From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V7 #169 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Tuesday, July 17 2007 Volume 07 : Number 169 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Left off the "Pretty in Pink" soundtrack? [Scout82667@aol.com] [loud-fans] Bubblegum University [Scout82667@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] Left off the "Pretty in Pink" soundtrack? ["Dave Walker" ] Re: [loud-fans] Bubblegum University ["Joseph M. Mallon" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Left off the "Pretty in Pink" soundtrack? On 7/16/07, Scout82667@aol.com wrote: > > Thought this was funny/strange: > > I hang out at a coffee bar in a tobacco shop, and like any coffee shop, > people bring their laptops in. Yesterday, Darryl, a friend of mine > that also > works at the shop part-time, was sitting at the end of the bar (was off > yesterday and hanging out), smoking a cigar, and looking at "old school" > Ohio Players > vids on YouTube (Darryl's a middle-aged black guy, whose tastes probably > jive with that demographic). I talked him into checking out Game > Theory, when > he wanted to know what I liked, and his response to "The Real Sheila" > video/music was, "Man, that sounds like something from 'Sixteen Candles' > or 'The > Breakfast Club.'" That actually doesn't strike me as being all that far off the mark. Certainly, for someone not immersed in indie rock of the present (or of 20 years ago), the first sonic impression mid-late period GT is going to make is that it sounds "of its time" production wise -- i.e. somewhat thin low end, upper-register male vocals, but noticeably different from the mainstream rock production sound of the time (i.e. the whole Journey/REO/Styx megatracked harmony vocals and massive gating on everything). -d.w. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:58:36 -0700 (PDT) From: "Joseph M. Mallon" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Bubblegum University On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Scout82667@aol.com wrote: > In doing some web research on Bubblegum Music, I came across the BU site, > with this offer. Is this site run by list members?: > > Back issues of Hollywood's premiere journal of unpopular culture, packed > with beatniks, folkies, garage gods, thrift shop legends and love. For a limited > time, get the new Loud Family CD free with your subscription. Looks like it's run by Kim Cooper, longtime friend of the band and of 125 Records, and co-author of Bubblegum Is The Naked Truth and Lost In The Grooves, the latter of which features Kim's exegeses of REAL NIGHTTIME and INTERBABE CONCERN. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:22:04 EDT From: Scout82667@aol.com Subject: [loud-fans] Apple I-rack Check this clip out on YouTube. It's brilliant. - --_YouTube - Madtv - Apple I-rack_ (http://youtube.com/watch?v=rw2nkoGLhrE) - --Mark, whose brother just sold all the rest of his Apple stock and made 80K (yes, Earth dollars)--life's so unfair The rich get richer and the poor cut more pizza "Would you like that cut into 8 or 10 slices?" lol ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:39:07 -0700 (PDT) From: zoom@muppetlabs.com Subject: [loud-fans] Kinski Low, Fountains of Wayne, the Stooges, Charlotte Gainsbourg...and now I'm pleased to say I've found a fifth Record of the Year. Kinski's latest, DOWN BELOW IT'S CHAOS, scheduled for release in August, strays a bit from their long-fuse-then-bombs-away structures of yore, but compensates with enhanced texture detail. It's a headphones album you can bring to a beach party, sprayed with static and feedback flakes, one ethereal flute loop, and for the first time in awhile Kinskiwise, some vocal tracks. Chris Martin, whom I hope isn't singing under duress, sounds convincingly annoyed and dismissive. I think that's a B-3 getting bashed around in the background, but correct me if I'm wrong. r.i.y.l.: Sonic Youth (though I like'em better than Sonic Youth), Can, Faust, the first Tangerine Dream record, Spacemen 3, Ash Ra Tempel, AMM, and/or the mighty Klaus Schulze, Andy "Why New Music Doesn't Sound As Good As It Did Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:17PM EDT See Comments (558) Never mind that today's factory-produced starlets and mini-clones just don't have the practiced chops of the supergroups of yesteryear, pop in a new CD and you might notice that the quality of the music itselfmaybe something as simple as a snare drum hitjust doesn't sound as crisp and as clear as you're used to. Why is that? It's part of the music industry's quest to make music louder and louder, and it's been going on for decades, at least since the birth of the compact disc. Click the link for a nice little video, a mere 2 minutes long, which explains it in detail, with audio cues that you'll be able to hear in crisp detail. The key to the problem is that, in making the soft parts of a track louder (in the process making the entire track loud), you lose detail in the song: The difference between what's supposed to be loud and what's supposed to be soft becomes less and less. The result is that, sure, the soft parts of a song are nice and loud, but big noises like drum beats become muffled and fuzzy. But consumers often subconsciously equate loudness with quality, and thus, record producers pump up the volume. Anything to make a buck. The bigger problem is that this is all unnecessary. Stereo equipment is more powerful today than ever, and last time I checked, every piece of music hardware had a volume knob. Don't take my word for it: Pop in the first CD you bought and play it at the same volume level as the most recent one you bought. You might be shocked by what you hear. Anyone still wondering why the music business is suffering?" - --from http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/33549 ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V7 #169 *******************************