Tony Joe White
The Beginning
New West 2020 RSD
Tony’s right over there by the fireplace.
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The Pineapple Thief
Uncovering the Tracks
Kscope 2020 RSD
12” 45 EP
Band Favorites Re-Recorded with
Gavin Harrison
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I too have spent many an enjoyable evening of escape engendered by FC & RT records - mostly the older ones. |
J & K
Stonebone
A&M/UMe 1970/2020 RSD |
@slaw Thanks! I waited many months for Amazon to deliver on that Friday Music Montrose. Definitely one of my all time favorites (First record I ever bought).
Also, I’ll check out Kim Richey. Don’t think I know her music. |
Jethro Tull
Stormwatch 2
A Needle On A Spiral In A Groove
Chrysalis RSD 2020
Stormwatch Sessions Out-Takes and Associated Recordings
May 1978 - May 1979
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Jethro Tull
Stormwatch
Chrysalis 1979 O/P |
Jethro Tull
Aqualung
40th Anniversary LP Edition
The Steven Wilson Stereo Remix
MMXI
”For me it feels a bit like the musical equivalent of cleaning the Sistine chapel!”
- S. Wilson, 1st July 2011 |
Brian. I may sign up for a trial so I can catch that. I have a Ma Vlast On direct to disc. Love that music. |
@slaw Steve, I think New West records is a terrific little company. They issue for a bunch of artists that I like and I’ve found on their new records that the production is typically quite good.
Steven Wilson’s influence might easily be underestimated. I’ve heard that Porcupine Tree is important to a lot of modern musicians and I think his production skills have even indirect effect of other’s music. Case in point lately, my brother thinks that one cut on the latest Pat Metheny record sounds just like SW’s recent work.
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Elgar
Cello Concerto/Enigma Variations
Jacqueline du Pré - Daniel Barenboim
Philadelphia Orchestra/London Philharmonic Orchestra
CBS Records 1976
The du Pré Cello performance was recorded live in 1970. It is incredible and beautiful. Even if you’re not a big fan of orchestral music you should still try this. Very moving.
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@mammothguy54 , had been wondering about that Mofi “Legend”, why the asking seems quite low relative to other Mofi issues. Thanks for letting us know your impressions. We’ll see what @big_greg thinks too after he gets his copy. My old copy is still begging for replacement.
I think tonight is shaping up to be a serious Jethro Tull fest. I haven’t yet opened my new RSD Tull Stormwatch supplement So plan on that and Aqualung and probably Benefit. See you on the flip side...
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@nicks25, Glad you’re on the mend.
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Yann Tiersen
Portrait
Mute 2019
Regardless of how you might feel about this music, you must hold admiration for this composer and performer’s commitment to the analogue reproduction of music. He has said that he feels misunderstood - on a number of levels (I can relate) so, he took great effort to go back and re-recorded highlights from his work over many years with many friends, in an all-analogue production. It sounds, as the millennials say, amazing, and I feel the music is unique and quite wonderful if I’m in the right mood. I especially enjoy the solo piano stuff. |
@noromance Ha! I actually did. A nice experience all around. She sounds so young on that record. Just beautiful.
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Berliner Philharmoniker Sir Simon Rattle
Mitsuko Uchida
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1
Digital, on the headphone amp. (Grey’s Anatomy watching the debate in the room with the good speakers...). This music probably tops my list of wish they had accommodated a vinyl issue.
Sublime. |
Circa Survive
The Amulet
Hopeless Records 2018
Great record - don’t know if any of the regulars here are into Circa Survive and/or Anthony Green’s other work - but I think this might be the coolest single-LP packaging I’ve ever seen. |
Ryuichi Sakamoto
The Revenant
(Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Milan 2015
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Julie Andrews
The Lass with the Delicate Air
RCA Victor 1957
‘This Is an RCA Victor "New Orthophonic" High Fidelity Recording. ‘
purchased this on inspiration from @noromance . Something about a breath of fresh spring air through an open English Cottage Garden window.
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@mammothguy54
I feel the same about the thread.
Legend is such good country rock. Maybe a guilty pleasure but I love it. I saw what was left of Poco on tour a few years ago at a small venue in San Francisco, The Great American Music Hall, and it was a really fun evening.
I like Plant’s early solo albums too. Far as I know he didn’t steal any of the music.... |
Sarah Jarosz
Undercurrent
Sugar Hill Records 2016 |
Mark Knopfler
Tracker
British Grove Records 2015 |
Barber, Bartók, Britten, Respighi
Music For Strings
I Musici
Festivo Series
Philips 1961 (1979 Reissue)
Beautiful |
Bummer. Sorry to hear it Greg. Seems like maybe Discogs is averaging down lately. I used to get more nice surprises than I do lately. |
Greg, Do you have the mofi Legend? Seems like they don’t go for too much. What’s a good replacement issue? This one I have is showing too much evidence of life in college dorms. |
Poco
Legend
ABC Records 1978
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Boomtown, Wow, I had listened to that about a year ago - digital version and revisited it this morning. Agree that it captured the time Jim, maybe in a similar way an early Springsteen record might have. I think it also sounds of it’s time. |
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@geof3 re: Hold Your Fire. Actually SQ not really better on vinyl than the digital. One of the very rare legitimately issued records I’d ever say that about. In fact, I only know about 3. One of the other ones is Pat Metheny “Secret Story”.
Probably some albums with good production were just recorded with digital in mind. Or the vinyl master wasn’t done well. Not certain - I don’t know much about this stuff and I can’t tell just from listening.
But, I do know that Rush are very interested in production values. Although I think there choices aren’t really always what I’d like. For example, Permanent Waves was recorded/mixed with a very dry sound, especially the vocals.
