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.
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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big_gregThe 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 |
tuzarupa65 posts👍👌👍👌👍👌 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 |
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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 |
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. |
@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. |
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. Hope you find some NCT that you enjoy. |
http://https//www.thejazzmann.com/reviews/review/neil-cowley-trio-radio-silence A review of Radio Silence (full recording). Listened to this one tonight. |
Last night "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" w/ the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. On Vinyl Wow! What a fantastic triple album (2 cd) (1 Folder)(-: I was never a big country fan but did like some bluegrass, especially banjo. Whether you like country or not, you have to respect the contributions that these old timers brought to country music. This album sounds fantastic too, at least, on my system. I don’t know what pressing it is. Anyway give it a listen. Will the Circle be Unbroken (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band album) - Wikipedia |
@ghosthouse Sorry about the confusion. I do not own a copy of the digital. So I cannot speak to the sonics of the digital. But the music is good IMO. Most of it is Bluegrass I believe. And THAT was what early country music started out as. I learned that by listening to early 30's country and was surprised that it sounded like what we would call Bluegrass. If you like that, you will like the music. |
Michael Brecker - Now You See It, Now You Don't.... Track 5, Peep, with some very nice piano work by Joey Calderazzo and some way-in-the- background guitar strumming (on this track, anyway) by yet another Fagen/Becker indentured guitarist, Jon Herrington. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfD7Q14p6Iw |
More Michael Brecker... http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl6vMdJFAz8 Track 4, El Nino, from his "Two Blocks From The Edge". |
