What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XIII)

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Wrecking Ball

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All the Roadrunning

Edward

1969 - Vinyl - U.K. First pressing...

Marillion, Fugazi, Mrs DayJay's choice and one I don't know quite as well as their other albums but good enough.  Flac via Audirvana/Hugo 

Marillion, Misplaced Childhood, my choice this time and imho close to a perfect rock album. Flac via Audirvana/Hugo 

the Upsetters, Super Ape. vinyl; original US Island pressing. saw a mint copy at Phono Select Records in Sacramento, California. i splurged.

David Bowie, Hunky Dory. It may be being streamed from Tidal over WiFi! But my goodness this sounds superb.

dayjay posted:

Marillion, Misplaced Childhood, my choice this time and imho close to a perfect rock album. Flac via Audirvana/Hugo 

I hated this album the first coupe of times i heard it (I was into the Human League and Ultravox at the time) but once I connected with it, it is now always in the top ten albums of my life. Saw them play the Garden Part tour at the Milton Keynes Bowl and that will stay with me until my last day.

Slim68 posted:

dayjay posted:

Marillion, Misplaced Childhood, my choice this time and imho close to a perfect rock album. Flac via Audirvana/Hugo 

I hated this album the first coupe of times i heard it (I was into the Human League and Ultravox at the time) but once I connected with it, it is now always in the top ten albums of my life. Saw them play the Garden Part tour at the Milton Keynes Bowl and that will stay with me until my last day.

Brilliant album, as was Clutching at Straws, and they were superb live too.  Fish is still worth seeing even now. I should have added I saw Ultravox on their final tour and they were superb, I looked a little out of place with hair down to my waist and denim on but he did play in Thin Lizzy after all 

Played damned loud

the Smiths, Unreleased Demos & Instrumentals, Basement Records, Manchester. marbled blue vinyl. sounds better than it has any right to.

dayjay posted:

Slim68 posted:

dayjay posted:

Marillion, Misplaced Childhood, my choice this time and imho close to a perfect rock album. Flac via Audirvana/Hugo 

I hated this album the first coupe of times i heard it (I was into the Human League and Ultravox at the time) but once I connected with it, it is now always in the top ten albums of my life. Saw them play the Garden Part tour at the Milton Keynes Bowl and that will stay with me until my last day.

Brilliant album, as was Clutching at Straws, and they were superb live too.  Fish is still worth seeing even now

I saw Fish last year at the The Islington Assembly Hall, He was Brilliant. Just seen you have listened to Fugazi too tonight, also a stunning album, Incubus gets me every time I hear it.

Slim68 posted:

dayjay posted:

Slim68 posted:

dayjay posted:

Marillion, Misplaced Childhood, my choice this time and imho close to a perfect rock album. Flac via Audirvana/Hugo 

I hated this album the first coupe of times i heard it (I was into the Human League and Ultravox at the time) but once I connected with it, it is now always in the top ten albums of my life. Saw them play the Garden Part tour at the Milton Keynes Bowl and that will stay with me until my last day.

Brilliant album, as was Clutching at Straws, and they were superb live too.  Fish is still worth seeing even now

I saw Fish last year at the The Islington Assembly Hall, He was Brilliant. Just seen you have listened to Fugazi too tonight, also a stunning album, Incubus gets me every time I hear it.

Agreed, my wife is a huge fan so we have watched him lots and lots of times (she has seen him 32 times) and he's still excellent.  Saw him twice last year, once in his home town in Scotland which was great and he still provides good value for money.  The Moveable Feast album is pretty good from his website, 4 CDs from the 2014 tour.  Don't know if you have heard his last album, A Feast Of Consequences, but if you haven't I can't recommend it enough, even as a non Fish fan I recognise it's a modern classic 

dayjay posted:

Slim68 posted:

dayjay posted:

Slim68 posted:

dayjay posted:

Marillion, Misplaced Childhood, my choice this time and imho close to a perfect rock album. Flac via Audirvana/Hugo 

I hated this album the first coupe of times i heard it (I was into the Human League and Ultravox at the time) but once I connected with it, it is now always in the top ten albums of my life. Saw them play the Garden Part tour at the Milton Keynes Bowl and that will stay with me until my last day.

