I'm working on working out the details of a music buying diet too! Been meaning to post here about it, but I post less now that I access / post mostly by phone now, which is also why I post less in general, and haven't managed any MiG involvement yet.
Reading anything interesting? Maybe we should start a what are you reading now thread. My reading backlog though is , I think, worse than my music backlog.
@ Mommio, Do we need a thread for "OK, this is not a new release, I didn't just buy it, it's old news, lots of people probably know about it already, but it's still good music and I still feel like saying I like it (and maybe why)"?
Do we need a thread for "OK, this is not a new release, I didn't just buy it, it's old news, lots of people probably know about it already, but it's still good music and I still feel like saying I like it (and maybe why)"?
Yes, emphatically. I have some ideas for MiG, when my insane life of the moment allows, sort of along those lines - Critical Albums, Albums I Have Known And Loved....kind of thing, but there's a difference between what one can put on a post here in a few minutes and compose for MiG (I myself would be much more self conscious and critical under that burden) in what might be a longer period. I feel this is a more carefree spontaneous forum so the more the merrier(am I being too formal about MiG?)
I thought we had a reading thread.
Agreed. I feel like the emusers forum is the lounge annex to MiG, or maybe MiG is where one goes to park something that has been proofread more than once. And the emuser forum seems plenty welcoming to new voices.
Why, all good readers of the emusic Message Boards know that there is this wonderful parallel universe over here. And if you've quit eMu at least once, then you have to check in over here (see, I'm on topic). Plus I know if I check the forum every day I won't miss out on an Amazon MP3 credit promotion or pointers to truly great recordings. Cheers to all from Oregon!
I don't mind posting about an album I am currently enjoying, but I'm not up to a blog post. My last listen was Glen Campbell's Ghost on the Canvas. I so enjoyed him back in the day when he had so many hits -- still enjoy listening to them. I was touched by his recent television appearance re his advancing Alzheimers. He had some tough spots in his life - alcohol, relationships, etc. - and this depiction of a man so grateful for the good things in his past and present life in spite of his fading memory was so moving. Ghost, he said, is the album he wanted to make before he was unable to sing or play the guitar. He said that he doesn't have memory problems when singing his old songs, songs he loves so much.
The blog is a blog, emusers is a conversation. Let comments flow here without compunction, and those who want to write blog pieces that's good too. No need for apologies either way.
Glenn Campbell is a name I remember from my dad's likes. I should check it out. That's a touching story.
Thanks Mommio. It is good to mention someone like Glenn Campbell. I'm not a particular fan of his, but saw him on TV here a couple of months ago talking about his dementia. Given that both my mother and mother in law have dementia made me listen more. I was impressed by him and the way his children help support him on stage. I know what GP means about the early days at emusers, as I felt the same initially but felt welcomed by a number of people here. Emusers is like any club, in that it can be difficult to break into for someone new because of the existing interactions going on. I do also wonder what happens to people who just seem to dissappear, for example, elwoodicious hasn't been around for six weeks or so.
Maybe to newcomers we appear as 'musical snobs'? My response is that no we are not - just look at some of the stuff I play!! I am not a particular fan of some of the music some people here listen to, but actually I've developed musically by listening to some of their suggestions/recommendations. But I hope that maybe we will encourage new people to contribute - we are a friendly bunch!
I've been enjoying that Glenn Campbell a lot too, although I'm thoroughly unfamiliar with his older stuff. I've always had a thing for late or later in life resurgencies. It's a really good album; love the GBV cover.
I remember a discussion a few moths ago about country and western music, as it is called here. As a teenager into my twenties it was just so uncool to listen to C and W, that was for mothers! So I automatically was turned off people like Glenn Campbell around the Rhinestone Cowboy era -probably late 60s maybe early 70s. I'm probably missing out onsomething worthwhile
I find it interesting that we often enjoy older music that our parents loved, but for some unknown reason we disdain the C & W they love. I heard plenty of "real" country music in childhood, but when I reached my teens, it was, as you say, uncool. It took me quite a few years to come back to listening to country, western, and bluegrass. Believe it or not, I even came to appreciate hokey George Jones (I Stopped Loving Her Today, for instance). Today's country? Some of it I like, some I don't. I guess that's true of any genre.
