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

Posted by: Richard Dane on 31 December 2013

On the cusp of 2014, we start a new thread...

Anyway, links:
Volume IX: https://forums.naimaudio.com/to...16#22826037054683416
Volume VIII: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...nt/12970396056050819
Volume VII: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...6878604287751/page/1
Volume VI: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878604097229
Volume V: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878605140495
Volume IV: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878605795042
Volume III: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878607309474
Volume II: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878606245043
Volume I: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878607464290

Posted on: 05 January 2014 by Clive B
Originally Posted by Steve J:

An early A3/B3 '70s pressing bought yesterday for peanuts. This isn't an album I had heard before but I like it. For me it's better than Fragile. Great '70s prog.

Agreed, it is a good album, but it's before Steve Howe joined. I hope you've heard 'The Yes Album' which will certainly be with me on my desert island.

Posted on: 05 January 2014 by patk

 

The Avett Brothers - Magpie and the Dandelion

 

CD.  Guess this falls into the alternative-folk genre.  Another North Carolina band that I very much enjoy.  First listen. Good impression so far. 

Posted on: 05 January 2014 by Steve C
Originally Posted by joerand:
 Originally Posted by kuma:
 

Originally Posted by Steve C:

On original vinyl

I played this at the party tonight.

 

Man.. i need to get a hold of UK pressing or something.

 

My US original vinyl has NO bass.

 

 

 

 

 

Agreed kuma. I've said here before that the Stones' pre 'Some Girls'  vinyl sounds like it was mastered for AM radio.

 Kuma and Joe Uk first press bass line so easy to follow,not over the top either.

Posted on: 05 January 2014 by patk

More from The Avett Brothers -

 

Posted on: 05 January 2014 by Christopher_M

Steve,

My Black and Blue is marked CUN 59106 A1 and B1. Is she a keeper?

 

Chris

Posted on: 05 January 2014 by Steve C
Originally Posted by Christopher_M:

Steve,

My Black and Blue is marked CUN 59106 A1 and B1. Is she a keeper?

 

Chris

Chris mine is COC 59106 A1 & B1 with Rolling Stones etched in the dead wax. Definitely a keeper, cleaned up really well. 

Posted on: 05 January 2014 by Christopher_M

Thanks. I've just noticed that a further 90 degrees round the label is 2, and then 90 beyond that and very small but neat is Nick W. (in the 'dead wax').

 

Chris

Posted on: 05 January 2014 by Steve C
Originally Posted by Christopher_M:

Thanks. I've just noticed that a further 90 degrees round the label is 2, and then 90 beyond that and very small but neat is Nick W. (in the 'dead wax').

 

Chris

According to discogs CUN is a 1980's reissue.

Steve

Posted on: 05 January 2014 by Bert Schurink
Originally Posted by Haim Ronen:

Faure's most played music here.

Also lik ethis one a lot...

Posted on: 05 January 2014 by patk

Lost In The Trees - All Alone in an Empty House

 

 

 

More NC music, this time from Chapel Hill.  New album (3rd) coming out next month. 

Have played this album a lot in the past month. 

Posted on: 05 January 2014 by Steve J
Originally Posted by Steve C:
Originally Posted by Christopher_M:

Thanks. I've just noticed that a further 90 degrees round the label is 2, and then 90 beyond that and very small but neat is Nick W. (in the 'dead wax').

 

Chris

According to discogs CUN is a 1980's reissue.

Steve

From Sticky Fingers to Black and Blue (1976) the Rolling Stone label prefix is COC, from Some Girls (1978) onward it's CUN and reissues of the earlier albums are also prefixed the same, so yes this is a later pressing but from the A1/B1 matrix it would be the first repress in the late '70s. SQ should be good.

 

Steve

Posted on: 05 January 2014 by Don Atkinson

Far too conventional for this forum, but IMHO a true classic by a real master

 

Posted on: 05 January 2014 by Kevin-W
Originally Posted by Jeff Anderson:

I I truly do not understand why this thread offends so many people.


 

Jeff A

I must have missed something Jeff - who's been offended? And how/why?

Posted on: 05 January 2014 by Kevin-W

I am angry today, the neighbours are away, and so I am playing this Classic Recs 200g reissue VERY loud. I still think the version of "No Quarter" on here (note this is not the same as the version on the 2007 reissue vinyl and CD)  is the best thing LZ put out officially - it contains Page's best-ever guitar solo IMO.

 

Posted on: 05 January 2014 by J.N.
Originally Posted by Clive Blackman:

'Til Tuesday - 'Everything's Different Now' ripped from CD to NS01, streaming through NDS now with firmware version 3.22.003. I am SO chuffed that I managed to install it without any issues. The instruction .pdf file was perfect.

