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Though there are Document CDRs which are silver, not white - they abandoned the white ones because they looked bad (they thought that this was the chief problem with them, and that the closer they looked to the real thing the better!) - the silver ones generally have a pixelated Document logo on them, no track list on the disc itself, a black circular logo saying 'mcps', and generally (but not always) come with a slightly 're-designed' liner which has a serif font on the spine (for one thing). I've never tried it because the blanks cost more, and for what?, but you can buy blanks, burners, and software that will burn a design onto your blank. Them lasers can rule the world, doncah' know. that is true - I would never let anyone operate on my corneas with a gramophone needle

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Another way with the Document ones - generally I think the 'real' ones have the tracks listed on the CD itself - I haven't seen a Document CDR with the tracks listed on the disc itself

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You can download software which can identify the manufacturer of a CDR in your pc (never tried it myself - I go by sight - which really only works when you have a definite real one against a CDR from the same company for comparison, on CDR you can often see a slight change in colour on the silver side where the data ends, so the outer few millimetres or so will look slightly different - difficult if the disc space is fully used up. Also, in the case of Document, on the real ones the CD serial number is visible on the silver, running around the centre whole. The CDR ones obviously have been burned to generic discs so no serial number

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just back from the lav

what say?

Just because this thread was here, and because I just watched these (again) - though most people interested in them will likely already have seen them.. music in domestic settings / home videos!!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFBK1TsPlEQ

When you listen to music, everything changes - you can see it happening for people when they walk down the street with earplugs in. They might have a swagger, or a contented smirk.. just because they see their relationship with everything as altered by the music. Similarly, when you emerge from the pictures sometimes you feel a bit James Bondy

I like both CDs and vinyl. CDs though, to me, are fairly redundant and mine will be going in the loft as soon as I can be bothered to move them (having uploaded them all..) - vinyl just persuades me into a more disciplined way of listening, which forces me into a room to hear to a fuller sample (rather than just flipping about aimlessly). A record feels is a bit more like eating a meal with decent cutlery - tastes the same (to me) but feels better somehow. And I like seeing the label go round and round (I hated my mum's twin-tub)

Interesting. I wonder whether that factored into their decision to drop optical drives from the most recent iMacs. Most 'hardcore' Mac users (I'm informed by a man in a shop) tended to buy external drives anyway, so the built-ins were kind of redundant.. also, it might be related that Adobe will be phasing out boxed editions of its software later this year, so that all their creative software is available as downloads only (to be payed for by monthly subscription).

Mm - the merchandising people have been in. It'll be action figures next - first staff, then clientele. I suggest something like:

I think Coltrane and Monk live at Carnegie Hall was 'copy-protected', though at the time I put it on my itunes and it is in fact very copy-able

and also JB Hutto - Hawk Squat on Delmark

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i drive past that tower quite regularly, taking the kids to 'Tropical World' just up the road, where they have various animals of a tropical persuasion. The old man in the photo is still there today.

From Ah Roy to I Roy - 1973 was a great time for reggae, and this is one of the most bestest records ever made - 'Presenting I Roy'. I was only a tiny baby but I well remember smoking the herb with the rastas where I lived in Ilford:

the copy of Adam & Eve posted above might be from his, he's in the credits on that cd release

A-side: B-side: "I dreamt I was sittin’ in a swell café as hungry as a bear. My stomach sent a telegram to my Throat: ‘There’s a wreck on the road somewhere’." Besides the Covington sides, and sides he did as Ben Curry, he is possibly in the line-up of the Birmingham Jug Band records (according to Big Joe Williams) also featuring Jaybird Coleman, which are pretty great

I was born in 1973, but I do remember the first lp of that vintage which I bought - it was Quadrophenia, from Chelmsford market in about 1984.

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thanks - much clearer than my cryptic post! - to add to that, it's worth considering other records that document this process, electric or not, such as: - which is really really great stuff, with John Lee Sonny Boy Williamson on harp, I think iirc it's all acoustic but Big Joe did plenty of electric later of course. Be aware though that this disc from Document is highly likely a CDR not on the disc - electric Big Joe: http://youtu.be/qL_YXb0pOfM