MLT Club Member David
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Hi Sara and everybody. I’m not musically literate enough to talk chord progressions or time signatures and what not, but I know that Todd Rundgren did a Beatles homage album, Deface The Music. Apparently he’s now on a Beatles tribute tour with Christopher Cross and others. So I guess that counts! 😉
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Hi Jung and folks,
Speaking of Rick Beato, he just put out a video of quick reactions to the current top ten songs in the world. It all sounds like club music to me, each a collection of filters and sound effects to a heavy beat. Rick notes how far back the vocals are in the mix, and I guess that would be true if what the songs say is not important.
I haven’t listened to the radio for music in probably twenty-five years, so it was a bit of a shock to hear where music is today. It’s not protest music, it’s not music to listen to in the still of the night with headphones on, or for singing along while driving down the highway. It’s Disco 2.0. I wonder if others get the same sense.
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Hi Sara, Arrival was also one of my first buys. I loved “Knowing Me, Knowing You.” Based on release dates, though, I think my first purchase was probably Heart’s “Dreamboat Annie.” Except for the Beatles, I’ve always had a preference for female singers. Linda Ronstadt, Fleetwood Mac (Lindsey Buckingham doesn’t count), Cyndi Lauper, Carly Simon, Karla Bonoff, Joni Mitchell, and so on and so on. I guess it’s no surprise I’m an MLT fan.
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Just think, in 100 years someone listening to “Any Other Day” through their aural brain implant will pause and remark, “Eight billion, how quaint. Or maybe they were just thinking of the Earth biologically human population.” Siri, languid and lovely as she reclines on the charging chaise, will look up from the book she is reading and reply, “Ahh well, dear, it’s a lovely song all the same.”
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Yes, but is it perhaps now too fast? 😉
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Well done, Bill! my weight had been creeping up a couple of pounds a year for years and that has only accelerated with the pandemic and working from home. Too much sitting and too much snacking instead of proper meals. Note to self: unsalted mixed nuts may be healthy, but eating a pound of them a day isn’t!
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Hi Jung, thanks for posting. I always wondered why there were so many recordings of the same pieces of classical music. I always figured since they were all played from the same sheet music, they’d all sound pretty much the same. As you could guess, I didn’t listen to much classical music growing up. The first Bach recording I bought was “Switched On Bach,” by (then) Walter Carlos. Soon after I bought Virgil Fox’s “direct-to-disc” (do they still do those?) recording of the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. On Halloween I’d put the speakers in the window and blast it to the neighborhood. Pipe organs do tend to make music sound cooler, in my opinion!
I have noticed that when Philip Glass (or his Ensemble) re-records a piece of his from the 70s or 80s it tends to sound much more emotional and less about the formal ideas that made it stand out when originally released. In general he’s been less radical in his later years and I think it shows in his re-interpretations of his own works, even though he says things like, “We finally got to record it how it was originally conceived…”
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Also cool, for those of a certain mindset, would be to record the natural sounds of a stretch of road—the potholes, the gravel, the bumps and patches, and then reproduce that using traditional musical instruments. The very act of performing the sounds in a setting and using the recognized tools of music production would transform the collection of random noises into music, almost by definition.
Well, John Cage would’ve thought it was cool at least. Perhaps.
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Thanks Daryl. True I don’t know much about triplets, but I think twins are pretty cool. 😉
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Hmm, good question. I’m thinking maybe something like, “How to Tell if You’re Really Conscious” or “Even More Ways To Serve Man.”
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Hey David, you might appreciate this based on an old Ripley’s Believe It Or Not on the population of China.
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It still boggles my provincial mind that New York City, which I used to think of as almost unfathomably populous, is not in the top 40 globally and is less than 1/4 the size of Tokyo.
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Hi Jürgen, I guess they don’t really sing about a bridge, but a bridge is in the title, so that’s got to count for something…
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Hey David, I’ve made that drive many times. The first twenty miles are cool, then it gets a little monotonous! Half the highways down there are over water. Take I-10 west from NOLA and then north on I-55 along Lake Maurepas. You have to do the satellite view on Google Maps to appreciate the sogginess of the terrain. The interesting thing about that drive is that there are clumps of dry land here and there along the way, with a restaurant or a hardware store, just enough to make you wonder who could actually live out there. Anyway, you could always do the drive across the causeway to get down to Jazz Fest.
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Thanks for that perspective, Dennis. I’ve worked as a web manager on the content side. When the site would go down all I could do was pace the floor, hoping the IT guys would get it figured out and back up soon. I never had a clue what they were going through to make that happen.
Of course nowadays it’s common for sites to be mirrored on many servers across the globe to ensure greater uptime reliability. I have no idea what the setup is for this site.
On a positive note, tonight (Tuesday) it seems to be back to normal, with snappy load times and no lag as I’m typing. Whatever gremlin got into the site, team MLT seems to have found it and kicked it to the curb.