That has already happened. Mr. Wilson was to remaster the early Tangerine Dream catalog (including the usual surround mixes), but it turned out only two albums had the required master tapes available. The search […]

I was at the sound archive of the Ethnology Museum in Berlin once for a demonstration of different “sound carriers”. They played 100 year-old Edison cylinders (without electricity: on a wind-up player) and broken […]

A great article.

Actually, he’s saying this about the Universal fire: “In historic terms, the magnitude of the loss from the Universal fire was incalculable. There are now thousands of albums and singles–the […]

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
One Day At A Time
Love Song
the “Victim Of Love” album of disco songs…

Or this:

What kind of sports are you talking about? I’d be interested if it’s chess-boxing, dwarf throwing or Formula One.

Ringo Starr’s been doing this for decades with his All Starr Band – Joe Walsh, Gary Brooker and Todd Rundgren doing “It Don’t Come Easy”. And why not.
And mature women’s favorite, Bill Wyman, does it with his a […]

I make all the iTunes covers myself (yes, I probably have too much time…):

In the sorting menu you can set “rules” for artist names. Highlight all the wrong spellings (including Blind Boy Grunt) and set them to Bob Dylan, to be filed under “D” – like German band Die Ärzte who are re […]

“…charging for a service…” – indeed, that’s what I would expect, too. But look at what happened with the iTunes “Special albums” series (download albums with full credits, illustrated booklets as PDF plus v […]

Most of the “problems” people have with iTunes wouldn’t occur if they’d only make the effort of typing in the information themselves – instead of relying on automatic tagging from Apple, Amazon or The Net. H […]

Indeed. I’ve used iTunes from the beginning, and I never had any problems. “Split albums” never happened here – like most other complaints about iTunes the cause is often sloppy tagging and not understanding (or c […]

Haven’t they heard of backing tapes to “liven up” the sound? Bowie and the Stones were using those in the 80s already.

Let’s see if I understand this:
The UK takes part in the election for a parliament that they are meant to have left a couple of months ago.
The party with the most votes is the one who doesn’t want anything to […]

Bought the MOJO Stones Special recently.

It’s really excellent – fantastic design and great pictures: not the obvious ones you’ve seen countless times before I can assure you. And most of all, fine writing fr […]

“The Steely Dan one” was from Uncut, from their – always great – Artist Specials series.

The new double editions MOJO series has another approach – they don’t do album-by-album reviews, but instead cover the a […]

Splendidly correct.

Let’s narrow it to (of course)
Arse (male)