![]() Looking under "Various Artists" is a way to find weird thigns like this moving some songs around, for example "Gun" by Chvrches disappeared from the album it was on (The Bones of What You Believe) but I discovered it has appeared under an album I never added - "Virgin Records: 40 years of Disruptions" - Various Artists. relisting albums somehow, sometimes while leaving a single track hanging around letting me add and listen to albums for months/years, then suddenly marking one or more songs in that album as "not available" (Life Aquatic soundtrack has this, for me) That's long gone, but it still bothered me. ![]() deleting songs which were on my computer, but which didn't exist in apple's catalogue waaaay back when I originally signed up. But the CD version was a degradation of the 1997 version that I've owned since the late 90s! Sometimes the streaming services somehow have worse versions than the CD. The Vinyl copy was an improvement on the older vinyl versions. The Beatles Sergeant Pepper's album was re-released a few years ago. And the stupid thing is there are still tons of releases that actually sound better on Vinyl despite it being an inferior format because they have never gone back and fixed a lot of the loudness issues. It boggles my mind vinyl is making a comeback now, but it seems obvious it is because of the double whammy of the loudness war and the endless shenanigans by Apple and all other digital music stores/streaming platforms. ![]() It's like the entire physical media -> files -> streaming thing has been a 20 year bad trip. Everything is off on the NAS backed up but yet it's somehow just more fun to pull the disc out and play it. ![]() Lately I have gone back to actually playing the CDs in a dedicated CD player and even got a Turntable and now have a very small # of vinyls. I definitely didn't buy as much music the past 10 years though. I don't use the Fiio all that much anymore, but I kept on buying CDs and ripping them to FLAC or buying FLACs directly. I ended up re-scanning every CD as FLAC and storing them all outside of iTunes and then ended up getting a Fiio DAP that could play them. There have been so many shenanigans along the way (this reddit thread is just one of them) that I gave up about 9 years ago. But by 2002-2003 this started to not be an issue. In 1997 I think I got a 1GB one in a desktop build. I think my computer in 1995-1996 had a 250MB HDD. I started playing around with MP3 Layer 2 and then Layer 3 around 1995-1996, but at that time it was still prohibitive to try and store your whole collection as hard drives were still barely the size of one CD. I have hundreds of CDs I started buying about 1992 or 1993 and did a big project at one point making MP3s and early on in the iTunes/iPod era they found their way into iTunes. Ironically, few tried to achieve the sweeping, all-encompassing embrace of music as the Beatles did here.It's funny people are still learning this, but I guess some are younger. Pepper, there were no rules to follow - rock and pop bands could try anything, for better or worse. It's possible to argue that there are better Beatles albums, yet no album is as historically important as this. "With a Little Help From My Friends" is the ideal Ringo tune, a rolling, friendly pop song that hides genuine Lennon anguish, à la "Help!" "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" remains one of the touchstones of British psychedelia and he's the mastermind behind the bulk of "A Day in the Life," a haunting number that skillfully blends Lennon's verse and chorus with McCartney's bridge. In comparison, Lennon's contributions seem fewer, and a couple of them are a little slight but his major statements are stunning. He dominates the album in terms of compositions, setting the tone for the album with his unabashed melodicism and deviously clever arrangements. Not once does the diversity seem forced - the genius of the record is how the vaudevillian "When I'm 64" seems like a logical extension of "Within You Without You" and how it provides a gateway to the chiming guitars of "Lovely Rita." There's no discounting the individual contributions of each member or their producer, George Martin, but the preponderance of whimsy and self-conscious art gives the impression that Paul McCartney is the leader of the Lonely Hearts Club Band. Pepper, in many ways, refines that breakthrough, as the Beatles consciously synthesized such disparate influences as psychedelia, art-song, classical music, rock & roll, and music hall, often in the course of one song. With Revolver, the Beatles made the Great Leap Forward, reaching a previously unheard-of level of sophistication and fearless experimentation.
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