Brilliant album, as was Clutching at Straws, and they were superb live too.  Fish is still worth seeing even now

I saw Fish last year at the The Islington Assembly Hall, He was Brilliant. Just seen you have listened to Fugazi too tonight, also a stunning album, Incubus gets me every time I hear it.

Agreed, my wife is a huge fan so we have watched him lots and lots of times (she has seen him 32 times) and he's still excellent.  Saw him twice last year, once in his home town in Scotland which was great and he still provides good value for money.  The Moveable Feast album is pretty good from his website, 4 CDs from the 2014 tour.  Don't know if you have heard his last album, A Feast Of Consequences, but if you haven't I can't recommend it enough, even as a non Fish fan I recognise it's a modern classic 

32 Times! Top Trumps to Mrs Dayjay, I bow in respect. Feast was pre-ordered as soon as I heard it was on its way, agreed it really is a Classic. Playing Fugazi now, well I had too.

Again:

Wynton Kelly doing his magic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vrvkafzuqo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pQxZe0yxdE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DWxkT38VGg

New discs go for $7 and I cannot think of any better musical bargain.

Ryan Adams, 1984. 45rpm, 7'' vinyl. 10 songs, 10 minutes of unstoppable, Westerbergian punk.

Rachel Roberts (viola) | Lars Vogt (piano)

Franz Schubert:  Arpeggione Sonata D 821 | Benjamin Britten:  Lachrymae Op. 48 | Dmitri Shostakovich: Viola Sonata Op. 147

Occasionally, when you go through enough music there are hits and misses.  In the last few days though it has been nothing but royal flushes.  First, chalk it up to a relocation of my system and the result is now a daily experience of hearing my system come through like I have never heard it ever before.  This means constant goose bumps plus the hair on the back of my neck not remembering any more what it was like to ever relax.  Second, for some reason in addition to the wonderful aural experience I am personally finding a super heightened connection with the music.  I am usually connected to the music but this is different now.  It is hard to do anything else now as the music is just reaching out and grabbing me by the neck to immobilize me.  None of this is bad.  In fact, it is quick astounding.  When one has an out of body experience you usually don't complain and you keep going back for more.

The first thing I'll comment on this album is directed to the pianist Lars Vogt.  Most here will have heard me make it known that I am vehemently opposed to loud, brash, percussive playing and especially in chamber music.  Lars Vogt here defies reality by playing a percussive instrument such as the piano the way it was meant to be played, that is, with a bell like tone.  Simply beautiful.  And so he is very well matched to the viola here and Rachel Roberts and him make some wonderful dialogue between themselves.  

So often you hear the Arpeggione (Schubert) played aggressively and tastelessly.  Not here.  Everything is beautifully soft and tasteful.  It is a conversation between two people and this recording is a wonderful example of how things should be done. 

In the Adagio, there is a moment two thirds of the way in where Schubert changes the rhythm in the piano (from constant eigth notes to quarter notes (like a waltz) but at a super slow tempo.  The effect is that time stands still.  Such a wonderful moment.  I'm sure Beethoven is the one that invented this type of effect but I just can't think today the exact example.  It will come to me and I have a hunch it will be in the Violin Sonatas since I recently listened to them.

The surprise for me here is in the Lachrymae.  I don't typically like this kind of music (Britten) but these two are so convincing here that I am just very intrigued by it today.  And is it any surprise?  I honestly believe that my replay is giving me now a musical experience that delivers music that virtually exceeds the real (live) experience.  How convenient for me that I don't have to go through the hassle of being surrounded by people who cough, wheeze, are more interested in there smart device and for the most part have no idea why they are there in the first place  :-)

Piano replay is often a tough sell for me as I am very particular about what I need.  I really like what Lars Vogt does here with his beautiful touch.  Strings really give good results through my replay and this recording is no exception.  Especially when you get some pizzacato and the effect is like the player is in the room right in front of you.  Anyway, I really enjoyed this today.

