Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

[Paladin79]

Yeah, that's all good and fine but can you tell them apart in a properly conducted double-blind test?

Nope lol.

 

[Paladin79]

Sorry, but Division Bell is NOT Pink Floyd. Without Roger Waters there is no Pink Floyd - no matter how good David Gilmour is.

We will agree to disagree.

 

[JanMc]

Last few Halloweens we've been elsewhere. This time we were in, got candy. No T&Ts at all so far (7:30pm)

Us either. I heard a few kids out there but no one came and knocked. I think they all get in their cars and go to the rich people's houses around here. Middle class america isn't good enough for tricker treaters anymore.

 

[33na3rd]

Qobuz link

PSA since I'm in a Shostakovich mood today: Anyone who might be curious about a good-to-excellent full set of his 15 symphonies may be thrilled to know that this entire set by Mstislav Rostropovich can be bought from Qobuz for the Schiit-like price of $29. That's a buck-ninety per symphony and a downright bargain.

I have a few of the original Teldec CDs that comprise this reissued set, and I'm streaming the 13th on Qobuz as I type; the sound is lively and dynamic - fantastic horns!!! Rostropovich's technical skill as a conductor comes under scrutiny, apparently, but few can argue against his artistic merit, having been a friend of the composer and a leading authority on the interpretation of his works.

@sixergixer,

I meant to thank you earlier for this recommendation. Amazon delivered the 12 CD box set a few days ago. This is a very nice addition, wonderfully moody!

 

[Bowmoreman]

That is a good one…

I stand corrected on my erroneous memory of the “RC” number, but yes, that IS the one

 

[Bowmoreman]

Sorry, but Division Bell is NOT Pink Floyd. Without Roger Waters there is no Pink Floyd - no matter how good David Gilmour is.

Yes… and… no…

It gets easier for me every year that Waters becomes ever more the dick head.

 

[sixergixer]

@sixergixer,

I meant to thank you earlier for this recommendation. Amazon delivered the 12 CD box set a few days ago. This is a very nice addition, wonderfully moody!

That is so great to hear! I have a huge soft spot for both Shostakovich and his friend Slava, so this compilation is a no brainer for me.

 

[33na3rd]

That is so great to hear! I have a huge soft spot for both Shostakovich and his friend Slava, so this compilation is a no brainer for me.

Wonderful music, and getting 12 CD's for the price of one LP isn't bad either!

 

[yonson]

I've been a metal head all my life.

re: MTV. Headbangers Ball was fun, although their playlist was limited. I worked in radio in San Jose CA in the 80's and early 90's and started an over-night extreme metal program called "Brain Pain." We prided ourselves in playing things no radio or MTV would touch - death metal, grind core, thrash, Scandinavian black metal, German noise and industrial metal, technical metal... the most commercial thing we ever played as something like Helloween.

Very cool! I grew up in the South, so it was quite difficult finding anything harder than hair metal on the radio. There was a college station that would play real metal (hardcore, thrash, etc...) but it was only like 2 or 3 hours a week. So I pretty much had to watch Hard 30/60 and Headbangers Ball for my fix of heavier stuff.

 

[Andrew Randle]

None? Sorry. I went through $75 worth of candy in an hour and a half. Lots of kiddos. Wasn't sure what to expect since this was our first Halloween here, but next year I apparently need more candy.

If you run out, you can dig into your tube collection. But then we’d all come knocking…

Andrew

 

[jonathan c]

I think you need to work on the internal consistency of your story

... "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" ... [Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance] ...

 

[turtlerod]

Sorry, but Division Bell is NOT Pink Floyd. Without Roger Waters there is no Pink Floyd - no matter how good David Gilmour is.

We will just have to disagree on the one.

 

[turtlerod]

Us either. I heard a few kids out there but no one came and knocked. I think they all get in their cars and go to the rich people's houses around here. Middle class america isn't good enough for tricker treaters anymore.

I buy a lot of candy and give each kid as much as they can take with one hand. Usually one group of older kids comes around 845 or so and I let them have three hand fulls, and then I go pour a scotch and phuck around on the internet, like right now.

 

[sixergixer]

Gorgeous release from Maurizio Pollini performing some splendid Schubert. The Moments musiceaux is especially choice.

 

[geoffalter11]

... "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" ... [Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance] ...

Love this... "Truth is Paradox"...(shakespeare).