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
Cassette on my Nak. CR-1E. The old gal still sounds good.
Cassette on my Nak. CR-1E. The old gal still sounds good.
This, on my Dragon. Iffy sound quality (it's little better than a legal bootleg) but the format is entirely appropriate...
Out today in the UK. Frank Sinatra he is not but I have to say the album has a certain charm about it. You'll probably have to be a Dylan fan to enjoy it.
Streaming on Qobuz.
Dave
Dave
My free download is playing now having just arrived. It does indeed have a certain charm and the ones that seem to work best are the less familiar songs on which he doesn't push his voice. Mind you, this is first listen! I will give it a few plays before I form a proper decision. The languid band behind him are pretty fab tho'.
james
Grateful Dead - Dave's Picks Vol. 13
Winterland, San Francisco, CA - 2/24/74
(CD) 2015
Pat, I've been looking at this - what's your opinion overall? I like 1974 gigs and this looks to be a good tracklist...
Thanks Pat. It's sold out on dead.net, so I'll either have to get it as a download or somewhere else.
Another classic album on cassette, played on the Dragon:
Cello as an instruments are relatively easy thing to sound decent say compared to piano or voices, tho.
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I am interested in your experience with the new classical releases. PIty that my reissue thread was closed, tho cuz, it would be useful to others if there is one place for the data bank.
P.S. Are you going to pony up for MTT's Mahler Project box set? 
Although I'm not a real big Mahler guy I do have MTT's "The Mahler Project" from a few years ago. Are they doing another run of it?
Yes, it is strange how different labels and individuals can make or break a recording.
Konono No.1's famous mini-album, Congotronics. Why? I saw them last night and they were awesome...
Just arrived courtesy of monsieur le facteur. Been looking forward to this one!
Cello and piano sonatas, Sicilliene, Papillon, Romance, Elegie, Serenade and Apres Un Reve.
1974 England.
Qobuz FLAC.
G
On Spotify. Fascinating stuff.
LP - kling klang produkt 1981 / Digital Master reissue 2009 : )
1
Computer World
Pocket Calculator
Numbers
Computer World 2
2
Computer Love
Home Computer
It's More Fun To Compute
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Replacement reissue vinyl for an original LP copy i purchased in 1981...
[i wonder who's playing it now?], the selling off of my original LP collection some 20 years ago was not one of my better decisions.
But for a recent reissue digital-master, note it doesn't say remaster, this sounds just as fresh as the day it left the Kling Klang Studio 34 years ago.
Debs
Streaming | CD FLAC rip
Dream Theater ~ Images And Words (1992)
Just their second album at this time, the first "When Dream and Day Unite" (which I don't have nor can recall...) was released four years earlier in '88 according to Discogs.
First listen, 24/48 download from Qobuz.
Seems a nice album although it's not really Jazz, just decent grown up music.
Original vinyl
Original vinyl
Great one!
Not as good as the earlier albums in my eyes (especially the last one before), but still enjoyable....
Original vinyl. Stan's got my vote for tonights listening pleasure.
This can be a little hard going in places, but excellent overall, and worth the effort. You can really feel the passion that went into the performance.
First listen, 24/48 download from Qobuz.
Seems a nice album although it's not really Jazz, just decent grown up music.
A great Jazz pianist and singer, as exemplified on her early albums. And now she's covering 10cc and singing with Michael Bloody Buble. Ye Gods.
First listen, 24/48 download from Qobuz.
Seems a nice album although it's not really Jazz, just decent grown up music.
A great Jazz pianist and singer, as exemplified on her early albums. And now she's covering 10cc and singing with Michael Bloody Buble. Ye Gods.
Some would say after the "The Girl In The Other Room" album, arguably her best, certainly for original song content, it was all downhill. FWIW it was the last album of hers I bought.
Dave
First listen, 24/48 download from Qobuz.
Seems a nice album although it's not really Jazz, just decent grown up music.
A great Jazz pianist and singer, as exemplified on her early albums. And now she's covering 10cc and singing with Michael Bloody Buble. Ye Gods.
Sooooo overrated. Listen to some Patricia Barber instead.
