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
A special version, with a bit slower tempo than most, worth a listen...
I've had this Dire Straits album for many years and have always liked most of it but never got on with the opening song Calling Elvis......that is until I got Naim amplification. Suddenly the song had rhythm and the ebbing and flow of the drums became pleasing.
Seen them live Tony? I've promoted a few of their gigs, great band when bassist Gerry McAvoy (Rory Gallagher's right hand man) was playing with them. I haven't seen them since Gerry left though.
Dr Feelgood - Down By The Jetty (1975 - Mono)
Original vinyl
Seen them live Tony? I've promoted a few of their gigs, great band when bassist Gerry McAvoy (Rory Gallagher's right hand man) was playing with them. I haven't seen them since Gerry left though.
I was given about 60 CDs a while ago and this was among them and I don't know the band that much but quite like the music, better than The Jam's which I always thought, still do, were overrated. Can't stand that freaking bloke weller whatever his face is!
Robert Palmer - Clues (1980)
Original vinyl
On vinyl.
On vinyl. New Bomb Turks-Scared Straight
Two Czechs musicians playing exquisitely Beethoven's works for cello and piano. Music and the disc's cover work perfectly with the snow storm ravaging outside.
Schiff is not a Chech musican.
he is hungarian. Perenyi as well.
Thanks for the correction. I should have remembered reading not long ago that Andras Schiff is refusing to perform in his home country , Hungary.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions. Get Happy!! Original vinyl from 1980 bought s/h today. First listen and I'm enjoying it. The sound here is so similar to Joe Jackson from that same period.
I love Pollini's Mozart pieces. I think he has matured into playing Mozart with sufficient pathos and vigor.
He remains cool but never let the tunes go too precious.
Very personal and intimate and he’s still plenty precies with no missed notes but now the music is breathing much feely than back in the 70s. Then there is a sense of drama he creates.
This is beautifully recorded live but no audience noise till the thunderous ovation at the end.
Warren Zevon. The Wind. On CD from 2003. Zevon's swan song.
Roger Waters. Amused To Death. On CD from 1992. Picked up today in the s/h shop for a fin. First listen.
Genius. The Best Of Warren Zevon. On CD from 2002. Needed to hear some more WZ before bed tonight. Just hope I sleep well 
Following Kuma, just have to implement the original covers
Streaming | CD FLAC rip
Soen ~ Tellurian (2014)
A band formed by former Opeth drummer Martin Lopez.
Streamed via JRiver
Happy I didn't buy the new album encore, while this is not bad it's at the same time not great...
FLAC stream via Qobuz.
G