Dr. Octopus
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Maybe she was the “mama” in the context of the song.
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rockaction
Footballguy
22. Death Letter Blues - Son House
I'll try to keep this brief. This is a song written by a man, Edward James "Son" House, Jr., in the first arc of a career that featured a marriage, a divorce, a brief career as a preacher, a move to where blues was king in Mississippi, a penchant for the bottleneck guitar, a stint in prison for murdering a man (apparently somebody shot up a juke joint and he shot the man down, according to legend), a release from prison, a hiatus, and then a discovery by the kids of the sixties (the folk kids).
Discovered by these kids and coaxed back to guitar-playing life by one college-aged Alan Wilson of Arlington, MA (right on the border of Lexington and Concord, and certainly not what anyone would imagine as a blues haven), Son House was able to play and record again around 1964, when he released Father of Folk Blues. (His hiatus had been since about '42.) Wilson, as credited on the back of the record, taught Son how to play his old stuff all over again and played second guitar on the album. Son re-learned his repertoire and established a career as an entertainer, performing for young audiences in coffeehouses, at folk festivals, and on concert tours as a blues singer during the blues phase of the folk music revival that happened in the '60s.
Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson, called that because of his terrible vision and near-blindness (he once set a guitar on a wedding cake at a wedding he was supposed to perform at) went on to co-found Canned Heat, and that band saw success with their catalog, which included Wilson's odd tenor/falsetto voice that is responsible for all those weird pauses upon hearing a particular song that I'll link below. The product of years of learning that distinct tenor and also the product of fighting the fear of public incantation of it, his voice became a clarion call for all fledgling collegiate (largely white) bluesmasters.
Tragically, Wilson died at the age of twenty-seven from a barbiturate overdose, which may have been born from anxiety, as evidenced by the song "Pulling Hair Blues" (he was known to do this and had suffered bouts of depression throughout his life). I find him a really fascinating figure in the music scene of the sixties, so here are two of his songs where he handles lead vocals for Canned Heat. Two for one, I said—Son House and his admirer Blind Owl—so let it be done.
Here's one with genre in the title
Here's Canned Heat's well-known hit
eta* Wikipedia assisted in the write-up. Forgot to mention that. Also edited for a bit of content and clarity.
I'll try to keep this brief. This is a song written by a man, Edward James "Son" House, Jr., in the first arc of a career that featured a marriage, a divorce, a brief career as a preacher, a move to where blues was king in Mississippi, a penchant for the bottleneck guitar, a stint in prison for murdering a man (apparently somebody shot up a juke joint and he shot the man down, according to legend), a release from prison, a hiatus, and then a discovery by the kids of the sixties (the folk kids).
Discovered by these kids and coaxed back to guitar-playing life by one college-aged Alan Wilson of Arlington, MA (right on the border of Lexington and Concord, and certainly not what anyone would imagine as a blues haven), Son House was able to play and record again around 1964, when he released Father of Folk Blues. (His hiatus had been since about '42.) Wilson, as credited on the back of the record, taught Son how to play his old stuff all over again and played second guitar on the album. Son re-learned his repertoire and established a career as an entertainer, performing for young audiences in coffeehouses, at folk festivals, and on concert tours as a blues singer during the blues phase of the folk music revival that happened in the '60s.
Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson, called that because of his terrible vision and near-blindness (he once set a guitar on a wedding cake at a wedding he was supposed to perform at) went on to co-found Canned Heat, and that band saw success with their catalog, which included Wilson's odd tenor/falsetto voice that is responsible for all those weird pauses upon hearing a particular song that I'll link below. The product of years of learning that distinct tenor and also the product of fighting the fear of public incantation of it, his voice became a clarion call for all fledgling collegiate (largely white) bluesmasters.
Tragically, Wilson died at the age of twenty-seven from a barbiturate overdose, which may have been born from anxiety, as evidenced by the song "Pulling Hair Blues" (he was known to do this and had suffered bouts of depression throughout his life). I find him a really fascinating figure in the music scene of the sixties, so here are two of his songs where he handles lead vocals for Canned Heat. Two for one, I said—Son House and his admirer Blind Owl—so let it be done.
Here's one with genre in the title
Here's Canned Heat's well-known hit
eta* Wikipedia assisted in the write-up. Forgot to mention that. Also edited for a bit of content and clarity.
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Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
At least no one is complaining about the ridiculously long selection.
So far.
So far.
krista4
Footballguy
It was copied and pasted precisely as sent in.
ETA: A copy directly from your PM:
10 pts - Finisterra - Mägo de Oz
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Thumper rule.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
I understood the German song a little more than the Spanish one - and it was also interesting.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
I believe you. I just can't figure that one out. I even have a note making sure the right one got linked on my list.
