Random Music Talk CXXXI: Interference Finally Gets Its Revenge on Cobbler

[Hewson]

RIP David Johansen

 

[lazarus]

Love him so much. The Scorsese documentary/concert film from a few years ago is fantastic too:

 

[MrPryck2U]

I've been listening to Gaga's Mayhem this past week. No bullshit. It's one of her best albums.

 

[cobl04]

Uhh I just heard Ella Fitzgerald's cover of Savoy Truffle and it's better than The Beatles' version.

 

[DaveC]

Aretha Franklin's "Long and Winding Road" is way better than the Beatles' version too.

 

[monkeyskin]

The Offspring's Why Don't You Get a Job sucks as much as The Beatles' Ob Li Di Ob La Da.

 

[u2popmofo]

If any of you still have lCD collections collecting dust, i highly suggest considering new CD playing equipment. CDs making a comeback amongst younger vintage / hipster crowds has made it so a lot of newly manufactured CD home stereo equipment is available. I've bought a couple inexpensive tabletop CD players with integrated speakers recently, they genuinely are a noticeable improvement in audio quality over a lot of the large shelf stereos or computer speakers we all used to play CDs on 15 to 30 years ago (and will also be a noticeable improvement for anyone primarily using streaming paired with Bluetooth speakers / headphones for music). There are even better player and digital audio converter options available.

Yay for being old enough that things you were young enough to see introduced to market have circled back around as "vintage"!

 

[phanan]

I still have my original Sony CD player from the late 80's (yes, I'm that old) and it works great.

Streaming is great and convenient when I'm working and have the earbuds in, but I still buy CDs and love to listen to them on my vintage CD player in the basement with the nice Polk Audio speakers while crashing on the couch.

 

[phanan]

RIP Clem Burke

 

[U2inUtah]

New Arcade Fire album May 9th

https://www.stereogum.com/2303459/arcade-fire-announce-new-album-pink-elephant-hear-year-of-the-snake/music/

 

[monkeyskin]

I miss being excited for new Arcade Fire music. The buzz when they performed a series of small residencies promoting Neon Bible was approaching fever pitch.

I should revisit The Suburbs and Reflektor sometime, but they're a band I'd feel a lot fonder about if they'd called it quits after album #4.

 

[david]

Yeah, I haven’t paid much attention to Arcade Fire since 2014 maybe. Then there was the Win Butler issues.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

Hello random peeps, whoever is still kicking around these days.

I stopped in to see if there was any discussion about the upcoming Passengers re-issue for RSD and find this place to be a bit of a ghost town which is a shame. I'm assuming its the lack of new releases coupled with the fan-base aging and the loss of the mobile app couldn't have helped either.

Not to mention Headache being made a mod - what is that about? AM I RITE?!

 

[cobl04]

Lovely to see you elfa.

I would LOVE to get the Passengers vinyl but it's not being released on RSD here in Australia.

Bon Iver, Bon Iver is a 10/10 album and 14 years after its release I still have no idea what half of the songs are called.

 

[MrPryck2U]

Hello random peeps, whoever is still kicking around these days.

I stopped in to see if there was any discussion about the upcoming Passengers re-issue for RSD and find this place to be a bit of a ghost town which is a shame. I'm assuming its the lack of new releases coupled with the fan-base aging and the loss of the mobile app couldn't have helped either.

Not to mention Headache being made a mod - what is that about? AM I RITE?!

Wow, it's really been a while for you. Naturally, you'd venture forth to the U2 section of the forums for such discussion. Lol! Headache for President, by the way.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

Two posts in less than a week - slow down there!

I was able to secure a copy of OS1. I only had to stand in line for 2 hours with a bunch of old guys and Taylor Swift fans (what a dichotomy) and spend $70 CAD ($10 USD) Sorry if that amount is triggering for any Australians out there.

 

[Hewson]

Did you pay for it with all Loonies or all Toonies?

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

More like a second mortgage on my house - I remember just a couple years ago thinking $39 for a record was getting to be too pricey, now regular releases start at $49 - $59. Thanks Obama Trump Biden Trump.

 

[cobl04]

I was hoping to get the Passengers record, but it's $100 AUD. Fucking criminal.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

unbelievable prices down there, are you guys having to deal with stupid tariffs as well?

Also completely unrelated; the forum blowing up my tiny avatar pic into a pixilated mess is kind of awesome

 

[u2popmofo]

I like the new Beirut album.