What are you listening to NOW?

[Cuchulain]

Van Morrison - 'The Prophet Speaks'

[Caprizio2049]

Untethered
Club Edit
Alastor, Rue

[buttslinger]

Did the Mods just erase a thread on cocaine use?
It took me a while, but I found out that if you look to impress a prostitute with sex, she can't get rid of you fast enough.
But if you use a prostitute to score drugs for you, you can't get rid of her.
The Beatles using slimming pills in Hamburg changed the World.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVOuRQPPdoo

[Cereal Escapist]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIIxlgcuQRU

been revisiting The Yeah Yeah Yeahs quite a bit lately because Maps came to mind

[KnightHawk 2.0]

Gee Whiz It's Christmas-Carla Thomas.

[buttslinger]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgJtnEEJf8I

[buttslinger]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFJ5Bj_put0

[legamin]

New Morrissey album

[Stavros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=345VI3ZYsBU&list=PL1wlwytQePp9FRdffIUXI8ftJuJP4te2g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QtGOWemQhY

[bryanferryfan2]

Just Like You by Roxy Music

[bryanferryfan2]

Bryan Ferry - The Bride Stripped Bare ( entire album ) on vinyl.

[holzz]

Motorhead - Sweet Revenge. cool bass and vocals, sociopathic lyrics

[bryanferryfan2]

This Island Earth by Bryan Ferry from the Bride Stripped Bare album

[Stavros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uv4lJsu0Jw

[bryanferryfan2]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOcPrAUJVIA

Pyjamarama by Roxy Music 1973

[bimale69]

http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqqE0VhNG5U

[Stavros]

Alejandra's slide at around 0.30-33 is breathtaking and ratches up the intensity to its erotic climax-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqgArRZouZg

[buttslinger]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZecKsm0Mfw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07T3h0b93Rg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSLgiE8uEbY

[sukumvit boy]

Great stuff,buttslinger,thanks.

[sukumvit boy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPG9GcykPIY
Lotte Lenya ,Mack The Knife

[gonkyy]

Watch Genesis in the early 70th with damn hot and sexy sweet Femboy Peter Gabriel in this Video. I´m so in love. Watch from 1:30 and go on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CubzEiY42zk

[CORVETTEDUDE]

SILENCE ... I'm listening to SILENCE.

[Murmdrum]

Gordon Lightfoot - Summer Side of Life

[AsianBabe_]

MBV “Don’t Ask Why”

[bryanferryfan2]

Still Falls the Rain.....by ROXY MUSIC

[KnightHawk 2.0]

Superstar by Usher.

[bryanferryfan2]

Driving Me Wild by BRYAN FERRY

[Antiquarians]

The Source by Ayreon

[BlüeKarma]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1CnaEmFINc

[Horny Warrior]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghTSod9F6qk

Wooden Shjips

[buttslinger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWK7eVvzqqw

[bryanferryfan2]

Limbo by Bryan Ferry of course.

[bryanferryfan2]

Pyjamarama by Roxy Music

[KnightHawk 2.0]

Sweet Love-Anita Baker

[Stavros]

Yesterday I compared seven different recordings on YouTube of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No 27, op 90. It is one of only two sonatas Beethoven wrote that have two movements, and the first is typical of Beethoven: a restless, even conflict driven statement with a soothing, gentle melody that Schubert would copy to great effect in his sonata D784.

The point of interest is the stark difference in the playing if one compares Barenboim to Ivo Pogorelich, though to me Pogorelich takes liberties that ruin the flow of the music. Even if you don't like Beethove, born 250 years ago this week, it won't take too long for you to hear two such radically different interpretations of the same piece of music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUX1ctW_ruA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4OG1-biycs

[sukumvit boy]

The Barenboim link does not work here in the USA so here is another that might work for some folks in the USA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrlBtZlCIfk
I've heard a lot about the young pianist Igor Levit and I was wondering about your opinion of him. I like the music of Busoni so here is a clip of Levit playing Busoni.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLixl7YQC9U
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Levit

[Stavros]

The Barenboim link does not work here in the USA so here is another that might work for some folks in the USA.

