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German Oak - German Oak Amazing, phantasmal krautrock. An improptu recording in an abandoned war bunker. A bit sloppy, but grow some nuts and put up with it. If you like Can, Faust, International Harvester, Popol Vuh and all those greats, most definitely check it out. Makes you feel as if you're on the brink of death; life-affirming. moderator edit: I fixed the link for the album art, and the download should work now

They're having a buy 2+ items and save 20%. Everything included (HDCD/SACD/HRx/etc.). Time to start a HRx collection? Reference Recordings: End of Summer SALE and other News

Amazon Launches Amazon Music HD https://www.amazon.com/music/unlimited/hd Ooh , more bits ... For less .. https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/17/20869526/amazon-music-hd-lossless-flac-tier-spotify-apple Oh, Hi Neil, Pono? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/business/amazon-music-hd.html Earth will never be the same again, apparently. https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-music-hd-launches-to-compete-with-tidal/ https://variety.com/2019/music/news/amazon-music-unveils-hd-highest-quality-audio-streaming-1203338552/ 90 day free trial. Nice.

my uncle really likes it but isn't a fan of the growling. off of the top of my head, some great ones are: all of damnation still day beneath the sun to bid you farewell patterns in the ivy 2 general opeth discussion is welcome too, i recently bought blackwater park again after losing it and found a new love for this band. np: Days of the New - Flight Response

I'm not really familiar with Aphex Twin, but I found this awesome mashup: http://www.100dbs.com/mixes/aphex/ I'm not a huge fan of mashups, but some of these cuts are awesome. The last one with Kool Keith is amazing, and Breathe And Stop (Q-Tip) is much better than the original imo. The other one I really like is Time's Up For Freeman, Hardy And Willis with O.C. The rest are ok or kind of bad, but definitely listen to those 3 if you like hip-hop or Aphex Twin, or music in general.

The Feelies are getting back together and playing their first gig together in 15 years when they open for Sonic Youth in Battery Park (which will be my new "backyard") on July 4th. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003786678 and http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/49827-the-feelies-reunite I am very, very happy about this. Few at the other site seem to care. At least Voltron will find this interesting.

So I'm in the middle of a mundane sheetrocking job, and as such you tend to have some fun conversations. Today one of the subjects that popped up was misheard lyrics. One of my employees told me that he thought the line in Kenny Rodgers "Lucille" was "with four hundred children, and a crop in the fields". Where the line is actually "with four hungry children, and a crop in the fields". This got us laughing, and I admitted that when I was in high school I had thought that Neil Diamond's "Forever in Blue Jeans" was "Reverend Blue Jeans". I was actually disappointed to find out otherwise. So I thought it would be fun to find out what misheard lyrics my Head-Case buddie…

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I thought this was a nice piece by NPR. http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2014/02/21/280715487/the-good-listener-for-bands-and-fans-the-no-fault-divorce?utm_content=socialflow&utm_campaign=nprfacebook&utm_source=npr&utm_medium=facebook The Neil Young example is actually a good one, but he still produces some good work every now and then, it's just not anything that even resembles his top form work. Johnny Cash and Dylan are exceptions in the sense that they both did (and Dylan still does) some of their best work in the later stages of their careers. But as far as adding purchased music to my collection, I'm just happy that there are so many ways…

Just got her Modern Cool Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs SACD Now I get what SACD can really do This sounds so good... you are right there! The soundstage... the transparency... yikes!! Any one else have other MFSL or Patty Barber SACDs?

