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| Music I would succumb to under torture RAP: people talking when they should be singingOPERA: people singing when they should be talking | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? A Hard Rain's a Gonna FallBob DylanOh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountainsI've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highwaysI've stepped in the m... | |
| Which courier do you prefer? I've shipped many musical instruments (violins and guitars mostly) and I prefer USPS. I find them reliable and mostly prompt. FedEx second, UPS third. USPS keeps it moving cross-country on holidays and weekends (no holiday delivery, though). | |
| RIP Peter Tork blindjim, Mike Nesmith had more post-Monkees success as a musician than Tork or the others, and for good reason--he could play, sing, and especially, write quite well. Linda Ronstadt recorded at least two of his songs and had a hit with one of t... | |
| Your favorite male soul voices He's considered a blues artist, but Taj Mahal has done some fine covers of soul and R&B tunes. | |
| It was 50 years ago today.... I always have preferred the first McCartney LP to Ram. Except for Teddy Boy--what a loser that is! | |
| Do you listen to equipment or music. If it were ALL about the music I'd still be listening to my 1972 Minimus 7's (hey, they had a lifetime warranty)! Can anyone here truthfully say they have never listened to the equipment? It's highly unlikely--how would you choose one component ... | |
| The Tragic Decline of Music Literacy (and Quality) I think some are from U. of North Texas (my alma mahler) and some are east coast. Guitarist Chris McQueen is originally from Westlake High, near you. | |
| The truth about why modern music is so awful. Here's the link (I think):https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/opinion/what-these-grammy-songs-tell-us-about-the-loudness-wars.h... | |
| The truth about why modern music is so awful. NY Times will let you have about 4 free articles per month, FWIW. | |
| Song covers that are better than the originals I have to say I don't agree with the OP as to those five tunes being better than the original, though they may be very good. Likely exception is Cocker--that thing is funky, funky cool. | |
| The Tragic Decline of Music Literacy (and Quality) In the last decade I had one former student graduate from San Francisco Conservatory with a degree in guitar performance (he's now working on a doctorate in composition at UT-Austin) and presently two more are doing wonderful things studying at Be... | |
| It was 50 years ago today.... Harold, I doubt a single one of the musicians you mentioned respectfully would agree that prog rock would have happened without the Beatles. Anyway, the fact is that it didn't. Revolver was released in summer of '66, featuring tracks with class... | |
| The truth about why modern music is so awful. Schubert, I agree. I also think it's been true since long before there was rock music. Many generations before, in fact. At least since Paganini. | |
| It was 50 years ago today.... bdp24, I suggest you listen to Let it Be Naked and see if it doesn't nudge you in the other direction. I find it to be 180 degrees from the Phil Spector version.Schubert, what you said about George Martin writing the Beatles' songs is simply not ... |