Popular Post 2750Papyrus Posted November 3, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted November 3, 2023 1 1 24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 It's like that when you look at the What's On guides, everything is from the 60s, 70s and 80s! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Nick C Posted November 3, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 3, 2023 2 hours ago, 2750Papyrus said: Current top 20 also includes ABBA, two albums from Fleetwood Mac, and Elton John... 1 2 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 58 minutes ago, Nick C said: Current top 20 also includes ABBA, two albums from Fleetwood Mac, and Elton John... Album charts were always a bit like that. Just that it's changed from 1950s artists to 1970s and '80s. Even taking into consideration different formats such as vinyl, cassette, CD, download, etc. it always makes me wonder why someone who buys an album like Dark Side Of The Moon didn't buy it decades ago! But I can definitely see a case of going to see those bands/artists that are playing if you do like them. Go and see them now as they aren't going to be there forever. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ian Posted November 3, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 3, 2023 36 minutes ago, Steamport Southport said: Even taking into consideration different formats such as vinyl, cassette, CD, download, etc. it always makes me wonder why someone who buys an album like Dark Side Of The Moon didn't buy it decades ago! Certainly in the vinyl days it was not unknown to have to buy a replacement for a worn out/damaged copy. 2 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sidecar Racer Posted November 3, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 3, 2023 30 minutes ago, Steamport Southport said: Even taking into consideration different formats such as vinyl, cassette, CD, download, etc. it always makes me wonder why someone who buys an album like Dark Side Of The Moon didn't buy it decades ago! It's surprising how many people, especially younger ones and non brits , have not heard of bands and artists that we know from years ago . There are numerous YouTube reaction videos of people hearing songs or tunes for the first time , here is one I came across recently . The video they are reacting to is a clever mix of the song and a film . 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 1 hour ago, Steamport Southport said: … Even taking into consideration different formats such as vinyl, cassette, CD, download, etc. it always makes me wonder why someone who buys an album like Dark Side Of The Moon didn't buy it decades ago! … I have bought ‘Animal Tracks’ in vinyl, as a tape cassette and on a CD. The vinyl LP had hot coffee spilled on it and developed a warp of about an inch; my sister appropriated the cassette. Hence the purchase of the CD. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post pH Posted November 3, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted November 3, 2023 I was so bored last night that I memorised 6 pages of the dictionary! I learned next to nothing. 4 3 2 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 I'd call this "letting the side down"... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-67310766 1 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted November 4, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 4, 2023 Finally, some good news about a Jack Russel! 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIK Posted November 4, 2023 Share Posted November 4, 2023 Storm Ciaran causes a flood of enquiries about how to pronounce Ciaran. 3 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted November 4, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 4, 2023 16 hours ago, pH said: I was so bored last night that I memorised 6 pages of the dictionary! I learned next to nothing. I read that to a few last night and he broke up. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted November 4, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 4, 2023 1 hour ago, NIK said: Storm Ciaran causes a flood of enquiries about how to pronounce Ciaran. https://metro.co.uk/2023/11/02/youre-pronouncing-ciaran-all-wrong-heres-how-its-actually-said-19760307/#:~:text=had been revealed.-,Ciarán%2C which is an Irish name%2C is pronounced 'keer,version of the name%2C Kieran. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Vistisen Posted November 4, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 4, 2023 (edited) 21 hours ago, Steamport Southport said: Even taking into consideration different formats such as vinyl, cassette, CD, download, etc. it always makes me wonder why someone who buys an album like Dark Side Of The Moon didn't buy it decades ago! I think that there is also a gowing market for these 'classic' albums amoungst younger music lovers, who realize that autotune and quantization have destroyed all that is worth hearing in music. They are buying them for the first time. Almost all new music is created / repaired on a computer. I have two sons who are scratching a living as professional musicians. Both I am pleased to say, perform live and in the studio with no use of klik tracks, or pitch correction. Their music is vibrant and living as a result. No recording company will touch them because they spend too many hours getting things right, rather than fixing them in software. The eldest lad’s band was invited over to record in Abbey Road by a Danish student producer there who used them as a project in his studies. That was an amazing experience, and the result was brilliant (OK I’m not totally objective). But they did make Abbey Road history, they recorded the first Danish Language songs in the studio’s history. Edited November 4, 2023 by Vistisen 12 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted November 4, 2023 Share Posted November 4, 2023 19 minutes ago, Vistisen said: I think that there is also a gowing market for these 'classic' albums amoungst younger music lovers, who realize that autotune and quantization have destroyed all that is worth hearing in music. #1 Daughter (with a degree in Music Production) abhores the amount of compression that is put on most digital tracks for download or radio. She prefers vinyl on a turntable or CD played over an I2C connection. She has recently been found playing Quadrophenia and Dark Side of The Moon. Both from 1973 so 50-years old !!! 