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time-traveling to save Time, it’s poetic!

your mission, should you choose to accept it: 1983. CBS is going to tell you that you only get one disc for your double LP. a deflated Jeff Lynne is just gonna slap A1 on the first side and a few random tracks on the second and be done with it. you cannot let this happen under any circumstances. everything wrong with the world in the last half-century? it all starts with Secret Messages not ending with Hello My Old Friend. if you can fix that, you can save us all

if you can also convince him to move Loser Gone Wild to the b-side it would greatly help the flow and pacing of the album but that did not have nearly the same level of impact on the space-time continuum so we’ll just file that as a “nice to have”

yamaha all the way. nothing beats the fresh taste of frequency modulation

many retro systems have implementations of a language called BASIC, which is about as easy as it sounds. it has some quirks that aren’t transferable to newer languages and you won’t be able to make anything nearly as sophisticated as retail games for the same hardware but if you find modern engines intimidating, it can be a good place to start

that said, +1 for godot if you want to learn a more modern tool. it’s way simpler than it may seem at first and there is a huge wealth of beginner-friendly tutorials available online

assuming reasonable definitions of “new” and “old,” i’d wager there’s been more good old music than good new music for most of human history. it all comes down to numbers- there’s simply more old music than new music! there are factors that i do genuinely think make pop music not as good today as it could be (see: streaming companies), but that’s a rounding error compared to the sheer scale of music history, plus all the bedroom artists making up for anything lacking in today’s pop music.

that said, if you spend any time focused on a specific period or specific periods, it will not take long to find stinkers, if only because everyone has different taste and you’re bound to find something you just don’t jive with eventually. i’ve been in spaces where people who love classic rock for example review classic rock albums and their analyses are sometimes so brutal you wonder if there’s anything they DO like

Boston is the first that comes to mind for me. there’s their self-titled which is easily one of the best records of all time, and then everything that came wasn’t exactly bad but it was nowhere near the same level

even putting aside electronic instruments, modern building tools and materials have allowed some acoustic instruments to shrink. check out “mr curly” for an example- a contrabass clarinet that’s a bit shorter if anything than a soprano clarinet, made out of vinyl tubing. another example is the bass ukelele, an instrument smaller than a bass guitar that aproximates the sound of an upright bass thanks to thick rubber strings. in most cases the traditional form of an instrument is preferred just because of familiarity and knowledge passed down from generation to generation, so in order for something to “take off” it needs to address a specific problem, which for most instruments size is not

they don’t advertize it because they don’t think its sexy or whatever but their mainframe business is still going strong if only because they’re the last player left in the market

segmentation fault (c and c++ dumped)