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;
Jeff Anderson posted:
Offa Rex - "The Queen Of Hearts" (2017)
Great stuff Jeff. Just streamed their version of Willie O'Winsbury (a big favourite of mine, which Richard Thompson stole for his own) and it's lovely.
A lovely album with super SQ.
Kevin-W posted:Stevee_S posted:Kevin-W posted:More vintage but minty Scott on vinyl. Another purchase from last weekend.
I'll have to give this one a try...
Never been released on CD, Steve. Scott hated this record and has never authorised a reissue. You can get most of the songs on the Classics & Collectables compilation though. Moviegoer is not his strongest album (really for the hardcore fans) but there is one gem - "The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti"; "That Night" is OK too.
Ah okay thanks for that Kevin, no wonder I never bumped into it.
On vinyl...nice! 
Just mentioned this 2-CD set, which collects together various Scott and Walker Brothers tracks, to Steve above. That seems like good enough a reason to re-acquaint myself with it:
apye! posted:
On vinyl...nice!
Purchased a couple of weeks ago ripped the CD very nice.
Time for an old favourite from the days when all I listened to was rock and 'concept albums'.
Hungryhalibut posted:Blimey, they used to play that at school in about 1973.
Yep. I think I bought it around that time while I was still at school. I can remember persuading my mum to turn my record player on when she would wake me in the morning. I used to have the thing cued so I could wake up to my favourite bits of this album. Happy days 
1974 - vinyl - U.K. Pressing...
Thanks Kevin, I haven't played Scott Walker for ages.
The Decemberists - "The Crane Wife" (2006)
Now playing......
John Mellencamp - On The Rural Route 7609
A four volume set (54 tracks) from John..... If you like John, you will like this ----- some things keep getting better with age.
Notes from Tidal: Only John Mellencamp, whose career began with a series of wrong turns, raw determination, and the audaciousness to demand he be taken seriously could create a box set as strange, representative, and labyrinthine as On the Rural Route 7609. In the era of the “track,” Mellencamp has issued a massive, beautifully packaged, and exhaustively annotated four-disc career retrospective that doesn't lean on his hits (many aren't here), but rather on more obscure album cuts, outtakes, rarities (17 selections make their debuts here), and more recent material -- numerous selections come from 2007's Freedom's Road and 2008's Life Love Death and Freedom. In Anthony DeCurtis' excellent liner essay/interview, Mellencamp claims he isn't “trying to prove anything. . . it was a way for them to discover songs of mine that perhaps were overlooked because of the songs that were so popular on the radio.” Given his choice of material, he may not feel that his career-long demand has been met yet.
The address in the title of On the Rural Route 7609 denotes his recording span: 1976-2009, to date.
On my way to Munich.....
Toen switched to this...
Sheryl Crow - "Be Myself" (2017) Sheryl returns to her early career successes in working with producer, guitarist and song-writer Jeff Trott.
Recommended on here a while ago, which led me to get it. And very good it is too. Good old Qobuz.
Franz Schubert (1797-1828): David Fray (piano)
Moments musicaux | Impromptus
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