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

MDS posted:

Stevee_S posted:

I don't know about you Mike but I'm one of those that want to listen to all my albums from beginning to end. 

I am, too, Steve, but have been known to cut some short. Although I suspect you could guess lots of the albums that I never cut short 

Me too. I don't even create playlists on my NDS, although I do confess I did do some track selection when I first got the 552 and 500 (just to hear how favourite songs could sound). I think it's because I grew up with vinyl, where it was impossible to create playlists.

seakayaker posted:

Now Playing.........

Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris - All The Roadrunning

Streaming on NAS........  Arrived in the mail, ripped to NAS and now giving the album a spin. Mark and Emmylou are fantastic together on this album!

Hi  Seakayaker,

Yeah it's a lovely album - You must be well happy with it.

" I dug up diamond "  is great the way their voices intertwine.

Wishing you a good weekend

Cheers Ian

Playing on Compact Disc some Relaxing Emmy Lou to get Saturday morning going - Thanks Seakayaker  

Mmm... How to start the weekend? Record Review on BBC Radio 3 FM or Steve Hillage?

Guess this wins. 

KeanoKing posted:

Any good?

Kevin-W posted:

On vinyl. New release bought today.

Atb

kk

Yeah pretty good KK. Not quire the underneath-the-bottom-of-the-barrel scrapings I'd been led to believe they were. Superb version of "Hear My train A Coming"...

R E M - Out of Time

25th Anniversary edition on vinyl.

A recent purchase following a tip off from RD.

OMG! I really had forgotten what a great band they are, the sound quality is superb and the songs aren't too shabby either.

Vinyl is the future.

Madeleine Peyroux 'Careless Love' - her version of Leonard Cohen's Dance Me to the End of Love is just so so gorgeous. If you've not heard it, do youself a favour and check it out. This is a great demo album too.

Tears for fears - Songs from the big chair.

Just finished this one;

And now this is playing;

The Hoax - Sound Like This, WAV CD rip

Another couple of The Hoax CDs dropped through my letterbox yesterday, 1st play for this one. I don’t know how I hadn't heard of them until a few weeks ago, this is just classy well played blues rock, a great find. Thanks again Ewemon!

A spectacular blues-rock album, certainly in my top 20 rock albums, and it might even make the top 10. I found this mint original vinyl secondhand at a local record store. For some reason I had only ever owned this on CD previously. 

Classic 50s comedy/gentle satire. on a UK Capitol first preessing, one of my Dad's old LPs. A random pick...

First of the day and the classy Ella Fitzgerald with Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson .The album cover tells me this was voted the 1962 Grammy Winner for Best Solo Vocal Performance and who am I to disagree

Alan

In this very moment, Frank Sinatra's In the wee small hours, in a mono, 1955 Capitol LP. The record shows its age, but the sound and the music don't.

Clive B posted:

Madeleine Peyroux 'Careless Love' - her version of Leonard Cohen's Dance Me to the End of Love is just so so gorgeous. If you've not heard it, do youself a favour and check it out. This is a great demo album too.

Clive

  I particularly enjoy the Bob Dylan cover You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go and agree it makes a great demo disc with the bass prominent in the mix

Alan 

Steve Hackett - Genesis Revisited - Live at Hammersmith WAV CD rip

I didn’t have this GR live recording until it popped through the letterbox yesterday, so 1st listen (thanks to Clive for playing it a few days ago). Playing CD 2, excellent stuff, Genesis Revisited really do capture the feel of the Charisma years. Supper’s Ready really is one of my favourite tracks ever, and this is a lovely version.

Now onto another classis and Santana's Abraxas on gold Ultradisc disc from Mofi .An excellent presentation with the channels mix up error corrected.Remember using this album to demo the SN2 at my dealers

Alan 

Think I'll get the Nak Dragon going, haven't used it in a while.

From 1982, this is a cassette-and-book-in-a-pouch compilation, full of the arty ambition or prentention, if you were so inclined). Fantastic stuff. Interspersed between the music are plenty of tape cut-ups, sound effects, electronic noise, etc.