Glen Campbell was really something in his heyday, though. He couldn't miss, but his personal life was a wreck. His tangles with Tanya Tucker, for example, derailed his career in my opinion. He was into alcohol and rage during that period.
I bought Ghost because of the television interview, wanting to support the man who had once been at the top and who is now losing so much.
GP, just want to be sure you knew that those Art Tatum live performance sets you referred to over on the eMu MB are both available at 7dig for $8.99 each, 1934-1956 Volume 1, and Volume 2. Good stuff for any others interested, both about 6 hours.
What are you going to do with a drunken, oops, I mean, a cheap ($5.99) Nine Symphonies by Otto Klemperer and the Concertgebouw Orchestra that only has 7 symphonies? One and Two are missing. I only care because my favorite all time rendition of the Pastoral is by Otto and the Vienna Philharmonic, so I'm pretty interested in this and haven't found it elsewhere. Download it and then bust CS - Hey, there's only 7 symphonies?
Did it, and did it. Will see what happens. This version of the Sixth is also very nice.
Damn, while I am partial to Herbert and the Berlin, the second movement of the Ninth just gave me goosebumps.
Well, all classical aficionados know that the first two were just "practice symphonies." I've always just programmed the ol' iPod to skip them, myself...
I'm not sure that's a particularly legitimate release, actually. The label name is "Ludwig Van Beethoven"? What, is he back? That seems a little suspicious to me.
This last downloading experience was the last straw. I was thinking about cancelling anyway, but I wasn't 100% sure... anyway, I didn't really have much older jazz stuff in the collection, so I figured I'd get one of those inexpensive lo-fi 100-tracks-for-$5 collections, you know, just so I'd have a handy copy of "Mood Indigo" should someone ever ask. (I'm over 50 now, so I figured I should at least try to appreciate that stuff.) My account was set to refresh tomorrow, too... So, the Download Manager picked that moment to simply stop working. Once I disabled it in the account settings, I was able to download the whole thing one track at a time - 100 tracks, with a dialog box for each and every track.
That was in Internet Explorer, because at first I couldn't get Firefox to do anything with it. So I got to Track 79, and all the individual "retry" buttons I'd been clicking simply vanished - I've never seen anything quite like it, actually. So I went back into Firefox, changed the settings again, logged out and back in a couple of times, and was able to get the retry buttons again, and I managed to finish the whole album, but it took me almost 45 minutes total.
So, after that I just cancelled the account completely. I'm through with 'em - if they want me back, they can go suck a bunch of rotten eggs.
I guess another thing that convinced me was that earlier in the day, I'd bought the latest Rebecca Peake album from Bandcamp, and it just worked so damn flawlessly, not to mention that it worked the way you'd expect something like that to work. And it was only 2 bucks, too!
I might even start buying CDs again, who knows...?
@ScissorMan -- A crash and burn is one of the best ways to make your exit. Well done, and thanks for laying out the exasperating humor in it all. I'm back to being a subscriber for the moment. Maybe it evens out my music buying binges. Maybe it's like continuing to use an IBM Model M keyboard. But mostly I just want to be able to say that I outlived eMusic.
Jeez, what am I doing right? I have pretty much never* had problems with the DLM...in fact just DL'd the 5-disc Stanley Turrentine set w/o incident. Started the DL overnight and had 40 tracks waiting for me in the morning. I have v 4.1.3 on two machines, one XP and one Win7. One thing's for sure, I'm not upgrading the DLM unless I absolutely have to.
*It was stalling out on the XP machine for a while, but that problem went away when I upgraded the RAM.
Quick, someone stop me from jumping. I've merrily lived in the downloading stream of magnatune, mtraks, and society of sound for the past couple of years - coupled with all the great free music and tons of amazing trips to the library - and I've been completely content. Now though I'm wearing thin. Magnatune is a three-month subscription per year for me, mtraks has been thoroughly drained, and I'm looking back at eMu.