Metallica Reveal Magnetic New Album | Pitchfork Titled Death Magnetic, release will be September 12. Hopefully this one is less of a turd than St. Anger *shudders*

This Day in Music.com Today's Highlights: 1983, This week's Top 5 UK singles: No.5, Bob Marley, 'Buffalo Soldier', No.4, Yazoo, 'Nobody's Diary', No.3, David Bowie, 'China Girl', No.2, Wham! 'Bad Boys', No.1, The Police, 'Every Breath You Take.' 1972, The Rolling Stones album 'Exile On Main Street' started a four-week run at the top of the US charts, (also No.1 in the UK). 1965, working at Abbey Road studios in London The Beatles completed work on the new Paul McCartney song

From his diary entry: So, King Crimson is in motion. This is a very different reformation to what has gone before: seven players, four English and three American, with three drummers. The Seven-Headed Beast of Crim is in Go! mode. The 8th incarnation of King Crimson will be Gavin Harrison, Bill Rieflin, Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto, Mel Collins, Jakko Jakszyk and Robert Fripp. Fripp says they should reappear about 1 year from now. I'll be waiting.

Great show as expexted!

Why do I think steaming pile when I see streaming?

Its fucking September and I am listen to Candy Dulfer "Septermber" right now, man, all I want is CANDY!!!

So as part of the new car we got a 4 month trial for Sirius XM and I'm wondering what people around here think of the service. Worth the $200 a year? That's a lot of CDs. Favorite stations? Edit: I see the mostly music for $10 a month. That's a bit more palatable.

I was just listening to J.S. Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 (a delayed reaction to Hallowe'en) when I had a bit of an epiphany... why do people send their kids to take piano lessons when they could be learning the pipe organ (common sense answer: because pipe organs are crazy big and complex and expensive and rare)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toccata_and_Fugue_in_D_minor,_BWV_565 The Wikipedia article suggests that Bach may have composed the piece to test pipe organs... do people use pipe organ repertoire to test their music systems? Listening to this piece on my computer speakers, I can understand why pipe organs are used for liturgical purpose…

LOTW == Listen Of The Week -- your favourite recording you listened to in a 7-day period. Mine, easily, is this: Amazon.com link to Le Fil by Camille with a review by me. If you want my impressions of it, read the review.

I know I'll be picking up a select few of these. I'm crazy, but not crazy enough to purchase a full subscription. Six upcoming titles Complete 63 Title Release Schedule Anyone have any suggestions on which titles are real gooduns? The only one I'm 100% that I'll be purchasing is Johnny Griffin - The Congregation. moderator suggestion: make you links work!

Any Bay Area head-casers going to the April Sonny Rollins concert in Berkeley? http://www.calperfs.berkeley.edu/presents/season/2007/jazz/sr.php If there are, we should meet up and grab a beer or something.

Any fans? I know I've introduced one or two people on Head-Fi to them, and one or two people in the DC area to them. THEY'RE TOURING!!!1! This will be my first time seeing them (they usually stay in the bay area or otherwise on the West Coast): HALOU US TOUR 2008 Halou will be hitting the road in March supporting the legendary Bob Mould for dates all across the country. Full list of dates below: 5 Mar WED Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue 6 Mar THU Milwaukee, WI - Shank Hall 7 Mar FRI Chicago, IL - The Metro 8 Mar SAT Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop 9 Mar SUN Hamilton, ON - Casbah Lounge 10 Mar MON Toronto, ON - Mod Club Theatre 12 Mar WED Boston, MA - Paradise R…

Just got in the 4 impulse sacd titles. See you at the fair out of the cool coltrane mingus mingus mingus mingus mingus All of these have stickers that say SACD only. The stickers are wrong! The titles are all hybrids...

So, this http://www.head-case.org/forums/music/5079-what-you-listening-part-two-472.html#post357782 made me listen to Afro Cuban All Stars, and I like it very much. I've never listened to such a kind of music before, no Jazz, no Fidel Castro, no Yada Yada, nothing. Please recommend me some more

Spotify HiFi is a lossless streaming tier coming later this year https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/22/22295273/spotify-hifi-announced-lossless-streaming-hd-quality https://newsroom.spotify.com/2021-02-22/five-things-to-know-about-spotify-hifi/ from: https://newsroom.spotify.com/stream-on/