Rash Looney
2005-01-17 04:59:23 UTC
Way back when, I posted a rant about 'Sunday Edition'
because I always seemed to tune in at their most
boring point:
http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/puzzle/
Puzzlemeister Will Shortz! (Even if I was interested
in his fussy little challenges, the dead air accompanying
them would be a station-changer.) In the same way it
seems like I'm always hearing that part of 'All Things
Considered' in the last minutes of each hour, when
instead of reporting news they go off on some cultural
tangent, usually a review of some current musical
offering. Just before New Years's, I heard one
of these end-of-the-hours about the newly-reissued
Brian Eno vocal albums from the 1970s. It was delightful:
evening drive-time listeners were treated to some of
my favorite songs, due to this re-release of his
greatest stuff, "digitally remastered." Be warned: the
'remastered' tracks sound no different to my ears,
and these 'new' disks offer no bonus tracks! The
omission of "The Seven Deadly Finns" and "The Lion
Sleeps Tonight" is criminal, a big opportunity,
wasted -- the only difference is, the packaging is
those ecological cardboard jewel case substitutes I
dislike, and the cover image for "Here Come the Warm
Jets" is no longer cropped. I haven't actually heard
the new disks, but assume their mixes are identical
to those on the out-of-print, 'remastered' Vocal
Box Set I finally acquired last year. However, the ATC
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4252183
blurb is worth listening to, since its youthful commentator,
to his surprise, finds the material excellent, even though
it's older than he is.
because I always seemed to tune in at their most
boring point:
http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/puzzle/
Puzzlemeister Will Shortz! (Even if I was interested
in his fussy little challenges, the dead air accompanying
them would be a station-changer.) In the same way it
seems like I'm always hearing that part of 'All Things
Considered' in the last minutes of each hour, when
instead of reporting news they go off on some cultural
tangent, usually a review of some current musical
offering. Just before New Years's, I heard one
of these end-of-the-hours about the newly-reissued
Brian Eno vocal albums from the 1970s. It was delightful:
evening drive-time listeners were treated to some of
my favorite songs, due to this re-release of his
greatest stuff, "digitally remastered." Be warned: the
'remastered' tracks sound no different to my ears,
and these 'new' disks offer no bonus tracks! The
omission of "The Seven Deadly Finns" and "The Lion
Sleeps Tonight" is criminal, a big opportunity,
wasted -- the only difference is, the packaging is
those ecological cardboard jewel case substitutes I
dislike, and the cover image for "Here Come the Warm
Jets" is no longer cropped. I haven't actually heard
the new disks, but assume their mixes are identical
to those on the out-of-print, 'remastered' Vocal
Box Set I finally acquired last year. However, the ATC
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4252183
blurb is worth listening to, since its youthful commentator,
to his surprise, finds the material excellent, even though
it's older than he is.