Yes, true. I took regal's post to mean he's not familiar with much electric-guitar jazz other than Green. regal, are you looking for stuff similar to Green or just trying to find good electric-guitar jazz in general? I would also suggest checking out the ECM set discussed in this thread from...

Some good recommendations so far, but this thread should have started with John McLaughlin. Check him out on Miles's electric albums, if you haven't already. In a Silent Way, Jack Johnson, Bitches Brew, Live Evil/Cellar Door Sessions, and Miles Smiles are about as good as it gets. Then...

I'm excited about Gergiev's Mahler cycle. The first symphony I attended was Gergiev conducting Mahler, and that's what started me on classical. ...

I've been refusing to buy downloaded music unless it's lossless, but I made an exception for this set because of the prices. Just downloaded it and have listened to only a few tracks so far. ... There seem to be a lot of different styles represented. I'm not familiar with many of the artists...

Downloaded this last night at four in the morning after reading this thread. Have only listened to about half of it so far, but I'm liking it a lot. This is definitely the sort of thing that Reznor does best. A great deal, too, at five bucks for a lossless download.

Agree about the Frenchies in general and Debussy in particular. Maybe try some of Chopin's piano music if you're not looking for orchestral. His nocturnes, maybe. Tchaikovsky's ballets might work. But maybe too much drama at times. Actually all of these might have too much pathos at times if...

Did anyone else see Iván Fischer conduct the NSO in Mahler's second last night? I walked away impressed despite having been somewhat displeased after the first movement. The performance was odd, at least to me, from the start because Fischer drew some extended, dramatic pauses in the opening...

Gotta pick up some Black Keys if you can do lo-fi blues with a rock bent. I love that band.

I had that same dream, Samgotit. Weird. Quote: Originally Posted by GlendaleViper Just for the record, guys, I believe MFSL's "Discovery Series" of SACDs are the only selections they offer that are NOT hybrid dual-layer SACD/Redbook discs. Yeah, from the descriptions on MoFi's...

This is only on SACD -- no remastered Redbook layer? Disappointing. I have an SACD player, but I really never use it any more. Too bad SACD is such a marginal product that nobody's even bothered breaking the copy protection yet. ...

Maybe not considered classic rock, but AC/DC's Back in Black has to be in the running if it qualifies. Everybody and his little sister knows "You Shook Me All Night Long," and "Back in Black," "Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution," and "Shoot to Thrill" are immediately recognizable by anyone who...

I only have one Muddy Waters album, At Newport 1960. Encoded as ALAC, the first nine tracks have a typical bit-rate, from about 800 to 1100kbps. The last four tracks, however, are at about half that. The Get Info window shows them as being stereo, but they sound mono. (The first nine tracks have...

Wow, great poll. I had to go with Zeppelin's debut, but if I had known Velvet Underground only had one vote, I might have been tempted to shore them up.

Yeah, the hard-drive is there in the next track, but not in "Everything in its Right Place". This is very cool. Get someone to play this for real with a little emotion and it could sound even better -- really, some temporal variation on some of the notes and it would be more interesting than...

Okay, are you people trying to steer him away from Who's Next so you can head down there and buy it yourself? Seriously, this album has "Baba O'Reilly" and "We Won't Get Fooled Again," two of the best rock songs ever. When I'm listening to The Who, I always pull out this album first, then...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tarkovsky I have both and I say go with the iMac. Recording is one of the most RAM intensive things you can do. So go big! RAM will be your bottleneck, not CPU. I just want to point out that both the MacBook and iMac support up to 4GB of RAM. This has...

Sure, Rlynn, it seems more convenient to you right now, but soon it probably won't. There are already easy, fairly cheap ways to do this, though, yes, you do need a computer in your listening room. (Actually, that's not strictly true.) But you don't have to run any cable -- today's wireless...

Quote: Originally Posted by FalconP Not a good sign if you ask me. This may mean that out-of-print classics are less likely to be revived in a physical form. Old DG CDs are fetching blackmail prices in the used market, and mortals like me are praying for reissues -- but not as sound...

I don't buy any lossy music either and agree that DG should be mindful that its constituency is likely much more attuned to audio quality than the typical iTunes or Amazon MP3 customer. So, yeah, I get you on the lack of lossless. (I think there are some arguments to be made that lossless is...

Deutsche Grammophon has opened a new online store offering 320kbps, DRM-less MP3s for download. Tracks start at $1.29, or the same number of euro for customers in most locations other than America (although it looks like you can choose your country, so perhaps everyone can benefit from the weak...

But at least Farva ended up jumping the the counter and pummeling the guy with his own two fists, rather than summoning the power of the state to crush Dimpus Burger Guy under the bloated preponderance of ages, ages of illusion -- of justice! O sancta simplicitas!

Quote: Originally Posted by Trippytiger The absurdity of the situation aside, why on earth is the woman who spilled the salt in trouble here? If she told her supervisor, and the supervisor made the call to allow the meat to be used anyway, it seems to me that the supervisor should be...

Quote: Originally Posted by FeedMeTrance whats a social security number? They take money from us young whipper-snappers and give it to the old people. Then they give us this number in return. It doesn't sound like a good deal to me, either; I suspect they just want to keep an eye...

Dzjudz, were you taught this in Holland or in an English-speaking country? Using the plural in these instances is considered unambiguously wrong by any adequately educated native English-speaker. This is a rule that is often violated in conversation, but in writing, especially in formal...

P: All of you Aussies and Kiwis are misspelling skepticism with a K. If you believe that P is true or that P is false, you are not a skeptic in matters of Ausso-Kiwi spelling. If you believe that we cannot say whether P is true or false, or if you believe that we cannot say whether we can say...