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
Streaming | WAV
Mingus at Antibes. Quite a concert recording. Mingus leading his band - and can be heard while doing it! Just great!
Gentle early '70s folk.
Streaming Deezer Elite
(1970)
Keith Emerson doing his best (again) to fuse Rock and Jazz, organs and synthesisers, with classical music. I didn't realise until today that this one had been commissioned by the Newcastle Arts Council.
Havong a little Weezer trip. First up was "the blue album", then "the green album" and soon I will listen "Everything will be alright in the end".
Streaming | WAV
(1970)
I can still remember how very impressed I was with this album when it first came out and I played it to death. This debut album is possibly my favourite ELP.
Streaming | WAV
(1974)
The expanded 2002 remaster that includes virtually the whole album in a live set from the Marquee club. Sound quality does not seem to have suffered from the mastering.
On CD:-
Boy by U2. One of my favourite albums from the era before they started with dance inspired music and Bono became Jesus-like.
Again from Tidal:-
Tori Amos - Strange Little Girls, I saw it earlier and hadn't heard it before. OK some good some not so tracks.
Followed by something I do know:-
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
Current 93 - Soft black stars
Continuing in chronological order with "October". Gloria really is glorious.....
Streaming | WAV
Playing Disc 3 of 4 because I am in the mood for a couple of 'Dan albums. The Dynamic range of this 4 CD set up to 1980 is perfectly good. This particular Disc having an average DR of 12:
Boy by U2. One of my favourite albums from the era before they started with dance inspired music and Bono became Jesus-like.
Streaming | WAV
Playing Disc 3 of 4 because I am in the mood for a couple of 'Dan albums. The Dynamic range of this 4 CD set up to 1980 is perfectly good. This particular Disc having an average DR of 12:
An excellent boxset with great sound. Still had to create playlists for each of the original Dan albums because you can't just listen to half of "Aja".
Streaming | WAV
Playing Disc 3 of 4 because I am in the mood for a couple of 'Dan albums. The Dynamic range of this 4 CD set up to 1980 is perfectly good. This particular Disc having an average DR of 12:
An excellent boxset with great sound. Still had to create playlists for each of the original Dan albums because you can't just listen to half of "Aja".
Yep I agree but if you are streaming that is no difficulty to sort out. I am happy to let the albums flow into one another as with the 3rd I am listening to now. It was quite interesting that they made a decision to put their first six albums '72 - '80 onto just four CDs and added a few tracks not heard previously (rather make a 6 CD box set). Anyway, at the time it solved a problem for me in replacing all those lost and stolen albums. It is cheaper to buy them all individually now of course.
Streaming | Deezer Elite
(2015)
I'm new to Calexico but I'm enjoying the trip so far. First listen to this one and I prefer their earlier stuff to this.
I had to listen to this three times before I appreciated how good it is.
Actually find the 4th movement of the 7th symphony sounding a lit over the top from a tempo perspective, it's not floating enough in my feeling. Never heard it like that and would need o compare it with other recordings, if they sound more relaxed.
7th is supposed to be OTT.
That's why I like the 8th better. 
If you find Karajan too much, then you'd hate Toscanini and Cantelli's 7th.
Try Wand/NDR or Bohm/Vienna Phil's Mozartian 7th. Both are elegant renditions without being insipid.
7th is supposed to be OTT.
That's why I like the 8th better.
If you find Karajan too much, then you'd hate Toscanini and Cantelli's 7th.
Try Wand/NDR or Bohm/Vienna Phil's Mozartian 7th. Both are elegant renditions without being insipid.
Thanks, for the tips I will test it against Bernstein, Chailly, Abbado, Kleiber and Haitink .... Which I own....
Great music...