That's just one reason I want a physical CD; I want a booklet to browse through. Just one minor detail that makes me enjoy the music more and as you said; digital downloads just isn't the same. Yeah I get the music but I want something I can play in my car and on my 3.1 computer at the cottage while looking at the art on the cover and in the booklet. And I don't have to buy a smartphone or an mp3 player just to transport the music in order to play on something other than the computer I downloaded it to.


Just feels more like I own my copy

Exactly. The only reason I got away from is because someone gifted me an iPod classic back in '06. Sucker is still running strong at 11 years old, and with 59 gigs of music on it. I keep it docked in my car, so i can always listen to whatever I want.

I usually go with one CD for awhile before I switch to something else. But in 2014 when I worked and had to drive back and forth I changed CD every week and even that wasn't often enough

Haven't done a great deal of music listening lately, other than some Beethoven piano works that's I've linked in the past. This morning I slightly shifted geared and returned to my favorite rendering of Paganini's virtuosic Nel cor più non mi sento for violin solo, Leonid Kogan violin. Boy o boy does he play the heck out of it, both technically and musically.

That over with (I listened to it twice) I moved on to another virtuosic favorite in somewhat the same mold, Wieniawski's Scherzo Tarantelle Op.16, written for violin with piano but heard/seen here played by cello and piano, Valentin Radutiu cello. Can't say this is my all-out favorite performance . . . there are a few violin renderings I like at least as well . . . but it's up there.

How odd that they wouldn't include any pictures!







Same here, SO much more prefer the disk than the digital versions. (and for the same reasons)





This post has been edited by mALX: Feb 25 2017, 08:30 AM

Especially considering it's their debut album!

That is so strange! They need a lesson in marketing, lol.

Also for them not properly write the lyrics in the extra sheet of paper

9Muses - Hurt Locker dance practice video



They are GOOD!



If only they still existed in this form...

The convo back at the Errthang Thread got me into a certain mood for some reason. Now listening to the OSTs of Assassins Creed 2 (Brotherhood and Revelations included), AC4: Blackflag and Witcher 3 (DLCs included)!

Listening to this version of Beyond the Time by Aimer and man is it eargasmic.

A selection of Dragonforce:

Three Hammers

Cry Thunder

Wings of Liberty

Last Man Stands

Above the Winter Moonlight

Symphony of the Night

Been listening to a decent amount of stuff, all classical or a related offshoot. Not gonna bother highlighting anything except the one piece pretty much everyone here has heard, at least in part, that being...

Franz Lizst's Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 in a performance by Valentina Lisitsa I like quite a lot.

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Mar 21 2017, 09:47 PM

Man, she's good!


Sad to know your hearing is starting to fail you, Decrepit. You shouldn't have to miss out on the things you like to listen to

OhMyGirl - Windy Day



Not a fave but still good -Yes it is!

This post has been edited by mirocu: Mar 22 2017, 10:56 PM

Queen- Princes of the Universe

I've had one bloody line of a song wedged in my head for ages, finally got around to googling it

I genuinely have no idea where I even picked that line up from

Awesome song. You probably heard it in the first Highlander movie.

Since Easter is not that far away I present to you, for your delectation:

The Idol Formerly Known as Ladybaby - Easter Bunny!

I keep meaning to link this performance but for whatever reason never get around to doing so.

Weber's Andante & Rondo Ungarese (Hungarian Rondo) is most often heard on bassoon, occasionally viola. Here it is played on ophicleide!, a now all but totally abandoned keyed (as opposed to valved) low brass instrument replaced long ago by the tuba. (Despite that, it sounds more akin to the modern euphonium through much of its range.) The ophicleide has a reputation of being hard to play well, with suspect tone quality and often questionable intonation. You'd never suspect it listening to this recording! Nice still images showing what the instrument looks like accompany the music.

An added benefit for me is that, being a bass-tenor range instrument, I'm better able to hear more of what the ophicleide actually sounds like than with soprano range instruments playing in their upper registers.

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Apr 5 2017, 01:28 PM