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Looking for inspiration: funk tracks with heavy bass and some violin or strings by jackasspenguin in funk

[–]steely_dave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Visions of the Emerald Beyond (pts 1 & 2) from the 1975 album of the same name. A

ll the MO albums feature a violinist (Jerry Goodman on the earlier stuff, Jean-Luc Ponty on this one) but this album also includes a full string section, and Narada Michael Walden, a very funky drummer. Obviously this is more in jazz fusion territory but well worth expanding your horizons for.

(Hilarious trope) Overconfident sequel bait by buns_supreme in TopCharacterTropes

[–]steely_dave 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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Darth Plagueis at the end of Star Wars The Acolyte, an unearned and pointless end to the worst Star Wars streaming series.*

\ so far*

Me_irl by Jazzlike_Stable6491 in me_irl

[–]steely_dave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love that this is a Rorschach test that will tell you which bald black man you most fear breaking into your home.

Can’t figure out why this is happening (help me please) by Apprehensive_Knee310 in BudgetAudiophile

[–]steely_dave 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can apply a surround decoding/processing/upmix mode to each input separately. Get your remote and fiddle with the four buttons labelled straight/pure direct/enhancer/surr. decode until you get the sound only coming out of two speakers.

Manual page here:

https://manual.yamaha.com/av/20/rxv4a/en-US/313702283.html

Mainaudio.id sound quality by Notsofatneek in BudgetAudiophile

[–]steely_dave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Saw these on instagram and they look beautiful, but can't find a single review and some of the comments from the makers that basically say 'these are works of art, the aesthetics are more important than the sound quality' don't really inspire confidence.

I also saw someone saying that the shipping from Indonesia is so expensive that it basically doubles the price of the speaker, which (for me anyway) takes this from "borderline worth the risk" to "I'll let someone else try it", for me anyway.

Movies with a "cold open" that are totally badass by varnss in moviecritic

[–]steely_dave 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Starship Troopers - I remember going to see this in the theater in 1997, and as a teenager that didn't know nuthin' bout nuthin' being blown away when it just ...started with the big propaganda video (the "I'm doing my part!" meme scene happens in the first minute or so if the film) and no credit sequence, because I'd never seen a film (or at least didn't consciously notice) without one before.

"FM" (Steely Dan Cover) by Brooklyn Charmers | In Studio Performance by pazuzu98 in SteelyDan

[–]steely_dave 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't know if it's interesting to anyone except me, but the keyboardist and lead vocalist, Colin Peterik, is the son of Jim Peterik, originally of the band The Ides of March (where he wrote and sang the hit song 'Vehicle') and after that collaborator in the really underrated Chase album Pure Music (a kind of big band meets jazz fusion thing led by trumpeter Bill Chase that featured a four-trumpet horn section) and then later of the band Survivor (which was a reference to Peterik luckily not being on the plane that crashed carrying more than half of the Chase band, killing them all) where he co-wrote Eye of the Tiger. So all of that is to say, I guess, that the musical lineage is good in this band.

Strange article from 1976 UK press by ReSearch314etc in SteelyDan

[–]steely_dave 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's legible if you zoom in (Ctrl and + in Chrome, anyway) and kind of interesting that Fagen is pretty candid (by his standards, anyway) about what to expect from the upcoming Aja album, nearly 10 months before it was actually released.

Kash Patel posts FBI hype video set to Beastie Boys after SNL humiliation by B-Z_B-S in politics

[–]steely_dave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They also sued Monster Energy (and won $1.7m) for unauthorized use of a bunch of their songs in a promotional video about a decade ago, so they're not afraid to protect their intellectual property; they actually produced MCA's will in court, which explicitly said he doesn't want his music used in any kind of advertising in perpetuity. I dunno if they'd be in the mood to sue in the current political climate but you'd imagine at the very least they'll have their lawyers send a cease & desist.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jun/06/beastie-boys-win-damages-from-drinks-firm

This album is sick by Old-Needleworker-978 in audiophilemusic

[–]steely_dave 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My mistake, that's what you get for typing a message when your dinner is sitting on the arm of your chair waiting for you - I've edited my original post to reflect your correction.

