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

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Originally posted by BigH47:
Hi Miles, enjoy Friday? Good to meet you at last.



Some more of to days selection.
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On vinyl:-

Keep thinking about getting that Wishbone album. Is it worth it?

... got some catching up to do.

Dusted off for the first time in a while...

Today's playlist



7 very good elpees and one absolute masterpiece - if there is a better rock album than Eldorado then I'd love to hear it.

From the latest of the dreaded box sets...

Genesis, 1973 - 2007 LIVE



A bit of Three Sides Live and Seconds Out



Unexpectedly its not bad at all. At least compared to the 1976 - 1982 disaster. It has had good comments on the SH forum and I think its deserved. On 3SL for instance the sound is a clearer than on the "Definitive" (sic) edition, the treble is less harsh, the bass goes lower and is more detailed, and globally it's not very loud. In the medley In The Cage/The Cinema Show/Slipperman or in Abacab, the two drummers are very easy to follow and it's a pleasure to hear.

Well they're not the smoothest masterings of all time, but they're not very fatiguing. We know it could have been a lot worse, and while it's expensive, I'm glad I took the plunge.

Now if someone is in need for a door stopper, the 1976 - 1982 box is still available...

All On the Black Stuff! earlier tonight.

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By ewemon: Keep thinking about getting that Wishbone album. Is it worth it?

It's good, the whole Argus album live in order, surrounded by a few other live tracks.
Offers another option for the classic album. As a fan I think it was worth a tenner, I even got it signed.

"Who is Franz Xaver Richter and what are three of his string quartets doing on a disc with two transcriptions from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and a Canon for string quartet by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? Richter (1709-1789) was a bass singer trained as a composer by Fux's counterpoint textbook Gradus ad Parnassum, and three of his string quartets are on a disc with three works by Mozart because all of them are imbued by the spirit of counterpoint. Counterpoint, of course, was rare in the latter half of the eighteenth century when clarity and comprehensibility were all the rage. But Richter and Mozart, along with fellow composer Haydn, knew the value of contrapuntal writing, and all three made occasional use of the technique in their string quartets. On this disc, two of the three quartets by Richter include contrapuntal finales, while all three works by Mozart are contrapuntal from start to finish. As an exercise in musicology, this disc is fascinating.

As a performance of music, it is even better. Taking its name from one of Richter's contrapuntal finales, the Rincontro Quartet plays with maximum clarity and total comprehensibility without surrendering any beauty of tone, strength of rhythm, and brilliance of ensemble. In the fugues, one can always follow the lines without any sense of pedantry but rather of keen intellectual enjoyment. And in the expressive Andantes and the exuberant Allegros, one can simply sit back and enjoy the virtuoso playing. Captured in Alpha's clean, deep sound, this is a disc that any aficionado of eighteenth century string quartets will enjoy immensely."

- James Leonard

Steely Dan: Katy Lied.
'75 Release. The US ABC Records pressing.
This release sounds a whole lot better than the MCA Records pressing. A better midrange and vocal presence, firmer deeper bass and overall more organic sounding.

One of the nice score at the record store in Boulder Co. last week.

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Steely Dan: Katy Lied.
'75 Release. The US ABC Records pressing.
This release sounds a whole lot better than the MCA Records pressing. A better midrange and vocal presence, firmer deeper bass and overall more organic sounding.

One of the nice score at the record store in Boulder

Kuma, picked up a UK pressing on my recent trip. Also sounds good.

A nice relaxing listen before bedtime.

Pete Yorn, Back And Fourth



First casual listening, but very nice so far.

Black Wax.

Barbra Streisand - One Voice ( original pressing 1986 CBS)

Thompson Twins - Quick Step & Side Kick ( original pressing 1983 ARISTA)

wonderful cello tone, without the grunting of Starker's versions

Not often played here, these days,on vinyl:-

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Got dem blues dismoanin'.


Bro

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On Spotify
Island Folk-Rock Anthology

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