Hoping some of you old record guys might be able to help
I heard a song the other day, sadly the dj gave no infomation about it, so
I'm hoping someone might have a clue.
I think it was sung by BB King , or one of those older blues guys, and think it
may have been called " Ain't it amazing what a woman can do " at least that line
was repeated a lot in the chorus. I'd love to add it to my music library.
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
LoeffelholzThe United States, With LovePosts: 8,998Quartermasters
Sorry, TP, just saw this...doesn't sound immediately familiar, but I'll bet a search on Google or YouTube for those lyrics will yield something.
Today I received Mumford and Sons' Babel in 180-gram for a reasonable price. Sounds fantastic
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"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
Now, on my turntable you can adjust the speed of the record being played, and I guess that is done by affecting the belt, I don't know. But you see, when I first played Rubber Soul and Come Fly With Me they both sounded great and revved up, but later I realised they were in fact playing a bit too fast, so it just seemed better in the same way that remixed, sped up discs sometimes sound better (Brimful of Asha, for instance). Not discounting the benefits of vinyl generally, mind.
But with that in mind, how do you really actually know that the vinyl you are playing is at the exact correct speed that it is intended? You can ajust it to minute degrees, and that is fine, but unlike with CDs or tapes, you never find yourself thinking, okay, is this how it was meant to sound?
Or is it meant to be like the colours on your flatscreen, you simply adjust to personal taste?
Now, on my turntable you can adjust the speed of the record being played, and I guess that is done by affecting the belt, I don't know. But you see, when I first played Rubber Soul and Come Fly With Me they both sounded great and revved up, but later I realised they were in fact playing a bit too fast, so it just seemed better in the same way that remixed, sped up discs sometimes sound better (Brimful of Asha, for instance). Not discounting the benefits of vinyl generally, mind.
But with that in mind, how do you really actually know that the vinyl you are playing is at the exact correct speed that it is intended? You can ajust it to minute degrees, and that is fine, but unlike with CDs or tapes, you never find yourself thinking, okay, is this how it was meant to sound?
Or is it meant to be like the colours on your flatscreen, you simply adjust to personal taste?
If your deck is not fitted with a strobe light, there are paper strobe discs that you can use to judge the RPM of the table based on the frequency of the lights in your home: http://www.vinylengine.com/strobe-discs.shtml
Of course, if your ear likes the sound of a record played at a slightly faster tempo, by all means play it at that speed.
LoeffelholzThe United States, With LovePosts: 8,998Quartermasters
I currently have a very reasonable bid in on a near-mint 30th Anniversary reissue of George Harrison's All Things Must Pass triple-LP debut. Exciting!
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"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
There are some albums that have long been overlooked, but when listened to on vinyl, appear in a completely new light.
Back to the Egg is not such an album.
Now, like all Wings and Macca solo stuff, there are some little gems here, such as the opening tracks of Side 2, Rockestra with its Waterloo-style opening rush and climaxing with its yobbish mockney, it segues brilliantly into the new wave Clash-style To You.
But that sort of sums the album up, in that it's an uneasy mix of prog rock and new wave, each making the other sound redundant. Like if you mixed a Madness album with one by Pink Floyd. I know the White Album had all kinds of stuff on it, and it worked, but on the other hand you wouldn't put Helter Skelter on Sgt Pepper, would you.
Other good stuff on Back to the Egg includes the new wave My Sharona-style Old Siam Sir, and if only this album had stayed in that particular style throughout... But you also have the quite serviceable disco sound of Arrow Through Me and crap like Baby's Request, plus folksy stuff too that's bit like Mul of Kintyre. The opening track, Getting Closer, suffers from lazy lyrics and flabbines. It's a dog's breakfast of an album in my view.
I quite liked it when I had it taped onto cassette, but having it on vinyl doesn't make it better, even if it only cost me £3.
"This is where we leave you Mr Bond."
Roger Moore 1927-2017
LoeffelholzThe United States, With LovePosts: 8,998Quartermasters
There are some albums that have long been overlooked, but when listened to on vinyl, appear in a completely new light.
Back to the Egg is not such an album.
Now, like all Wings and Macca solo stuff, there are some little gems here, such as the opening tracks of Side 2, Rockestra with its Waterloo-style opening rush and climaxing with its yobbish mockney, it segues brilliantly into the new wave Clash-style To You.
