Re: [DNG] Very offtopic: 70's music

[Steve Litt]

>Steve Litt  :
>
>> He has recommended http://towardtheunknownregion.com  
>
>Very strange Website, "radioseagull" makes me think about free local 
>radios of Brittany(where are my roots).

LOL, right now, at 8:21am New York time on 3/6/2021, I'm listening to
Casey Kasem's American Top 40 from March 18, 1982. They're on about
#21, counting down to #1. You can hear it here:

https://www.radio.com/1059sunnyfm

Enjoy!

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Re: [DNG] Very offtopic: 70's music

[Steve Litt]

>En 5 de marzo de 2021 1:27:25 Steve Litt 
>escribió:
>>
>> Guilty pleasure: I liked Kiss. And Abba too. And (yeah, I'm a
>> hypocrite) KC and the Sunshine Band. And Heart and Fleetwood Mac.  
>
>There is no mention to The Police in this thread. 

I *love* King of Pain by the Police. I also love Fields of Gold by
Sting.

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Re: [DNG] Very offtopic: 70's music

[Dimitris via Dng]

Στις 5/3/21 5:02 μ.μ., ο/η Stephane Ascoet via Dng έγραψε:


Found it: The home of Alekos Panagoulis :-) He wasn't as optimistic as 
you are about your politics even after the fall of papadopoulos


i'm not an optimist at all, especially about politics..., but glad some 
people know of Alekos Panagoulis..  :)


https://quotepark.com/fr/citations/1852675-alexandros-panagoulis-i-gave-life-to-the-walls-a-voice-i-gave-them-mor/

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Re: [DNG] Very offtopic: 70's music

[Stephane Ascoet via Dng]

Steve Litt  :


He has recommended http://towardtheunknownregion.com


Very strange Website, "radioseagull" makes me think about free local 
radios of Brittany(where are my roots).


sl...@troubleshooters.com looks like the name of a french hard-rock 
band, Starshooter!


Dimitris:

even though its modern history is more similar to that of Chile and
Argentina...


Found it: The home of Alekos Panagoulis :-) He wasn't as optimistic as 
you are about your politics even after the fall of papadopoulos


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Re: [DNG] Very offtopic: 70's music

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aitor [05.03.2021 15:22]:

> On the other hand, Steve, I would include Yoko Ono's long plays to your
> list of punishments for those people in the hell forced to use systemd,
> in addition to the normal
> 
> fire and brimstone. Yoko Ono for eternity.

So you WANT me to use Substance D (systemd), now...?
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Re: [DNG] Very offtopic: 70's music

[aitor]

En 5 de marzo de 2021 1:27:25 Steve Litt  escribió:


Guilty pleasure: I liked Kiss. And Abba too. And (yeah, I'm a hypocrite)
KC and the Sunshine Band. And Heart and Fleetwood Mac.


There is no mention to The Police in this thread. I also was going to 
mention the bluesman John Mayall (later one of the members of the 
Bluesbreakers founded Fleetwood Mac).


On the other hand, Steve, I would include Yoko Ono's long plays to your 
list of punishments for those people in the hell forced to use systemd, in 
addition to the normal

fire and brimstone. Yoko Ono for eternity.



It's true: The 1970's had some great music.

But disco.

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Re: [DNG] Very offtopic: 70's music

[tito via Dng]

On Fri, 5 Mar 2021 10:49:06 +0100
Stephane Ascoet via Dng  wrote:

> tito  :
> 
> You still have Tiscali in Italy ;-)
> >
> >>
> >> Others include of course Pink Floyd,
> 
> It's my second favorite band and I wrote them in my first mail ;-)
> 
> > Steppenwolf, Janis Joplin, The
> >> Doors...so many to name.
> 
> I though about them but for me it's more 60's than 70's
> >>
> > AC/DC, Aerosmith, Johnny Winter, Jeff Beck Group, Santana,
> >  Jimi Hendrix, Thin Lizzy, Roger Chapman, Freddy King, Albert
> > King, B.B. King, Cream, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker. Screamin Jay
> >Hawkins, ZZTop..I think there are moreOh Yes... Black
> >Sabbath, Clapton, Beach Boys, Steve Miller Band
> >
> 
> I can read that we have a lot of musical culture in common. I thought 
> about some of them, but for me, for an half they are more 60's than 
> 70's, and for the other half more on the border between end of 70's
> and first half of 80's, so not really fully 70ish
> 

My parents played Beach Boys  every night to make sleep...I still
remember the songs (they say only this worked).
BTW forgot to mention Canned Heat, john Mayall and the bluesbreakers,
Joe Cocker (Mad dogs and  englishman tour) and my preferred band
Walter Trout and the free radicals.
Yep, tiscali was my first email a the times with a 56k usrobotics
modem...

