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  3. Burt Bacharach RIP

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    I marvel at how people could show up in a studio and deal with all this truly weird and/or difficult music, not just singers and players but engineers too, and make it sound like basically normal, if distinctive, pop music. 

  16. Eagles 80s Solo Stuff Is Even Worse Than Their Awful Group Stuff From the 70s

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    1 hour ago, Dan Gould said:

    There's no question that the solo releases were awful but the idea that their group recordings are somehow awful is just ludicrous. 

    I only know the singles, but yeah, not at all awful. Always expertly done, and the songs are what they are, which sometimes there are good stories there. Even though, sometimes not. But I like "Tequila Sunrise" and "Lyin' Eyes" to this day. That last one has some really dark lyrics, imo.

  25. Phil Schaap R.I.P.

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    Tony Williams Lifetime Emergency The first Polydor record/records with infamously horrendous recorded sound.

    But it's some slamming music, and Schaap made it to where it was a lot easier to hear that just by listening.

    My CD is the Polydor issue. There's a later Verve issue, no idea who did that one or how.

    I had avoided a CD of this one for decades, thinking that there was no use, what coul be done, just live with those LPs. But in my car anyway, the CD is more than a little crankable!

    Bought on a whim yesterday at an HPB on the way home from a Social Security office. To quote Tony elsewhere, "There comes a time..." 

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