Only You and Lonely Me – Phillip Spitalny and His Orchestra, 6.7 MB mp3 file.
Hello Baby – Phillip Spitalny and His Orchestra, 6.3 MB mp3 file.
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Monthly Archives: June 2009
Reboot
This week’s comic is pulling itself up by itself.
Victor 74205 – No Noise Reduction
Answer (Robyn) – No Cleanup – Evan Williams, 3.4 MB mp3 file.
Yes, this is the same tune I posted last week. I figured it’d be kind of interesting to post the uncorrected file, scratches and all, so that you’d have a baseline file to compare to the quality of the tunes I’ve been posting. I did take the step of converting it from 45 RPM to 78, but otherwise it’s untouched.
Technobabble!
Comic is up! Sorry it’s late, we’re having thunderstorms here.
An awesome comic
Just go read all the archives, OK? It’s very much worth it.
Victor 74205
Answer (Robyn) – Evan Williams, 5.5 MB mp3 file.
Just a single sided record today. This one is a remarkable tenor singing a melancholy and slightly operatic love tune from 1919. I wish the noise reduction was a bit less obvious on this one.
My wife has a garden…
I think we need some of these tomatoes….
Eco-Comics: I’m really geeking out about ’em.
Ok, let me just reiterate how much I’m loving Eco-Comics. The authors have just spent a couple days analyzing the return on investment for Batman villains cooperating. Using a combination of the Prisoner’s Dilemma and Utility Analysis they’ve determined that the best course of action is for members of Batman’s “Rouge’s Gallery” to pretend to cooperate, and then betray each other.
Heh. I said “Unit”…
I played a lot of freeciv doing research for this week’s comic….
Victor 2656
Navajo – Harry MacDonough. 4.5 MB mp3 file.
Ok, a bit of history on this one: back before I was born, my dad did some tinkering and fixed up an old Victrola that had been in the family for years. This was the record that he tested it with. It’s a goofy little novelty tune from 1904. There’s a bit of static, and the digital noise reduction is a bit obvious, but the record is a hundred and five years old so you gotta give that some respect…