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  • Do I get any points for having the Eno on vinyl I bought at the Tower outlet for 99 cents - still pristine and unlistened to unfortunately. I think the Bang On A Can version I got at Amie.
  • Points? Get to ebay with that thing - you could get some $. Much better than points.
  • edited May 2011
    I probably lose lots of points for liking the Bang on a Can version better than the original.
  • @Germanprof, Count me in your camp as I prefer it as well.
  • I've never listened to the close enough to determine whether I prefer one over the other. The original definitely compelled more repeat listens, but that could very well have had more to do with it's "newness" to me and my affinity for ambient music at the time.
  • OK, so having just bought the mispriced Matthew Passion at emusic, I also decided to get the 99 Gregorian Chants for $1.99 at Amazon. So 178 tracks for $7.83. I think in terms of pure quantity per dollar that's a new personal best for one day.
  • 6 hours of chant - who could resist?
  • [/raises hand]

    Craig
  • [/raises hand]

    also. call me crazy, but couldn't I just buy 5 minutes and repeat it 72 times?
  • What part of "most essential" did you not understand?

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    I am pretty sure this image came from an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
  • I am pretty sure this image came from an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slaye
    No, that's one of the the monks that zapped R2D2.
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  • So, wait, what was the DotD a couple days ago? It was Bang On a Can's cover of Eno's "Music for Airports"?

    Or was it something else? And how much was it?

    I had pretty much given up on checking the DotD because nothing it ever had interested me much. This might get me back to checking daily again.
  • Yes, it was that, for a couple of dollars (can't remember the exact price).
    @cafreema, 5 minutes might cost you more than 6 hours, though.
  • edited May 2011
    Wait, I think that says Gregorian Charts. Not that the minunderstanding makes it any less essential, though. The Gregories have been known to create some seriously bitchin' powerpoint graphics. This one is off their latest album, which dropped last month...

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    Kick-ass.
  • You know, a nice thing about that ChaNts disk is that it subdivides into whole albums of longer works. So I just realized I can leave the 99 on the Amazon cloud drive (biblical allusion not intended), download the first 14 tracks (which make a complete album), then whenever I get fed up with that chant album I can download another one for free. Given my average chant consumption quotient I'm now supplied with free chant albums for years to come.
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    Bela wants to make sure everybody knows about this free download, and what Bela says goes.
  • The new Lady Gaga is $0.99: Link. Still more than I'd pay, but to each their own.

    Craig
  • edited May 2011
    I bought the Gaga, but only because the single "Born This Way" has a good workout beat. Who knows? Maybe I will find one more on there that can go on a workout list.
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    I might get it at that price - I'm Ga-curious. It get's a decent Metacritic rating, topped by a good BBC review. I can't say I've ever heard a note of her music, although I may have in the background somewhere.
  • amclark, it is of the now-ubiquitous pop genre I call Electro-Thump. Comparatively harmless; see "Disco, exaggerated reports of death." Though her music is not what I would choose to listen to, I have some respect for Lady G. as an artist who has paid her dues, has a positive message, and brings a badly needed conceptual art sensibility to the pop media echo chamber.
  • edited May 2011
    Electro-Thump? Good description. I also like Enrique Iglesias' "I Like It" as a workout song. Similar beat, similar sound.
  • edited May 2011
    Listened to the samples. Decided my tolerance for electro-thump is too low even to throw a dollar at curiosity. Strident seems to be its only mode.
  • From one of the samples: "I'll dance, dance, dance / With my hands, hands, hands, / Above my head, head, head, / Like Jesus said."
    I must be using the wrong concordance. Can't for the life of me find where he said that.
  • Strident? Yes. This is not music I would choose for entertaining my "ear." Workout, yes. Other uses, no.
  • Infected Mushroom and Juno Reactor are my workout accompaniments of choice at the moment. Gives me the thump without having to endure the vocals.
  • I do have to say that I really like her song "Telephone" from an earlier album (no idea which one). It came on a Summer Burn I got last year and has been played a couple times.

    It's a tolerance level thing for me too, Germanprof. A song now and again isn't bad, but a full album would over load me.

    Craig
  • edited May 2011
    Me too. I just (finally) finished reading 'Perfecting Sound Forever', a history of changing ideas about what constitutes a good sound recording. Fascinating book. It's left me suspecting that what alienates me from a lot of chart music is as much production values as music. Engineers in the last chapter talk about mastering CDs to sound good in a car with lots of background noise. Listening to the GaGa samples (disclaimer: I have not heard the whole songs and could be mistaken) left me feeling as if the sheer constant use of loudness as default texture (not just in terms of the volume knob but in terms of compression, the loss of differentiation within the overall sound) would exhaust me very quickly. For all I know the songs might be good. And I like electronic music and things with beats. But the sound aesthetic here feels like being pelted with bricks.

    Especially just after listening to Nicolas Bernier. But that was probably a very ill-advised juxtaposition.
  • Ok I'm trying the samples. I'm not feeling like I will make it through all the samples. I think I might actually pay to not listen to this. Oh well. Ok, I didn't make it through all the samples.
  • Could be worse, could be Black-Eyed Peas.
  • I'm not going to razz anyone for enjoying her music ("Telephone" was at least fun as a cover song), but that cover art? Gah! It looks like something that was designed to sell for 99 cents.
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