Poofread This
More and more commercially available compact discs are using the CD Text system to identify their contents these days. CD Text is data embedded into the CD which identifies the artist, album name, and track name of each track. It’s a nice feature if your CD player is capable of extracting and displaying [...]
And Here Were Seen The Scars Of Age
Capsule CD Review time!
Artist: Blue Öyster Cult
Disc: Spectres (Expanded Edition)
Released: 1977 (original vinyl), 2007 (reissue)
Number of tracks: 14
Total disc time: 53:39
Original album content: It’s hard to think about Spectres as something other than a companion piece to BÖC’s first mega-hit album, Agents Of Fortune and its very popular single (Don’t Fear) The Reaper. It [...]
Growing The Language
So, Diana Ross was on American Idol last night, giving advice to the young, beautiful hopefuls who were covering her songs on stage and about to have their dreams crushed. She kept using the word “pronounciated”, which I’m pretty sure isn’t a real word. I think she realized pretty quickly it wasn’t a [...]
I’ll Be The Jet To Meet His Shark
Catching up on my CD listening…
My good buddies Sue & Joe at 125 Records are distributing the debut CD by Bay Area artist Chris Brown (one of my many musicians with that name, so don’t be fooled by imitators!) called Now That You’re Fed. I’ve listened to it a few times so far and [...]
Strange Bedsitterfellows
Musician Al Stewart has been a guilty pleasure of mine since, oh… high school or so, when I first heard Year Of The Cat and then went in search of his back catalog. I’m actually more fond of his pre-YotC/pre-American fame output, though there was some sporadic good and even great stuff in the [...]
Buyer Beware
This “Limited/Special Edition” CD thing is getting out of hand. I went to Best Buy yesterday to get the new Arcade Fire album Neon Bible. (Yes, I know it’s available on eMusic, but a group like AF really needs the full dynamic range to be appreciated, not a neutered MP3 file.) While [...]
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