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Gee, I hope this doesn't deter you from listening to this album ?BlueChair wrote:Excellent album, pole. I was listening to that song when the planes struck the WTC on September 11, 2001.
I've heard half of it so far and I like it a lot. Very soulful stuff.
And "Mean Flower" is simply brilliant.
If you don't know what is wrong with me
Then you don't know what you've missed
Then you don't know what you've missed
I'm not one that can't listen to an album due to negative associations. If anything, the album soothes me in retrospect.
I also discovered Brad Mehldau, the brilliant jazz pianist through that record.
I also discovered Brad Mehldau, the brilliant jazz pianist through that record.
This morning you've got time for a hot, home-cooked breakfast! Delicious and piping hot in only 3 microwave minutes.
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It's one of the two strands of high-resolution audio, the other being SACD. DVD-Audio discs normally have an additional tracks in Dolby Digital audio which allows them to be played on normal DVD players but work best on DVD-Audio capable players. The Bowie DVD-Audio discs only have an additional dts track which means your normal DVD player must be able to decode dts for it to play anything at all.Otis Westinghouse wrote:So, Bad Amb, that's an audio recording on DVD, right? I don't quite get the concept, does it only play on a DVD player? I guess in these days of home entertainment systems and computers with DVD players and classy speakers (such as I have!) this makes sense. But if it does play on a regular old-fashioned player, does it soundd better? Presumably the significantly huger sspaace on a DVD makes for greater depths of sound quality.
I've got a player able to deal with SACD and DVD-Audio so I'm getting the top-end mixes. 'Stage' sounds absoutely stunning in 5.1, as mixed by Visconti, and far superior to the CD reissues from earlier this year.
The Sinatra I posted earlier is a stunning example of what the format has to offer and is one of my favourite discoveries of the year. Both SACD and DVD-Audio are struggling to stay in the limelight, although these shitty dualdiscs that are appearing often have some form of DVD-Audio included on the DVD side, so there's still hope.
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The problem with dualdiscs is only 50% of the issue. As WSS points out, the DVD sides are often bloody marvellous and I'm still pining for the Talking Heads set. However, the CD side, cos the discs are thicker than convential CDs have some real trouble playing in certain machines. They increase the likelihood of problems ripping mp3s to your computer as well as causing CD players to make funny noise or worse, they might not even recognise the disc. However, for the DVD aspect of higher-resolution audio they're much better than nowt.
This arrived in the post today and is now playing...
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I'm listening to a bootleg of the Rolling Stones demos for Tattoo You at the moment, it's torrenting here. Awesome 9:43 version of Slave, my favourite Stones tune.
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Download "Jack the Ripper" and "Pregnant for the Last Time" here - or you could buy this
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from various places online.
echos myron like a siren
with endurance like the liberty bell
and he tells you of the dreamers
but he's cracked up like the road
and he'd like to lift us up, but we're a very heavy load
with endurance like the liberty bell
and he tells you of the dreamers
but he's cracked up like the road
and he'd like to lift us up, but we're a very heavy load
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