He hasn’t released any real jazz but he can play real jazz. That’s where his training is. An old teacher of mine is a friend of his and jams with him occasionaly so that’s how I know…
I think he was joking…
Some speech recordings ran at 16rpm I think. Quite a few older record decks had 16, 33 1/3, 45 and 78. Newer ones (certainly the less expensive ones) tended to be only 33 1/3 and 45. I’ve never had any records that played at 16 though.
Keeping on topic… I’m not sure if I’m really ashamed of any of my collection. There are certainly albums that I don’t particularly like anymore, but some have been into that category and then come back out as my taste/mood changes. I’ve got some cheesy stuff that I still like (Showaddywaddy, Nik Kershaw [only a single]) - it’s not “cool” now, but I’m not ashamed to have it.
Rob
Me neither. If anything, many of the aforementioned artists should be ashamed that they recorded themselves and released the recordings upon the general public.
When you can find six copies of “Willie Nelson sings Christmas Songs” in the record bin at your local Goodwill, that’s got to tell you something about the value of that album.
I’ll still buy it. For 50 cents, there aren’t many albums I won’t take home, if I think they’ve got some remixing or sampling value.
As an aside, there are some complete gems in the record bins at Goodwill, Salvation Army, St. Vincent de Paul, etc. I found a mint copy of Paul Simon’s “Graceland” just the other day…
Probably the Shaquille Oneil rap cassette tape which my sister gave me (I wonder why?) or the Free Willie soundtrack both of which I got when I was about six or seven or so.
The wiggles, but then again, THE WIGGLES ARE TOTALLY AWESOME! WOOOO! Wags is my man!http://www.thewiggles.com.au/
Lucky you! Back in the day, my whole family LOVED that album. And it introduced Ladysmith Black Mambazo to the world (“gave them wings to fly” as they put it). He later did a similar “world” album, but I never connected with it.
My late sister loved “Graceland”. I put a cassette copy of it in her casket so she would have good music wherever she is now.
Eish.
I am never going to be able to listen to ‘Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes’ in quite the same way again.
Thanx for sharing.
There are some Andrew Lloyd Weber “not really even close to” operas in our collection at home. Someone can’t let go of them. Another cannot tolerate them. They seem to hop out of the waste bin as soon as I toss them in. They appear to be fire proof also.
Thanks, my friend. Thanks. Actually, that album brings back happy memories of when my sister and her son came to live with us for a while. We all loved that album. My young nephew would run around the house hooting along to that one song with the female singers (the part that went “hoo! hoo! hoo! hoo!” in a high pitch).
Around the time of her death (in 2002), I was listening to Eiffel 65’s “Contact!” album a lot. That one brings back vividly painful memories. Also, I recently found some (embarrassing) music that I listened to as a kid. It brought back specific memories of things I was doing at the time. And more importantly, it brought back the feeling of what it was like for me to be that age again. That old music I hadn’t heard for 30 years mainly brought back the feeling of lightness – an incredible, wonderful lightness of being. I felt for a moment that carefree, innocent, unburdened, uncluttered, in-the-now feeling that I hadn’t felt in a long time.
I usually get hooked on a few albums and play them to death. The result is that years later, they bring back memories of that time. It’s a great way to “store” memories and feelings for later retrieval. I think music does that for most people, but I assume it only works if you play the same songs over and over and then move on to something else.
I saw an absolutely stunning show about the making of Graceland.
It featured interviews with a lot of the roleplayers and extensive footage of Paul Simon in a studio with the unmastered material, playing it back, explaining mixes and reversing some riffs and just going into the absolute nitty-gritty of producing such an album.
I found a transcript of it on-line HERE.
There seems to be snippets of it available on YouTube.
If you can find the show somewhere, I would most certainly recommend it to any Graceland fan.
heh.
Don’t forget this gem!