What are you Listening to?

[larsvsnapster]

Some Joe Jackson live set around the time of Volume 4.  Don't know the date, not near enough to the stereo computer to see, balance is wobbly today so I'll just have to not know the specifics.  But he's playing as well as ever and the audience is really enthusiastic. 

[Guybrush]

Revisiting my first-ever online record purchase from decades ago - a rarity that gave me my first taste of what would become a life-long pursuit of ambient vinyl.

Mannheim Steamroller - Fresh Aire 1972-1982 Limited Edition Collectors Series velvet bound box set with pewter emblem. This was a limited numbered edition distributed as a gift item to the employees of American Gramaphone.

Here are a few pictures of the release from my archives. You never forget your first. <3

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Hey, @innerspaceboy 🙂

I don't know Mannheim Steamroller, but this certainly looks like a great collectible for any vinyl collection.

Is the music as good as the packaging would have me believe?

Thanks for sharing!

[aurora]

The VU and the rain, and there's some angry lady yelling on the sidewalk below my window.

[Marie Monday]

This rules, especially the first track

[Meatwad]

The VU and the rain, and there's some angry lady yelling on the sidewalk below my window.

Are you able to beatbox to it ?

[innerspaceboy]

Hey, @innerspaceboy 🙂

I don't know Mannheim Steamroller, but this certainly looks like a great collectible for any vinyl collection.

Is the music as good as the packaging would have me believe?

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks! MS is an iconic neoclassical new age / symphonic prog ensemble featuring a fusion of electric and acoustic classical, jazz, and folk. Admittedly a bit cheesy at times it was still an important stepping stone for my musical journey. They released an "Interludes" volume which focuses on their more ambient compositions which I prefer.

[larsvsnapster]

Thanks! MS is an iconic neoclassical new age / symphonic prog ensemble featuring a fusion of electric and acoustic classical, jazz, and folk. Admittedly a bit cheesy at times it was still an important stepping stone for my musical journey. They released an "Interludes" volume which focuses on their more ambient compositions which I prefer.

The reason that they're cheesy is that they're from Omaha.  I live in Omaha.

Weird bit of trivia:  Chip Davis from Mannheim Steamroller was responsible for the CW McCall character (remember "Convoy"?).  Bit gobsmacked when I found that out because it's weird to find country on one side to me and new age on the other.

[Psy-Fi]

It's All over Now Baby Blue - Marianne Faithfull | The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968)

[Mindy]

[aurora]

This rules, especially the first track

Love this

[aurora]

This shit again. I hate it.

I ordered a new CD / cassette player... I'm happy. I found Peggy Suicide on CD, a 1984 Human League Hysteria cassette, and  Ariel Pink's The Doldrums on CD at my local buy sell trade book store the other day.

[aurora]

[Meatwad]

Eazy-E - Real Muthaphuckkin G's

[innerspaceboy]

Edit - amending that - here's the 2008 remix, one of my favorite music videos, conjuring a mythos of the origin of
"The Running Man" dance. The twist ending is classic.

[Meatwad]

Definitely a good song when it first came out. Also didn't mind the update that was done in '08.