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

CariocaJeff posted:

ChrisSU posted:

CariocaJeff posted:

Norah Jones - Come Away With Me on 200g vinyl. Excellent album and a great pressing. Love her voice.

If you like that, her follow up album, Feels Like Home, is good too. Bought it the other day, and found it instantly likeable.

Thanks Chris - agreed it is a good album. I was fortunate to buy a box set of her albums on 200g vinyl. Musically excellent, but some parts of the set are a bit disappointing, in particular there is a special pressing of her singing covers, some of which are not well recorded and the pressing not too good. 

I'm slumming it with a ripped 20g CD here, but it still sounds nice. I also bought The Fall, which I'm not warming to quite so easily, but I might need to give it a bit more time before dismissing it. 

ChrisSU posted:

CariocaJeff posted:

ChrisSU posted:

CariocaJeff posted:

Norah Jones - Come Away With Me on 200g vinyl. Excellent album and a great pressing. Love her voice.

If you like that, her follow up album, Feels Like Home, is good too. Bought it the other day, and found it instantly likeable.

Thanks Chris - agreed it is a good album. I was fortunate to buy a box set of her albums on 200g vinyl. Musically excellent, but some parts of the set are a bit disappointing, in particular there is a special pressing of her singing covers, some of which are not well recorded and the pressing not too good. 

I'm slumming it with a ripped 20g CD here, but it still sounds nice. I also bought The Fall, which I'm not warming to quite so easily, but I might need to give it a bit more time before dismissing it. 

Try Little Broken Hearts - very different, and took a playing or two before I really understood it. Some really clever songs, simply arranged, which come across really well. 

The enw Blue Pills album due August.

Vinyl

Bee Gees  -  "Best of Bee Gees, Vol. 1"  (1969)

Neil Diamond  -  "Beautiful Noise"    (1976)

Dinosaur Jr- I Bet on Sky

IMO this is an excellent CD: Excellent selection of the works, excellent musicians, excellent SQ. I don't remember when nor where I bouhgt it, but it was an inspired choice.

Volume 2, recorded in 1955, released 13 years later in 1988.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBWiq88UuPk

I'm not a Tchaikovsky fan but this is a very fine performance captured with a very good SQ that deserves an ear.

Kevin-W posted:

osprey posted:

Today's purchase – on vinyl.

The Throbbers' masterpiece, and one of the best albums of the 70s. Gotta love the Gristle!

This indeed is a good one. I faintly remeber hearing this in early 80's but never owned the record. I recognized the cover when browsing the vinyls at the local shop yesterday and decided to buy – proved to be a good choice. 

My darling wife has this playing in the other room at the moment.

Streaming | Tidal 

(2015)

Just enjoyed this one, a band new to me, thanks for the heads up (Spurrier Sucks) I'll be trying their other albums on Tidal.

Fleetwood Mac. Rumours. On original vinyl from 1977. Plugged some new speakers into the system, so I'm demoing some reliable comfort music.

The Doobie Brothers. The Captain And Me. On original vinyl from 1973. More comfort music.

Streaming | Transcoded DSD

(2016)

Her first solo album and an artist and songwriter new to me, downloaded from Bandcamp. Downtempo in style, electronic with nice vocals. The link is here.

And my good lady is playing this in the other room.