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;
From 1985, no gray hair then:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RktmYruRis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV_xcGR6VQg
The Popular Duke Ellington - 24/192 flac. Humbling to hear Duke & Co. scaled into one's living room in good sound!
Miles Davis - Amandla. CD rip. CD mastered by the late Doug Sax, 1989. Cover art – Miles Davis and Jo Gelbard
Bob Dylan. John Wesley Harding. On original vinyl from 1967. Just bought this a year or so ago. Great album with very good SQ.
Neil Young. Old Ways. On vinyl from 1985. Neil sure could do country. Always loved the contributors on this album including Waylon, Willie, Rufus, Spooner and a fella referred to as "Pig".
A + | WAV
(1964)
Kicking off the morning with a sound of the sixties and a 2009 stereo remaster.
A + | WAV
(1966 | 2009 stereo remaster)
BBC Review
"Recorded at Abbey Road studios between April and June 1966, Revolver is a truly rare breed of album, one that stands up to repeated scrutiny and overexposure. Its exalted reputation and high-ranking position in every Greatest Albums of All Time list under the sun are well deserved.
The Beatles’ transition from a gigging unit to studio band was sealed with this record: a mature, complex, frequently witty work, there is simply no filler to be found on Revolver. Paul McCartney’s creativity is aflame, this collection housing his most durable material. Many writers would struggle to manage just one song of the calibre of Eleanor Rigby, For No One, Here, There and Everywhere, Got to Get You into My Life or Good Day Sunshine. Here, McCartney effortlessly delivers all five.
Although John Lennon’s material is more slender – Dr. Robert, I'm Only Sleeping – it’s still memorable, and he steals the show with his final song, the Tibetan Book of the Dead-referencing Tomorrow Never Knows, which points the way to not just the group's future but also the next few years in rock. Asking producer George Martin to make him sound like the “Dalai Lama chanting from a hilltop”, Lennon’s looped and flanged drone still sounds unlike anything else in rock. As the track, built around an aggressive Ringo Starr drum loop, collapses after three minutes into honky-tonk piano, it concludes a remarkable work, perhaps The Beatles’ most consistent album.
And all this is without mentioning George Harrison's Indian experimentation on Love You To, his searing attack on the tax system – that’ll be Taxman – and the best kid's pop song of all time, Yellow Submarine.
Within a month of the album's release in August of 66, The Beatles gave up touring. There was no way they could replicate this new sophisticated and experimental sound on stage beneath a barrage of screams." -- Daryl Easlea
First run...
Ewemon has prompted me to play the first album from the gorgeous Julia Fordham!
Out April
Godspeed You Black Emperor! – Slow Riot For New Zerø Kanada E.P. An early rousing start on this wet morning.
Starting this morning with Bach, performed by Helene Grimaud.
Bert Schurink posted:First run...
A remarkable version, will not be the last time I will hear this one...
Esfahani's excellent follow-up to his breakthrough CPE Bach recording and his last before his jump to DG. From hires FLAC disc.
Cheers
EJ
The Police
Synchronicity - Tidal HiFi
First album this Sunday morning
Edward
Xiu Xiu - Plays the Music of Twin Peaks. On Red/Clear vinyl. Wonderful reworkings of music from Twin Peaks.
This is a fantastic album, made even more wonderful by the vibe playing the late great Bobby Hutcherson. 
Music Matters Reissue - Vinyl.