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Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
As to the Youtube question from earlier, what do you guys (gals?) think about the issue as it pertains to very rare & OOP music (prog & otherwise) that has been uploaded essentially as a way of preserving it for us & future generations to explore & enjoy?
Yeah, vinyl is great! I started collecting new and used LPs about 8 years ago and it's been really fun. I'm fortunate to have a record store in my city too, which has been nice.
Total time spent listening: digital files ripped by me or purchased directly (FLAC or 320mbps MP3). I am playing music via headphones or car stereo from my phone most of the day.
Form in which I buy music: CDs, followed closely by digital files from Bandcamp.
Quality time: 5.1 remixes in my home theater on various special editions.
I use streaming services mostly to sample music I'm considering buying.
Mostly vinyl lately.Recently bought the two Crimson boxes(awesome),the Yes Steven Wilson box and Bowie Ziggy Stardust.I love vinyl... don't know why but to me that's the real sound of music.
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Best Tangetized explanation found : Whoever wrote that is mistaken (or very incorrect). The verb/adjective is "Tangentized" (with an N). It's a term that has been used by Tangerine Dream fans after Edgar Froese released a collection of their tracks called "Tangents". Tangents collected old classic tracks, but they had been modified by adding instruments that couldn't have existed at the time, and/or modified in some other way, thus pissing all old fans off because classics (and I wholeheartedly agree) should never be altered. Make a new version, if you want, but leave the original alone.
So the expression "tangentized" was created to define such an operation, which unfortunately Froese repeated in the following years.
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
Actually what´s still quite cheap are Mint or Near Mint records which had a wide distribution. I found recently a lot of older classic Prog records like Yes and Genesis in real good shape for a few bucks and I just bought the Columbia Bessie Smith 5 Double LPs from the 70s NM really cheap. Still huge amounts of excellent vinyl around. On the other hand collectable records have become ridicolously pricey often in bad condition....
btw a month ago I found on the street six NM Beethoven box sets from a DG 80s integrale collection about 60 records , among them some of my favourite Beethoven recordings by Kempff, Karajan...
Dieter Moebius : "Art people like things they don’t understand!"
My son keeps hammering me to stop buying CDs and to stick with streaming music services like Amazon music (I've never been an Apple guy).
Things have changed a little during the covid year; I still buy the same amount of CDs and listen more to streaming at the Gym and at bedtime. But during work hours, I keep the CDs playing.For some time, I was into MP3s saved on my portable player.
Those MP3 players like Palm pilots that are now obsolete like vinyl is for the majority. Don't be offended but buying vinyl is like wearing bell bottom pants now. But that's your own personal choice, IMHO.
I'm never going back to vinyl - Hell no, I already spent hundreds on rebuying my collection from vinyl to cassette to CD. Besides, I can't drive with a vinyl record playing, duh!
So now, for me it's 70% CDs and 30% streaming on my phone.
I sort of partly disagree with the Tangents comments 3 posts back. I'd be pissed off if the only versions of that material was the re-mixed/re-recorded stuff on that set and I couldn't get my hands on the original, but having all of the source material, Tangents (and Beyond the Storm, Dream Roots, Booster) are just nice sets to have on their own.
^^ Yeah, I like having those new boxed TD sets, AND having the Tangents boxed set. Tangents sounds good, regardless, and I've read th whole think booklet that came with it several times. I see it as adding to my collection. I wouldn't want to have ONLY Tangents, but Tangents AND the original and/or original albums and the new new boxed sets is best. Of course, you can stop with just all the individual releases, or those and Tangents and NOT the new boxed sets, etc. Or just listening to all the original albums, etc. if that's all you want.
The only case I've liked additional instruments added was in Steven Wilson remix of The Château d'Hérouville Sessions. Those seemed appropriate. Others, like the edits made to APP's Tales of Mystery & Imagination are irksome.
I stream now and then (insert reference to old man's bladder issues here) but the sound quality doesn't thrill me. It sounds fine if I'm blaring something off the Echo device while in the kitchen but I do notice when I stream an album in my office it just sounds...thin. I shudder to think what it would sound like if I hooked up my laptop to the big rig in the living room.
I miss my turntable. So many albums just sitting here, gathering dust.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
No doubt I'm in the minority, but I ripped all of my CDs into iTunes 10+ years ago and haven't bought physical media since. All downloads for me. I can't imagine going back.
I listen to most everything with iTunes on my desktop computer which is hooked up to a good sound system or iPhone/ApplePlay in the car or walking around with earbuds. The exception at home is if I have videos on YouTube playing on the big TV w/ its own sound system.
Since I watch almost no TV or movies and listen to music constantly, convenience is everything. Admittedly though, I really can't hear the difference between CDs and (256 or 320kbps) mp3's and I've even compared both with album mixes coming right off the mixing board.
I bought a compact disk last weekend.....AC/DC ......PWR/UP.
I prefer fizzical product.. .
The only time I buy a CD these days is when it's the only format in which the album is available. Case in point: the Rome Pro(g)ject series.
"Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?"--Dalai Lama
Agree with you here. I have the originals and Tangents makes a good addition to the TD collection. Now there are missteps, especially Mysterious Semblance but for the most part I really enjoy the box. I usually play this in the car and if I have plenty of time I pull out the originals at home. I think Edgar did a better job on The Dream Roots box.
I can't imagine buying a non-physical product. I did download Rick Wakeman's new CD but barely listened to it until a buddy gave me a phyisical copy (which I've listened to several times). I'm anti-streaming!
What can this strange device be? When I touch it, it brings forth a sound (2112)
Oh I'm anti streaming, I'm pro downloading, I'm playing from a hard drive that happens to be in an ipod
Ian
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Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
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CD's. I do Spotify stuff, and if I like what I hear I buy the CD.
I do subscribe to Spotify, but only play the albums I have already purchased. I do this because I work from home (have been for over 20 years), and I am too lazy to go downstairs to the basement and get CDs (and the cd player tray stopped working in my home office). I listen through headphones all day through a nice headphone amp.
Oh, and I only buy CDs, except for the rare release that I buy a download and burn to CD.
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." - Stephen Hawking
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