Formerly on YouTube in lowly 480 resolution, “Lloyd, I’m Ready to be Heartbroken” is now presented in much improved 720.
Heather Maloney’s “Time and Pocket Change” is another endearingly quirky indie favorite.
Category: Music
Not Fade Away
Lubbock Will Remove Buddy Holly-Themed Crosswalk After Federal Crackdown
Whatever they are, the streetbound specs are now verboten, a casualty of the Trump administration’s crackdown on artistic displays on the nation’s roadways.
What if We’d Been Beatless?
“I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, ‘The Beatles did’.” – Kurt Vonnegut, 1997
I’ve always been as much amazed as amused by the British comedic thread running from the Goon Show with Peter Sellers, to the Beatles, then to the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band and Monty Python.
Michael Palin has said there wouldn’t have been Monty Python without the Bonzos. Would the comedy troupe have existed if the Beatles hadn’t first changed the world? Palin talks about what the Beatles made possible for others in their wake, in this 2012 interview.
Return to Downtown and Back to Mono
Andrew at Parlogram talks about one of the most significant Pop records of all time. Petula Clark’s “Downtown”.
It was a record that everyone of all ages loved hearing. This video of “Downtown” was made by somebody who knows his Sixties-era mono-mix 45 rpm singles. He played it with a mono Ortofon cartridge.
Andrew demonstrates the difference a quality, lateral-tracking mono cartridge can make for purists of original, mono-mix Sixties records.
China Has It, We Want It
It’s Rare Earth. Trump should switch from playing Y.M.C.A. to this.
There is a Table, Turn, Turn, Turn
There is a sneaking suspicion in audio circles that the vinyl resurgence has peaked. But those of us who know the enjoyment of listening to records are confident the format will endure.