mis-read that as "What's the most sinister-sounding band NAME you've come across?"
funny thing is, the thread still works. "Methwitch" is a very sinister sounding band name. their "music" is unlistenable - i guess that's sinister, too?
Sidehatch
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Re: Musicological banter
May 03, 2025 at 09:45 PM UTC
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TIL
somewhat recently that Topper had written drums, piano and that unbelievably funky bass line to the Clash's Rock the Casbah.
which was very unusual as strummer/jones wrote most and of course their biggest single
but I just found out the person who played the bass on the recording was Ian and the Blockhead's Norman Watt-Roy
Hutch
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Re: Musicological banter
May 04, 2025 at 12:58 AM UTC
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Well it was clearly a productive day!
grateful
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Re: Musicological banter
May 04, 2025 at 04:42 AM UTC
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Anyone notice this?
It's May and the amphitheather tour circuit seems really underbooked, with most concerts numbering at under 30 shows for any random venue. Iirc, most tours were booked by the end of April for the summer.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Concerts/s/izpfqfUyhe
Hutch
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Re: Musicological banter
May 05, 2025 at 01:26 PM UTC
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I never realized Thomas Dolby played the synths on Pyromania. He was credited under a made up name.
sweetcell
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Re: Musicological banter
May 06, 2025 at 10:15 PM UTC
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hutch wrote:
I never realized Thomas Dolby played the synths on Pyromania. He was credited under a made up name.
"Booker T. Boffin" - a quality pseudonym!
grateful
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Re: Musicological banter
May 07, 2025 at 12:14 PM UTC
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sweetcell wrote:
hutch wrote:
I never realized Thomas Dolby played the synths on Pyromania. He was credited under a made up name.
"Booker T. Boffin" - a quality pseudonym!
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Mobius
Joined: March 28, 2002 at 06:01 AM UTC
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Re: Musicological banter
May 07, 2025 at 02:10 PM UTC
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grateful wrote:
Anyone notice this?
It's May and the amphitheather tour circuit seems really underbooked, with most concerts numbering at under 30 shows for any random venue. Iirc, most tours were booked by the end of April for the summer.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Concerts/s/izpfqfUyhe
But look at the Red Rocks schedule. Absolutely packed with great shows covering all genres almost every night.
https://www.redrocksonline.com/events/
Sidehatch
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Re: Musicological banter
May 07, 2025 at 03:46 PM UTC
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Mobius wrote:
grateful wrote:
Anyone notice this?
It's May and the amphitheather tour circuit seems really underbooked, with most concerts numbering at under 30 shows for any random venue. Iirc, most tours were booked by the end of April for the summer.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Concerts/s/izpfqfUyhe
But look at the Red Rocks schedule. Absolutely packed with great shows covering all genres almost every night.
https://www.redrocksonline.com/events/
wow you are not wrong with all genres
kosmo
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Re: Musicological banter
May 09, 2025 at 03:48 PM UTC
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Great rejoicing was heard in the man cave audio set as Qobuz finally released Qobuz Connect which they have working on for ever and there was much kvetching about.
From what I can tell it’s a way to stream natively/directly to a variety of streaming hardware and not rely on Chromecast which doesn’t support the higher resolutions that Qobuz supports.
Now not owning any of these fancy streaming devices, I have nothing to compare against. But, the one nifty feature is that I can listen to something on my phone and switch to the computer and it knows where I left off and picks up.
grateful
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Re: Musicological banter
May 12, 2025 at 02:51 AM UTC
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I just don’t get Björk
jrpa
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Re: Musicological banter
May 12, 2025 at 03:12 AM UTC
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grateful wrote:
I just don’t get Björk
I kind of think no one does and it’s an Emperors New Clothes thing.
kosmo
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Re: Musicological banter
May 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM UTC
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That first Sugarcubes albums though,,
jrpa
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Re: Musicological banter
May 12, 2025 at 12:29 PM UTC
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kosmo wrote:
That first Sugarcubes albums though,,
Ok fine. We can carve out a Sugarcubes exception.
Sidehatch
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Re: Musicological banter
May 12, 2025 at 03:40 PM UTC
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kosmo wrote:
That first Sugarcubes albums though,,
amazing
Something about that album just blew me away as a teenhatch
It was so different than everything else out there
grateful
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Re: Musicological banter
May 15, 2025 at 06:51 PM UTC
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Ive always felt that the excessive compression on Signals - which renders it unlistenable - is one of the worst tragedies of the era.
I mean, besides the, y’know, actual problems.
What I’m trying to say is that it’s a great album that’s painful to listen to. I sometimes still do though.