Didn't help. Not one bit. Maybe I should summon SImple Man.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
If we're lucky "Super Freak" will turn up in the worst super heroes as well.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
I’ve listened to Fela Kuti because the Pony was playing him before one of the bands went on and a woman with us used Shazam (or similar app) to identify the music as Kuti. I’ve listed to the This Is… a few times since.
Haven’t expanded beyond that until this MAD - but have really enjoyed the theme and look forward to full playlist at the end.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
This reminds me of "It's the End of the World as we Know it". Thumbs up.
John Maddens Lunchbox
Socialism for Dummies
Songs in D Minor - The saddest key of all
22 - Rammstein - Ohne Dich
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Lyric - Auf den Ästen, in den Gräben
Ist es nun still und ohne Leben
Und das Atmen fällt mir ach so schwer
Weh mir, oh weh
Und die Vögel singen nicht mehr
Source - https://musicstax.com/track/ohne-dich/4Hruh5C0Ef3y8mIcns5Y1O
https://tunebat.com/Info/Ohne-Dich-Rammstein/1eSYjEo1RBNHbrNkWPQLBb
Comment - Rammstein are one of the more interesting bands to listen to. Having a basic understanding of German helps, but isn’t necessary. They normally kick arse and are musically adventurous. Here they are restrained.
This song is essentially about Ladyboys - Own a Dich. Joking. See below.
Sadness Quotient - 8/11 - The mood is more sombre, although i find it quite uplifting, than most Rammstein tracks and the lyrics are similar to With or Without You by U2
Without you, I cannot be, without you
With you, I am alone too (Without you)
Without you, I count the hours without you
With you, the seconds stand still, they aren't worth it
Great film clip too.
Next Up - A band most people are familiar with and the sing fits the mood.
John Maddens Lunchbox
Socialism for Dummies
Batman
22 - Rick James (B!tch) - Super Freak
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Relevant Lyric - She's a very kinky girl
The kind you don't take home to mother
She will never let your spirits down
Once you get her off the street, ow, girl
Batman Vibe Score - 0/10
Where to Find - Batman Returns Soundtrack, but only the super dooper deep cut version
Quick Hit Comment - This was one Batman movie where only two “songs” were included outside the Danny Elfman soundtrack. One deliberately included and still to come and this sort of used in the movie and not really considered for the main versions of the soundtrack
Next Up - A band with one of the more interesting names in rock history
Eephus
Footballguy
There's a whole bunch of Kutis in the music biz--almost as many as the Marleys. We've seen Femi and his band play live.
His youngest son Seun Kuti released a new single last week.
Emi Aluta - Zamrock Remix
Seun Kuti, Egypt 80, Sampa the Great · Emi Aluta (45 Edit) · Song · 2025
open.spotify.com
Chaos34
Footballguy
This isn't exactly what I'm waiting for from your theme but it is close. It's off the album One-Trick Pony which was recorded at A&R Studios in NYC. BUT, for this track they moved the musicians and recording gear to the Museum of Natural History to leverage the acoustics in the rotunda. It worked out better than they expected. The natural echo gave it a distinctive sound hard to simulate in a studio. Excellent choice.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I completely forgot to reach out to her and tell you, sorry. when I added the link, it was the whole album, so I assumed she meant the title track and added that instead.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Theme: 31 Best Albums of 1984
22. Lost by Meat Puppets
Album: Meat Puppets II
Released: April
This album took me awhile to get into. It's not one you can just listen to a single song or click through a min here or there of a few tracks to get a feel for it. It's too odd and chaotic for that. If you take the time to put on a pair of headphones and just press play, it's a grower. There's so much little detail that captures your attention, what seemed like noise at first is actually quite clever. I'll leave it to some of the critics to explain just what this album is:
"willfully unfocused"
"calmly demeted country music"
"a kind of cultural trash compactor"
"a sun-baked, country-fried, acid-addled cowpunk album that could have come from nowhere else but the Arizona desert".
I chose Lost simply because to me it' the closest thing to a single on the album- a song that can stand on it's own and maybe not sound so demented. Though I am not sure any of the songs really stand on their own. The songs are like those crazy Bills Mafia tailgaters. When they are in the parking lot surrounded by their fellow table smashers, it just makes all the sense in the world. Pull any one of them out of that context, take away their fellow tailgaters, grills, RVs and now a single single bare chested man in red, white and blue zubaz crashing through a table would bend our sense of reality.
22. Lost by Meat Puppets
Album: Meat Puppets II
Released: April
This album took me awhile to get into. It's not one you can just listen to a single song or click through a min here or there of a few tracks to get a feel for it. It's too odd and chaotic for that. If you take the time to put on a pair of headphones and just press play, it's a grower. There's so much little detail that captures your attention, what seemed like noise at first is actually quite clever. I'll leave it to some of the critics to explain just what this album is:
"willfully unfocused"
"calmly demeted country music"
"a kind of cultural trash compactor"
"a sun-baked, country-fried, acid-addled cowpunk album that could have come from nowhere else but the Arizona desert".
