Playlist

[Wise Guy]

Anyone remember KC and the sunshine band?.

 

[Prick]

Sure....good party tunes from KC!



Lately my music tastes are tending towards angry rap music (much of it from Eminem). I think I have some suppressed rage to deal with before I go off on someone.

Like Alice Cooper :biggrin2:

 

[Greeter]

All of Queens' songs

 

[bobistheowl]

I rarely listen to any entire CD anymore, and when given the choice, I'd rather watch the song in a video than listen to an audio track. I listen to most of my audio on my home computer, from .mp3s. I have Altec Lansing 5.1 surround speakers.

I use MusicMatch Jukebox 10, which was the last version before Yahoo! bought the app. MMJB has a playlist, and if you open any song from the list, it will play all of the subsequent songs, in sequence, until you turn it of, or the end of the list is reached. I prefer live performance music over studio recordings most of the time.

I'd rather listen to a lo-fi recording of a great performance than an average song with great production. I rarely bought the music I heard regularly on the radio.

Here are a few things on my playlist, not in any order. I'll try to add some links later.

Really old:

Carl Stalling Project - This is 'classical' music from old Warner Bros. cartoons.

60's:

Sam Cooke - Chain Gang

I really like the spontaneity of Sam Cooke's recording. The majority of his songs were done in one or two takes, with minimal overdubbing.

Otis Redding - I Can't Turn You Loose

I listen to the live version from a bootlegged recording called A Soupcan of Soul. This version is about six minutes long. This song has my favorite bass line of all time.

Vince Guaraldi Trio - Linus and Lucy
Mason Williams - Classical Gas
Desmond Dekker - 007 (Shanty Town)
The Readymen - Shortnin' Bread
Wilson Pickett - Land of 1,000 Dances

Early 70's:

AM radio hits from 1970-74 that I listened to from about age 8-13. Here are a few:

The O'Jays - Back Stabbers
Dr. John - Right Place, Wrong Time
Leo Sayer - The Show Must Go On
Rick Derringer - Rock 'n' Roll Hoochie Koo
Raspberries - Go All the Way
Badfinger - No Matter What
The Original Caste - One Tin Soldier
Isaac Hayes - Theme from Shaft
Barry White - You're the First, The Last, My Everything
Michel Pagliaro - Some Sing, Some Dance
Fludd - Cousin Mary
The Poppy Family, featuring Susan Jacks - That's Where I Went Wrong
Bachman Turner Overdrive - Let it Ride
Marsha Hunt - Keep the Customer Satisfied
Ennio Morricone - My Name is Nobody
Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes - The Love I Lost
The Stylistics - You Are Everything & Betcha By Golly, Wow
The Tymes - You Little Trustmaker
Van Morrison - Wild Night
Shirley and Company - Shame, Shame, Shame
Blue Magic - Sideshow

I have about half of these on 45 RPM vinyl, collected between 1986-89, for a three audio cassette compilation. Years later, I found digital versions, either from my own CDs, or downloads from eMule several years ago. A guy on another board give me the two I couldn't find.

Also from early 70's: David Bowie songs from Diamond Dogs or David Live, Iggy and the Stooges, especially Search and Destroy and I Got a Right, which, technically, isn't The Stooges; it's Iggy Pop and James Williamson. Some ska, like Sweet and Dandy by Toots and the Maytals. Across 110th Street by Bobby Womack. I didn't know this song until I heard it on the Jackie Brown soundtrack. I really like early 70's string and horn arrangements. Slow Death by The Flamin' Groovies


Mid 70's:

Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak and The Cowboy Song
Television - live versions of Little Johnny Jewel and Marquee Moon, studio versions of See No Evil and Venus
Patti Smith - Gloria
Ramones - various songs from Rocket to Russia
Ronnie Spector & The E Street Band - Say Goodbye to Hollywood
Bruce Springsteen - Prove it All Night, Winterland, San Francisco Dec, 1978 Devo - Jocko Homo
The Tubes - Don't Touch Me There
Rough Trade - High School Confidential and All Touch
Stevie Wright - Evie Parts I, II, and III
10CC - The Wall Street Shuffle
Sparks - This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us
David Bowie - Station to Station, (live at Nassau Coliseum February, 1976. I saw the Montreal show a few days previously)

