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What are you listening to? Part III
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I can never hear ABBA without thinking of my mother; she absolutely adored ABBA.
Any chance you bought the remastered version from iTunes?
When you listen to it on your phone the album cover is animated!
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No, alas.
Rather, I borrowed what appears to be a rather battered CD from the library, as I could not lay hands on my own copy of that CD.
I especially like the introduction of the synth pad (which is VERY subtle, you have to listen carefully) at 3:17. And, I just love Pat Metheny overall, he's one of my favorite artists.
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Gotta wonder if I'm the only one who still buys music, movies, and tv shows from iTunes...?
Actually, I never bought music from iTunes.
My iTunes library (which is pretty extensive) is host, solely, to music from CDs.
In fact, I deeply dislike the 'rentier' model of music, and far prefer (the trouble is finding them, nowadays) buying LPs, or, more recently, CDs, and have hundreds of the latter.
Pat Metheny is excellent, and a very talented and gifted musician; I love him, too.
I may have mentioned Brandon Acker to you earlier; he started out as a rocker, and migrated to specialising in early (music) plucked (and stringed) instruments.
Check out some of his music; I love him, as well.
I think LPs/vinyls are ALWAYS better than the digital version! But yeah, it is hard to find them, and they can be quite expensive, especially for a rare album. Although I do stream from Spotify most of the time, I haven't bought a single song/album on iTunes in a VERY LONG TIME, because Spotify is "on demand," and that's nice, especially when traveling.
I love my vinyls, but I make extensive use of apple music and apple classical, because you really find everything and it's all in high quality and if until a few years ago I bought Hi-res music on HD-tracks now it's really very convenient to use Hi-res.
For me apple music is a game changer.
For me apple music is a game changer.
While I love bookshops, and readily spend - while away - hours of my life in bookshops and libraries, I also always loved spending ages - hours - browsing racks of LPs (as a teenager and later, student), and - above all - CDs.
Whole Saturday afternoons (well, at least one or two hours of a Saturday afternoon) have been whiled away listening to music, and browsing CD racks in music stores.
The thing was that in specialist music stores (Virgin, HMV etc) you tended to have knowledgeable enthusiasts manning the desks, and they knew theur stuff; they could discuss not just artists, but specific recordings and make recommendations or order obscure and fascinating material for you.
Actually, I vividly recall an amazing discussion (with such an informed and engaged staff member) on the respective merits of two or three different recordings of Antonio Soler's compulsive, rivetting, scintillating, brilliant Fandango (one of my own all time favourite pieces of music), and the recommendations that followed.
(Yes, I ended up with both).
I'd love to have a turntable again and room for one... lol
One of Peter Gabriel's most powerful songs in honour of the anti-apartheid activist Steven Biko, who died in police custody (ie. beaten to death). "You can blow out a candle but you can't blow out a fire."
P.S. This is the actual explanation for the so-called Mandela effect.