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MUSIC: Temple's picks of the week.
a mixing we went by Marty Dodge, June 7
Music in action. Marty "Andrew Ian" Dodge has been giving us updates on the progress of his band, Broken Teeth Kisses** and here we get a short report on the mixing process and the simple feeling of shaping something to a finer point. ** To my shame I couldn't remember what the band was called. It's not that. Ah, yes, this could be them
Growing Old Disgracefully (G.O.D)
How to tell a great song by John Schroeder, June 9
Inspired by Paul Anka (???) John here asks a question that deserves to be rolled around a little more - "[I]f a song handles a new arrangement well, does that make it a great song?"
Vain - ON THE LINE (CD Review) by Chris Akin, June 10.
Well, it made me break out my copy of "No Respect" and listen to it again. I've listened to it fairly regularly over the years. An 80s metal band, that as Chris says, got a blip and then fell off the radar. Also true obsession that manifests itself years later of a band that really wasn't that great is spectacular in its own right. Now here's a one. Anyone heard of the group, "Dear Mr. President"?
HONORABLE MENTION: Robert Burke's, The Absolute Worst Album Cover Art... Ever..
He found some crazy album art and bands, people I have never heard of.
Editors' own posts worth a mention. (No self-nominations allowed)
Researcher Finds Unknown J.S. Bach Composition by Eric Olsen, June 8
Olsen first brought Blogcritics the news that a new J.S. Bach composition had been found. It's almost 300 years old and it was just uncovered. That's inspirational in a strange unexplainable way.
Article comments
1 - Bennett
Hey Temple! Thanks for the "best of" logo. It is proudly displayed on my blog!
2 - swingingpuss
Thanks Pat, and eds, this is a nice early morning surprise :)
3 - Temple Stark
What the heck is your blog again?
I didn't know if it was too big but didn't figure it was much good smaller.
- temple.
4 - Bennett
Temple, if you we're asking me... The size seems just right to drop into the text of my review:
Check it here
The gold stars could be bigger...
;-]
5 - Aaman
That looks really neat - methinks I'm going to borrow some elements of your site design
6 - Bennett
Great Aaman, It was one of the preset templates from my blog host, one of the few that looked decent.
On that note, please spread the word that white on black (or worse, a color on black) is the hardest color combination to read.
In my advertising days I had to explain this to hundreds of clients who thought that "reverse" ads looked "so cool".
"But, you are making it harder for potential customers to read your message!" I would say, "Why spend your money on an ad, and then cripple it by doing a reverse?"
Some realized the logic and ran sucessful ad campaigns, some wasted their money.
The same goes for web sites and blog sites. The best and easiest colors for the human eye to read?
Black on White.
7 - Matt Paprocki
Thanks for picking my review Eric B! All of two people have probably ever heard of the flick here, but now maybe four people have. Thanks!