Neil Young to take on Apples dominance of the mobile music sceen

[Melbosa]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1003614822/ponomusic-where-your-soul-rediscovers-music

So supposedly this will be the FLAC portable device...

[Mr. Analog]

Snake oil of the highest order

http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html

[Thorin]

Hopefully it doesn't have any petroleum-based plastic or heavy metals in it, since he's Mr. Environment now.  At least, based on the comments he made (and clearly was paid to make if you follow the money trail) when he drove his three diesel tour buses up to the oil sands and Fort Mac.

[Darren Dirt]

Snake oil of the highest order

http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html

He's certainly taking a risk of having this fail miserable and thus his own lyrics come back to haunt him...


Saw it on the tube
Bought it on the phone
Now you're home alone
It's a piece of crap

I tried to plug in it
I tried to turn it on
When I got it home
It was a piece of crap

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/neilyoung/pieceofcrap.html

Snake oil of the highest order

http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html

[Mr. Analog]

Hopefully it doesn't have any petroleum-based plastic or heavy metals in it, since he's Mr. Environment now.  At least, based on the comments he made (and clearly was paid to make if you follow the money trail) when he drove his three diesel tour buses up to the oil sands and Fort Mac.

Well not even thinking about buses consider this:

You want people to think about not relying on fossil fuels so you set up events across the country where people will use fossil fuels to get there, use fossil fuels to keep the event going and then use fossil fuels to go back home

Go charge your coal powered car and drive it around with a smug look on your face (because outside of a few select locations Hyrdo/Nuclear/Wind power is not what lights amplifiers around this country)

I like Neil Young's music (particularly Harvest Moon) but he's become an industry muppet now and it makes me sick

He should go dust off his Bob Dylan collection and listen to Maggie's Farm

[Darren Dirt]

He should go dust off his Bob Dylan collection and listen to Maggie's Farm

He's too old, so that ain't gonna work.

[Mr. Analog]

I see what you did there

[Tom]

I don't, but heres a pie chart:

[Darren Dirt]

I don't, but heres a pie chart:

'Splaining in 3 easy steps:
1. Google, lyrics Bob Dylan Maggie Farm
2. Notice italics in above posts
3. Nod with understanding

[Thorin]

My biggest problem with Neil Young speaking out against the oil sands wasn't that he spoke publicly about an opinion that he had, but rather that after the tour he said he didn't really know what he was talking about, and then some investigative journalism actually found a money trail from a California environmental lobby group that paid him hundreds of thousands of dollars to go on this tour and say these things.  So it wasn't his opinion, but he tried to deceive us into thinking it was his opinion; meanwhile he was just saying whatever people with money told him to say.

And that taints what he's purportedly saying about this music player.  Does he actually believe the words that are coming out of his mouth, or is he trying to deceive us to get money?

[Tom]

It's money. or he's an audiophile that actually believes the tripe he's talking about.

[Darren Dirt]

or he's an audiophile that actually believes the tripe he's talking about.

Is the Home Stereo Dead?
A debate, of sorts, about modern audio technology and bit rates and fidelity and speaker sizes etc.
Contains a half-joking quote "...At the risk of sounding like an old man telling technology to get off his lawn..."

[Mr. Analog]

For most people good enough meant portable radio quality audio, it has for a very very long time

I look at things like iPods, docks with speakers, computer speakers, etc as the modern equivalent to transistor radios which were ubiquitous at the time and also derided for their lack of audio quality, or even old tube radios, you can hear griping about it in the 1934 Cole Porter song "Anything Goes"

And those pains you've got
(If any brains you've got)
From those little radios.

Going back even further there was a lot of competition (and some underhandedness) between Berliner Gramophone and the Victor Talking Machine company where playback was generally in two categories: the cheaper machines and the fancy high end gear (like the Victrola). All this gear played music, but some did a better job than others, the point is that there's a listenable threshold where a tin funnel or AM radio is "good enough" for most people

then again... http://youtu.be/UBcPx8RvHR8

[Tom]

AM is great for music that was recorded in the 50s.

[Darren Dirt]

then again... http://youtu.be/UBcPx8RvHR8

NERD OVERLOAD!

But in a good way. Great comedic minds and great comedic performance, along with some great comedic minds* talking about comedy. Gotta love it.



*and yes, I gotta include Chris Hardwick in there, he's proven himself over the year imo, when you see his early hosting stuff compared to in recent times nowadays how much more quick-witted he is able to think on his feet. Every ep of celebrity bowling is awesome, for example.