Hello Thom Miller!

** On Sunday 09.04.23 - 21:08, Thom Miller wrote to All:

Every Sunday night I sit on the sofa down here in the
basement, turn the lights down, put on the headphones and
sit around and listen to a disc or two. Tonight was 'The
Stone Roses' from 1989. A perfect album after a day of
fighting a bunch of software from the early 90s. :D

There are simply some performances, especially some live
recordings or concept albums, that are best experienced with
total focus and attention upon the material, perhaps in a dimly
lit room, and no distractions from start to finish.

Eg.

Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds.
Rick Wakeman's Journey to the Center of the Earth.


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Ogg wrote to Thom Miller <=-

There are simply some performances, especially some live
recordings or concept albums, that are best experienced with
total focus and attention upon the material, perhaps in a dimly
lit room, and no distractions from start to finish.

Rush's "Moving Pictures", listened to in my dimly lit high-school
bedroom, with KOSS over-ear headphones. On Vinyl.



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Re: Re: Sunday Night Music
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Ogg on Wed Apr 19 2023 08:18 am

There are simply some performances, especially some live
recordings or concept albums, that are best experienced with
total focus and attention upon the material, perhaps in a dimly
lit room, and no distractions from start to finish.

Rush's "Moving Pictures", listened to in my dimly lit high-school
bedroom, with KOSS over-ear headphones. On Vinyl.

I still tend to prefer CD (or FLAC files would be equivalent) rather than vinyl, but that is a great album.

Nightfox
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Rush's "Moving Pictures", listened to in my dimly lit high-school bedroom, with KOSS over-ear headphones. On Vinyl.

I'm the same. I'm an advocate of anything/anyway that gets people to listen
to more music, but for me personally, CD is still the way to go.
I was a relatively early adopter of compact discs. My main 'music store' purchases in the late 80s would be one or two new discs and then a pack of cassettes to copy the one or two discs my buddies would have bought. This
was both a strategy to maximize the amount of new music you were exposed
to, and also a means to have music on the go. (I don't think I got a discman until the early 90s, once they'd really figured out buffering.)

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Re: Re: Sunday Night Music
By: Abbub to Nightfox on Fri Apr 21 2023 08:37 am

I was a relatively early adopter of compact discs. My main 'music store' purchases in the late 80s would be one or two new discs and then a pack of cassettes to copy the one or two discs my buddies would have bought. This

I was a late adopter of Vinyl. When CDs came out, the price of vinyl dropped as people replaced LPs with CD and sold their LPs back. I wasn't making a lot of money back then, so for $10 I could buy a new CD or 10 used LPs. I chose the latter, and splurged on a lot of artists I couldn't afford to buy when they first came out.

Those were good times. I'd splurged on my first "real" stereo system, had my first apartment on my own, and remember the music from that time fondly - all 5-10 year old LPs.
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On 11 Apr 2023 at 01:03p, Nightfox pondered and said...

Even these days, I don't stream music very often.. That may be because I'm just not very familiar with what music is new these days. What I
have heard, usually I don't really get into it. I have my collection of music ripped to FLAC and MP3s, and I have my MP3s on my devices, which I can play at any time.

I have been using streaming to play on demand the music that pops into my head (often from many decades earlier)... so that's good. But some of the copies of the tracks on Spotify are not the same versions of the songs I recall. The remastered stuff can be a bit hit and miss :(

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