Teasing the Korean

More common in other languages than in English is this device.

As a big fan of 60s and 70s moog albums, I think this fits into the genre well. Surprising that this album wasn't done back in the day. The tunes really work with this approach, assuming you like that kind of approach to begin with.

Just attempting to get a discussion about how pop music has and hasn't changed. I was also struck by the fact that pop music of the American Idol era has reverted to the "embellishment" that Bernstein attributes to Tin Pan Alley. (I would argue that all comparisons between the two end there). I also thought that the attitude and stance in Bernstein's quote, in addition to the assessment of "today's pop music," would easily be recognized as coming from a different era and addressing the pop music of another era. Either people aren't hip to those subtleties, or they skimmed it.

Any obits posted yet?

It's VERY condescending. And if you go back to the first page of this thread, you can find out who said it and which music he was referring to. (post #11).

Those Monk songs really translate well to this format.

You may want to read the first post in this thread and then read the explanation of it a few posts down.

Yes, I was talking about vinyl. Why buy an overpriced CD when you can buy a $2.99 LP?

Take your complaints to Leonard Bernstein, if you can find him. I was simply quoting him.

I've NEVER had trouble finding the originals in three major US cities. They pop up for very reasonable prices, i.e. under 10 bucks and sometimes 5 bucks, in very clean shape. The practical side of me has often had to keep the obsessive side of me in check, when it was tempted over the years to pick up multiple copies of these.

Nico Fidenco - Emanuelle Perche' Violenza Alle Donne? OST - FIDA International

Screw the Mosaic box. You can find the original albums for cheap prices, plus they have the original cover art.

Homemade pesto and panini for dinner. Drinking red wine. Spinning Nino Rota's soundtrack for Fellini's "Satyricaon," one of the most deliciously delirious soundtracks ever recorded. United Artists, stereo.

Well, you guys have all said how out of touch you are, and you've proven it. Aside from the embarrassingly dated nature of the words above, most of them don't even apply to pop music today. These are Leonard Bernstein's words from his 1967 TV special about "today's pop music." He was talking about songs such as "No Man Can Find the War" by Tim Buckley and "Surf's Up" by Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks.

Most of us have been raised in the tradition of tin pan alley, where the songs, beautiful or not, were meant to amuse or beguile, but that's all. They were embellishments on life. What these young people seem to say is that their music isn't just decorative. And that's the pop music scene today, serious and silly, sweet and grandiose, but all of it coming out of the kids themselves. They are trying hard, but whatever young people do, they tend to overdo. The jury is still out on their social ideas, but the verdict is in on their music. A great deal of it is good.

Michel Legrand - Communications '72 With Stan Getz. Keeping in my tradition of spinning France or Brasil with breakfast...

Portraits The Golden Sword Everywhere These three are my favorites. I would pick up anything you can find by him on Pacific Jazz.

I find so called "easy listening" versions of 60s and 70s pop/rock tunes far more interesting and subversive than the real thing. This is why I'll pick up any album with "Spinning Wheel" as long as it's not the dreaded original by BS&T. I think that aging and out-of-touch easy and listening and jazz artists did better things with this music than the unwashed hippies who originally created it. I think I'll go and spin some Hugo Montenegro now.

Tim Buckley - Goodbye and Hello - Elektra mono. Does anyone know if this is a folddown? It sure sounds like a dedicated mono mix.

Over the years, I've picked up lots of soundtracks and library music from composers such as Umiliani, Piccioni, etc. The Easy Tempo label was reissuing tons of this stuff in the late 90s and early 00s. Love the Italian slant on pop, bossa nova, and funk. Really get into giallo and polizia soundtracks also. Anyone else into this stuff?

I'm into mid-century modern.

Arthur Lyman - Taboo II - HiFi (mono)

Tim Buckley - Blue Afternoon - Straight (reissue)

Walter Wanderley - From Rio with Love - Tower stereo One of his Brasilian sessions released in the US in the wake of the success of "Summer Samba."

Can a government be competent?