Late 70's:

Ellen Foley - Young Lust
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
The Clash - Safe European Home
Ian Dury - Billericay Dickie
Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes at the El Casino, Montreal 18 Dec, 1978, (saw this show)
Tim Curry - I Do the Rock
Nick Lowe - Shake That Rat
Boomtown Rats - Rat Trap
Elvis Costello - Watching the Detectives
Dave Edmunds - Deborah, I Knew the Bride and Trouble Boys
Kraftwerk - Europe Endless
The Specials - A Message to You Rudy
The Selecter - On My Radio
David Bowie - The Man Who Sold the World, (SNL with Klaus Nomi 1979)
Neil Young - Hey, Hey, My My
Squeeze - Cool for Cats
Van Halen - Dance the Night Away

Early- mid 80's:

Bauhaus - She's in Parties and Ziggy Stardust
Yazoo - Don't Go, (extended mix)
Malcolm McLaren - Madame Butterfly, (on the fly remix)
Haysi Fantayzee - John Wayne is Big Leggy (extended)
Rhoda and the Special AKA - The Boiler
Luba - Every Time I See Your Picture
Billy Bragg - The Busy Girl Buys Beauty & It Says Here
Tom Waits - Shore Leave, In the Neighborhood, 16 Shells, and Downbown Train Divine - Walk Like a Man
Baltimora - Tarzan Boy, (extended)
Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul - Lyin' in a Bed of Fire
Jennifer Rush - The Power of Love, (Extended)
Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Hear, (Long version)
Jonathan Richman - The Beach, Vincent Van Gogh, I'm Just Beginning to Live, The Baltimores
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart, various others from the Substance CD of non album tracks
Prince - Little Red Corvette
The Jam - Town Called Malice
The Cure - Close to Me
The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God, Sally McLennane, and A Fairytale of New York
The Smiths - How Soon is Now?
Clint Eastwood and General Saint - Another One Bites the Dust, (not the Queen song)
Eurythmics - There Must Be an Angel, (Playing With My Heart)
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - The Message
Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy
Tom Tom Club -Genius of Love
Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut
Siouxsie and the Banshees - various

Later 80's

Pandora's Box - It's All Coming Back to Me, (I detest the Celine Dion version)
Country Dick Montana, Dave Alvin, Mojo Nixon and The Beat Farmers - Tom Jones Medley, (live)
Robbie Robertson - Somewhere Down the Crazy River
The Replacements - Bastards of Young
Faith No More - Epic
Pet Shop Boys with Dusty Springfield - What Have I Done to Deserve This

Early - mid 90's

Pearl Jam at Newcastle, UK 22 Feb, 1992
Hole at Toad's Place, New Haven, CT 8 Oct 1994
Nine Inch Nails - Wish, Head Like a Hole, March of the Pigs, Hurt
Geraldine Fibbers - Dragon Lady
Centrifugal Force - Open Water
Cardigans - Carnival
Blur - Song 2
Frente! - Bizarre Love Triangle
Various from If I were a Carpenter, especially For All We Know, performed by Bettie Serveert
Various by Shonen Knife
Julee Cruise - Questions in a World of Blue
Southside Johhny & Little Steven Unplugged - various
G. Love and Special Sauce - Cold Beverage & The Pussy Song
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge
P.M. Dawn - Set Adrift on Memory Bliss, (extended)
Nirvana - Pennyroyal Tea
Reverend Horton Heat - Psychobilly Freakout
Lush - For Love
Vanessa Carlton - White Houses
Sophie B. Hawkins - Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover, (acoustic [piano] version) Rancid - ...And Out Come The Wolves, (various)
Ministry - Jesus Built My Hotrod
Pure - Anna
The Yellow Monkey - Crazy TV
B-Tribe - You Won't See Me Cry
Friends of Dean Martinez - All the Pretty Horses
Sonic Youth - Dirty Boots
Cher - Walking in Memphis