I've heard a lot about the young pianist Igor Levit and I was wondering about your opinion of him. I like the music of Busoni so here is a clip of Levit playing Busoni.


I have heard Levit on the radio, and he is one of many fine pianists we are blessed with these days. Of the younger group, I have seen a lot of Daniil Trifomov on YouTube and he is a very special player, as you can see from the link, I hope! I recently soldiered through parts of the film Hustlers, which for an unknown reason features the Etude in the link and more Chopin in the film. On the basis of recent revelations, it might be the case that Chopin was first attracted to the writer George Sand because she dressed as a boy. It is also alleged that he once told her that he could not compose after they had had sex, and that he probably preferred composing to sex for that reason. Or maybe she didn't have all the right 'equiment' to satisfy this egocentric, Jew-hating louche?

Busoni is an example of someone who was a powerhouse in his day -performer, composer, writer- whose music was much admired that is now mostly neglected. Years ago in London I saw a concert performance of his opera, Doktor Faust and the best one can say is that it is 'interesting'. and as with your clip, his piano transcriptions of other composer's works seems to be his enduring legacy. I have a collection of essays and articles in called The Essence of Music, which was first published in 1957, I think, and they are certainly interesting to read. In particular the essays on Beethoven, whom he called 'the first great democrat in music' -while he also makes pertinent remarks about where Beethovem fails in comparison to Bach and Mozart, so that there is no pseudo-religious worship of Ludwig, who like Chopin and Schubert had problems with women, or in Schubert's case 'the Peacocks of Benvenuti Cellini'...

Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLZ4WJiDldU

[sukumvit boy]

Pyjamarama by Roxy Music
I love anything by Roxy Music

[sukumvit boy]

Yesterday I compared seven different recordings on YouTube of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No 27, op 90. It is one of only two sonatas Beethoven wrote that have two movements, and the first is typical of Beethoven: a restless, even conflict driven statement with a soothing, gentle melody that Schubert would copy to great effect in his sonata D784.

The point of interest is the stark difference in the playing if one compares Barenboim to Ivo Pogorelich, though to me Pogorelich takes liberties that ruin the flow of the music. Even if you don't like Beethove, born 250 years ago this week, it won't take too long for you to hear two such radically different interpretations of the same piece of music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUX1ctW_ruA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4OG1-biycs
I prefer the Barenboim interpretation,seems more 'musical' vs the more 'academic' Pogorelich.

[Stavros]

I prefer the Barenboim interpretation,seems more 'musical' vs the more 'academic' Pogorelich.


Hmmm...if anything it is Barenboim who, by staying close to the score is 'academic', where Pogorelich is just eccentric. Mitsuko Uchida in some of her recordings of the Schubert sonatas speeds up or slows down tempi, often stretching pauses as Pogorelich does in the first movement of the Beethoven, but she manages to pull it off, though in a recital I went to I think two years ago, her fiddling with tempi and pauses was too personal, like she was playing for herself, not to an audience, and I was relieved to leave the concert hall at the end, and quite disappointed with her as a musician.

[KnightHawk 2.0]

Prince-Purple Rain

[bryanferryfan2]

Alexa De Paris by Prince.

[Nikka]

in this exact moment Alice cooper

[KnightHawk 2.0]

The Jackson 5- Give Love On Christmas Day.

[Post Op Preferred]

Imagine Dragon

[bryanferryfan2]

Gentlemen Take Polaroids by Japan

[morim]

"Snagletooth" - Motorhead

[Stavros]

Sally Grossman, lady in red, has died, so it prompted me to listen to this for the first time in years...

https://images.roughtrade.com/product/images/files/000/000/286/hero/5415.jpg?1469688886

[BlüeKarma]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loKqHFV5o2M

[Stavros]