Ciao,
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Re: [DNG] Very offtopic: 70's music

[Stephane Ascoet via Dng]

tito  :

You still have Tiscali in Italy ;-)




Others include of course Pink Floyd,


It's my second favorite band and I wrote them in my first mail ;-)


Steppenwolf, Janis Joplin, The

Doors...so many to name.


I though about them but for me it's more 60's than 70's



AC/DC, Aerosmith, Johnny Winter, Jeff Beck Group, Santana,
 Jimi Hendrix, Thin Lizzy, Roger Chapman, Freddy King, Albert King,
   B.B. King, Cream, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker. Screamin Jay
   Hawkins, ZZTop..I think there are moreOh Yes... Black
   Sabbath, Clapton, Beach Boys, Steve Miller Band



I can read that we have a lot of musical culture in common. I thought 
about some of them, but for me, for an half they are more 60's than 
70's, and for the other half more on the border between end of 70's and 
first half of 80's, so not really fully 70ish


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Re: [DNG] Very offtopic: 70's music, video platforms

[Stephane Ascoet via Dng]

Steve Litt  :


Here are my favorite music decades, from most to least liked:


Hi, yes, it fits with what I guessed from your original post. For me it's:


1) 1950's
2) 1960's
3) 1970's
4) 1980's
5) 1990's
6) 2000's-2009


Notes:
-The size of the steps aren't the same each time. In fact the fourth 
first ones are almost at the same level near paradise, 1990s are more 
below 1980's(Everest high) and the last one is almost as low as hell is.
-I don't even mention 2010 and after since for me it's only noise, not 
music. Below hell if possible!
-And yes, regarding another one mail, I like classical music too, but 
just a little, too few to mention it.


I liked 1990's and 1980's almost the same, but my love for 1990's
Eurodance made the difference.


As for the taste question, we'll have trouble to agree since I think 
that decadence started a lot from this style(even if, like I wrote 
before, hearing some of them now reminds me my young years and then I 
think that it wasn't so terrible in comparaison to what is called music 
now).



But 1975-spring 1979 was a vast wasteland of Disco, dragging down what
otherwise could have been a great decade.


Well, the source of the (little) disagreement comes from the fact that 
you rely on the things played on radio, at the contrary of me(1975-79 is 
one of my favorite period for rock, it's when my favorite band started 
as a pub-rock one).





Guilty pleasure: I liked Kiss. And Abba too. And (yeah, I'm a hypocrite)
KC and the Sunshine Band. And Heart and Fleetwood Mac. And Sweet. When
our kids were little (in the very late 1990's), our family used to put
Little Willy on the computer, crank it way up, and dance like nobody
was looking. Every one of us did a 360 when that triple drumbeat ended
the chorus.


I don't know at all half of all of those...


Everyone forgets the early 1970's, I don't know why. Remember "Hold
Your Head Up" by Argent? If you had the right album Grand Funk album,
you could hear "Sin's a Good Man's Brother", which was designed
specifically for situations I no longer find myself in.

And don't forget the outstanding Pop music of the pre-disco 1970's:
Maggie May, Just My Imagination, Signs, Brandy, I Can See Clearly Now,
American Pie, Jazzman, and the best unremembered song of all time, the
Southerland Brothers' You got Me Anyway.


All of this is more linked to funk and glam roots, it's not what I 
prefer, but yes, they are worth to be mentioned!


A few months ago I put together a playlist of the #1 songs from 1943 to
1971, and it was interesting. Based strictly on the #1 songs, 1952 was
the worst year ever: It sounded like a funeral. 1955 was great, as were
1961-1963. Soon I'm going to write a program to take the top 20 songs


Very interesting! If you ever mind to publish this somewhere, I would be 
glad to read it!



It's true: The 1970's had some great music.

But disco.


See my comment above about radio. I feel that, at least for radio format 
I'm listening to, disco is like dance: shorts and old fashioned trends 
that ruled at this times, but that nobody want to listen now, except to 
laugh or remember our youth occasionally.


