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
The Doors. Waiting For The Sun (1968). Early 70's pressing on the Elektra butterfly label.
The Doors. L.A. Woman (1971). The Bernie Grundman remaster on Rhino vinyl from 2009. This is a nice sounding pressing, but I think BG's 1999 HDCD remaster has better resolution and a more controlled bass.
Vinyl
SACD
HDCD
Eric Clapton. E.C. Was Here (1975). Remastered CD from 1996. In the mood for some live gritty blues.
ewemon posted:bishopla posted:
Vinyl
... Shame he won't let the mastertapes out of his sight ...
Was that a joke?
Mward2205 posted:ewemon posted:bishopla posted:
Vinyl
... Shame he won't let the mastertapes out of his sight ...
Was that a joke?
Just realised what I wrote but the answer is nope. True shame though maybe one day we will get decent masterings of his golden period albums.
joerand posted:
Eric Clapton. E.C. Was Here (1975). Remastered CD from 1996. In the mood for some live gritty blues.
I love how he shouts out the chord changes in Ramblin to the band. Personally I find the original cd to be more crankable.
Last nights listening.
ewemon posted:
Great album (maybe second only to Graceland?). I've got an original pressing and just bought the 2013 vinyl simply because I found it reduced to $8. Have yet to unseal it and do an objective comparison. I can definitively recommend a 'pass' on the 2011 CD remaster.
On CD:-
Alice Cooper - Love it to Death
1st run for me...
Toscanini/NBC Symphony: Cherubini Requiem Mass in C Minor 1950 recording
The first listen.
It has been mentioned that Beethoven admired Cherubini's work and I can see why. This feels like Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis where there is a heroic element as well as a sense of yearning and resignation. Toscanini’s handling as usual passionate and extremely emotional with tremendous pain is felt under these notes. Maybe there is more of theatrical elements and it's over done than Beethoven's heart felt approach. But I actually enjoyed it more than I thought I would.
Streaming | WAV | Bandcamp | Download
(2013)
Good, enjoyable Berlin School style electronica from Perge.
"Like their first album 'Dyad', it is heavily influenced by the "classic" Tangerine Dream period. New compositions painstakingly created to have the signature sound of the Franke / Froese / Schmoelling years, but this time with some of the Baumann and Haslinger eras in there too". ~ Bandcamp