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted November 4, 2023 Share Posted November 4, 2023 1 hour ago, Vistisen said: I think that there is also a gowing market for these 'classic' albums amoungst younger music lovers, who realize that autotune and quantization have destroyed all that is worth hearing in music. They are buying them for the first time. Almost all new music is created / repaired on a computer. I have two sons who are scratching a living as professional musicians. Both I am pleased to say, perform live and in the studio with no use of klik tracks, or pitch correction. Their music is vibrant and living as a result. No recording company will touch them because they spend too many hours getting things right, rather than fixing them in software. The eldest lad’s band was invited over to record in Abbey Road by a Danish student producer there who used them as a project in his studies. That was an amazing experience, and the result was brilliant (OK I’m not totally objective). But they did make Abbey Road history, they recorded the first Danish Language songs in the studio’s history. What I mean is the sales have always been steady rather than a new audience. When you look at the charts and it says it's been in the Top 40 for 1000 weeks you do start wonder why someone has suddenly decided to buy that album rather than buying it twenty years ago! https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/ Do people really go "Wow! I like that band I just heard for the first time ABBA. I really must run out and buy their album"? 🤣 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted November 4, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 4, 2023 23 hours ago, ian said: Certainly in the vinyl days it was not unknown to have to buy a replacement for a worn out/damaged copy. And cassettes even quicker, especially if they were used in side-loading car players..... 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted November 4, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 4, 2023 12 hours ago, J. S. Bach said: Finally, some good news about a Jack Russel! Those kittens may grow up with "interesting" personalities.... 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ramblin Rich Posted November 4, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 4, 2023 4 minutes ago, Dunsignalling said: Those kittens may grow up with "interesting" personalities.... Dats or Cogs? Reminds me of an old joke about airfreighting Nissan gearboxes 😉 1 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted November 4, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 4, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Steamport Southport said: What I mean is the sales have always been steady rather than a new audience. When you look at the charts and it says it's been in the Top 40 for 1000 weeks you do start wonder why someone has suddenly decided to buy that album rather than buying it twenty years ago! https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/ Do people really go "Wow! I like that band I just heard for the first time ABBA. I really must run out and buy their album"? 🤣 Maybe not Abba, though their material probably didn't get played on Radio One for a couple of decades. The Mamma Mia movies possibly attracted fresh followers among the previously uninitiated. There are plenty of others to be "discovered" anew, though. Probably a generational thing, as likely as not! When popular music questions come up on University Challenge, I've been surprised that a number of bands I considered household names seemed to have entirely passed the contestants by. I blame "playlists", which tend to lead to folk listening to their favourite stuff over and over, whereas (some) Radio stations stimulate the widening of ones musical horizons. Something played on R6 or Desert Island Discs on R2 will pique my interest, and I'll pick up a CD in Oxfam or a cheapie off Amazon to explore further. It can be a slippery slope, but is usually an enjoyable ride! People don't necessarily latch onto bands when they are "current", either. Although I was (fairly vaguely) aware of them in their heyday, I only really began to get into Talking Heads about six years ago, aged 65! John Edited November 4, 2023 by Dunsignalling 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Reorte Posted November 4, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 4, 2023 On 03/11/2023 at 15:00, Steamport Southport said: Even taking into consideration different formats such as vinyl, cassette, CD, download, etc. it always makes me wonder why someone who buys an album like Dark Side Of The Moon didn't buy it decades ago! It's a long time since I bought it, but it was a long time after it came out when I did - I wasn't even born when Dark Side of the Moon was released! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stanley Melrose Posted November 4, 2023 Share Posted November 4, 2023 My enjoyment is listening to Jelly Roll Morton and the Red Hot Peppers 1923-27 recordings. I bought an LP of these recordings in Shaftesbury Avenue in October 1962 (my first week at London Uni). They were only 40 years old back then and I now have digitally re-mastered copies in various formats collected in the years since, along with practically everything I have been able to find recorded by Mister Jelly. His Dead Man Blues will be played at my funeral. Perhaps of more interest to this list is that, in the same week, the Beatles were on Parade of the Pops at the Playhouse Theatre under Charing Cross Station. A gang of us went to hear and see them. I still recall the looks on the faces of the session musicians sitting on the stage behind the Beatles. They were incredulous to say the least, if not downright scornful . . . Incidentally, the group preceding the Beatles at the top of the hit Parade was the Temperance Seven featuring Whispering Paul McDowell (sp?) Stan 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1 Posted November 4, 2023 Share Posted November 4, 2023 My second copy of DSOTM is a 180gram vinyl remaster. And yes, it does sound (noticeably) better. steve 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted November 4, 2023 Share Posted November 4, 2023 I watched a documentary on how they build ships the other night. It was riveting. 1 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sidecar Racer Posted November 4, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 4, 2023 7 hours ago, Steamport Southport said: Do people really go "Wow! I like that band I just heard for the first time ABBA. I really must run out and buy their album"? 🤣 Very possible , as I mentioned previously , go to YouTube ,in the search bar type in first time hearing and then an artist of your choice and see the results . Then come back and tell us what you found . 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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