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

Last night I installed my re-tipped, rebuilt (ESC) Linn Troika and played this as a test record - astonishingly good! Now I have the tough decision of what to try next...

From the 15-LP Atlantic Jazz box set. Some great stuff on this double album, including Brubeck and Desmond's lovely "Koto Song":

A stunning performance of D940. Fray and Rouvier paint a vivid picture of Schubert's demonic abyss.

EJ

Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother (1970)

Original first press vinyl

Blue Horizon vinyl. Short term Yardbirds guitarist.

Thought I'd give this another go, on vinyl. The production and SQ are stunning, as might be expected, but this really is a curious thing. As a closer to one of the biggest and best bands of the rock era, it's weirdly low-key, some lovely moments but ultimately crying out for a bit of Waters grit. The one song, "Louder Than Words", proves that Polly Sampson is nowhere near even an adequate replacement for Mr Waters, while "Anisina" is one of the most irritatingly insipid things I have ever heard.

Within the canon, you'd have to rate it above the dire A Momentary Lapse of Reason and probably the two boring and pointless live albums Pulse and Delicate Sound of Thunder, but below everything else.

Not so much a farewell, then, as the last faint pulse of a long-dead star.

A blink and you missed him kind of short term Steve! 

Erren Fleissig Schöttler Steffen - Ouddorp Tapes

Berlin electronica. Like this:

Vinyl...

Throbbing Gristle, "Entertainment Through Pain: Throbbing Gristle's Greatest Hits", 2014 vinyl reissue:

Really enjoying the latest SANKT OTTEN release ENGTANZ DEPRESSION

Samples - http://sankt-otten.bandcamp.co...m/engtanz-depression 

Streaming | CD FLAC rip

Mark Knopfler ~ Get Lucky (2009)

Another of his excellent solo albums.

Good enough to eat. 

The model's name was Zelda Plum... I always wondered she was chosen because of her name.

Steve, Rob,

In the words of my late-late grandfather... "I definitely would!" 

During my workout, good album....., but not overwhelming...

Now listening to this. Different than other versions I know, but enjoyable nevertheless....

FLAC stream via Deezer. 2009 Remaster.

G

Good call, G. Up next on original vinyl.

CD version.

Pink Floyd - Untitled (Unofficial 1971)

Live in Hamburg

Original vinyl

The Sylv, on original 1987 vinyl, backed up by the cream of British jazzers, and containing perhaps his lovliest song, "Let the Happiness In".

Nice pear.