2000 +
Von Bondies - C'mon, C'mon
Amy Winehouse - Valerie & Monkey Man
The Distillers - City of Angels & Drain the Blood
The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name, (SNL)
Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs - Maps
Cee Lo Green - Fuck You
Lana Del Rey - Drive
Metric - Monster Hospital, (2006 Much Music VMA)

That's not all of it, but it's a fair chunk. I haven't bought any new music in quite a few years. The early punk/ new wave and grunge era are probably by favorite periods. I have no interest in seeing 60 year-olds playing 35 year old songs, particularly if I saw them play those songs 35 years ago. I haven't seen a stadium of arena concert since 1985, only small venue shows, but none recently.

 

[papasmerf]

Bob

You have to admit that vinyl blows digital away when it comes to range.
I recommend your system be capable of a minimum of 20hz to 20khz. And you have not more than .002% THD.
Also your speakers be rated not more than 20% a above the actual output of your amp and not the RMS rating............Speakers are actually designed Peak to Peak and not RMS.

If you go all digital it matters little that your system holds these specs in that you loose so many highs and lows you pretty much so muddy up the music.

 

[bobistheowl]

Bob

You have to admit that vinyl blows digital away when it comes to range.
I recommend your system be capable of a minimum of 20hz to 20khz. And you have not more than .002% THD.
Also your speakers be rated not more than 20% a above the actual output of your amp and not the RMS rating............Speakers are actually designed Peak to Peak and not RMS.

If you go all digital it matters little that your system holds these specs in that you loose so many highs and lows you pretty much so muddy up the music.

I haven't had a working turntable in 20 years, so I can't play the 45's anymore, but some are quite valuable. I don't understand most of your post; I'm not an audiophile for tech specs. It's just rock music, not Deutsch Gramophone classical, so I can't much appreciate the difference. It was difficult to find the 'single edit' version of quite a few songs. The BTO is a 96 kbs .mp3, but it sounds authentic, compared to CD, because in those days, a lot of songs were produced to sound best coming out of a transistor radio. Most 60's Motown hit singles are like that.

Some songs that I'd only ever heard on the radio had very layered production on the vinyl. A lot of others sounded the same, on powerful speakers. Some 45s, like Cher's Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves, were originally released in mono, because they would only ever be played on AM radio, or, most of the time, on a portable record player, stacked on a post in the center. A lot of it was 'disposable' music; meant to be relevant for a few weeks, until people got sick of it.

 

[papasmerf]

I haven't had a working turntable in 20 years, so I can't play the 45's anymore, but some are quite valuable. I don't understand most of your post; I'm not an audiophile for tech specs. It's just rock music, not Deutsch Gramophone classical, so I can't much appreciate the difference. It was difficult to find the 'single edit' version of quite a few songs. The BTO is a 96 kbs .mp3, but it sounds authentic, compared to CD, because in those days, a lot of songs were produced to sound best coming out of a transistor radio. Most 60's Motown hit singles are like that.

Some songs that I'd only ever heard on the radio had very layered production on the vinyl. A lot of others sounded the same, on powerful speakers. Some 45s, like Cher's Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves, were originally released in mono, because they would only ever be played on AM radio, or, most of the time, on a portable record player, stacked on a post in the center. A lot of it was 'disposable' music; meant to be relevant for a few weeks, until people got sick of it.

Think of digitized music and Analog Recordings as 10 dollar ear buds -vs- V-MODA headphones.

Audio compression edits the highest and lowest frequencies out.
Analog audio is uncompressed.

 

[papasmerf]

I know it is long but well worth it.
Even better if you route the sound to the stereo