Anyway, I’m sort of a Rush completest and have tried a couple of copies of Hold Your Fire. Nice to have the album but the sonics might not impress.
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Rush
Hold Your Fire
Mercury 1987
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@mikepaul, Thanks for that post. This has been my instinct. Really into Tull (still) and was tempted to pre-order the 1 step Aqualung but could not imagine that it could possibly better that the SW remix. So, thanks. Please keep up the posts. I love the information and music ideas.
@ctwith3 nice stack man!
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Coltrane
A Love Supreme
Impulse/Acoustic Sounds 1964/2020
Fantastic
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@tomic601
+1 on the Lyle Lovett
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@mammothguy54,
If your question was for me (not certain) I have both a P/P and the Steven Wilson remix. I think the remix is great but possibly not quite as jaw dropping an improvement as his Aqualung remix over that original. |
@slaw
steve, not certain but I think it’s Runt Records, in Marin County. Runt owns a handful of record (reissue) companies that put out products of uncertain origins that are badmouthed by SQ conscious record owners. Hard to know or find much about them. Buyer beware...
@bkeske
brian, my old copy has that all too typical coat over the speakers live record sound. It might be from it being played with bad equipment by previous owner(s). Don’t know how to tell.... the remix, although not perfect, has better harmonics and openness and far better clarity from the percussion. Wonderful hippie music.
Qobuz has digital “Love-In” of a 2005 Rhino Atlantic CD. Haven’t tried it. It’s probably abominable. |
Steve, An interesting coincidence between your last post and mine: the night in 1967 when the Charles Lloyd Quartet recorded “Love-In” they shared the bill with The Butterfield Blues Band.
Some random stuff about Love-In: I read that it was the first live recording ever made at the Fillmore. The Quartet played there a lot and a thing developed where if there was room the audience would lie on the floor during Charles’s set with arms around each other - hence the name of the record. Time in this Quartet gave Keith Jarrett credibility and strength goin forward in his huge crossover record buying fan base. And this has been said to be the first Psyc-Jazz album.
My new copy is on 4 Men with Beards, a highly disparaged sub-label of Runt. Until now I’ve never had a record from this label (I bought it to replace my old scratchy copy) and although it’s often said this label should be avoided, this record is just great. Good SQ, quiet vinyl, with fantastic additional liner notes in a lovely gatefold tip-on jacket. |
Robert Glaspar
Canvas
Blue Note 2018
Wow. So nice. Very different from his later more popular stuff.
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The Charles Lloyd Quartet
Love-In
Atlantic/4 Men with Beards
1967/2002
Live at the SF Fillmore
With Keith Jarrett and Jack DeJohnette
Exceptionally well recorded live drums.
SQ on this reissue way better than
on the O/P.
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@slaw
I know what you mean all 3 kinda thin and breathy and can be something like ethereal. I think Beth’s voice is just a little more earthy than D’s. Meryum’s voice is more pure, like elemental vapor at times, and although this record of hers can put you in a trance, she might not be quite as talented as Beth. I don’t know about Dido - I think she benefited from machinery. |
Meryem Aboulouafa
Meryem
Animal63 2020
Sort of like Dido but more interesting
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Would have been at Son Volt concert tonight and Aoife O’Donovan Tuesday. Added these to the list of cancelled concerts. Hard not to be resentful.
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Rush
Grace Under Pressure
Mercury 1984 O/P |
Van Halen.
Eponymous
Warner Bro’s. 1978 (Reissue)
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I think the production values and SQ on A Perfect Circle’s records are pretty good. |
Neil Young
American Stars ‘N Bars
Reprise 1977 O/P
“I wanna lick the platter
The gravy doesn’t matter”..
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Albert King
Blues for Elvis
King Does the King’s Things
Stax (80’s reissue of a 1969? Curiosity)
whoa! This will get your blood flowing baby. |
Art Blakey
Moanin’
Blue Note (reissue)
Say, has anyone purchased a Music Matters SRX issue of this or any other SRX title? I’m interested in hearing actual listener opinions about them. I mean 80 bucks for a new record... are they as good as the Mofi one steps? |
Georges Bizet
Symphony No. 1 in C
Charles Munch and the RP
Bizet’s first symphony and certainly one of my favorite pieces of ballet music. I was lucky enough to see the ballet of the same name, made by Balanchine, at ABT in New York during the Regan years.
So, what were you doing at age 17? Bizet made this for a school project.
This 1964 record doesn’t have a pop click or any surface noise at all. Sweet sweet sweet. |
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Tchaikovsky
Francesca da Rimini
Charles Munch and the RP
when Russia was in Europe |
Respighi
The Pines of Rome
Rudolf Kempe and the RP
what do your speakers do with 16’ and 32’ organ pedal tones....? Hmmmmm.
Also, there are birds. |
Dr. Richard Strauss
Don Juan
Rudolf Kempe and the RP
from the same box
I always thought of Richard Strauss as dorky but I guess in my old age I’m becoming more of a music dork myself and am really enjoying this.
I find myself wondering if it would be possible to get through all 13 records in this box before feeling the need to put on some UFO... |
Jan Sibelius
Symphony No. 2 in D
Sir John Barbirolli conducting
London’s Royal Philharmonic in 1964
While Smoking a Cigarette
From the Mono RCA Big Box
Readers Digest
Treasury of Great Music
I am kind of amazed by this. Great music of course, a favorite since I was a little kid, but this mono record is filling the room with beauty, precision, and splendor. I’m only using the Hana SL, not a mono cartridge. Instruments and sections are distinctly separated, the whole room is a pressurized soundstage, and most incredible is that it’s playing only at 45 db. on my meter here on a quiet morning with Grey’s Anatomy working in the other room. I love my stereo. |
@geof3 +1. I’m looking forward to the Moving Pictures package, wondering what will be in it. |
