Spinning Today - What Are You Listening To Right Now? (Part 3)

[Pigmy Pony]

Another Birthday album and strangely enough this one I also find rather odd musically and in production terms. Without meaning to offend Ed Sheeran fans, and he has done some very good songs, but the way some of the songs on this album are presented for me comes across as just bland and over produced, and very pop driven. His technique and song construction seem to get lost on quite a lot of them, "The Joker and The Queen" is a classic though with beautiful lyrics and meaning and well presented. Once again I will have to have a few more listens to this album I think, I might be being ver critical.

Ed Sheeran = (Equals)
Label: Asylum Records – 0190296657078, Atlantic – 0190296657078
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Black
Country: USA & Canada
Released: 29 Oct 2021

It seems most young folk these days listen whilst on the move, through earbuds/'phones, and I wonder if much of the music targeting them is produced accordingly.

There are a few Ed Sheeran CDs knocking about here, though they never get played. Anita's son (who is a fan) always listens on his phone, thankfully out of earshot Has he done an album yet called "Minus"? If not, he should, I might listen to that

[Pigmy Pony]

[Barry]

It seems most young folk these days listen whilst on the move, through earbuds/'phones, and I wonder if much of the music targeting them is produced accordingly.

There are a few Ed Sheeran CDs knocking about here, though they never get played. Anita's son (who is a fan) always listens on his phone, thankfully out of earshot Has he done an album yet called "Minus"? If not, he should, I might listen to that

You could well have a point there Piggurs. The "young folk" do listen to much of their music via smartphones, maybe using headphones (at best) or ear buds (at worse), so it is not surprising if the production and mixdown is done with that in mind. After all, the early '60s Beatles and Rolling Stones LPs were originally mono, as the intended market was for those that would play the LPs on a Dansette record player.

[AJSki2fly]

It seems most young folk these days listen whilst on the move, through earbuds/'phones, and I wonder if much of the music targeting them is produced accordingly.

There are a few Ed Sheeran CDs knocking about here, though they never get played. Anita's son (who is a fan) always listens on his phone, thankfully out of earshot Has he done an album yet called "Minus"? If not, he should, I might listen to that

He has done +, X, '/. (divide) and =. Strictly speaking Division is subtraction in an abstract mathematical way of thinking, as addition is really a higher level way of expressing multiplication in certain ways.

A nice little conundrum to represent this is to work out how to get the total of all the numbers from 1 to 100(inclusive) without explicitly adding them up ie 1+2+3+ and so on, there is a simple answer which will give you the answer in seconds if you think about it.

[Barry]

Divide the range of 1 to 100 into two lots of 50 numbers. Then add:

1 + 100 =101
2 + 99 = 101
3 + 98 = 101
.
.
.
50 + 51 = 101.

There are 50 'pairs', so the total is 50 x 101 = 5050.


The story goes that when Gauss was a schoolboy, his teacher set the class the same problem, hoping to keep them quiet for a good while whilst she got on with some marking. Sadly, for the teacher, Gauss came up with the answer in a matter of minutes, by applying a bit of lateral thinking. It was a sign of what the great mathematician would achieve in later life.

[struth]

a list of his named achievements

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Carl_Friedrich_Gauss

smart bugger lol

[Pigmy Pony]

Divide the range of 1 to 100 into two lots of 50 numbers. Then add:

1 + 100 =101
2 + 99 = 101
3 + 98 = 101
.
.
.
50 + 51 = 101.

There are 50 'pairs', so the total is 50 x 101 = 5050.


The story goes that when Gauss was a schoolboy, his teacher set the class the same problem, hoping to keep them quiet for a good while whilst she got on with some marking. Sadly, for the teacher, Gauss came up with the answer in a matter of minutes, by applying a bit of lateral thinking. It was a sign of what the great mathematician would achieve in later life.

There was once a bloke who was invited to appear on The Jeremy Kyle Show. During the break he went to use the toilet facilities (or bogs as he called it). On the way back he got lost and found himself on the set for "Countdown". I know exactly how he felt now...

Anyway, onto something a bit less cerebral. Just landed an hour ago:

[Us-&-Them]

i was given this a belated birthday present from a friend, not sure to make of it, aspects are quite good, but to me it comes across as a band that has lost its way and is trying to appeal to a younger audience to maintain sales, perhaps i am wrong, i will have another listen.

Coldplay – music of the spheres
label: Parlophone – 0190296666964
format: Vinyl, lp, album, stereo, coloured recycled, 140 gram
country: Europe
released: 15 oct 2021

I absolutely totally agree with you!!!! A band (yes, a band that can play instruments, not just 4 people prancing around on a stage feeling their own crotches) as good, talented and as big as Coldplay just simply dont need to lower themselves to try and target a younger audience by doing songs featuring todays' 'pop' 'stars' - what's the point??? Coldplay are relevant as they are; they have a massive following (young and old) already?????

This album is, imho, by far, the worst album that Coldplay have done. I have all their albums and e.p.'s and I simply find Music Of The Spheres boring!!!

BEST ALBUM BY COLDPLAY (IMHO) IS X&Y !!! (According to the recent documentary on Sky, Coldplay reckoned that it was the album that they struggled with the most !!! Amazingly, I find it to be one of the best!!!!!

[cube-tube]

You and Charles got me feeling a bit left out, so time for me to join in

The Cure album was a bit full-on sounding for that time of morning.

Maybe a bit much for early morning, but "Mixed Up" is a great album with lots of low end oomph. Back about 15 to 25 years ago when I had a big powerful systems in my cars, I had an Audio Control Epicenter. For those that don't know, the Epicenter digitally recreates the bass an octave lower. You can select the center frequency and the Q and the unit does the rest. Then you get to play with the remote knob so you can add in as much low end as you want. It was originally created to help recreate bass on cassettes back in the 80's when head units didn't have the great frequency response.

Long story short, my friends and I all had similar systems in our cars and when we would go out to the clubs, we would blast this album (and many other albums for that matter) and ramp up that Epicenter until our eyeballs would vibrate and blur our vision! LOL Ahh, the good ole' days. It's amazing that my hearing is still in great shape after all of that and the clubbing.

[cube-tube]

And thanks to Pigmy Pony...