A random thread for small entertainment things not warranting their own thread..

[Ham]

Something of a service to humanity:

http://radio.garden

Allows you to listen to any radio station in the world.  I've currently got this going: http://radio.garden/listen/sr2/MYkzevzf  SR2 used to be my favourite station when I was driving to clients in the Hunsrück. Can't get it here.

Bloody brilliant! Thanks!

Thanks? Thanks ? ? ? ? I've got better things to do with my time than sit here tuning into random radio around the place. Maybe. If I could only think of them. One more minute, then.

[tiermat]

@Ham, hahahahaaa.  You won't want to know that there is an Android app too, will you?

I spent all of yesterday afternoon annoying Mrs T with Catalan music stations.  Brought back lots of great memories.

[Tim Hall]

Lauren Laverne, off of 6 Music, just played "Where Were You" by The Mekons.

I saw The Mekons once at The Lyceum, on the same bill as Stiff Little Fingers, The Human League, The Fall and The Gang of Four. Top gig.

Google tells me that was in March 1979. Nearly 42 years ago...

[ian]

o hai biffy clyro!

Putting 20 minutes of fuck-all in the middle of a track is neither big nor clever.  Don't do it again.

kthxbai

PS: Audacity to the rescue.  Again.

From what I've heard of them, that would be the best bit.

[Zipperhead]

Man builds guitar out of his dead uncle’s skeleton, uses it to play black metal. The surprising story of one metal fan's quest to have his uncle “shred for all eternity”

The music lives on...

[Cudzoziemiec]

Reminiscent of various beliefs and practices.

[Mr Larrington]

He obviously hasn’t read The Laundry Files, specifically the bits involving Mo and the violin.

[andrewc]

He obviously hasn’t read The Laundry Files, specifically the bits involving Mo and the violin.

Or some of the more gruesome passages in Banks's "The Player Of Games" & "Use Of Weapons"

[rogerzilla]

I thought my CD player was fuX0red until I googled it and found the squeak every second line in "Counting Stars"* is actually on the recording.

*on a compilation, I wouldn't buy that sort of X Factor-level crap on its own 

[Kim]

Do CD players ever fail in a subtle way like that?  I've only ever known them to lose their tracking and stop playing for a bit^[1], completely reject the disc, or stutt-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t until you wished they rejected the disc.

I suppose the analogue side could go wibbly...


_{[1] Shout out to whoever thought the CD walkman was a good idea.  Prat.}

[Mr Larrington]

The one in my motor-car seems to do all of the above on home-burned CDs, at random.

Anyway, Bandcamp: if I purchase ten albums from your estimable selves would it really be that difficult to arrange for SCIENCE to package the whole lot into a single archive instead of making me go <clicky-pa-a-a-use-save> ten times?

[rogerzilla]

They have motors, bearings and (sometimes) drivebelts, so they can certainly make mechanical noises.

I usually play music from a media streamer using high bitrate MP3s but CDs sound immeasurably better and less muddy.  CDs cost next to nothing secondhand.  I'm not bothered about new music because I have zero tolerance for autotune (now universal).  I suppose the kids have grown up with it and don't notice it, but it sounds unmistakably reedy to me.

[Steph]

He obviously hasn’t read The Laundry Files, specifically the bits involving Mo and the violin.

Or some of the more gruesome passages in Banks's "The Player Of Games" & "Use Of Weapons"

Or the Northumbrian folk song 'The Two Sisters' [various other titles]

[nicknack]

He obviously hasn’t read The Laundry Files, specifically the bits involving Mo and the violin.

Or some of the more gruesome passages in Banks's "The Player Of Games" & "Use Of Weapons"

Or the Northumbrian folk song 'The Two Sisters' [various other titles]

Aye. 'Cruel Sister' on Pentangle's album of the same name from a very long time ago.

[Kim]

They have motors, bearings and (sometimes) drivebelts, so they can certainly make mechanical noises.

Yeah, but that would come from the transport rather than the speakers/headphones, so there wouldn't be a question of whether it's supposed to sound like that.

I usually play music from a media streamer using high bitrate MP3s but CDs sound immeasurably better and less muddy.

Best of both worlds: FLAC.

I'm not bothered about new music because I have zero tolerance for autotune (now universal).  I suppose the kids have grown up with it and don't notice it, but it sounds unmistakably reedy to me.

It's the overcooked vocoder effect that gets me.  It was irritating, if novel, when Cher did it.  It hasn't improved with time and proliferation.  Humbug.

[tiermat]

@Kim, I think you'll find the only time that the vocorder is acceptable is "Mr Blue Sky" anything is pish.

Meanwhile the thing that gets me about modern music (as we seem to be heading in that direction) is the perception that a song is only any good if it contains lots of, what I call, the woowoos.  You know the thing, I blame Leona Lewis, Anne Marie and Jess Glynne.  Stoppit! NOW!

Come the revolution, they'll all be up against the bloody wall, comrade

[rogerzilla]

Autotune sounds just as bad when it's used to cover up a lack of singing ability.  In its early days, Avril Lavigne, who can't carry a tune in a bucket, used it on "Complicated", and it's really obvious.

[andrewc]

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/feb/15/he-was-the-steve-jobs-of-audio-how-rupert-neve-changed-the-sound-of-music-recording

[Kim]

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/feb/15/he-was-the-steve-jobs-of-audio-how-rupert-neve-changed-the-sound-of-music-recording

Possibly one for the dubious claims to fame thread, but I once met the AIR studio 1 Neve mixing desk (as modelled by Mark Knopfler's feet on the cover of On Every Street) with its guts hanging out.  They're even more impressive on the inside; the witchcraft's all done with transformers, none of this op-amp rubbish.

[Mr Larrington]

The desk at Sound City was also one of his/theirs.  Much fun ensued when Dave Grohl bought it and moved it to his own studio.  Reassembly is the reverse of disassembly only there's no Haynes Manual and it was installed in 1969…

[andrewc]

A remake of "The Ipcress File" ?   And it sounds like they are developing the lead character from the film rather than the original novel.   


https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/philharmonic-pub-transformed-city-centre-19853634


https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/itv-turns-ipcress-file-tv-160039658.html

[Mr Larrington]

“Berlin-set”?

Neither the book nor the film goes anywhere near Berlin

[T42]

They've probably docked the line "Your seams are crooked, Alice" as well.

[Tim Hall]

From the Liverpool Echo article linked up there ^

The new ITV spy thriller stars Joe Cole, Harry Palmer, Lucy Boynton and Tom Hollander and is adapted by BAFTA winning Trainspotting writer John Hodge.

My bold.  Rilly?  I wonder which part he'll play? Less excitingly, I'd suspect the word "as" could be usefully inserted into that sentence.

[andrewc]

Truculent cockney oik, or truculent Burnley grammar school boy ?