(1971)

Playing this seminal Yes album in Hi-Res via Tidal Masters, interesting to see that the Masters collection is continuing to expand, when it first launched a couple of days ago it had about 70 titles, this morning there are over 400.

Say him live with this Listz in Munich.

The best I have ever see and listen in classical music.

A+ | Transcoded DSD

(1968)

Originally download as a 24/96 FLAC file from the Qobuz Édition Studio Masters series.

The Doors. L.A. Woman (1971). On HDCD from 1999. I can never decide whether this or their debut is my favorite Doors' album. Stevee's previous post is a good one as well. They're all pretty damned remarkable, maybe just a matter of mood or the one you happen to be currently listening to.

Although in his later years particularly Coltrane was quite an aggressive player, he could also play a fine ballad as evidenced on this collection.

On period instruments, overall an interesting collection....

Florestan posted:

Rachel Roberts (viola) | Lars Vogt (piano)

Franz Schubert:  Arpeggione Sonata D 821 | Benjamin Britten:  Lachrymae Op. 48 | Dmitri Shostakovich: Viola Sonata Op. 147

Occasionally, when you go through enough music there are hits and misses.  In the last few days though it has been nothing but royal flushes.  First, chalk it up to a relocation of my system and the result is now a daily experience of hearing my system come through like I have never heard it ever before.  This means constant goose bumps plus the hair on the back of my neck not remembering any more what it was like to ever relax.  Second, for some reason in addition to the wonderful aural experience I am personally finding a super heightened connection with the music.  I am usually connected to the music but this is different now.  It is hard to do anything else now as the music is just reaching out and grabbing me by the neck to immobilize me.  None of this is bad.  In fact, it is quick astounding.  When one has an out of body experience you usually don't complain and you keep going back for more.

The first thing I'll comment on this album is directed to the pianist Lars Vogt.  Most here will have heard me make it known that I am vehemently opposed to loud, brash, percussive playing and especially in chamber music.  Lars Vogt here defies reality by playing a percussive instrument such as the piano the way it was meant to be played, that is, with a bell like tone.  Simply beautiful.  And so he is very well matched to the viola here and Rachel Roberts and him make some wonderful dialogue between themselves.  

So often you hear the Arpeggione (Schubert) played aggressively and tastelessly.  Not here.  Everything is beautifully soft and tasteful.  It is a conversation between two people and this recording is a wonderful example of how things should be done. 

In the Adagio, there is a moment two thirds of the way in where Schubert changes the rhythm in the piano (from constant eigth notes to quarter notes (like a waltz) but at a super slow tempo.  The effect is that time stands still.  Such a wonderful moment.  I'm sure Beethoven is the one that invented this type of effect but I just can't think today the exact example.  It will come to me and I have a hunch it will be in the Violin Sonatas since I recently listened to them.

The surprise for me here is in the Lachrymae.  I don't typically like this kind of music (Britten) but these two are so convincing here that I am just very intrigued by it today.  And is it any surprise?  I honestly believe that my replay is giving me now a musical experience that delivers music that virtually exceeds the real (live) experience.  How convenient for me that I don't have to go through the hassle of being surrounded by people who cough, wheeze, are more interested in there smart device and for the most part have no idea why they are there in the first place  :-)

Piano replay is often a tough sell for me as I am very particular about what I need.  I really like what Lars Vogt does here with his beautiful touch.  Strings really give good results through my replay and this recording is no exception.  Especially when you get some pizzacato and the effect is like the player is in the room right in front of you.  Anyway, I really enjoyed this today.

Thanks for bringing your listening experience so lively across .....