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

Chris Rea - Shamrock Diaries, 

I heard a track from this on Radio 3 last weekend. It’s sounds of Matthew Bourne’s piano playing, mixed, edited and rearranged into soundscapes. It’s available on Bandcamp, and Qobuz has it too. 

Anderson .Paak - Malibu

The sound quality on this album is top drawer the tunes are pretty good too.

Easy Star All-Stars - Dub Side of the Moon - 10th anniversary reissue vinyl.

Wondering how to wean myself off Graham Parker tonight, took a leaf from Dave’s book and now it’s the dub cover of Floyd. Great stuff, it’s completely  insane, but it’s  also great  dub reggae, even better on lurid green vinyl.

Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm > Trance Frendz

my wife liked 'empty garden' and 'princess' on this album -- 

enjoy/ken

I bought this vinyl box set before prices went silly! fantastic collection of albums!

enjoy/ken

Thievery Corporation - It Takes a Thief, The Very Best Of.

Supertramp - Crime of the Century. Taking a streaming break, going vinyl for a bit. This 2014 release on heavyweight vinyl is sounding fine.

hungryhalibut posted:

Playing my copy for first time tonight. Very impressed thus far.

What a coincidence. I bought it ages ago but haven’t played it until now. I’m really enjoying it. 

Just playing Wouldn't it be Good which I first heard on a tour bus going up the Adriatic Coast of Italy on a very hot summers day in 84.

Memories

Eoink posted:

Easy Star All-Stars - Dub Side of the Moon - 10th anniversary reissue vinyl.

Wondering how to wean myself off Graham Parker tonight, took a leaf from Dave’s book and now it’s the dub cover of Floyd. Great stuff, it’s completely  insane, but it’s  also great  dub reggae, even better on lurid green vinyl.

Excellent. I've got this on red vinyl. Have you heard the Radiohead - OK Computer cover from the same outfit ? just as insane and very well done!

Genesis - Genesis Live, 1980s vinyl

Fancied some prog, and it doesn’t get any proggier than this, Genesis on storming form in the height of the Gabriel era.

On Vinyl. Big thanks to the many who’ve flagged this album. Recording quality is absolutely the definition of Audiophile. More importantly, the music is raw, heartfelt and moving. I’m off to explore her discography now..

Stephen Tate posted:

Eoink posted:

 

Easy Star All-Stars - Dub Side of the Moon - 10th anniversary reissue vinyl.

Wondering how to wean myself off Graham Parker tonight, took a leaf from Dave’s book and now it’s the dub cover of Floyd. Great stuff, it’s completely  insane, but it’s  also great  dub reggae, even better on lurid green vinyl.

Excellent. I've got this on red vinyl. Have you heard the Radiohead - OK Computer cover from the same outfit ? just as insane and very well done!

Yep, I have the Radiohead and the Sergeant Pepper, both on CD/rip rather than vinyl, both great stuff.  Oddly enough I only recently heard OK Computer for the first time, which was quite odd knowing the dub version. 

Gillian Welch was preceded on my LP12 by this gem. The best of Stealers Wheel. What a band they were. Inexplicable that their only real legacy is ‘Stuck in the Middle With You’, great track though that be. If you don’t know the band start here. A Music for Pleasure album would you believe!

Loki posted:

Tonight: Fleetwood Mac's Rumours. Evergreen.

Just a guess, but perhaps it's the audio content rather than the inherent brevity of the post which you like?

kevin J Carden posted:

On Vinyl. Big thanks to the many who’ve flagged this album. Recording quality is absolutely the definition of Audiophile. More importantly, the music is raw, heartfelt and moving. I’m off to explore her discography now..

Try Revival or Boots no. 1. 

Status Quo 1982: no way could this be classified as an audiophile recording, but it takes me back to a pre-Romantic time when heavy rock was cool and in the top 10. Let's face it we have all doneour stint in the Quo army. 

Eoink posted:

Genesis - Genesis Live, 1980s vinyl

Fancied some prog, and it doesn’t get any proggier than this, Genesis on storming form in the height of the Gabriel era.

I agree, brilliant album. I think this album captures the highlights of the repertoire prior to Selling England very well, although it would have been nice to have had a Gabriel era live version of Supper's Ready.

I originally bought this when I was visiting London with a school friend. I bought it from Our Price on Tottenham Court Road and when I got home I found that it was dished. It wasn't until about ten years later that I got a new copy and a bit later again before I got the Definitive Edition Remaster on CD. I wonder what I did with the dished version?

Pentangle - Open the Door, Original US vinyl.

The later 1980s Pentangle, no Renbourn, but Jacqui McShee sounds lovely, Bert Jansch is a master guitarist, Danny Thompson is one of the great double bass players, Terry Cox a fine  drummer, and Mike Piggott is a pretty good if different replacement  for Renbourn. 

Lovely jazz tinged folk rock played by a set of superb musicians. 

I think I bought this from Jacqui at the back of a gig, which makes it odd it’s the US pressing.

Peggy Lee - Sings The Standards.

Clive B posted:

Eoink posted:

Genesis - Genesis Live, 1980s vinyl

Fancied some prog, and it doesn’t get any proggier than this, Genesis on storming form in the height of the Gabriel era.

I agree, brilliant album. I think this album captures the highlights of the repertoire prior to Selling England very well, although it would have been nice to have had a Gabriel era live version of Supper's Ready.

I originally bought this when I was visiting London with a school friend. I bought it from Our Price on Tottenham Court Road and when I got home I found that it was dished. It wasn't until about ten years later that I got a new copy and a bit later again before I got the Definitive Edition Remaster on CD. I wonder what I did with the dished version?

Do you know the Genesis Archive 1967-75 box set? It’s got a live version of Supper’s Ready recorded at the Rainbow in 1973.