Wow great haul! Those are great Sonic Youth albums. Goo is my personal favorite. Can’t go wrong with Prine! I’m mostly buying only CD’s these days. The prices on used vinyl has gotten out of control. Streaming is fun but I like physical copies.
re CDs....I think about how I might want to give up streaming to save money, so I want to keep essential CDs. Plus the albums that are available on streaming can come and go. And the streaming versions of older songs are sometimes rerecorded so that the artist gets the royalties they don't get from having the original played. I haven't checked recently but two examples were Lobo's "I'd love you to want me" and Roger Whittaker "The Last Farewell" -- a couple guilty pleasures of mine. I want the artist/songwriter to get royalties...but I also want the original!
All important factors. I like that the artists get some royalties, albeit measured in micropennies. I don't like the come and go nature of streaming. Things pop in and out of the library randomly.
I haven't listened to that Robbie Robertson in its entirety in ages. It has about 3 or 4 incredible songs, but some other songs I really can't stand. So I usually just listen to selected songs on streaming. Yes, his first solo album. Broken Arrow is my favorite song. Love Steeleye Span - they were still at it recently at least. I don't have all of their albums, but always looking for good copies. I have the Mofi of All Around My Hat. Maddy Prior is one of the great singers and interpreters of folk music. Great finds. Those first CD releases of Randy Newman albums were really well done. 12 Songs was one of the first CDs I ever bought and I remember how much better it sounded than other CDs of classic albums that were coming out.
I can't believe I accidentally put back 12 songs. I had it in my grimy fingers! Oh well. We listened to the first Steeleye Span cd the other night and it sounded incredible.
Washing Machine is not my fave Sonic Youth album but I have fond memories about it because it came out the year I graduated high school (over here we call it "junior college"). I went to their concert a few years before I got conscripted. They made it all the way to the Far East. The first incarnation of Foo Fighters opened for them, and they played in an arena that had since been torn down and rebuilt (they love to do these things in Singapore). I had to go because I missed REM because of my exams. So the nice thing about all these noise rock bands is that you can buy the cheap seats, sit at the back, rock out and still retain your hearing. Sonic Youth are what they are... it was a good concert, they recreated everything on the album pretty well. Great experience. Seems like yesterday, where did all the time go? Sonic Youth, I think, has a pretty good Chinese / Japanese following. I think some of the traditional Chinese music has some atonality and we just pick it up, we're used to it already. And who's not to say that they that maybe they were popping by NYC's Chinatown, heard some Chinese orchestra and it didn't influence them in some way?
The only CDs I buy these days are classical music to fill out my collection and pick up cheap symphonic cycles or collections by composers/conductors/musicians I like. The medium has never mattered to me all that much. When CDs arrived, I got rid of my LPs because I was sick of how crappy the quality control was on them. People sentimentalize vinyl records these days, but I think it’s mostly nostalgic and reactionary: I think CDs - and really, digital - were a vast improvement, both in sound and convenience. I now own a little Onkyo bookshelf system that plays CDs and streams from Bluetooth, and it sounds spectacularly good to my nearly 70-year-old ears. (My car also only streams these days.) So, I’m not fussy about the medium as long as I’m surrounded by music. BTW, that John Prine CD is his third record, and it’s a minor gem. It’s also the album where he first showed his slacker tendencies and his strong desire to do things his way, traits that served him well the rest of his life. Enjoy!
Thanks for the insights, Marty! Yeah, I offloaded most of my vinyl classical albums in favor of CD's or streams. The noise floor and surface noise of vinyl can be problematic for that genre.
Cool cd music haul. In my youth I used to listen to Sonic Youth quite a bit, that Day Dream Nation and Goo are the best. The John Prine cd is his second album. I’m a huge Prine fan with all but two live lps in my collection, all on vinyl. He is one awesome artist that doesn’t get mentioned at all in the VC. ?? Not much country Americana ever does. I used to have that Frank Z on tape and listened to it constantly. Now however I find Zappa’s music either too odd/eccentric or very immature and juvenile. That whole 22 CD’s cost less than a cup of Starbucks lol 😆.
Thanks for the comments. I went through a John Prine phase in the 90s and have a few of his albums A great songwriter. Any thoughts on why Americana doesn’t get more attention in the VC?
Well perhaps saying Americana does not get much love on the VC may not be completely correct. I see music from Springsteen , Tom Petty, and many other Americana rock groups, I guess I mean the more Country/ Folky styles like Prine or John Mellencamp or Van Zant etc. Perhaps I haven’t found those videos, ppl do mention these artists but not often.
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Wow great haul! Those are great Sonic Youth albums. Goo is my personal favorite. Can’t go wrong with Prine!
