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

On CD:-

Dave Matthews Band

"The Gorge - Live"   (2004)    MP3

discs 1 & 2

Great album with Bowie songs in a ambient modern jazz style, absolutely recommended ......

Streaming | 16 / 44 FLAC download

Steve Rothery Band ~ Live in Plovdiv (2013)

Downloaded from Bandcamp last night. It's my first full listen and its sounding very good indeed. The event was a guitar music festival and this SRB album showcases their set and looks like being full value as it runs to 75 minutes.

Black Francis  Bluefinger   on cd.

In memory of Gavin Clark who died tragically young on Monday 

MUSICAL GENIUS ... Gavin Clark's work is as good as Nick Drake's, according to Shane Meadows. 

Hadn't heard it for a longest time, not my favorite e.s.t album, but still a kind of must have....

Great album.

Agreed.

David Gray

"Life In Slow Motion"   (2005)    MP3

Streaming  | CD FLAC rip

Marillion ~ Afraid of Sunlight (1995)

The expanded 2 CD remastered special edition released in '99.

Imho a wonderful jazz album.

Hi Gordon

I am a minor BS fan, almost exclusively with D & D, Tom Joad and Nebreska, i.e. the quiet acoustic side.

Enjoy your new replay set-up.

regards

Jeff A

Streaming | CD FLAC rip

Marillion ~ Best of Both Worlds (1997)

Playing CD 1 of 2 (the "Fish" years). As a rule I am not usually one for compilation albums but these 2 CDs neatly divide and highlight the best of the "Fish" years ('82-'88) and the Hogarth years from '89 to '97, Steve Hogarth still remains in situ today.

Hi Hook,

Yes i admit to being a deadhead, but tbh i only discovered who they were, and how good they were a mere couple of years ago, and this was because of their morbid band name that for quite a while i mistakenly assumed them as some kind of weird punk rock outfit. I now wonder how many other people out there have a potential head as equally dead but still awaiting the realisation, and exist oblivious to the fact that we have GD to enjoy and gravely dig while we live and unto that we should be grateful.

Seems like you were unlucky with your first Vaults Two set, i'm glad the replacement is okay, Amazon are very good when it comes to refunds and re-ordering, i also order mine from Amazon.

My first set of Sunshine vinyl [Rhino] went back for replacement due to too much surface noise, the replacement set are okay.

I find the Vaults vinyl pressed by Future Days Recordings to be superior to the Rhino.

Also, for a few days, i had a Dick's Picks Vol 4 pressed by Brookvale Records on 6xLP, which i sent back for refund due to warps, surface noise and extremely bad SQ. However the music is excellent and recommended on CD or download, the vinyl too expensive and tragically poor quality.

This is why i'm buying the Vaults sets, fab music and quality vinyl and sonic Q.

So far my entire GD collection includes:

Sunshine Daydream 4 x LP

One From The Vaults 3 x LP

Two From The Vaults 4 x LP

The Golden Road (1965-1973) 12 x CD set [hdcd] Rhino Box Set:

Spanning the Dead's Prolific and Pioneering Warner Bros. Era Over 15 1/2 Hours of Music, Including 7 Hours of Previously Unreleased Material All Digitally Remastered in HDCD an Maxed-Out With Live and Studio Bonus Tracks Plus Hidden Surprises! Featuring 9 Original Albums: 'THE GRATEFUL DEAD', 'ANTHEM OF THE SUN', 'AOXOMOXOA', 'LIVE/DEAD', 'WORKINGMAN'S DEAD', 'AMERICAN BEAUTY', 'GRATEFUL DEAD (SKULL & ROSES) ', EUROPE '72', 'HISTORY OF THE GRATEFUL DEAD, Vol.1 (BEAR'S CHOICE)' and BIRTH OF THE DEAD, a New 2-CD-Set Set of Rare Pre-Warner Tracks Plus a Massive 80-Page Book With the Band's History, Photos, and Full Discography, and 10 CD Booklets Packed With Rare Images, New Essays by Noted Deadologists.

The Golden Road box set is very expensive here in the UK,

but i got it for a good price 

Debs

Eleanor Friedberger

"Last Summer"   (2011)     MP3

Jeff, I am a minor BS fan but this album just struck a note somehow, the quality of writing is superb IMHO.

Currently enjoying some jazz, the only reason I chose Harbeth and icon Audio...they do do jazz so well!

1st press vinyl in excellent condition. Playing it to remind me why I'm not wasting any more money on the new remasters.

Great record Jeff!

I had thought of that when I saw your room pic.  I went through a quite enjoyable tube phase back in the nineties.  All Quicksilver Audio, the set was their original mono blocks using 8470 tubes which weren't in production any longer and were very expensive to replace tubes and they blew with some frequency.  So I traded the mono blocks for a Quicksilver integrated which used EL34 tubes.  I liked the EL34 but the 8470 had a magic I never got back to again.  Not coincidentally, I was listening to lot of jazz at that time so I have a sense of what you are getting.

Enjoy!!!

Jeff A

ps:  bet Brett Anderson sounds pretty sublime as well

Some early Dire Straits. This is a Japanese import CD of excellent quality. Water of Love has a beguiling rhythm.  

Hi Gian

I am a lifetime fan and lover of DG music, as you know.  Start to finish I think "Life ...." is one of his most complete albums.  It just has a "flow" to the sequencing that makes each song the perfect follow-on to the previous song.

Have a nice weekend.

Jeff A

Matthew Halsall & the Gondwana Orchestra

"When The World Was One"   (2014)   SP

Gordon, this would be awesome on your set, a Gary Shaw recommendation from last year.  Not sure if I have seen you post it.

+1 Steve. In fact I would go further no more remasters full stop in my house other than the MM reissues. G