Rugby's Weekly Roon User and Music Google Chat

My Answer To The Question Is…

Van Halen’s Panama as covered by Kelly Hanson of HURRICANE and remixed by ROSETTA STONE

off this album Track 11

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The Two Runner Ups were…

The Corrs doing a cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams”

and

Garth Brooks doing a cover of Kiss’ “Hard Luck Woman”

American Pie by Madonna.

That is my choice too!

Link? Did I miss it, David? Might be bit later

Not a single track but a pretty awful album, I bought it for 50 pence on vinyl

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https://www.discogs.com/release/486471-Various-Chef-Aid-The-South-Park-Album
My selection is Ned Gerblansky’s cover of Feel like Makin’ Love

Otherwise, there are some really magical tracks on this album.

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Good to “meet” you las night Ged, definitely my No. 1 vote for guest moderator for a week.

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Ha! Rack and ruin would follow!!

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@Sloop_John_B I wanted to ask you yesterday if your Holo Red did arrive and how you like it?

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Didn’t open it yet as I was busy getting this service done.

https://www.thelisteningsuite.ie/hi-fi-magazine-feature/

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Ok so it’s not in my library but oh my.

Greetings!

Today at 3 pm EST will be the weekly meetup. So, crack open a beverage of choice and join us.

As always, if you are having an issue, want to ask questions about Roon, or other hardware/software audio topics, or just chat about music.

Please keep in mind, everyone here is a fellow user like yourself; so this is NOT an official Roon chat.

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Thanks to everyone for dropping by!

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Here are the 2 “1000 albums to listen to before you shuffle off this mortal coil” that I have.

Is your list @Rugby based on either?

Having looked at both indexes the Robert Dimery one has Tragic Songs of Life, whereas the Tom Moon one goes for Satin is Real from the Louvin Brothers.

Between verses of “Satan Is Real,” the mandolin player and singer Ira Louvin offers a spoken allegory about the guy with the pitchfork. He knows that his listeners believe in God; his concern on this day is that they understand just how dangerous Satan is.
“I grew selfish and unneighborly,” the reverent man from the Alabama mountains confesses.“My friends turned against me, and finally my home was broken apart.”
Even given the melodramatic bent of entertainment in the 1950s, such a cautionary tale seems transparent, the cheap ploy of a radio preacher. But Ira Louvin makes it work. A mandolin player with a distinctive keening tenor voice and a reputation as a mean drunk (he died in a car accident after drinking), he projects concern for not just his audience but all of humanity. Each time he starts up a new verse, he sounds more determined to affect change in the lives of his listeners. He’s not judging anyone’s choices, just trying to make sure that the lost have all the facts, which he and his brother Charlie, one of the most formidable brother harmony groups of all time, deliver with galvanizing force.
Everything on Satan Is Real-from the country weepers to the hillbilly rambles to the do-right songs cautioning against sin— has the air of true-believer righteousness. Split between songs the Louvins wrote for the occasion (“There’s a Higher Power,” “Are You Afraid to Die?”) and pieces written by Nashville tunesmiths, Satan Is Real is resolute country gospel pure and simple. Extolling the wonders of a caring God, the Louvins bring theology to the front porch in a way anybody who’s strayed can understand.

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I have the book on the left, and it’s quite a weighty tome.
Need to employ someone to fetch it to me these days :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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But surely it shrinks in size/weight in the “Tardis”?:sunglasses:

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It’s on the bottom shelf of my bookshelf. Any higher and I think it breaks the shelves.

Certainly going to fall through the TARDIS ceiling so it ain’t ever going up there :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

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Mine lives next to 1001 tracks and the track by track guides and autobiographies. I’m hoping the shelf is humming with joy and not groaning under stress. :grin:

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Here is the website I referenced, no mention of the book. However, it is an up to date list including 2023 releases.

Also, as mentioned the website which randomly give you an album to listen to everyday.

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It’s the book on the left with some corrections for years - the Ravi Shankar is in the book as 1968.

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Do people get the same album each day or is each selection person specific (if you don’t choose a group)?

I had Iggy’s Lust for Life yesterday and Verve Urban Hymns today.

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