The only trouble I have with the DLM is that it never remembers that I've synced it work with Firefox. That is a slight step up though from the early months of the website revamp that made me just use Safari.
Well, I rolled the dice and got the lucky $5.99 on that Otto Klemperer Nine Symphonies by old Ludwig Van that has only 7 symphonies (missing #1 & 2) - complained to CS and they refunded the whole $5.99 to my account, since obviously they can't come up with the two symphonies. I almost feel guilty ( I said almost ), but they continue to sell the product as is - exactly as many other posters here and there have complained in similar situations.
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Reading anything interesting? Maybe we should start a what are you reading now thread. My reading backlog though is , I think, worse than my music backlog.
@ Mommio, Do we need a thread for "OK, this is not a new release, I didn't just buy it, it's old news, lots of people probably know about it already, but it's still good music and I still feel like saying I like it (and maybe why)"?
Yes, emphatically. I have some ideas for MiG, when my insane life of the moment allows, sort of along those lines - Critical Albums, Albums I Have Known And Loved....kind of thing, but there's a difference between what one can put on a post here in a few minutes and compose for MiG (I myself would be much more self conscious and critical under that burden) in what might be a longer period. I feel this is a more carefree spontaneous forum so the more the merrier(am I being too formal about MiG?)
I thought we had a reading thread.
Craig
The album pleases me.
Glenn Campbell is a name I remember from my dad's likes. I should check it out. That's a touching story.
Maybe to newcomers we appear as 'musical snobs'? My response is that no we are not - just look at some of the stuff I play!! I am not a particular fan of some of the music some people here listen to, but actually I've developed musically by listening to some of their suggestions/recommendations. But I hope that maybe we will encourage new people to contribute - we are a friendly bunch!
Glen Campbell was really something in his heyday, though. He couldn't miss, but his personal life was a wreck. His tangles with Tanya Tucker, for example, derailed his career in my opinion. He was into alcohol and rage during that period.
I bought Ghost because of the television interview, wanting to support the man who had once been at the top and who is now losing so much.
Did it, and did it. Will see what happens. This version of the Sixth is also very nice.
Damn, while I am partial to Herbert and the Berlin, the second movement of the Ninth just gave me goosebumps.
I'm not sure that's a particularly legitimate release, actually. The label name is "Ludwig Van Beethoven"? What, is he back? That seems a little suspicious to me.
This last downloading experience was the last straw. I was thinking about cancelling anyway, but I wasn't 100% sure... anyway, I didn't really have much older jazz stuff in the collection, so I figured I'd get one of those inexpensive lo-fi 100-tracks-for-$5 collections, you know, just so I'd have a handy copy of "Mood Indigo" should someone ever ask. (I'm over 50 now, so I figured I should at least try to appreciate that stuff.) My account was set to refresh tomorrow, too... So, the Download Manager picked that moment to simply stop working. Once I disabled it in the account settings, I was able to download the whole thing one track at a time - 100 tracks, with a dialog box for each and every track.
That was in Internet Explorer, because at first I couldn't get Firefox to do anything with it. So I got to Track 79, and all the individual "retry" buttons I'd been clicking simply vanished - I've never seen anything quite like it, actually. So I went back into Firefox, changed the settings again, logged out and back in a couple of times, and was able to get the retry buttons again, and I managed to finish the whole album, but it took me almost 45 minutes total.
So, after that I just cancelled the account completely. I'm through with 'em - if they want me back, they can go suck a bunch of rotten eggs.
I guess another thing that convinced me was that earlier in the day, I'd bought the latest Rebecca Peake album from Bandcamp, and it just worked so damn flawlessly, not to mention that it worked the way you'd expect something like that to work. And it was only 2 bucks, too!
I might even start buying CDs again, who knows...?
*It was stalling out on the XP machine for a while, but that problem went away when I upgraded the RAM.
Oh man. We need a new service.
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