But that sort of sums the album up, in that it's an uneasy mix of prog rock and new wave, each making the other sound redundant. Like if you mixed a Madness album with one by Pink Floyd. I know the White Album had all kinds of stuff on it, and it worked, but on the other hand you wouldn't put Helter Skelter on Sgt Pepper, would you.
Other good stuff on Back to the Egg includes the new wave My Sharona-style Old Siam Sir, and if only this album had stayed in that particular style throughout... But you also have the quite serviceable disco sound of Arrow Through Me and crap like Baby's Request, plus folksy stuff too that's bit like Mul of Kintyre. The opening track, Getting Closer, suffers from lazy lyrics and flabbines. It's a dog's breakfast of an album in my view.
I quite liked it when I had it taped onto cassette, but having it on vinyl doesn't make it better, even if it only cost me £3.
I really enjoy that one! And Getting Closer is a personal favourite. This one's on my list for sure.
Lost out on the Harrison album - snatched up in the last ten minutes after bidding that tripled what I was prepared to spend
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"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
And Loeffs, perhaps there's a copy of Ringo's Stop and Smell the Roses you can bid on...
As a matter of fact, I paid a visit to Recycled Records yesterday, and scored a nice-looking copy of Ringo's "Blast From Your Past" (a mid-'70s greatest hits compilation) B-) Haven't had a chance to play it yet...
Check out my Amazon author page!Mark Loeffelholz
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
And Loeffs, perhaps there's a copy of Ringo's Stop and Smell the Roses you can bid on...
As a matter of fact, I paid a visit to Recycled Records yesterday, and scored a nice-looking copy of Ringo's "Blast From Your Past" (a mid-'70s greatest hits compilation) B-) Haven't had a chance to play it yet...
I also have 'Blast From Your Past'
I'd never listened to any of Ringo's post-Beatles solo material, and I enjoyed this intro to his solo work. I shall have to explore further.
LoeffelholzThe United States, With LovePosts: 8,998Quartermasters
Latest acquisition: a 3-title 'lot' of Wings: Band on the Run, Wings at the Speed of Sound and Wings Over America...for a grand total of $7.25, shipping included---mind you, it was described as 'low- to mid-grade,' with the vinyl on various of the ten total sides(!) varying in the seller's grading scale from VG to VG+, so I was prepared for it to be a bit dodgy. There is some slight surface noise on the first two titles, and the live record is nearly immaculate, except for a skip I can't rectify on the song "Maybe I'm Amazed" X-( And so I will continue to look for a better copy of that one. All in all, though, I consider it quite a success for the price
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"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
Not sure about Wing's Greatest, the cover if very off putting. I think it was some ambitious thing of Linda's, and she made a right hash of it, acc to one bio.
I have one mad query. On a couple of albums, I place it on the turntable and press play and something horrible happens; the turntable appears to break. It sort of grinds and resists and the arm doesn't move at all, it is very disturbing. With a recent Chopin LP, I manually lowered the arm onto the record, but while this played, it sounded awful, sort of slow and half paced, like it was a digital recording gone kaput.
Why would this happen? I can find no logical reason. Is the record warped? That wouldn't affect the arm actually moving and lowering onto the record would it? Each time, I think, right that's it my record player is bust, but then I place another LP on and it works fine.
Not sure about Wing's Greatest, the cover if very off putting. I think it was some ambitious thing of Linda's, and she made a right hash of it, acc to one bio.
Sad news, that Paul said some nice things about him; particularly praising his guitar solo in 'My Love.'
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"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
Okay, Geoff Love and His Orchestra does Big Bond Themes.
(And also Casino Royale)
Now I did turn my nose up at this as a 10 year old, as it was clear that it wasn't the original music. Much in the same way as you had these pop compilations back then that turned out to be done by soundalikes; all the Top of the Pops albums were like that, though today they have a kitsch charm. And in some, few cases the reproductions were said to be better than the original (Space Oddity and Bohemiam Rap, I think the latter at least was played by Kenny Everett who said I defy you to notice the difference.)
