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".

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All over the the instrumental landscape this late afternoon.  

Andy Summers - Earth + Sky

Lars Danielsson - Liberetto

Frank Zappa - Waka Jawaka (Big Swifty & WJ, exclusively)
Glad you checked it out, Nutty. Good sonics on that one though the bass can be a challenge to manage. Lots of it. I turned the subs off to listen again today. Last night was headphones for me too. The song writing starts strong but seems to lose its way in the latter third of the recording.

I’ve sampled some Chris Stapleton. Another bud had recommended him too. Just not where my head is at lately but that’s nothing against him.
Chris Stapleton, "Without Your Love"

https://youtu.be/k4oGoiN4JtM

 Chris displays genuine grit. Just sounds amazing on the Totem Forest Signatures! Any C. Stapleton fans in the crowd?

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The Meat Puppets - Too High To Die. Great overlooked Alt-Rock music! Listened to it all the way through (13 tracks).
The entire Iris Dement catalog. For those unfamiliar with this astounding songwriter and singer, imagine a Hard Country/Hillbilly/Bluegrass version of the more Country Blues Lucinda Williams. A favorite of Merle Haggard (from whom I learner of Iris), Steve Earle, John Prine (with whom she often performs), Emmylou Harris, Buddy Miller, Gillian Welch, Vince Gill, Jim Lauderdale, Rodney Crowell, Alison Krauss, Marty Stuart, and just about all other Americana/Roots artists.
Holly cole 
daft punk random access memories
deadmau5
guns and roses appetite for destruction
new release of Vivaldi 4seasons on sacd 
mad season -above 
...and much later - 

The Spinning Jennies "Full Volume/The Best of..."

Track 5 from this compilation (love the drumming): Least of All

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8Z97Ia58bU&frags=pl%2Cwn
Joe Satriani - Black Swans & Wormhole Wizards

Final track here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eAB2ebJryM

(and well HE might, given the sorry lot on this planet)
@gpgr4blu  Abbey Road is the Beatles album I'm least likely to skip tracks on. Ringo really hits his stride here.

It feels like a world in itself - like Born to Run and Astral Weeks.


Yeah, all good stuff! Even woke up with that Matt Monro track running in my head! So I treated myself to 4CD box set The Singer's Singer. Apparently it's been lovingly restored/remastered.

Talking of songs playing in my head, the opening bars of this Joy Division track have often served me well whenever I need to ring the doorbell. 

https://youtu.be/zcKGqgwLzjA

Very good, cd318. Glad you enjoyed it and heard (felt?) the connection between Astrud Gilberto and Dominique Durand (a Parisian living in NYC at the time).

Personally, more than a dreamy impression, "On Days Like These" (its arrangement) struck me as quintessential '60s in a pre-Beatles way.  Really took me back.  I would not have guessed it was a Quincy Jones composition.


@ghosthouse Thanks for that! I loved the way she seems to be channeling AG. Far easier said than done, but the effect is immediate.

Here's another surefire dreamy summer classic. This time from Matt Monro.

https://youtu.be/KQIRbV_noi8

Early evening...
Joe Satriani's Crystal Planet

Late evening...
Lars Danielsson - Liberetto III

Magnus Ostrom - Parachute

cd318 -
For a more contemporary take (2001 vs 1968) on that same "summer" vibe, check out

Long Distance by Ivy.

Track 3, Edge of the Ocean, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqoBgkDifKs

I'm not going to argue the arrangements are as artful as on Windy, however ;-)

Last evening, Danny Norbury's "Light In August".

So far, this early evening...
Bill Bruford's Earthworks (live), "Random Acts of Happiness".
A spectacular live recording.  Raises the question why some studio recording sessions can't get it right.

Bill Connors, "Return"  
The O-riginal guitarist in Return to Forever.  
(Al Di Meo-who??)