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There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
For Jilli, Rasputina covering "Barracuda"
I've seen them perform that at shows. It's always a lot of fun.
While we're at it 1816 the Year Without a Summer - video by Dame Darcy.
Why do I not have this on my iPod yet? I know it's sitting on my laptop at home, I just haven't transfered it into iTunes yet.
Really fantastic live version of Mathilde by Jacques Brel.
Look who's trying out for next season's Flavor of Love.
Ha! I just voted for her. Why not?
All the youngfolk may not realize it, but back in the olden days, playing an audio cassette in your car was fraught with peril.
Seems that back in 1986, this guy's sports car went over a cliff, pinning him under the wreckage. But wait - it gets worse, as this newspaper headline shows: 6 Hours of Wham! Worse Than Broken Arm
Yep - the dangers of auto-reverse tape decks....
Tom, that is HILARIOUS!!! I am telling all my friends to vote for her.
ETA it has been b'logged
Also, randomly, a friend ran into Flava Flav at a burger king in the Las Vegas airport a couple of weeks ago. Best. Celebrity. Sighting. Ever.
Okay, but he owned that tape, right?
Clearly, his own fault.
The smoking gun of the loudness war is the difference between the waveforms of songs 20 years ago and now. Here is an example:
My friend and neighbor Joe has written on the same issue, although his use of Mastodon as an example of overcompression leads me to believe that his ears are more finely tuned than mine. I can hear it on many CDs, but Mastodon is too fuzzy for me to hear the overcompression.
I don't know much about audio, but isn't that [compression] what they do with television commercials to make them louder?
(Shoot 'Em Up being a recently egregious example.)