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Katie Melua — The Flood
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GarageDragon
Posted: Mar 20, 2013 - 10:34
 
 bentonian wrote:
A song for the closing credits of a bad action movie.

 
I really like this song quite a bit, but damn if your comment isn't spot on. 
Stingray
Posted: Mar 08, 2013 - 17:26
 
HORROR!!!

Pedro1874
(Newton-le-Willows, England)
Posted: Feb 05, 2013 - 09:52
 
Just love her voice but my favourite track is still, (on her first (2004) album "Call off the Search), "The closest thing to crazy" - which B&R have rejected along with 20 odd others! {#Rolleyes}

bentonian
(Boulder, CO)
Posted: Feb 05, 2013 - 09:34
 
A song for the closing credits of a bad action movie.

sajitjacob
(Christchurch NZ)
Posted: Jan 16, 2013 - 17:53
 
The man behind this dross is also behind this dross
katies boss 

vanmas
(Leiden, Netherlands)
Posted: Sep 13, 2012 - 02:09
 
When will RP play Celine Dion?
This come's close...
Terrible...

Shesdifferent
(Just visiting this planet)
Posted: Sep 01, 2012 - 09:33
 
There are a lot of people here that do not like this girl. But I do....One must be versatile.....:)

calypsus_1
(East of Eden)
Posted: Aug 12, 2012 - 15:56
 

Yes, a real piece of collection. Good demonstration of true turntable for vinyl records, with direct and raw sound, very different from the best cd-player, with the box made of wood, which prevents the resonance out. Also appreciated the fact that the mark by the manufacturer is hidden of the appliance, avoiding free advertising. I am an enthusiast of these pearls, and i also own a one, diamond needle, but probably not as sophisticated.

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 DaveInVA wrote:
 



cohifi
(Denver)
Posted: Jul 31, 2012 - 23:28
 
Okay it's a 7. Jeezuschris

Byronape
("post-capitalist wreckageville")
Posted: May 29, 2012 - 15:24
 
 Carl wrote:
Several of Katie's songs, including "Kozmic Blues," are currently in review here. Cast your thumbs-up votes, listeners!
 
Katie's cover of Kozmic Blues is impressive.  She does her own thing, while still giving a nod to Janis.

peter_james_bond
(West Of The Burg)
Posted: May 09, 2012 - 17:31
 
 That_SOB wrote:
Is that you Petula ?
 
No, she's down town. Are you that SOB who's been bothering her? I'm calling the cops! {#Cheesygrin}

RedGuitar
(Iowa, USA)
Posted: Mar 07, 2012 - 08:09
 
 That_SOB wrote:

  Why do polyester suits and patient leather Beatle boots come to mind ?  Is that you Petula ?
 
I do believe you mean PATENT leather boots.

gemtag
(Texas)
Posted: Mar 07, 2012 - 07:29
 
Even though this could be a title song for a James Bond movie I still like it.

mandolin
(...drifting...)
Posted: Jan 29, 2012 - 11:15
 
Misterfixit wrote:
Problem with 78 rpm discs is the amount of recording time.  You can achieve pretty high quality and a lengthy play time if you went to a 12" or 16" one sided disc.  The 45 rpm discs for single play were pretty close to as hi fi as you could get.  OTH, if you have any of the mid-1950's "Master-Phonics" 78rpm discs, they are pretty good quality.  Those old radio broadcast 16 rpm discs were "transcription discs" and were not made for actual sound quality.  Higher speeds and media tracks which are wide equates to bandwidth.  At one time there was a scheme to record music on Betamax or VHS tapes where the helical scan head flew past at present day DAT speeds.  Recording wide bandwidth analog sound is actually fairly difficult, not because of the equipment electronics but the media bandwidth.
 
...ah, good point: i hadn't considered play times at all; my old 78s are all classical organ pieces which don't need the long-play format...i remembre dabbling with helical-scan hi-fi VHS in the late eighties and early nineties, back when sony was doing everything they could to cripple consumer DAT as a project-studio medium and personal computers hadn't yet attained performance suitable to real-time multi-track recording...toward the end of that period, i actually contemplated re-purposing laserdisc video tracks for higher-definition wide-bandwidth analog audio, but thank goodness ubiquitous nyquist-limited digital audio recording finally overcame that stranglehold...

...the world would be a very different place today if music production had remained the purview of major-label oligopoly... 

Carl
(The Summit City)
Posted: Jan 03, 2012 - 20:40
 
Several of Katie's songs, including "Kozmic Blues," are currently in review here. Cast your thumbs-up votes, listeners!

Byronape
("post-capitalist wreckageville")
Posted: Jan 03, 2012 - 20:00
 
Cool video, if you are into scantily dressed, well cut dudes dancing around with staffs. 

Of course, Katie looks hot too, so guys do have some reason to watch the video other than the good music. 

This isn't her best song that I've heard (her cover of Kosmic Blues is freaking fantastic), but it's a very good one.

