Archive for November, 2007
Posted by christianhorner on
November 30, 2007
Merry Christmas Everyone!!!
In the holiday spirit this weeks featured artist is The Vince Guaraldi Trio.
Some of the the information on this page has been acquired from Wikipedia.
A Charlie Brown Christmas is an album by the Vince Guaraldi Trio, released in 1965 as the soundtrack to the CBS Christmas television special of the same name. It is among the most popular holiday music albums of all time. There was also a book-and-record set featuring music, dialogue, and stills from the Christmas special released in 1977 on a 45 RPM vinyl record by CBS Records.
Fantasy Records reissued the album on CD in 1988; this edition is identical to the original 1965 LP release and can still be purchased in stores and online. A somewhat controversial remastered version of the original album was released by Concord Records in conjunction with Fantasy on October 10, 2006. The new edition includes four previously unreleased bonus tracks — all are alternate versions of songs in the original track listing — and features Digipak packaging, new liner notes by “famed music critic/historian Joel Selvinâ€, and the original cover art.
So much for the Holiday Spirit – Controversy over a Christmas Album??!?!??!?!?! 
Merry Christmas To All
Enjoy,
Christian
Send an e-mail to me at christian@acidrainradio.com and let me know what you think?
Click the link below to listen in your favorite mp3 player on your machine:
http://listento.acidrainradio.com:8001/feature
Track listing
- “O Tannenbaum” – 5:08
- “What Child Is This?” – 2:25
- “My Little Drum” – 3:12
- “Linus and Lucy” – 3:06
- “Christmas Time Is Here [Instrumental]” – 6:05
- “Christmas Time Is Here [Vocal Version]” – 2:47
- “Skating” – 2:27
- “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” – 1:55
- “Christmas Is Coming” – 3:25
- “Für Elise” – 1:06
- “The Christmas Song” – 3:17
Artists
Vince Guaraldi – piano, arrangement
Colin Bailey – drums
Monty Budwig – double bass
Fred Marshall – double bass
Jerry Granelli – drums
Ralph J. Gleason – liner notes (1988 Fantasy reissue)
Joel Selvin – liner notes (2006 remaster)
George Horn – mastering (1988 Fantasy reissue, 2006 Concord remaster)
Stephen Hart – mixing (2006 remaster)
Posted by christianhorner on
November 26, 2007
I am going to post a weekly featured artist starting today November 26th. Send me an e-mail to christian@acidrainradio.com to request a feature of the week.
Enjoy,
Christian
This weeks featured artist is XTC:
Some of the information on this page has been acquired from Wikipedia.
XTC was a New Wave band from Swindon, England, active between 1976 and 2005. Though the band enjoyed some significant chart success (including the UK hits “Making Plans For Nigel” (1979) and “Senses Working Overtime” (1982)), they are more known for their long-standing critical success than for making hit records.
This weeks track list is from XTC’s Oranges & Lemons.
Released: February 27th, 1989 – Label: Virgin Records – Producer: Paul Fox
Track Listing:
All songs written by Andy Partridge, except where noted.
- “Garden of Earthly Delights” – 5:03
- “The Mayor of Simpleton” – 3:58
- “King for a Day” (Colin Moulding) – 3:37
- “Here Comes President Kill Again” – 3:35
- “The Loving” – 4:11
- “Poor Skeleton Steps Out” – 3:34
- “One of the Millions” (Moulding) – 4:35
- “Scarecrow People” – 4:13
- “Merely a Man” – 3:27
- “Cynical Days” (Moulding) – 3:17
- “Across This Antheap” – 4:51
- “Hold Me My Daddy” – 3:47
- “Pink Thing” – 3:48
- “Miniature Sun” – 3:57
- “Chalkhills and Children” – 4:56
Artists:
- Colin Moulding – vocals, bass
- Andy Partridge – guitar, vocals
- Dave Gregory – guitars, vocals, keyboards
- Pat Mastelotto – drums
Additional Artists:
- Mark Isham – horns
- Paul Fox – keyboards
- Franne Golde – backing vocals
Posted by christianhorner on
November 26, 2007
Merry Christmas – It is a small amount of time till the big day arrives, so celebrate the season with some Christmas music!
In the spirit of the Christmas season I thought it would be fun to stream some festive holiday music straight from the Acid Rain studio. It is a fun compilation of Jazz, Pop and Classical with a few Oldies thrown in for good measure. All of us here at Acid Rain wish everyone a very safe, happy and healthy holiday season.
Click the link below to listen in your favorite mp3 player on your machine:
Christmas Stream: http://listento.acidrainradio.com:8000/christmas
Enjoy
Christian
Posted by christianhorner on
November 19, 2007
Welcome to Acid Rain Radio. This site and radio station was inspired by my good friend Joe Garbus who turned me on to Internet Radio. Joe told me about Delicious Agony Progressive Rock Radio located at http://www.deliciousagony.com . I downloaded a copy of Winamp (see below) and it took me “forever†to get around to listen, but after I did I went a bit further and built out two radio broadcasting servers based on IceCast, MPD/MPC. Acid Rain Radio went on the “air†or “ether†on Saturday November 19th. Here are the URLs for streams at this point:
Music Streams: (Acid Rain Radio streams – Click the links below to listen in your favorite mp3 player on your machine)
- Progressive Rock Stream (Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, Dregs, ELP, etc…)
- Jazz Stream (Pat Metheny, Steely Dan, Rippingtons, etc..)
- Pop Music Stream – This is a great party stream with tons of great music – JUST LISTEN
- Cool Stream – This stream will be a on-going stream of cool tunes, things, etc. that just happen to show up – take a listen and enjoy
You are going to need a good media player. I suggest you download Winamp from http://www.winamp.com/ it is a great player. Or if you are a Linux junkie like me you already know your favorite media player!
Just copy and paste the above URLs depending on your genre taste at that moment in time and enjoy. I will strive to keep the content fresh and who knows where this will lead.
Enjoy,
Christian