h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I like your Old LP-player. Quite spiffy.

And not that much dust, right?

I'm planning for more things that I'm quite sure you'll like, so please visit me again
btw. Nice new page your fish has got

Thank you!!! She needs some purdy pictures...

I'll come and a-visit you againe, feareth not, myne LP Muse!!!

::Sings:: Get Back... Get Back!! Get back to where you once belon-onged!!!!

Jo-Jo was a man who thought she was a woman...

At last!!!
Somebody (I assume) who finds vinyl so much more satisfying than (Eeeeuuuuucccchhhhh!) CD's!
Give me the feel of a large, readable sleeve in me hands and the sound of something whizzing round on the turntable!
And if you fancy having a chat about setting up that Classic album Review page...well, you know where to find me, oh Venerable Muse!
TheOkapi (pints all round!)

I fell in love with the TRUE music of the latter half of the twentieth century-- found mainly within the sixties and seventies-- when I discovered Mom's Supremes 45 and played it my brother's old record player. I played "I Hear a Symphony" over and over again, wishing I was a Supreme, making up my choreography, picking out melody, lyrics, intonation-- EVERY ASPECT WAS Sugargold.

I also loved "Signs"(I believe by Five Man Electrical Band), and The Partridge Family's rendition of "Breaking up is Hard to Do".

Scratchy and real is the only way to go... except, I don't have a record player anymore, darnit!!!

Why don't they have record players with computers!??

Too much dust! HA!!!!!!

If breaking up is hard to do, why don't you just stay? There's plenty of drinks and music here!!!
* offers Dragonfly a *

Oh, but if you *must* go, then go to http://www.h2g2.com/U153792 - that's a good place for muses!

(btw: what does "purdy" mean?)

Purdy means pretty!!!

I can't tolerate another drink... http://www.h2g2.com/A426872... see the latest and greatest in the "..... let's have a party" thread...

Oh dear!!!

::runs to Ottox's link::

I like CD's But LP's are "hyggeligere" (a danish word meaning something like - but not exactly - more comfortable, snug, pleasent...)
And what have become of cover-arts? No room left for creativity in those cd-booklets (Sssshhh...That's not true at all, but don't tell...)

Thanks for the link, I'm so flattered!

Woah!!! They were playing "I FEEL FINE" on the store radio this morning!! YAY!!!

"hyggeligiere"!??? Ooo... I like that word... I am getting ever so smart... I am going to have to USE that word, however, in order to remember it...

If I don't employ my new wisdom, then "the wrinkle in [my] brain will go away," as my teacher Mr. Becker says.

Cd booklets... hee hee hee... I have ruined too many of them by spilling my Mountain Dew or a glass of milk... I am awful!!!! I guess I just didn't like the lack of creativity therein(or maybe I should stop trying to multitask when beverages in within ten feet of myself).

Cover Art...well I'm sure there IS cover art on C.D.'s BUT you need an atomic microscope and magnifying glass to actually see it!
And it kinda puts paid to album covers like the Dave Greenslade / Patrick Woodruffe colaboration, 'The Cosmonology of Pentateuch.'
If you've never seen it (let alone listened to it) then trust me when I say it was amazing, and impossible to reproduce in a C.D. booklet.
Long Live L.P.'s, that's what I say!!
( Kick-starts zimmer frame and wobbles off in to the sunset for a nice cup of Horlicks before bed.)
TheOkapi ( Muse of TRADITIONAL Stuff, please note...I even like those lovely, breakable 78's!)

Herrrmmm... tradition DOES go a long way(especially in my family)

Have you ever seen "Fiddler on the Roof"!???(oh, of course you have!!!!) Your themesong could be "Tradition"

::Sings:; Tra-_di_tion!!! TRADITION!!!...

Long live LP's, you say. Yes, I'm sure they will live much longer than the CD's. And I have some 78's - just haven't got a record player that can play them And scratched vinyl singles Yeah!!!

Can tradition go a long way in America
(Shame shame shame on me, I newer saw the Fiddler )

Tradition can go a long way in the states-- look at the superbowl...