I chose Lost simply because to me it' the closest thing to a single on the album- a song that can stand on it's own and maybe not sound so demented. Though I am not sure any of the songs really stand on their own. The songs are like those crazy Bills Mafia tailgaters. When they are in the parking lot surrounded by their fellow table smashers, it just makes all the sense in the world. Pull any one of them out of that context, take away their fellow tailgaters, grills, RVs and now a single single bare chested man in red, white and blue zubaz crashing through a table would bend our sense of reality.
Yo Mama
Footballguy
Oh that would have been a good one. Major oversight by me. I’ve found about 10 others that would have been good after sending in my rankings.
John Maddens Lunchbox
Socialism for Dummies
Get writing for a top 10….crap i missed them then. They are written spectacularly
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
"All of these songs are off their second record."Theme: 31 Best Albums of 1984
22. Lost by Meat Puppets
Album: Meat Puppets II
Released: April
This album took me awhile to get into. It's not one you can just listen to a single song or click through a min here or there of a few tracks to get a feel for it. It's too odd and chaotic for that. If you take the time to put on a pair of headphones and just press play, it's a grower. There's so much little detail that captures your attention, what seemed like noise at first is actually quite clever. I'll leave it to some of the critics to explain just what this album is:
"willfully unfocused"
"calmly demeted country music"
"a kind of cultural trash compactor"
"a sun-baked, country-fried, acid-addled cowpunk album that could have come from nowhere else but the Arizona desert".
I chose Lost simply because to me it' the closest thing to a single on the album- a song that can stand on it's own and maybe not sound so demented. Though I am not sure any of the songs really stand on their own. The songs are like those crazy Bills Mafia tailgaters. When they are in the parking lot surrounded by their fellow table smashers, it just makes all the sense in the world. Pull any one of them out of that context, take away their fellow tailgaters, grills, RVs and now a single single bare chested man in red, white and blue zubaz crashing through a table would bend our sense of reality.
If you know, you know.
rockaction
Footballguy
rockaction
Footballguy
Nirvana segue?
Yep. Nailed it. Whoohooo! That was like rabbit out the hat.
eta* First thing I think of when I hear the name "Meat Puppets" is Nirvana, really. One or two of them (I forget at this point) played with them at the Unplugged session you allude to.
eta2* If only k4's mystery list was that ascertainable.
Yo Mama
Footballguy
I still need to figure out to write for my #21.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
#22: A TRIBE CALLED QUEST - AFTER HOURS
In the last few years I've been getting more and more into the genre. It is one that I hadn't fully embraced. The language and topics was a big reason, and that makes me sound like more of a prude than I am. While getting into artists, I do like to be able to listen to it around most people and want to suggest it to most people. Another big thing is that I am album person, and for me two things that often tank my enjoyment of an album are instrumentals and skits/interludes. The latter annoys me quicker. TOOL and the Aenima album come to mind here. A few of my favorite songs of theirs are on it, but I never listen to that album anymore. Run the Jewels is an example of an artist that I love and have a playlist, but the language took them out of contention here. The reason was just trying to stick to the spirit of the playlist. Since there is very little rap on Shuke's list, I approached it more through the lens of who I would suggest a non-fan try in the genre if they haven't. These 4 on the playlist are all ones that I also have a playlist for and have been in contention for doing a MAD31 on.
Some of that up there was negative, so how about what did I fall in love with digging into the genre? As above - I appreciate artists that have multiple albums I can listen to from start to finish. As we saw with the Girl Talk, I love interesting samples that I recognize. I really love pop culture references and lyrics that make me laugh. You drop in a Back to the Future reference and I am a fan for life. (more on that a bit later)
Recommended listening: Since much of my order is based on discovery and # of albums, Tribe is down here. I have listening to them for awhile, but it's just recently that I have rediscovered their debut, and prefer that to Marauders now. I tried to get to a song I haven't done in one of these, which is why I landed on After Hours. I love the old school vibe to this one, and I always like a "day in the life" type song. Push It Along is a bit too long but a great opener, and of course Bonita Applebum and Can I Kick It? are awesome. Top to bottom great album, as is their next one The Low End Theory. Another perfect album to my ears, but I was sure I've taken Excursions, Buggin' Out, What?, and Scenario elsewhere in these. I would recommend anybody unfamiliar with them try either of those albums.
Next: I saw a bit of post-punk on the list, but not these Brits.
In the last few years I've been getting more and more into the genre. It is one that I hadn't fully embraced. The language and topics was a big reason, and that makes me sound like more of a prude than I am. While getting into artists, I do like to be able to listen to it around most people and want to suggest it to most people. Another big thing is that I am album person, and for me two things that often tank my enjoyment of an album are instrumentals and skits/interludes. The latter annoys me quicker. TOOL and the Aenima album come to mind here. A few of my favorite songs of theirs are on it, but I never listen to that album anymore. Run the Jewels is an example of an artist that I love and have a playlist, but the language took them out of contention here. The reason was just trying to stick to the spirit of the playlist. Since there is very little rap on Shuke's list, I approached it more through the lens of who I would suggest a non-fan try in the genre if they haven't. These 4 on the playlist are all ones that I also have a playlist for and have been in contention for doing a MAD31 on.
