Yay!

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...is this thing on? yeah? hello?

Ahem. I must apologise for the rudeness of straying into your thread without even the barest attempt to skim, but I have a question of particular (and titular) importance.

I am engaged in a Search For Bach. Well, Bach, Haydn, a bunch of people actually. Does anyone happen to have any files containing recordings of any of the following that they might be able to make available?

JS Bach: Cantata No 34 (O ewiges Feurer, o Ursprung der Liebe);

WA Mozart: Regina Coeli, KV276

Haydn: Die Harmonie in der Ehe;

Haydn: Der Greis;

Haydn: Die Beredsamkeit;

F Schubert: Mirjam's Siegesgesang;

H Purcell: O Sing unto the Lord a new song.

My choir is performing them, and I'm not really a musician/singer as such - my sight reading is painfully nonexistant, so I find it much easier to learn music from the sounds in the air rather than staring blankly at the squirming notes on the page.

I know this is highly unlikely, but, yo, it's the title of the thread so I thought it was worth asking. Thank you kindly for your patience.

because if there's anything you want from an RT box set, it's Epic Live Workouts. Particularly of "Calvary Cross."

Actually I want Linda, Linda, & more Linda. And I prefer "Night Comes In" to "Calvary Cross". Much as I love the Epic Geetar Workouts on those two the best thing on (gtr, vocal) is "Dark End of the Street," and I don't think it's close. That said, the live "Calvary Cross" on the remastered I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight is really great, better than either the (gtr, vocal) or Watching the Dark versions (or the bootleg versions I have.) The Hokey Pokey and Pour Down Like Silver reissues also have cuts from the same show -- the Roundhouse, September 1975 -- and every one is excellent; if Island has the sense to release the whole concert I'll buy it tout de suite.

I spaced out on buying the box set pre-release but I have a copy on the way & look forward to hearing it even if the compiler's sense of RT's "essential" output really doesn't overlap that much with my take on the subject. Kinda surprised that "Shoot Out the Lights" isn't one of the EGWs as I've heard him use it as a guitar showcase more than any other song in the dozen and a half shows I've seen. Is "Morris Medley / Flying Saucers" a melding of folk traditionals and "Flying Saucers Rock and Roll"? I heard him do the latter in the late eighties, but don't remember a Morris dance intro.

Is "Morris Medley / Flying Saucers" a melding of folk traditionals and "Flying Saucers Rock and Roll"?

Yes indeed. And there's some wonderful Linda moments on the box, too. And a great version of "Night Comes In." I agree about the re-issue "Calvary Cross" being better than the (gtr, vocal) one, but the difference between it and the Watching the Dark version wouldn't slice butter. And the new one kicks both up and down the curb.

Hey, Fay, I am not the guy to help you, as the Haydn & Schubert performances I have on disc are all string quartets (and the Bach is all by Glenn Gould), but I certainly hope someone comes up with the music you're looking for.

Fay, Vonnie has an excellent classical collection. You might want to track her down.

Just a quick drive-by to confirm that the new Destroyer album is just as great as everyone has said it is.

The song that I am listening to right this second for the third time in a row, "3000 Flowers," even has that five-star, best-song-ever kind of feel that makes you run to you computer and post about how great an album is.

ION, I have a gigantic amount of work to do to get my mix ready to post by tomorrow... but somehow I will persevere.

Re: The Mix

I have a couple of questions, and a request. Questions:

1. What's the password to buffistarawk, and where is it?
2. Per rule G, and offering uncompressed mixes, are we supposed to post them to the account compressed? If so, what format?
3. If we're compressing them to something other than the compression iTunes uses (AAC, right?) is there an easy/free way to do that?

And my request is to be bumped back to week 5 if possible, as the shows I'm doing right now will be mostly kicking my ass through the posting date for week 4. The extra week will be quite helpful.

Sean -

I just sent you e-mail addresses and passwords for both of the buffistarawk accounts. (As I noted in the e-mail we are using a separate account from the original buffistarawk account for the purposes of this mix).

Also, it is fine to post your mixes as mp3s or AAC files. Usually posting a whole mix requires sending about 10 separate e-mails. You can compress them further if you want but you don't need to. The only type of file you can't post are ones that are 1) over 20 MB because gmail won't accept a single e-mail that big and most other e-mail services won't send one that big anyway 2) any protected file such as songs you buy directly from the iTunes music store because other folks' computers won't be able to play them.

2) any protected file such as songs you buy directly from the iTunes music store because other folks' computers won't be able to play them.

Crap. That complicates things. I was hoping to fill in some potential gaps in my mix with individual song purchases. Guess I'm limited to my actual current collection. Time to get creative.

There is a way around the protection on iTunes bought music, but it takes some doing.

You can burn songs bought from iTunes to a disc and then take that disc and import it. The ripped files SHOULD then be regular mp3s that anyone can use.

It's a lot of work, but it does make iTunes purchased music unprotected (and lessens the sound quality just a tiny tiny bit - but that's really not important for these purposes).