But for most people, the sentence above applies to what I like, for my 
despair! And sadly, I can't hear anymore any radios except the ones I 
talked about with links [in french at last], until they change or 
disappear too :-(



Oh Oh: "As of September 1st 2020, invidio.us has closed down. To see
this content, please select another instance, or visit directly on
YouTube."


You can use: http://invidious.fdn.fr
You can directly download Youtube links without going on it with:
-youtube-dl(sadly has got a lot of dependencies),
-youtube-dcl or something like this(need to be skilled in programming, I 
don't use it)

-,
-4kvideodownloader (free as a beer but not libre, the most complete I 
know but sometimes works bad)

-...





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Re: [DNG] Very offtopic: 70's music

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On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 6:27 PM Steve Litt  wrote:

AS there seem to be quite a number enjoying this - - - - well you've caused me
to crawl down the water drains and . . .

>
> Here are my favorite music decades, from most to least liked:
>
> 1) 1990's
> 2) 1980's
> 3) 1960's
> 4) 1970's
> 5) 2000's
> 6) 1950's
> 7) 2010's
>
Nothin like the late 1500s or early 1600s.
The 1700 had quite a number of very interesting moments.
The the 1800s - - - - well I could go on for hours - - - -
   you ever hear a Stein fortepiano on full stick with a big enough voice
   going full bore on some mid/late Schubert or most of Schumann.
Listening to something like the Amadeus quartet - - - - guys only played
together for some 50 + years. One guy died and they disbanded - - - -it
would have been terribly difficult to integrate someone else - - - no matter
how good a player.
Lots more to say here!!!
Finishing the 1800s and into the beginning of the 1900s - - - - well - - -
how many hours will you give me. Some of the composers - - - - great
music but boy were they shysters at life!
Should tell you about a concert I was fortunate enough to here in
Munich - - - - we clapped for '20' minutes - - - - what a performance

So a number of decades - - - meh - - - I've got almost as many centuries!

Saw you a few and have raised you hard!

What else you got?  (grin!)

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Re: [DNG] Very offtopic: 70's music

[Gabe Stanton via Dng]

On Thu, 2021-03-04 at 19:31 -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> > check out invidio.us, but even better help out with peertube, an 
> > alternative p2p platform ;-)
> 
> Oh Oh: "As of September 1st 2020, invidio.us has closed down. To see
> this content, please select another instance, or visit directly on
> YouTube."

Peertube.live is having issues as well. At first I got an expired
certificate error, and then I started getting "Error 503 Backend fetch
failed"

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Re: [DNG] Very offtopic: 70's music

[Steve Litt]

>Στις 4/3/21 7:20 μ.μ., ο/η Gabe Stanton via Dng έγραψε:
>> posting a youtube link considering my stance against google.  
>
>check out invidio.us, but even better help out with peertube, an 
>alternative p2p platform ;-)

Oh Oh: "As of September 1st 2020, invidio.us has closed down. To see
this content, please select another instance, or visit directly on
YouTube."

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Re: [DNG] Very offtopic: 70's music

[Steve Litt]

>Simon Hobson  :
>>
>> I think it's a case of two things :
>>  
>
>Hi, I agree with the two. Yes, recently I've heard selection of songs 
>from the 1990s and told myself: "yeah I remember!!! well, there was
>some good songs in this time after all!"
>
>But I still maintain that 1970s are special. I'm not the best person
>to explain why, and it's not the place. 

Here are my favorite music decades, from most to least liked:

1) 1990's
2) 1980's
3) 1960's
4) 1970's
5) 2000's
6) 1950's
7) 2010's

I liked 1990's and 1980's almost the same, but my love for 1990's
Eurodance made the difference.

> That's why I gave links. But
>just count the number of artists I listed: I'm not saying that
>everybody should like all of them(it's not the case for myself). But
>they are all recognized to have put a brick in music history. And so I
>can't let Steve say something a little like "there was mainly Disco in
>the 70s".

So true. From 1970-summer 1974, no Disco. From Spring 1979 on, with
Steve Dahl's Disco Demolition Night (I lived in Chicago), Disco was
relegated to a joke and we had great music to close out the decade.

But 1975-spring 1979 was a vast wasteland of Disco, dragging down what
otherwise could have been a great decade.

>And I forgot three main other bands of the decade(shame on me): 

Doobie Brothers Meh
Chicago Meh
Supertramp Spectacular!

