What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol.IX)

Laura Veirs "Carbon Glacier"

Saw him recently at the Roundhouse in Camden still playing brilliantly

Followed instructions on joining photobucket pasted URL and sized to 450 x450 but doen't work any idea why? - got there in the end!!

This is ageing well. Still sounds fresh. G

Cor I DO like the look of that Steve. I notice that mint originals are £100+ though

Just paying this one now Kevin. 1970 RCA. Very different in style. Contains a great version of 'I Wanna Take You Higher'. This ones a bit cheaper. You can probably get Definitely What on CD.

Steve

Kansas - Leftoverture.

Features one of the great guitar riffs. A lot of the album reminds me of Genesis/Utopia with Joe Lynn Turner on vocals. Sound quality is superb on vinyl.

And this one arrived yesterday on Vinyl - puts my system to work on overtime amazing musicians.

What a fantastic LP sleeve - brilliant image is the music as good Steve?

First play for a long time. Ryan Adams in fine form. G

I was looking on Discogs and I saw a Marmalade copy for £19.99. "Blimey that's cheap," I thought. However in the description it said: "plays with weight on pickup" so I thought better of it.

Bruce Springsteen "Devils & Dust"

Not a big Bruce fan, but this and Nebraska and Tom Joad (his quieter side, if you will)

do hit the spot.  D & D, in particular.

Just fancied some Roxy Music and I think this is them at their creative best.

Ripped CD to NS01 through NDS.

Was given this CD ages ago and never got round to listening to it. On the evidence of what I'm hearing, that was a huge oversight.

A lovely, sensuous quartet (piano, bass, drums, percussion) album, recorded earlier this year, which demonstrates that the old master has not lost any of his elegance or his ability to really get inside a tune and caress it. Marvellous.

Same here

'What the Devil Wanted' is perfect for a blindfold test of 'CD or Vinyl'

Kuma, I am perfectly happy with Kavakos here.  I'm the wrong guy to ask though to place it against anyone else or pick favourites .  Over the past years I have added Batiashvili, Steinbacher, Repin, Capucon, Fischer, Faust, Shaham, to name a few, and while their are differences, I enjoy this and appreciate the differences.  The skills of any of these players is exceptional.  Which ever one I pick on a particular day I adapt and accept it for what it is.

Boker with Boccherini on vinyl.

Kevin,

If you feel like exploring the older stuff (released in 1986), this is a special one:

Wooden Shjips - Back to Land

An album described as one to lose yourself in for an hour ,, not wrong either ,

Fionn Regan "The End Of History"

Back to the black stuff, with this:

I agree with those posters who say the SQ and song selection/performance is much better than Volume One. Granted, I won't be listening to the interviews (interesting as they are) THAT often, but  can see myself playing this more than I ever did the first BBC set.

iMac/iTunes:-

I love this album..

On very old original vinyl that needs to be replaced at some point!

After years of rumours, ECM has now decided to come out of the closet and admit that Manfred Eicher belongs to a major underground cow tipping organization that scours the earth looking for vulnerable cows, photographs them and shares them with other like minded individuals in the group that includes doctors, lawyers, ceo's, pastors/priests/rabbi, and even some farmers/ranchers.   Eicher admitted the recording business was merely just a front to allow him to collect artsy images of his bovine victims in exotic locations.  He further explains that it was costing just too much to have the cow photoshopped out for the covers for general sales to the public when most people that buy ECM discs are cow tippers anyway.  Cow tipping is gaining acceptance now and is not frowned upon like it once was.