I’m mostly buying only CD’s these days. The prices on used vinyl has gotten out of control. Streaming is fun but I like physical copies.
Yes, it is harder to find cheap vinyl in good condition out in the wild. CDs are a great bargain these days.
re CDs....I think about how I might want to give up streaming to save money, so I want to keep essential CDs. Plus the albums that are available on streaming can come and go. And the streaming versions of older songs are sometimes rerecorded so that the artist gets the royalties they don't get from having the original played. I haven't checked recently but two examples were Lobo's "I'd love you to want me" and Roger Whittaker "The Last Farewell" -- a couple guilty pleasures of mine. I want the artist/songwriter to get royalties...but I also want the original!
All important factors. I like that the artists get some royalties, albeit measured in micropennies. I don't like the come and go nature of streaming. Things pop in and out of the library randomly.
great scores!
Thanks, I was stoked!
I haven't listened to that Robbie Robertson in its entirety in ages. It has about 3 or 4 incredible songs, but some other songs I really can't stand. So I usually just listen to selected songs on streaming. Yes, his first solo album. Broken Arrow is my favorite song. Love Steeleye Span - they were still at it recently at least. I don't have all of their albums, but always looking for good copies. I have the Mofi of All Around My Hat. Maddy Prior is one of the great singers and interpreters of folk music. Great finds. Those first CD releases of Randy Newman albums were really well done. 12 Songs was one of the first CDs I ever bought and I remember how much better it sounded than other CDs of classic albums that were coming out.
I can't believe I accidentally put back 12 songs. I had it in my grimy fingers! Oh well. We listened to the first Steeleye Span cd the other night and it sounded incredible.
Washing Machine is not my fave Sonic Youth album but I have fond memories about it because it came out the year I graduated high school (over here we call it "junior college"). I went to their concert a few years before I got conscripted. They made it all the way to the Far East. The first incarnation of Foo Fighters opened for them, and they played in an arena that had since been torn down and rebuilt (they love to do these things in Singapore). I had to go because I missed REM because of my exams.
So the nice thing about all these noise rock bands is that you can buy the cheap seats, sit at the back, rock out and still retain your hearing.
Sonic Youth are what they are... it was a good concert, they recreated everything on the album pretty well. Great experience. Seems like yesterday, where did all the time go?
Sonic Youth, I think, has a pretty good Chinese / Japanese following. I think some of the traditional Chinese music has some atonality and we just pick it up, we're used to it already. And who's not to say that they that maybe they were popping by NYC's Chinatown, heard some Chinese orchestra and it didn't influence them in some way?
Thanks for the commentary! Which is your favorite Sonic Youth album?
I'll be like everybody else and say Daydream Nation although it was also the one that took me the longest to "get".
The only CDs I buy these days are classical music to fill out my collection and pick up cheap symphonic cycles or collections by composers/conductors/musicians I like. The medium has never mattered to me all that much. When CDs arrived, I got rid of my LPs because I was sick of how crappy the quality control was on them. People sentimentalize vinyl records these days, but I think it’s mostly nostalgic and reactionary: I think CDs - and really, digital - were a vast improvement, both in sound and convenience. I now own a little Onkyo bookshelf system that plays CDs and streams from Bluetooth, and it sounds spectacularly good to my nearly 70-year-old ears. (My car also only streams these days.) So, I’m not fussy about the medium as long as I’m surrounded by music. BTW, that John Prine CD is his third record, and it’s a minor gem. It’s also the album where he first showed his slacker tendencies and his strong desire to do things his way, traits that served him well the rest of his life. Enjoy!
Thanks for the insights, Marty! Yeah, I offloaded most of my vinyl classical albums in favor of CD's or streams. The noise floor and surface noise of vinyl can be problematic for that genre.
Cool cd music haul. In my youth I used to listen to Sonic Youth quite a bit, that Day Dream Nation and Goo are the best. The John Prine cd is his second album. I’m a huge Prine fan with all but two live lps in my collection, all on vinyl. He is one awesome artist that doesn’t get mentioned at all in the VC. ?? Not much country Americana ever does. I used to have that Frank Z on tape and listened to it constantly. Now however I find Zappa’s music either too odd/eccentric or very immature and juvenile. That whole 22 CD’s cost less than a cup of Starbucks lol 😆.
Thanks for the comments. I went through a John Prine phase in the 90s and have a few of his albums A great songwriter. Any thoughts on why Americana doesn’t get more attention in the VC?
Well perhaps saying Americana does not get much love on the VC may not be completely correct. I see music from Springsteen , Tom Petty, and many other Americana rock groups, I guess I mean the more Country/ Folky styles like Prine or John Mellencamp or Van Zant etc. Perhaps I haven’t found those videos, ppl do mention these artists but not often.