What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report

ghosthouse

I have been looking to get into Neil Cowley Trio.
Where do I begin?

Happy Listening!

Annie Lennox

Neil Cowley Trio - Loud Louder Stop

Ella Fitzgerald Sings Cole Porter Verve

Keane

Imelda May, Featuring Jeff Beck
"Black Tears"

https://youtu.be/S2xmzjKujGs

N

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.  

@ghosthouse

"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.

Hey, @artemus_5 
I will have to look into Phoenix.  Don't know it at all.

@ghosthouse 

Great song off a great album. maybe my favorite, though I like all of them, including "Phoenix". 

Tom Petty - She's The One (Soundtrack now 25 years old).

Charles Lloyd

ghosthouse

nice choice on Zuma.

Happy Listening!

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).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klPsjR6Y53U

@nutty - as ever, glad to see all you posted.

jafant13,241 posts04-07-2021 1:41pmAC/DC

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.

https://ibb.co/4ftgyP7

Cheers George

AC/DC

Julian Lage

Streetwize - Body Party
Jeff Ryan - Embrace &  Duality CDs

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.

Cheers George

Tonight - in keeping with my tradition:
Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade
Philharmonia Orchestra, William Boughton Conducting.

Nimbus Records - NI 5128, 1988. DDD recording. Lovely.

big_greg
Still a little on the "bright" side

The SHM ones are a bit compressed to the originals, any compression make things sound bright/loud and uneasy to me.
http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list?artist=Steely+Dan&album=Countdown+To+Ecstasy

Gaucho was the pits with later squashed releases and HD downloaded ones
http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list?artist=Steely+Dan&album=Gaucho

Cheers George

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.

scratcha156 posts04-01-2021 1:23pmGary Moore; Blues and Beyond

Yeah!!! pity it got all the life (squashed) compressed out of it.
http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list?artist=Gary+Moore&album=Blues+and+Beyond

My favorite "Parisian Walkways 93" (Virgin France PM 515 limited edition) http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/66275

And don’t forget "Still Got the Blues", which has the only streamed/downloaded version that I’ve seen that hasn’t been (squashed) compressed.
http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list?artist=Gary+Moore&album=%09Still+Got+The+Blues

Cheers George

Garbage

Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy, Japan SHM SACD

Gary Moore; Blues and Beyond

Another wow!! night this time with (ELO) Electric Light Orchestra "Eldorado" 1987 cd version "non compressed" Epic ZK 35526 , this is what Redbook was always meant to sound like through a good discrete R2R dac.
http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list?artist=Electric+Light+Orchestra&album=Eldorado

Cheers George

Mississippi Sheiks:
Stop and Listen (Yazoo Records)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience:
Electric Ladyland (Polydor - UK Cover)

The Doors double CD

Stevie Wonder -

Songs in the Key of Life

Air Supply and Christopher Cross.

Michael Bolton

Frankie Goes to Hollywood -
Welcome to the Pleasuredome

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=

Cheers George

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".

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4-oCE2y-CrF_QUXAYSbfOtLDPbEYrxLZ

N

An oldie, but....
Michael Stanley Band, Heartland - CD 
"He Can’t Love You"

https://youtu.be/KFMFOSekS7Q

N

Hey Ghosthouse, 
I like this cut from Be-Bop Deluxe, Sunburst Finish - Remastered "Heavenly Homes". 

https://youtu.be/5hadMFmHLUU

N

Last night another amazing sounding CD uncompressed 1987 issue Elton John "Madman Across the Water" cat no. 825-487-2
http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/111069

Steer clear of the 2004 re-issue hybrid  
http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/52257

Cheers George

 

Hey Nutty. Haven’t heard any BBD in a long time.

Tonight though, some A.A. Bondy...
American Hearts
and
Believers

From Believers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGqGSfr09dY

Be Bop Deluxe

N

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!

"The Young Rascals" "Grooving" https://youtu.be/4JIq8Zn0AJE typical 60’s recording, but so much better sounding on todays R2R dacs.
Have both these and the 1988 is so much more relaxed sounding than the on edge 2010 because of the compression difference.
1988 CD release: http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/127651
2010 CD release: http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/105912

Cheers George

Rory Gallagher, Top Priority 

N

(The) Electric Light Orchestra - s/t (now 50 years old)

Alice Cooper - Love it to Death (now 50 years old).

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

Cheers George

Espen Eriksen Trio - Never Ending January

Dwight Yoakum