Guilty pleasure: I liked Kiss. And Abba too. And (yeah, I'm a hypocrite)
KC and the Sunshine Band. And Heart and Fleetwood Mac. And Sweet. When
our kids were little (in the very late 1990's), our family used to put
Little Willy on the computer, crank it way up, and dance like nobody
was looking. Every one of us did a 360 when that triple drumbeat ended
the chorus.

Everyone forgets the early 1970's, I don't know why. Remember "Hold
Your Head Up" by Argent? If you had the right album Grand Funk album,
you could hear "Sin's a Good Man's Brother", which was designed
specifically for situations I no longer find myself in. 

And don't forget the outstanding Pop music of the pre-disco 1970's:
Maggie May, Just My Imagination, Signs, Brandy, I Can See Clearly Now,
American Pie, Jazzman, and the best unremembered song of all time, the
Southerland Brothers' You got Me Anyway.

A few months ago I put together a playlist of the #1 songs from 1943 to
1971, and it was interesting. Based strictly on the #1 songs, 1952 was
the worst year ever: It sounded like a funeral. 1955 was great, as were
1961-1963. Soon I'm going to write a program to take the top 20 songs
each week, and create a playlist for a string of years, such that the
playlist plays each top 20 song once, specifically, the week it first
reached its highest position on the charts. It's a job tailor made for
Python dicts.

It's true: The 1970's had some great music.

But disco.

SteveT

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Re: [DNG] Very offtopic: 70's music

[tito via Dng]

On Thu, 04 Mar 2021 10:20:11 -0700
Gabe Stanton via Dng  wrote:

> On Thu, 2021-03-04 at 16:51 +0200, Dimitris via Dng wrote:
> > in anycase disco would be last on my list of 70s music :P
> 
> not even a little redneck disco? 
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaK3a44BghU
> 
> I admit it's from the 80's but it's still a sweet song.
> 
> 
> I tend to agree about 70's music, it's what I've listened to the most.
> 
> Others include of course Pink Floyd, Steppenwolf, Janis Joplin, The
> Doors...so many to name.  
> 
AC/DC, Aerosmith, Johnny Winter, Jeff Beck Group, Santana,
 Jimi Hendrix, Thin Lizzy, Roger Chapman, Freddy King, Albert King,
   B.B. King, Cream, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker. Screamin Jay
   Hawkins, ZZTop..I think there are moreOh Yes... Black
   Sabbath, Clapton, Beach Boys, Steve Miller Band

   Ciao,
   Tito

  
> Disclaimer: I'm aware of the hypocrisy of posting a youtube link
> considering my stance against google. I'll find better ways in the
> future. It's not on bitchute though and this is a quick way to share.
> I doubt attaching a mp3 file would fly, I'll have to check the list
> rules but I have a feeling it's no bueno.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Gabe

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Re: [DNG] Very offtopic: 70's music

[Gabe Stanton via Dng]

On Thu, 2021-03-04 at 19:41 +0200, Dimitris via Dng wrote:
> check out invidio.us, but even better help out with peertube, an 
> 
> alternative p2p platform ;-)

I'll check them out, thanks!
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Re: [DNG] Very offtopic: 70's music

[Dimitris via Dng]

Στις 4/3/21 7:20 μ.μ., ο/η Gabe Stanton via Dng έγραψε:

posting a youtube link considering my stance against google.


check out invidio.us, but even better help out with peertube, an 
alternative p2p platform ;-)




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Re: [DNG] Very offtopic: 70's music

[Dimitris via Dng]

hey,

Στις 4/3/21 6:35 μ.μ., ο/η Stephane Ascoet via Dng έγραψε:


When you say "local", do you mean "south America"?


no, i mean a current EU member-state...
even though its modern history is more similar to that of Chile and 
Argentina...





And yes, I've forgotten to mention jamaican soul, Punk and so on. As for 
Africa, I better know 80s production but no doubt there has been good 
things in the 70s!


check Mali music, i was astonished to first hear music samples from that 
country, years ago.. they have a "unique" guitar rhythm

in general i like western africa tunes, better than any disco pop :)
artists like Ali Farka Toure, Salif Keita, et others..



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Re: [DNG] Very offtopic: 70's music

[Gabe Stanton via Dng]

On Thu, 2021-03-04 at 16:51 +0200, Dimitris via Dng wrote:
> in anycase disco would be last on my list of 70s music :P

not even a little redneck disco? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaK3a44BghU

I admit it's from the 80's but it's still a sweet song.


