Dear Mr. Wanderer
Always willing to correspond with you via email. You can reach me at myriadnotes at gmail. I have no problem engaging in communication with you.
Posting here since you seem to read these posts here. Can't post at eMusic since I no longer subscribe to eMusic.
Hopefully you don't require an audience and are open to email exchange.
Posting here since you seem to read these posts here. Can't post at eMusic since I no longer subscribe to eMusic.
Hopefully you don't require an audience and are open to email exchange.
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He's a real Wanderer
He's no hipster ponderer
Of eMu there's no one fonderer than he.
Contributions?........what would rhyme with squanderer?
Why?
By the way, thanks much to Nereffid and amclark2 (and anyone else) for properly understanding my post. I was simply an expression of how I felt, and it is nice that some people understood not only its context but is contents.
As far as musical diversity, that is something I always encourage and personally think is necessary. I think people are best served by pushing their listening boundaries to include all styles.
My objections are not specific to any artists or their recordings --- I'm just not particularly happy when organizations try to make artists conform to a certain sound or encourage them to sound like another artist simply for the sake of sounding like other artists or making it easier to market or sell their recordings. Artists should try to find their own voices, and all involved should support (and encourage) them to do so. What a shame if all the early Romantic era composers had just been satifisied with imitating Beethoven.
The danger to a culture isn't the new voices, its when there is a scarcity of distinct voices.
Remember (for those that go back to, what was it, 2002?) when some UMG was added and then pulled a couple of months later. It was all 128 and had some Verve, etc. At that time I only downloaded an album or two at a time, and only what I was planning on immediately listening to. The removal of UMG, forever changed my downloading habits and then I always fit I better get what I could before it disappeared. That worked out well for the remainder of the unlimited period. Now, like many subscribers I have thousands of albums that I must get through before then hourglass runs out....
(I still can't believe they had several of the Chess box set for the picking and were only charging $10 a month).
It seemed like Classical was somewhat slim pickings back then, though.....
So I tried a couple of 128 mp3s and still a little gritty sounding and causing listener fatigue. The Amie Street 320 mp3s sound great and in general the eMusic mp3s are pretty good. Of course, the loseless files ripped from CDs (I gave up using a CD transport and use a Western DIgital Media player -- the CD transport I owned had its own coloration, but the Western Digital Media Player at $99 is as good as it gets when fed to a top notch DAC like the Havana) are amazing. But I am suprised at how good the 320 mps can sound.
Anyway, I am just amazed at how much great stuff I got from Amie Street, and honestly even the weaker albums sound really engaging on this Havana DAC. It just drives home how many talented musicians and composers are out there.
I don't like to play music as background, so generally have to give it full devotion, so that limits one's listening time, but eventually plan to get through all those Amie Street and eMusic albums.
Not worth your time, if you think about it.
I wouldn't be sorry if you edited that, nor the 'dear' since it's insincere.
some stains just don't wash out.
my apologies to those who, prior to my link, had no exposure to dick vitale.
I guess I'd just hate to see a second forum ruined from all that. But I could be a minority opinion on this.
I love the music conversations. I rarely contribute because I am ignorant when it comes to the buzz words, the correct genre, etc.
Elwoodicious, your comment reminds me of a pastor I knew years ago. He used these big $50 words in his Sunday sermons, making his sermon pretty useless, even if you knew the words. I was astonished at how many people thought he was soooo intelligent. When asked why they thought so, the usual response was, "He uses all those big words." I would ask what those words meant, and they had no idea. I would remind them that a truly intelligent pastor would speak a language his congregation understood.
Doofy, I never got all that wine talk, either. It either tastes good to me, or it doesn't. A bright citrus flavor. What the heck does that mean? My taste buds must not be up to par.
MKR
MKR
Edit: and seeing how this is a music form I picked up a box of Mozartkugeln the other day. My family used to buy these things in big bags whever we passed through Salzburg.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozartkugel
Yes, I'd say. Only candies I've had that were even yummier was this box of truffles my wife found at Marshall's some years ago, from Germany, no name we'd ever heard of, can't remember,never able to find more, they were all laced with copious amounts of actual liquor and the best thing I've ever had was the one loaded with Calvados. Norman apple brandy and chocolate - priceless.
MKR
Did you mean "job", or "life"?
Ooo, cheap shot, couldn't help myself. He probably just has too much free time on his hands, and don't we all occasionally. In answer to your query, as I recall someone on these boards is actually acquainted with him, and vouched he had redeeming human qualities. After having actually paid attention on a couple of occasions lately to some of the vicious drivel that truly anonymous posters produce in response to real stories over at Yahoo, I'm inclined to view the eMu MB as relatively civilized, and a fairly innocuous pastime.