Sure, everyone uses it, at various stages in the process. Like most fun things there might be a point when it stops being good for you.
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Oh, definitely. I find much of modern (recorded) music unlistenable. I used to watch the Graham Norton show on the BBC. He always has a band on at the end, and they often performed live. There were a few occasions where I heard a new song and immediately sort out the recording, only to find a wall of noise.
I have a suspicion that this is seeping into live music. There have been a few occasions that I have been left wondering how live a “live” act actually is.
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Lot of backing track stuff going on. Sometimes understandable/practical, other times just lazy imo.
But then there are people who actually get irritated when ‘it doesn’t sound like the record’. Or how people naturally sound without autotune. 
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Oh FFS, don’t get me started on Autotune…
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Obviously. But most people i know no longer listen to music in those formats so giving them a record or cd would be a waste of time and money.
That’s the point I was making. It’s a shame that the act of giving music is dying out.
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For my friend, @StevieJayUSA, as he marches today.
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This is brilliant! I’m on episode 23 or so and it’s addictive. So much great music and detailed information.
Strongly recommend it.
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Close up of record player needle reading grooves on the vinyl.
More details/photos:How Vinyl Record Players Work: A Close-Up Look at Their Fascinating Mechanism - Hasan Jasim
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This is what I love about old chart listings. There are some seriously classic songs in there, but the no.1 was a novelty record.
People used to deride Top of the Pops for not being hip and groovy enough, but it was a perfect snapshot of the real world. It was what the music buying public spent their hard earned cash on, and it was rarely the cool stuff.
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Thanks a million for this… Amazing and Words fail me as to how incredible this project and its vastness are.
Guess it means all the other podcasts I am listening to are no more.
Cheers
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Brilliant. Glad you’re into it.
I’m on Episode 50 and I’ve already learned so much fascinating stuff and heard some really great music.
It’s wonderful on many levels.
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From Oz punk to Detroit blues – Nick Cave names his Desert Island Discs
Story by Fraser Lewry
Nick Cave has appeared on Desert Island Discs, the long-running BBC Radio show which asks its guests to name the eight songs they’d choose to keep if they were banished to a desert island.
Cave, whose 18th album with the Bad Seeds, Wild God, was released last year, talked with host Lauren Laverne about a wide range of subjects including his upbringing in Australia, the death of his sons, Arthur and Jethro, and about the lasting influence of Johnny Cash, who the young Cave first saw on TV as a youngster.
“There was something about Johnny Cash that really captured me,” says Cave. "He was the first time I’d ever seen the potential of music to be evil, and outlaw, and dangerous. He looked like a dangerous guy.
“He dressed in black and he started off the programme going [mimics Cash’s onstage introduction], ‘Hello, I’m Johnny Cash’ and he would swing around. There was just this gravity to the man.”
Cave would later cover Cash’s The Singer on his 1986 covers album Kicking Against The Pricks, and eventually sang with Cash himself on a version of Hank Williams’ classic I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry on the Main In Black’s final studio album American IV: The Man Comes Around. Another duet, a version of the traditional North American folk song Cindy, was posthumously released on the Unearthed box set in 2003.
Among the eight songs Cave chose for Desert Island Discs were Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash’s Girl From The North Country, as well as songs by T. Rex, Nina Simone, The Saints, John Lee Hooker, Karen Dalton, Kanye West and Tim Rose.
Nick Cave: Desert Island Discs
- T. Rex - Metal Guru
- Nina Simone - My Father
- The Saints - (I’m) Stranded
- John Lee Hooker - It Serves You Right to Suffer
- Karen Dalton - Something on Your Mind
- Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash West - Girl From The North Country
- Kanye West - I Am a God
- Tim Rose - Morning Dew
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Odd he characterizes Girl from the North Country as a joined disk as Dylan wrote the song and had it on Nashville Skyline. Someone once told me it might have been about Emily Dickinson, but who knows with Dylan.
Nonetheless Dylan and Cash had some incredible moments together. One of my favorites with Dylan’s inimitable passion:
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There’s a wizardry in this lady
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Some albums just sounded like nothing that had ever come before. Dexy’s debut was one of them.
For anybody who ever wondered where the sleeve photo came from (because I always did ) , it was actually taken in West Belfast in 1971 and was of Catholic families leaving their homes in a rush after being firebombed out by their Protestant neighbours.)
‘Holed up in White Harlem , your conscience and you …’
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If I had dinner with Dylan, I would ask him if he regrets writing parts of Visions of Johanna. And then I would flee.
Sadly I’m more likely to have dinner with you. Which I would also flee♥️
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