Music Room
I've discovered Rush relatively late in life, but have really enjoyed some of their material following a chance encounter with a fellow forum follower. So far I have acquired CDs and downloaded from Linn the following: Fly by...
A list of Top 100 albums from the 80's on pitchfork. http://pitchfork.com/features/...bums-of-the-1980s/8/ It is worth a look if you are a fan of Alternative ish bands from that decade. I suspect from the "what are you...
A thread Shamelessly copied from one this time last year ( apologies to bruce woodhouse i believe ) What new releases or purchases that you have made have stood out ,disapointed or would reccomend so far this year? For myself ,...
A successful charity shop vinyl foray; Bette Noir by Bryan Ferry Reality Effect by The Tourists The Cure singles Nov82 to Nov83 all in great playing condition but slightly scruffy sleeves for the princely outlay of £3 Anyone else had any great finds recently?
In summary: wow. A beautiful voice, lovely lyrics and a long future ahead of her, methinks.
Sad news - Bobby "Blue" Bland has passed away, aged 83. BBC News story here. What a voice the great man had.
I mean jazz. I don't mean rock and roll. I mean the never-the-same-way-twice music the American black people gave the world. on another topic someone asked if Diane Krall is Jazz.I replied with two video's with Cassandra Wilson,Carmen Gomes and...
Hello all there's an hour long nick drake special on bbc I player now. He would of been 65 this week.
The beatiful voice, smart melodies and lyrics that will keep your attention fixed is Hello Saferide. Annika Norlin, who uses this strange name when doing English albums is One of my top 2% most played records.
Her first albums, Introducing Hello...
If anyones intrested Amazon are offering a Naim sampler album in MP3 format for free download until the end of June
While being off sick, I've suddenly felt the urge to buy some big band CDs. I want the full scale stuff, but I've not one clue about who, what, or which recordings.
I'm sure one or two here can help. CD only please.
Tony
Background, incidental, fun, shared etc their are lots of ways to listen but I do like to get a bit of peace and quiet now and again to have a really good 'critical' listening session. Critical listenining requires focus, concentration even....
i have a question,what is a better sound file to download in your opinion a vinyl file or a regular cd file into a flac format through the internet
Bob is back on tour in the UK this autumn playing Blackpool Opera House for three nights along with Glasgow Clyde Auditorium and London R.A.H. Blackpool could be interesting! Richard
For all Smiths fans here (yes!!) - on a very known hd music webshop their albums in hd-quailty. Album name is "Complete", price roughly 65€. Cheers Ralf....what difference thas it maaaaake? :-)
Far from my favourite band but last night's part 1 on BBC 2 was a really excellent documentary. Part 2 is tonight. Most of the footage is live, or in rehearsal and does remind you they did come up with some excellent songs. A bit of an insight into...
Hi Gang, Been watching a few hours of Joe Bonamassa in concert, and, really, he is something special. I know that there's all the usual suspects, Ry, Keef, Gilmore etc. but this guy is simply amazing. As a player myself, I'm dumfounded...
So tell me what tracks/albums really move you. i realise this is a very personal thing but I would be interested to hear what the responses are. Following a recommendation from here i purchased Diamond Mine (King creosote & John Hopkins). It took me a few listens to get into it but then something just clicked and the music and lyrics really affected me. This culminated in me, whilst listening to it in the car the other day, having to pull over because it provoked such strong...
Can you please help ?I have a very varied collection of music, but I never really bothered with Jazz, I have been to Hi Fi shows and hear some great Jazz Funk as demo music but never know who by, can any of you guys and Ladies suggest Jazz for me to...
Downloaded 24/96 version from HD-Tracks (15% off at the moment) and enjoying it now. Very rich sound, and much improved compared to earlier CD versions (or even the version I remember playing on my old Sansui SR222 with Ortofon VMS-20E into...
Apologies if this has been asked before but I couldn't find it when I searched.Has anyone listened to the High Res version, on HD Tracks, of Holst;The Planets, conducted by Sir simon Rattle. Can't seem to find any reviews. It says its remastered in...
Or am I just being a Grumpy old Geezer. Back In January I noted Charlie Haden was to be awarded Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammys. Remembering he recorded on Naim Label I decided to purchase those albums I did not own offered on HD plus a couple of CD's. About two weeks later Naim announce the selling of all his HD offerings at £9.99. Contacted Naim to see if some kind of good will offer might be available but reply was basically sorry but tough luck on the timing. A month back I...
Hi - anyone know if this online record shop is in trouble?? I have bought from them over the years, and have a record on order (which I have already paid for) and the site seems to have disappeared. They had changed their address from onlyvinyl.biz to...
I have been enjoying this this morning, Crosby Stills and Nash demos. Very enjoyable. Any other great demo albums anyone care to ...
Dear Folks, I bought this album today and is it official ? Cheers,Marco