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

Frazier chorus  -  "ray" 

Nice early 90's pop

1979 - Vinyl...

1979 - Original vinyl...

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures.

The Coral - Distance in between

IMHOP album of the year.. once again...the music and the songwriting 

Are foremost..in this house ..:-)

A+ | Transcoded DSD

(2006)

Something chilled and laid back before thinking about dinner.

Trying out these symphonies and just bought the recommended version...

1988 - Original vinyl...

The Triffids ---Calenture

David McCoumb ...another great songwriter sadly taken 

Yetizone posted:

Wilko Johnson & Roger Daltrey: Going Back Home. I'd forgotten just how good this is!

 

Better than Blue & Lonesome.

Quad 33 posted:

Yetizone posted:

Wilko Johnson & Roger Daltrey: Going Back Home. I'd forgotten just how good this is!

 

Better than Blue & Lonesome.

They're two peas in a pod .............Roger Daltrey & Wilko getting back to their roots ................two great albums.

1987 - Original vinyl...

Ben Watt  -  "Hendra"  (2014)

Claire Martin - Secret Love

Perfect dinner jazz as I cook. (The only problem is that I've had to open my sister-in-law's birthday present for a glass of dry white to drink).

C.

Brad Mehldau Trio - Blues and Ballads

A forum recommendation, thank you.

C.

Depeche Mode, Exciter, vinyl from 2001. This is an album I've overlooked, partly because it came out at a particularly troubling time in my life. Just spinning on the deck now, and, well, WOW! overlooked no longer!

2000 - Original vinyl...

joerand posted:

Jim Croce. You Don't Mess Around With Jim. On early original vinyl from 1972. Funky American folk-based pop with wonderful SQ. Full of acoustic timbre and those tight, tuneful, bouncy bass lines that summon the PRaT.

Had to play same tonight. Later pressing I think. 

Steven Wilson's past...

R.K posted:

joerand posted:

Jim Croce. You Don't Mess Around With Jim. On early original vinyl from 1972. Funky American folk-based pop with wonderful SQ. Full of acoustic timbre and those tight, tuneful, bouncy bass lines that summon the PRaT.

Had to play same tonight. Later pressing I think. 

Actually, looking at Discogs, I think it's 1972 too 

Just because I haven't played it in a longish while and I wanted to hear it after a number of recent turntable upgrades. Sounding very nice indeed. Set up nicely now for 'Shadow of the Heirophant'.

Was called out in the magazine jazz wise, is indeed very good...

This year saw a number of reissues of famous opera recordings as high bit rate downloads, including a batch from RCA Victor (now Sony) with Leontyne Price at the height of her powers. The reissue of this 1965 Forza, her first of two recordings from RCA, is very welcome as the original (and I think only) CD issue was in hopeless sound. This transfer sounds better, no match for Decca's recordings of similar vintage, and with clearly some tape noise reduction applied, but overall, good.

The performance remains unique. It's been overshadowed by the latter recording with Placido Domingo, but Price sounded fresher here, and Tucker - despite his somewhat peculiar diction - is an excellent foil for her. The rest of the cast is very fine, too, maybe the best ever, and Schippers was one of the more imaginative conductors to tackle this sprawling but fun opera. 

Cheers

EJ

I have just received these CD's amongst others from that River place, a Birthday treat from Family.

Porcupine Tree, Stupid Dream. First listen to this album and I am hooked.

Another first listen, Voyage 34, This one is an interesting Trip (sorry!!) I have a nice glass of Red Wine, the volume is low and this is cool.

Naim label vinyl. Does Naim label still release vinyl?