On Palm Sunday, Bach's Mass in B Minor. Although I am listening to it on CD it is available on YouTube. Coming back to this recording after a few years and the experience of listening to the Bach-Stiftung based in St Gallen under the direction of Rudolf Lutz (their church Cantatas on YouTube are the best I ever heard) makes me realize how slow Harnoncourt now sounds. He manages the chamber sections better than the chorus, which is too large these days. Nevertheless, it has its moments, thanks to the genius of JSB.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEsb8fiqqKw

[morim]

The greatest of italian song writers of all times (and may be the greatest in the world) Lucio Battisti playing "eppur mi son scordato di te" on a super cheap gutar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evl-Kgw4N1o

[Stavros]

The greatest of italian song writers of all times (and may be the greatest in the world) Lucio Battisti playing "eppur mi son scordato di te" on a super cheap gutar


Not so much special pleading, as desperate pleading. For over 100 years people in the streets of Italy were singing Verdi, and even if one discounts the songs of Schubert, Mahler, Strauss, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov (and why would one do that?), there are plenty of pop singers who were and are far superior to Battisti, who on the evidence you provide, is an inferior version of either Georges Brassens or Jaques Brel. Italian pop is part of a continental Europen niche, not a universal one, hence Battisti's provincial status

[bryanferryfan2]

Pyjamarama by Roxy Music

[Nikka]

Incipit Satán - gorgoroth

[TempestTS]

In Walks Barbarella - Clutch

Oh hell yes I love me some clutch



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ9GSFZZY6c

[TempestTS]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPRIZGkXdyk

If any of you out there are wondering what kind of guy I would date - This would be the one
And if any of you want to know what girl I would date - she's in this video too
Hint Much as Id love to ride thunder mountain with hard bodied boy candy there, the girl would be the one I would be trying to take home first... then maybe we would ask the boy to join

Digg it

[TempestTS]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zhi3FmTUFg

[TempestTS]

Slayer Repentless - Im guessing you can handle this


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjb0j9l1sz4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjb0j9l1sz4)

[Stavros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPRIZGkXdyk

If any of you out there are wondering what kind of guy I would date - This would be the one
And if any of you want to know what girl I would date - she's in this video too
Hint Much as Id love to ride thunder mountain with hard bodied boy candy there, the girl would be the one I would be trying to take home first... then maybe we would ask the boy to join

Digg it

This isn't my kind of music but I listened to it, then googled Circus of Power as I had not heard of them before and think they sound like Iggy Pop, and they and Alex Mitchell are not so far apart. Guess it begs the question if you would add Iggy Pop into the mix in your wild ride, and even add a fourth, the guitarist from the Ugly Rumours the band knew as Florence? Pictured below, and what a wild ride that might be...

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[TempestTS]

you know how the saying goes - nobody rides for free - but Iggy can certainly ride with me and rumors can jump in back - this car has twin accellerators no brakes and I drive on holy gasoline

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQvUBf5l7Vw



This isn't my kind of music but I listened to it, then googled Circus of Power as I had not heard of them before and think they sound like Iggy Pop, and they and Alex Mitchell are not so far apart. Guess it begs the question if you would add Iggy Pop into the mix in your wild ride, and even add a fourth, the guitarist from the Ugly Rumours the band knew as Florence? Pictured below, and what a wild ride that might be...

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[TempestTS]

Joe Buckyourself - Evil Motherfucker From Tennessee


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goHogPV__Yo

[TempestTS]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9j8bXMgnpk

[Stavros]

[QUOTE=TempestTS;1966593]you know how the saying goes - nobody rides for free - but Iggy can certainly ride with me and rumors can jump in back - this car has twin accellerators no brakes and I drive on holy gasoline
/QUOTE]

It's not my kind of music as I say, but what little I have seen and heard of Iggy Pop he seems to be as cool as he is irreverant, and believe it or not, he is older than me...now, about that 'holy gasoline...' -does it come in a bottle?

[TempestTS]

[QUOTE=TempestTS;1966593]you know how the saying goes - nobody rides for free - but Iggy can certainly ride with me and rumors can jump in back - this car has twin accellerators no brakes and I drive on holy gasoline
/QUOTE]

It's not my kind of music as I say, but what little I have seen and heard of Iggy Pop he seems to be as cool as he is irreverant, and believe it or not, he is older than me...now, about that 'holy gasoline...' -does it come in a bottle?


