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Continuing with our multi-episode arc, we discuss the joys of listening to CDs. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: My New Vitsœ Shelves Have Freed Up Space in My Office Another Timbre Episode #155 - Running a Small Record Label: Another Timbre Dave's Picks Vol. 50: Palladium, New York City, NY 5/3/77 Barenboim: Complete Wagner Operas Our next tracks: Emerson String Quartet: Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon Simple Minds: Empires and Dance If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Support The Next Track

Kirk buys new audio gear for the first time in several years. Tech doesn't always work. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: NAD C 3050 amplifier NAD BluOS module Cambridge Audio CXA61 amplifier Belkin SoundForm Connect AirPlay 2 Adapter CalDigit TS4 Thunderbolt 4 Dock Our next tracks: Durutti Column: Vini Reilly 35th Anniversary Edition The Sex Pistols: The Original Recordings If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Support The Next Track

Tech is full of surprises. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: NAD C 538 CD Player Episode #177 - Author Michael Connelly on Music in the Harry Bosch Novels and TV Series Our next tracks: Original Cast Recording: Girl from the North Country Thurston Moore: By the Fire If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Support The Next Track

We discuss lyrics in popular music. Have they become simpler and angrier over the years? Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: Billie Eilish Clarifies Comments About ‘Wasteful’ Vinyl Variants: ‘I Wasn’t Singling Anyone Out’ Song lyrics have become simpler and more repetitive over the last five decades Genius Our next tracks: Timo Andres: The Blind Banister The Hanging Stars: On a Golden Shore If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Support The Next Track

Gear Acquisition Syndrome, or GAS, affects people with many interests: musicians, photographers, and audiophiles. We discuss how this syndrome can affect people, and why people just want to keep buying more gear. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: Cambridge Audio: EVO 150 DELOREAN EDITION All-in-One Player The 7 key stages of Gear Acquisition Syndrome Kyusu Our next tracks: Max Richter: Sleep (Piano Edition) Little Village: Little Village If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Support The Next Track

This time, Kirk chose three rock stars to discuss from David Hepworth's book Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994 Our next tracks: Vega Trails: Tremors in the Static Pan•American: The Patience Fader Gustaf: Package, Pt. 2) If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Support The Next Track

We didn't all do our homework, but Doug discusses three chapters from David Hepworth's book Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994 Black Sabbath: The Ballet review Introducing the Violoncello Da Spalla Our next tracks: Sigiswald Kuijken: Solo New Order: Substance 1987 (2023 Expanded Reissue) If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Support The Next Track

We have a “two guys in a pub” episode, in which we talk about the next musical artist to perform at The Sphere: Dead & Company. We also discuss Apple’s new Vision Pro, the Grammys, Taylor Swift, the Superb Owl, and more. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: Dead & Company, Dead Forever, at The Sphere Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it’s not (The Verge) Taylor Swift, QAnon, and the Political Weaponization of Fandom Monte-Carlo Summer Festival Our next tracks: The Passions: Thirty-Thousand Feet over China The Rolling Stones: A Bigger Bang If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Support The Next Track

We discuss the first album by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, aka OMD, called Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark. This was a foundational album in the synth-pop movement that started in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the UK. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark: Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Synth Britannia Our next tracks: Brian Eno: 77 Million Paintings Dr. Feelgood: Down by the Jetty If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Support The Next Track

Doug has long been a fan of Frank Zappa’s music, yet we’ve never spent an episode discussing it. In our irregular series looking at individual albums, we look at Zappa’s best-selling record, the 1979 Sheik Yerbouti. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! ‌Show notes: Frank Zappa: Sheik Yerbouti Episode #268: Miles Davis, Bitches Brew Robert Christgau on Sheik Yerbouti Zappa (documentary) Our next tracks: Genesis: Wind and Wuthering Frank Zappa: Sheik Yerbouti "> If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Support The Next Track