Side One

Vladimir Mayakovsky: Final Verse, "Last Poem"

New Order: Video 586 - 1

Soliman Gamil: The New Nubia

Robert Wyatt, from an interview

The Death & Beauty Foundation: Song of the Houseproud Ghost

Hans Eisler/Mayakovsky: Subbotnik

Eric Random Meets the Bedlamites In Cassette Conference

Side Two

Simple Minds: King Is White

Tuxedomoon: Shelved Dreams

Shostakovitch: Waltz from 'The Bedbug'

New Order: Video 586 -2

Flesh : Hesitate

Audio notes:

"Last Poem" read by Ian McCurragh. "Video 5-8-6" written and produced by New Order, initially as soundtrack to the opening of The Hacienda in Manchester, England. "The New Nubia" courtesy of The Egyptian Cultural Embassy. The Death And Beauty Foundation by Val Denham and A.M.McKenzie. Hans Eisler and Vladimir Mayakovsky recording courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. The Bedlamites on this occasion were Wayne, Dids and Lyn Seed. Simple Minds produced and engineered by Peter Walsh; licensed by Virgin Records Ltd. Tuxedomoon-Peter Principle, Steven Brown, Blaine L. Reininger-mixed and engineered by Gilles Martin; text by Blaine L. Reininger. Shostakovitch arranged by Gerard McBurney; performed by Kathron Sturrock (piano), Horoutune Bedilian (violin), Elizabeth Wilson (cello), and recorded live at the Riverside Studios. "Hesitate" composed and recorded by George Handleigh and A.M.McKenzie.

Visual content:

A5 32pp booklet featured the work of Keith Breeden, Neville Brody, Panny Charrington, Malcolm Garrett, Hipgnosis and Ian Wright, with manifestos by The Death And Beauty Foundation and The Temple Ov Psychick Youth (written by David Tibet). Also published were The Rozztox Manifesto (by Gary Panter / The Residents), "Vladimir Mayakovsky" by Alan Reid, Norrie MacLaren's "Video Column", "The New Nubia", and Your Guide To Naming A Pop Group, "Nominal Success" by Shirley Ellis. Cover photography by Panny Charrington.

Feature Mist was produced by A.M.McKenzie, Garry Mouat and Jon Wozencroft with the assistance of Michael Harding.

  The Hoax - Live Forever.

  This album has to be one of the best ever, with a great live atmosphere, and some tasty playing.

  From The Hoax, a once defunct, but now, I believe, reforming British blues rock band ................. and a great shout from Ewen.

dave marshall posted:

  The Hoax - Live Forever.

  This album has to be one of the best ever, with a great live atmosphere, and some tasty playing.

  From The Hoax, a once defunct, but now, I believe, reforming British blues rock band ................. and a great shout from Ewen.

 

I got my copy yesterday, Dave. Yet to get a chance to listen to it though, hopefully tomorrow. 

John Coltrane - Plays the blues

• John Coltrane - sax
• McCoy Tyner - piano
• Steve Davis - bass
• Elvin Jones - drums

Recorded in 1960.

Rossini: Sonatas for Strings

Bottesini: Grand Duo concertant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNCfc7SS7Qw

Qobuz streaming via Audivana Plus 3;

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon - Vinyl (1973)

Harvest - SHVL 804, Harvest - 1E 064 o 05249

I got this from our Canal Trust Book shop for £6! Playing now with the demo 552DR. Sounds amazing. Fingers crossed that it continues without problems. No expert on precise identification.

Phil

Filipe posted:

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon - Vinyl (1973)

Harvest - SHVL 804, Harvest - 1E 064 o 05249

I got this from our Canal Trust Book shop for £6! Playing now with the demo 552DR. Sounds amazing. Fingers crossed that it continues without problems. No expert on precise identification.

Phil

It's a good 'un Phil. Trust me, it'll knock the likes of the umpteen anniversary, MFSL pressings etc. for six.