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    Rediscovered Music

    I've been listening to The Vault on Sirius radio and I find myself going "ooooh! I love that, I forgot about that one!"

    A lot of these are vinyl records that are currently mouldering in my garage and useless to my digitally improved self. So I've been going on Amazon and gradually re-building the album collection of my youth.

    Some recent additions:

    Jethro Tull "Songs From The Wood"

    King Crimson "In the Court of the Crimson King"

    Jimi Hendrix "Band of Gypsies--Live"

    Anyone else rediscovering any good music lately?

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    Despite the boom of bittorrent, discographies, and new (full) 60 gb iPod I still gotta throw down for a few gems now and again. Haven't ventured too far in the way back machine, but a few recent repeat purchases to note:

    Black Crowes-Amorica
    Ryan Adams-Heartbreaker
    Bob-African Herbsman
    Fela Kuti-Expensive Sh*t

    ps. Everyone's gotta check out The Woods Bros. (chris wood of MMW and bro)
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    Recent cd acquisitions:
    The Return of the Durutti Column - DC
    Everyone Knows This Is Nowhere - N. Young
    Disraeli Gears - Cream
    Power Corruption and Lies - New Order
    Sailor - Steve Miller Band
    Kiln House - Fleetwood Mac
    Drums and Wires - XTC
    Still - Joy Division
    Garcia Solo Album
    Land of Grey and Pink - Caravan
    Electric Music For The Mind and Body - Country Joe and the Fish
    Happy Trails - Quicksilver Messenger Service
    Dance To The Music - Sly and the Family Stone
    Takes Off - Jefferson Airplane (w/Marty Balin, J Cassidy and J Kaukonen)
    Take It To The Stage - Funkadelic
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    I recently "rediscovered" a case full of tapes collected from about '83 - '95. Some of the best are:

    Smile - Maquee
    Sugar Ray - Lemonade and Brownies
    Sepultura - Arise and Chaos A.D.
    Helmet - Meantime
    Jimi Hendrix - Live at Winterland
    James Brown - Greatest Hits
    Galactic Cowboys - Space in Your Face
    Corrosion of Conformity - Blind

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    my rediscoveries have of late been stuff that I had on tape or vinyl back in the day. Git a new 60GB Video iPod, and have been busy burning my collection onto that, and then decided that I needed to c0omplete my collection my either buying CD's or downloading from iTunes these gems that I owned as a young man:

    Joy Division: new retrospective they just released...
    New Order: power and corruption, substance
    XTC: skylarking, drums & wires, oranges & lemmons
    Replacements: Tim & Let It Be
    Smiths: QID, MIM, Louder than Bombs
    Bruce: the River, BTR
    Wire: pink flag
    Buzzcocks: Singles Going Steady
    Clash: Sandidista
    Neil: Everyone Knows...., Zuma, Live Rust
    English Beat: Special Beat Service, Beat Goes On

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    Not exactly a rediscovery in that I never knew this to begin with but seeing that the album is 30 years old ....Wishbone Ash- Argus.
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    Nice music rediscoveries!

    Buster, you and I like a LOT of the same music. You definitely have good taste.

    Sprite
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    i've been going thru all my guitar masters lately - mostly jeff beck and alan holdsworth.

    these albums are incredible:

    jeff beck live with the jan hammer group


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    Recent rediscoveries in the tape & wax collection-

    The church- Starfish
    Arc Angels- Arc Angels
    Stress- Stress
    Pixies - Surfer Rosa
    Van Halen- Fair Warning
    Mazzy Starr-She Hangs Brightly
    Grunt Truck - Push
    Psykosonik-Unlearn
    Last edited by Stone-Free; 08-11-2006 at 08:30 AM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by snowsprite
    Nice music rediscoveries!

    Buster, you and I like a LOT of the same music. You definitely have good taste.

    Sprite
    I'm honored!

    You should also accrue Lark's Tongue In Aspic and Starless And Bible Black.

    And Board: Argus.....wowow: take me wayback. That sucker has to be 35 years old.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ripzalot
    i've been going thru all my guitar masters lately - mostly jeff beck and alan holdsworth.
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    Yeah, Holdsworth >>>might<<< be the most underrated guitar player out there (yeah, yeah, ice... I know...Danny Gatton.)

    I blew out a copy of that Beck and Jan Hammer in college.
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    Quote Originally Posted by snowsprite
    Nice music rediscoveries!

    Buster, you and I like a LOT of the same music. You definitely have good taste.

    Sprite
    i would say the same for you. for a chick, you have superb taste in music!

    my wife like stuff like *gasp* neil diamond.


    Quote Originally Posted by Buster Highman
    Yeah, Holdsworth >>>might<<< be the most underrated guitar player out there (yeah, yeah, ice... I know...Danny Gatton.)

    I blew out a copy of that Beck and Jan Hammer in college.
    6 time guitar magazine guitar player of the year - and still no one knows who he is. i saw him play a small club back in the 80s with steve morse.

    un. buh. leevable.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ripzalot
    i would say the same for you. for a chick, you have superb taste in music!

    my wife like stuff like *gasp* neil diamond.



