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The sax made “Shame” better.
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Proof that it’s the singer(s), not the song (usually).

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Audioslave - Show Me How To Live (Lyrics in Description)
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The 5th Dimension - Stoned Soul Picnic.
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Yoshida Brothers - Mirage (Shinkiro)
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【和楽器バンド】天樂 Tengaku 【VOCALOID】
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2meWkWqc-I

Great video editing to create a record of an illusory visual continuity that only exits in mind ... a rapid-fire series of snapshots which correlates to actual memory function when examining your own past.
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I hope you geniuses realize some day that there's a whole world of music out there beyond what's played on the radio. ;-)

One of the main barriers to good music is poor quality speakers/headphones. This isn't too important for popular music as it tends to cater to low-end equipment and is carried by vocals, but for music which relies on subtle textures, details and dynamics, adequate equipment is absolutely vital.

Here's a nice, powerful song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK6QsRhEO20

I'm listening to it right now on HD650 headphones (they cost about $350 on eBay and I'd highly recommend them). I first played it on my lower-end speakers (~$700, but very neutral, reference, hi-fi speakers) and the song fell unfortunately flat and lacked the proper vibrancy and dynamics. (This reminds me that I really ought to upgrade to better speakers.) I shutter as I remember that most of the world listens to music via iPod earbuds.
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Radio would be impossible to listen to with the talking and the commercials. Never got into it although it has the benefit of having no visuals when listening to talk.

You're right about equipment, why bother if half the frequencies are muddles or cut off? And the answer is "emotion", people listen to songs for other reasons than sonic qualities, duh!

I'm still happy with my old Austrian AKG K271 earphones although I listen normally on my ancient Mission floorstanders for more natural spread and less sweaty ears. But I'm also happy with, brace your self, a simple Logitech Z4 set, for casual stuff on the PC. Actually I might end up with only the Z4 at some point. Simplicity...

My current opinion is that all the nerdiness and expensive sound systems are pure religion and imaginary quality. Many modern recordings are quite shit in my ears, drowned in effect, compressed or terribly mixed. And it's at best just a flat simulation of a live voice, drum, violin whatever high dynamics source. It's like scraping some of the dead skin from a living person and glue it on a plastic doll, then talk about "quality" of the delivered human :-) So at this stage, I do not care anymore. But people need a hobby I suppose.
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Diebert van Rhijn wrote:You're right about equipment, why bother if half the frequencies are muddles or cut off? And the answer is "emotion", people listen to songs for other reasons than sonic qualities, duh!
As I said, that works fine for some types of music (ie. radio quality music and pop music) where cutting off half of the frequencies, losing the midrange, and so on doesn't affect the emotions. But for more subtle music that's based on textures and minute details, the emotion can easily be lost or diminished.
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RZoo wrote:As I said, that works fine for some types of music (ie. radio quality music and pop music) where cutting off half of the frequencies, losing the midrange, and so on doesn't affect the emotions. But for more subtle music that's based on textures and minute details, the emotion can easily be lost or diminished.
I don't think it's just all about the type or style of music. People still enjoy listening to their classical music even when "subtle textures, details and dynamics" have been largely removed. That's because they feel a connection to a melody or theme, a memory of a performance, the vague resemblance of a richer sound their equipment never really delivers, and so on. Actually I found out music can work on many levels at the same time, the detailed textures for one, the surface melody or rhythm for another. It's this great ambiguity in music and this whole "constellation" of reasons why people keep listening and enjoying it, which makes music music I suppose!
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The Brian Setzer Orchestra-Since I Don't Have You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxDSKk9lwUU

Music is derivative … synthesized electronics, MP3, magnetic tape, CD, vinyl, live, instruments, human voice, birds, all the way to the source. Lots of in-betweens, some closer to the origin, the point of appropriate equipment.

Fidelity to topic ... music that moves, body, voice and/or mind.

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Bose noise canceling headphones are good enough for me, also practical without music for mitigating the fatigue of certain ambient frequencies.

Yoshida Brothers - Fukaki Umi No Kanata
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We are less than thrilled with the glaring omission in this taxonomy of sounds.

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Pharrell Williams - Happy (Official Music Video)

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The Water Is Wide
- James Taylor

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Imagine Dragons - On Top of the World

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The Animals - House of the Rising Sun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgTSfJEf_jM

Loreena McKennitt - The Dark Night of the Soul:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MclLF47 ... clLF473XtA
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Lizz Wright - Silence (Live)

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Show Me the Place - Leonard Cohen

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movingalways wrote:Show Me the Place - Leonard Cohen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCtoVoE5Mm4
I like that.

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''Laid back is how we do that."

"You know we live automatic, do it automatic."

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