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

Kate Bush: Ariel

A go to recording for assessing the system's ability to communicate the emotional content of the music. Superbly crafted: liquid sound.

Such attention to detail and a rich acoustic which is positively mellifluous.

And my final album of the evening what I consider IMHO to be his best album.

Possibly the best guitarist ever to play in the Muddy Waters band.

TOBYJUG posted:

I am a bit of a 'Cats fan and I like Brian Setzer's solo stuff too, "Live Nude Guitars" is a great, great album. Good call TOBYJUG!

NYC, September 1989

Loki posted:

fatcat posted:

Filipe posted:

Rush - 2112 - vinyl

I have been undecided about Rush because it just sounded loud before. But it has some merits with better replay. Please debate.

Phil

Always sounded fine on lowfi equipment to me.

Rush and this precise album are two  of the main reasons why I have always been keen to upgrade. The quality of their playing and the production (except the 90s CDs on first issue) has always been second to none, but my old mono portable Philips cassette player just didn't do them justice! Now I can enjoy the full firepower of the terrific threesome. Tremendous album, great guys, awesome acoustics 

And it gets better the more you push the replay. I did think the beginning could be better.

Rodrigo y Gabriela.

Neil Sedaka - Solitaire - vinyl

The last of my LPs before packing the Rega Aura back in its box. Not much played these days but always popular in the sixties, he had a very high pitched voice. There are some really good songs on this LP.

It took the Aura to really deliver this LP for me. I was also true of Dionne Warwick’s Greatest Hits Vol 1, which on one track was too difficult for the Aria. Same with Rush 2112. These high frequencies can be difficult it seems. I guess this HiFi game involves compromises and sometimes the balance is not right. Nice to be clear about my vinyl bottleneck. 

Phil

Riverside - Wasteland

Now playing.........

Tori Amos - Native Invader

Streaming on TIDAL...............   Tuesday evening, spending a little time with Tori and she is sounding might fine!

Now playing..........

Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes

Streaming on TIDAL..........  continuing on with Tori on this Tuesday evening, incredible voice, music and lyrics which is ticking  all the right boxes tonight!  Sweet!!!

Last one before sleeping last night...

Loki posted:

Kate Bush: Ariel

A go to recording for assessing the system's ability to communicate the emotional content of the music. Superbly crafted: liquid sound.

Such attention to detail and a rich acoustic which is positively mellifluous.

That's an album I never got into during my CDS2 and NDS days. It's something I ought to try on the ND555. Thanks for the tip.

Vinyl released 1988 - Starting off with ex Talking Heads member Jerry Harrison’s second album. Great stuff..????

Dan Steel posted:

Vinyl released 1988 - Starting off with ex Talking Heads member Jerry Harrison’s second album. Great stuff..????

Nice choice Dan

I gave got the 12 " single of Rev it Up - great song and production must give it a spin

Wishing you a good day 

Cheers Ian  

Dire Straits

Brothers in Arms - CD Rip

Absolute Classic.

Edward

Playing on Compact Disc - Very relaxing Bach piano

Kate Bush - Aerial

This was mentioned above by Loki as being a go-to album which he uses to assess a system's abilities to communicate the emotional content of the music. Well I've tried again and still it doesn't really connect with me. I agree that it's well recorded, but I think I've just grown out of Kate. Strange that, because when I was a lad...

Playing on Cassette on TDK D C90 - Live Kinks from Kelvin Hall Glasgow 1968

The Bad Plus - Suspicious Activity?

Quietly with cuppa as I do some work. Must buy some more of theirs.

Clive B posted:

Kate Bush - Aerial

This was mentioned above by Loki as being a go-to album which he uses to assess a system's abilities to communicate the emotional content of the music. Well I've tried again and still it doesn't really connect with me. I agree that it's well recorded, but I think I've just grown out of Kate. Strange that, because when I was a lad...

I must admit that the first disc doesn't connect with me either but I love the second disc (which I'm loading up now)

James

Mogwai

Rave Tapes - 24/96

Edward

Currently enjoying Composer of the Week on BBC Radio 3 FM, which, this week, is about Billy Strayhorn. 

The Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang, like most of their latter day albums, there is a good 40 minutes to be found in the hour plus playing time.