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
Wow, what a corker. I'm much smaller...
Well, some boys are bigger than others..
Rolling Stones "Sticky Fingers". No need to say anything.
Streaming | Deezer Elite
(1968)
More from the boogie meisters with their great fuzz guitar and funky driving rhythms.
On CD:-
On CD:-
Symphony No. 1
On CD:-
Any good?
Streaming | FLAC
(2011)
This is their live to radio set which is very good indeed although I am not sure (at the moment) when and where it was recorded...
I haven't heard this album for years - probably about 30! Something decent really does exist on Tidal.
Streaming | Deezer Elite
(1969)
The Smiths "The Queen is dead". I used to admire their music back in the late eighties. One of the few bands which actually had something intelligent to say in with their lyrics.
Yep...had every album...and some 9FT posters of the album covers hanging from my ceiling. Also my sons loved The Smith as they were growing up...too bad Morrissey is the way he is though.
Still wish I didn't let my wife throw out the posters...they were HUGE.
I would buy a Smiths box set vinyl. 
The Smiths "The Queen is dead". I used to admire their music back in the late eighties. One of the few bands which actually had something intelligent to say in with their lyrics.
Yep...had every album...and some 9FT posters of the album covers hanging from my ceiling. Also my sons loved The Smith as they were growing up...too bad Morrissey is the way he is though.
Still wish I didn't let my wife throw out the posters...they were HUGE.
I would buy a Smiths box set vinyl.
Hehe 
but hey, you helped making The Smiths immortal by passing on the taste of music to your sons!
For some reason I'm not in the mood for jazz today and I guess this must be a rock'n roll day? Still managed to get through Art Blakey and The Messengers "Moanin"
Streaming | FLAC
(1969)
Good to be listening to this again, the (2001) remaster is just about OK on Chrysalis/EMI. Some of the vocals sound as they have been recorded through a pair of thick sports socks but that could me more to do with the original recording and not this subsequent mastering.
The Smiths "The Queen is dead". I used to admire their music back in the late eighties. One of the few bands which actually had something intelligent to say in with their lyrics.
Yep...had every album...and some 9FT posters of the album covers hanging from my ceiling. Also my sons loved The Smith as they were growing up...too bad Morrissey is the way he is though.
Still wish I didn't let my wife throw out the posters...they were HUGE.
I would buy a Smiths box set vinyl.
So would Nigel (HH).
It's a sad day in parts of Wiltshire. Time to say Farewell, Farewell to n-Stream
And time to welcome a new Beginning for me at least with the new Naim Audio app
I know I should have chosen Pink Floyd's 'The Tide is Turning', but this is my welcome to lossless streaming with Tidal. And it works!
Magnard didn't leave a big volume of works, and became more famous for dying as a war hero at the onset of the first world war, when he shot and killed a trespassing German soldier (upon which they torched the house with him in it). The music is rather excellent, in the mold of Franck.
CD-R from 16bit download
Cheers,
EJ
Ligeti: String Quartets and Duets Arditti String Quartet 1994 recording
As I expect it from Ligeti, quite abstract and avant-garde in nature. I need to be in a certain mood to get into his music but this CD contains some of his work from pre-emigre era before he turned into a radicalist.
Some Bartok and Bach to early music influence is heard surprising that he is capable of composing a *normal* music.
His No.2 String Quartet is quite difficult some of the segment sounding like a squealing pig. :/
Different textures create different moods but these pieces are so barren in that have that vacuum state of being totally alone detached from the rest of the world. ( that is if you let it )
Written in 1968, I suppose if you are *trippin'* this would have been a perfect music.