What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XI)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 31 December 2014
On the cusp of 2015, we start a new thread...
Anyway, links:
Volume X: https://forums.naimaudio.com/to...-be-interested-vol-x
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
Classic Encounter. 1988 release. Ramsey Lewis with Strings. This is one of my best favourite out of Lewis' vast catalogue.
Loggins & Messina: Sittin' in 1971 release.
This is not a type of music that I generally like but there are a few power ballads I like and this early 70s Columbia record sounds so damn good.
Pity that no one can make the record sounding like that any more.
Kenny Loggins: Keep the Fire 1979 Release.
His 3rd solo album. Clearly this is not as good as either 'Nigh****ch' ( the one with Stevie Nick duet 'whenever I call you friend' ) or jazzy 'Celebrate Me Home', but it does contain the it 'This is It.' I recall this tune was everywhere back then.
Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald shaped the sound of pop radio in the late 70s to early 80s crossing the *colour line* in the US hit chart. Interesting to note that Loggins' voice sounding like Michael Jackson on the opening track 'Love Has Come of Age'.*
• I just noticed that Michael Jackson is in the back vocal on 'Who's Right, Who's Wrong'!
Since I obtained a good quality reproduction of this I've found it has become one of my most-played and favourite D Straits albums.
It's really the only DS record that gets any time around here. I remember hearing "Sultans of Swing" on Double-J as a teenager and thinking I'd never heard anything like it.
Julie London: Your Number Please...1959 release.
Julie does all the standard *numbers* from the vocal greats. Extension of 'Julie is Her Name' series.
Pity that my copy is a fake stereo with a heavy reverb. Julie sounds like singing in a bathroom.
Dire Straits. Dire Straits. On WB vinyl from 1978. After seeing the posts above I realized I hadn't given this a spin in a while. With DS, I tend to focus on Knopfler's guitar playing, but Pick Withers' percussion strikes me as being equally as compelling on this album.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions. Goodbye Cruel World. On vinyl from 1984. Freshly cleaned and giving it a first listen.
More Pick Withers (and Knopfler) from the same era
The Greatest Of the Guess Who. On RCA vinyl from 1977. A later variation of "The Best Of The Guess Who". Love the hockey-themed cover. The band's recording/engineering/production was always first-rate, and what a brilliant young vocalist Burton Cummings was. Great stuff from the Great White North!
Streaming | Spotify
Tangerine Dream ~ Ultima Thule
More Pick Withers (and Knopfler) from the same era
Osprey,
Thanks for the recommendation. I will keep an eye out for it in the used vinyl 
I don't often invest in "audiophile" LPs (my original stuff from the 60s and 70s qualify for that title anyway)
but I recently treated my Kandid to this, a double 45 rpm album. It's superb...
Love the Little Lamb Dragonfly!
Original US pressing.
Sounds way better than I remember via LP12/Lingo/Linto/Kandid/Headline 2/HCDR/Grado RS1.
I don't often invest in "audiophile" LPs (my original stuff from the 60s and 70s qualify for that title anyway)
but I recently treated my Kandid to this, a double 45 rpm album. It's superb...
+1 very good indeed.
Great start into the Sunday with a newspaper and some Chopin
I don't know how to describe this music properly. It's a combination of chamber music, jazz and rock-ish type of style. Bottom line - worthwhile to explore. So I would recommend most of you to look for it on band camp and download it, quite a number of you will find a part they like....
Streaming | CD FLAC rip
Frank Sinatra ~ Sings for only the lonely (1958)
Great sound quality on this remaster from the Masterworks box set.
A favorite Hewitt. Playing "Le Tombeau de Couperin".
Franz Schubert: David Fray (piano)
Moments musicaux D.780
Impromptus D.899
Yesterday and today - the clear trend for me has been Schubert Moments musical and the Impromptus. Such intimate music. One on one in quietness at the piano. Anti-social music for sure and what could be more pleasurable than this? The world is just too noisy anyway. It is the best music therefore, this that draws you closer to yourself and the natural world.
Franz Schubert: Valery Afanassiev (piano)
Moments musicaux D.780
Piano Sonata No. 17 in D, D.850
