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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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also. call me crazy, but couldn't I just buy 5 minutes and repeat it 72 times?
I am pretty sure this image came from an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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.
@cafreema, 5 minutes might cost you more than 6 hours, though.
Kick-ass.
Bela wants to make sure everybody knows about this free download, and what Bela says goes.
Craig
I must be using the wrong concordance. Can't for the life of me find where he said that.
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
Especially just after listening to Nicolas Bernier. But that was probably a very ill-advised juxtaposition.