Tea with Hungry Lucy #113 (Shiny Hammers)
Tea with Hungry Lucy, Episode 113 ends with a performance of “Shine” (originally from the album, “To Kill a King“). This version is just electric piano, hammered dulcimer and Christa’s delicious vocals. Rather un-electronic for Hungry Lucy. Before the performance, though Christa goes on a rant about a newly opened local “restaurant” that the pair visited on their Sunday of attempted creativity boosting. War-N and Christa take a personal trip down memory lane and tell us about the apartment from hell in which they used to live. in the “other people’s music” segment, War-N talks about trip-hop pioneer’s Portishead and their very challenging, but rather clever new album “Third“. CB & War-N also talk about MP3 vs. CD vs. vinyl.
Do you still buy vinyl, or is it ancient history?
Any Twitter-folk out there? Why not follow War-N’s ramblings? It’s fun. You can point and laugh.
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April 28th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
1st thank you for the live performance!
No vinyl for me. When I started buying music in the early ’80s the cassette was all the rage. CDs were just starting to show up in stores my senior year of High school (1984).
Your analysis of music purchasing sounds about right. I’m 41 and I still want CDs, but I’ve been buying lots from Amie Street. Those I burn to audio CD (and data DVD) for backup. Even though I buy most on CD it really just gets ripped to AAC then put on a CD rack.
May 2nd, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Very lovely performance of “Shine”. Thank you.
May 6th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Can I just say that the version of Shine was beautiful. I’m a week behind and was listening on the bus on Monday; I had to crank up the volume and just bathe in the beauty and simplicity of it. It was quite moving.
Any chance of making it available to podcasters to play ?
May 6th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
On the vinyl subject - I no longer buy any, but I have a large collection that I would never throw away. There’s something magical about a gatefold sleeve and a big shiny black LP with an ornate centre-label. And let’s not forget picture disks (I have a fair few Marillion ones). The only snag is that my old Technics turntable is knackered, and I can’t justify the cost of getting another one for the occasional spin of an LP.