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Comment on Review: Donna Summer, The Ultimate Collection by gilmar

gilmar — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:39:47 +0000

No final dos anos 80, conhecei a ouvir a sua músicas e a gosta da voz que combina com qualquer música. Comecei a compra discos, cd e dvd. Por isso Donna Summer continua sendo minha fâ na América do norte. I love Summer.

Comment on Review: Donna Summer, The Ultimate Collection by Fierceblue

Fierceblue — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:28:59 +0000

I was a kid in the 70s and 80s, I grew up with Donna Summer music, I had ALL her albums and ALL the DJ extended mixes of all the songs that were released. I was a club DJ in Northern Calif., all around the SF bayarea. And then, in 2000, I was ripped off of all my vinyl records, by a huge fire in the club I was spinning in. I have been able to download a lot of Donna’s older abd some newer stuff, but the ONE I LOVE THE MOST was from the Once Upon A Time album, called Queen for a Day. I love it for her clean strong vocals, and for Moroder’s UNCANNY musical arrangement of early pre-techno/disco…AWESOME!!! If someone knows where I can find/download this cut, PLEASE RESPOND HERE, I WILL GET IT. Thanks!!

Comment on Why MP3s (& MP4s) suck by Hmm

Hmm — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:59:33 +0000

For me, there is quite a big difference between the sound of a CDR burnt with songs in 192kbps-320 kbps and a store bought CD. After burning cds for years and recently going back to store bought CDs, for me, there is a quite a noticeable difference. I usually listen on a Denon or Teac micro hi fi system with decent speakers. Of course if you’re listening to crappy PC speakers all this is irrelevant anyway.

Comment on Review: Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin, Nine Hundred Nights by tateffist

tateffist — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:08:11 +0000

I really enjoyed reading your article, keep on making such interesting stuff.

Comment on Review: Oldies But Goodies (15 Vol. collection) by özgür

özgür — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:47:41 +0000

thank yo

Comment on Review: Donna Summer, The Ultimate Collection by Sabahat

Sabahat — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:01:57 +0000

Thats True Summer was leader in 70’s n 80’s aswell but i think she is leader of today also b.coz of her strong voice.

well her entire collections u can find here
http://mp3.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF286829-01-01-03.mp3

Comment on Review: Ennio Morricone, The Platinum Collection by S.Venkatnarayanan

S.Venkatnarayanan — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:03:37 +0000

You are absolutely wrong. This platinum collection 3 CD is also available outside US. In fact, today i bought this The Platinum Collection here in my city, Chennai, India.

Comment on Review: Kaiser Chiefs, “Off With Their Heads” by Hannah

Hannah — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:52:58 +0000

Just stumbled onto your site, but I agree 100% with this post. I love this album, because it’s even cheekier than the last. And “Like It All Too Much” seriously just gets stuck in your head…The whole album is just a terrific blend of biting lyrics and fantastical melodies.

Comment on Review: Donna Summer, The Ultimate Collection by kiai

kiai — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:31:08 +0000

Where and how can i get her entire collection

Comment on Review: Various Artists, Masterpiece Created by Francois K by sandrar

sandrar — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:16:43 +0000

Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. Cheers! Sandra. R.

Comment on Review: Glasvegas, Glasvegas by Alex

Alex — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:51:38 +0000

This is a former Psyc100 student chastising you for not doing more reviews… get motivated!

Comment on Review: Joy of Cooking, Joy of Cooking by Brian prindle

Brian prindle — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:10:15 +0000

Joy of Cooking was one of the most rocking and unique bands I’ve ever had the pleasure to see. Really one of the first and best female or any rock band of the era. Terry Garthwaite’s voice and guitar was incredible.

Comment on Why MP3s (& MP4s) suck by aka

aka — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:54:36 +0000

Hi there,

I just found this thread while looking for something else, so I’m gona drop my 2 cents here, since I’ve been deeply involved with this question a while ago.

As a musician and studio engineer, I’ve many times seen this issue came up from costumers (other musicians), specially while we was setting up the standards for digital recording medias at the old studio. We’ve ran several tests by the time using high quality speakers/headphones and acoustic rooms, and using several people to evaluate the results. Basically, we’ve noticed the human ear cannot distinguish between even a 128kbps and cda/wav. And we’re not simply talking about people that “likes” music here, we’re talking about musicians and people that breath and live music. Just to play safe, we’ve decided to save all data as 256kbps, and never looked back since then. Also, ironically, depending of the age, the same record the poster used to compare was very probably recorded itself at 256/512 kbps, and just converted to 1400 in the mastering process. So it’s basically a comparision of a 256kbps with a 256kbps, simply stored at different medias.

