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     Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.71.242.233 |
So what you got on your MP3/iPod players right now? I just put on an abridged reading of Elmore Leonard's KILLSHOT. The reader's Bruce Boxleitner, of SCARECROW & MRS KING, The GAMBLER, BABYLON 5, and lately HEROES fame. To fit it on I had to remove my BBC Audio play of Arthur C Clarke's CHILDHOOD'S END. But I'm hopeful of fitting part One of Clarke's COLLECTED STORIES on there in a while. Also got a Jonathan Carroll short story, "Nothing to Declare", read by the man himself, which can be downloaded free from here: http://www.jonathancarroll.com/downloads/nothingtodelacre_dl.html Albie didn't like it. Musically I've got: The new Blow Monkeys album, DEVIL'S TAVERN on there. Dr Robert still writing some good tunes now he's back with the lads. A bit slicker, production-wise, than his solo efforts. Glen Campbell's MEET (there's a pun there, I suppose), which is getting played by me A LOT right now. And a few odds and ends that came with the player, alas none of them any good . . . I quite fancy some Vaughn Williams to pop on. Any suggestions of pieces -- orchestral ideally -- and recordings? | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.158.168 |
For Vaughan Williams I'd recommend Sinfonia Antarctica, a symphony based on the music he wrote for SCOTT OF THE ANTARCTIC. On another forum, they had a thread asking folk to set their iPods on shuffle and to say what the first five tracks were - quite amusing too, with lots of "oh yes, but it's only on there because my wife likes it" replies! As for what's on mine; well, loads - all my CDs (over 800 at the last count, not that I do count), every existing radio Hancock's Half Hour, ditto the tv version, all of Father Ted, all of the Laurel & Hardy sound shorts plus a handful of their features, two Will Hay classics, all of Bilko, some episodes of Out Of The Unknown and all the Emma Peel era episodes of The Avengers. I realise the screen's too small to watch stuff generally, but for flights and long train journeys it's ok... | ||
| Coral (Coral) Username: Coral Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 91.111.54.56 |
Good grief, I still use cassettes in a walkman!!! And it's mostly tapes of 80's pop at the moment, sad huh? I do have Tom Jones however, and it confuses the heck out of me as there's no screen to throw my knickers at! I suppose I should get one of these new fangled things, any suggestions for a technological dunce? | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.236.227 |
I used to own the very first Walkman by Sony (way back in 1980 if I'm not mistaken) and vividly remember the odd reactions one would get on the street. Now it's the other way around - nearly everyone has their ears plugged up and mine are free. I'm immersed in music all the time - music school, group rehearsals, individual practice - so I don't mind walking the streets without private accompaniment. I daresay it's safer, too. Of late I've been listening a lot to the remixed "Birth of the Cool" by Miles Davis, George Benson's "Shape of Things to Come" and some early Steely Dan. The Moody Blues (a guilty pleasure) are playing here on the 28th, so I've dug up their old "Best Of". | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
Mine's full, but my latest listens are: Because of the Night - Kings of Leon A great adaptation of a Simon Bestwick short story Stop making Sense - Talking Heads (an all-time favourite) Billy Joel Johnny Cash (as always) The Classic Millenium Collection - a HMV box set of classical music form a few years ago | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.158.168 |
Stop Making Sense is the dog's - I love the film, the way they build up the onstage kit from nothing. Oh, and David Byrne's big suit, of course! | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.111.129.171 |
Blimey, Mick! You've more on your i-Pod than I've ever owned! Do you have any George Formby on there? Will check out your Vaughn Williams rec. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.158.168 |
No George Formby, Mark, but I've got blues stuff that's older on it! | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.114.136 |
I can't get dvds on my ipod. Even the slightest instructions as to how to do it flummox me - I almost need pictures.  My first five shuffles; Redundant - Green Day, Just like Heaven - Katie Melua, Raining Again - Moby (actually the next was by him from the same album, so I'll skip that - fucking Shuffle my arse!), Encounter at Crescendo Summit - John Williams, Love's About to Change my Heart - Donna Summer. Not very representative of the true quality or variety, I'm afraid...  | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.114.136 |
Mark - where you get Childhood's End? | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200 |
BBC radio production jobby, Tony. |