Am exchanging two songs a day with my 15 yr old daughter.
I am sending pre 2000 songs of various styles. Show her what it was like before autotune and drone rap and pop songs all sounding the same. Giving her a bit of an education.
While she is sending me current stuff she likes.
While I have been compiling songs lists, I noticed very few were females. Also what apealed to me growing up might not appeal to her. Then there are probably heaps of great songs from growing up in Australia, that I have forgotten all about.
Life On Mars? b/w Life On Mars? (live) by David Bowie (1973)
40th Anniversary edition picture disc
It’s picture disc time! It’s also Bowie Time. Always the right time for something by him.
The picture on Side A is of course a still from the fabulous Life On Mars? video. The pic on Side B is of David performing live. The live version of the track was recorded in Boston in 1972.
Denver Post: "Denver's June rainfall total broke a record set in 1882. And I love this quote from that story: "It's an almost ridiculous amount of rain." That's what National Weather Service meteorologist David Barjenbruch said about Denver's May-June rain total of 11.63 inches, which is nearly what the city sees in a year, on average." #rainfall#wx#records#Colorado#Denver#COwx
The #pharmacy#chain in question, which is happy to give both your #prescription (and presumably #vaccination) #records to pretty much anyone who wants them, in addition to letting them see when your prescriptions are eligible for refill, order those refills, and turn on OR OFF automatic fills for your prescripts is ...
Bryan Hoffa is a library audio preservation specialist with the Library of Congress. In this video he shows us how 78rpm records are cleaned and digitized for the LOC. He also shares some interesting variables about the inconsistencies of 78s.
Apparently you can clean 78s with WD-40. I'd not tried it before, but I have one record that was so dirty it just wouldn't play - dirt puts more drag on the needle, and the spring motor isn't as powerful as an electric one, so it just ground to a halt after two or three rotations. My normal cleaning method of soapy water and a toothbrush didn't help, so I tried the WD-40... and sure enough, it plays perfectly now! #gramophone#RetroTech#records#music
Last June night was one of the coldest in recent decades in northern and eastern Germany. Some records for the lowest temperature were even broken near the ground.
The cause was a fresh inflow of very dry polar air, which was able to cool down optimally in clear and windless conditions. The dry soils also played a role.
In this episode, we take a journey into the world of aviation training with a set of three records from TWA Transportation Training called “Code Course”. These records feature six lessons designed to train airmen in the art of Morse code.
"As I read through the guidelines, a voice inside me had whispered: 'What if this is my secret skill? A hitherto undiscovered genius I have: standing on one leg blindfolded?' I didn’t really expect to break the record. But the tiny possibility was thrilling." @guardian
It's absolutely beat to hell, but when I find an original copy (JP's old copy, according to the cover) of a classic like Paranoid at Goodwill for less than $3, I can't just leave it there. It's too damn beautiful and badass. 🤘
Animated map showing long-duration weather stations setting daily, monthly, and all-time record highs and lows in 2022.
Weather variations continue to routinely set both new highs and lows, but as global warming progresses new highs have become much more common than new lows.
Picked up this 2021 reissue of David Wiffen's 1965 album, At The Bunkhouse Coffeehouse. What a voice David had back then; deep, rich and dripping with maple syrup.
I’m plugging back in after an entire weekend basically offline. This is something very new to me, having only done it a couple of times, but it’s really nice.
The highlight of my weekend was getting this amazing U2 vinyl at a nearby record shop I didn’t even know had popped up. This joins my The Smashing Pumpkins vinyl I scored on Friday. Woohoo!
Our elders had a lot to say about us as a culture. We were so very depraved you see. But I've flipped through their record collections at thrift stores.. between every two gospel records? Smut. #records#vinyl#thrifting#smut
Make a Metallica Playlist with no more than 4 songs from each album
Here's mine:...