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
MM 33RPM Reissue
Streaming | FLAC ripped CD 3 of 4
Steely Dan ~ (1972 - 1980) [Long] Box Set (1998)
This disc (3) is in effect a combination of The Royal Scam (1976) and Aja (1977)
Great set and I like the SQ too.
The Prodigy - The Day Is My Enemy (2015)
Vinyl
Vinyl
The guitar solo at the beginning of "Power to Love" is Hendrix at his best.
A three-CD set, with separate volumes focusing on original works, classic jazz, and, finally, songs by Cole Porter. Solo piano, highly recommended.
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Steely Dan ~ (1972 - 1980) [Long] Box Set (1998)
This disc (3) is in effect a combination of The Royal Scam (1976) and Aja (1977)
Steve,
Thanks for posting. I wasn't aware of this one. All my SD is on vinyl, but this would play well in my shop. Planning to order the set. Cheers!
Gieseking's Debussy might be old fashioned but I love the world he paints. It's like going back in time.
Interesting album - over bandcamp
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Steely Dan ~ (1972 - 1980) [Long] Box Set (1998)
This disc (3) is in effect a combination of The Royal Scam (1976) and Aja (1977)
Steve,
Thanks for posting. I wasn't aware of this one. All my SD is on vinyl, but this would play well in my shop. Planning to order the set. Cheers!
Joe
If you are buying second hand then look out for this long box set as they called it. Its well presented. If you are able to find any new then they will be in the more recent and more usual square box set. I can't say if there is any difference in the SQ between them but the Long box sound is good. They are good value over your side of the pond at about $20 at a certain reseller, I think that I paid about £30 for it new back in '98 or so. Happy hunting.
This is the set list:
Great as well so I will buy these albums on Bandcamp
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The definitive recordings of this music. Currently a discounted release at Hyperion's website - if you'd like to dip your toe in some really good, challenging but accessible modern classical music, don't hesitate and grab it while the price is low!
EJ
On vinyl:-
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Magenta ~ The Lizard King (2013)
A stunning EP from this band. Very much prog rock in the style of the 70s and 80s with a sound of this reminiscent of Yes but with a superb female vocalist Christina. I will surely be looking at getting more of their back catalogue.
Double-CD reissue (with added singles, B-sides and Peel sessions) of this classic album of 1982, the best of its year IMO:
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Magenta ~ The Twenty Seven Club (2013)
Freshly downloaded so having my first listen, early impressions are that this is excellent.
ODE TO BOBBY GENTRY
This great song from 1967 is even more more touching in this 1968 BBC version:
The original Tallahatchie bridge which collapsed in 1972, is seen in this clip. At 2:57 we see a missing handrail (suggesting that Billie Joe jumped off at that point) and at 4:00 we see beautiful Bobby strolling over the bridge. At the end we see white flowers floating on the muddy river (which she picked from Choctaw Ridge a year after the supposed event).
Very moving, especially in her local Southern accent. A landmark song!
Another brilliant version from 1971 (listen at 3:30 - Mama said to me "Child? What happened to your appetite") :
Amazing song, thrilling story....
And listen to the song Morning Glory, starting at 4:00 in this clip.... What an incredible singer!
As encore we see a young Donovan in another moving song, finishing off in a very cheerful duet 
Bert, I worship Bobbie Gentry. She is a goddess. As well as being a brilliant singer, she was an ace songwriter, storyteller, lyricist and (sometimes) producer/arranger. The fact that she retired in the 1970s and has been completely invisible these past 40 years makes her even better.
She made three LPs which are for me stone-cold masterpieces:
Touch 'Em With Love
Fancy
and The Delta Sweete
If you haven't heard these albums, I cannot recommend them highly enough.
Bert, I worship Bobbie Gentry. She is a goddess. As well as being a brilliant singer, she was an ace songwriter, storyteller, lyricist and (sometimes) producer/arranger. The fact that she retired in the 1970s and has been completely invisible these past 40 years makes her even better.
She made three LPs which are for me stone-cold masterpieces:
Touch 'Em With Love
Fancy
and The Delta Sweete
If you haven't heard these albums, I cannot recommend them highly enough.
Thanks Kevin that's a great shout I will have to go and try out further an artist who apart from the obvious hits, passed me by at the time.
Blue Liberty UK original.
Welcome back Steve.
+1 nice to see you back Steve and with such a great album 
ATB Graham.
Thanks I'll try and post a bit more.
On CD. Nice and relaxing after a hard day at work.