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
Top of the pile:
Heather Nova
"300 Days At Sea"
Steve J originally posted:
"How did you find Dylan and the Dead? I've always felt it was Dylan's and the Dead's worst album ever".
"On the other hand this is one of my favourite late '60s British Blues Rock albums".
Steve,
I have quite a few Dylan albums up to and including 'Desire' along with a few of his much later albums. I have maybe 4 albums by the Band, but amazingly didn't have anything of Dylan playing live with the Band.
Picked this one up (on CD) from Oxfam recently, but don't have anything to compare it with. I actually quite like the album - certainly worth the money I paid for it in Oxfam. What others would you recommend?
I must admit to never having heard of the album or group of your blues/rock selection abov, but I'll look out for it/them.
Now all I have to work out is - is the album:
"Barbed Wire Sandwich" by the Black Cat Bones
or
""Black Cat Bones" by the Barbed Wire Sandwich?
The band is called "Black Cat Bones". Their claim to fame if I'm correct was that Paul Kossoff was in an early line up of the band. I saw them on a Tuesday "Blues night" at the Boat club in Nottingham around 1969/70.
You're right Charles but Kossoff didn't play on this, their only album.
45rpm vinyl arrived today. I'm on the last side now and, although not quite as good as Freewheelin' for SQ, it's close and better than Desire.
I do remember my father's Grundig C201 FM i modified adding a spare small loudspeaker simply solderind it with an electric cable to the exisitng one in the box shell. Thought it was something like stereo and spent my evenings listening to copies of PF albums a mate at school did for me on cheap cassettes. Well i'm sure this will not become the record of the century and don't sound like another "operation nostalgia" i've heard so way too many times. It's a honest record without the presumption of changing music many others had. It's a Pink Floyd record and i like it.
The sequel to 'Almost Acoustic'. The tracks come from the same series of concerts from 1987. Recorded at the Lund-Fontane Theater in New York City, (11 tracks + band introductions), the Wilturn Theater in Los Angeles, and the Warfield Theater in San Fransisco (3 tracks).
Time for a nice bit of the Dead jamming with Branford Marsalis, on CD:
I had this on earlier - great working from home music as I await Scottish Gas to come and assess our central heating/hot water catastrophe...
G
Lucky old you G! Hopefully Scottish Gas will turn up sometimes this millennium! 
I have a couple of terabytes of live Dead I can give you if you need something to listen to while you wait!
I always find the dead really good to work to as well... great minds think alike.
Agreed. Great combo.
In high res
The Red Krayola - The Parable Of Arable Land. UK First Press.
Very Nice Record.
Streaming from NAS 16/44
The Beatles. Beatles For Sale. On Parlophone stereo vinyl pressed in the 1970s. This was my first foray into ordering an imported album after hearing the virtues of several Beatles Parlophone EPs I had bought off the shelf. Well worth the few extra bucks as the SQ is far superior to the Capitol Records pressings. My copy still sounds outstanding as I play it today 
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The Beatles. The Beatles. On Capitol purple label vinyl. A replacement for my first copy on the Capitol orange label. Unfortunately, while going through my 'White Album phase' I broke my thumb and the orange label fell victim to the mishaps of attempting to handle LPs with a cast on one hand. Also unfortunate, the purple does not have the bottom end SQ of the orange.
Fischer-Disakau and Richter plays various Schubert songs.
Slava's got his favourite Yamaha for this live concert.
Collection of rather dark and defiant tunes fitting of Richter’s icey cold chilling piano and Dieskau’s hard edged voice. Richter's fine pianissimo is effective throughout to show Schubert’s vulnerable side. Finger work on Der Strom (The river), D565 is exquisite depicting cold streaming river well. Or laser precision exacting Richter’s right hand in Auf Der Bruck (‘On the bridge", D853 lets me know he's not a mere *accompanist* for the voice!
Abendbilder (“Nocturne") D650 already reminds me of a tune from the Winterreise. There seems to be a lot of reference to water related lyrics (i.e. lake, river, ocean etc.. ) and Richter’s piano provides vivid background scenery for voices. B side is slightly less depressing but upbeat Die Sterne ("The Stars"), D939 is rather poignant as this was the last tune the composer wrote in his last year.
All the tune are nicely laid out and paced, (soft comforting ‘in spring’ after turbulant ‘on the bruck’ with laser precision exacting Richter’s playing!) ending with a upbeat "From Heliopolis II", D754 for the finish.
Transparent and clear I like it a lot
Also very interesting
Two old masters
Streaming | CD FLAC rip
Streaming | Mp3 download
Pink Floyd Mix by Peter Kruder.
I think this is pretty good and certainly different. It was a free download of an hour's music mix for anyone that's interested.
"A live DJ mix of all the tripped out Pink Floyd bits that I love" says Peter Kruder of Kruder and Dorfmeister and G-Stone Recordings. "I did this for FM4 Liquid Radio Show sometime in the 1990s and just recently found the DAT of this. Download and enjoy from here."
http://aordisco.blogspot.co.uk...by-peter-kruder.html