Another set of classics for me but often comes in two flavours...
The tracks that are melodious, ground breaking with use of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, I think it was, and then the stuff that sounds very 1960's and rather like Sid Barret's Pink Floyd on Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Well at times that is, lol.
Days of Future Passed (Nights in White Satin one)
In Search of the Lost Chord
To Our Children's Children's Children
A Question of Balance (particularly Melancholy Man)
...
Have to come back to that list doing all these from memory alone, lmao.
Tuesday, 6 November 2012
RADIOHEAD
Oh well this one is the hardest one to describe and at times the most surprising for me.
I had long since been familiar with the album everyone knows and its main tracks released as singles, like Karma Police, Paranoid Android and No Surprises but to my shock and many years later three albums for me shot above that one as my favourites...
Amnesiac
The King of Limbs
In Rainbows
OK Computer
Hail to the Thief
These are placed in order, hmm no they are not lol, well the first three I love more so than OK Computer! All albums are classics in their own right!
Also out of my main artists these are, along with Moby, one of the few still producing tunes?!
Not heard Tom Yorke's The Erazer yet.
Love the way he names some of his songs and just another facet of this band that makes them unique in every way.
I had long since been familiar with the album everyone knows and its main tracks released as singles, like Karma Police, Paranoid Android and No Surprises but to my shock and many years later three albums for me shot above that one as my favourites...
Amnesiac
The King of Limbs
In Rainbows
OK Computer
Hail to the Thief
These are placed in order, hmm no they are not lol, well the first three I love more so than OK Computer! All albums are classics in their own right!
Also out of my main artists these are, along with Moby, one of the few still producing tunes?!
Not heard Tom Yorke's The Erazer yet.
Love the way he names some of his songs and just another facet of this band that makes them unique in every way.
MOBY
Oh Moby! I have been smitten with his stuff since I first heard Porcelain when I attending university.
The albums and not a bad one in there at all amongst his later creations. A rare thing.
Wait for Me
Play
Destroyed (latest one)
Hotel
18
This man has such talent it slays me as all my favourite artists do. Pretty much unappreciated in his time if you ask me and has had great collaborations with film scoring or some great tracks used in famous films. Like James Bond and The Bourne Identity for just two of these!
This man also a genius in music along with a certain band who's singer is a lyrical genius that follows this one!
The albums and not a bad one in there at all amongst his later creations. A rare thing.
Wait for Me
Play
Destroyed (latest one)
Hotel
18
This man has such talent it slays me as all my favourite artists do. Pretty much unappreciated in his time if you ask me and has had great collaborations with film scoring or some great tracks used in famous films. Like James Bond and The Bourne Identity for just two of these!
This man also a genius in music along with a certain band who's singer is a lyrical genius that follows this one!
JEAN MICHEL JARRE
Another genius in my mind and like Pink Floyd I actually attended one of his concerts!
Brilliant and moving in its own unique way and of his albums for me the best are...
Oxygene (you did not think I would omit this did you?!)
Equinoxe
Chronologie
Rendez-vous
Revolutions
Oxygene 2
Magnetic Fields
There is one that I do not know if I will ever include it or leave it off and that is the infamous album Music for Supermarkets...
Which he recorded, made a copy then destroyed the master tapes and sold it off to the highest bidder and it vanished in the annals of time!
Don't you just love artists that do crazy things like that?
Except in this instance the owner could do a digital copy and damn well send me one?!?! LMAO!!
Like the other artists I will feature I may be back on to edit this when I am more ... 'on the ball' so to speak1
Brilliant and moving in its own unique way and of his albums for me the best are...
Oxygene (you did not think I would omit this did you?!)
Equinoxe
Chronologie
Rendez-vous
Revolutions
Oxygene 2
Magnetic Fields
There is one that I do not know if I will ever include it or leave it off and that is the infamous album Music for Supermarkets...
Which he recorded, made a copy then destroyed the master tapes and sold it off to the highest bidder and it vanished in the annals of time!
Don't you just love artists that do crazy things like that?
Except in this instance the owner could do a digital copy and damn well send me one?!?! LMAO!!
Like the other artists I will feature I may be back on to edit this when I am more ... 'on the ball' so to speak1
MIKE OLDFIELD
Well now that I have sensibly changed to title of this post I will run through a series of posts dedicated to the artists I admire the most and those I consider genius'.
These will cover a broader spectrum than you might thing and some will not actually make it in here due to the types of modern music this is meant to cover. One in particular would be Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart!
Mike Oldfield. Oh what a genius he is and of the albums of his I absolutely adore and some which failed to get the recognition they deserve are ...
Tubular Bells
Tubular Bells III
Ommadawn
Hergest Ridge
Platinum
Tres Lunas
Song of Distant Earth
Music of the Spheres
I admit there are still some I have not gotten round to listen to just yet, lol.