 

Everything's Different Now.

Nice to see an unusual fave album of mine on here Clive. Sophisticated pop with clever lyrics by Aimee Mann and Co. Not a bum track on it. Lovely.

 

John.

Posted on: 05 January 2014 by Don Atkinson

relaxing into these relatively long tracks

 

Posted on: 05 January 2014 by Steve C
Originally Posted by Steve J:
Originally Posted by Steve C:
Originally Posted by Christopher_M:

Thanks. I've just noticed that a further 90 degrees round the label is 2, and then 90 beyond that and very small but neat is Nick W. (in the 'dead wax').

 

Chris

According to discogs CUN is a 1980's reissue.

Steve

From Sticky Fingers to Black and Blue (1976) the Rolling Stone label prefix is COC, from Some Girls (1978) onward it's CUN and reissues of the earlier albums are also prefixed the same, so yes this is a later pressing but from the A1/B1 matrix it would be the first repress in the late '70s. SQ should be good.

 

Steve

Thanks for that info Steve only just starting to pick up some Stones albums.

Posted on: 05 January 2014 by mrclick
Originally Posted by Steve J:
Originally Posted by Steve C:
Originally Posted by Christopher_M:

Thanks. I've just noticed that a further 90 degrees round the label is 2, and then 90 beyond that and very small but neat is Nick W. (in the 'dead wax').

 

Chris

According to discogs CUN is a 1980's reissue.

Steve

From Sticky Fingers to Black and Blue (1976) the Rolling Stone label prefix is COC, from Some Girls (1978) onward it's CUN and reissues of the earlier albums are also prefixed the same, so yes this is a later pressing but from the A1/B1 matrix it would be the first repress in the late '70s. SQ should be good.

 

Steve

If only it were that straightforward, Steve. I have a CUN copy of Goats Head Soup which I bought in 1973. Both COC and CUN were released simultaneously from the off, in different parts of the world. 

 

And both equally amusing still, but in different ways of course.

Posted on: 05 January 2014 by patk

Lost In The Trees - A Church That Fits Our Needs

 

Posted on: 05 January 2014 by patk
Originally Posted by Don Atkinson:

Far too conventional for this forum, but IMHO a true classic by a real master

 

 

I enjoy listening to Roy, but for some reason don't have this one.  Thanks for the reminder, Don. 

 

Pat

Posted on: 05 January 2014 by Steve J
Originally Posted by mrclick:
Originally Posted by Steve J:
Originally Posted by Steve C:
Originally Posted by Christopher_M:

Thanks. I've just noticed that a further 90 degrees round the label is 2, and then 90 beyond that and very small but neat is Nick W. (in the 'dead wax').

 

Chris

According to discogs CUN is a 1980's reissue.

Steve

From Sticky Fingers to Black and Blue (1976) the Rolling Stone label prefix is COC, from Some Girls (1978) onward it's CUN and reissues of the earlier albums are also prefixed the same, so yes this is a later pressing but from the A1/B1 matrix it would be the first repress in the late '70s. SQ should be good.

 

Steve

If only it were that straightforward, Steve. I have a CUN copy of Goats Head Soup which I bought in 1973. Both COC and CUN were released simultaneously from the off, in different parts of the world. 

 

And both equally amusing still, but in different ways of course.

I was only commenting on UK releases. I should have mentioned that given the international nature of the forum.

Posted on: 05 January 2014 by mrclick
Originally Posted by Kevin-W:

I am angry today, the neighbours are away, and so I am playing this Classic Recs 200g reissue VERY loud. I still think the version of "No Quarter" on here (note this is not the same as the version on the 2007 reissue vinyl and CD)  is the best thing LZ put out officially - it contains Page's best-ever guitar solo IMO.

 

Kevin - I could not agree more. Mr Page's funky build into the solo is wonderful, and sets up one of his most gorgeous pieces of playing. Fluid, inventive, blistering, achingly sensitive all together. And the way Bonham picks up on his timing and almost duets with him during it is just splendid also.

 

I hope your anger has subsided. Mine is still there when I think of the way the solo was chopped and neutered in the later 2007 master. Travesty.

 

And the SQ on this original master is yummy too. I love the way they kept the short (and fairly bizarre) phasing on the hi-hats early on in the track.

Posted on: 05 January 2014 by Haim Ronen

The eternal Mare Nostrum

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzO_x43xX20

Posted on: 05 January 2014 by fatcat

Vinyl. original UK Pressing

Posted on: 05 January 2014 by ewemon

Playing a wonderful set in Minneaplois earlier this year recorded form the SBD. The band are truly rockin'