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There we go: https://www.pictr.com/images/2020/09/19/7GYPfj.jpg

https://youtu.be/rKaQzQAlNn4

... So it looks like a few mothers have given this sage warning!

I nearly came here with the question: "What album cover?" But I battled on, brain cells and google, and arrived at the source of my memory: The *booklet* with the album Sunfighter by Jefferson Starship.

https://www.musicaememoria.com/sunfighter_booklet.htm

I'm not an in-ear man, but I wanted something with a mic to use for phone calls, which I have never had before. Maybe occasional music use, but that kind of listening was really for my commuting days....

...Two or three years back, got RHA recommendation here, for low-budget buy. Bought for wife. She's broken the wires, but now got MA390 Universal for this purpose for me. Wow, never realised they are made in Scotland: I got myself some more Brit-fi!

Do I like them? Not that much. They are very clear, with good highs and not too much bass, but the mids/vocal are a little rough at the edges. Will do the job.

Correction. Not made in Scotland, but it is a Scottish company. The earbuds are made in the usual place.

And... How do you guys handle this problem?

Havn't clicked on that bookmark for a very long time.

Yes! It does! Dangerousminds.net. Always something interesting about music, life. And stuff. Stuff to make a person think...

I was reading an article about Bobby Gentry, thus the nudge to listen to Ode to Billie Joe. Article was actually more about the song Fancy, which I hadn't heard before.

I cross referenced Hands with "anus" to find the post in question. I was not surprised to see 3 posts

Different things? Three things that we should avoid then.

Oh, and... one for the "ratings" thread :)

Would be even funnier if they just posted the questions, with no answers.
Less helpful though...

Yes, this called innovation. Keynote 2021. And we are bringing back low travel keyboards. Magic + with less travel.

@spwath... luvit :)

Proper French scrambled eggs should be the consistency of dog slobber, and utterly delicious.

Ou est la poule? On a volé ses oeufs! Ah non...

Don't be silly: voles don't lay eggs!

Then I clicked on the video accompanying a news article I was reading: Buju Banton.

Oh wow... the music, but more: the energy of this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzmzKtOaVf4&feature=emb_logo

@Cspirou, I used to be like that. Somehow, the internet spoilt me.

But sometimes, there's a woman with a ukulele...

I thought you were listening to the Benny Hill theme while reading news articles.

Curious that you should come up with that name from the past. I never liked him!

Shouldn't come as a surprise given her age but this is sad regardless. Giving her a listen and raising some tea to her memory. Green, unfortunately.

Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?
Remember how she said that
We would meet again
Some sunny day?
Vera! Vera!
What has become of you?
Does anybody else in here
Feel the way I do?

RIP

I hope that a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square.

I'm sure it did. Even if only a few people could hear it.

It's old (hey, yes, firewire audio was once a thing) but a lot better than I remembered.

It was easier to set up in Linux Mint than it was in Ubuntu a decade ago, but still required putting together the right versions of the right bits of software. Not for the non-fiddler.

Was there a difference, or was it just me?

OK, so now I got to listen to the same concert on both. Not even close! Facebook is like listening to the music from outside the door.

If it's this obvious to a deaf old guy, it must be bad! Actually, despite my much diminished frequency response, I do hear differences, and hate bad sound even more than I used to.

I have no data on this (other than my own ears) but that has been my experience as well. Facebook, even with "better" equipment (some of the livestreams are just horrible) doesn't sound quite as good to me.

Facebook sucks for audio and video, it's really just a convenience thing with them.

YouTube videos I believe top out at 126kbps AAC while YouTube *Music* maxes out at 256kbps AAC, which is good enough for me as long as I'm not going full audiophile.

And yes, extremely low bitrates make even my favourite tracks sound blergh. This goes into more detail:
https://blog.hootsuite.com/social-media-video-specs/

Listening again today. Nice concert. But there is that /effect/. It is like it lacks depth. But it is listenable, so hey, perhaps my hearing is worse again today! lol

Anyway, thanks for the confirmation that my anecdotal experience might actually be data!

No, I didn't know either. I recall that there was a song called "My Boy Lollypop," Which I hated. Probably, I only heard it on the radio and had no idea about the singer.

Only today I find that if the 1964 12-yr-old me had seen the 16-yr-old Millie singing it, I would have been utterly smitten. What a beauty :)

And hey, maybe it wasn't such a bad song after all

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/06/millie-small-obituary

Party? Way back then, noticing that the roomful of tripped-out people seemed to be at a loss as to what to listen to next, I put this on the turntable and left them to it.

I gather they found it an interesting experience.

My kids love the David Bowie version!

Wow! I didn't know there was one! :)

Mine (I still have the LP, I guess: don't know if it is playable) is narrated by Boris Karloff

Ship it!

Nailed it!

https://www.myhypergear.com/image/catalog/headphones%20fail.jpeg

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/mar/23/remarkably-talented-the-epic-photography-of-kenny-rogers

Lets move on to Dinah Shore. Try Buttons and Bows...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRwgEBhggME&feature=youtu.be

And another of my old favourites, Yes My Darling Daughter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ace9e3y4H_w

Apparently the words were put to the melody of an old Russian (?) song. Does anybody know/have that?

Whilst a lot of this was still on the radio when I was a kid, I also spent those years with my parents' 78s.

Blue and green are the same colour in English: it's called turquoise!

Oh /Pangolins!/ sounds too nice.

My granny had a stuffed armadillo.

Haha, not so much there being a color for the unified, but the lack of distinction between the two. It's been a fascinating thing to read up on:

https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-didn-t-see-the-colour-blue-until-modern-times-evidence-science

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction_in_language?wprov=sfla1

"I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn"
lol
This is priceless

Everything about this short performance is comic, and musical, genius. The final touch of walking into the mic stand is a delight.

Here's the sad thing, that I didn't know until yesterday: that Neil Innes died at the end of last year, when I was away from home, and not able to spend much time with internet and day-to-day news.

This is the sort of thing that makes me giggle for days.

Already works for me, haha.

Love this one too
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/picture/2020/mar/07/modern-toss
Both from The Guardian.