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Album review: Stephen Marks – “Beatles Haunting Melodies”

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Stephen Marks is a pianist from the American city of Cleveland. The album “Beatles Haunting Melodies” is a unique instrumental tribute to The Beatles. He plays every track solo by stripping down The Beatles music to an important overlooked component which is their melodies. Stephen Marks contends that the melodies of The Beatles are superior to anyone else in the history of music regardless of the genre.
If you are a fan of The Beatles which are very many, this album would be of great interest. The interested listener would be quite curious how Stephen Marks has done to The Beatles sound. I think these kinds of listeners will be quite impressed by the finished product. For people who are not familiar with the sounds of The Beatles, it is a case that the listener could be listening to Beethoven or one of the other classical music composers.
There are 24 tracks on this compilation. The opening track is “Norwegian Wood”. Stephen Marks gets straight to the melodies without any waiting. I think every track is a winner on this compilation album. A hard thing for me is find a favourite track. Too many good tracks to mention. If I have to pick one, “Because” really describes the melodies of The Beatles tremendously well. I am happy it was included on this compilation. As well, this album features absolute mega smash hits “Yesterday”, “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”. “Michelle” and “Something”. The official closing track is “Good Night” which is a great way to end an album.
Highlights of all 24 songs from “Beatles Haunting Melodies” by Stephen Marks can be heard (and if you like it, you can purchase the CD or Digital Download for $US9.99) at beatleshauntingmelodies.com

Stephen Marks playing the piano on Abbey Road

Image courtesy of beatleshauntingmelodies.com

Music streaming options in 2019

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Streaming sites that were around in a blog post I wrote in 2012 like Rdio, Songl & Pandora are no longer available to Australian consumers but Pandora is still going in the American market.

The main sector in the recorded music market is the use of streaming. Listening to audio files through the use of the internet connection. It has taken over the music download currently by market share.

Spotify is still in the music market. You can listen to an extensive library of recorded music & not long ago it decided to enter as well to have an extensive library of streaming podcasts. The featured image is the logo of Spotify. The owners of the copyright is Spotify.

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Their competitors of music streaming these days are:

The next thing to do is to subscribe & enjoy the music you are listening to.

Pay TV without the Sports pack

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Welcome back everyone. I have not being able to do a post for personal reasons & health reasons. I do thank everyone for their interest in the past blog posts.

I have being a subscriber of Optus TV featuring Foxtel in Australia for quite a while now. I used to be a Foxtel subscriber in Australia as well. I still have pay TV but with a reduced plan these days. I used to have the Sports pack but had to drop the plan for financial reasons. Till this month, the Sports pack was $25 but has being increased to $29. Foxtel have being claiming they had to increase the price of the Sports pack due to the price of production costs. My current plan is the lowest plan which is called the Entertainment plan which is the $25 plan plus the high definition viewing tax of $10. It is handy there for free to air reception & watching the news channels that are available on this pack. I feel it is best available option for me at the present time since I have very horrible free to air television reception via the indoor antenna that I have. All prices in this article are all in Australian dollars. Bye for now & have a good day.

Coming back to the world of blogging

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It has being a long time since I have posted on Petesmusic’s Blog. Hello to all interested parties that want to read this. I have being quite doing my other project which I ended called The Indie Aspie & have being studying at one Australian technical college. I did happen to acquire a Certificate II in Information, Digital Media & Technology at TAFE NSW. TAFE NSW is a tertiary institution in the state of New South Wales in a country called Australia. This is the start of the new chapter and hope to provide interesting material down the line.

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Have a visit to my other blog called The Indie Aspie.