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

September/October 1998

I've a several of B Minor Sonata Horowitz recorded over the years but this one stands out as he matures in interpretation. You'd never know He was 74 when he recorded this! 

His piano sounds powerful in my main system as the Etna SL/EKOS SE tracks and deciphers even dense and dynamic sections without a hitch! Making a sense out of the score much better.

Max Boyce - Live at Treorchy (Rugby Club)

I guess this was Max at his peak and very funny in parts. I did see him live earlier this year but unfortunately for me there wasn't much new material.

I'm just amazed that his material is available on Tidal.

TK421 posted:

Max Boyce - Live at Treorchy (Rugby Club)

I guess this was Max at his peak and very funny in parts. I did see him live earlier this year but unfortunately for me there wasn't much new material.

I'm just amazed that his material is available on Tidal.

Great album - i bought it recently having fond memories of listening to this with my dad (on 8 track tape !) when i was a lad. 

Two superb (mono) albums on one CD from the late jazz chanteuse. Very nice SQ too:

james n posted:

TK421 posted:

Max Boyce - Live at Treorchy (Rugby Club)

I guess this was Max at his peak and very funny in parts. I did see him live earlier this year but unfortunately for me there wasn't much new material.

I'm just amazed that his material is available on Tidal.

Great album - i bought it recently having fond memories of listening to this with my dad (on 8 track tape !) when i was a lad. 

Hi James,

Nice one!

I didn't think many if any fellow forum members would be aware of Max. TBH though I was very young in the 70's so I don't really know how much nationwide coverage he actually got. 

Happy New Year!

Mike

(1978)

Minute By Minute

Well, the Doobies Brothers are going down a treat here so being a sucker for Michael McDonald's voice I've reached for this one.

TK421 posted:

james n posted:

TK421 posted:

Max Boyce - Live at Treorchy (Rugby Club)

I guess this was Max at his peak and very funny in parts. I did see him live earlier this year but unfortunately for me there wasn't much new material.

I'm just amazed that his material is available on Tidal.

Great album - i bought it recently having fond memories of listening to this with my dad (on 8 track tape !) when i was a lad. 

Hi James,

Nice one!

I didn't think many if any fellow forum members would be aware of Max. TBH though I was very young in the 70's so I don't really know how much nationwide coverage he actually got. 

Happy New Year!

Mike

Welsh heritage you see, so Rugby and Max Boyce went together. I also have a very young picture of me with Max Boyce backstage at Norwich Theatre from around 77-79. I was there 

Happy New Year to you too Mike. 

James

Restoration - Various Artists - WAV CD rip

Country artists covering the songs of Elton John and Bernie Taupin, and it’s a fantastic album. Some of the massive hits and other songs, the different treatments show just how good Elton and Bernie were as songwriters, these are a set of superb songs. And done complete justice by the cream of country, Sacrifice covered by Don Henley and Vince Gill, Chris Stapleton providing a powerful and moving I Want Love, the album finishes with Roseanne Cash and Emmylou Harris duetting on This Train Don’t Stop... followed by Willie Nelson  on Border Song, masterful music. The album that introduced me to Kavey Musgraves through her cover of Roy Rogers. The only bummer for me is Miley Cyrus’s version of The Bitch is Back, I was hoping I’d see a deeper musician than the pop diva, but it didn’t do anything for me,  still 12 excellent numbers out of 13 is a damn good strike rate.

Original of the species retrieved from the Mercky vaults, 1968 vinyl copy of this seminal album.

Well I thought it would be rude not to join in he Kacey Musgraves Music Fest this evening.

TK421 posted:

james n posted:

SNIP

 

Hi James,

Nice one!

I didn't think many if any fellow forum members would be aware of Max. TBH though I was very young in the 70's so I don't really know how much nationwide coverage he actually got. 

Happy New Year!

