What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (VOL V)

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Originally posted by munch:
Mark,
I have been playing this album alot over the last few weeks since i got a copy on vinyl.
Bought a couple more of Roberts vinyl from my friend in Holland.
Great stuff.
Stu

Stu

I bought it at the weekend on vinyl to replace an old copy that I wore out years ago!

My favourite Cray album is Bad Influence. Hard to believe I first heard that 25 years ago!

Mark

Dave Matthews Band

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Originally posted by m0omo0:

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Originally posted by Jeff Anderson:
Been listening to her "Guilty" album a lot recently.

Having listened to the vinyl so many times when I was a teenager, it must be transparent now!
Is the remastered CD any good ?

Not sure on that, I downloaded as amazon 256k mp3 and put it on a cd-r.

Perhaps my ears are showing their age, but playing the mp3 track 6 (Who's Sorry Now) pretty loud, her voice is glorious and just before Barry Gibb enters the second time solo at 1:30, he breathes a vibrato right before his lyric that just gives me chills. Spellbinding stuff.

Jeff A

~<>~ Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) ~<>~

String Quartet no.11 in F minor, op.122 (1966)
String Quartet no.12 in D flat, op.133 (1968)
String Quartet no.13 in B flat minor, op138 (1970)

The Borodin String Quartet
Mikhail Kopelman violin 1
Andrei Abramenkov violin 2
Dmitri Shebalin viola
Valentin Berlinsky cello
Recorded in Moscow 1981

[ADD] Stereo Melodiya cd @ 2006

~<>~

Playing the ‘fifth’ cd of this superb 6 CD box-set... and enjoying it immensely : )

Debs

Tim Buckley - Goodbye and Hello

Tim Buckley - Blue Afternoon

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One of the great rock vocalists of the 1960s, Tim Buckley drew from folk, psychedelic rock, and progressive jazz to create a considerable body of adventurous work in his brief lifetime. His multi-octave range was capable of not just astonishing power, but great emotional expressiveness, swooping from sorrowful tenderness to anguished wailing.

And it was a good natter......thanks all (Oh and we bought some more of the reason why we are all 'here') good to put faces to names (again).

This Beethoven is clearly not for the crowd that insists Beethoven can only be about "furled brow" aggressive type A percussive style playing. This is such a necessary (and welcome) contrast to hear Murray Perahia make music. He just cannot make an ugly sound if he tried. If you are not focused and paying attention you might initially jump to the wrong conclusion. Rather, grab the score and upon repeated listens you will start to hear the musicality and the nuance within the architecture. Really amazing actually and full of refined beauty in my opinion.

Murray Perahia is really one of the best pianists of our time....

What a great album. The album cover art and the recording itself could almost be ECM (a compliment). Stripped back and trimmed down! Thanks Jeff, another winner.

PS-is that Emmanuelle Seigner (Mrs Roman Polanski) providing backing tracks on the stand out track 'Back to you'?

Why? Just listened to a programme about the NWOBHM on Planet Rock.

steve

On vinyl, from Guildford today and only £2:-



Excellent it is too, even has Richard Thompson on it.

live stuff

A promo.

A promo

Mark Knopfler live on WDR 2

As Beck might say, just like a paper tiger...



Some more awesome bass from Herbie Flowers on this track. So good, Air made a career of this song.

Everyone needs this record. C'est magnifique.

Kings Of Leon single handedly save the music industry from the stoicism of reality mediocrity.

On vinyl:-


Wishbone Ash - Live Dates II

Willie Nelson - Stardust; The Low Anthem

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Originally posted by Haim Ronen:

Love this album - how's the new Kashkashian on ECM Haim?