40 years ago:
- People physically gathered in rock concerts and not virtually in chat rooms, social networks and virtual worlds
- People enjoyed the sound of dust, scratches & subtle sounds when they played their vinyl records and not a limited and narrow spectrum of compressed MP3 file
- A team from Liverpool actually made it all the way
- A masterpiece called Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was released by the Beatles and completely changed the music world
To celebrate the event I am planning to dive deep into Wikipedia, refresh my memory and learn some new facts. From a short glimpse, it’s just amazing how detailed the album and songs pages are.
BTW, when searching for the original I came accross American Idol’s cover versions. Oy Vey. I will stick to the originals.
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Great post on Mashable:
“From navigating the Web in entirely new ways to seeing where in the world twitters are coming from, data visualization tools are changing the way we view content. We found the following 16 apps both visually stunning and delightfully useful”
Too bad Snap was not included under the search category where we should be. We at Snap believe visualization is the way to find information faster on the web whether you are searching or surfing the web looking for a cool video clip.
And it took Apple and it’s amazing marketing machine 5 1/2 years to reach this milestone…in other words one ipod every 1.7 seconds…(18,181,818 per year = 1,515,152 per month = 49,8001 per day = 2,044 per hour = 35 per minute)
Another impressive achievement is the sale of 2.5 billion songs on iTunes….more
But, and here’s the but…The fact most songs these days come at 196 kbps makes songs sound quality just horrible, with no decent depth & spectrum. Will the next generation have any ability to distinguish subtle sounds or appreciate the mix of music, dust and scratches on a vinyl record?
Photo: by jbl_nyc.
Sha’anan Streett’s new solo album is a masterpiece.
His writing capabilities have always been exceptional and worked amazingly well with the funk-hiphop compositions and grooves of his band. In his solo album he joins forces with the creative Avi Leibowitz (resposnsible for composition, string and music production) for the best album of the year IMHO.
Also, kudos to the beuitiful album art made by Ariel Snapiri.
Enjoy these two samples:
- slippers
- My soul (Nafshi)