Tres Lunas is an oddity because when I first heard it I would swear I had heard it before but had never heard the album before ever. SO I ended up presuming it had been used in a film, TV programme or a TV advert and it had stuck in the back of my mind but is odd because...
Music of the Spheres and as beautiful as it is it comprises of the musical instruments normally only heard in classical music. Indeed the first time I heard any of this album at all was on Classic FM and I thought 'hey, this sounds like Mike Oldfield but it cannot be?'
Also impressive is that I was playing the CD in the background with a friend round and he turned and said 'this sounds like Mike Oldfield?!' That was my late friend Kenneth Walter Bunn and may the man rest in peace! Miss you old friend. He is the reason I started these blogs.
Now may have missed out a few too, bit tired right now so not thinking straight. I will edit this as and when I need to as probably I will need to do the others that follow.
These will cover a broader spectrum than you might thing and some will not actually make it in here due to the types of modern music this is meant to cover. One in particular would be Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart!
Mike Oldfield. Oh what a genius he is and of the albums of his I absolutely adore and some which failed to get the recognition they deserve are ...
Tubular Bells
Tubular Bells III
Ommadawn
Hergest Ridge
Platinum
Tres Lunas
Song of Distant Earth
Music of the Spheres
I admit there are still some I have not gotten round to listen to just yet, lol.
Tres Lunas is an oddity because when I first heard it I would swear I had heard it before but had never heard the album before ever. SO I ended up presuming it had been used in a film, TV programme or a TV advert and it had stuck in the back of my mind but is odd because...
Music of the Spheres and as beautiful as it is it comprises of the musical instruments normally only heard in classical music. Indeed the first time I heard any of this album at all was on Classic FM and I thought 'hey, this sounds like Mike Oldfield but it cannot be?'
Also impressive is that I was playing the CD in the background with a friend round and he turned and said 'this sounds like Mike Oldfield?!' That was my late friend Kenneth Walter Bunn and may the man rest in peace! Miss you old friend. He is the reason I started these blogs.
Now may have missed out a few too, bit tired right now so not thinking straight. I will edit this as and when I need to as probably I will need to do the others that follow.
SONY ...THE DARK SIDE: MUSIC PLAYER DISCREPENCIES
Further to my recent remarks today I found a player that I thought would fit the bill...barely!
Unfortunately it means going to the ... dark side with the manufacturer and that means Sony. Still it could be worse as it could be Apple, lol!
The model in question is the...
Unfortunately it means going to the ... dark side with the manufacturer and that means Sony. Still it could be worse as it could be Apple, lol!
The model in question is the...
Sony NWZ-A865B 16GB £144
Now bizarrely I came up with a discrepancy here that I had spotted before and forgotten about and that is the vast, and I DO MEAN VAST, difference in prices for the extra memory that is quite honestly a rip off!
Now the above model I can find on Amazon for around £140 but have seen it in a local store for under £100.
Yet the one below, which would be far better for FLAC file storage has an extra 16GB but costs you a premium of £176?! Oddly Sandisk Micro SD Cards of that size are ... currently £7.00 on Amazon so why are they allowed to make £176 for hardware that is £7?!?!
More to the point WHY is this not outlawed?!
The number differences coincide with the differences in memory with the 5 above referring to the smaller memory installed and the 6 just prior the the 'B' being the larger. This seems to work this way with all the MP3 Players made by Sony that I have seen. I do not know how they sell these players at all, I really don't! I wonder if they will do what they are now stating to do with their TV manufacturing and instead of being sensible and not utter twats towards their customers will refuse to make any more and announce cancellation of production?!
TWATS!
Sony NWZ-A866B 32GB £320 (extra £176?!)
I used to adore Sony as I did Apple and many other companies that I could mention and I am sure I am only one of a fungous number of people that used to feel like that but now have nothing but contempt for these companies.
Like I said I may have to go over to the dark side!
Oddly I noticed something else, I visited PC World while I was out and not ONE player had an SD Card slot?! Yet they SELL memory cards and there are plenty of players around that do. As long as they are not Samsung, Sony, Philips, Apple and a few others...
Sandisk (famous for quality memory chips), Transcend (like Sandisk) and another and arguably bigger name is Creative and their Zens!
I also checked Tescos and Sainsburys and the same applied with the latter only having a board up stating they now stock the latest Apple iPods but had pictures of the previous 6th generation?! Oh dear!
Now why would stores that have racks of memory cards NOT stock the players that take them and sell ones no one wants or half of us do not want?! Plus the ones that will NEVER sell?! When I say never sell I mean like the £320 32GB Sony listed above and if you have not worked it out for yourselves that is £10 PER GIGABYTE!!
