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Neil Young as a butternut squash



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Scored Re-Listens For The Week Ending 6/8

Amazing:

Untrue - Burial (2007) 92.2

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New Listens / Non-Scored Re-Listens [*] For The Week Ending 6/8

Great:

Hiding Places - Billy Woods & Kenny Segal (2019)
Black Heat - Black Heat (1972)
Depressive Silence II - Depressive Silence (1996)

Quite Good:

Rubber Factory - The Black Keys (2004)
Blazing Arrow - Blackalicious (2002)
Locked Down - Dr. John (2012)
Paradise (EP) - Lana Del Rey (2012)
What's The 411? Remix - Mary J. Blige (1993)
Rejuvenation - The Meters (1974)
Guns - Quelle Chris (2019)

Pretty Good:

Turn Blue - The Black Keys (2014)
Furr - Blitzen Trapper (2008)
Shadows On The Sun - Brother Ali (2003)
Ancestors Call - Huun-Huur-Tu (2010)

Okay:

Metallica - Metallica (1991)

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Totals:

16 albums & 16 album listens
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Neil Young as a butternut squash



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Yeah, not doing those weekly posts anymore.

Anyway, my co-worker just recommended this album to me and I loved it. Americana with strong songwriting, great vocals, and an excellent cover of Stolen Car. I can see Gowi, Tilly, Mercury, and others enjoying it.


1000 Kisses by Patty Griffin
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Neil Young as a butternut squash



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My grandpa was cleaning out his storage unit and found a nice record player and speakers that he's not using. I may be joining the ranks of the vinyl collectors soon! Probably going to limit myself to records under $5 and see what I find.
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baystateoftheart wrote:
My grandpa was cleaning out his storage unit and found a nice record player and speakers that he's not using. I may be joining the ranks of the vinyl collectors soon! Probably going to limit myself to records under $5 and see what I find.


Cool, that's what got me into it as a teenager, I inherited it from my parents and that was my thing for about 15 years and then it finally died after probably 30 years of good service... so I broke down and bought another.

Know anything about the player?

Estate sales are where it's at... probably got $200 worth of vinyl as priced by discogs for $50. Ameoba used to be awesome in the early 2000s, but now it's in demand... so sometimes I'm buying my favorite records at ridiculous prices.
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Neil Young as a butternut squash



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RoundTheBend wrote:
Cool, that's what got me into it as a teenager, I inherited it from my parents and that was my thing for about 15 years and then it finally died after probably 30 years of good service... so I broke down and bought another.

Know anything about the player?

Estate sales are where it's at... probably got $200 worth of vinyl as priced by discogs for $50. Ameoba used to be awesome in the early 2000s, but now it's in demand... so sometimes I'm buying my favorite records at ridiculous prices.


It's a Panasonic SG-H10. Just set it up (sound is solid), and then looked it up. Found this thread...

So, not very encouraging... those with more knowledge, how worried should I be about this? If the tracking force is already set correctly for the cartridge, this article makes me think there shouldn't be problem.
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I tried to find a decent picture of your record player, but I can't really see how the arm is constructed. If it came with any instructions, then it should tell you what the tracking force should be set at. Like that article suggests, it's usually 2 grams. I wouldn't worry about it too much though. It won't destroy your records unless it's played a thousand times.
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Yeah, that model has got a preset VTF, which likely means it’s default setting is not going to do your records much good.

If you want to persevere with the Panasonic, the best thing you can do is get yourself a brand new stylus without delay. Personally speaking having had a hi-fi system with a built-in turntable before getting a separate deck, amp, speakers and a decent cart makes a HUGE difference. If you’re paying $5 or less for your records then fine, but don’t expect them to sound anywhere close to how good they could.
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Yeah I second the $5 records and the thousand times thing.

My Sony record player didn't have the ability to adjust the tracking... and my records aren't "ruined". Now there's some goof who will say they can hear the difference if the record was played once on your record player and that goof likely would fail a blind test.

If you have a really priceless record, maybe don't play it on that record player either at all or much pending on some stuff and things.

I will say that an improper setup can really kill the sound/experience. If playing your phone through the same speakers/setup sounds WAY better/record player sounds awful, you probably want review the turntable's setup/parts.
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Thanks for the advice everyone! Smile
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I have been picking up the year-by-year project again for a bit. First, I switched from using RYM years to BEA years. At least when the year is wrong on BEA, it's feasible for me to correct it.

Now, I have some gaps to fill in for the 50s and 60s to get to round numbers. I started off by picking three more albums to hear from 1966.

My favorite of the three is:


Meditations by John Coltrane

Underrated! The first track and Consequences are both virtuosic and mind-bending spiritual journeys. The other tracks are great but not transcendent.

My second favorite is:


Indestructible by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

Another great album. Much more traditionalistic and a bit behind its time (the fact that it was released over two years after the recording didn't help). However, everyone is at the top of their game in these sessions and every track is at least solid.

My third favorite is:


Black Monk Time by Monks

I had been looking forward to this, so finally hearing it was a major wtf moment. Why do you folks love this so much?? It is... not good. It doesn't rock very hard, and is only very tenuously proto-punk. The humor is not funny at all and ruins many tracks. The Sonics came first and were much better. Their debut is essential listening, and it's a crying shame that it's several hundred spots lower than this. This was going to round out my 1966 chart but now I have to find something else, because it's just not good enough to chart. I can see how it was still ahead of its time in certain ways, and I don't actively dislike it, but it seems so mediocre. There are a handful of really solid tracks along with some major duds.
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