What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XII)

Edit to my Journey To The Centre Of The Earth posting, the running time is in fact an hour and forty five minutes not the three and a half hours as stated! 

Stevee_S posted:

MDS posted:

ewemon posted:

MDS posted:

Stevee_S posted:

Streaming | Tidal

(10th June)

First listen to this and I'm liking it a lot. They seem to have gone back twenty years to the style of their early albums and its worked really well for me. 

Is this a new Garbage album, Steve? If so, I've missed its release!

Mike 

It is Mike

Thanks, Ewemon. Must get my order in as I thought I had all their albums!

Mike

I really enjoyed it Mike, I'm sure that you will too, particularly if you prefer their original albums Garbage and V.2; its on Tidal, I can't remember if you have that? Enjoy!

Steve

I'm a CD luddite, Steve. But I bought a copy at HMV today so will be playing it soon. 

Mike

MDS posted:

Stevee_S posted:

I really enjoyed it Mike, I'm sure that you will too, particularly if you prefer their original albums Garbage and V.2; its on Tidal, I can't remember if you have that? Enjoy!

Steve

I'm a CD luddite, Steve. But I bought a copy at HMV today so will be playing it soon. 

Mike

Great, enjoy! I found it was downloadable from Bandcamp so I got it early doors today for £6.99. 

Laura Veirs  -  "Carbon Glacier"   (2004)

One of those albums you wonder now why you liked it at the time.

Paul Simon - The Rhythm of the Saints

Suzanne Vega 

Fairport Convention - History of....

Paul Simon - Stranger to Stranger

As I cook with a glass of dry white.

C.

Streaming | 24/96 FLAC | Upsampled to DSD 64 via Audirvana

(2016)

Big Big Train's very good new album, Folklore.

U2, War, original vinyl bought the day it came out back when U2 where exciting and brilliant, and before they became trendy to like, whch was before it became trendy not to like them.  I had the pleasure of watching them just as they were on there way up and they were special back then.  SQ isn't as good as I recall it though

This anthology does a good job of collecting highlights from Rodrigues's peak years in the 1950s, and includes several pieces recorded in 1970 on her final masterpiece, Com que voz. The set contains fado classics as well as striking versions of Portuguese popular songs. Originally released on Blue Note in 1988.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARS7Zi-Zpkw

On vinyl.

Robert Plant. Lullaby And The Ceaseless Roar. On CD from 2014. Added this to my collection earlier this year and have been giving it lots of listens. Very creative and beguiling musical fusions.

Owen Davies posted:

joerand posted:

Meat Loaf. Bat Out Of Hell (1977). On HDCD from 2001. Among my favorite rock operas.

I've always struggled to find a decent sounding copy of this album, never tried hdcd.  How does it sound in comparison to cd/vinyl?

Owen,

I've also got the original CD and vinyl. None of them has particularly better SQ. The album was recorded at Bearsville Studios. Some great albums have been recorded there, but I've never been a fan of the sound signature of that studio -  generally a shallow, narrow-field soundstage. Add to that Todd Rundgren's heavy 'wall of sound' production and no mastering is going to make it outstanding for SQ. The important thing for me is the passion captured in the recording, especially on the vocals. Given Meatloaf's and Ellen Foley's powerful voices it must have been demanding on the recording engineers.

Paul Simon. Rhythm Of The Saints. On CD from 1990. I had this one pulled off the shelf for my listening tonight only to tune in here and find BigH47 just listened to it as well. Maybe a clairvoyant inspiration?

gogo penguin v2.0

Streaming | TIDAL | FLAC upsampled to DSD 64

(2007)

Played and enjoyed much earlier this morning before daylight.

During workout, mix old and newer...

For breakfast...

Stevee_S I will search that recording out. BTW FLAC 44.1/16 is not up sampled to DSD64 but is transcoded. The sampling  methods are quite seperate and different.

Perhaps not that relevant in this thread, but just noted it in your description.

Midnight Oil. Diesel And Dust (1987). On CD from 1988. Brilliant music and some social consciousness delivered from down under.

Simon-in-Suffolk posted:

Stevee_S I will search that recording out. BTW FLAC 44.1/16 is not up sampled to DSD64 but is transcoded. The sampling  methods are quite seperate and different.

Perhaps not that relevant in this thread, but just noted it in your description.

Simon, I was introduced to Foy Vance's music by this forum and find it very enjoyable. Thanks for correcting me re upsampling/transcoding, I was following what it said in my Audirvana preferences and settings i.e. "Forced Upsampling" & "safe volume reduction before DSD upsampling". Here's hoping you enjoy Foy Vance, this album is a great place to start with him. 

Steve

Harry Thind posted:

gogo penguin v2.0

FWIW - Can't help but be reminded of a white Vicoustic wavewood panel each time I see this album posted