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dnanian

@dnanian@mas.to

Owner of Shirt Pocket. Co-Wrote SuperDuper, BRIEF, Track Record. Wrote netTunes, launchTunes. Unredeemed gadget fan. Dog lover. Not that way.

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hotdogsladies, to random
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Here's the great Jeff Rosenstock covering "Not Too Soon" by Throwing Muses.

Which is my favorite song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCyJ2znoqWA

dnanian,
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@tankgrrl @hotdogsladies How have you never heard this song?

Whiskeyomega, to vinyl
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Put all my new ACDC in inner and out sleeves saving the hype stickers. Which is easier said than done.

For Those About To Rock
High Voltage
Back in Black

dnanian,
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@Whiskeyomega The problem is that some stickers just won’t come off nicely. Definitely a first world problem, though. :-)

dnanian,
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@Whiskeyomega Peeling off the stickers and sticking them on the outer protective sleeve is a real PITA… sometimes I wonder why I bother. :-)

dnanian,
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@Whiskeyomega I tend to leave MoV releases in their original covers (which I often regret), and fold up the AP release sleeve and put it in the jacket. (The AP stickers are kinda pointless.)

dnanian,
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@Whiskeyomega Yah, I have a subscription to the Atlantic 75 series - I just put it in the jacket, inside the protective sleeve (I use the VSS sealed sleeves).

dnanian,
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@Whiskeyomega That’s always been true of the higher quality jackets. But with the dual-pocket VSS sleeves, I never have the LPs in them…they’re entirely separate, in their own pocket.

dnanian, to random
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Haku, waiting for friends to show up at his favorite 4-way intersection.

video/mp4

dnanian,
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@hotdogsladies Yeah, it’s obviously very important to spend a lot of time socializing giant breed dogs, and he’s the mayor of the neighborhood. He wants to (cheerfully) greet everyone.

matthewcassinelli, to random
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Issue 105 of "What's New in Shortcuts" has been sent: https://matthewcassinelli.com/whats-new-in-shortcuts-issue-105/

dnanian,
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@matthewcassinelli Any chance that Shortcuts’ iOS/iPadOS/visionOS Unzip is going to get fixed? Right now, if the ZIP has a folder in it, the action stops working after one or two unzips until you…reinstall the OS.

It’s pretty bad! (Yes, it’s reported.)

dnanian, to vinyl
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John Prine - John Prine

An album I've been avoiding for a long time, no doubt due to the shallow biases of a callow youth: the last thing I wanted to listen to was the strumming of a Chicago-based folk artist singing Appalachian/Nashville flavored songs.

Yeah, well, in time one matures somewhat.

Analog Productions pressing of the Atlantic 75th anniversary series: another gem.

dnanian, to vinyl
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Steely Dan - Gaucho

This album is 43 years old? C'mon.

Gaucho is making a second appearance here, mostly because I broke out a Japanese import. As was typical at the time, it's an immaculate pressing of a great album.

dnanian, to vinyl
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Dumptruck - Positively

Boston-based Dumptruck is a favorite, kind of obscure band that specialized in guitar-based jangle-pop. So, of course, on this 2nd album they enlisted Don Dixon to produce them.

A definitely more mainstream album than their first (“d is for dumptruck”). Lots of guitar interplay, harmony, etc.

Followed by “For the Country”, their best album, which I don't seem to have on LP. All are streaming…

dnanian, to Shortcuts
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Arrgh.

Arrgh arrgh.

Arrrrrgh.

dnanian, to random
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But behind the chalet
My holiday's complete
And I feel like William Tell
Maid Marian on her tiptoed feet
Pulling mussels from a shell

(Squeeze Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London / 1980)

https://youtu.be/nbx_6gavLno?si=wjuko262BZwCyWgA

dnanian, to jazz
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Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba

A semi-repeat from back in April - but that was my Dad's original copy, and this is the Verve/Acoustic Sounds re-release...which also sound great.

dnanian, to random
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Edge of Tomorrow aka Live Die Repeat is 9 years old.

That is all.

dnanian, to vinyl
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Queens of the Stone Age - In Times New Roman

Since I was playing Mark Lanegan yesterday, and he was briefly in QotSA, might as well catch up with their most recent...

This is clearly a QotSA album, but while it's got that going on, it's a little...dour? Drums are buried, lyrics are bitter...well, it's still solid, but boy, I hope things are looking up for Josh Homme.

PS - Spinnerette's Ghetto Love might as well be a QotSA track.

dnanian, to random
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Today is Haku's 8th birthday.

When he was diagnosed with lymphoma last year (and wobbler's earlier in the year), I wasn't sure he'd make it to this one...but the cancer is still in remission. It looks like we'll be on the "good" side of the bell curve.

While his wobbler's has continued its slow progress, PT (both land and swim), walks, and assistance when needed have kept him happy and active.

All dogs are good dogs, but he's a very good dog.

Happy Birthday, Haku: I hope you get another!

dnanian, to random
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Just realized that Portishead's last album, Third, came out 11 years after their eponymous 2nd album…and it's been 15 years since Third.

I mean, I guess it's been 10 years since we were going to get “a few EPs" from My Bloody Valentine any day now, so maybe time has just slowed down. :-)

dnanian, to random
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TFW five years after you reported a permissions bug, with no interaction in the intervening years, you get asked for a Sysdiagnose and find out that the reported bug is actually fixed in Sonoma…(it wasn't in Ventura).

Yay, I think?

dnanian, to vinyl
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Television - Marquee Moon

More a guitar album than a punk one, featuring two terrific guitarists - Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd (who would later be heavily featured on a number of Matthew Sweet albums), with great songs and lyrics.

In fact, so much of a guitar record, that they asked the supervising producer to rework the drum sound he carefully engineered to deemphasize them.

Anyway, a seminal NYC album from the late 70s...

dnanian, to vinyl
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Soul Coughing - El Oso

Three albums and four years in...and it all came to an end with this, the third - El Oso.

On paper, I'm not sure this could possibly work - avant garde keyboard player, jazz drummer, bassist and a free-association lyricist and "singer"...well, more like talk-singer. But what comes out is a funky, fun, weird mix of sensibilities.

Too bad intra-band nonsense destroyed them, but as I say, at least we've got the albums!

dnanian, to vinyl
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The Hives - The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons

Has it really been almost 30 years since the first Hives album?

I listen to these guys, and the Raveonettes, and start to think - maybe Scandanavia does garage rock better than we do at this point?

#nowplaying #vinyl #rock #garagepunk #thehives

dnanian, to vinyl
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Dumptruck - for the country

Dumptruck perfected their sound and approach on this, their 3rd, and effectively last, album.

At this point the two main folks in the band - Seth Tiven and Kirk Swan - had split up, and Tiven took the reins completely. He headed to Wales and made this record. And while other releases would come 10 years later, this is peak Dumptruck. It's pretty great.

dnanian, to random
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Huh. So THIS is what schadenfreude feels like. Nice.

dnanian, to vinyl
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Tears for Fears - The Seeds of Love

Ambition can consume a band, and this sprawling, beautiful pop masterpiece ate Tears for Fears (along with four years, four producers, numerous sidemen [including Phil Collins and Pino Palladino] and a lot of money).

It’d be 15 years before Orzabal and Smith would work together again (on the great Everybody Loves a Happy Ending), so no doubt the process was painful.

But the child it birthed…

#nowplaying #vinyl #tearsforfears #rolandorzabal #curtsmith #pop

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