Some of that up there was negative, so how about what did I fall in love with digging into the genre? As above - I appreciate artists that have multiple albums I can listen to from start to finish. As we saw with the Girl Talk, I love interesting samples that I recognize. I really love pop culture references and lyrics that make me laugh. You drop in a Back to the Future reference and I am a fan for life.
(more on that a bit later)Recommended listening: Since much of my order is based on discovery and # of albums, Tribe is down here. I have listening to them for awhile, but it's just recently that I have rediscovered their debut, and prefer that to Marauders now. I tried to get to a song I haven't done in one of these, which is why I landed on After Hours. I love the old school vibe to this one, and I always like a "day in the life" type song. Push It Along is a bit too long but a great opener, and of course Bonita Applebum and Can I Kick It? are awesome. Top to bottom great album, as is their next one The Low End Theory. Another perfect album to my ears, but I was sure I've taken Excursions, Buggin' Out, What?, and Scenario elsewhere in these. I would recommend anybody unfamiliar with them try either of those albums.
Next: I saw a bit of post-punk on the list, but not these Brits.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I have ideas....
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Two. Both of the Kirkwood brothers.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
Yes, please!
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
I’ve seen these guys on the Pier in the South Street Seaport and at Mawells in Hoboken in the 90s. They put on a really fun show.Theme: 31 Best Albums of 1984
22. Lost by Meat Puppets
Album: Meat Puppets II
Released: April
This album took me awhile to get into. It's not one you can just listen to a single song or click through a min here or there of a few tracks to get a feel for it. It's too odd and chaotic for that. If you take the time to put on a pair of headphones and just press play, it's a grower. There's so much little detail that captures your attention, what seemed like noise at first is actually quite clever. I'll leave it to some of the critics to explain just what this album is:
"willfully unfocused"
"calmly demeted country music"
"a kind of cultural trash compactor"
"a sun-baked, country-fried, acid-addled cowpunk album that could have come from nowhere else but the Arizona desert".
I chose Lost simply because to me it' the closest thing to a single on the album- a song that can stand on it's own and maybe not sound so demented. Though I am not sure any of the songs really stand on their own. The songs are like those crazy Bills Mafia tailgaters. When they are in the parking lot surrounded by their fellow table smashers, it just makes all the sense in the world. Pull any one of them out of that context, take away their fellow tailgaters, grills, RVs and now a single single bare chested man in red, white and blue zubaz crashing through a table would bend our sense of reality.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Fixed.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Touche
krista4
Footballguy
Artist connection to Chicago (1-5 scale): 2 - I don't really know. I was talking about this one and that the band was a "1", and OH said something about the band's connection to the band Tar (which was a Chicago band), that they were always playing on each other's records, producing each other's records, something about the Deep Tunnel Project, that Jawbox or someone in the band "is moving here," so anyway they are a 2.
Song connection to Chicago (1-10 scale): 5 - It's a little less obvious than some, but "Division down to where I shouldn't be" is something that any Chicagoan in the 90s could immediately place on their mental map, since we knew exactly which parts of Division Street to avoid. And if you didn't get it from that, "the Green" refers to the notorious (now non-existent) housing project, Cabrini Green. The song really sets a mood of a time and place in Chicago, so I scored it pretty well for that.
Total: 7
jwb
Footballguy
I did not know that. Thanks - that's very interesting.
I don't know what you are waiting for - I hope I post it, but I fear maybe I won't. These are all songs I like, and that I think sound great for one reason or another. But this is a huge category, and it's also pretty subjective. I know I missed a ton of great sounding stuff.
Zegras11
Footballguy
"Tainted Love" is a song composed by Ed Cobb, formerly of American group the Four Preps, which was originally recorded by Gloria Jones in 1964. In 1981, the song attained worldwide fame after being covered and reworked by British synth-pop duo Soft Cell for their album Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret. The song has since been covered by numerous groups and artists.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
New-to-me songs from the #23s that caught my ear:
Eephus – Single (Named) Ladies
Cool Water - Odetta
simey – train songs
Steel Rails - Alison Krauss
Dr. Octopus – guitarists I’ve seen live
Suffragette City - Red Hot Chili Peppers (John Frusciante)
Obviously I know the original, but I had no idea RHCP covered it.
