What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XV)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 31 December 2018
On the eve of a new year, it's time for a new thread.
Last year's thread can be found here:
One of my favourite Ray Lamontagne albums. The album title caught my eye as I was wondering what Theresa May's mood might be this evening as she dwells on her prospects for success next week.
Putting my blushes aside:
Marc Almond and The Willing Sinners - Vermin in Ermine
Original vinyl from 1984. (Naturally no videos).
A very mixed bag, at least to listen to in mixed company and without playing loud - but some very good ditties too - You Have, Hell Is a City, The Boy Who Came Back are great fun if not purist music.
Most surprisingly I always found it rather harsh and worn sounding (originally played on old Fidelity 'radiogram' with a weighted tonearm headshell to stop things jumping! (2p piece and blu-tak from memory)), but having run it throught the Project record cleaner just now it really sparkles, strings and brass really stand out nicely - wow a reminder to treat other old LPs.
Great live rocking stuff from start to finish, with some delightful durty ghee-tarr from 1996.
John.
Danny Kirwan RIP
Prior to that (Marc Almond), this on vinyl:
Surprisingly enjoyable.
Rolling Stones - 12 X 5.
The Stones second album release in The States, completely different from their second one here, containing "It's All Over Now",
which hadn't yet been released here as a single.
Turning into something of a Strolling Bones nostalgia fest it seems, this evening, Chez Dave. 
Eric Clapton
Unplugged Deluxe Edition - CD Rip
Edward
Alley Cat posted:Putting my blushes aside:
Marc Almond and The Willing Sinners - Vermin in Ermine
Original vinyl from 1984. (Naturally no videos).
A very mixed bag, at least to listen to in mixed company and without playing loud - but some very good ditties too - You Have, Hell Is a City, The Boy Who Came Back are great fun if not purist music.
Most surprisingly I always found it rather harsh and worn sounding (originally played on old Fidelity 'radiogram' with a weighted tonearm headshell to stop things jumping! (2p piece and blu-tak from memory)), but having run it throught the Project record cleaner just now it really sparkles, strings and brass really stand out nicely - wow a reminder to treat other old LPs.
The trouble is, every time I see his face or his name written down I think of the stomach-pump incident 
Exquisite! Just exquisite!
Started this evening with a fine trio album...
Then got into the Beatles...
Continued with John...
And just a little bit...
ursus262 posted:Alley Cat posted:Putting my blushes aside:
Marc Almond and The Willing Sinners - Vermin in Ermine
Original vinyl from 1984. (Naturally no videos).
A very mixed bag, at least to listen to in mixed company and without playing loud - but some very good ditties too - You Have, Hell Is a City, The Boy Who Came Back are great fun if not purist music.
Most surprisingly I always found it rather harsh and worn sounding (originally played on old Fidelity 'radiogram' with a weighted tonearm headshell to stop things jumping! (2p piece and blu-tak from memory)), but having run it throught the Project record cleaner just now it really sparkles, strings and brass really stand out nicely - wow a reminder to treat other old LPs.
The trouble is, every time I see his face or his name written down I think of the stomach-pump incident
These days I guess what was supposedly ingested would be called a protein shake
Who knows if it was an urban myth or not, but personally I feel many fantastic groups who had members 'of diversity' were laughed at or joked at in the 80's and that would never happen now thankfully.
I loved punk/new wave/synth groups from 70s/80s, the latter often included New Romantic groups and you didn't readily admit to liking them at school if you were straight - Duran Duran clearly had few issues with the ladies, but liking Japan, Visage and so forth was a bit out of the norm when the blokes wore make-up, though the girls loved it.
Tony Bennett - All Time Greatest Hits, spinning the last of yesterday's charity shop purchases. A decent overview up to 2013 in great SQ.
I’m getting some great inspiration from this thread and discovering tons of new music with the help of Qobuz ND555 makes piano and saxophone sound fabulous
Alley Cat posted:Prior to that (Marc Almond), this on vinyl:
Surprisingly enjoyable.
As you say AC. How could he make an album this good first time out and then produce umpteen albums of pointless pap ever since thereafter? Baffling..
Bert Schurink posted:And just a little bit...
Must listen to that, have been revisiting my favourite in recent days:
My housemate at University had (in my view) a worse separates system overall than me, but the CD of this on his Yamaha CD player in the mid 8o's utterly trounced the more expensive Phillips player I was using for dynamics and enjoyability - my secondhand LP copy has been enjoyed several times in recent days but may benefit from a clean.
Bert Schurink posted:And just a little bit...
Where did you get that Bert? Seems to be on pre-order at Qobuz UK for 1st Feb and tracks limited to 30 sec previews but sounds good.
Been a while since I had listened to this excellent guitarist.