Music Room
With the discussions about the channel 4 top 100, can you name your all time favourite..?I was put on the spot when disagreeing with OK Computer being at the top, and have still not come up with just one album. I have been buying music for 25 years,...
An unusual recording this. Bruno Walter (CBS), Otto Klemperer, and Claudio Abbado (1999) are currently my reigning triumvirate in this work, all for different reasons, of course. Michael Tilson Thomas’ recordings of the Second, Fourth, and Sixth...
Ok, so like a great many on here I am awaiting PULSE (Pink Floyd) to be released on DVD.I saw on here that it is likely to be later this year after the release of WYWH as its' thirtyieth anniversary.When talking about this to my brother in law he...
Another one with OK Computer at number 1!!Its now becoming a cliche to put that top of the list. Alright its a good album but certainly not even Top 20 ever surely? Its not as good as the Bends either.Additionally, most people I know don't really...
I had heard of James before, but it only registered when I saw the extra bits of the 24 hour party people DVD where they interviewed 2 of the band’s members. Went to my dealers and found ‘Gold Mother’ on vinyl and after a few plays I...
Couldn't believe this was voted the no. 1 album on Channel 4s top 100! Music to die to more like; depressing drawling vocals, ponderous and slow production, heavy ominous overtones. Thrashy sound engineering. It's different, I'll give you that but...
I've just bought the new I am Kloot cd with the limited edition dvd. after 3 plays I'd say this is their best yet. Great songs, superb lyrics (as you would expect from Johnny Bramwell) and a slightly harder, rockier sound using more piano/keyboards...
Taken from the Tele:"Legendary rockers Queen are to play the Odyssey Arena this spring as the band returns to the road for the first time in almost 20 years, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal.Former Free and Bad Company singer Paul Rodgers will step...
Have been listening to this most of the last week.A few excellent tracks - Right Between The Eyes and Run Baby Run amongst others. However, a few tracks which I seem to forget as soon as I've played them. Sounds more like the first Garbage release...
Dear all,can anyone tell me about the current situation with regard to availability of new Steely Dan vinyl? I have managed to buy "Everything Must Go". Are "Gaucho","Two Against the World" or any of the 70s records readily available? Also, I noticed...
Dear all,having just had my LP12 serviced and finally made the move to a MC cartridge,I have been rediscovering the pleasures of vinyl! Can anyone inform me of the current situation regarding Steely Dan LPs. Today I bought a copy of "Everything Must...
With the wife out and the kids upstairs on the computers, I thought it was an ideal opportunity for me to get acquainted with Beck last night as a concert of his recorded in the Union Chapel was being shown on BBC4 and I could crank up the stereo.So...
Does anyone know if there is a DVD recording of Mahler's 2nd? I own a laser disc copy of Leonard Bernstein Conducting this piece on the Deutch Grammaphone Label. I know of no DVD's of this symphony.
I’ve had this album for several weeks now and ever since I first played it I have found it to be really noisy (compared to my CD copy) especially disc 1 side A. I cleaned both discs using Disc Dortor’s LP cleaner and vac dried them with my...
Then check out CD XPRESS.I found an eponymous album by 'Cado Belle' (Maggie Riley) on there from 1976, that I've been trying to get on CD for years.A lot of it is Japanese stuff on import. Don't know how long CD's take to arrive yet - they are quoting...
For me this is simply one of the most beautifully quiet & subtle and yet almost deceptively powerful records I’ve ever heard. It’s haunting…and in a good way. It’ll get ya’ if you give it a chance… Some of it’s beauty is easy and clear to hear and even a casual listener will experience that right away…even if you aren't into Jazz...this is quite simply just wonderful and pretty stuff…no other way around it. So you have that instant...
You simply must get this CD, Awesome.http://cdbaby.com/cd/circelinkJeremy
Last Thursday I did a gig with Classical guitarist, John Williams. On his tours he requests the promoter to get a "home Hi-Fi amp and high-end speakers". I was contacted for the Austin show through The Austin Classical Guitar Society. I ran his AKG...
Who else has had the experience to buy a CD (maybe in a batch together with others), play it and put it onto the shelf leaving a so-so feeling ?Happens to me, quite often...Some of those get a "second chance", and very few start to shine, then. My...
I was in a little record shop in Diss on Saturday when they played something that caught my attention. It seemed to have elements of Floyd, Yes, and the Beach Boys amongst others, but seemed a modern production. I saw that it was vinyl that was being...
For all those afficiandos (thanks for the reommendation Nic Lees) 2005 UK dats as follows:5/29 - Brighton, UK - Hanbury Ballroom5/30 - Nottingham, UK - Rescue Rooms5/31 - Glasgow, UK - Stereo6/01 - Manchester, UK - The Roadhouse6/02 - London, UK -...
Over the past nine or so months, I’ve gone through four versions of Parsifal somewhat off the beaten track. That is, Hans Knappertsbusch, Herbert von Karajan, and Daniel Barenboim were not covered. They’ve been covered before, and I think...
I'm off to Florida for a 2wk holiday and would like to find a cd/record shop similar to LA's Amoeba, ie a shop selling keenly priced new, secondhand, promo and deletions cds and if I have room vinyl too. I'll be touring the whole state, Miami,...
I've been listening to this over the last weekend and again last night over at Oldie's place.We wondered what the controversy was surrounding this album and why it remained unavailable for so long. It's obviously an intense and very personal album,...
(Sorry previous message posted incomplete). I have just discovered the rermegacorpwebsite which is run by Chris Cutler who used to be one of the key members of Henry Cow. Recommended Records has been a useful resource for unusual music since the late...