What music are you listening to?

[Ernst]

After an interesting and reveling dream, It was REM "Sweetness Follows" and the song from she of "I'm your Venus" the goddess in my ears and her "Love Buzz."
Followed by "My Sherona."

Now folks, due to Corporate Bloat and Surveillance Capitalism our online culture faces a change.
If YouTube is giving us a black screen which they are, maybe a change of format will keep the music thread going.
Context about why the song or conversation threaded but, switch to link in text and forget about the "eye-candy" YouTube post option?

It's always a clash between private "Freedom" and community welfare.

It is an argument documented in the way back starting with Pythagorean philosophy.
Poor Pythagoras tried to establish communal living and was the first example, I know of, of the right idea to benefit humanity usurped by private interests. Link

 

[Loose Screw]

After an interesting and reveling dream, It was REM "Sweetness Follows" and the song from she of "I'm your Venus" the goddess in my ears and her "Love Buzz."
Followed by "My Sherona."

Now folks, due to Corporate Bloat and Surveillance Capitalism our online culture faces a change.
If YouTube is giving us a black screen which they are, maybe a change of format will keep the music thread going.
Context about why the song or conversation threaded but, switch to link in text and forget about the "eye-candy" YouTube post option?

It's always a clash between private "Freedom" and community welfare.

It is an argument documented in the way back starting with Pythagorean philosophy.
Poor Pythagoras tried to establish communal living and was the first example, I know of, of the right idea to benefit humanity usurped by private interests. Link

Yeah hey Ernst, I couldn't keep up with all that...but I did watch (3) Shocking Blue videos, kinduh reminds me of Grace Slick JA...Sure I've heard Venus but I did go and watch/listen to some others and then I went and listen to Van Halen.........

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[Ernst]

Music is linked to creativity.
Albert Einstein reportedly played the violin beautifully and was a particular fan of Mozart sonatas.

I design software.

You will always get excellent music posts from me.

Glad you like the links. We are free to listen or not so it's all good man.. Sal Goodman...

Today is help a little-old-lady day so I'll be going but I shall leave Changes by David Bowie

 

[Loose Screw]

David Hildago does a Very Good job here!

 

[Ernst]

David Hildago does a Very Good job here!

One of mt faves ant Los Lobos rocks in that cool So Cal vibe!

 

[Ernst]

Early morning mysteries:

Miss Warwick was the song of my wake-time.
I love it when I wake up to the memory of music.
But why this one? That is my mystery to consider but it does feel good to play Miss Warwick with Coffee.
Don't make me over and Walk on By.

 

[Loose Screw]

Early morning mysteries:

Miss Warwick was the song of my wake-time.
I love it when I wake up to the memory of music.
But why this one? That is my mystery to consider but it does feel good to play Miss Warwick with Coffee.
Don't make me over and Walk on By.

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Well, I usually have my Sanka in the back yard with my dog......Give my wife her coffee, then check the emails...I knew exactly who your picture of was, so first song of my day...second....Good Day....

 

[Ernst]

Well, I usually have my Sanka in the back yard with my dog......Give my wife her coffee, then check the emails...I knew exactly who your picture of was, so first song of my day...second....Good Day....

That's an interesting jump in genres.
I guess you "Gotta Keep 'em separated?"

A lil' chair dancing never hurt anyone!

 

[Loose Screw]

That's an interesting jump in genres.
I guess you "Gotta Keep 'em separated?"

A lil' chair dancing never hurt anyone!

Get your cardio any way you can...

 

[Sean Regan]

Early morning mysteries:

Miss Warwick was the song of my wake-time.
I love it when I wake up to the memory of music.
But why this one? That is my mystery to consider but it does feel good to play Miss Warwick with Coffee.
Don't make me over and Walk on By.

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Between 1961 and 1965, I managed a branch of a TV and Electrical store chain in North London.
We sold a lot of reel to reel tape recorders in those days. I used to position one which came on legs near the entrance. I'd tape records on and play them all day. In 1964, I taped both sides of an album and regularly played that tape. It was often the "deal breaker" with the sale. Customers would say they'd buy the tape recorder if they could have that tape. I always obliged as I made several copies every so often. The LP was "Make Way For Dionne Warwick."

I have a couple of her singles in one of my two vinyl jukeboxes.

She and I were born in the same year.

 

[Loose Screw]

Even though Alexa plays me rock and punk (what the kids call oldies) all day...
I got some variation of this rollin around in my head all day after this morning....

LA is a great big freeway
Put a hundred down and buy a car
In a week, maybe two, they'll make you a star
Weeks turn into years, how quick they pass
And all the stars that never were
Are parking cars and pumping gas

 

[Sean Regan]

From the album I listed.

But I prefer the Palisades/Cookies version of the latter.

 

[LouisFerdinand]

Rock and Roll Waltz ~ Annette Funicello

 

[Ernst]

Are the rest of you guys getting YouTube black screens?

Signed Confused...

 

[Sean Regan]

I've mentioned this elsewhere.
There's a battle going on between the browser providers and YouTube/Google.

Millions of internet users have adblockers, which with YouTube videos, prevent them from forcing you to watch up to two minutes of adverts before you can watch any, most of which have been uploaded to YouTube, for which they don't pay the originator.

YouTube are progressively making it impossible to watch a YouTube video if you are using an adblocker.
You have a choice, disable your adblocker so you get the adverts, or pay £12.99 a month to avoid them.
The browser providers are making workarounds to stop them blocking you.

At the moment it's like a ****ing contest.


I use Firebox and their adblocker-plus, a free service.

In the last week they advised an update for the service (tactfully, they didn't say why) which enabled me to watch the videos advert again free. YouTube stopped that after a few days, so Firefox advised of another, "update" and I'm able to watch videos ad-free... at the moment.

I expect YouTube to make further attempts to block usage.

I read and contribute to several audio/music message boards and the general opinion is that if adblockers eventually fail, then we'll say goodbye to YouTube.

For me to watch YouTube videos without adverts would cost me more than it does to insure my house!
What will happen is that if you go on YouTube, if they've none of their cookies on your laptop, (they'll put 100 or more if you don't keep deleting them), you'll get a pop-up pleading with you to accept cookies. If click on "decline" you'll still get at least seven.

If you use an adblocker, you'll eventually get another pop-up that tells you about how you can still watch YouTube. There's an "X" top right corner of the pop-up. Click on that and you can watch a video. Eventually this will change to a "countdown" telling you how many more videos you can watch before you get the blank screen.

I've had a YouTube channel for seventeen years with 92 videos, of my various hobby interests, 455 subscribers (a new one joined today) and 372,000 hits. But I've not been able to upload any more videos for about eighteen months, as YouTube won't accept any new ones unless I remove my adblocker.

I'm not prepared to do it.
None will ever receive anywhere near enough hits for YouTube to pay me a few pounds.
Mine aren't "monetised" anyway.

So I'm not bothered.

Like many big companies, they are just greedy.