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
76' original US vinyl.
Portishead - Third. Original Box Set
Haven't listened to this for a while - from recollection one of the first LPs cut using a digital recording, but still great.
An amazingly versatile guitarist. His soundtrack from Paris Texas is still for me possibly the most hauntingly beautiful soundtrack ever.
Their latest(OK, it's a year old..) but their bestest to date!. On the silver stuff...
ALAC I think:-
I really don't get the cover of this album but there is a great selection of past unreleased songs and , in my case, I particularly enjoy the more bluesy, soulful songs on the B-side. I also find it difficult listening to Waiting On A Friend without thinking of Physical Graffiti but it always puts a BIG smile on my face. 
Another couple of my albums from the 70s. Sor of a cross between The Allman Brothers Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Another couple of my albums from the 70s. Sor of a cross between The Allman Brothers Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
The Outlaws doing "Green Grass & High Tides" is a classic as is their Ghost Riders album with "(Ghost) riders in the Sky".
This brings back memories, good ones.
I really don't get the cover of this album but there is a great selection of past unreleased songs and , in my case, I particularly enjoy the more bluesy, soulful songs on the B-side. I also find it difficult listening to Waiting On A Friend without thinking of Physical Graffiti but it always puts a BIG smile on my face.
My sister introduced me to this album in 81 or 82 and I was gobsmacked! It was also my introduction to The Rolling Stones. Happy memories!
Now listening to Roxy Music. Why? Because it's easy listening and I haven't listened to them for ages. It's funny how long attitude and panache can take you. Bryan Ferry is a good example as even the punk rockers admired him.
On CD:-
One of there best IMO.
Graham.
Reflecting-Pool Calm
"There are times in this information-overload culture when the bitstream of "news" becomes relentless and the signals grow irrevocably tangled, when nothing makes sense and the only solution seems to be to sit in a dark room and try to regain some measure of internal peace.
For those moments, there is Madredeus.
If ever songs of epic longing had healing properties, these do. They're remarkably centered short pieces, and though they bask in the melancholy quality the Portuguese call saudade, they communicate in uncluttered tones, radiating a calm missing from urban life. The mostly minor-key odes of O espírito da paz are based loosely on the Portuguese fado—that traditional pub music of endlessly mushrooming romantic disappointments. Here, the fado's confessions are surrounded by pensively plucked acoustic guitars, solemn cellos, and the occasional New Age synthesizer.
Though derided by some as "fado lite," these songs are deeply affecting because they are sung by a master of understatement, Teresa Salgueiro. Her luminous voice so captivated filmmaker Wim Wenders that he created a film, the 1994 Lisbon Story, around it. Salguiero uses little vibrato and no ornamentation, even in her weepy upper register. Rather than parading disappointments around, she simply leaves hints, and lets the laments speak for themselves. For whole stretches of this engrossing record, she's up there at seagull altitude where troubles are supposed to disappear, still carrying all kinds of hurt but sailing onward."
Highly recommended:
Reflecting-Pool Calm
"There are times in this information-overload culture when the bitstream of "news" becomes relentless and the signals grow irrevocably tangled, when nothing makes sense and the only solution seems to be to sit in a dark room and try to regain some measure of internal peace.
For those moments, there is Madredeus.
If ever songs of epic longing had healing properties, these do. They're remarkably centered short pieces, and though they bask in the melancholy quality the Portuguese call saudade, they communicate in uncluttered tones, radiating a calm missing from urban life. The mostly minor-key odes of O espírito da paz are based loosely on the Portuguese fado—that traditional pub music of endlessly mushrooming romantic disappointments. Here, the fado's confessions are surrounded by pensively plucked acoustic guitars, solemn cellos, and the occasional New Age synthesizer.
Though derided by some as "fado lite," these songs are deeply affecting because they are sung by a master of understatement, Teresa Salgueiro. Her luminous voice so captivated filmmaker Wim Wenders that he created a film, the 1994 Lisbon Story, around it. Salguiero uses little vibrato and no ornamentation, even in her weepy upper register. Rather than parading disappointments around, she simply leaves hints, and lets the laments speak for themselves. For whole stretches of this engrossing record, she's up there at seagull altitude where troubles are supposed to disappear, still carrying all kinds of hurt but sailing onward."
Highly recommended:
Yes, that was beautiful and melancholic. Something to check out. Thanks for the suggestion!
Matthew Ryan "May Day"
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss "Raising Sand"
Sarah McLachlan "The Freedom Sessions"
Sarah McLachlan "The Freedom Sessions"
Yes indeed Jeff. Great stuff. And that is what I call a recording!
I love the music on the John Hiatt CD you recommended 'Dirty Jeans' - but the recording quality is absolutely appalling. Dead, flat, dull, congested, compressed, nasty and murky. Clearly optimised for the mp3 player.
I ripped it in 256k and it sounds better.
Good listening.
John.
Shelby Lynne "Revelation Road" (deluxe edition)