Mrs. Rannous – umlauts
Queen Of The Reich – Queensrÿche
KarmaPolice – songs from artists not on shuke’s list
Don't Worry - Scientist/Wayne Wade
Don Quixote – Afrobeat
Fuel for Love (Spotify) - Wrinkars Experience (Nigeria)
Raging weasel – name-checking Beatles or their songs
Ring [sic], I Love You – Bonnie Jo Mason
Ring? Seriously, RW?
scorchy – songs by Manchester(-ish) artists
Be The One - The Ting Tings
ditkaburgers - Girl Groups X Boy Bands
Say You'll Be There - Spice Girls
higgins – Instrumentals with places in the title
Riviera Paradise – Stevie Ray Vaughan
Chaos34 - Post Surf Rock Surf Rockish (80s fwd)
Mrs. Moto - The Surfrajettes
Eephus – Single (Named) Ladies
Cool Water - Odetta
simey – train songs
Steel Rails - Alison Krauss
Dr. Octopus – guitarists I’ve seen live
Suffragette City - Red Hot Chili Peppers (John Frusciante)
Obviously I know the original, but I had no idea RHCP covered it.
Mrs. Rannous – umlauts
Queen Of The Reich – Queensrÿche
KarmaPolice – songs from artists not on shuke’s list
Don't Worry - Scientist/Wayne Wade
Don Quixote – Afrobeat
Fuel for Love (Spotify) - Wrinkars Experience (Nigeria)
Raging weasel – name-checking Beatles or their songs
Ring [sic], I Love You – Bonnie Jo Mason
Ring? Seriously, RW?
scorchy – songs by Manchester(-ish) artists
Be The One - The Ting Tings
ditkaburgers - Girl Groups X Boy Bands
Say You'll Be There - Spice Girls
higgins – Instrumentals with places in the title
Riviera Paradise – Stevie Ray Vaughan
Chaos34 - Post Surf Rock Surf Rockish (80s fwd)
Mrs. Moto - The Surfrajettes
Chaos34
Footballguy
Here's a Chi-Fi post. About a decade ago Aiyima put out a little $80 amp for PCs or whatever that sounded great to the nerds at DiyAudio. Nerds have to tinker and a couple mods had it performing at a very high level. It sold like hotcakes. A slew of other Chinese manufacturers got the message and started using better components to compete. Douk, Topping, Nobsound, Wiim and others all improved the junk they'd been selling for years.
Fosi Audio showed up in the diy forums eagerly asking what they could do to earn business. The nerds advised Japanese hifi capacitors, German resistors, cleaner more elegant pcb layouts, better cooling, quality input and output connections, etc. This Fosi rep was kinda thrilled to get this advice and there was just something wholesome about his/her manner. They took the advice to heart and produced the V3 which became the standard for all the brands around $100. It still is and you can youtube Fosi V3 to see the hype. It's a basic amp with power and volume, nice components, and clean circuitry design. It's purpose is simple, cheap, quality audio.
I don't have one. I have the Aiyima in the first paragraph and I've "rolled the op amps" a few times (those mods I mentioned) to get it sounding perdy derned great for the money. Of course they all started producing new models with new features to drive new sales. Fosi's BT20A got very good reviews. It's not as good as the V3, but it has bluetooth, treble and bass controls. It's on sale for $53. That's a no brainer to me, a tinkerer. I'll "roll the op amps" and replace two capacitors. That will cost less than $20, follow Texas Instruments' advice for their chip amp Fosi uses and probably get close to the V3. Just close. There's a reason why it can't be as good, but I'll spare those details.
Rolling operational amps has become the new rolling tubes the tube amp guys have done for decades. Rolling is replacing them until you love the sound. With a dozen dudes experimenting at diyaudio it doesn't take long to find the magic op amp. They're $4 on Ebay.
Next up the bookshelf speaker deal that made me buy the amp and will probably be a complete waste of $120.
Fosi Audio showed up in the diy forums eagerly asking what they could do to earn business. The nerds advised Japanese hifi capacitors, German resistors, cleaner more elegant pcb layouts, better cooling, quality input and output connections, etc. This Fosi rep was kinda thrilled to get this advice and there was just something wholesome about his/her manner. They took the advice to heart and produced the V3 which became the standard for all the brands around $100. It still is and you can youtube Fosi V3 to see the hype. It's a basic amp with power and volume, nice components, and clean circuitry design. It's purpose is simple, cheap, quality audio.
I don't have one. I have the Aiyima in the first paragraph and I've "rolled the op amps" a few times (those mods I mentioned) to get it sounding perdy derned great for the money. Of course they all started producing new models with new features to drive new sales. Fosi's BT20A got very good reviews. It's not as good as the V3, but it has bluetooth, treble and bass controls. It's on sale for $53. That's a no brainer to me, a tinkerer. I'll "roll the op amps" and replace two capacitors. That will cost less than $20, follow Texas Instruments' advice for their chip amp Fosi uses and probably get close to the V3. Just close. There's a reason why it can't be as good, but I'll spare those details.
Rolling operational amps has become the new rolling tubes the tube amp guys have done for decades. Rolling is replacing them until you love the sound. With a dozen dudes experimenting at diyaudio it doesn't take long to find the magic op amp. They're $4 on Ebay.
