Insignificant questions that dont deserve threadsgeneral music edition

[undercover-m]

Super random, but...

What do you guys think about Demi Lovato?

[Emily]

Super random, but...

What do you guys think about Demi Lovato?

I've grown fond of her in my dotage.

[KDS]

Super random, but...

What do you guys think about Demi Lovato?

A bit of an over-singer. 

[halblaineisgood]

Ilost my laptop. I don't know where to get another program that will save mp3's to mono.
batch convert trout to mono.    anybodydo this youll be my friend through the postal service. forefeit your privacy i send chocolates   I want to listen to something ill enjoy but not enjoy in a way so as that ill be able to sing  or do anything *along* with it other than live comfortably, comfortable about nothing other the pleasure of trout.

[alf wiedersehen]

Ilost my laptop. I don't know where to get another program that will save mp3's to mono.
batch convert trout to mono.    anybodydo this youll be my friend through the postal service. forefeit your privacy i send chocolates   I want to listen to something ill enjoy but not enjoy in a way so as that ill be able to sing  or do anything *along* with it other than live comfortably, comfortable about nothing other the pleasure of trout.

Hal, why in God's name would you want a mono fold down of Trout Mask Replica

[halblaineisgood]

Ilost my laptop. I don't know where to get another program that will save mp3's to mono.
batch convert trout to mono.    anybodydo this youll be my friend through the postal service. forefeit your privacy i send chocolates   I want to listen to something ill enjoy but not enjoy in a way so as that ill be able to sing  or do anything *along* with it other than live comfortably, comfortable about nothing other the pleasure of trout.

Hal, why in God's name would you want a mono fold down of Trout Mask Replica

Ugh. I included that reasoning in orgi. post. My space bar decided it was the thing that should not be, and my other keys of decreased finesse             misspelled what probably wouldn't have beeen infiniti space bar'red into eternty...ugh...


cause i have only one big speaker. One small okay speaker. Dual Mono power amp.                                Reallyannoying to listen to stereo records without matched pair of speakers there is no eq-ing /knob twiddling- in order to compensate 4                                              the shittiness of one of your speakers....and uhh i drove all the way to st louis (park) at                                                    daddyt bird revocation privileges speed in order to minimize my distress in the event I become mired in unfamiliar west metro infrastructure.*killed it*  Ipreferto listen into my mixer  my phono plug to 1/4 inch jack plugs that make this possible are missing ohyeah ou .....you lost itl  okay. 

I asked needle doctor for hono plug to quarter inch mono jack adapater. i        askedthem if they know radio shacks ,if they all gone? they recommend some store promising sounding, but even further into the leisure ly , beautiful                                                            1strign.....,....septuple infity ring west metro burishness. heall like you Mound Music. Way outder

[halblaineisgood]

Ilost my laptop. I don't know where to get another program that will save mp3's to mono.
batch convert trout to mono.    anybodydo this youll be my friend through the postal service. forefeit your privacy i send chocolates   I want to listen to something ill enjoy but not enjoy in a way so as that ill be able to sing  or do anything *along* with it other than live comfortably, comfortable about nothing other the pleasure of trout.

Hal, why in God's name would you want a mono fold down of Trout Mask Replica

Ugh. I included that reasoning in orgi. post. My space bar decided it was the thing that should not be, and my other keys of decreased finesse             misspelled what probably wouldn't have beeen infiniti space bar'red into eternty...ugh...


cause i have only one big speaker. One small okay speaker. Dual Mono power amp.                                Reallyannoying to listen to stereo records without matched pair of speakers there is no eq-ing /knob twiddling- in order to compensate 4                                              the shittiness of one of your speakers....and uhh i drove all the way to st louis (park) at                                                    daddyt bird revocation privileges speed in order to minimize my distress in the event I become mired in unfamiliar west metro infrastructure.*killed it*  Ipreferto listen into my mixer  my phono plug to 1/4 inch jack plugs that make this possible are missing ohyeah ou .....you lost itl  okay. 

I asked needle doctor for hono plug to quarter inch mono jack adapater. i        askedthem if they know radio shacks ,if they all gone? they recommend some store promising sounding, but even further into the leisure ly , beautiful                                                            1strign.....,....septuple infity ring west metro burishness. heall like you Mound Music. Way outder

Iwant to hear it loud. but dont have hardware to convert stereo source signals to mono.                                                        amp and speak is the quipment to listen in mono. no matter.  as time's gone by, the record tempo of the music's fell...

[Emily]

Don't want to start a thread because not sure many people here have interest, but RIP Malik Taylor/Phife Dawg.

[the captain]

Don't want to start a thread because not sure many people here have interest, but RIP Malik Taylor/Phife Dawg.