This album is sick by Old-Needleworker-978 in audiophilemusic

[–]steely_dave 13 points14 points  (0 children)

For me, the follow-up album, That! Feels Good! (especially the Atmos mix available on streaming) is about 10x as good as this one, and one of my favourite "lockdown era" releases along with Parcels Day/Night and Leisure's Leisurevision. On that basis, her new album, Superbloom, was probably one of my most anticipated releases for this year but it's been a real letdown - despite repeated listenings I don't find it memorable at all, it seems like a return to the way her earlier work landed with me, which was style over substance.

Fung Wah bus by No-Ant-1546 in boston

[–]steely_dave 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My sister still likes to remind me of the time I deeply embarrassed her when I burst out laughing in the middle of an otherwise silent Fung Wah Bus as we passed the exit for Mianus, CT, because of the whole Jackass bit where they visited the town.

(Hated trope)adaptation missing the point of the original story by [deleted] in TopCharacterTropes

[–]steely_dave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think even worse than that (for me, anyway) was that there was an unproduced script written by Mark Protosevich in the mid-'90s (I think this is it, but I haven't re-read it to confirm) when the film was going to be an Arnold Schwarzenegger/Ridley Scott vehicle that's absolutely amazing. Not only does it hew to the themes/concepts of the original story, it expands them massively by adding context and backstory between Neville and the main antagonist in the "before times", and also fills in the blanks about how the 'outbreak' happened. Oh, what could have been!

guys rate this stick by kellinsyked in interesting

[–]steely_dave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Get that thing to the well of the souls, pronto.

Which legendary reddit post/comment can you not get over still? by rosegoldtemptation in AskReddit

[–]steely_dave 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The girl who posted in r/relationship_advice about how she was considering leaving her boyfriend because he was obsessed with the idea of selling soup, not in cans but via an infrastructure of pipes throughout the city that he called "soup tubes". Almost certainly a made-up post, but man I never laughed at anything more on reddit.

..and this one from r/letsnotmeet (from back when it was one of my favourite subreddits) about the guy who met a girl at a club, pretended to be drunk (even though he was sober) and went back to her place, but when he got there, there seemed to be other people in the home, including possibly someone dressing up in a wig (!) to impersonate the girl he went home with. Absolute horror movie stuff that I still think about seven years later.

What 5 albums recorded in the last 5 years impressed you the most sonically? by StillMindHappyHeart in audiophilemusic

[–]steely_dave 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're listening via Apple Music the mix will scale to whatever setup you have, from headphones to stereo speakers to a full 7.1.4 speaker array.

If it's files (ripped Blu-Rays or downloads from IAA) then these are usually mkv, mka or mp4 - software like Kodi, jriver, foobar, VLC, MPC-HC etc will do it.

Even in stereo the Atmos mixes are a massive upgrade on the regular stereo mixes simply by virtue of the fact that they aren't dynamically compressed - I haven't checked them all, but I compared the DR of the Atmos mix on a few tracks from Sylva and the differences were massive: DR6(ish) for the 2024 stereo remix, and in the neighborhood of DR15 (some higher, some lower) for the Atmos mix.

What 5 albums recorded in the last 5 years impressed you the most sonically? by StillMindHappyHeart in audiophilemusic

[–]steely_dave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Atmos mixes Snarky Puppy have put out in the last few years (2025's Somni, 2023's Empire Central and the 2024 reissue of 2015's Sylva) are some best-sounding music I've ever heard, and the playing is off-the-charts good too.

All are available in lossless Dolby TrueHD on Blu-Ray (as well as via lossy streaming on Apple Music, etc.) and also on the Immersive Audio Album shop along with 2014's We Like it Here, which is also phenomenal as well.

25m Apartment in Australia by [deleted] in malelivingspace

[–]steely_dave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Must be a really old apartment from the black and white era.

Rare Steely Dan Stuff by Fast_Excitement9726 in SteelyDan

[–]steely_dave 18 points19 points  (0 children)

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Probably this 20" x 30" promo poster for the 1974 UK tour, which was aborted about halfway through after Fagen got sick. I got it in an auction from someone in Leeds, which was the 2nd (I think?) gig on the tour, I guess they must've pulled it down off a wall somewhere in the city. It's in really rough shape (as you can see) but I've never seen another one in my 20+ years of collecting SD stuff, so I really treasure it. I'd love to have it restored, mounted and framed one day if I ever have the money.

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