GEM
Posted: Nov 01, 2011 - 10:56
 
Yup, and love it... 9

 Bone wrote:
trite lyrics, overproduced vocals and a poppy finish!!!

-4-
 



Bone
(Divided States of Sanity)
Posted: Sep 30, 2011 - 17:24
 
trite lyrics, overproduced vocals and a poppy finish!!!

-4-

Misterfixit
(Nashville)
Posted: Sep 24, 2011 - 09:42
 
 mandolin wrote:


...i have a stack of old 78 RPM records at home - those things are thick and heavy!..interesting that they never really caught on with the audiophile crowd, as the higher speeds offer much greater fidelity than any other quasi-mainstream mechanical analog disc...
 
Problem with 78 rpm discs is the amount of recording time.  You can achieve pretty high quality and a lengthy play time if you went to a 12" or 16" one sided disc.  The 45 rpm discs for single play were pretty close to as hi fi as you could get.  OTH, if you have any of the mid-1950's "Master-Phonics" 78rpm discs, they are pretty good quality.  Those old radio broadcast 16 rpm discs were "transcription discs" and were not made for actual sound quality.  Higher speeds and media tracks which are wide equates to bandwidth.  At one time there was a scheme to record music on Betamax or VHS tapes where the helical scan head flew past at present day DAT speeds.  Recording wide bandwidth analog sound is actually fairly difficult, not because of the equipment electronics but the media bandwidth.


Tana
(Lancaster, PA)
Posted: Aug 30, 2011 - 07:58
 
 siskinbob wrote:
At times Katies voice reminds me of Annie Haslam (Renaissance)...shivers up my spine.....Love em both.
 
Perhaps related ... Katie Melua sang with the Pogues in at least one performance in 2005 after Kirsty McColl died.

That_SOB
(In at least 2 places at once)
Posted: Aug 30, 2011 - 07:56
 

  Why do polyester suits and patient leather Beatle boots come to mind ?  Is that you Petula ?

mandolin
(...drifting...)
Posted: Aug 30, 2011 - 07:53
 
 Misterfixit wrote:
Ah yes, but the 16-1/3'd RPM 12 and 16 inch which are played from the inside out are rarest of all.
 

...i have a stack of old 78 RPM records at home - those things are thick and heavy!..interesting that they never really caught on with the audiophile crowd, as the higher speeds offer much greater fidelity than any other quasi-mainstream mechanical analog disc...

Fourdawg
(South Africa)
Posted: Aug 30, 2011 - 07:53
 
 christopherwoods wrote:
This song is a strange kinda earworm; I'm not a huge Katie Melua fan but I'll happily listen to this again and again.

Incidentally, @Bill - it's Katie MELua (pronounced MELyouah, equal timing on each letter grouping but emphasis on the onset of the syllable! :) Likewise, KT Tunstall's first name is pronounced like the regular "Katie", not "K T". Just sayin'. ;-)

Pedant Englishman signing off!

 
Pedantic Englishman-decendant here:

You are correct. Melua rhymes with "sue her" and "kahlua" (http://www.kahlua.com/) :P


membeth
(Washington, D.C.)
Posted: Aug 30, 2011 - 07:53
 
 ziggytrix wrote:

LAAAAAAAAAME?  You think this song is LAAAAAAAME?
 
Hehehehe.  That pretty much describes how I feel about this song too...

lelkoun
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Posted: Aug 30, 2011 - 07:52
 
Why this song has rating only 6.9? It is a great song!

Roque-n-Poope
Posted: Jul 18, 2011 - 08:11
 
 piñata wrote:
i think this song is bored... {#Ask}
  The song may be bored but I'm certainly not! 9


Misterfixit
(Nashville)
Posted: Jul 18, 2011 - 08:11
 
 mandolin wrote:


...thirty-threes, sure, but fourty-fives are a rare bird indeed...
 

Ah yes, but the 16-1/3'd RPM 12 and 16 inch which are played from the inside out are rarest of all.


piñata
(ibagué)
Posted: Jul 18, 2011 - 08:09
 
i think this song is bored... {#Ask}

le_colonel
Posted: Jul 18, 2011 - 08:08
 
3

siskinbob
(United Kingdom)
Posted: Jun 28, 2011 - 12:43
 
At times Katies voice reminds me of Annie Haslam (Renaissance)...shivers up my spine.....Love em both.

midigitguy
(Massachusetts)
Posted: Jun 18, 2011 - 06:24
 
 christopherwoods wrote:
This song is a strange kinda earworm; I'm not a huge Katie Melua fan but I'll happily listen to this again and again.

Incidentally, @Bill - it's Katie MELua (pronounced MELyouah, equal timing on each letter grouping but emphasis on the onset of the syllable! :) Likewise, KT Tunstall's first name is pronounced like the regular "Katie", not "K T". Just sayin'. ;-)

Pedant Englishman signing off!
 

