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".
Hello @jafant - Always happy to discuss the music. For the Neil Cowley Trio I can tell you what I have. BUT go to YouTube (or search Spotify or Tidal) and give ’em a listen to decide for yourself.
The discs I bought are: Displaced Loud, Louder, Stop Radio Silence Spacebound Apes
All 4 are solid and bear repeated listening. Spacebound Apes is the newest of the 4. A concept album. Beautiful. As a place to start, however, it isn't exactly "typical" of NCT's style and sound. Loud, Louder, Stop might be more representative of their work.
Thanks for that rundown on Phoenix, @artemus_5 . I hear what you are saying about the progression of a band's sound and music even though I, personally, did not care for their change in style.
"Phoenix" was their 1st album after Terry Knight (their manager) screwed them out of their rights to the previous catalog. They added keyboard and they had a hit with "R&R Soul". Hardcore fans accused them of being sellouts with this album and "American Band" because of radio play (I guess). I just see it as part of the bands growth. Both of them are good albums, just more polished than the Raw stuff of their earlier work. OTOH Boston’s albums are said to all sound the same because they kept their sound the same. Hard to win in the music business.
A haphazard bit of catching up and some belated greetings... @tuzarupa - welcome. Saw your post (posts?) mentioning Tommy Flanagan. I love his economical and elegant style. Truly a "less is more" player. Underrated compared to his more "flash" contemporaries.
@justmetoo - welcome. Noted the comment about "classic" jazz in your Coltrane/Blue Train post. Sounds much like my own reaction and persistence with the genre. Thumbs up for Brecker’s Tales from the Hudson. I like his first half a dozen recordings where he’s group leader including the self-titled, Don’t Try This At Home, Now You See It, Two Blocks from the Edge, Time Is Of The Essence.
@jafant - Yeah...Neil’s Zuma. Might well be the favorite album by him.
@artemus_5 - GRAND FUNK RAILROAD. Don’t care what the critics thought about ’em or about the current stiffs that won’t vote them into the RRHofShame. Maybe that’s a badge of honor. Inside Looking Out, Heartbreaker, Mean Mistreater, Closer to Home...50 years old and still sounding good. Okay, so it ain’t Lerner and Loewe. (Let’s not talk about where they went later on with that string of forgettable radio hits but bills to pay and gotta eat, I guess).
Yeah Angus!!! Sat next to him in 1st and 2nd year music class very Monday morning up the back of the class room at Ashfield Boys High, one real strange dude.
The music teacher, gorgeous 6ft blonde Russian little tiny skimpy white mini skirt, with plastic gogo boots to the knee.
When she wrote on the blackboard, Angus would yell out (in his cockney accent) "higher Miss can’t see up the back", naturally the mini skirt would rise way up, many sighs, no need to say any more. (I’m sure she knew what was going on)
Oh and the "A" on the cap and blazer pocket was for Ashfield not Angus as everyone thinks.
Dylan - The Bootleg Series Vol. 14 More Blood, More Tracks
Late to the party, of course, but very impressed with how strong the NYC sessions were/are. As good as and maybe even better in some ways than the MN-sessions based recording that got released.
When it comes to Scheherazade, The Fritz Reiner and the Chicago symphony recorded in 1961 Is my Favorite rendition of this amazing classical piece. I have 4 different Versions on CD and also stream Amazon HD where there are several versions I’ve yet to hear. Truly a wonderful musical experience.
tuzarupa65 posts Tonight - in keeping with my tradition:Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade
👍👌👍👌👍👌 Got around 6 of these, the best for me for a very long time was the 1980 Philips 400-021-2 Kirill Kondrashin/Concertgebow Then I got the Jose’ Serebier?London Philli. RR-89CD. both very very good depending on mood.
I was kind of dismissive of Japan SHM-CD SACD's in another thread recently, but Countdown to Ecstasy sounded pretty good last night. Still a little on the "bright" side, which is how most of the SHM CD's I've purchased seem to be, but very enjoyable.
Last night another nostalgia evening, with George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty. Traveling Wilburys Vol 1 cat no.925-796-2 (I thought in 1988 was a good/average recording) but no!! it’s another mind blowing recording bought to life at last with todays R2R dacs. As usual only get the 1988 non compressed version, look how they butchered the later re-releases and download/streamed ones with compression. http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list?artist=The+Traveling+Wilburys&album=
J. Giels, Monkey Island - Most of you probably have this one on vinyl. I've have heard it on vinyl but it was many years ago..... The title track "Monkey Island" excellent but my go to song is "Wreckage".
Last night, "nostalgia night" from little school days, but with a couple of Scotch and sodas in me this time round, dreaming of my first crush, my music teacher, a 6ft tall blonde Russian in a mini skirt with white vinyl knee high boots, she had legs that went to heaven!!! who played this for us in school on her portable T/T!
Tonight "The Notting Hillbillies" "Missing... Presumed Having A Good Time" Great bunch of artists got together to do this, led by Mark Knofler Only one issue not compressed http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/3429 My fav tracks 1 2 3 and 11
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