Don't you wonder sometimes 'bout sound and vision?
August 8, 2023 11:14 AM Subscribe
Snellings Museum of Sound & Vision: a UK-based collection of "an idiosyncratic mix of all things audio video from the very early days of radio leading right up to the present day".
Is this the thread where I can appropriately share this video of an *awesome* cover by Beck of David Bowie's song Sound and Vision? It was performed in the round with several dozen musicians using a wild array of different instruments. There used to be a version with 360 degree audio but I haven't been able to find it - I assume that it was taken off the web years ago...
posted by ElKevbo at 11:55 AM on August 8, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by ElKevbo at 11:55 AM on August 8, 2023 [1 favorite]
There used to be a version with 360 degree audio
Beck • Sound and Vision (360° Audio Version) 🎧
posted by hippybear at 11:59 AM on August 8, 2023 [2 favorites]
Beck • Sound and Vision (360° Audio Version) 🎧
posted by hippybear at 11:59 AM on August 8, 2023 [2 favorites]
What? A UK audio/video history site with no Baird Mechanical Televisor?
posted by Thorzdad at 1:06 PM on August 8, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by Thorzdad at 1:06 PM on August 8, 2023 [1 favorite]
Baird might've been a bit too Scottish for it.
Also needs moar British Broadcasting Company Limited stuff. Who weren't who you might think they were.
posted by scruss at 2:36 PM on August 8, 2023 [1 favorite]
Also needs moar British Broadcasting Company Limited stuff. Who weren't who you might think they were.
posted by scruss at 2:36 PM on August 8, 2023 [1 favorite]
It's amazing/amusing how, with a lot of these gizmos, you can tell just by glancing at them what decade they were made. With some of them, you could damn near guess the year.
Is this the thread where I can appropriately share this video yt of an *awesome* cover by Beck of David Bowie's song Sound and Vision?
I once had Sound and Vision stuck in my head for about 36 hours straight. I remember waking up with the song playing in my brain, it was already in-progress, and realizing I'd been hearing it in my sleep. It was a genuinely torturous experience, like some kind of weird musical curse... but I still can't bring myself to hate the song. It's that good.
posted by Ursula Hitler at 3:17 PM on August 8, 2023 [1 favorite]
Is this the thread where I can appropriately share this video yt of an *awesome* cover by Beck of David Bowie's song Sound and Vision?
I once had Sound and Vision stuck in my head for about 36 hours straight. I remember waking up with the song playing in my brain, it was already in-progress, and realizing I'd been hearing it in my sleep. It was a genuinely torturous experience, like some kind of weird musical curse... but I still can't bring myself to hate the song. It's that good.
posted by Ursula Hitler at 3:17 PM on August 8, 2023 [1 favorite]
was just listening to the "Low" (Bowie/Eno) album on Sunday, on a road trip. Good stuff.
posted by Artful Codger at 3:20 PM on August 8, 2023
posted by Artful Codger at 3:20 PM on August 8, 2023
Ursula Hitler: I also have done similar chemicals. They are both glorious and horrific.
posted by hippybear at 3:25 PM on August 8, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by hippybear at 3:25 PM on August 8, 2023 [1 favorite]
No chemicals involved, HB. It was just my weird brain. Sometimes it gets hold of a song and plays it over and over and over again until I want to go down to the junkyard and put my head in a car crusher. The worst ever was that dipshitty empowerment anthem about how what's-her-name's gonna stand by you, she'll walk through hell with you, etc. After a few days of that I wanted to mail her a turd.
posted by Ursula Hitler at 3:43 PM on August 8, 2023
posted by Ursula Hitler at 3:43 PM on August 8, 2023
Happens to me too. Absolutely awful when it's a song I hate, and no I won't be giving examples.
posted by evilDoug at 9:48 PM on August 8, 2023
posted by evilDoug at 9:48 PM on August 8, 2023
Sometimes[my brain] gets hold of a song and plays it over and over and over again until I want to go down to the junkyard and put my head in a car crusher.
I found that if I can put enough effort in recalling and mentally replaying another piece of music, with as much remembered detail as possible, the earworm usually gives up and goes away.
posted by Artful Codger at 8:21 PM on August 9, 2023
I found that if I can put enough effort in recalling and mentally replaying another piece of music, with as much remembered detail as possible, the earworm usually gives up and goes away.
posted by Artful Codger at 8:21 PM on August 9, 2023
If it's British and it is about A/V equipment it has to be Techmoan
https://www.youtube.com/@Techmoan
His health has taken a turn for the worse and his videos are less frequent than they used to be, but between reviewing modern personal "stereos" that are really mono as well as really exotic stuff such as High-Def analog laser discs, Techmoan's channel reignited my interest in A/V gear and got me to buy a few minidisc recorders (damn my NetMD recorder just died...) as well as a VHS Deck ($12 at my local reuse center, tapes are 0.50 cents, the economical choice if you want to collect an obsolete format)
posted by devonianfarm at 7:03 PM on August 14, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/@Techmoan
His health has taken a turn for the worse and his videos are less frequent than they used to be, but between reviewing modern personal "stereos" that are really mono as well as really exotic stuff such as High-Def analog laser discs, Techmoan's channel reignited my interest in A/V gear and got me to buy a few minidisc recorders (damn my NetMD recorder just died...) as well as a VHS Deck ($12 at my local reuse center, tapes are 0.50 cents, the economical choice if you want to collect an obsolete format)
posted by devonianfarm at 7:03 PM on August 14, 2023
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