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:UK first vinyl pressing. Not sure how I feel about this one - it's the start of a very steep and extremely distressing decline (which was fortunately reversed early in the 21st century). Slick, very 80s, and pretty vapid, though it seemed like a good idea at the time. The LP's best cut, "China Girl", is still ace though.
Kevin,
Interesting - I rather like and have a soft spot for Lets Dance as it was the first Bowie album I bought. I agree, the immediate albums that followed spiralled sharply (Never Let Me Down being the worst), but were then rescued by Heathen which I think is a cracking album. Lets Dance led me to seek out the back catalogue, hunting for secondhand RCA orange label originals where possible. The only vinyl I have kept!
A year ago today - still hard to take in.
David Bowie: Hunky Dory. My fav Bowie album.
My favourite album of the year so far.
A+ | WAV 24/44.1
(2016)
Another great artist who left us last year and, like Bowie, left a superb parting album.
1988 - CD...
Yonks since I last listened to this. Listening to the studio tracks as the live ones are pretty abysmal. Putting aside the "controversial" lyrics, it is a good album. Well, the second half.
Rudolf Johnson - The Second Coming, CD rip. He played with Ray Charles for decades, skilled and in the Coltrane congregation as is evidenced in this leader date (one of only two on the Black Jazz label).
Bowie, Heathen, original 2002 UK press.
A+ | WAV
(1977)
From a Parlophone label CD repress, remaster and reissue (2014).
Ryan Adams - Cold Roses. CD rip
Came on in the car today and I havent played it in ages. Sounding great.
Preceded by Bruce Springsteen- The Rising. CD rip. I'm not a massive Springsteen fan but I do like this album a lot.
2005 - CD...
David Bowie: Scary Monsters. The second Bowie album I bought and still sounds fresh all these years later.
1988 - K7
Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid. CD rip. Another longtime no play. 
2015 Music Matters 33rpm Blue Note reissue.
Stevee_S posted:A+ | WAV 24/44.1
(2016)
Another great artist who left us last year and, like Bowie, left a superb parting album.
Have just bought this on vinyl but still waiting to be cleaned!
Looking forward to listening to it...
On vinyl...
The Awakening - Mirage, CD rip - infectious rhythms, good band, varied material and dynamic sound!
2013 - CD...
A+ | WAV
(1977)
Possibly my last tonight so I'm going for another from his Berlin Trilogy Low, which was the first.