CDs delighting at second glance

Posted by: sjust on 07 April 2005

Who else has had the experience to buy a CD (maybe in a batch together with others), play it and put it onto the shelf leaving a so-so feeling ?

Happens to me, quite often...

Some of those get a "second chance", and very few start to shine, then. My most recent example:

Rosa Passos & Ron Carter - Entre Amigos

Very fine recording of both Brasil standards and less known songs. Musically based on the "wheels" of Carter (bass) and Passos (vocal) plus guitar, percussion and tenor sax or clarinet. They weave a net of free-flowing, "springy" athmosphere which occasionally leaves you breathless and/or tearful.

Anybody else with these "CDs delighting at second glance" ?

Cheers
Stefan
Posted on: 07 April 2005 by Malky
Drive By Truckers- The Dirty South
Joni Mitchell- Blue
Frank Zappa- Weasels Ripped My Flesh
Gang Of Four- Entertainment
The Band- Rock of Ages
Posted on: 08 April 2005 by greeny
I experiance this quite a lot.

A new purchase that I listen to maybe 2 -3 times that doesn't really grab me I put on the side 3-4 weeks, then listen again and quite regularly find that now having some familiarity with the music really makes a differance and many then become well liked
Posted on: 08 April 2005 by Malky
When I was a wee lad, I remember a lot of music I had hitherto been indifferent to, took on a whole new dimension after an 'interesting' cigarette.
Needless to say, I have left such youthful habits far behind.
Posted on: 10 April 2005 by HR
Anybody else with these "CDs delighting at second glance" ?

Cheers
Stefan[/QUOTE]

Stefan,

I keep all my LPs and CDs in the basement, so before any new purchase goes to join the collection, I keep it upstairs and play it at least four or five times, to let the unfamiliar music sink in. But just like you, once in a while, a disk starts shining after it has been in a 'cold storage' for long time.

Morton Feldman's Crippled Symmetry is one of my favorite disks which was lying unplayed for over two years. It is a contemporary classical music played by The California EAR Unit (piano, flute & precussion) and it is just mesmerizing. Morton Feldman (who died in 1987) wrote also great music for viola. Some os his string quartet music, if preformed fully lasts over six hours. Hope you have the time.

Regards,
Haim
Posted on: 12 April 2005 by sjust
Haim, good method !
My flavour is similar, but more chaotic: I have the "current" CD's on stacks piling up around me, and try to "work" them down, but the flow if incoming new material (see "what was your latest CD..." thread) makes this a Sysiphus task... Now and then I decide that I have heard enough of a certain CD (maybe after only one - even uncomplete - listen), and sort it into the archive.

Not very systematic...

Latest "rediscovery":

Eva Cassidy - Live At Blues Alley

Haven't heard it for months. And almost forgotten that it alyways drives tears into my eyes (Eek can I write that here ?), expecially with "Tall Trees In Georgia" and "Oh, Had I A Golden Thread". Aaargh, here we go again...

cheers
Stefan