I love IGGY's energy and his conviction in what he believes in - thats what makes good music real to me - you can tell the ones who are just shuffling through the motions --- cats that go in and record one band member at a time and never even see each other or hear the result till the album comes out - I dont care how much talent you have it becomes mechanical at a point and takes the life out of it.

Now speaking of Musicians who believe in what they are doing --- A little Kory Clarke and Warrior soul is in order

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daJ5oI48otY

[TempestTS]

AC DC BIG GUN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLsXJitaiVo

[TempestTS]

Kyuss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVm8G0ipETc

[poolster]

500 Miles by the Proclaimers

[JPeterson]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVKnsxy-1GQ

[BlüeKarma]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeCSJCB2-Cw

[brysen1_]

Chicane & Ferry Corsten - One Thousand Suns (Original Mix)

[rodinuk]

Test Match Special cricket match commentary

[brysen1_]

Magic - Rude

[favedave]

Nocturne Piano No. 2 In E Flat Major, Op. 9/2 Ct. 109 (https://www.pandora.com/artist/idil-biret/chopin-favourites-1/nocturne-piano-no-2-in-e-flat-major-op-9-2-ct-109/TR57pvljrgqkcJK)

[bryanferryfan2]

Pyjamarama 1973 by Roxy Music ��������

[Stavros]

As it is World Opera Day, today (October 26th), I offer an example of the flawless technique of Edita Gruberova, who died in this last week, singing the role of Konstanze from Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVBbv8BBihY

[Stavros]

And if we must have flawless, try this (but hard to ignore the audience interruptions)-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkHGUaB1Bs8

[Stavros]

En ensemble

Verdi, Don Carlo, from the Salzburg Festival 1986

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsU5ysuNbrk

[buttslinger]

Wishing Well, by Free is a song I first heard here, I think, it's the perfect blend of immaturity and profoundness that made Jr High Rock n' Roll so mesmerizing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLSAGnHNqGc

Probably my favorite Christmas song, Sleigh Ride by Leroy Anderson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yo0hky3HjQ

[JPeterson]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glxeX6hnQ_c

[JPeterson]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQfqI6yDF0M

[KnightHawk 2.0]

La La Means I Love You-Alton Ellis.

[mocboy]

Alexis Korner and Snape - 'Rock Me Baby'

[JPeterson]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXjZJ8E-KtA

[Stavros]

If you don't like musical analysis this will not be for you, but I do, and have watched this twice, the second after listening to Rachmaninov's second piano concerto. It has also made me aware of Celine Dion, who was previously just a name to me. I think she has skill.

Enjoy!

The most elegant key change in all of pop music - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epqYft12nV4)

[Stavros]

Probably Birtwistle's most accessible work -he died earlier this week.

Harrison Birtwistle: The Triumph of Time (1971/1972) / Eötvös - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LngaVVeQkM)

[JPeterson]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LujhWG318Sw

[buttslinger]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQomFaLyQ5I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGf_0EKXBhE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXhhQNJEBXQ

[littlenookie]

Parov Stelar - “Clap Your Hands”

[MrFanti]

The 'Elements of the Universe' (Earth, Wind, & Fire).....

[Stavros]

Zdenēk Fibich: Poem Op 41 Clark Bryan, piano - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omahZQrrIEI)

[JPeterson]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdJ5ZTzA8y4

[Stavros]

A thrilling Rosenkavalier suite out of Pittsburgh

(1) Der Rosenkavalier Suite (Arr. A. Rodzinski) (Live) - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahoZwPouYUE)

[Mirgofino]

The soundtrack to "Marketa Lazarová" by Zdeněk Liška. https://animalmusic.cz/en/album/zdenek-liska-marketa-lazarova

[Stavros]

I listened to this after reading the article in The Guardian. A dodgy piano, but superb playing.