Thank you for enlightening us.

jagdriver
(Just a nod and a wink south of Paradise)
Posted: Jun 16, 2011 - 15:36
 
YOWSAH!

Dave_Mack
(Ball of Confusion)
Posted: Jun 16, 2011 - 15:36
 
 ziggytrix wrote:

LAAAAAAAAAME?  You think this song is LAAAAAAAME?

 
Hahaha! Yup, I guess I do.


Jeff09
(Gainesville, Florida)
Posted: May 27, 2011 - 21:09
 
Liked it until it turned into a disco hit.

Carl
(The Summit City)
Posted: May 21, 2011 - 19:56
 
 DaveInVA wrote:

Its an Empire 698 I bought new in '77. Its not backwards, just upside down...
 
Now I see my mistake. Beautiful turntable and great choice of records! This was nearing the record-CD transition, so I think you were smart/lucky to have gotten this in the day. It's grown on me, made it to a "10" and in my Radio Paradise Favorites playlist now. But not the same as having original vinyl. :-)


ziggytrix
(Dallas, TX)
Posted: May 17, 2011 - 15:41
 
 Dave_Mack wrote:
This song sure is a weird mix of stuff.  It doesn't really work for me.

ETA: And the tune at the beginning sounds just like "Sabbath Prayer" from "Fiddler on the Roof". Eh?

 
LAAAAAAAAAME?  You think this song is LAAAAAAAME?


christopherwoods
(West Midlands, United Kingdom)
Posted: Apr 26, 2011 - 07:55
 
This song is a strange kinda earworm; I'm not a huge Katie Melua fan but I'll happily listen to this again and again.

Incidentally, @Bill - it's Katie MELua (pronounced MELyouah, equal timing on each letter grouping but emphasis on the onset of the syllable! :) Likewise, KT Tunstall's first name is pronounced like the regular "Katie", not "K T". Just sayin'. ;-)

Pedant Englishman signing off!


Maggle_Bish
(Chicago, IL)
Posted: Apr 26, 2011 - 07:39
 
 Jelani wrote:

Yes, that IS a cool vid.
 
YES, I LOVE this video!!!  {#Bounce}

mandolin
(...drifting...)
Posted: Apr 19, 2011 - 07:37
 
 peter_james_bond wrote:

Nielsen SoundScan numbers that show that vinyl was the fastest growing musical format in 2010.

 

...thirty-threes, sure, but fourty-fives are a rare bird indeed...

peter_james_bond
(West Of The Burg)
Posted: Apr 17, 2011 - 07:21
 
 mandolin wrote:
...is that a 45?..i didn't realise anybody pressed them anymore!..
 
Nielsen SoundScan numbers that show that vinyl was the fastest growing musical format in 2010.


DaveInVA
(In a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA)
Posted: Mar 31, 2011 - 07:48
 
 mandolin wrote:

...is that a 45?..i didn't realise anybody pressed them anymore!..
 
Actually same song both sides and it is 45 rpm on one side and 33&1/3 on the other side...

Dave_Mack
(A Warm Place)
Posted: Mar 31, 2011 - 07:47
 
This song sure is a weird mix of stuff.  It doesn't really work for me.

ETA: And the tune at the beginning sounds just like "Sabbath Prayer" from "Fiddler on the Roof". Eh?


mlsabatini
(Chicago)
Posted: Mar 31, 2011 - 07:46
 
like like like

vandal
(arriving somewhere, but not here. . .)
Posted: Mar 31, 2011 - 07:46
 
 Carl wrote:

Nice turntable. Why is the writing on the disc brush backwards?
 
Its not.  Its upside down. 
 

DaveInVA
(In a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA)
Posted: Mar 31, 2011 - 07:46
 
 Carl wrote:

Nice turntable. Why is the writing on the disc brush backwards?
 
Its an Empire 698 I bought new in '77. Its not backwards, just upside down...

Carl
(The Summit City)
Posted: Mar 19, 2011 - 17:55
 
 DaveInVA wrote:

 
Nice turntable. Why is the writing on the disc brush backwards?


lexica
(Oaktown, 510)
Posted: Mar 19, 2011 - 17:48
 
Every time I hear this I think it's Milla Jovovich. {#Stupid}

Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Mar 16, 2011 - 20:05
 
After watching a couple of her videos, I'm liking her music more and more. She works well in the multi-media format of music, lyrics, vocals and video. One more artist to add to my collection of "music I want to buy when I win the lottery." Bumping this one to a 9.

ncollingridge
(Knebworth, UK)
Posted: Mar 15, 2011 - 14:54
 
Best thing I've ever heard from her. Generally I have found her work to be pretty banal and dull mainstream pap, but this is really quite interesting, with a very accomplished and appealing vocal which has quite a lot of character in it.

mandolin
(...drifting...)
Posted: Mar 15, 2011 - 14:52
 
 DaveInVA wrote:

 
...is that a 45?..i didn't realise anybody pressed them anymore!..