Kenny Dorham - Quiet Kenny - Analog Productions - soooooooo great |
The Police - Ghost in the Machine |
Couldn't even finish side one.
Now
The B-52's - The B-52's- yellow album, Mofi silver label, awesome
@slaw I don't know them but will check them out |
AC/DC - Back in Black reissue - just fkn awful, worse than HtoH reissue. SQ is schitt, low-end is terrible, sounds like it was printed on 80grit sandpaper. I am going to look up who pressed these, they should be sued. Albums this great should not be treated this badly. utter fail
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I have met Alejandro a few times (briefly)through some of my musician friends. Super nice guy. For some reason I never fully clicked with his solo stuff but I should give it more time on the turntable. I did enjoy a True Believers reunion show he did with John Dee several years back. They are both stellar musicians |
Oh, and I never saw AC/DC with "the new guy" who just happened to stay around 35 years or so. I guess if I couldn't see them with Bon I didn't want to see them. I regret that as I bet the BiB tour was badass and towards the end it was a really huge spectacle |
@slaw I had a short window for listening and then had to head out for the evening, sorry for the slow response.
I will look for a copy of that box set. I will play a copy of Back in Black tonight to see if it is any better than the HtoH copy but I am not thinking it is going to be.
To respond late to the AC/DC thread I kinda started...I grew up a huge fan of AC/DC but was always a little young for my folks to be ok with me going to see them alone. I was saving for tickets when Bon died and I was crushed, as HtH was in constant rotation from the time I heard it on "New Album Night at Midnight" and bought it the next morning when the record store opened. Almost too much 8 months later as I was saving for tickets for Zep and the news came about Bonzo. 1980 sucked.
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AC/DC - Highway to Hell - 180g reissue, for many years I considered this to be the greatest Rock and Roll album of all time. Still in my top 3 for sure. But the people that pressed this reissue should be schitt canned, noisy vinyl, cut off center, and the first copy I picked up was warped to hell and back. |
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen, reissue - holy smokes this thing sounds good
@slaw hey, if you had referenced a specific thread of the US kit you put together I missed it. Apologies, let me go back and see if I can find the post. Definitely interested in what you put together. In an older post you were referencing a filtration system, I take it that is on your DIY system? |
I have seen some of the copies of The Pretender on MFSL but I keep seeing mediocre looking copies, still keeping my eyes open for a very good copy of it. Great record. |
@slaw schitt, $700 I can do, I think the only thread I found referred to your Auto Desk, and I struggle justifying a $4000 investment. But I am interested in that $700 setup. I better go back and look for the thread again. |
@slaw ha, maybe so. I need to find someone local with an US machine and see if I need to justify the cost of investing in one of my own. If I had thousands and thousands of LPs I could see it pretty easily, but I am in the hundreds, not thousands and that makes the cost justification a bit tougher.
Right now I am playing Jackson Browne - Running on Empty - love the record but this copy/pressing sounds gawd awful and could probably use a much better cleaning |
Dire Straits - Dire Straits
Simon & Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme - We are Vinyl reissue, pretty well done |
@reubent great record, my copy of that record is pretty rough, I need Slaw's ultra sonic treatment on it. I had tickets to see Frank Marino in 1981 (Riot and Triumph were supposed to open). About a month before the show the band broke up and the show was cancelled. Returned my tickets for Frank Zappa tickets and saw the You Are What You Is Tour. Great show, Steve Vai on guitar but Zappa owned it. Never saw Frank Marino after that
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Hall & Oates- Rock'N Soul Part 1 - MFSL |
Modest Mouse - Building Nothing out of Something |
@reubent I will look for a copy of Alf, not sure why I didn't do her solo stuff as much as her Yaz stuff |
@slaw I have seen JCM a few times, you are correct, great entertainer. That Lonesome Jubilee tour was excellent, he was at his peak. The stage set up was one of the most unique setups I have ever seen. There was not a single visible cable or speaker, at all, on the stage and everything was beige (Arnoff's drums, mic stands, risers, everything) and it had a very clean effect of focusing everything on the band.
Saw him a few years later mainly because Son Volt was opening for him, I think it was Straightaways tour but it could have been Wide Swing Tremelo, they were both very good. |
Di Meola, De Lucia, McLaughlin - Friday Night in SF - VG O/P
Caichaito - Caichaito - World Circuit Records - so very good
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John Mellencamp - The Lonesome Jubilee, what a great record and another great show
The Pretenders - Extended Play |
Thanks, Slaw
I have long considered an ultrasonic machine. I wish the cost wasn't so high for some of the most recommended units. I will see if I can find the thread
Dire Straits - Making Movies - O/P |
Radiohead - Moon Shaped Pool
Simon and Garfunkel - Concert in Central Park
Joe Jackson - Night and Day - this one takes me back as well, I saw this tour in Houston, 83ish
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@reubent I haven't listened to that album in probably 25 years and knew every track. She can sing.
Sticking with the 80s theme...
