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What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report
I enjoy vinyl and digital (lately, with recent changes, vinyl actually sounds better than digital to me), BUT given what seems an overall preference for analog/vinyl on A'gon, I'm curious what the non-vinyl "1/2" is listening to. I tried to see if this was a previously posted question. Did not seem so.
This evening for me, it's Genesis (definitive edition remaster) "A Trick of the Tail".
This evening for me, it's Genesis (definitive edition remaster) "A Trick of the Tail".
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This evening just finished Stevie Nicks "Bella Donna" 1984 West German pressing Cat No-299-69 stunning sound, just love everything about this woman. Check out the dynamic range variations in this album, from the great early to the later very compressed obviously re-mastered/re-issued download/streamed versions. https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list?artist=Stevie+Nicks&album=Bella+Donna Cheers George |
CSN&Y +1 Last night "Crosby, Stills & Nash" Crosby, Stills & Nash self titled 1987 release the best, sounded so open and real. Others got dynamically "crunched" especially the 24/192 streamed one. https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list?artist=Crosby%2C+Stills+%26+Nash&album=Crosby%2C+Stills+... Cheers George |
Nutty - okay! I can hear what you like in that track. Great energy. GREAT playing. No shrinking violet she. Love her soloing when she stretches out. Definitely sounds like someone worth seeing/hearing live. BUT at the same time I quickly remembered what I did not like about that recording during past listening attempts. Gosh, it sounds like a bootleg somebody made with a handheld mike towards the back of the hall. Kinda muddy, distorted and flat/compressed (not to put too fine a point on it). The drums are buried in muck (which is real sad since I think her drummer is good! Given how great sounding live recordings can be it annoys the heck out of me that "recording professionals" think it’s okay to put out shlock like that. She deserves better. No offense to you intended. I did continue listening and enjoyed her playing throughout...creative and fresh; held my interest on later tracks like Diamonds in the Dirt, Kiss The Ground and Just Another Word. The album’s a good "ambassador" for her live show but yeesh people - fix the sound! |
Thanks, Nutty. I’ll have to check that specific JST live track later this evening. I know I’ve sampled her live stuff in the past...just didn’t click for me the way some of her studio albums do. But I’ll give her live another shot. Welcome, Speakermaster. How did you end up with digitized gramophone recordings? DIY?? |
Been listening to old american gramophone recordings in digital on vintage speakers to see just how much i missed in the first twenty five to thirty years of listening to these recordings the first time and i am learning that i never actually heard them in the right tone or sound quality it is like hearing them all for the first time. |
Hey ghosthouse - This one’s for you. Joanne Shaw Taylor, Songs From The Road - CD/DVD Live set. I believe she’s a great Blues song writer, vocalist and one of the best Blues guitarist around. A song from her White Sugar CD, "Watch ’Em Burn" live. As discussed in the past, I really believe she shows much more of her abilities when performing live and untethered. https://youtu.be/n9LyKLPoP_s N |
Yellowjackets - A Rise In The Road Track 3, Can't We Elope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92Q_MYvin0Q |
Andrew Hill's "Passing Ships". Recorded way back in 1969 but only released in 2003. A "nonet"! The title track here. It ain't sweet sounding soprano sax or oboe stating the melody but rather English Horn in the hands of Joe Farrell (given name: Joseph Carl Firrantello as per Tom Jurek/All Music Guide). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAtdXUzaW2M&list=PLEyxWPyoryRKh7uJWexso-JADvtpJ3Ioj&index=2 |
Thanks for the title @reubent, I’m definitely going to look for a copy. He was one of the new guys all the young singer/songwriters I knew back then were talking about and listening to. I don’t remember Pete being as Rock ’n’ Roll at Dwight and Tom, but that was a long time ago, and my memory ain’t what it useta be! I’m still haunted by the suicide of Elliot Smith. Elliot was living in L.A. in the latter-half of the 90’s, and was as well-respected by his peers as anyone I can think of. One Friday night he and I passed as I and my woman were exiting and he was entering a favorite restaurant (the name of which escapes me at the moment) on the border of Toluca Lake and Burbank, right across the side street from the Bob’s Big Boy. The doorway was kind of packed, and as we passed and our eyes met, he gave me the "Hey, man" nod. I returned the nod, but had to keep moving so as to not hold up the restaurant traffic. Not long after he took his life. Two of the best new artists---Elliot and Kurt Cobain, both plagued with demons. The life forces that foster creative brilliance often bring with that gift a curse. I see it in Lucinda Williams as well; being her is no picnic. Hank Williams’ genius came at a very high price. I’ve personally known only one true genius, a songwriter who decided he didn’t want to pay the price a career in music demands. He died young anyway---only 55. Evan Johns---the most unique musician I ever worked with---lived hard and partied harder, dying almost destitute at age 60. I’m surprised he made it that long. |
Oh sure @reubent. He was coming up around the same time as Matthew Sweet and the other better young singer/songwriters of the early-to-mid 90’s, but more rootsy, less Pop. I liked him pretty well, but for some reason not enough to have anything by him in the collection. I should add him to my list of things to look for, thanks for the reminder. |
@loomisjohnson: I guess I just kind of relegated Twilley to the past, for years not going out of my way to see what he was up to. Starting out with such a killer album (Sincerely) sure established a high standard for him to live up to. It would be like The Beatles debuting with Sgt. Pepper! He had a lot of bad luck, record company indifference, and perhaps a sound that just wasn’t to the public’s taste. I can’t get over how Petty came along behind Twilley, and zoomed on by him. For whatever reason (or reasons), Petty ended up having a major career, Twilley a minor one. I far prefer Twilley to Petty (a much better songwriter and singer, imo), but there’s no arguing with success. On the other hand, Twilley's still alive. ;-) |