Ukrainian sisters lodging in Northumberland turn out to be musical prodigies | Ukraine | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/29/ukrainian-sisters-lodging-northumberland-musical-prodigies)

Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23 - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2Xsv__mQbc)

[JPeterson]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1UQjWBtPls

[Caprizio2049]

…..the fist single produced by MCA is now $99.00

and i have 2 copies




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q639sVSjMvc




LISTEN TO THE PSYCHO DUST VERSION:banana::banana::banana:


aka Adam Yauch, pronounced Yahwk, also known as MCA and Nathaniel Hornblower, is a founding member of hip-hop trio the Beastie Boys. Yauch was born August 5, 1964 into a wealthy family in Brooklyn, New York. He died May 4, 2012 of cancer.

[Stavros]

I have been watching Cardiff Singer of the World on the BBC, and a Chinese soprano offered a charming rendition of an aria from Donizetti's opera Don Pasquale, which with L'Elisir d'Amore is one of his most engaging operas. Of the YouTube version, there is a splendid live one from Sumi Jo in the 1990s, but this one might be the best.

Of the Cardiff roster, a disappointing year, with the exception of Scottish mezzo Beth Taylor who has a ravishing voice, I hope she wins.

Graziella Sciutti - Quel guardo il cavaliere... So anch'io la virtu magica ( Don Pasquale ) - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuQB2PZwFpk)

[Stavros]

A famous Scottish song, given more of a heavier version here than, say, a folk duo like The Corries would, but what a voice! She is also in the Cardiff Singer of the World, and I think will win it.

BETH TAYLOR Annie Laurie (A A Spottiswoode) - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VamFBMAL5b4)

[CORVETTEDUDE]

Silence

[Yvonne183]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG235IO_V9g

[JPeterson]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy4RebilRSI

[golmash]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUMr6NpeAg4&t=123s

[golmash]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba8VAT8ivPE

[buttslinger]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc_kQ-_w1C8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEyDNTLlRgU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqDmLqPUhO4

[Stavros]

Dvorak conducted the premiere of his 'New World' Symphony in Carnegie Hall in December 1893 and it has been a huge success since that evening. It is a perfectly formed symphony, with a divine melody in the Largo played on the English Horn, or Cor Anglais, that most plaintive of the Reed instruments. A fine performance from the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, whose YouTube videos are mostly wonderful, as is the Alte Oper where they perform.

Dvořák: 9. Sinfonie (»Aus der Neuen Welt«) ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Andrés Orozco-Estrada (youtube.com) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOofzffyDSA)

[Stavros]

A thrilling, epic recording of Mahler's 6th from Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic -one of the best recordings.

Mahler: Symphony Nº 6 In A Minor, "Tragic" - LEONARD BERNSTEIN (youtube.com) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giPhPdztm_Y)

[JanetElise]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxkPTKyiSqY

[lucx]

Benson Boone - Beautiful things... my obsession for the last months...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa_RSwwpPaA?si=2yAI3ORE5Wu4qppg

[BlüeKarma]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYbCY7L2mPQ

[Stavros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYbCY7L2mPQ

Whatever this is, it would never have made the BBC's Pop of the Tops...I am not even sure subtitles would help.

[Stavros]

A splendid version of Strauss's Aridane auf Naxod from the Garsington festival, though there are some moments when the singers and the orchestra threaten to head off in different directions. Spot the singer who was on Britain's Got Talent, employed as an opera singer.

ARIADNE AUF NAXOS Strauss – Garsington Opera (youtube.com) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV1UoFOv9Ho)

[Stavros]

Canteloube - "Bailero" - Sung by Netania Davrath - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iI8tMHrD_c)

[Stavros]

Daft, but clever, and a seductive Carmen! From La Gran Scena-
La Gran Scena - Opera Company di New York (DVD): VAIMUSIC.COM (https://www.vaimusic.com/product/4270.html)


La Gran Scena Carmen Seguidilla - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mADyDSUlgYE)

[BlüeKarma]

Whatever this is, it would never have made the BBC's Top of the Pops...I am not even sure subtitles would help.
Might want to check your calendar, it's not the 60s-70s anymore.
------


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScQ0PgxXL-w

[Stavros]

[QUOTE=BlüeKarma;2088877]Might want to check your calendar, it's not the 60s-70s anymore.
------

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Is this so different?

