Music

Sin

This reminds me of the time I wore latex to Berghain and then had do the walk of shame all the way back to Neukolln in broad daylight.

Joh

Andrew I Like it apart from the croaking when one of them sings. 🤣

WriterAlexis

Florida is one hell of a drug.

Tasha

I listen to theme songs of games 😂

My favourite so far has been the loading intro for GTA 4 and for the truck sim ETS2 game. I listen to them in the background when waiting for things to happen on the computer

WriterAlexis

Tasha

I listen to theme songs of games

Guild Wars 2 has my favorite track list.

Tasha

WriterAlexis I find they are 11/12 year old videos on YouTube. Is that the same you mean? There seem to be themes and they all sound good though so I'll take it anyways.

WriterAlexis

Today I discovered my favorite German artist.

Gummibär

Angelina

WriterAlexis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5sd_CuZxNc
This? 🤔

Max9

WriterAlexis using artist and german in ine sentence might be a bit frightening 😂

youdontknowme

Max9 Let us not forget that the most infamous artist who developed his reputation in Germany was a native Austrian.

Andrew

Max9 Much worse is "austrian painter"... 😆

WriterAlexis

youdontknowme

And here I thought the most widely known was Max Ernst.

As far as German musical artists go, I did think of one more important in the past week. A true visionary. A symbol for the masses. The answer to all of our hopes and prayers.

David Hasselhoff.

youdontknowme

WriterAlexis And here I thought the most widely known was Max Ernst.

For painters, probably Albrecht Dürer or Caspar David Friedrich. Musically, I am going with Beethoven, the least Austrian of the big classical names. Or maybe Bach.

David Hasselhoff, I wish we could claim that one though. He may be American, but his greatest contribution to musical history happened in Germany. Tearing down the Berlin wall like the Horns of Jericho...

Angelina

WriterAlexis David Hasselhoff.

the man who sings down walls 😂

Joh Scorpions is one of those.

in the context of Hasselhoff and the berlin wall, i also had to think of the Scorpions. i also have a personal connection, "Send my an Angel" was my wedding song 😃

Joh

youdontknowme Germany Had many successfull Artist but First outside of Germany. Scorpions is one of those.

Max9

youdontknowme I agree with you on Albrecht Dürer, the franconian, but musically seen I belive Amadeus Mozart, born in Salzburg, Bavaria, was better then Beethoven.
In Litherature I'd go with Goethe as the most famous german author.

Max9

WriterAlexis

From Taylor's lyrics for Tortured Poets Department, I had to look up Patti Smith.

ONG her music transcends the decades.

audioguy58

Angelina for me in this comparison the crucial thing is that i think lp sounds more real. music from cd sounds rather very artificial.

I regret that I did not agree more forcefully with @Angelina when this discussion was “hot”.

In order to be an audiophile, you have to listen to old music on old media. You just have to.

Writing and performing a song is a matter of art; making a sound recording of a musical performance involves both art and science. In order for something to really grab me, it has to be both good art and good audio engineering.

Today’s music might occasionally be worth listening to as music, but in terms of sonic thrills, there’s just nothing there. (I’ve listed a number of pieces of new music that I consider worthwhile, for what it’s worth.)

For me, the golden age of sound recording happened around 1964-69. Things were mostly good in the second half of the 1970s, with another peak in the year 1980.

Things were mostly OK in the 1980s and early 1990s.

I think things really started to get bad with the disappearance of so many of the old-line recording studios such as Electric Lady, Record Plant, and Bearsville Studios, along with the whole DIY, anyone-can-do-it ethos of the 1990s.

For some of the really old-school audiophiles, people of the Harry Pearson generation, the golden age was the 1950s and early 1960s; they don’t want to listen to anything newer than their Mercury Living Stereo recordings and RCA “shaded dogs”.

I see todays musical landscape as mostly a desert.

Sasha

audioguy58 Listened to everything from mono vinyl, to quadraphonic recordings to the modern material. If the art is there and grabs my attention I’m into it. Some things are better recorded then others sure, but it’s still not “as performed”. The mics and preamps still add something, even if the recording engineer didn’t add anything in post.
Personally I love the DIY home studio movement, so much material that otherwise wouldn’t have been heard except in local clubs and bars.
So yeah for me it’s all about the art, not the format, recording medium, etc. though I do agree with @youdontknowme that the loudness wars were awful

youdontknowme

Personally I consider myself an anti-audiophile, but the loudness war is probably the worst trend in the history of recorded music.

youdontknowme

Sasha I feel like that has a lot to do with CDs sounding less "real" though. Physically, the medium can reproduce music more clearly than any analog format that came before except for maybe some extremely fast tape - all the sampling and quantization errors that are inherent to digital formats are orders of magnitude smaller than the precision you can reach in a vinyl mastering process. But the fact that all those songs have been mastered for listening in noisy environments and for side-by-side comparisons with other loud songs has significantly restricted several avenues of artistic expression.

Joh

youdontknowme It makes a difference between CD and analogue if you have a system with a larger bandwidth, e.g. 30 kHz or 40 kHz. In Germany is a company which has audio system with this bandwidth. They say if you not a teen any more you can't hear it but you feel it with your body and it sum up for another experience.

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