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Post by kryptoman68 on Aug 1, 2012 14:48:13 GMT -5
Jeeez, why don't I like that song? Am I really the only one? Nope, I am member of the club too. When I played the CD in the car to my wife, this was the only track she skipped. She complained it was repetitive and boring. I have learned to enjoy it at some level, but I generally skip it after the first minute and a half when it starts getting on my nerves. The concert version is slightly better... Talking about my wife, her favorites were CH and OOL (quote about OOL: "This is the stuff he should be singing!")
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Post by kryptoman68 on Jul 22, 2012 12:45:24 GMT -5
Based on the cos2mwiz videos, I would say that the VJJs sounded pretty good last night. I would speculate that the quality of the sound mixing could have been a factor in the past, too - if Adam could not hear himself on some concerts, we have to assume the background singers couldn't hear themselves either... We were quick to criticize them when they were off, I figured I should do a positive mention when they sounded good (to me). The rest was epic anyway... :Clap:
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Post by kryptoman68 on Jul 12, 2012 10:28:28 GMT -5
After watching the whole concert on YT last night (some songs several times), I decided not to go to bed before a little experiment: I listened to half of Trespassing (first 4 songs, CH, Runnin' and the rest of the bonus tracks). (Not) surprisingly, all of them felt to me ON THE SAME LEVEL as all the Queen songs from the Hammersmith show. Thanks to the vocals, obviously They are different kind of music, but good music is good music, and especially TP with its Queen-inspired hand-claps and bass line just rolled like a logical continuation of my musical experience of the night. It felt like having a great dessert after a fantastic steak. (You know I like food analogies) I was pleasantly surprised
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Post by kryptoman68 on Jul 12, 2012 10:20:35 GMT -5
Tweeted by AliKat Queen fan: "this guy LOST American Idol?? Who the fuck won..Jesus Christ??" Not JC, but his protege :
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Post by kryptoman68 on Jul 9, 2012 15:56:29 GMT -5
My take on this: YOU BROKE IT, YOU FIX IT! Adam broke AI 3 years ago, it is time to go back and fix the mess ;D
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Post by kryptoman68 on Jul 6, 2012 19:24:42 GMT -5
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Post by kryptoman68 on Jul 6, 2012 16:24:19 GMT -5
You surely noticed but I found it to be a funny freudian slip when Adam sang in Don't Stop Me Now 'I want to make a supersonic man of you' once instead of 'supersonic woman' in Kiev. In Moscow it was all 'woman', wonder if 'man' appears again in London? ;D Actually I considered the Moscow version a "lyrics fail" because he sang "woman" every time, while the original has man/woman/man in it. www.elyrics.net/read/q/queen-lyrics/don_t-stop-me-now-lyrics.htmlThen I thought he didn't want to push the "gay agenda" in Russia, but that's not what AFL does. So I assume he just saw the girls in the fan zone and sang to them...
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Post by kryptoman68 on Jul 5, 2012 12:53:55 GMT -5
Now I need to slowly send my brother vids. Which is the best quality one of 'Somebody To Love'? Want my brother to eat his 'not the same quality and intensity as the original' words. ;D www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBSo2yoXlX8
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Post by kryptoman68 on Jul 5, 2012 1:39:20 GMT -5
Hope someone takes it for their avi. I just did, I hope nobody minds... :D
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Post by kryptoman68 on Jul 4, 2012 12:48:58 GMT -5
Thanks Talon I will look forward to your link to the FLAC files. Whats the difference between FLAC and wav files? I am very ignorant. I've a little audio recorder that I used at Adam's first solo concert and it recorded in wav format. I'm no audio expert but basically FLAC and Wav are very comparable - both far better than Mp3. I believe FLAC and Wav sound is actually identical - FLAC though takes up less space and you can tag the file with information any way you want. *shrug* I usually convert to Mp3 for myself so I can listen on my ipod anyways... WAV is the uncompressed audio file format of MS Windows. The files tend to be large, but they contain all the information that was originally sampled (since an analog audio wave converted by a microphone has to be "digitized" by sampling it at small intervals and recording the values found at each sample, the quality depends on how often the wave is sampled). Low sample rates can produce noticeably lower quality sound, but save disk space. MP3 is based on research by the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany and is based on the fact that the human ear cannot distinguish all frequencies or combinations thereof equally well. So they came up with a way to remove all the stuff the human wouldn't hear anyway, thus compressing using a "lossy" algorithm. The compressed MP3 does NOT represent the original waveform, but is perceptually equivalent. In other words, while the file is getting smaller, the quality is degrading less noticeably. Btw, this is very similar to how pictures are compressed in the JPEG format by removing data that the eye would not see, and videos are compressed by pretty much all codecs out there, esp. the MPEG ones. FLAC combines the best of the two worlds by storing the data a WAV file would contain, but in a compressed stream similar to how ZIP files deflate information by finding repeating patterns and storing them only once. But since FLAC was specifically optimized for finding these patterns in audio data, it works even better than ZIP compression on WAV files. This kind of compression is called "lossless" - after all, if you zip a text document in an archive, you expect to get the EXACT same document after unzipping. Thus, you get the benefit of high quality audio exactly as sampled, but stored using much less space without losing any information. This is similar to how GIF and PNG image files are compressed btw. - both formats don't discard data, and I generally prefer PNG over JPG for my images, but that's another story.
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