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
just finishing:
John Mellencamp
"Plain Spoken" 2014 SP
next:
Johnny Marr
"Playland" 2014 SP
An exceptional album album I haven't listened to enough.
recommended by one Fred Simon
SJB
Elliott Smith
"Roman Candle" 1994 mp3
Streaming | Spotify Premium
Barr Brothers ~ Sleeping Operator (2014)
Many thanks to Ewemon and Solwisesteve for playing and flagging this up on the forum. New to me, I am really enjoying it on Spotify and have put them on the shopping list.
Steve
Have a listen to their first album as well as that is vg as well.
Off to see Sweeney's Men in a couple of weeks, too young for me first time around but looking forward to seeing such a seminal band.
SJB
A few trax of his up and coming album due out 27th.
Trax off the album due out on 10th Feb
From the Eric Church school of country.
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Not all the album but definitely worth another listen when I have all the tracks at hand.
My first new CD purchase in some time, but CP is one of favorites. Now ripped and streaming - it is brilliant!
The Best Of Spirit. On vinyl from 1973. Lots of lost classics on this one.
Rush. Grace Under Pressure. On vinyl from 1984. Interesting to read Rolling Stone's review of the album at the time of its release, more than thirty years ago .... "Geddy Lee, the group's bassist and vocalist, has gotten his dog-calling falsetto shriek under control ..... Alex Lifeson is not a particularly interesting lead guitarist, and the strictures of the trio format result in more splattery drum bashing than you'll ever care to hear .... the lack of melody and any but the most rudimentary harmonic development soon becomes oppressive."
Paul Simon. Still Crazy After All These Years. On vinyl from 1975. Had to pull out this one, what with all the recent Paul Simon spins started by Kuma last evening. I see it was engineered and co-produced by Phil Ramone. Rumors on the web are that Roy Halee is now working with PS on his next LP. One to look forward to.
Hugely under-rated. This and Summertime Dream are gems. For those who like Gordon's stuff, there was an excellent E.P. by Arbouretum (themselves less well-known than they should be) A Gourd Of Gold, which is them covering four Lightfoot classics live in the studio: The Wreck Of The Edmond Fitzgerald, Carefree Highway, and Protocol are taken pretty straight (though The Wreck is awesome) and Early Morning Rain radicalised (I took it as tacit admittance that nothing will come close to the original or Pater Paul And Mary's renditions) 
This link includes a Soundcloud Carefree Highway:
Thank you for the link Gary
FLAC stream.
G
Excellent version of Hurricane on this album.
The Platters. Encore Of Golden Hits (1960). Stereo pressing from 1965. Yowza, this will put you quickly in a nostalgic mood. Thoughts come to mind of sitting in the backseat of my mom's 1961 black Chevy Impala with its center rear speaker.
Originally Posted by joerand:
Paul Simon. Still Crazy After All These Years. On vinyl from 1975. Had to pull out this one, what with all the recent Paul Simon spins started by Kuma last evening. I see it was engineered and co-produced by Phil Ramone. Rumors on the web are that Roy Halee is now working with PS on his next LP. One to look forward to.
Joe,
Time is the ultimate critic, isn't it?
I'd say this album proved to one of the classics along with his debut album. It still amazes me that the tunes are timeless.
We'll know if any of Taylor Swift's songs are worth anything oh.. about in 45 years from now.
Or maybe she'll be like Bach. Someone will discoer her music 200 years after she's dead. 
I pulled out another '75 hit album Springsteen's 'Born to Run'. from Mike's Aging Baby Boomer stash.
I bought it when it came out and haven't listened to it since then.
I remember only liking the B side. Fast forward 30 years and I still only like its jazzier B side. Love this slow tempo 'Meeting Across the River' with pretty Randy Brecker's trumpet in the background much more than his straight rock'n'roll tunes.
Not as well produced as Paul Simon with weird echo and shifting mic in his voice in some spots throughout the album ( I did not notice it 30 years ago on my brand spanking new Technics turntable! ) but I reckon this original LP would sound better than many digital release.
I still don't understand what on earth he's mumbling about most of the time, tho.
I listened to 'Born To Run' in the past few days. I detest the wall-of-sound type production on the album. Despite that, there is still a romantic, liberating, raw energy present in the music. And how often do you get to hear glockenspiel on a rock album? Hopefully Mike had 'Darkness On The Edge Of Town' in his collection. The production is cleaner and energy more intense. 'Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.' also recommended 
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BTW - I don't hear much Taylor Swift since my daughter went to college, but I think she's got real talent and, in my limited exposure, her song writing will stand the test of time. We'll see.
didn't hear this for quite some time. It's a great progressive rock album, so I will again have a Spotifyf look into the last album of the guys...., to see if I should get it.
A strange album, but enjoyable enough to every know and then listen in...