Sade - Promise (mint $5 OP copy) makes me think of my girlfriend from the year this and Diamond Life came out. She got both of them (and likely all the Yaz) in the breakup. I don't think I ever replaced any of them |
Ok this copy of Yaz- You and Me Both is taking me back to my younger days in a big way |
@reubent The OP of Roger Waters may have been the top pick up otherwise I picked up a nice copy of The Power and the Majesty on MFSL, which I will probably check out next.
For record store day they had Remain in Light reissue but I have two excellent original pressings (US and UK) so even though I love the record I really didn't have a "need" for it (like that has ever frickin stopped me from anything) but it felt like a rare moment of self discipline!
Otherwise just some odds and ends of vinyl I stupidly sold off in the 80s |
Roger Waters - The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking - NM original pressing - awesome dynamics |
@reubent I stopped by a small little vinyl shop in the town where my folks live. Was surprised at some of the selection and picked up 10 or so used records but none of the record store day purchases. Almost grabbed the Devo Are We Not Men but it was a picture disc and I have never been crazy about the SQ of picture discs.
Listen to a fairly clean copy of Dire Straits - Love Over Gold - promo Quiex II that has VG SQ.
@slaw I want to hear your methodology for cleaning the bargain bin records. Uber I am open to hearing your method too |
Miles - Bitches Brew - MFSL
@reubent loves me some Police ,my copy of Synchonicity is original and a bit crunchy |
B52s - Wild Planet - MFSL |
Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues - original pressing |
Pink Floyd - The Wall - reissue, LOUD!
before that:
Black Man's Pride - Righteous Are The Sons and Daughters of Jah 2 - reggae compilation record, very good |
Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out |
@slaw. Just for you
Neil Young - Harvest Moon - it is indeed superb, picked up a new copy today |
Buena Vista Social Club- S/T
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire - OP |
Paul Simon- There Goes Rhymin' Simon |
@slaw so much travel lately and some other issues have not had me with enough listening time lately so it is hard to say. The table sounds phenomenal, and the vast improvement in the low end has made it easily worth the investment but I tend to think a cart takes 100 to 300 hours to get fairly well broken in and I am not anywhere close to this on this table.
But this EAT sounds excellent.
The Police - Ghost in the Machine |
Paul Desmond - Take Ten
Ben Webster - Gentle Ben AP 45rpm 200g |
@slaw you are correct, Tony Levin played the bass and "the stick" on Security and for the Security tour and the So album and Tour
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense |
Man this album takes me back, I saw Peter Gabriel 3 times in the 80's with the Security tour being one of them, Sam Houston Coliseum on the 4th row, I wish I still had the jersey style concert shirt from this show. What a great show
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Peter Gabriel - Security
@boxer12 I need to see if Low has already passed thru town. They seem like they could be a very show
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Aretha Franklin - Aretha's Gold - MFSL
The Cars - The Cars - MFSL
Boston - Boston - reissue blue vinyl - surprisingly good
S&G - Bridge Over Troubled Water - MFSL One Step - so great
Paul Simon - Graceland
Elliott Smith - Either/or |
@boxer12 you are correct, it is a great album and the fact that this copy sounds so amazing just takes it to a whole other level. It feels special to play it.
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Isao Suzuki - Blow Up - the first song is one of the best microphoned songs I have ever heard. Incredible. Highly recommended, you can find relatively inexpensive copies on Discogs.
Paul Simon - Graceland reissue
@slaw that is an awesome find on the 6 eye miles. I really need some good estate finds like that
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Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge... Mofi one step, I think this is the best sounding vinyl I have |
@slaw I have been traveling a bunch lately so not as much time in the listening chair as I would like.
I need to be more like Slaw |
Pink Floyd - Dark Side, older US Pressing
Van Halen - Fair Warning - 180gm reissue, they rolled off the low end too much
Yo La Tengo - Summer Sun - still blown away by the quality of this vinyl and SQ - outstanding
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Nick Culp - The Culprits Blues - this came as a recommendation from someone on the forum, can't remember who, but it is a really great despite the new copy I just recieved being a bit warped. SQ is excellent. |
Too much time on the road lately with the new gig. Nice when you return from a trip to new vinyl
Alan Parsons - I robot - Mofi 45rpm - pretty amazing, I have wanted this version for a while after reading a review about how good this pressing is and they were not kidding.
Funny, I bought it from Music Direct last week when they were sending me a new box for my Donald Fagen Nightfly One Step and they were so cool on the phone (and only charged me shipping for the replacement box) that I felt obligated to buy something from them. The Alan Parsons seemed like a deal at 10% off.
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@reubent
I will give them a run on Spotify as I have not listened to them. Thanks for the suggestion.
Nick Drake - Pink Moon - reissue. Very good |
@reubent
Back to your Budgie discussion. I had If I Were Britanica I'd Waive the Rules for a while years ago. I remember thinking of it as a secret little gem that most folks didn't know about. I think they even reissued it on vinyl.
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