What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XIII)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 01 January 2017
2017 has arrived today, so time to start this thread afresh.
Last year's thread can be found here;
Kevin-W posted:Genre-defining 1969 LP, on Classic Records 200g vinyl, mastered by Bernie Grundman:
Glad to see you're feeling better, Kev. Great album.
CD:-
Kate Bush - Before The Dawn, OK liked the well known (to us), other stuff was a bit meh!
Paul Simon - Stranger to Stranger, a much more even album.
Eleanor Friedberger - "New View" (2016)
Genre-defining 1969 LP, on Classic Records 200g vinyl, mastered by Bernie Grundman:
Glad to see you're feeling better, Kev. Great album.
Z Z Top - Tres Hombres.
Brightening up a gloomy North Yorks. afternoon with the boogie boys.
1970 - Tidal Masters (mono)...
Kevin-W posted:Genre-defining 1969 LP, on Classic Records 200g vinyl, mastered by Bernie Grundman:
They don't come any better....
More Grundman/Classic magic. Heavy (200g) vinyl, heavy music. Unconfined ambition, jaw-dropping skill, awesome interplay, the era's best rhythm section, PG is the acme of Zep's imperal phase. Runs the gamut from treacly scuzz-rock through to pop jokes via Eastern influences, electronica, folk, funk, super-heavy blues, Faces-style boogie and country.
At this point. nothing seemed beyond them but sadly, the only way was down, thanks to a mixture of terrible luck, poor judgement, drink, drugs, hubris, creative and physical exhaustion and the world moving on.
Cass McCombs - "Mangy Love" (2016)
MDS posted:Hungryhalibut posted:This record is one of my favourites, though it's not played much these days. He's a local boy too.
Yep. A lad from Paulsgrove I believe. We went to the same high school where he sometimes played piano at morning assembly.
He earned my eternal gratitude when, at a concert in the 80s (under Thatcher)*, he stopped during the start of the first song to tell the audience to stop clapping (out of time) as they were here to listen to his music, not the other way around.
* Stewart Lee reference
First play on CD
Marc Bolan T. Rex - Greatest Hits
Boogie on!
Bert Schurink posted:
How you rate this in Dream Theater back catalogue? I don't have this yet and I have read some not so favorable reviews.
Mraz & Viklicky - Together Again.
This is a great album , a really full warm sound, hard to believe that it's only piano and bass at times. Some of the piano playing is quite reminiscent of Keith Jarrett's Koln Concert. Thanks again to Haim for pointing it out. (It's on Tidal)
Talking Heads - Stop making Sense.
Boogie of a different nature .............. still among the best ever live albums ............ and the Blu-Ray ain't half bad either.
Kevin-W posted:Genre-defining 1969 LP, on Classic Records 200g vinyl, mastered by Bernie Grundman:
To enjoy more of similar genre defining material you'll have to play 'Truth' and 'Beck-Ola' by the Jeff Beck group. Who got there first, I wonder? Beck or Page? Or was it Cream? I'm not old enough to know, but it must have been a great period at the end of the 60s.
dave marshall posted:
Talking Heads - Stop making Sense.
Boogie of a different nature .............. still among the best ever live albums ............ and the Blu-Ray ain't half bad either.
The film should be seen in the big screen. Quite jaw dropping stuff …
From the mono box
This is an excellent sounding record from Pure Pleasure Records. The music Is also a bit good too..
A+ | Transcoded DSD
(1969)
Kevin wet my appetite for this earlier today, thanks! I'm playing the latest remastered version from a 24/96 download. I can still vividly remember the day when I first heard this when it was released, it was transformational to my musical preferences.