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May 12, 2014 Leave a Comment
Part 5 of 12 Albums That Stuck With Me
Warning: turn down your speakers the first time you listen to this album. It begins with a loud cymbal crash, followed by four bars of nothing but drum. Piano and guitar join in from there, soon enhanced by strings from the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra.
Piano and strings are hardly unheard of on rock albums, but Punches makes particularly adept use of them. It also manages to incorporate the lead singer’s frequent strong exhalations effectively and is the only winner ever of the jaQ Andrews Best Use of Sleigh Bells to Unify an Album Award. (The cash prize has already been donated to charity.)
April 14, 2014 Leave a Comment
Part 4 of 12 Albums That Stuck With Me
There are a lot of drum machines and synthesized instruments on this album. Those things were a lot more obvious in 1990. Wow. Read more of this post
April 8, 2014 1 Comment
Twelve and a half years ago, Microsoft released its first operating system that most users were actually reluctant to give up. Today, April 8, 2014, after three service packs, two browser updates, and dozens of hotfixes, Windows XP gets its final security patches. Read more of this post
March 24, 2014 Leave a Comment
I just bought a wireless charger for my phone. You lay the phone down on it, and like magic, the battery receives power through the magic of electromagnetism. The engineering was done quite well.
The English translation of the manual? Not so much.