Mike

Hi Mike, Max Boyce had a show on BBC2 in the late ‘70s that ran for several series, which was massively popular with audiences in the millions (only 3 TV stations back then). It was similar to artists like Jasper Carrott, guys who’d come up through the folk clubs who sang and did comedy routines, although Max Boyce also specialised in being Welsh in his shows and created a character around that. (His Welshness was part of popular culture, when Wales lost to the minor sporting nation Western Samoa at Rugby, one of the alternative comedy shows (maybe Not the Nine O’Clock News) did a sketch where they rang Directory Enquiries for Max’s number as it was an emergency, when they eventually got it they rang him and chorused Western Samoa, Western Samoa down the phone.)

(2005)

Michael McDonald - The Ultimate Collection

I needed a little more blue eyed soul and have queued up the first thirty minutes or so from this fine album before going walkies...

Eoink posted:

Hi Mike, Max Boyce had a show on BBC2 in the late ‘70s that ran for several series, which was massively popular with audiences in the millions (only 3 TV stations back then). It was similar to artists like Jasper Carrott, guys who’d come up through the folk clubs who sang and did comedy routines, although Max Boyce also specialised in being Welsh in his shows and created a character around that. (His Welshness was part of popular culture, when Wales lost to the minor sporting nation Western Samoa at Rugby, one of the alternative comedy shows (maybe Not the Nine O’Clock News) did a sketch where they rang Directory Enquiries for Max’s number as it was an emergency, when they eventually got it they rang him and chorused Western Samoa, Western Samoa down the phone.)

I remember those shows well. 

I've been putting it off but I had to plop this on the Sondek and it's surprisingly good, though I've got a but of a lip-curl thing going on now...sod it, I'm too old to be embarrassed. Besides, there's some damn good rocking tracks

Jonners posted:

I've been putting it off but I had to plop this on the Sondek and it's surprisingly good, though I've got a but of a lip-curl thing going on now...sod it, I'm too old to be embarrassed. Besides, there's some damn good rocking tracks

 

Now there is a good shout, I haven't  heard or played this for a decade or two, it's now in the playlist.

Stevee_S posted:

Jonners posted:

I've been putting it off but I had to plop this on the Sondek and it's surprisingly good, though I've got a but of a lip-curl thing going on now...sod it, I'm too old to be embarrassed. Besides, there's some damn good rocking tracks

 

Now there is a good shout, I haven't  heard or played this for a decade or two, it's now in the playlist.

1st album is good as well. If you can find it, it's a must-have!

I've always been a Bunnymen fan and this is a great LP recorded at the height of their musical career and it's decently produced like all their stuff - now playing on vinyl at 11, sounds totally excellent!

I am a long-time admirer of 4AD records whose most famous signing is probably "The Cocteau Twins". They had some pretty good acts in the stable (all with fabulous artwork!)- Modern English was one such example, probably best known for their minor hit "I Melt With You" which has been covered by a lot of other band. The original is still the best IMHO and it's on their first album, "After The Snow", now playing on vinyl:

Imelda May - Life. Love. Flesh. Blood

Why? Relaxing after work with a cold one.

Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus

Marvellous jazz. 

Playing on Vinyl - Texan Country from Terry Allen from 1984  - Thanks Ewemon seeing your posting of Terry last week made me give this a spin - Sounding wicked.

Eoink posted:

Mary Coughlan - Love for Sale- WAV CD rip

The great Irish chanteuse, here in sultry mood powering her way through standards and contemporary numbers in a live recording from the Mean Fiddler in 1993. She’s in amazing voice, Richie Buckley’s sax soars and drives most numbers. Fantastic live recording, I wasn’t there but did see her at that time, so caught the set, a great memory. She’s touring the U.K. this spring, just waiting for responses from friends before booking the Hebden Bridge Trades Club on 12th April.

Super album. I shall have to see where she’s playing. Thanks for the heads up. 

The Beatles - A Hard Day’s Night - WAV CD rip

From the 2009 mono re-release, Lennon and McCartney at their pure pop greatest before the Beatles moved on to perfect and create other styles, this is just sheer pop perfection. Great songs, and when I listen to the Beatles I always have a moment when I have this realisation how good they were technically, great great songs, but also seriously fine guitar from George, Paul’s a great bass player, John’s rhythm is high quality, and the Ringo jokes are wrong, he’s exactly the right drummer for the songs. But who cares, it’s just perfection however happens.