But I saw this going for £2 in a tat shop and snapped it up for nostalgic reasons, anyhow the cover is worth it alone! It's great, and as a kid it would put you in a spin as it seems to feature scenes you never saw in a Bond film. 'Wow, a red Aston Martin! I wonder what film that was in? Maybe the villain had one,' that sort of stuff you had to go through before the advent of instant media.
I got the one with Roger Moore facing front, in later editions you saw the back of his head for copyright reasons.
For all that, this is Easy Listening Bond. Strip Barry of sass, sex, balls, erase the gravity and the sublime, and you are left with this. It's alright, but won't even wake up the horses let alone frighten them. Appropriately, it only really gets in its element when it does Herb Albert's Casino Royale, because of course all that was Easy Listening anyway.
Only listened to Side One so far, but the album only goes up to The Man With The Golden Gun; you'd imagine Love might have been more at home with the songs that followed.
But he's getting three years for Millennium Prayer. He's asked for Mistletoe and Wine and Congratulations to be taken under consideration.
I do greatly enjoy his late '70s single Devil Woman...but I've alway hesitated to spring for the LP it's on, Nearly Famous, I believe ;% So I've settled for having the single on iTunes...
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"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
Devil Woman is superb, much like Elvis' Suspicious Minds, its his comeback and then some single. Of course, Cliff created rock n roll whereas Elvis was just following in his wake... )
Any pop fan could come up with a Cliff Greatest Hits, gems like the above also Summer Holiday, Move It, Livin Doll, then Devil Woman, We Don't Talk Anymore, Carrie, She Means Nothing To Me, Wired for Sound.
But maybe the Summer Holiday LP aside for nostalgic reasons, I don't think any pop fan would buy a non-Greatest Hits Cliff album, ever.
"This is where we leave you Mr Bond."
Roger Moore 1927-2017
LoeffelholzThe United States, With LovePosts: 8,998Quartermasters
Devil Woman is superb, much like Elvis' Suspicious Minds, its his comeback and then some single. Of course, Cliff created rock n roll whereas Elvis was just following in his wake... )
X-( Heresy, sir!! Heresy, I say!
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"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
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Comments
I heard a song the other day, sadly the dj gave no infomation about it, so
I'm hoping someone might have a clue.
I think it was sung by BB King , or one of those older blues guys, and think it
may have been called " Ain't it amazing what a woman can do " at least that line
was repeated a lot in the chorus. I'd love to add it to my music library.
Today I received Mumford and Sons' Babel in 180-gram for a reasonable price. Sounds fantastic
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
Now, on my turntable you can adjust the speed of the record being played, and I guess that is done by affecting the belt, I don't know. But you see, when I first played Rubber Soul and Come Fly With Me they both sounded great and revved up, but later I realised they were in fact playing a bit too fast, so it just seemed better in the same way that remixed, sped up discs sometimes sound better (Brimful of Asha, for instance). Not discounting the benefits of vinyl generally, mind.
But with that in mind, how do you really actually know that the vinyl you are playing is at the exact correct speed that it is intended? You can ajust it to minute degrees, and that is fine, but unlike with CDs or tapes, you never find yourself thinking, okay, is this how it was meant to sound?
Or is it meant to be like the colours on your flatscreen, you simply adjust to personal taste?
Roger Moore 1927-2017
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My turntable has a strobe light, which indicates when the turntable is spinning at exactly the right speed, like in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbdK94vl_Bs
If your deck is not fitted with a strobe light, there are paper strobe discs that you can use to judge the RPM of the table based on the frequency of the lights in your home: http://www.vinylengine.com/strobe-discs.shtml
Of course, if your ear likes the sound of a record played at a slightly faster tempo, by all means play it at that speed.
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
Back to the Egg is not such an album.
Now, like all Wings and Macca solo stuff, there are some little gems here, such as the opening tracks of Side 2, Rockestra with its Waterloo-style opening rush and climaxing with its yobbish mockney, it segues brilliantly into the new wave Clash-style To You.
But that sort of sums the album up, in that it's an uneasy mix of prog rock and new wave, each making the other sound redundant. Like if you mixed a Madness album with one by Pink Floyd. I know the White Album had all kinds of stuff on it, and it worked, but on the other hand you wouldn't put Helter Skelter on Sgt Pepper, would you.
