What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XII)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 01 January 2016
2016 has arrived today, so time to start this thread afresh.
Last year's thread (and links to previous years) can be found here;
Jake Bugg - "Shangri La"
A brilliant LP
Daniel Romano
He of the E Street Band.
2012 - Part One - Spotify. Thanks to John's post.
Loads of influence from Genesis, ELP with a pinch of Gentle Giant.
All in all a good band and you'll enjoy it even more if you're heavily into Prog. They are OK in small doses. No disrespect to those who really enjoy it.
ewemon posted:
The superb Otis Taylor. Trance blues at it's finest. Don't be put off by the repeat of certain trax the arrangements are different.
I passed over this a few times on here. Ummm....I thought, Trance blues, I'm not going to like that, but then I thought Ewe, he's got good taste in music, I'll give it a go even though I'm not going to like it.
This is flippin' brilliant! Reminds me a bit of Jimmi Hendix more bluesy stuff. Such great 'construction' with each and every track. As others have said, you can't help but listen to the whole album straight through.
What a great recommendation, cheers.
More trance blues from Otis, with Mato Nanji sharing vocals and guitar.
Themed around the disappeared world of Native Americans, it brings the blues up to date, dealing with present day issues.
On the original vinyl:-
Death Cab For Cutie - "Kintsugi"
Concert For George. On 2CDs from 2003. Listening to disc 2 - the rock performance. I'm not much a fan of tribute concerts, but this one is exceptional, emotional, and I give it regular listens.
First listen, like what I hear...
dave marshall posted:
More trance blues from Otis, with Mato Nanji sharing vocals and guitar.
Themed around the disappeared world of Native Americans, it brings the blues up to date, dealing with present day issues.
Can't ever remember him making a bad album well IMHO anyway.
John Lennon. Remember. On CD from 2006. Loudness mastered, but a very well-chosen compilation of Lennon's best solo tacks with a couple of outtakes.
Simon-in-Suffolk posted:
I love this album - there are many traits here that evolve into their later albums - really one of the best Pink Floyd albums along with The Wall in my opinion.. and technically I believe one of the first if not the first album recorded in 8 track
Not by a long way Simon - Les Paul was making eight-track recordings in the mid 1950s, and Atlantic was putting out LPs made on eigh-track by 1957.
The first eight-track studio in the UK was Advision (in Fitzrovia, London) in 1968, which was used by The Who and Tyrannosaurus Rex; Trident soon followed, and The Beatles recorded parts of The White Album and Abbey Road there. Abbey Road got its first eight track machine in late 1968 and the Floyd recorded portions of the studio LP of Ummagumma on it the following year. And of course The Beatles recorded most of Abbey Road on it.
Atom Heart Mother was indeed made on eight-track at Abbey Road but it was by no means the first. I was, however, the first to use EMI's custom-built solid state desk (previously they'd all been valve units) which EMI boffins had designed specifically to work with the studio's 3M one-inch eight track recorders.
These are my first albums of today
Kevin-W posted:Simon-in-Suffolk posted:
I love this album - there are many traits here that evolve into their later albums - really one of the best Pink Floyd albums along with The Wall in my opinion.. and technically I believe one of the first if not the first album recorded in 8 track
Not by a long way Simon - Les Paul was making eight-track recordings in the mid 1950s, and Atlantic was putting out LPs made on eigh-track by 1957.
The first eight-track studio in the UK was Advision (in Fitzrovia, London) in 1968, which was used by The Who and Tyrannosaurus Rex; Trident soon followed, and The Beatles recorded parts of The White Album and Abbey Road there. Abbey Road got its first eight track machine in late 1968 and the Floyd recorded portions of the studio LP of Ummagumma on it the following year. And of course The Beatles recorded most of Abbey Road on it.
Atom Heart Mother was indeed made on eight-track at Abbey Road but it was by no means the first. I was, however, the first to use EMI's custom-built solid state desk (previously they'd all been valve units) which EMI boffins had designed specifically to work with the studio's 3M one-inch eight track recorders.
Hi Kevin - thanks yes I looked into it further - and yes as you say it was the first to use EMI's transistorised 8 track mixing desk / recorder.. I knew there was a first in there somewhere 
Simon
UK first press stereo. Just bought it...