Bloody good job hard disks are not priced like that?!
These overseas manufacturers must think we are bloody stupid to pay these premiums?!
ATOMIC FLOYD - CURRENT WEAPONS OF CHOICE
I got a little lucky, or unlucky depending on your point of view, recently with an absolute steal of a find I could not really afford at the time.
Previously using a set of headphones that although sounding very good I could not get on with the earbuds provided even though there were 6 sets plus one Memory Foam set?! These were AiAiAi Y Connects and I recently walked into a cash converters and saw a pair of earphones that had been on my Amazon wish list for about a year.
More curiously is the fact that these are very unusual headphones and even one brother who knows all about this stuff had not seen them before nor even heard of them when I showed them to him?!
These are Atomic Floyd Airjax Titanium 2s and normally retailing for way over £100 and closer to £150 odd I managed to acquire these for £50 after knocking them down on the price?!
I should not have done it but I though god knows when I will ever again be in a position to buy something like this?! It was these of Shure SE535, err or 525s cannot remember now. As I cannot seem to find ones that seal in the ear that do not drive me crazy, a shame as the sound is great, when I saw these ones I thought they would be perfect and so far they are. That is apart for the fact that my Sweex Optimuo player was already a pain in the rear in either refusing to read its own NAND memory OR the micro SDCARD and not turning the volume down two levels every time you touch a button, or its annoying user interface which was nothing like the pictures suggested. I digress ... oh wait it not only does it not play FLAC files but it is now refusing to play half my OGG files too?!
I digress.
The other thing is that despite what they say about playing music on a smart phone I will let you into a little secret, they are CRAP. Although I have not tried the HTC Beats Audio ones and I had wanted one of these in the hope that what inflictions previous ones had would not be the case for the HTC's. But I do not know and had I bought them and they suffered from the same thing then I would come to the conclusion that the rumours that the European Union is forcing them to turn the volumes down must be true and I would take the EU to court over it. Yes you heard me correct, what a bunch of halfwits and money wasters that came up with that ruling?! Piss off and mind your own fecking business you morons! Oh well that last statement is only meant in the event that this is the case and these companies are just making shoddy products they are charging you over the top money for and trying to lay the blame at someone elses door. Hmm why do I say that? Well this is what is claimed for Sony's musics players. UMM HELLOOOO THEY ARE MUSIC PLAYERS ITS WHAT THEY DO AND YOU ARE STOPPING THEM FROM DOING THAT?!?! Oh off topic again I DO apologise, yes many people complain about Sony's players being muted by the EU and if this is the case then why does my crappy little Sweex Optimuo sound a great deal louder then my Motorola Smartphone?!
How can it be that a huge company like Sony get their players stifled and Sweex does not? Anyone care to think money is behind this?!
So I am now searching high and low for an affordable music player that can handle all my FLAC files and has a SDCARD slot, now huge touch screen using up the battery rapidly and sounds good and not muted and that I do not need to take a mortgage out for and will not break down the first time it is breathed upon and does not use iTunes?!?!?!
Yes well i have already been looking for that one for a year now, now looking at over brands I have not heard of, like Coby and Energy Sistem (how its spelt) and I can tell you there is nothing I have EVER shopped for in my ENTIRE life that is this frustrating and it is an absolute joke.
If they all had SDCARD slots in it would be a great deal easier but I would end up with another brand I used to adore but have gone off, and admitted to me on the phone were rigging the games machines in not so many words, and that is Sony?! Except the one I like they now no longer do and a butt ugly one has taken its place?!
GOD HELP ME BEFORE I GO INSANE?!?! LMAO!!!
This also applies to headphones as even the biggest brands I read horror stories of one side, always ONE SIDE, of the headphones packing up. I have even read it about these and I am talking about headphones costing £80 to over £250 and ask myself how in the hell this can be possible?! I first wanted to try out the Beats Headphones by Monster Cable until I started reading this. Mind you could be fakes going around or reviewers could be fake and from rival manufacturers even?!
I should add that I have owned TWO Sennheiser products, used to love their stuff, and BOTH were brand new, expensive and both failed after awhile with one after three weeks and the other after three months. The first was CX-400 IIs and the other a gorgeously designed bluetooth headset for phone conversations. Both were great until they ... FAILED. I contacted Sennheiser about these a couple of times but never received an answer. My answer, however, is to NEVER touch Sennheiser products ever again.
I have had the same difficulties with Freeview TV boxes too. Never had one that worked properly to this day!
Turn a blind eye for money and it inevitably becomes a god awful mess!
Anyway the headphones...
Previously using a set of headphones that although sounding very good I could not get on with the earbuds provided even though there were 6 sets plus one Memory Foam set?! These were AiAiAi Y Connects and I recently walked into a cash converters and saw a pair of earphones that had been on my Amazon wish list for about a year.
