lost highway

I don't hear anyone talking about how much this just sounds like really good 70's music. I mean shit doesn't anyone smoke pot anymore? If this is a cofee table book then so is Elliot Smith. Anyone who thinks the organs sound like Fastball, are listening to too much fastball and not enough Highway 61 Revisited. But still I don't totally know whats up with this album, I just like what I hear so far.

Oh God, I told myself I wouldnt do it. I am so weak. Oh it sounds good. Crap.....

I'm not gonna make a poll here, but I get the feeling post #1 is real and the person has actually heard the album. I also think that the other 9 pages of this thread were a mixture of good humor, lies, angry internet feud, and excited speculation. Yeah?

Well I am going to be in Seattle this weekend and you already sold it. Too bad for me, but hey at least you dont live in Eastern CO. I had a friend from high school who moved to Hotchkiss and I since lost track of him. My lady friend went to high school in Fruita CO. Yee haw!

Thats like saying you live 200 miles away from Chicago the ha is on you. Just teasing cause I am really wanting that pedal. But are you 200 miles west of Denver or 200 miles bad of Denver.

You may be able to purchase it from them at the show in Australia. Often times bands sell albums before they are released at shows.

About a stones throw from the Gothic Theatre.

And good riddance. Now, back to business-I have decided that the inter-band love is so musically and personally miraculous it has turned into not a love triangle but a love hexagon. All writing credits will be in arcane diagrams and in ten years when a book comes out the details of interband relationships will be so charming that it will read like a Cameron Crowe screen play.

What about Rabbi's in Brooklyn. I am only going off of popular film which has lead us all astray on issues of religious/ethnic minority and their distinguishing vernacular. Hey sky blue sky!! Whoooo!!

I propose Pecan Pie and I have an internet joust. I also live in Colorado so I can come pick it up...... eh? eh?

AGIB is my favorite too. When people say AM or Summerteeth is their favorite I dont get it, but I do try and refrain from calling strangers nuts. AGIB is easily on of my top ten desert island albums, its a freakin journey. I think that album is spiritual, only YHF gets near that for me, but hey some people like key lime others eat some cherry pie.

Yeah, I keep coming back thinking I will run into someone who's actually heard the album talking about what they heard. Instead we keep getting a whole lot of not. In viachicago fashion: "There is nothing worth discussing on here for at least a month so......I hate that one guy that said that one thing."

It's just a combo of the sweet effect and using your left hand to make an over exaggerated vibrato. He might have used a bigsby but I think you can do that all with your left hand, especially way up high with a lot of gain.

I can just imagine him doing his smart ass head nod and a winning smile while singing "You can rely on me honey" You know he would stall the beginning of the line just a bit.

See thread below (prunes and custard) and shake your left hand pretty hard while doing it. Voila!

wait wait, what about.... Sam Cooke doing Jesus Etc. with Booker T and the M.G.s as his backup band.

How about you resurrect Johnny Cash and have him do 'Far, Far, Away'. Too obvious...? What about Deerhoof doing 'Poor Places'?

Thats a good deal....I think. How much have you used it/how much do you think it costs to mail it?

How much do ya want for it?

I agree. Now that is all......

Wait, how do you know that?

Yes, indeed close it. But haven't we learned so much from each other? Don't we all feel like better people?

Oooh we should all go. Make a week of it.

In short: you can encode it at whatever fancy bit rate you want, but if the program/machine doing it is crap it will sound like crap. Some audio holds up better at lower bit rates than others. Probably a solo tweedy performance, or a rockin Bruce Springsteen song sounds better on high bit mp3 than a massive symphony recording.

Well this might help what has become a round table discussion/op ed. From wikipedia: "The transparency threshold of MP3 can be estimated to be at about 128k with good encoders on typical music as evidenced by its strong performance in the above test, however some particularly difficult material can require 192k or higher. As with all lossy formats, some samples can not be encoded perfectly transparent to all users. Thus many users opt for 192k as a good trade off."