Tradition is more of a family-friend(close-knit group of people) ordeal. Susan (my best friend) and I have started a Valentine's Day tradition(I unwittingly found out that I started it). The other year I made her a tape of "Silly Love Songs(reference to the Wings song, and yes, it is on it!!!)". She made one for ME this year!!! 2001, it is my turn, and I'm re-titling it: "Kiss". Yep. Prince's song will be a feature.

My family keeps holiday traditions-- dishes served for winter holidays, entrees prepared for potlucks and picnics...

My Spanish professor puts it best: "Love starts where!?? In the Kitchen!!! And love ends where!?? In the Kitchen!!!"

Ah me!!
Tradition...so many happy hours spent discussing the why's and wherefores of tradition, and never really reaching a conclusion; at least one that satisfies everybody!
One of my simple pleasures is getting out the old 60's Dancette, with the arm that allows you stack the records and sounds as if it's being played in a toilet, and flick the needle over to play my collection of 78's, including that quite brilliant band of musicians, Spike Jones and his City Slickers! Absolutely guaranteed to raise a smile at the end of the weariest day...then wind down slowly with some Yma Sumac ( I'll tell you if you're interested!), Deanna Durbin and finish off with a little Edmundo Ross!! And I suppose that my doing the 78's thing has become somewhat of a tradition, if only to me!
TheOkapi

Was that a drink recipe or a music recipe!??

Tradition. It can be argued over. Changed. Ignored. Hated. But one thing remains the same-- "THEY started it back then, and we've been doing it forever-- why stop now!??"

Yma Sumac...if you EVER get the chance to listen to this woman, do it!
She was an amazing vocalist, back in the thirties and forties, and had an incredible vocal range - eight, count'em, 8, octaves!!!!!!
Don't know if you're into 'traditional' music at all, but if you are, you could do worse than to visit a place called The Mudcat.
Sorta like the 'H' but dedicated to all types of folk and blues - including an incredible database of some 8 or 9 thousand songs, with some of them having the tunes attached! Friendly people too! There's a link on my page, if you're interested...and you can argue tradition there (Mudcat) until you're blue in the face!
TheOkapi

Cool-- I admire all forms of music, including rap(ech, I kno... but SOME of it is good...) and country(but more of its lyrics and story-telling than its definitive twang).

The Mudcat seems awfully cool...

I like traditional music as well as all the rest-- the easiest and breeziest tunes for me to listen to happen to be classical-- either classical rock or jazz/blues(I LOVE Billie Holiday!!!!!---for piano, I LOVE Scott Joplin!!!--Janis Joplin also almost falls into both aforementioned genres), as well as CLASSICAL!!! Handel, Vivaldi, MOZART, Brahms, Back, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky...::drools::

OOO.... gotta love it all(I guess you have to give some credit to Mom, the long-time piano teacher)...

I like to have people like you two in my message center
Thanks mom, for the piano-lessons. It's a pity I almost never practice, but it's so hard to get all those papers and books on top of the piano away

I know Yma Sumac (very little though), but don't think I've ever heard about the others you mentioned TheOkapi. Tell me, tell me

TheOkpai fires up his pipe, nestles his butt into the most comfortable position and...wonders how in the hell he can describe Spike Jones, Deanna Durbin and Edmundo Ross!!!!!!??????
Right! Start with the last: Good ol' Edmundo. Latin, basically; lots of congas, maracas and brass and smoochy 40's vocals. Deanna Durbin: I suppose the nearest modern day equivalent would be Billie or Britany or any slightly post-pubescent chanteuse, BUT the girl could SING!! Imagine a Hollywood musical, around about the time of Garland?
'Talkies' were the 'in' thing and Deanna Durbin was...it!
Spike Jones and his City Slickers? Well...comedy would best describe these guys. 30's/early 40's trad. jazz style with puns and 'double entendres' - song titles like 'I Dream of Brownie with the Light Blue Jeans', and arrangements of well known, popular songs, such as 'You Always Hurt the One You Love', with ridiculous sound effects and noises - pure entertainment!
Ofcourse, none of this does these artists justice! But it might give an idea of the sort of thing I'm talking about...go search the old record stores, or jumble sales.
TheOkapi

OOO!!!! ::sings::SEARCHING!!! Ahhh, Searching, everywhere-ere-ere oh yeah!!!