Saw them live once. Some bands are much better in the studio. For some reason, live they sang in a different key than their instruments were playing.

It was much like a Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young concert in which Nash sang the first two songs in a completely different key than the rest of the band, but at least at that concert some wise audio technician cut his microphone making the rest of the concert very enjoyable.

Anyone ever listen to a 78?

"Stardust"

The most recorded song of all time and biggest seller for many years.

Artie Shaw's Orchestra version - Great trumpet and clarinet solos.
youtube - Stardust - Artie Shaw


Willie Nelson's vocal version - with nice visuals
youtube - Willie Nelson - Stardust


PairTheBoard

Completely unexpected. You listen to music?

Yes. Just recently got rid of my Magnavox Magnasonic hi-fi console. I kind of miss electronics that doubled as furniture.

Didn't expect anyone to bring up big band stuff.

fapple fapple fapple

Caught being too literal. Thanks.

Didn't think much of those guys. At one time The Who were MOD. Don't were they stand today.

You mean you dont do this when you lot get together!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E4znu82XhE


The whole mod vs rock music thing was mostly manufactured, early jam wasn't that mod, most Who wasn't mod but there was a big market amongst silly kids. Loads of the rockers I used to hang around with wore denim and leather jackets and it was common to have 'The Who' amongst the name spelt out in studs.

The mods were into suits, ties, hair, riding hairdryers etc so not people I could stand to be with.

Senseless violence and mayhem; what's there not to love.

WE ARE THE MODS! WE ARE THE MODS!

I also like the mantra.


Was this just a typical Sunday Afternoon in Merry Old England?
Music brings out the best in people don't it.

Wat? No Cab Calloway on your music shelf?


Cab Calloway; Reefer Man http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D44pyeEvhcQ

Not a typical day, this was traditional bank holiday weekend fun.

The bit that's quintessentially British is that the 'normal' people' are enduring a day out on the cold windy beaches.

Probably correct. Seems a little self-defeating to revive a music/style of 15 years before, whose very name is taken from the word "modernist".

Still listen to a bit of Soft Cell, first loved at 15. Non-stop erotic caberat what a great first album.

Some lovely sax (and less lovely sex), even zeno will appreciate this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuSSQS7asGk

Nice Sax and trumpet. Not a studio vocal but a live look at Sade
"Is it a Crime", Sade - Live



"Cherish the Day", Sade



PairTheBoard

Well, money's the funky thing for which we try

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_tspk1ifFI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3VjaCy5gck
epic cover (Bon Iver)


bonus track
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62i9Sodwp5o

OK, that reminded me very much of this, but it would take several paragraphs to explain and I can't be bothered:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cAfoZWzl8M

Importantly, I had all of these hairstyles at one point during the early 1980's:

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

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-eW_5ia4W8

Some decent music but importantly I've never had a hairstyle.

Well, at least the title is sciency:


and I also like this:


and this:


and of course this:

I got it out of my system early. Kept me from every having to have an avatar.

rap needs to be properly represented:

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

I only post here when drunk. My IQ is still higher than yours till proven otherwise.

Just perpetually trying to distract myself from the fact that I don't even exist.

None of you have ever met me. I'm smarter than anyone. I gave up when I was 15 months old, when I learned how to walk, and also that life is absurd and meaningless. Keep running the hedonic treadmill and chasing the Kurzweilian dream.

while you're at it
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/f...n/faculty.html

if we're one of 7 billion of ~115 billion of the "3rd planet" of the solar system of the galaxy of the universe, you think I have a ****ing imperative to try? **** no. Like Douglas Adams said, if life is to exist in a universe of this size, one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion. Well, guess what, every day when I wake up, I have said sense of proportion. First thing I think of is how laughably futile my life and YOUR LIFE is.

Just picked up A Devil's Chaplain by Dawkins today, which contains Dawkins' multiple eulogies for his friend Adams. Look up the puddle bit, terrific expression of the anthropic principle.

Unlike the likes of most of you who choose to post thousands of times with nothing new to contribute, I prefer to listen. Except when drunk. My posting of Firestein was an oblique way of promoting ignorance (see his book, or the course he's offered at Columbia).

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/09/uranium-mia/

In Timid New World, even if this is nothing to be afraid of, ultimately, well, heh, you can bet that that thread I saw about the chance sof human extinction in the next century...let's just say it's much better than aces getting cracked by an underpair



But basically, I must conclude what Mitchell Heisman did, that we're merely elaborate dna-promulgating natural robots. That consciousness is an illusion. That we're just the heightened experience of chimpanzee consciousness. What about the tests with dolphins and gray parrots and other high encephalization quotient-species and whatnot...how exclusive to humanity is consciousness, really?

Does such logic leave room for being a pedant? Not in my book. Everything is absurd; therefore, _______

?

To me it's "be cool", but

1. others may disagree that "be cool" is the conclusion

and

2. others may disagree about what "be cool" means

basically, I hate myself, but I hate you more.

So we all accept reductionism? Do we accept it as it pertains to our brains, truly? Do you question that **** every day like I do as I live out my mundane tasks? Wondering if I should be questioning my tenuous sanity at any given decision point?

When I glossed over "Incognito" by Eagleman-wannabe-Sagan (of neuroscience), I'm pretty sure he portrayed consciousness as like 20% of the brain's activity that happened to be in our temporary "attention". I did not feel compelled to read further, for fear that I would lose my mind.

Go ahead, read further. Truly figure it out. Then report back to me. Be a hero. A hero for neuroscience. At your own expense. I walk the tightrope as it is; you go ahead and teeter over, and I'll praise your efforts, for whatEVER that's worth.

let's bookend all these inflammatory posts with a song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kObD8X4maLU

It already was

Paging Dr. Freud. Paging Dr. Freud

patient escaped the ward

(somewhere in the security office) - "Stay frosty gents, we've got a live one!!"

What'd Philip K Dick say, something about insanity being the only sane way to respond to an insane world.

Anyway, I'm sober now, and I reiterate the sentiments expressed while drunk.