Teasing the Korean

Hope you feel better!

Back in my rock days, I always loved the first two Columbia albums, All the Young Dudes and Mott, but I did have at least two of their Atlantic LPs. On her annual Christmas show, Ms. TTK always plays "Death May Be Your Santa Claus."

Stu Phillips/Harry Revel - Music from Out of Space (MGM) Larry Elgart - Impressions of Outer Space (Brunswick)

Our late Siamese tripod Pyewacket responded to music. I'll never forget the time I played Bobby Montez's Jungle Fantastique on my Bose docking station, and she stood in front of the speakers for the entire album!

The shelves in my pic are from Home Depot. They sold them in the 1990s and early 2000s; not sure why they discontinued them. They are stackable, so over the years, we bought many of them as the LP accumulation expanded.

From their biker period! To you prefer the biker band or the glam band?

Years ago, we had a high-end coffee maker with a timer - can't remember the brand - and it died in about a year. We now have a Kitchen Aid, and it works like a charm. Incidentally, I can grind coffee beans without hearing the theme from The Ipcress File playing in my head.

Jorge Ben - Forca Bruta (Four Beer-Bro Hipsters with Beards reissue) Eddie Harris - Bossa Nova (Vee Jay, stereo) with Lalo Schifrin.

Mildly off-topic, but while we're talking about Staccato, I love this track from Elmer Bernstein's "soundtrack" album on Capitol.

We are currently working our way through Criterion's Hollywood Crack-Up collection: Hollywood Crack-Up: The Decade American Cinema Lost Its Mind "What happened to America in the 1960s? Amid the stream of social upheavals, a wave of films emerged depicting mental illness, madness, extreme emotional states, and chilling violence—jarring transmissions from a new generation of Hollywood iconoclasts that seemed to evoke the very breakdown of the studio system itself..." https://www.criterionchannel.com/hollywood-crack-up-the-decade-american-cinema-lost-its-mind So far, we have watched Pressure Point (Hubert Cornfield), Targets (Peter Bogdanovich), and Pretty Poison (Noel Black). Many of the others we have seen previously, but it has been years. I think we will revisit John Frankenheimer's Seconds next.

Thanks, all!

Walfredo de los Reyes - Sabor Cubano (Rhumba, mono) Fantastic, along the lines of the Cuban Jam Sessions records.

Thank you!

My Dishwasher stylus cleaning brush is ancient, and it appears that all the tiny bristles have solidified into a giant mass of gunk and dried fluid. What would you recommend, preferably that doesn't cost a fortune?

El Nuevo Pete Terrace - Scepter (mono)

A mocktail with coconut water, blueberry Bubly, and fresh-squeezed lime!

NP: David Van Tieghem - Safety in Numbers (Private Music, 1987)

Jim Helms - Bossa Nova (Crown, stereo) With Howard Roberts and Buddy Collette. The LP consists of all originals by Helms, who went on to score Kung Fu in the 1970s. Later reissued by Crown under Collette's name, with two additional tracks, probably not from these sessions.

He dropped Towner at around 1957, so he was John - or Johnny - Williams by the time of Staccato.

Ralf & Florian - Kraftwerk (Vertigo, 1975)

Joao Gilberto - Amoroso (WB, 1977) With the great Claus Ogerman. The version of "Besame Mucho" on here is unbelievable.

It was the future film composer, who IIRC also appears in Peter Gunn during the scene's at Mother's.

John Cassavetes and Elmer Bernstein. What more do you need to know?

We just watched part one of this four-part series. Great archival footage, with the actual participants telling the story. Refreshingly, there is no Sting, no Bono, no Bruce, no Elvis C. Let's hope the director manages to keep them out of the next three installments.

This may be the case with fly-by-night budget labels that release grey-market CDRs from mp3s. But if it is a CDR from a legit label - especially if the title had already been released by that label on a real CD - I'm sure it would be an exact clone of the CD. Converting lossless to mp3 for a CDR would be an unnecessary step in the process.