I tend to agree about 70's music, it's what I've listened to the most.

Others include of course Pink Floyd, Steppenwolf, Janis Joplin, The
Doors...so many to name.  


Disclaimer: I'm aware of the hypocrisy of posting a youtube link
considering my stance against google. I'll find better ways in the
future. It's not on bitchute though and this is a quick way to share. I
doubt attaching a mp3 file would fly, I'll have to check the list rules
but I have a feeling it's no bueno.





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Re: [DNG] Very offtopic: 70's music

[Stephane Ascoet via Dng]

Dimitris :

and locally, after the us-dictated military dictatorship and its
widespread censorship ended in the mid70s, there was a blooming artistic
creation  and great local music was produced..

in anycase disco would be last on my list of 70s music :P


At last, someone else than me to write these things :-)

When you say "local", do you mean "south America"?

And yes, I've forgotten to mention jamaican soul, Punk and so on. As for 
Africa, I better know 80s production but no doubt there has been good 
things in the 70s!


**About Simon Hobson's Brian extract**: Made me smile, sadly I've 
haven't seen the complete movie yet, my sister told me about it years 
ago, she loved it


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Re: [DNG] Very offtopic: 70's music

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On Thu, 4 Mar 2021 16:51:28 +0200
Dimitris via Dng  wrote:

> Στις 4/3/21 4:16 μ.μ., ο/η Stephane Ascoet via Dng έγραψε:
> > And so I can't let Steve say something a little like "there was
> > mainly Disco in the 70s".
> 
> 70s gave us punk/punk rock, hard rock/heavy metal, 2nd wave ska,
> reggae and some of the greatest rock music ever...
> 
> around the world, 70s produced good ethnic music, even in the 
> -forgotten- african continent.
> 
> and locally, after the us-dictated military dictatorship and its 
> widespread censorship ended in the mid70s, there was a blooming
> artistic creation  and great local music was produced.. :)
> 
> in anycase disco would be last on my list of 70s music :P
> 
> 2c.
> d.


Yes, and it was in the seventies, when the transistor amplifier entered
the stage.

Just to drive this thread even more off topic, although I was too young
to realize this back then: The fact, that the sound wave induced from a
shellac-78rpm or vinyl record over a tube amp to the air by a speaker's
membrane is actually THE SAME WAVE which had hit a microphone a more or
less long time ago is still stunning me, whenever I think of it. 

libre Grüße,
Florian


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Re: [DNG] Very offtopic: 70's music

[Dimitris via Dng]

Στις 4/3/21 4:16 μ.μ., ο/η Stephane Ascoet via Dng έγραψε:
And so I can't let Steve say something a little like "there was mainly 
Disco in the 70s".


70s gave us punk/punk rock, hard rock/heavy metal, 2nd wave ska, reggae 
and some of the greatest rock music ever...


around the world, 70s produced good ethnic music, even in the 
-forgotten- african continent.


and locally, after the us-dictated military dictatorship and its 
widespread censorship ended in the mid70s, there was a blooming artistic 
creation  and great local music was produced.. :)


in anycase disco would be last on my list of 70s music :P

2c.
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Re: [DNG] Very offtopic: 70's music

[Stephane Ascoet via Dng]

Simon Hobson  :


I think it's a case of two things :



Hi, I agree with the two. Yes, recently I've heard selection of songs 
from the 1990s and told myself: "yeah I remember!!! well, there was some 
good songs in this time after all!"


But I still maintain that 1970s are special. I'm not the best person to 
explain why, and it's not the place. That's why I gave links. But just 
count the number of artists I listed: I'm not saying that everybody 
should like all of them(it's not the case for myself). But they are all 
recognized to have put a brick in music history. And so I can't let 
Steve say something a little like "there was mainly Disco in the 70s".


And I forgot three main other bands of the decade(shame on me): Doobie 
Brothers, Chicago, Supertramp


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Re: [DNG] Very offtopic: 70's music

[Simon Hobson]

Stephane Ascoet via Dng  wrote:

>> Of course, the 80's were better, and the 90's were even better than
>> that, but the 70's were no slouch when it comes to music. If you skip
>> disco.
> 

> Hi, it's a joke? 70s are considered by lot of people to be the best decade in 
> music, just some examples: Crosby Stills Nash and Young(and every various 
> related combination of these four guys), Fleetwood Mac, Eagles, Genesis, Pink 
> Floyd, Elton John, James Taylor,  Jackson Browne, David Bowie, Eric Clapton, 
> Led Zeppelin, former Beatles in solo, Dire Straits and Michael Jackson 
> debuts...