Next up the bookshelf speaker deal that made me buy the amp and will probably be a complete waste of $120.
rockaction
Footballguy
Love hearing about the Chi-Fi amps and stuff. Was staring pretty hard at one about a decade ago. I can only imagine they've gotten better. I can't remember the company's name for the life of me (Shanling?) because that was back when I imbibed and frankly I don't remember a good part of a two different decades of my life, which isn't flippant but more sad than anything and there's nothing I can do about it so I don't wallow in it. Spilled milk and all.
eta* Yep, it was Shanling and this is it. https://www.usatubeaudio.com/product/amplification/integrated-amps/shanling-stp-80/
eta* Yep, it was Shanling and this is it. https://www.usatubeaudio.com/product/amplification/integrated-amps/shanling-stp-80/
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Mt. Man
Footballguy
#, Please # 22
Song: 1234
Artist: Feist
Year: 2007
(Official Music Video) Feist - 1234
(Live version) Feist - 1234 - Letterman 08/27/2007
4 Lines:
Sweetheart bitterheart now I can't tell you apart
Cozy and cold, put the horse before the cart
Those teenage hopes who have tears in their eyes
Too scared to own up to one little lie
Number Theory:
On the surface, using “1234” in music goes back… ages, probably. Plenty of songs have the artist starting out by saying those numbers. So much so that you get an occasional variation just to shake things up. Even a stray “Gunter Glieben Glauben Globen” or two.
Of course, here there’s the tone of a children’s nursery rhyme in it, as part of the song’s nostalgic theming. There’s the sentiment of young love, of it (or at least the opportunity for it) being lost. A sense of sadness and regret, since “money won’t buy you the love you had then”.
Hmm. (Leslie) Feist is singly named. And this is easily her most famous song, thanks mostly to being featured in an iPad Nano commercial. Is this my biggest chance for a full crossover? Well, we’ll see. It might happen eventually.
Significant Digits:
Off album#: 3
Track #: 9
Charted in 11 countries as a single. Including #8 in UK Singles, #8 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and #3 on the Canadian Hot 100.
Artist crossover with other playlists: 10
(Known: 6) Van Halen (x2) currently in the lead!
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Next on the countdown, that’s part of a phone number? I dunno, sounds fake to me.
Song: 1234
Artist: Feist
Year: 2007
(Official Music Video) Feist - 1234
(Live version) Feist - 1234 - Letterman 08/27/2007
4 Lines:
Sweetheart bitterheart now I can't tell you apart
Cozy and cold, put the horse before the cart
Those teenage hopes who have tears in their eyes
Too scared to own up to one little lie
Number Theory:
On the surface, using “1234” in music goes back… ages, probably. Plenty of songs have the artist starting out by saying those numbers. So much so that you get an occasional variation just to shake things up. Even a stray “Gunter Glieben Glauben Globen” or two.
Of course, here there’s the tone of a children’s nursery rhyme in it, as part of the song’s nostalgic theming. There’s the sentiment of young love, of it (or at least the opportunity for it) being lost. A sense of sadness and regret, since “money won’t buy you the love you had then”.
Hmm. (Leslie) Feist is singly named. And this is easily her most famous song, thanks mostly to being featured in an iPad Nano commercial. Is this my biggest chance for a full crossover? Well, we’ll see. It might happen eventually.
Significant Digits:
Off album#: 3
Track #: 9
Charted in 11 countries as a single. Including #8 in UK Singles, #8 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and #3 on the Canadian Hot 100.
Artist crossover with other playlists: 10
(Known: 6) Van Halen (x2) currently in the lead!
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Next on the countdown, that’s part of a phone number? I dunno, sounds fake to me.
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
22s
shukelist song!
Mister CIA – I Was Born In San Antone - Garrett T. Capps
Saxy!!!
Don Quixote – Progress (Spotify) - Tony Allen & Afrika
landrys hat - Thursday - Morphine
Other known favorites
Dr. Octopus – Into the Sea - God Street Wine
Yo Mama – Simple Man - Lynrd Skynrd
-OZ- - Fooled Around And Fell In Love - Elvin Bishop
Mt. Man – 1234 - Feist
MrsKarmaPolice – Wolves - Phosphorescent - newbie here has one of the best 3 playlists so far. MOAR.
Tau837 – Here I Go Again - Whitesnake - I hate that I love this song so much
DrIanMalcolm – City of Blinding Lights - U2 - not the biggest U2 fan but this one does it for me
Zegras11 – Tainted Love - Soft Cell
MAC_32 – In Hell I'll Be In Good Company - Dead South -
New to me greatness
kupcho1 – Happy When it Rains - The Jesus and Mary Chain - know of them, but have never dived deep. Need to.
simey – Train - The Clarks - This is alt country and not country, right? Right?!
falguy – She-La - 54-40
scorchy – Whistling In The Dark – Easterhouse
Chaos34 - My Head Hurts - Wavves
krista4 – Motorist – Jawbox
Kind of frightened me
Mrs. Rannous – Finisterra - Mägo de Oz
JMLs secret identity – Ohne Dich (Spotify) - Rammstein
shukelist song!
