Nostalgia

[SAVO]

As much as I like some of the latest music out there pioneering music to new extremes, I always crave old records before my time (I was born in '87).

Theres nothing more satisfying than finding an old raggae or/ funk/soul/rock/disco tune from the 70s and absorbing its old, analogue, dirty, crunchy, sound in. I love the sound of the dirt on the vinyl and its slight lack of quality, tube distortion and recordings off tape.

Everything nowadays sounds so perfect and over-produced, it gets boring...as in, VERY boring.

Old skool chili peppers, Jamiroquai's first two albums, Old dub records, jungle from the early ninties, James Brown, Ray Charles, Argent, Zapp & Roger!

Meanwhile singing along to "Why" by Carly Simon!!...

So what music, harmonies, and vibes of old do u folks miss so much??

[SAVO]

To add to that. I just feel this very fuzzy feeling in my stomach when listening to Funk and the old stuff. Same feeling when "in love"... Sorry for the soppiness guys.

a special thing u cant describe in words. *sighs*

;-)

[John Koch-Northrup]

There's great music from every time period and every genre. Exploring different music - having fun with it - diving into stuff you've never heard before - finding something old, realizing 70 people have been inspired by it and taken bits and pieces... that's cool to discover. I'm a huge Beatles fan... despite the fact that Wings had broken up by the time I really "discovered" music in the mid-80's. Most of my vinyl records are from the 80's - although I went in a major Bowie/Roxy Music phase at one point and regularly raided the used record shops. I have a huge fondness for Blue Note jazz albums. Anyway - the list is very lengthy.

[åpne sinn]

The Chili's first two albums were by far their best, with Uplift Mofo Party Plan topping the list. Their music was raw and in your face back then, nothing at all like the homogenized pseudo-rap they've been turning out since Blood Sugar Sex Magic. If you love them, you should dig into the band they cite as their biggest influence - Fishbone. Nobody did it better or a bigger set of balls.

For me, I can't really say I enjoy much of today's music - other than what we put out on this site. I find that most of the modern music I listen to is new stuff by old acts; Rush, Depeche Mode...others. I've been going through a pretty heavy Rush revival lately, and haven't been able to listen to much else. It's amazing the nuggets you rediscover when you go back through a catalog - the album tracks that didn't get all the airplay and weren't played on tour but were just solid, catchy songs.

Rush is the greatest band ever, by the way. Just thought I'd say that.

[SAVO]

with Mr Peart on drums so u can't go wrong lol

Endoflogic said:

The Chili's first two albums were by far their best, with Uplift Mofo Party Plan topping the list. Their music was raw and in your face back then, nothing at all like the homogenized pseudo-rap they've been turning out since Blood Sugar Sex Magic. If you love them, you should dig into the band they cite as their biggest influence - Fishbone. Nobody did it better or a bigger set of balls.

For me, I can't really say I enjoy much of today's music - other than what we put out on this site. I find that most of the modern music I listen to is new stuff by old acts; Rush, Depeche Mode...others. I've been going through a pretty heavy Rush revival lately, and haven't been able to listen to much else. It's amazing the nuggets you rediscover when you go back through a catalog - the album tracks that didn't get all the airplay and weren't played on tour but were just solid, catchy songs.

Rush is the greatest band ever, by the way. Just thought I'd say that.

[F Fang]

"So what music, harmonies, and vibes of old do u folks miss so much??"

I think technical limitations with older recordings placed more emphasis on the arrangements and on the chemistry on the musicians, and that seems to be missing from much today's ultraprocessed, autotuned, "fly in the vocal and lead guitar part later" sound. Every era seems to have its characteristic sound or sounds. I associate the 80s with that gated drum sound, for some reason.

Forrest

[Ari Porki]

My first two albums were Rubber Soul (Beatles) and Disraeli Gears (Cream), year was 1970. These two are still very important for me. After that I have collected lot of albums, most of them are vinyls from seventies. Why seventies? Of course I was young and the power of music was something special, but I think there was great big thing with that analogue sound. But I degree that every time period includes great music...perhaps last hundred years?

