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

Dylan "son of Steve" Howe's superb jazz take on Bowie's Berlin period. On CD:

Tony2011 posted:

1968 - Vinyl - 1972 UK reissue...

We're Only In It For The Money - FZ

Liking your new avatar Tony. 

Bob Dylan  -  "The Bootleg Series, Volume 8: Tell Tale Signs, Rare and Unreleased 1989 - 2006"  disc 1  (2008)  perhaps my favorite Dylan release I have heard.

On vinyl...

On vinyl...

ISAAC HAYES Black Moses (1972 UK first edition 14-track double LP, including a couple of psychedelic soul versions of Burt Bacharach - Hal David tunes,poster-sized cross cover which folds out to reveal Hayes dressed like a biblical Black Moses.

Bert Schurink posted:

This and Angel Station are my two favourite old MMEB albums.

Laura Veirs  -  "Warp and Weft"  (2013)

On CD:-

Queen - Innuendo

Michael Stanley  -  "In A Very Short Time"  (2016)

Album one only (not the Snow Goose set).

Gary Shaw posted:

Tony2011 posted:

1968 - Vinyl - 1972 UK reissue...

We're Only In It For The Money - FZ

This was the first Mothers album I heard. It did two (or more) things: blew my teenage mind, and infected me with the Hi-Fi bug because I heard it on a friend's monster Stereogram: the mighty Beogram 900RG. The sounds issuing from speakers I had never imagined, driven by a turntable that was the ultimate in space age were just astonishing and raised so many questions at the time: Where exactly was Eric Clapton? What were the censored bits? How come someone who looked like a hippy despised hippies so much? When was the next one out?

All questions answered in time...

Love it to bits, though loathe the 80s Zappa remix (with digital reverb, re-recorded "modern" drum and bass).

Gary, I forgot about EC's guest appearance on this album and his vocals  "God, it's God. I see God" during "Nasal Retentive Calliope Music".  

Yes, I agree that in the 80's everything went downhill in particular after SATLTSADW. Also strange that a man who, according to gossip, sacked members of his band for smoking weed created music to which people ended up using hallucinogenic enhancements to enjoy. Troubled genius!

Quiet and relaxing...

1975 - Vinyl - U.K. Pressing...

Christopher_M posted:

Stevie Wonder - Songs in The Key of Life

Wiki tells me this was the last record of the three that comprise his 'Classic phase', the other two having had mentions here recently. Who am I to argue?!

Sides 1 and 4 are on one record, 2 and 3 on the other. Always baffled me.

C.

Late to the thread this year - Happy so far!

Aha, not everyone is an audiophile! With a "record player" back in the day, you could put two LPs on the spindle, the first drops for side 1, then the second drops on top for side 2; lift, flip the pair, repeat for sides 3 and 4. (You can cringe if you wish now...but bafflement banished). 

Apropos Thread: First listen to Sir Roland Hanna Trio (Après un Reve), thanks for that... Lifting me out of my nostalgic reverie from Boys and Girls (Bryan Ferry, and a great list of guitars). Touch and tone like the best of Cedar Walton, but just a great trio here in my living room with me.

I must say that this thread plus Tidal is a revelation - more great new finds than since I first discovered Radio Paradise. Thank you all and Best for 2017. 

Regards alan

Dozey posted (like a week ago or something):

Regarding the question of sides 1 and 4 being on one platter and 2 and 3 on the other, this was so you could stack them on an autochanger, and only have to turn them over once (after sides 1 and 2 had played).

Argh ninja'd by Dozey. Read ahead alan....

Have also checked out tracks from Subterranean (Howe) and had a quick blast of Sound and Vision (Beck, YouTube only as far as I can tell) riffing off the covers and stories here in the thread. 

Regards a

vinyl - SQ is 10 out of 10

Tony2011 posted:

1975 - Vinyl - U.K. Pressing...

I got my copy of this album in 1978 after seeing the Sight and Sound In Concert broadcast and buying (LIve) Playing the Fool on the strength of it. I was a little disappointed with Side 1, feeling that it sounded a little overproduced. But I am not sure if that is because the live arrangements of Just the Same, On Reflection, and Free Hand are superior to the studio versions, or whether the studio versions were just different from what I was used to.

I think Side 2 is flawless, His Last Voyage being my favourite track on the entire album.

Music in the car today:

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