Song of the Day (or welcome to the ADD Generation).....

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Looking up Rolling Stones stuff ... found this - a different slant ...

 

 

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From the album of needledrops playing, this stood out for the quality of the capture of the tonality of real drums, in the extended solo ...

 

 

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16 hours ago, christopher3393 said:

based on Junior Parker's "Feelin' Good",  Hully Gully Now" by  Big Bo & The Arrows, 1962. A little zydeco flavor. Sorry about SQ.

 

 

 

...which inspired  Woolly Bully", "Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs:

 

 

 

Which inspired me to post,

 

 

Heard this live, simple concert setup in the nearby park.

 

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When you're in the mood for that piledriver, take no prisoners song, Robert Palmer is about as good as it gets ...

 

 

Fabulous stuff ...

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An earlier driver,

 

 

I love the drumming in this, big tick for getting it spot on.

 

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I can never get enough of this type of thing ...

 

 

Beautifully recorded, this album is packed solid with high energy, down and dirty blues ...

 

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Some people may know this album from another song on it, ...

 

 

Very, very creative music - every track's a winner, I find.

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Some here might be able to relate to this, at a personal level ...

 

 

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Maybe a good time to listen to my all time favourite Nilsson track, ,

 

 

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So, who needs music to be entertained ...

 

 

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This is for Andrew "Greedy" Smith, who just passed away; a creative force in the band, Mental As Anything, a group who produced pop in about the purest sense of that word; always a pleasure to listen to,

 

 

 

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'Bout time for some of this - with highly relevant lyrics too, 😉

 

 

 

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It's called technique ... and it's been around for a long time - some are better at it than others,

 

 

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Got this album, of 2013, from the local library some time ago, and was pleasantly rewarded,

 

 

 

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Sometimes, you just need to experience a bit of sick music ...

 

 

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I must have been living under a rock ... had never heard this song, until this NYE when Marlon Williams did an excellent cover of it, on the lead up concert on the telly,

 

 

Marlon is quite a find, to me,

 

 

 

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Which put me in the mood for some classic ...

 

 

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Since I just mentioned the band Yes elsewhere, I felt I might just repost this track which my audio enthusiast local pulls out when we want to verify a good progress session,

 

 

The layering of acoustics and sound will 'break' most systems - there's a full blown church pipe organ going for it in the background, which emerges as a completely separate sound entity, with full integrity in its own right - when SQ potential is fully realised. Remarkable creativity, a somewhat overwhelming soundscape extravaganza.

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Was just reminded of this song ... so, just for the fun of it,

 

 

 

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And, another favourite,

 

 

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The Aldi TV I'm using to play stuff at the moment keeps surprising me - it does a good job on material that many rigs can struggle with ... this Ry Cooder album, and track, had its bite conveyed nicely,

 

 

 

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9 hours ago, The_K-Man said:

 

After the thirty-odd second guitar info, it just collapses into a bowl of mush.  The drums sound recessed, like they're in the  next room, with next to no visceral punch.  The mix sounds busy!

 

One of the reasons I use this album for checking out systems, 😁 - what I'm after is for the sound to NOT collapse into a bowl of mush !! Yes, the mix and mastering are extremely testing - huge echo, with instruments piled on top of each other - the gang's all here, type of thing.

 

Get the rig in good enough shape - and it all works ... this is why I have a stack of such recordings on hand; they do separate the men from the boys ... 😉

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10 minutes ago, The_K-Man said:

 

It sounds like a two-dollar suitcase on any size or power setup I listened to it on.

 

And it's not the system folks, or the format - it's the production.

 

 

Yes, the production will make it hard for the brain to work out what's going on if the clarity in the replay is not there ... just imagine you had the musicians doing this number, in a big space, around you - for real, no PA ... would it sound like a two-dollar suitcase, then? 😉 Yes, the sound would be pretty overpowering, you wouldn't call it a 'pristine' acoustic - but it wouldn't collapse into a "mash" ... that's the point.

 

If you get the replay of this right, it conveys a sense of 'massiveness', intensity, which bowls one over - quite brilliant as a listening experience.

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Not just a song, but a whole show ... 🙂.

 

Literally just discovered this mob - bloody fabulous stuff,