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;
Hungryhalibut posted:Psyching myself up for country walk with my favourite album by my favourite band.
By far their best, what a way to go out. I never tire of it too. Got an original Rough Trade vinyl version going as I type. Sounds magnificent
1969 - Original vinyl...
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After a sunny but bitterly cold day, something that reminds me of warmer times.
As a Cohen 'virgin', i thought it was time to give the man a try so bought all 12 albums (we don't do things by half in this house)
Starting with...
Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man.
james n posted:As a Cohen 'virgin', i thought it was time to give the man a try so bought all 12 albums (we don't do things by half in this house)
Starting with...
Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man.
Better late than never James 
On CD:-
Pretenders - Pretenders
1969 - Original vinyl...
Tony2011 posted:
1969 - Original vinyl...
I was just about to play some Pineapple Thief but I'm going to join you with this one Tony, one of my FZ favourites. Missing my original vinyl though!
Black Uhuru - Red.
Chilled start to the evening, with this Sly and Robbie produced album ................... nice!
The CD that opened my ears to Rachmaninov's extraordinary cello sonata. Since then, a few other high profile recordings of the sonata have been issued, notably by Alisa Weilerstein and recently Johannes Moser, and I enjoy them all. However, compared to the latter two, Onyx' sound, while not bad by itself, lacks presence and definition.
Cheers
EJ
Kate Bush out tomorrow I think.
Owen Davies posted:Hungryhalibut posted:Psyching myself up for country walk with my favourite album by my favourite band.
By far their best, what a way to go out. I never tire of it too. Got an original Rough Trade vinyl version going as I type. Sounds magnificent
I love smiths and morrissey as Well! I relate the lyrics despite the very "british" feel, girl friend in a coma is one the best contradiction of music with lyrics, happiest and saddest tune ever, the last remastered cd collection sounds excellent as well
Some trax off the new remastered 2 cd set coming out in Jan 2017
Emre posted:Owen Davies posted:Hungryhalibut posted:Psyching myself up for country walk with my favourite album by my favourite band.
By far their best, what a way to go out. I never tire of it too. Got an original Rough Trade vinyl version going as I type. Sounds magnificent
I love smiths and morrissey as Well! I relate the lyrics despite the very "british" feel, girl friend in a coma is one the best contradiction of music with lyrics, happiest and saddest tune ever, the last remastered cd collection sounds excellent as well
I'm reading Johnny Marr's autobiography at the moment, which talks about how some of the songs were recorded - A Rush and a Push has no guitar and was one of the first to really use the Emulator. It's a jolly good book - not literary at all, just a good read by a real music lover. Johnny really is a genius, and hasn't become a complete pillock like Moz.
Dawn Penn - No, No, No.
Staying with the rocksteady beat with this classic album.
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(12th August)
Their new album and a recent buy that I have been enjoying a lot.
Mothers Of Invention - Meat Light: The Uncle Meat Project/Object
This is the Zappa family finally getting Uncle Meat right. For all his amazingness, Zappa's mastering of his catalogue for CD was sonically abysmal - from re-recording the rhythm tracks on We're Only In It For The Money (et al.) to slapping digital reverb over everything. The recent re-issues of the straight (no pun intended) albums by the family has largely rectified this, but for some bizarre (again no pun intended) reason re-issued Uncle Meat using Frank's Rykodisc tapes. And It's seriously pants.
Meat Light sorts this by going back to the original masters and Franks's reserve copies where the originals were futzed. It's no hyperbole to say the result is probably the best remaster EVER, and I'm a big big fan of the various Steven Wilson jobs.
In the three disc set you get the original album in simply wonderful sound, plus a version (worth hearing, trust me) of the album in it's original running order with different takes/tracks (e.g. The Whip).
Yes, if you only like Hot Rats type Zappa, then the mixture of great tunes, studio weirdness, the odd bit of free jazz may be confusing, but this is definitely re-issue of the year for me especially at under a tenner for the CD version and £7.49 downloaded from Qobuz.
I bought this because Bill Frisell is on the album, and it has a great title. Let's see...
Sound Iration In Dub.
Winding down with this....................... the last time I posted this one, several folks picked up on it, and it went down well, it seems.
C'mon, join the gang.
Redkev posted:
One of 3 Mary Black albums that have arrived today from the river's marketplace, the others are Without the Fanfare and By the Time It Gets Dark, all bought for less than £6.
Three great albums. A terrific bargain for that price.