Art is the music we make from the bewildered cry of being alive. ~Maria Popova
07 Feb 2022 Leave a comment
in General Posts Tags: CD revival, compact discs
Compact discs never had the romance of vinyl or the convenience of MP3s. But they’re still the ideal format for getting lost inside your music collection
In 2021, CD sales increased for the first time in 17 years. For some die-hards, the format has never gone out of style.
(via Rolling Stone) by Rob Sheffield
In 2021, CD sales increased for the first time in 17 years. That’s mostly because of Adele, whose new album sold 898,000 of those shiny little discs. The last time CDs were this hot, Usher, Ashlee Simpson, and Hoobastank were the ones selling them. Now it’s Adele, BTS, and Taylor Swift. It’s part of an overall revival for physical media — vinyl is booming even bigger. But for those of us who love the humble compact disc, it’s a question worth pondering: Are we finally seeing the CD revival? Why are music fans falling back in love with the gadget that once promised “perfect sound forever”?
07 Feb 2022 Leave a comment
Fool’s Garden: “Million Dollar Baby” (2008)
From the 2008 limited tour edition EP Home, and saved from total obscurity by its appearance on the German band’s 2009 compilation High Times: The Best of Fool’s Garden.
The band hint in that compilation’s liner notes that the song’s title was inspired by the Clint Eastwood movie of the same name–which they, and I, recommend.
Fool’s Garden, fairly or not, are known as a one-hit wonder, that hit being the (nearly) worldwide smash “Lemon Tree”, which charted seemingly everywhere but in the US. If you want to hear their hit, click the link below, but not before checking out the very worthy “Million Dollar Baby”.
See also: https://edcyphers.com/2020/10/30/songs-you-may-have-missed-671/
07 Feb 2022 Leave a comment
in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: badflower, promise me
Badflower: “Promise Me” (2019)
“Promise Me” finds Badflower in a more reflective frame of mind than on the harrowing “Daddy”, which we previously shared.
Both are excellent efforts from a, uh, promising young band.
See also: https://edcyphers.com/2020/02/13/songs-you-may-have-missed-652/
01 Feb 2022 Leave a comment
in General Posts Tags: harvest, neil young
(via Ultimate Classic Rock) by Dave Lifton
Note: Neil Young’s Harvest album was released 50 years ago today.
Between his work in Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills Nash & Young and his first few solo records, Neil Young had often flirted with mixing country and rock. But with Harvest, released on Feb. 1, 1972, he more or less dove headfirst into it and came out with one of country-rock’s most commercially and critically successful albums.
Work began a year earlier when Young went to Nashville to appear on The Johnny Cash Show, on an episode that also included James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt. Elliot Mazer, who had produced Ronstadt’s Silk Purse album a year earlier, arranged a party at his Quadrofonic Sound Studio for the three artists, and struck up a conversation with Young…
Every Moment Has A Song 