More curiously is the fact that these are very unusual headphones and even one brother who knows all about this stuff had not seen them before nor even heard of them when I showed them to him?!
These are Atomic Floyd Airjax Titanium 2s and normally retailing for way over £100 and closer to £150 odd I managed to acquire these for £50 after knocking them down on the price?!
I should not have done it but I though god knows when I will ever again be in a position to buy something like this?! It was these of Shure SE535, err or 525s cannot remember now. As I cannot seem to find ones that seal in the ear that do not drive me crazy, a shame as the sound is great, when I saw these ones I thought they would be perfect and so far they are. That is apart for the fact that my Sweex Optimuo player was already a pain in the rear in either refusing to read its own NAND memory OR the micro SDCARD and not turning the volume down two levels every time you touch a button, or its annoying user interface which was nothing like the pictures suggested. I digress ... oh wait it not only does it not play FLAC files but it is now refusing to play half my OGG files too?!
I digress.
The other thing is that despite what they say about playing music on a smart phone I will let you into a little secret, they are CRAP. Although I have not tried the HTC Beats Audio ones and I had wanted one of these in the hope that what inflictions previous ones had would not be the case for the HTC's. But I do not know and had I bought them and they suffered from the same thing then I would come to the conclusion that the rumours that the European Union is forcing them to turn the volumes down must be true and I would take the EU to court over it. Yes you heard me correct, what a bunch of halfwits and money wasters that came up with that ruling?! Piss off and mind your own fecking business you morons! Oh well that last statement is only meant in the event that this is the case and these companies are just making shoddy products they are charging you over the top money for and trying to lay the blame at someone elses door. Hmm why do I say that? Well this is what is claimed for Sony's musics players. UMM HELLOOOO THEY ARE MUSIC PLAYERS ITS WHAT THEY DO AND YOU ARE STOPPING THEM FROM DOING THAT?!?! Oh off topic again I DO apologise, yes many people complain about Sony's players being muted by the EU and if this is the case then why does my crappy little Sweex Optimuo sound a great deal louder then my Motorola Smartphone?!
How can it be that a huge company like Sony get their players stifled and Sweex does not? Anyone care to think money is behind this?!
So I am now searching high and low for an affordable music player that can handle all my FLAC files and has a SDCARD slot, now huge touch screen using up the battery rapidly and sounds good and not muted and that I do not need to take a mortgage out for and will not break down the first time it is breathed upon and does not use iTunes?!?!?!
Yes well i have already been looking for that one for a year now, now looking at over brands I have not heard of, like Coby and Energy Sistem (how its spelt) and I can tell you there is nothing I have EVER shopped for in my ENTIRE life that is this frustrating and it is an absolute joke.
If they all had SDCARD slots in it would be a great deal easier but I would end up with another brand I used to adore but have gone off, and admitted to me on the phone were rigging the games machines in not so many words, and that is Sony?! Except the one I like they now no longer do and a butt ugly one has taken its place?!
GOD HELP ME BEFORE I GO INSANE?!?! LMAO!!!
This also applies to headphones as even the biggest brands I read horror stories of one side, always ONE SIDE, of the headphones packing up. I have even read it about these and I am talking about headphones costing £80 to over £250 and ask myself how in the hell this can be possible?! I first wanted to try out the Beats Headphones by Monster Cable until I started reading this. Mind you could be fakes going around or reviewers could be fake and from rival manufacturers even?!
I should add that I have owned TWO Sennheiser products, used to love their stuff, and BOTH were brand new, expensive and both failed after awhile with one after three weeks and the other after three months. The first was CX-400 IIs and the other a gorgeously designed bluetooth headset for phone conversations. Both were great until they ... FAILED. I contacted Sennheiser about these a couple of times but never received an answer. My answer, however, is to NEVER touch Sennheiser products ever again.
I have had the same difficulties with Freeview TV boxes too. Never had one that worked properly to this day!
Turn a blind eye for money and it inevitably becomes a god awful mess!
Anyway the headphones...
They are Titanium and you do not notice they are on, they are not sticking inside your ears either.
Braided leads are the only downside as they do tend to tangle easily, took me 5 minutes just to get them circled like that and not correctly!
A clever hard case but honestly needed to be slightly bigger. Clever in that you squeeze the sides to open it.
The box that caused a double take when I recognised the phones on the other side of the clear plastic!
They are good and for rock, pop, classical and the like but if you want them for bass, as I suspect the owner of these did, do not buy them!
Goodies... two large jack adaptors, not entirely sure why, airplane adaptor rubber sleeves for ear hooks I for one do not need and on the right is un-screwable allen key as the headphones can be adjusted up and down the titanium shaft for perfect fit?! Oh a membership card thing inside too.
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