Just saw the NYT obit & was thinking of post. Really sad, and a bigger figure in music to me than 75% of the people in RIP threads here. (No disrespect intended, just a fact.) Part of one of the key groups of the past 25 years.

[Emily]

agreed. That era of hip hop was paradigm changing.

[JK]

My son used to watch a thing called Yo! MTV Raps and A Tribe Called Quest were often on there. Forty-five is no age to die...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71ubKHzujy8

[alf wiedersehen]

Don't want to start a thread because not sure many people here have interest, but RIP Malik Taylor/Phife Dawg.

Phife Dawg is my favorite

[JK]

The band I play keyboard in has decided to take on Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer". All well and good----nothing like a decent skullcruncher to keep your audience on their toes----but there's the matter of that Fairlight shakuhachi arpeggio. Apart from the business of getting a sound to approximate it, there are the notes to consider. One website claimed that "it's just 5 different tones required, we play it in Eb major, it goes like this Ab-Db-Eb-Eb(8va) --- Ab-Gb-Ab-Eb". H'mm.
I'll find a solution, no doubt about that, but I was just wondering if anyone here has anything to say on the subject.

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

Super random, but...

What do you guys think about Demi Lovato?

Extremely underrated, and MUCH better live than on disc.

[Sjöman]

"Sledgehammer" ... Fairlight shakuhachi ... wondering if anyone here has anything to say ...

I don't, but you could ask Andy Ascolese of the Band Geeks.

[JK]

"Sledgehammer" ... Fairlight shakuhachi ... wondering if anyone here has anything to say ...

I don't, but you could ask Andy Ascolese of the Band Geeks.

Thanks a lot, Sjöman. Most interesting! The Band Geeks play it in the original E flat. Our singer can't sing that high so we've had to compromise and play it in C. It's lost a lot of its impact along the way but that's show business...

As it happens, I've managed to sort out the flute flourish. I even coaxed a shakuhachi sound out of my Nord (sheer luck, I suspect).   

[Ovi]

What do the backing vocals say in Almost Grown?

[JK]

What do the backing vocals say in Almost Grown?

Hi, Ovi. Chuck's "Almost Grown"? It's just nonsense syllables. The "lah-doo-day" bit found its way onto "The Little Girl I Once Knew"...

According to wikipedia, "[t]he background vocals on Berry's recording are by Etta James and Harvey & the New Moonglows, featuring the young Marvin Gaye."   

[Ovi]

What do the backing vocals say in Almost Grown?

Hi, Ovi. Chuck's "Almost Grown"? It's just nonsense syllables. The "lah-doo-day" bit found its way onto "The Little Girl I Once Knew"...

According to wikipedia, "[t]he background vocals on Berry's recording are by Etta James and Harvey & the New Moonglows, featuring the young Marvin Gaye."   

Yeah, thought so. Though they always sounded a bit like "night and day" and I was wondering.

[JK]

I've been pondering the upper register leap in the background vocals of some sixties songs. Earl-Jean's "I'm Into Something Good" will do as an example (first at 0:23):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5-Sg_JJgQ4

Another occurs just before the tag of the Shangs' "Leader Of The Pack" and a third (if slightly more elaborate) during the tag of The Ronettes' "(The Best Part Of) Breakin' Up"...

Whenever I hear that effect at the end of "At My Window" I find myself thinking "Hey, they're imitating their earlier selves". Maybe that's because of the similar effect in the bridge of "Back In The U.S.S.R."...

Did the BB do it first? Or did it come from the NYGG or doo wop scene?

Just thinking out loud here...

[JK]

There's another great track I've heard a couple of times recently and can't identify but I'm sure it's been a hit so it's only obscure to me.

It has a bit of a Mink Deville sound to it (not that I'm that familiar with their stuff) with a low lead voice and this instrumental section with a high melodic, Moorish-sounding guitar line which, if the song were to be in B minor, is shaped thus (upper case is ascending and LOWER CASE descending):

B______ A# b c# d C#__ (B A#) b______

The notes in (brackets) are short.

Sound familiar to anyone?

[RangeRoverA1]

Checking music in computer, you see many songs with stupid/ bizarre titles - various namby pambys, shang a langs, hanky pankys, who planted torns in miss alice's gardens, diddy wah diddys, apothecary dreams, the upper left hand corner of the skys, geometry alleys, algebra spaghettis.

[Buckethead]

LOL!

[JK]

Checking music in computer, you see many songs with stupid/ bizarre titles - various namby pambys, shang a langs, hanky pankys, who planted torns in miss alice's gardens, diddy wah diddys, apothecary dreams, the upper left hand corner of the skys, geometry alleys, algebra spaghettis.