Arthur Brown - Fire �� (1968) (youtube.com) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzHtePuz13U)

[BlüeKarma]

I don't know, musical taste is subjective, a song may speak to someone and another may not get it.
Probably why there are so many different genres and styles so there's something for everyone.

[Stavros]

Rick Beato on the state of music and technology -it's not really my thing but his illustration of how technology deals with John Bonham's drums compared to the real thing is astonishing. It could be a depressing thing if AI were to replace real musicians and above all, spontaneity, though I think most people are happy plugging in to their music through the internet rather than other means -is it nostalgia alone that holds on to records, record players/sound systems, and dare one mention it -live music?

The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse (youtube.com) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bZ0OSEViyo)

[filghy2]

Interestingly, vinyl records have been making a comeback, so many people clearly do find today's technology unsatisfying. Recently my CD player stopped working, so I went to various electrical goods stores looking for a replacement. I was surprised to find that stand-alone CD players have almost disappeared, but there were several turntables in stock.

The paradox of technology seems to be that the easier it is to access stuff, the less we value it.

[Stavros]

Interestingly, vinyl records have been making a comeback, so many people clearly do find today's technology unsatisfying. Recently my CD player stopped working, so I went to various electrical goods stores looking for a replacement. I was surprised to find that stand-alone CD players have almost disappeared, but there were several turntables in stock.

The paradox of technology seems to be that the easier it is to access stuff, the less we value it.

If you mean Sony Walkman players or similar, they can be purchased online as they don't seem to be sold in shops, though the independent CD/DVD/Vinyl shop in my town used to and not so long ago -but they also sell the decks to go with their vinyl. Shops here like Currys/PCWorld also sell stereo systems, some may even have a cassette player though I am not sure about that, and I do have an external DVD/CD drive which I use on my computer. I also have a radio/cd player in the kitchen though the quality of sound is not great -indeed, I think the record decks and super-expensive stylii now mean you get better sound out of them than in the past, though I think it also depends on the speakers you have. So yes the technology in all areas is better, yet people prefer online content, on average I expect. Where the danger lies, and this is what I think Rick was aiming at, is the source material -the people who choose to make original music, how, and then how it gets played. The dystopian future fear is that everything will be homogenized, that people's brains will follow suit, that Elon Musk will change his name to Tyrrell, and you won't know if your neighbour is human or android. And the sheep are electric.

[filghy2]

If you mean Sony Walkman players or similar, they can be purchased online as they don't seem to be sold in shops, though the independent CD/DVD/Vinyl shop in my town used to and not so long ago -but they also sell the decks to go with their vinyl.

I mean a CD player that plugs into an amplifier as part of a stereo system. I did manage to find one in an old-fashioned hi fi store, though I had to drive across town. I guess a few people can still make a living servicing niches that the big chains ignore.

[Stavros]

Florence Price: String Quartet No. 1 in G Major (youtube.com) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2Fc0IlrGS8)

[Yvonne183]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AjUHjEYCfo

[FionaFortune]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cckroKLPsqg

[JPeterson]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw2uwo6CPKs

[Stavros]

From the Montgomery Variations by Margaret Bonds

Montgomery Variations: VII. Benediction (youtube.com) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O4MpDmWV9g)

[JDunn]

James - Getting Away With It

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIuwp5PWlk8?si=JKMOeT4o1-6lGpA5

[Eddieyork]

The Smashing Pumpkins - Aghori Mhori Mei
Fantastic album

[Ben]

AC/DC - Who Made Who (Official HD Video) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiZHNw1MtzI)

AC/DC - Thunderstruck (Official Video) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2AC41dglnM)

[BlüeKarma]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPToVoGGn_A

[KnightHawk 2.0]

Rockstar-By Nickelback.