Matt the Bruins Posted February 26, 2012 Report Share Posted February 26, 2012 Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? I've been bopping to my whole iTunes library while working through the weekend, but here are the songs that came up most recently: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted February 26, 2012 Report Share Posted February 26, 2012 Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Lovely bit in the middle of that video, in tribute to the legendary Roy Orbison, who participated in the Traveling Wilburys all-star project only to die soon after the album was released. That amazing voice still gets to me after all this time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted February 26, 2012 Report Share Posted February 26, 2012 Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Someone on the Youtube comments asked why David Bowie is wearing headphones. Apparently most pop/rock/country/hip-hop performers doing live shows use something like that so they can hear themselves and tell if something's off. It gets pretty loud onstage during a rock concert! So loud that many performers risk or, in the case of the Who's Pete Townshend, even lose their hearing. Similar devices are used in the studio so that the musician can react to and link up with the tracks that have already been recorded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted February 26, 2012 Report Share Posted February 26, 2012 Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Someone on the Youtube comments asked why David Bowie is wearing headphones. Apparently most pop/rock/country/hip-hop performers doing live shows use something like that so they can hear themselves and tell if something's off. It gets pretty loud onstage during a rock concert! So loud that many performers risk or, in the case of the Who's Pete Townshend, even lose their hearing. Similar devices are used in the studio so that the musician can react to and link up with the tracks that have already been recorded. Amazing devices, headphones. What will they think of next! Currently listening to "21st Century Schizoid Man" by King Crimson, from the 2 channel mix on the DVD-Audio of In the Court of the Crimson King. This is yet another one of my experiments*, this time with a little computer program that seems to be converting from the MLP** encoding to high quality FLAC with no issues. Seems to have done fine with the 5.1 MLP mix to FLAC as well. JoeG *Experiment 1: It's possible to rip a DTS-encoded CD directly to FLAC. Playing it back without the DTS decoder results in static. With the decoder, it gives 5.1 audio. Apparently, this is one method that DVD and Blu-Ray players and some game systems send multichannel information through the Toslink (fiber optic) line, which only supports 2 channel audio at up to 48kHz. **MLP = Meridian Lossless Packing, a proprietary lossless codec used in DVD-A and really difficult to find a decoder for. My last one required both the Sound Blaster card the software came with, and Windows XP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundog Posted February 28, 2012 Report Share Posted February 28, 2012 Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? A blast from the past - Tarzan Boy by Baltimoora. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragitsu Posted February 29, 2012 Report Share Posted February 29, 2012 Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted February 29, 2012 Report Share Posted February 29, 2012 Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "Christmas" by the Who, from the album, Tommy. 5.1 mix. JoeG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Sundog Posted March 1, 2012 Report Share Posted March 1, 2012 Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? The Monkees Theme. RIP, Davy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? One of my favorite songs about mental illness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Some of the session work that payed for Thomas Dolby's studio time for first album, and the single, "She Blinded Me With Science": JoeG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragitsu Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? The Tchaikovsky Symphony #6, the "Pathetique" (which actually means "Passionate"). It was his last major work before his death from cholera. Most music scholars now seem to believe that he deliberately infected himself with cholera on the orders of an "honor court" of his peers when his sexual conduct crossed the line. They already knew and semi-accepted that he was gay, so it must have been an astonishingly serious offense for them to consider such an order -- and for him to accept it as an alternative to public disgrace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Fashion advice from Heracles to Dionysus: JoeG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragitsu Posted March 6, 2012 Report Share Posted March 6, 2012 Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundog Posted March 6, 2012 Report Share Posted March 6, 2012 Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Winding Me Up - The Alan Parsons Project Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer Posted March 6, 2012 Report Share Posted March 6, 2012 Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "Midnight Special" by Lead Belly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted March 6, 2012 Report Share Posted March 6, 2012 Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Winding Me Up - The Alan Parsons Project Sadly, I had to work when Alan Parsons played Vegas last Saturday. I sat in my office listening to the albums, "Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1987 version)", "Stereotomy", and "A Valid Path" from my iPod. Currently playing: "Voice of America" by Asia. JoeG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer Posted March 7, 2012 Report Share Posted March 7, 2012 Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? The soundtrack to Come Imparai ad Amare le Donne by Ennio Morricone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted March 7, 2012 Report Share Posted March 7, 2012 Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted March 9, 2012 Report Share Posted March 9, 2012 Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "Face Up" by Rush, from the album, Roll the Bones. JoeG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted March 10, 2012 Report Share Posted March 10, 2012 Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "Hold Me Now" by the Thompson Twins, on dinky speakers from my ipod. JoeG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer Posted March 10, 2012 Report Share Posted March 10, 2012 Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "Still Life" by Van der Graaf Generator. Got to get reaquainted with a lot of stuff before NEARfest in June. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted March 10, 2012 Report Share Posted March 10, 2012 Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "By-Tor and the Snow Dog" (5.1 mix) by Rush, from the DVD-A of Fly By Night, from the Sector 1 box set. Not playing over dinky speakers. JoeG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundog Posted March 10, 2012 Report Share Posted March 10, 2012 Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "Hold Me Now" by the Thompson Twins, on dinky speakers from my ipod. JoeG A band that doesn't get anywhere near the respect it deserves. Currently - Cross the Border, by Icehouse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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