The fact that they’ve done it, and for so long, even if they have reconnected with styles from years back whilst doing so, is good enough for me.

In the same vein of changing (or NOT changing) your sound over the years:

Can anyone name another act whose front man sings all those skyscraping melodies in exactly the same keys in their sixties as they did in […]

Sparks. They’ve been going since the late ’60s, have reinvented their sound several times and are still making fantastic music. They have a musical with Adam Driver and a doc by Edgar Wright out this year. Their […]

Trout Mask Replica. T’aint there, just a playlist formed from Grow Fins rarities and the like.

This is why I subscribe to YouTube Music. If it’s not on the streaming services but it’s been uploaded as a video, […]

Had my first jab 4th Jan. Pfizer. No side effects whatsoever, not even a sore arm.

Second due 11th March.

The Q Chill Out CD, that led me to this and a love affair with TT/Mark Hollis that’s never ended

An Ethernet switch would be the answer. I got one of these recently. No muss, no fuss.

I can thoroughly recommend the Trout Mask Replica one.

Looks like Google have been listening and intend to address some of the YTM shortcomings:

Ars Technica: Google says it’s working hard to address YouTube Music complaints.

YTM just seems to be faster to use all round. For example, adding a track to a playlist took forever in GPM; virtually instant now.

And by “cloud service” I mean having a backup of your files on Dropbox, […]

I face the same issue. This

explains the whole situation as best I’ve found.

I loved GPM and was dreading its demise.

I love YTM more. It’s faster, more responsive.

I think the message is: regard YTM as a […]

Google Nest WiFi. Easy to set up and very effective, not techie to set up.

This fella.

That’s right, the Mascara Snake!

Just burned through the 33⅓ book about Trout Mask Replica by Kevin Courrier. Tells the story well and writes brilliantly about the music itself. Highly recommended.

And let’s not forget that most of what was destroyed in that fire was TV and film stock, about which we know even less than the music masters. The journalist who wrote the original piece has suggested someone find […]

Listened to this just the other day, and again on its anniversary. It’s great.

Had a bit of a thing for gingham, our Don, dinee?

One aspect (as I understand it from what I have heard, I am not a lawyer) is that under US copyright law masters can revert to the original artist after 35 years. There seems to be some evidence that artists have […]

Quite right Fatima – I meant to say that Zax knew that entire labels’-worth had been lost, but not the full extent of the damage as revealed in the NYT article. What was known then was bad enough.

These are all good questions. Conserving this stuff is expensive and hard. Is it ultimately worthwhile?

I think so.

Another perspective on all this from Andy Zax ,a producer who has worked on the Woodstock […]