The 1400kbps in cda/wav is actually not a matter of quality, but technical aspects of the media and data storage apporach. It’s not like you are missing anything by lowering the bitrate by less than half of it, its just a matter of what the human ear can catch. Also, music is not science or math, so regardless these numbers are a fact, it doesn’t necessarely means that a higher bitrate over a certain level will also imply more quality. It’s really a waste of space.

So I’d say the last reply by Evan is the ONLY right answer here. Anything else is, sadly, just a reflex of the huge effort many record labels and iPod manufacturers do to protect their personal interests, which are pushing costumers to buy the original CD (inhibit piracy), or simply to buy iPods with more storage space.

The poster said that he/she could tell the difference in 10 seconds? It’s almost funny
More likely he/she had a bad cable connection, or a bad input connector, etc. If a person with really good ears is comparing (impartially) a wav/cda to a 128kbps mp3, theres no way the difference can be told.

I’m sure most probably remember that this very same issue and arguments came up when CD itself came out. Many people resisted and kept saying for ages that vinyl quality was better, but thats probably just they way things are. Most people are simply resistent to changes in the medias they are used and attached to, and sometimes it takes a bit of effort to realize that a change is not always a bad thing. Keeping the mind open and receptive to all the good stuff technology allows us to do these days is a very wise thing to do.

Comment on Review: Quicksilver Messenger Service, Lost Gold and Silver by Andrea Mian

Andrea Mian — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:19:02 +0000

Weak and poor material: Nothing new on the disc 1, there’s almost the whole concert caught in Psycho double LP “Maiden Of The Cancer Moon” but the sound quality is miles away from “Maiden” album, in particular Cipollina’s guitar is mortified and buried under a muffled sound. The mixing work is very poor. Anyway in the liner notes no mention to Psycho album: the operation sound like a legal theft!
The bonus disc “Studio” seems to be a trick!Poor demo material for die-hard fans. The two gems “Babe I’m gonna leave you” and “Codine” from “Revolution” suffer a bad mixing work and don’t shine as the original versions on LP.
Best avoid! You better check “Maiden of the cancer Moon” on Grateful Breed blog, It deserves much more than this two disc set.
Andrea Mian

Comment on Review: The Allman Brothers Band, Alltel Pavillion at Walnut Creek Raleigh, NC 8/10/03 by Rich

Rich — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:47:11 +0000

How may I hear this recording?

Comment on Why MP3s (& MP4s) suck by Evan

Evan — Tue, 12 May 2009 23:53:49 +0000

I am totally with ‘lossless’ on this one. Any MP3 at 256 kb/s (especially 320) is almost indistinguishable from a lossless format such a WAV (found on CDs). FLAC, AIFF or M4A (Apple Lossless) files are completely lossless, and are 60% of the size of a WAV file. “Throwing out 40% of the song”?! That’s not accurate in the least.
The MP3 format has a lot against it because of people who don’t care about sound quality. 128 kb/s does sound very bad. That’s less than half of a good quality MP3 (320 kb/s). Some people don’t care about quality, but just because MP3s give you the option of lesser quality doesn’t mean you need to write off the whole format. Less than 1% of the world can tell the difference between an MP3 ripped at 320 and the CD, or a FLAC file, that apparently lost 2/5s of the song!
Also, the 1411.2 kb/s bitrate of WAV is useless, and basically wasted space. It’s like adding 1000 spaces to the end of a text document – it may be bigger, and you can say it’s 1500 characters instead of 500, but you’ve still only got 500 characters of content. No human ear can tell 1500 kb/s from 500 kb/s. It’s impossible.
Find a good quality OGG, MP3 or AAC track. All encoded to a compressed format, all near indistinguishable from the CD, in good quality.

Comment on Review: Lila Downs, Shake Away by Lila Downs at the Rio

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Comment on Review: Catherine Wheel, Chrome by Ade

Ade — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:02:43 +0000

Good review – this is indeed one of the best albums no one has heard of – it has long been one of my favourites, and not
only bears repeated replays, but improves on each listen.
After 16 years, that takes some beating.

For those who want instant hooks and accessibility, this is not the album – but I defy anyone to listen to this album, say five times, before dismissing it and not come away loving it.

Loud, discordant, raucous – on first listen, it’s not easy on the ears… But – keep with it, and you’ll appreciate that there’s some serious subtlety at play here. As the reviewer explains, this is a clever trick – and not just a trick – this stuff just buries its way into your head and never leaves. It’s just brilliant – I’m hard to impress, but really, it’s brilliant.

Like all the best music, it takes some time to sink in to the consciousness, but stick with it and you’ll be rewarded many times over.

Comment on Review: 8-Bit Operators, The Music of Kraftwerk by music4videos

music4videos — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 06:14:55 +0000

Thank you for bringing this cd to my attentio, I sure love everything these guys release, they're all geniuses. I've posted some video of a Kraftwerk concert on my blog you may visit if you like. Kraftwerk rocks!

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