What are you listening to? (VOL VI)

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Originally posted by Lontano:
The Space program after, which Eno did the soundtrack to was even better. Anyway, the Eno stuff is repeated Sunday night for those interested.

I recorded the Space program and both Eno Docs.

Laura Veirs - July Flame

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Why and how does this type of thing occur? Is it our changing tastes or dulling of the senses, it could be our developed sense of appreciation for music of all genre's.

Did you just come across this recording in your collection, or did you hear it somewhere recently, which made you dig it out and take another listen?

What made me dig this one out was the arrival of a HiCap this morning, and the resulting I've-got-new-gear urge to feed it anything and everything, to see how it sounds.

I'm certainly listening to (and enjoying) stuff now that I wouldn't have touched with a bargepole ten or fifteen years ago. It's easier to have a thoroughly eclectic record collection when you're 30-something and don't give a monkey's if someone catches you listening to Kajagoogoo, than when you're late-teens and heavily defined by whatever musical style you happen to be into.

disc 2 of a very lovely recording.



cheap too!

The best performance that I know of Kodaly's Sonata for Unaccompanied Cello. Highly recommended.

Kings of Convenience "Declaration of Dependence"

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Originally posted by Voltaire:

So how is it Gordon? I have read some good reviews.

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Originally posted by Lontano:

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Originally posted by Voltaire:

So how is it Gordon? I have read some good reviews.

Beautiful! I am having to play it quite low volume as my Dylan (dog) is recovering from a major operation and is sleeping off the drugs but it is quite wonderful. Dark with streaks of humour as you might expect from Tindersticks. The obligatory duet 'Peanuts' features Canadian songstress Mary Margaret O'Hara and is deliciously funny. 'Factory Girls' is already established as a favorite though Stuart is almost doing a paradoy of himself like when Dylan fans accentuate the sneer at the end of the word.

Will it replace 'The Hungry Saw' at Chez Voltaire? Probably not but thats more about how good THS is than anything else. Buy it.

G

PS-I am too excited to spell check.

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Originally posted by Voltaire:
Buy it.

G

PS-I am too excited to spell check.

I will have it Monday morning along with the new Pat Metheny album which is my most anticipated new release for a while.

You won't regret it Adrian. Tindersticks albums have never been (except THS) the 'wow, this is great' kind of 1st play albums. They trickle gently via an ozmosis like process into your heart & soul in the wee small hours when you are most open to truth & beauty and there they take root and make you their home.

PS-I'm not to excited to waffle on...

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Originally posted by munch:
This one?

Yep. Pat playing with with a hi-tech Orchestrion. Going to be interesting and what I have heard of it so far it is going to be good. Going to see him do it live in a couple of weeks

http://www.patmetheny.com/orchestrioninfo/

Josh Rouse "The Best of the Rykodisc Years" disc 2

Lots of good albums released this week (25th)

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Originally posted by munch:
I have had it since Wednesday.

You should have posted it earlier. I would have come round for a listen

I like driving my car. Did you get the vinyl?

Fantastic album musically and historically. This is the album that marked the rubicon from the 'pregnant with possibilities' 60's to the 'man eat man' 70's. The cover says it all, a new born baby and the setting sun, the 60's and the 70's but which is which? Listen to 'Look at the wood' for a clue.

Grace Slick is of course practically perfect in every way. There isn't a wasted word on the album. Add to that the golden age of stereo seperation and you have a truly superb album.

I don't listen to this album that often but when I do... its sheer brilliance knocks me sideways.

Mindy Smith

Wonderful, wonderful wowlbum

Dylan has just woke up in perfect time for me to crank up the volume on 'In the Mississippi River'...

'My own eyes'...