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

Quad 33 posted:

A little bit of Dusty on a Saturday afternoon.

Stay Awhile (1970 UK issue of the 10-track vinyl LP originally released in 1964.

Nout wrong with a bit of Dusty..on any day of the week!!!!

Dustysox posted:

Quad 33 posted:

A little bit of Dusty on a Saturday afternoon.

Stay Awhile (1970 UK issue of the 10-track vinyl LP originally released in 1964.

Nout wrong with a bit of Dusty..on any day of the week!!!!

More Sandy Denny. This one a CD ripped to NS01:

not quite so laid back now . . . 

and

Free by Free

On Vinyl

One of the best:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T958NWjweg

1990 UK 9-track LP.

Vinyl

(2016)

Particularly groovy via Hi-Res Tidal Masters 

The brilliant Aerial (A Sky of Honey) - I love the whole journey she takes you on through the day as it reminds me of long, lazy, balmy summer days 

Kate Bush - Aerial

james n posted:

The brilliant Aerial (A Sky of Honey) - I love the whole journey she takes you on through the day as it reminds me of long, lazy, balmy summer days 

Kate Bush - Aerial

Totally agree with that James, one of my favourites is when she brings the blackbird in to sing, wonderful....

Discovering the track 'Ice', at an appropriate volume level. Very nice, Mr Latimer. 

Followed by Mr Hillage welcoming Dawn. CD rip NS01 - NDS. 

Pink Floyd's The Final Cut, new Grundman/Guthrie/Plante master. I already have a UK first press of this, plus a Japanese first press on Sony/Columbia, and this is inferior to both. The other thing that spoils it is in the inclusion of "When The Tigers Broke Free" after "One of the Few", which spoils the narrative and musical flow.

Despite it being the least "Floyd-y" Pink Floyd album, and the abence of Rick Wright, I still think it's a pretty good LP.

joerand posted:

Kevin-W posted:

Pink Floyd, A Momentary Lapse of Reason, 2017 vinyl remaster. This sounds a hell of a lot better than the UK original first pressing, but no amount of tweaking from Guthrie and co. can disguise the fact that this album is a dog, and by far the worst thing in the entire Floyd canon.

Kevin,

I've got original vinyl and CD and everyone will agree the album is a trudge through the mud for SQ. I like the music well enough though. This is probably the only 2017 remaster I'm considering buying if there is a marked improvement in SQ. I'm a bit confused as to how to interpret your post with regard to "this album is a dog". Are you saying that despite the improvement the sonics are still hopeless or that you don't care for the music?

Randy, I think the SQ of this new master is a definite improvement on the '87 version (although that doesn't mean the 1980s production tropes sound any less dated).

When I say the album is "a dog", I basically mean it's shit. Execrable. So regardless of the sonics (and I do think the dated production techniques are always going to colour one's perception of the SQ), the music is awful, the lyrics even worse. Even DG's guitar playing is way below par, except on "Sorrow", the album's best track. I regard it as a bit of an embarrassment, one that should never have been made.

Streaming from HDX - enjoy this occasionally when in the right mood. Sounds good tonight although I have skipped a couple of tracks!

Stevee_S posted:

james n posted:

The brilliant Aerial (A Sky of Honey) - I love the whole journey she takes you on through the day as it reminds me of long, lazy, balmy summer days 

Kate Bush - Aerial

Totally agree with that James, one of my favourites is when she brings the blackbird in to sing, wonderful....

When this came out there were those that dissed it on the back of her voice ageing, and the general thing that she was past it. But Disc 2 is up there with The Seventh Wave as one of her artistic pinnacles. It's just great.

Mind you I wonder if she regrets having Rolf on board...

1971 - Vinyl - Uk first pressing...

Kevin-W posted:

Pink Floyd's The Final Cut, new Grundman/Guthrie/Plante master. I already have a UK first press of this, plus a Japanese first press on Sony/Columbia, and this is inferior to both. The other thing that spoils it is in the inclusion of "When The Tigers Broke Free" after "One of the Few", which spoils the narrative and musical flow.

Despite it being the least "Floyd-y" Pink Floyd album, and the abence of Rick Wright, I still think it's a pretty good LP.

 

Played the new LP version today and thought it sounded fine. Must have a closer comparison because I also have the Japanese prsssing, which is excellent as you say. 

This is is often cited as a terrible Floyd album, hardly a Floyd album at all given Waters dominates so much. But, I love it and did from my first listen at the tender age of fifteen back in 84. It was my "Hi-Fi moment" album on hearing it at a friends house who played it on their parents Bang and Olufsen. It was so well produced and engineered. Sounds fabulous and the guitar solos ala Gilmore are among his best along with Animals and Comfortably Numb, Brick, etc. I found and still do the post Waters albums dull and insipid by comparison. 

Jeff Anderson posted:

Natalia Zukerman  -  "Gas Station Roses"  (2011)

Another great recommendation, Jeff.

Cheers.

N

Beth Orton - Daybreaker

Call it dinner jazz but with words.

C.

Never thought I would be playing this today, but guess that's the good thing about music. Something catches your eye and it turns out to suit your mood perfectly. First time I heard this was on a pair of Meridian M1 or 2s -  the wedge shaped ones. The  drum at the start of Fade away and radiate sounded awesome through the active speakers. Sure it sounds even better now, but will always remember the meridians for that.

Tonight, I am going to listen to some Coltrane.

Timjoebill posted:

Played the new LP version today and thought it sounded fine. Must have a closer comparison because I also have the Japanese prsssing, which is excellent as you say. 

 

This is is often cited as a terrible Floyd album, hardly a Floyd album at all given Waters dominates so much. But, I love it and did from my first listen at the tender age of fifteen back in 84. It was my "Hi-Fi moment" album on hearing it at a friends house who played it on their parents Bang and Olufsen. It was so well produced and engineered. Sounds fabulous and the guitar solos ala Gilmore are among his best along with Animals and Comfortably Numb, Brick, etc. I found and still do the post Waters albums dull and insipid by comparison. 

I think what this new master lacks is the thunderous transients of those early pressings, it feels a bit smoothed out; otherwise it's a pretty decent "modern" presentation of what might well be the Floyd's best-recorded album.

I agree with you - it's an underrated record. I like the concept, too, and it seems rather timely three decades on. And despite Waters' complete domination, Gilmour's contributions are among some of his best-ever work - some of his playing is just majestic.

However, for all its power and anger, The Final Cut is a sad, rather tiring record to listen to; with inter-band relationships at an all-time low, you can hear that the group is pretty much creatively exhausted. They simply had no more to give, which is why the Waters-less A Momentary Lapse of Reason, which followed four years later, was such a catastrophically embarassing dud. I agree that the post-RW records are pretty insipid, and are unworthy of the band in their 60s/70s pomp.