Guilty Pleasures!!!!!

[progdirjim(Admin)]

Some of the things people call guilty pleasures are interesting. White Stripes? That's a great band, and I feel no guilt whatsoever. Dylan? Massively overrated, but still an icon and no guilt. Doors and even Pearl Jam? That's some pretty good quality straight ahead rock, no guilt. The Cult? They're pretty damn good. Molly Hatchett's first? I first heard their version of Allman Bros' "Dreams" live, and that's still one of my favorite live moments EVER. Believe it.

Onto the slams.
American fing Idol?! Are you kidding me? I have NEVER seen an episode. How can two people that I respect so much (Mossy I've met in person, and Kirk I've heard his music (and added it to the moon for crissake!!)) like that show? If it was anybody else I'd be MORE honest!!

Lawrence Welk? That's so bad it's almost cool. I can live with that.

My recent confession - I'm thinking about buying Johnny Cash's last album, America V. (Not for the moon, don't worry.)

[Rick and Roll]

Originally Posted by progdirjim

American fing Idol?! Are you kidding me? I have NEVER seen an episode. How can two people that I respect so much (Mossy I've met in person, and Kirk I've heard his music (and added it to the moon for crissake!!)) like that show? If it was anybody else I'd be MORE honest!!

Lawrence Welk? That's so bad it's almost cool. I can live with that.

Thank you for speaking for me regarding the Idol. I don't need to see an episode, I hear it all the time at work. Is that the same Rany Jackson on the panel that used to play bass and was on Ponty records?

I used to watch Lawrence Welk all the time. That and Gunsmoke and everything else my dad thought was worthwhile...I do miss Arthur Duncan's tap dancing though.

One show that I was forced to watch was Hee Haw. Except for Roy Clark, there's some absolute awful performances on there.

[Yesspaz]

Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

Is that the same Rany Jackson on the panel that used to play bass and was on Ponty records?

Yep, the same one who played on Journey's Raised on Radio album too.

[kirk]

Originally Posted by progdirjim

Lawrence Welk? That's so bad it's almost cool.
I can live with that.

I stand vindicated.

Seriously...can you imagine being a teenager, standing on stage w/
2000 in the audience, 20,000,000 watching, belting your
ass off...? Despite the image of the show, hats off to those kids.

Btw- Zenpool charted #4 on American Idol Underground's
Classical chart a few months ago.


K

[kirk]

oh...I forgot....Suzanna Hoffs in the 80's........

[Methem]

(Sorry, this is very computer-related.)

Strange enough, I sometimes listen to the Commodore 64 music, both stuff made for the commercial games and stuff by the cracker/hacker/demoscene groups.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene)

C64 was of course this small 8-bit "computer" that was very popular in the 1980s. It had a sound device called SID which -- while obviously being relatively good in the early 1980s -- is quite modest when compared to the soundcards and other such things these days. (Perhaps some of the electro-musicians here can tell something about it. I distantly remember reading someone mention that he/she started making music on C64...)

Indeed, C64 was a modest machine, but some of the guys who worked on it managed to squeeze enormous resources out of it. Some of the works by Rob Hubbard, definitely the most famous composer ever on C64, are impressive. Ben Daglish made many very entertaining pieces. And so on.

(http://www.geocities.com/vienna/strasse/7329/biog.html)

I thought I would post some URLs to the SID tunes that are available online as MP3s. But PERHAPS it's better to not do that: many of those tunes are, after all, so simple. Instead, here are some remixes made later and with better equipment than the original C64 versions:

http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/5...le%20Remix.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/2...20Remix%29.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/1...%20Warlock.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/4...Sanxion%29.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/3...ers%202006.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/1...20rmx%29.mp 3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/8...ghtment%29.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/2...e%20mix%29.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/3...%20Sanctum.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/3...oade r%29.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/1...Club%20Mix.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/2...coustic%29.mp3

(http://remix.kwed.org)

These are remixes of some of the SID tunes that I like. Some of these are very different from the original versions. Many are quite dancey. In any case, stuff that might be interesting to former C64 gamers; I don't know about others...

Bands that play C64/game music:

http://www.axesdenied.net/
http://www.machinaesupremacy.com/
http://www.pressplayontape.com/


-Methem

[Methem]

Related to my previous post... a few more tunes:

http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/2...voyager%29.mp3 (another version of "Wizball")
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/2...Edition%29.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/3...ce rto%29.mp3

Ok, will stop now...


-Methem