Mister CIA – I Was Born In San Antone - Garrett T. Capps
Saxy!!!
Don Quixote – Progress (Spotify) - Tony Allen & Afrika
landrys hat - Thursday - Morphine
Other known favorites
Dr. Octopus – Into the Sea - God Street Wine
Yo Mama – Simple Man - Lynrd Skynrd
-OZ- - Fooled Around And Fell In Love - Elvin Bishop
Mt. Man – 1234 - Feist
MrsKarmaPolice – Wolves - Phosphorescent - newbie here has one of the best 3 playlists so far. MOAR.
Tau837 – Here I Go Again - Whitesnake - I hate that I love this song so much
DrIanMalcolm – City of Blinding Lights - U2 - not the biggest U2 fan but this one does it for me
Zegras11 – Tainted Love - Soft Cell
MAC_32 – In Hell I'll Be In Good Company - Dead South -
New to me greatness
kupcho1 – Happy When it Rains - The Jesus and Mary Chain - know of them, but have never dived deep. Need to.
simey – Train - The Clarks - This is alt country and not country, right? Right?!
falguy – She-La - 54-40
scorchy – Whistling In The Dark – Easterhouse
Chaos34 - My Head Hurts - Wavves
krista4 – Motorist – Jawbox
Kind of frightened me
Mrs. Rannous – Finisterra - Mägo de Oz
JMLs secret identity – Ohne Dich (Spotify) - Rammstein
Chaos34
Footballguy
Yes. Greatness. Really in my wheelhouse and my favorite song of theirs. I've overplayed it to the point my kid just can't stand it. Oops.
Rustoleum
Footballguy
Pretty sure a cabal of orthodontists sent a parachute to every elementary teacher to boost business.We never learned to dance in PE class but we did play games with a giant parachute. I remember everyone would get so excited days that we walked into the gym and saw a parachute rolled out on the floor. I have no idea the educational theory behind that one.
I'm headed out now into the frigid temps for the Eagles superbowl parade. My kid flew in from Cali to PHL last night and I drove up from Baltimore. Pip already told me he's watching on the TV from his couch.
It might be due to traumatic brain injury, but the one parachute “game” I remember was stretching it out and everybody holding one color of the chute. The teacher would call out a color. If that was your color, you let go and had to run across to the other side while the remaining kids pulled down and made a bubble out of the chute. Send a half dozen kids careening towards each other in a confined, dark space, what could possibly go wrong?
Of course, we were the last generation of kids to grow up leaning on the front dashboard in diapers, so it just made us tougher.
Tau837
Footballguy
Eephus
Footballguy
Chaos34
Footballguy
I'd say don't get me started but it's too late already.
For $70 give or take a little I can build speakers that measure impressively and sound like $500 speakers at pretty good volumes, nothing crazy. If you clicked on that link, those are downsized versions of renowned Karlson speakers that were likely behind the big screen when many of us were kids at the movies. For $120 I can use 4 drivers and bigger cabinets, and they'll sound great at high volumes. These builds use full range drivers.
What I can't do for $120 is build 2 way speakers with 5" woofers and 4" ribbon tweeters with the appropriate dialed in crossover. The closest I know of is a kit HiVi sells for nearly $400. They're 800 if HiVi (Swans) builds them for you.
So about a month ago these speakers confused me. They were $90 and had 5" woofers and 4" ribbon tweeters. Wth? I hadn't seen ribbon tweeters in anything under $400 and those had wimpy 4" woofers. Chi-Fi strikes again. I put them in my cart and later went to AliExpress to find them and learn something about whoever Samtronic was. I found them in China for $269 with a handful of 5 star reviews. Wth again. I went back to Amazon to buy them and they were sold out. Pff.
Now they're back and they raised the price. $120 now. Still a deal afaik. So I'm getting these planning to replace the woofers. I used to read Chinese product descriptions, chuckle and move on. Now I've learned to enjoy them. They're trying...
About that woofer:
It's not just China, the whole audio world calls this material glass fiber. Fiberglass just sounds bad for marketing I guess? I'll give them a listen and some fair break-in time, but I'm never impressed with fiberglass speaker cones. These are low budget woofers oddly paired with high end tweeters and even more oddly priced below low budget low budget speakers.
About their tweeter
I understand some of that and it's how a ribbon tweeter should measure.
And the crossover
Okay then. I canceled the amp order in my prior post cuz I found the V3 at AliExpress for $63 without the power brick. I have an extra.
I wanted to share those great descriptions but that stops me from going on about the potential of these $120 speakers. If you're interested check out the reviews. You'll recognize my people there. Even someone using the V3.