    6 time guitar magazine guitar player of the year - and still no one knows who he is. i saw him play a small club back in the 80s with steve morse.

    un. buh. leevable.
    I saw him w/Eddie (gack) Jobson in UK in the seventies. And listened to him on the GONG albums w/Mick Taylor. I never understood why people didn't hear his genius. Zappa admitted to being in awe of the guy.
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    So I went down to the basement and came back with these vinyl blasts from my past: Alpha Blondy- Apartheid is Nazism, Lee "Scratch" Perry- Return of Pipecock Jaxxon, King Tubby's Vs Channel One, The Congos- Heart of the Congos, Bob-Soul Rebels, RollingStones-Around and Around, Love Sculpture- Blues Helping, The Who- Odds n Sods, The Kinks- Muswell Hillbillies, Burning Spear-Marcus Garvey, Toots & the Maytals- Funky Kingston, Lynyrd Skynyrd- Second Helping, Linton Kwesi Johnson- Reggae Greats, Bob Dylan- Blonde on Blonde, Ziggy Marley- Hey World! Not sure if some of these have been issued on CD.
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    shit, what else is down there?

    for me:

    fine

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    Quite a few more, but I've replaced a fair number of them on CD. These were just some of the ones I brought up when I first read this thread. I found some good Roxy Music albums as well as some Phil Manzanera and some 801 Live.
    "if it's called tourist season, why can't we just shoot them?"

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    Cream "World of Pain" .... I forgot how much I like this song!

    I love Roxy Music. "More Than This" is one of my favorite songs

    I could feel at the time
    There was no way of knowing
    Fallen leaves in the night
    Who can say where they're blowing
    As free as the the wind
    And hopefully learning
    Why the sea on the tide
    Has no way of turning

    More than this - there is nothing
    More than this - tell them on thing
    More than this - there is nothing

    It was fun for a while
    There was no way of knowing
    Like a dream in the night
    Who can say where we're going
    No care in the world
    Maybe I'm learning
    Why the sea on the tide
    Has no way of turning


    More than this - there is nothing
    More than this - tell them on thing
    More than this - there is nothing
    "I call it reveling in natures finest element. Water in its pristine form. Straight from the heavens. We bathe in it, rejoicing in the fullest." --BZ

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    Quote Originally Posted by snowsprite
    I love Roxy Music. "More Than This" is one of my favorite songs
    great tune! have you seen "lost in translation"?

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    One album I really, really want in digital format is "Daddy's Highway" by The Bats. Anyone got it? I ripped my vinyl copy to my hard drive, but the results weren't great plus it's missing a few songs that are on the CD release.

    If you have "The Law of Things" I'd like that one, too

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    Quote Originally Posted by The AD
    One album I really, really want in digital format is "Daddy's Highway" by The Bats. Anyone got it? I ripped my vinyl copy to my hard drive, but the results weren't great plus it's missing a few songs that are on the CD release.

    If you have "The Law of Things" I'd like that one, too
    Sorry can't help you out with either of those. But can you tell me how you rip vinyl to your harddrive? I didn't know this was possible.
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    Do a Google search for vinyl to CD and you'll find lots of stuff. Basically you just need to connect your turntable to an amp, connect the output of the amp to the line in of your sound card, then play the album and record it in realtime to .WAV format. After that you can split up the titles, remove pops, etc. Yeah, it's a little tedious if you want decent results.

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    thanks AD. I'll try this. By removing the pops do you mean the actual pops and hisses on the vinyl? That's the best thing about rediscovering the old wax IMHO. I wore out my copies of Who's Next, Rastaman Vibration, Natty Dread and Led ZeppelinIV. I still have the first record I ever owned, Revolver, given to me by my aunt for Christmas when I was about 7 or 8 years old. It's got the Capitol rainbow label and I probably know every pop and crackle on that disc. I since bought the UK version of it and Rubber Soul on EMI Parlophone, but the memories and sentimental value alone cannot be touched by any CD. And on that note, I find that there is a stark quality in digital recordings and that warm sound that you get with vinyl just doesn't seem to be replicated on CD. Am I the only one that feels this way? Maybe I'm just imagining it.
    I can't remember what book it was in by HST, but I remember him talking about when real men played rock'n roll and him listening to the Doors' Morrison Hotel at his Woody Creek residence on a Macintosh ( no, not the computer) tube amp and crankin it up past ten until it shook the log rafters in his home...or something like that. Anyway I don't think Morrison Hotel was available on CD when he wrote that. Say no more.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The AD
    One album I really, really want in digital format is "Daddy's Highway" by The Bats. Anyone got it? I ripped my vinyl copy to my hard drive, but the results weren't great plus it's missing a few songs that are on the CD release.

    If you have "The Law of Things" I'd like that one, too
    all i have is vinyl. met them waaaay back when they were touring with belly and radiohead. super cool people.
    fine

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    Quote Originally Posted by nesta
    thanks AD. I'll try this. By removing the pops do you mean the actual pops and hisses on the vinyl? That's the best thing about rediscovering the old wax IMHO.
    I agree there's something to this. I actually pondered keeping the sound of when the needle first drops onto the record, too.

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    oh, I neglected to mention 2 other pieces of worn out vinyl in my basement collection ( well technically it's 4) Quadrophenia and Hot Rocks. Time to head for the turntable. I think this thread may inspire me to sell my CDs and CD player and just go with our old albums and iTunes.
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