[rikm]

diatonis said:

I've also have been fascinated with George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh for a while as well as Hendrix, Trower, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Eric Clapton.

It's interesting you mention Hendrix, I've been listening to All Along the Watchtower a lot as a result of a particular show, and regardless of the implications in the series I'm finding it to be a really timeless piece of music, something that sounds distinctly present as opposed to a song from the sixties, seventies, eighties, whatever. It seems really "now" in some way, and I'm really fascinated by how that is...

[SAVO]

could u tell me in brief what Keynesian economics is?

diatonis said:

rikm said:

diatonis said:

I've also have been fascinated with George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh for a while as well as Hendrix, Trower, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Eric Clapton.

It's interesting you mention Hendrix, I've been listening to All Along the Watchtower a lot as a result of a particular show, and regardless of the implications in the series I'm finding it to be a really timeless piece of music, something that sounds distinctly present as opposed to a song from the sixties, seventies, eighties, whatever. It seems really "now" in some way, and I'm really fascinated by how that is...

I understand what you mean. Hendrix was from another planet. I think he wasn't so attached to the current trends. It was all that charisma that created the gravity well that pulled in Clapton and Townshend. Keynesian economics hadn't yet completely taken over the music business.

Timeless music up there with Bach, Mozart and Stockhausen.

[sympathetic | DIVISION]

I've always loved the sound of vinyl, the crackles & pops. In a sea of mp3s & Enhanced CDs & bloody BlueRay DVDs I like to put on a bit of vinyl every so often, although recently our amp blew up so no listening to Jarre's Oxygene or Bowie's Low (Original pressings which I picked up at a 2nd hand store for 2 bucks a piece!). Me & my wife Fiona found "Trance Europe" a 4 LP set of some of the coolest techno & ambient from the 90's (Aphex Twin, 808 State, Juan Atkins, u-ziq, Biosphere just to name a few). Listening to that on not so good quality vinyl is a real treat (A pretty shit pressing)!

[Seren]

I think it started going downhill when everything went stereo, lost the quality mono had.....

OK I'm tongue in cheek - but I know some people believe it too - too many directions for the needle to concentrate on, bound to lose something...

I had one of Marvin Gaye's albums on CD and you could hear it had not been remastered, a sound very much of it;'s time and brought back those days very easily.

[Joe Renzetti]

I have an audiophile setup where I chill listening to retro and modern music. I have all the original Beatles UK Parlophone vinyl pressings that just sound amazing. It's like you're right there in the Abbey Road studio 2 control room listening to them play. Some of the pressings were done on a tube cutter lathe which sound even more amazing. Another great record I have is Hendrix Axis Bold As Love in mono. Big fat sound with lots of presence. The old Sinatra Capitol issues have a real nice production and again you feel like Sinatra's in the room with you. As far as ambient I have some Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, and Tangerine Dream on vinyl but the quiet music often plays at or below the vinyl surface noise. Too bad because hearing the old analog synths as they were recorded is pretty nice. Still the digital CD copies playback great on my gear, centered around a 9 watt 300B SET tube amp.

[SAVO]

Hey Renzetti.

I sort of envy of you. sounds like u have some great days :)

Joe Renzetti said:

I have an audiophile setup where I chill listening to retro and modern music. I have all the original Beatles UK Parlophone vinyl pressings that just sound amazing. It's like you're right there in the Abbey Road studio 2 control room listening to them play. Some of the pressings were done on a tube cutter lathe which sound even more amazing. Another great record I have is Hendrix Axis Bold As Love in mono. Big fat sound with lots of presence. The old Sinatra Capitol issues have a real nice production and again you feel like Sinatra's in the room with you. As far as ambient I have some Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, and Tangerine Dream on vinyl but the quiet music often plays at or below the vinyl surface noise. Too bad because hearing the old analog synths as they were recorded is pretty nice. Still the digital CD copies playback great on my gear, centered around a 9 watt 300B SET tube amp.