Eephus
Footballguy
Single (Named) Lady #22 - Kelis - "Jerk Ribs" (2014)
Full name: Kelis Rogers
A lot of people will always think of Kelis as the woman whose milkshake brought all the boys to the yard but she's continued on for a 25 year career (with some gaps to attend culinary school and open restaurants and sell a line of sauces). I love her and feel bad about ranking her in the 20s. Her husky alto doesn't have a ton of range but she's always been a real one who's puts it over with sass and soul.
She's led an interesting life; married to Nas, managed by Diddy for a while, and produced and collaborated with just about everyone. This song comes from her fifth and most recent album Food. It's not a concept album but she must have been hungry because about half the songs have food related titles. "Jerk Ribs" is one of them although it originally had the more prosaic title "Call on Me" until she jokingly changed it in the studio after a conversation about food with producer Dave Sitek (of TVOTR). It has an Afrobeat sound with a snaking bassline and a horn section playing in octaves.
The video is an odd little thing shot in Mexico. Kelis poses a lot, makes about a dozen costume changes but only pretends to sing briefly about four times during the video. There's also a giraffe for some reason.
Full name: Kelis Rogers
A lot of people will always think of Kelis as the woman whose milkshake brought all the boys to the yard but she's continued on for a 25 year career (with some gaps to attend culinary school and open restaurants and sell a line of sauces). I love her and feel bad about ranking her in the 20s. Her husky alto doesn't have a ton of range but she's always been a real one who's puts it over with sass and soul.
She's led an interesting life; married to Nas, managed by Diddy for a while, and produced and collaborated with just about everyone. This song comes from her fifth and most recent album Food. It's not a concept album but she must have been hungry because about half the songs have food related titles. "Jerk Ribs" is one of them although it originally had the more prosaic title "Call on Me" until she jokingly changed it in the studio after a conversation about food with producer Dave Sitek (of TVOTR). It has an Afrobeat sound with a snaking bassline and a horn section playing in octaves.
The video is an odd little thing shot in Mexico. Kelis poses a lot, makes about a dozen costume changes but only pretends to sing briefly about four times during the video. There's also a giraffe for some reason.
-OZ-
Footballguy
23s - thoughts on a few I like.
This one brings back memories of the “girl that got away”. Only because a friend that was trying to hook us up turned it on in his car when we were in the back seat and he made some way too obvious comments. Yet, for whatever reason I didn’t act on it. A month later I started dating my wife so I like to think a time traveler made me not do anything that night.
Great song! Live was even better, just last summer.
Probably an unpopular opinion but I like weezer’s version better.
Love This song, Although I’ve come to like a couple live versions better than the original.
This one brings back memories of the “girl that got away”. Only because a friend that was trying to hook us up turned it on in his car when we were in the back seat and he made some way too obvious comments. Yet, for whatever reason I didn’t act on it. A month later I started dating my wife so I like to think a time traveler made me not do anything that night.
Almost used in my list, good song but the use was way too cheesy.
Great song! Live was even better, just last summer.So silky smooth sound.
Another song overused in movies, because it’s awesome.
Probably an unpopular opinion but I like weezer’s version better.
Raging weasel
Footballguy
22) Heart Songs- Weezer
Key Lyrics
Abba,Devo and Benetar were there
The day John Lennon died
Key Lyrics
Abba,Devo and Benetar were there
The day John Lennon died
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
The heart wants what it wants.
Raging weasel
Footballguy
The 23's
Known and liked songs
Rain King
You Could Be Mine
Just A Girl
Queen of the Reich
Hooked on a Feeling
1979
Smooth Operator
Our House
Rock Box
Funkytown
The Worm- was in my last 5 out
Final Countdown
Le Freak
Riviera Paradise
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Love is the Drug
Amazing
New to me likes
Suffragette City -this version
11 O'Clock Tick Tock
Be the One
Inca Roads
Say You'll Be There
Mrs Moto
Rodeo In Juiet
Known and liked songs
Rain King
You Could Be Mine
Just A Girl
Queen of the Reich
Hooked on a Feeling
1979
Smooth Operator
Our House
Rock Box
Funkytown
The Worm- was in my last 5 out
Final Countdown
Le Freak
Riviera Paradise
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Love is the Drug
Amazing
New to me likes
Suffragette City -this version
11 O'Clock Tick Tock
Be the One
Inca Roads
Say You'll Be There
Mrs Moto
Rodeo In Juiet
simey
Footballguy
It's more roots rock. The Clarks are a rock band from Pittsburgh. This song is an acoustic driven song, and the inclusion of the pedal steel can give someone a countryish vibe.
scorchy
Footballguy
I actually thought of saxy when he started playing. Then it was so blaringly shrill over the over-pushed PAs that I had to cover my ears like I was Rainman when the smoke alarm goes off.
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