I think it's a case of two things :

1) Everyone has different tastes - what someone might think of as rubbish is 
someone else's favourite.

2) All periods had some good music, and all periods also had some ... lets just 
say not so good music. Where "good" depends on preference - see 1 above. If you 
mostly didn't like the music that characterises a period, then you will tend to 
remember the stuff you didn't like - and hence "all music from ${period} is 
rubbish". Similarly, there's a tendency to forget the best forgotten stuff from 
a period you otherwise liked - and hence "all music from ${period} was great", 
as long as you forget the stuff you couldn't stand ;-)

And added to that, people's preferences change. I now listen to stuff I would 
never have dreamed of listening to a couple of decades ago - but find myself 
thinking that "hmm, actually I quite like that now". It can also work the other 
way round, but I can't immediately think of any in my case.


In my department at work, the fortnightly new letter has a Desert Island Disks 
section where someone from the department picks 8 tracks, gives a little bit 
about themselves, and a little bit about why they chose each track. I was on a 
few months ago - and boy, was it hard picking those 8 tracks.
But, it's interesting to look at people's selections, and often I'll be 
thinking "yes, I like that" and "hmm, I'll give that a go - not thought of 
listening to that before". It has slightly broadened my taste in music - which 
was already rather wide and eclectic to start with. After this morning's list, 
Eminem is still not on my list of stuff to listen to though !


Getting slightly on-topic for this list, there's parallels with taste in 
software. Clearly most people on this list are a self selected group who put 
freedom (of init) above other considerations. There are others who put "ease of 
use" first. Some who put absolute "free and open" above all else. Some who are 
more pragmatic and accept that sometimes non-free or non-open is acceptable 
when it comes to getting work done.
There isn't a right or wrong - just a "best for your preferences" compromise.

Sorry, couldn't resist this quote : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVygqjyS4CA

Simon
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[DNG] Very offtopic: 70's music

[Stephane Ascoet via Dng]

Of course, the 80's were better, and the 90's were even better than
that, but the 70's were no slouch when it comes to music. If you skip
disco.

SteveT


Ho and I forgot Steely Dan and Queen! And probably many others...

To know more you could listen on-line(yes, bad sound!) to the french RTL 
radio station(or BelRTL) between 23h and 1 hour(french timezone) in the 
nights leading Friday to Saturday, Saturday to Sunday and Sunday to Monday.

Some old emissions are downloadable:
https://www.rtl.fr/podcast/la-collection-georges-lang.xml
https://www.rtl.fr/podcast/les-nocturnes.xml (the one between 13 and 14 
Feb. have got a lot of english speaking in it)


Or "Classic 21" , especially 
Saturday between 21 and 23 h and Sunday between 9 and 12h(french/belgian 
timezone)



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[DNG] Very offtopic: 70's music

[Stephane Ascoet via Dng]

Of course, the 80's were better, and the 90's were even better than
that, but the 70's were no slouch when it comes to music. If you skip
disco.

SteveT


Hi, it's a joke? 70s are considered by lot of people to be the best 
decade in music, just some examples: Crosby Stills Nash and Young(and 
every various related combination of these four guys), Fleetwood Mac, 
Eagles, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Elton John, James Taylor,  Jackson Browne, 
David Bowie, Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, former Beatles in solo, Dire 
Straits and Michael Jackson debuts...
in france appeared Michel Berger&Veronique Sanson, Alain Souchon&Laurent 
Voulzy, Yves Simon...


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[DNG] Very offtopic: 70's music: was Synaptics Touchpad Fn+F9

[Steve Litt]

On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 01:52:45 -0800
Rick Moen  wrote:

 
> I skipped that decade's pop music -- but, for the (33 1/3 rpm
> long-playing vinyl album-rock) record:
> https://ultimateclassicrock.com/electric-light-orchestra-dont-bring-me-down-bruce/

Mn, you missed a lot. If you skipped Disco, the 70's had some great
music, especially at the beginning and end of the decade. My Sharona, I
want you to want me, and everything by Supertramp.

Of course, the 80's were better, and the 90's were even better than
that, but the 70's were no slouch when it comes to music. If you skip
disco.

SteveT

Steve Litt 
Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times
http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive
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