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Rod at his best. He'd recently lost Ronnie Lane but still had Ronnie Wood. Nobody had more fun that the Faces!
 
Hello 1985!

TEARS FOR FEARS
Songs From The Big Chair

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Boob-No-More said:
I have not heard any Jean Michel Jarre. Thanks for the recommendation, I will check it out.

I tend to rotate through several sets of speakers/turntables/cartridges/amps. I am constantly trying new combinations to see what I like best. Over the weekend, I put a pair of JBL L36 Decades I restored/reimagined back into my downstairs vinyl system. I tried them first with a Sansui AU-717, but quickly went back to the Yamaha A-1000 I previously used with these speakers. That pair is just a great sounding match:

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Before that, I was running a pair of JBL 4301B Control monitors with a little Sherwood S-7100A receiver:

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I briefly had the Rectilinear III Highboys back in the system, but I need to refinish the cabinets so I can sell them. They are great speakers, but just too much for my current living space:

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As were the ElectroVoice Interface Ds I sold before I moved. Best sounding speakers I have ever owned, but WAY too much for my 1250 sq ft townhouse:

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I continue to run a pair of KEF 104/2 Reference Series in the master bedroom. I settled in on these a few years ago, and they just seem to do everything well. They are a very listenable, non-fatiguing speaker. They don't have the low end slam of the Interface Ds, but they put out more than enough bass for a bedroom system. And, the unique design means the footprint isn't really any bigger than a pair of much smaller stand mounted speakers:

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That photo was taken at my old place. Even though the new place is smaller, the layout of the master bedroom has let me spread out the speakers, which provides a better stereo image.

I have others that go in and out of the rotation, usually when I'm getting ready to sell a pair, but those are the ones that have stuck around the longest - so far.
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Neat stuff. I'm a Fry's promo code home theater cheapass but I see the attraction.
 
Tom Lehrer - They're Rioting in Africa

 
Boob-No-More said:
I see your Tears for Fears and raise you one Flock of Seagulls:

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The only people who got those haircuts were in trendy bars or Adam Sandler movies about the 80's. I am talking sheer volume. Growing up in the eighties, you could walk into a computer programing class and the entire third row looked like Roland Orzabal.
 
If somebody asked me who i think is the most effective American artist in the last century or so, I might pick Randy Newman. Nobody bites harder with satire, or juxtaposed ideologies or exaggerated parodies of our prejudices. Doesn't matter what the subject matter is either: nuclear war, slavery, class warfare, the political leanings below the Mason-Dixon line. He rubs our noses in our own shit because we are all suspect.

Maybe it's fitting he works for Disney now. :biglaugh:

This is one of my favorite songs of his. An absolutely haunting number about a murderer from Dussledorf that the Nazi's executed. Happy Halloween, kiddies.



'I'm looking at the river, but I'm thinking of the sea....'
 
One of the saddest "Soldiers After War" songs you will ever hear. Haunting....

 
People should be forced to listen to Lucinda Willims if they start to take life to seriously.

 
Beethoven - Symphony no. 9, fourth movement, the chorale (Arturo Toscanini conducts the NBC orchestra in 1952)
I used to listen to this record when I was in high school.
The chorale words are taken from Schiller's religious Ode to Joy which I had at one time memorized. I now only remember a little bit at the start.
Enjoy

All men will be brothers, ...

The poem -
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Aaron Copland - Fanfare For The Common Man

 
Rogers and Hammerstein - Oklahoma



Poor Jud is Daid

 
I have to admit I never liked Bryan Adams classic pop/jingo-istic rock. It was better musically than Bon Jovi though. And I always thought this ode to young love/lust was his greatest song. It could have easily fit onto the Boss's catalog around the time he did Born In The USA. Which is about as good a compliment as you can give any songwriter!

 
another great, but not known very well, guitar players I enjoyed listening to in the 70's and 80's.

 
CupWizier said:
another great, but not known very well, guitar players I enjoyed listening to in the 70's and 80's.

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Check out my avatar. Rory Gallagher my favorite all time guitar player. I have every album, every concert film, every transcription book or piece of memorabilia. I am a Rory Gallagher fanatic. There is a book coming out about him BTW that should be available soon for purchase online.
 


One of Rory's great lost songs. Didn't get released till after he died because the lyrics were too personal.
 
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