What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XIV)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 31 December 2017
On the eve of a new year, it's time for a new thread.
Last year's thread can be found here:
Shave soap and food for dogs. Sunday.......
ewemon posted:Gianluigi Mazzorana posted:
Brilliant album.
Hi Ewemon! This and Bring the Family at his top i believe!
Filipe posted:MDS posted:Filipe posted:
Genesis - Nursery Cryme - CD (1971 remastered 1994)
Since it arrived on Tuesday with Foxtrot and Selling England by the Pound, I have been trying to get to grips with it. Now on the third play, but after being blown away by Foxtrot I feel the SQ of this CD lets it down. Am I alone?
I find the balance of the vocals to the backing subdued and Peter Gabriel’s voice not as sweet as it can be. The Musical Box starts well, but the the heavy guitar and drums spoil it being rough. It comes back a bit for Harlequin. Again in the final track, The Fountains of Salmacis, it is as though he straining and the backing dominate. The drums are overdone, and just not interesting at the volume they deliver in the mix. The vocal part should lead, but it doesn’t. The material and concept is good, but it is poorly delivered.
Perhaps I am suffering from the 552 showing it as it is! Maybe their is a better release? As everything else I have played sounds good I don’t thing the setup is wrong.
Please let me know your your thoughts.
Phil
Hi Phil
My Nursery Cryme is an old AAD CD on the Virgin/Charisma label (CASCD 1052) and seems ok on re-prodcution quality. I don't know if any are now available. If I didn't have it I think I'd be tempted to look out for a Japanese SHM-CD but I know they can be expensive.
M
Mike, I just found this on an ultimateclassicrock review. I also have that CD.
“Nursery Cryme is not one of my favorites," Collins has said. "It sounds as if everyone were playing the keyboards with both hands. There are fat chords, two guitars and a really big drum sound. Peter’s voice was big too, and all in all it sounded like all those big things had been squeezed onto this small bit of tape.”
Apart from Collins thinking Peter’s voice was big, it matches my thoughts. Maybe it is just not to my liking either. I could see if there is a better mix/remaster.
Phil
Regarding CD copies of this album, the 'Definitive Edition Remaster' series from 1994 are probably the best. Most Genesis fans avoid the 2008/2009 masters.
Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies;
seakayaker posted:Now Playing.......
John Scofield & Pat Metheny I Can See Your House From Here
John Scofield (acoustic guitar, steel guitar), Pat Metheny (acoustic guitar, synthesizer), Bill Stewart (drums), and Steve Swallow (acoustic bass, electric bass, bass guitar).
via CD player........ Another find at Golden Oldies earlier today! I have streamed this on TIDAL previously and really enjoyed the album. Great quartet, fantastic music......
Brilliant album. I really must give it a play. Maybe later this afternoon - I can't play jazz before midday!
Andrew Manze & NDR Radiophilharmonie - Mendelssohn Symphonies 1 & 3
Judy's voice is still lovely & Stephen's guitar playing very tasteful. Excellent album.
Masaaki Suzuki - Bach cantatas BWV 22, 23 & 75
1st run of the new one...
Trickydickie played this when I visited him recently. I’d not heard it before and really liked it.
The Steve Miller Band - The Circle of Love. The Track "Macho City" is bonkers
Alan
Disc three of this four-CD survey of early Euro electronica - features Klaus Schultze among a host of deeply obscure acts such as Amok, Human Flesh, Gunnar Møller Pedersen and Asmus Tietchens.. .
I dug this out and played it the other day. I enjoyed it so much that it deserves another play today. If you don't know the band, think a Rastafarian Elvis impersonator called Ed, playing Led Zeppelin songs. You'll either love it or hate it. I used to be a Led Zeppelin fan, but I think this is marvellous.
Clive B posted:
I dug this out and played it the other day. I enjoyed it so much that it deserves another play today. If you don't know the band, think a Rastafarian Elvis impersonator called Ed, playing Led Zeppelin songs. You'll either love it or hate it. I used to be a Led Zeppelin fan, but I think this is marvellous.
Used to be? Is that even possible, Clive? Surely once a Led Zep, always a Led Zep fan!
M
MDS posted:Clive B posted:
I dug this out and played it the other day. I enjoyed it so much that it deserves another play today. If you don't know the band, think a Rastafarian Elvis impersonator called Ed, playing Led Zeppelin songs. You'll either love it or hate it. I used to be a Led Zeppelin fan, but I think this is marvellous.
Used to be? Is that even possible, Clive? Surely once a Led Zep, always a Led Zep fan!
M
Well I confess that I used to be an out and out fan. I learnt to play most of the songs and even recorded the 27 minute version of Dazed and Confused (from TSRTS) at half speed so as to get it all note perfect. I even started reading Magick In Theory And Practice too, but didn't get very far, thankfully. It must have been around then that I heard John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola, Larry Coryell, Pat Metheny, Wes Montgomery, Pat Martino, Emily Remler, John Scofield etc. and I realised just how limited Jimmy Page's playing really was. Thereafter I was playing jazz-rock and drifted into hard bop. I find Led Zeppelin to be rather tiring and stale now by comparison.
I should say that I still like TSRTS, especially that version of Dazed and Confused (apart from the bowed section) and the rock 'n roll medley in Whole Lotta Love is still great boogie.
2004 - CD (rip)...
A classic. Very fine it sounds too.
G
