Day #16 of the 30 Day Music Meme
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shadowkatDay #16 of the 30 Day Music Meme - A Song That Is a Classic Favorite.
I figure anything by this band would be a classic, right? At any rate this is my favorite song by this specific British Rock Band. I first heard the song in the film Full Metal Jacket - but alas it was NOT on the soundtrack, also heard it as the theme song of the television series Tour of Duty. But to get it I had to hunt for the right album.
Here's the band singing it live in 1966, around the time it was first released.
Here's the band singing it in 2006.
""Paint It Black" (originally released as "Paint It, Black") is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones. Jointly credited to the songwriting partnership of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, it was first released as a single on 7 May 1966, and later included as the opening track to the US version of their 1966 album Aftermath.[6]
"Paint It Black" reached number one in both the Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart. The song became the Rolling Stones' third number-one hit single in the US and sixth in the UK.[7][8] Since its initial release, the song has remained influential as the first number-one hit featuring a sitar, particularly in the UK, where it has charted on two other occasions, and has been the subject of multiple cover versions, compilation albums and film appearances.[9]
It is one of their most popular songs, and it is on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2018, and it is the 79th best ranked song on critics' all-time lists according to Acclaimed Music."
I find the song haunting.
I figure anything by this band would be a classic, right? At any rate this is my favorite song by this specific British Rock Band. I first heard the song in the film Full Metal Jacket - but alas it was NOT on the soundtrack, also heard it as the theme song of the television series Tour of Duty. But to get it I had to hunt for the right album.
Here's the band singing it live in 1966, around the time it was first released.
Here's the band singing it in 2006.
""Paint It Black" (originally released as "Paint It, Black") is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones. Jointly credited to the songwriting partnership of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, it was first released as a single on 7 May 1966, and later included as the opening track to the US version of their 1966 album Aftermath.[6]
"Paint It Black" reached number one in both the Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart. The song became the Rolling Stones' third number-one hit single in the US and sixth in the UK.[7][8] Since its initial release, the song has remained influential as the first number-one hit featuring a sitar, particularly in the UK, where it has charted on two other occasions, and has been the subject of multiple cover versions, compilation albums and film appearances.[9]
It is one of their most popular songs, and it is on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2018, and it is the 79th best ranked song on critics' all-time lists according to Acclaimed Music."
I find the song haunting.
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Date: 2020-08-21 04:43 am (UTC)I live in a house, but it's a duplex, with a next-door neighbor one wall away. And while it's a fairly thick brick wall, it still means I can't just crank the volume whenever I want to. Your sitch is more difficult to deal with. But... a very key point which is one familiar to audiophiles, but rarely to most normal people:
It's not about volume, it's about accuracy. A quality audio playback system-- source component, control circuits, amplification, speakers-- takes the source and reproduces it as accurately as possible in your listening space (which can be headphones, BTW.)
I have Bose noise cancelling earphones and the sound quality is admittedly better on those.
Doesn't surprise me, if your other sources are your computer or your TV set. Either of those are traditionally mediocre to poor at accurate audio reproduction. Your computer can be accurate, but only with a number of caveats thrown in.
Human voices on "youtube" via my computer lack a certain cadence. So anything sung acapella - if it's not tenor or alto, sounds pitchy.
Won't go into any technical details about this, but your observations are not uncommon.
Also, add to this? I don't tend to like high soprano or high pitched sounds.
While this could be a physical situation with your ears-- I had several customers with this condition-- the more likely explanation is simple distortion. The biggest culprit for that? Poor quality speakers. One of the most difficult tasks I had with selling customers systems was to get them to spend about half of whatever they were willing to invest (in the system) in the speakers.
Modern electronics can produce quality sound at very modest prices. That isn't true for speakers. Additionally, the acoustics of your listening room play a big part in the overall sound quality. It is possible to get quality speakers which interact poorly with a given room. The store I worked for always allowed a customer to exchange a speaker pair for a different model if their first choice did not sound as good in their home as it did on our showroom floor.
Lastly (for now, anyway!) I'm not sure what you mean by a "buffer", but if it's what's called a "sound bar" for your TV, that might be a very good idea. Your brother can advise you if he's up on current tech, which it sounds like he may be. TV speakers in modern flat-panels are almost universally terrible sound-wise, and I do mean terrible, I'm not exaggerating for effect.
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Date: 2020-08-21 12:20 pm (UTC)The earphones, for reasons I'm not techy enough to understand, will only hook up with the phone. I've tried to get them to hook up with the computer and the television, no go.