What are you listening to right now? (VOL I)

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Originally posted by Earwicker:

Interesting, I was listening to D784-840-894-959-960 yesterday - Philips 475-7191.

Claude

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Originally posted by Sloop John B:
What is the Christy Moore box set like?
Does it include Planxty and Moving Hearts material or is it all solo Christy. My collection is embarrassingly bare of Christy Moore material

John

The box set is a mixed bag over six CDs. 50% of the material is from Christy's generally available material and it does contain both Planxty and Moving Hearts songs. This is of highly quality as you'd expect. The other half is material unavailable elsewhere and some of the recordings are frankly disappointing even if the content remains interesting and at times totally inspired. I wouldn't recommend this a starting point for collecting Christy Moore material - although at £21 for 6CDs it is excellent value for money.

My advice would be to vist Christy's web site, where there is an official discography - here. This allows you to view an album and play some samples.

If I could only have one of Christy's elpees then it would be Ride On, which has some great tracks like City of Chicago, Lisdoonvarna, Among the Wicklow Hills and Back Home in Derry. I think it's a stunning collection.



IMHO. everybody should have at least one Christy Moore album in their collecton.

Rotf

Francis Cabrel - Samedi Soir Sur La Terre

Knockout!

Regards, CB

Musical arrangement by Dolly Collins - Hangman's Beautiful Daughter remains one the great albums.

I'm so lost in the 80s

It's the wife's CD - honest

Weezer - Green Album
Luscious Jackson - Fever in Fever out

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Originally posted by ClaudeP:
Interesting, I was listening to D784-840-894-959-960 yesterday - Philips 475-7191.

Good plan!

Vangelis - Spiral
Earlier:- Linda Thompson - One Clear Moment

Howard

Dead man walking ,earlier strauss "Donauwalzer"
and before that :we want miles.

Vinicius Cantuaria - Silva. I think it was Adrian (Expat in Oy) who steered me to this one. Very good for a lazy Sunday afternoon.

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Originally posted by ClaudeP:
Bartok - the piano concertos
(Boulez/Zimerman-Andsnes-Grimaud)

Once again...

Is it any good? I'm after new recordings of the Bartok concertos - at the moment I have Jando, and of course Kovacevic...

EW

Still sounds fresh nearly 40 years on - Somebody To Love, Today, White Rabbit, 3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds and Plastic Fantastic Lover would all be on my best of Jeffersaon Airplane disc and they are all on this 1967 album.

EW

I don't know either of the recordings mentioned, but I have Anda, Fricsay and the Berlin Radio symphony orchestra which sound pretty good to me.

regards, Tam

Tam/EW

I have the same and second the endorsement for Anda/Fricsay.

Am currently listening to Gilels/Boehm/VPO in Mozart's last Piano Concerto (K595). I'm planning on lots of Mozart this week.

G

Now playing - Bryter Later - Hazey Jane at the moment. Nick Drake was an excellent songwriter and guitarist.

Back home.

Working down the pile of ordered CD's that have trudelt in plus one purchased. Started the evening with (stock) Cowboy Junkey's latest, and it's currently RAK - Al-Jadida. Have yet to find a RAK CD which is bad...

cheers
Stefan

ROTF

I've never owned Nick Drake CDs, but I've heard his music. Should I assume that the box you show is a "definitive" collection?

And how are you enjoying Bill Fay?

Best wishes!

Graham

Brahms Requiem. Klemperer. Really a shattering phenomenon, which only comes out once or twice a year. A quick glass of wine and bed now as nothing goes well after that.

All thre best from Fredrik

Mahler symphony no. 9 Bernstein/RCO.

regards, Tam

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Brahms Requiem. Klemperer.

Fredrik,
this was one of my better Oxfam bargains from many years ago - mint, still sealed 1 pound.

Like you, it only rolls on the old LP12 once or twice a year. Still, it is an appropriate disc to throw at my new cartridge to see whether anything new is revealed. Have to wait for a night when SWMBO is out - not her cup of tea at all.

Huw

P.S. Just finished the final disc of Vivaldi's "Orlando Furioso"

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Originally posted by graham55:
ROTF

I've never owned Nick Drake CDs, but I've heard his music. Should I assume that the box you show is a "definitive" collection?

And how are you enjoying Bill Fay?

Best wishes!

Graham

Graham - thoroughly enjoyed the Bill Fay CD I got Time of the Last Persecution - thanks for the recommendation. I'm glad I didn't miss out on Bill Fay.

The Nick Drake Box Set is being offered on Amazon for an exorbitant price. It contains his three official releases "Five Leaves Left", "Bryter Later" and the rather stark "Pink Moon". There's also "Time Of No Reply" which contains alternative versions and tracks that didn't make the the three main releases. At sensible price, the Box set is great, but I wouldn't pay the £100 being asked. Much better to buy the individual copies of "Five Leaves Left", "Bryter Later" and "Pink Moon" at around £6 each. When Nick recorded for island there was a clause that ensured that these releases were never deleted from the catalogue. This didn't apply to "Time of No Reply" which some clown is asking £50 for - sorry, my little hobby horse is that I like to see music available at sensible prices so that anybody who wants to hear it can.

I like "Five Leaves Left" best and then "Bryter Later" and then "Pink Moon". In all honesty I love the openning track of Pink Moon, but find the rest, which is Nick on his own, a rather depressing affair. If you'd like to explore Nick Drake then I'd recommend "Five Leaves Left" as a very good place to start.

I find the strangest thing about Nick Drake's music is that he detunes his guitar. The tuning is different for almost every song. Quite why he did this I've no idea, as he sounds like a highly competent acoustic guitarist and quite capable of playing anything he wanted - on some tracks he can sound like Robert Johnson. Of course, the real tragedy was Nick hated performing and by the end of his life, hardly talked to anybody at all. According to the biography I read, his songs about relationships were made up as he never had a girl friend or indeed any close friends. Perhaps John Martyn (who wrote Solid Air about him) and Linda Thompson were his closest friends.

Still "Five Leaves Left" is reasonably happy album, which I guess is why it's my favourite Nick Drake record.

Best regards, Rotf