Other good stuff on Back to the Egg includes the new wave My Sharona-style Old Siam Sir, and if only this album had stayed in that particular style throughout... But you also have the quite serviceable disco sound of Arrow Through Me and crap like Baby's Request, plus folksy stuff too that's bit like Mul of Kintyre. The opening track, Getting Closer, suffers from lazy lyrics and flabbines. It's a dog's breakfast of an album in my view.
I quite liked it when I had it taped onto cassette, but having it on vinyl doesn't make it better, even if it only cost me £3.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
I really enjoy that one! And Getting Closer is a personal favourite. This one's on my list for sure.
Lost out on the Harrison album - snatched up in the last ten minutes after bidding that tripled what I was prepared to spend
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
Roger Moore 1927-2017
[Edited by Barbel: too much information there, NP]
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Roger Moore 1927-2017
As a matter of fact, I paid a visit to Recycled Records yesterday, and scored a nice-looking copy of Ringo's "Blast From Your Past" (a mid-'70s greatest hits compilation) B-) Haven't had a chance to play it yet...
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
I also have 'Blast From Your Past'
I'd never listened to any of Ringo's post-Beatles solo material, and I enjoyed this intro to his solo work. I shall have to explore further.
Actually, it was misinformation, but never mind...
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Every platter is an adventure waiting to be had -{
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
I have one mad query. On a couple of albums, I place it on the turntable and press play and something horrible happens; the turntable appears to break. It sort of grinds and resists and the arm doesn't move at all, it is very disturbing. With a recent Chopin LP, I manually lowered the arm onto the record, but while this played, it sounded awful, sort of slow and half paced, like it was a digital recording gone kaput.
Why would this happen? I can find no logical reason. Is the record warped? That wouldn't affect the arm actually moving and lowering onto the record would it? Each time, I think, right that's it my record player is bust, but then I place another LP on and it works fine.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Each to his own, I guess. I like it.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/15/wings-guitarist-henry-mccullough-grease-band-dies
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Sad news, that
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36546038
Roger Moore 1927-2017
(And also Casino Royale)
Now I did turn my nose up at this as a 10 year old, as it was clear that it wasn't the original music. Much in the same way as you had these pop compilations back then that turned out to be done by soundalikes; all the Top of the Pops albums were like that, though today they have a kitsch charm. And in some, few cases the reproductions were said to be better than the original (Space Oddity and Bohemiam Rap, I think the latter at least was played by Kenny Everett who said I defy you to notice the difference.)
But I saw this going for £2 in a tat shop and snapped it up for nostalgic reasons, anyhow the cover is worth it alone! It's great, and as a kid it would put you in a spin as it seems to feature scenes you never saw in a Bond film. 'Wow, a red Aston Martin! I wonder what film that was in? Maybe the villain had one,' that sort of stuff you had to go through before the advent of instant media.
I got the one with Roger Moore facing front, in later editions you saw the back of his head for copyright reasons.
For all that, this is Easy Listening Bond. Strip Barry of sass, sex, balls, erase the gravity and the sublime, and you are left with this. It's alright, but won't even wake up the horses let alone frighten them. Appropriately, it only really gets in its element when it does Herb Albert's Casino Royale, because of course all that was Easy Listening anyway.
Only listened to Side One so far, but the album only goes up to The Man With The Golden Gun; you'd imagine Love might have been more at home with the songs that followed.
EDIT: Have listened to Side 2, it has more bass and balls. Dare I say I even prefer Love's version of OHMSS, which sounds better on vinyl than it does on this Youtube clip but never mind
Roger Moore 1927-2017
I think I'd have lost my faith in humanity otherwise!
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Could there be a defence of diminished responsibility...or insanity?!
I do greatly enjoy his late '70s single Devil Woman...but I've alway hesitated to spring for the LP it's on, Nearly Famous, I believe ;% So I've settled for having the single on iTunes...
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
Any pop fan could come up with a Cliff Greatest Hits, gems like the above also Summer Holiday, Move It, Livin Doll, then Devil Woman, We Don't Talk Anymore, Carrie, She Means Nothing To Me, Wired for Sound.
But maybe the Summer Holiday LP aside for nostalgic reasons, I don't think any pop fan would buy a non-Greatest Hits Cliff album, ever.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
X-( Heresy, sir!! Heresy, I say!
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM