.... Which reminds me of my other currently running crackpot Neil Young-related idea: that Courtney Barnett is really his secret un-acknowledged love child....
And probably a a good thing if not too many people read this post...
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@slaw I suppose we were not the first and only older guys to react with that idea when Ryan Adams and Uncle Tupelo became cool ... |
Lowell George - “Thanks I’ll Eat It Here”
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i was thinking: Neil Young was “Alt Country” long before that category was invented. |
Awesome indeed! @slaw A cultural touchstone for me since high school and point of reference for me and my best college friends. We used to quote lyrics and lines from it that would put our lives in context or just make us smile.
Out friend Jimmy had surgery freshman year and when John and I went to visit him in the hospital we sang him an a-cappella dirge version of “find the cost of freedom” at his bedside....
You know now that part near the end of the record when (I think it’s Crosby) says to the rowdy crowd “this is ‘wooden’ music so you gotta be cool/quiet down”. We would say that to each other when ever there might be even remote call for it...
I also remember many of us, in reaction to this record in particular, agreeing on the point that, although we loved Neil Young, he had no business being in that “group”. We used to listen to journey through the past fairly constantly.
I’m such a music dork.
Anyway, thank you for the endorsement of the new release. I’ll probably have to get it because I love that rediscovery of (redound feeling from) an old favorite that comes from a good/better pressing on a good/better system.
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Franz Joseph Haydn - String Quartet No. 26 in G Minor, Op. 20 |
@slaw for some reason your enthusiasm for the new release of the CSNY made me think of times when a friend (or nearly anybody at school, girls included) would be praising a record like that and so would just ask “can I tape it off ya?” We’d borrow it for an evening and then play the cassette through the big 2-way car speakers set into the back dash of our bought-used Dodge or something and be so filled with the joy of the music. |
@slaw that REO record had the benefit of industry changing production innovation. High, bright, and doubled. A guilty pleasure from the first time we heard it even ‘till now.
To me things kind of went downhill from there for them and definitely so for a lot of the commercially-produced music since.
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Fran’s Schubert - String Quartet No. 15 in G Major, Op.161
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@slaw +1 on The Steven Wilson and Savoy Brown.
“Lonesome Dave is dead” - one of the saddest phrases ever written.
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Harmony Rockets with special guest Peter Walker - “Lachesis • Clotho • Atropos”
To my admittedly ignorant mind this might be the best record ever made. |
Chris Thile, Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer - “Bach Trios” |
Punch Brothers - “Antifogmatic” |
Henryk Gorecki: Symphony No. 3 |
Bill Watrous - “Kindred Spirits” |
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Masterpieces by Ellington
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Ok, that was so fine I have to play the rest of “the Nashville Sound” |
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So many great records, so little time. |
Van Morrison - “Poetic Champions Compose”
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@tomic601, been working over my little old wood runabout for fishing and fooling around on the water some this summer. I like the high lakes around Central Oregon. |
Plini - “Handmade Cities” |
@tomic Ready for opening day? |
Camel - “The Snow Goose”
Original UK Pressing w insert.
I believe my US 1st edition sounds better except for the dings & scratches from carrying it all over the place during high school trying to turn people on to it... also have a reissue from years later that I never thought was that exciting. |
Andreas Rohde - “Resonance”
12-String Solo Guitar
Stockfisch-Schallplatten
unbelievable sound quality
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Jan Akkerman & Thijs Van Leer - “Focus” From 1985 and not really a Focus record (marketing department required that the Focus title be added to the cover). |
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Rush - “The Lady Gone Electric, New York City 1974”
2-Record, Live Album from FM promo recorded at Electric Ladyland Studios in front of exactly 8 people in the audience.... and with side D from Don Kirshner‘s Rock Concert October 1974 appearance.
Back on Black white vinyl
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Rudolph Buchbinder, Piano
Haydn Edition (1974 Telefunken Box) Das Klavierwerk Vol. 1, Sonatas and Fragments
Sonatas 1-7
Wonderful wonderful wonderful
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Beethoven- Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major For Piano and Orchestra, Op. 73
The Cleveland Orchestra
Leon Fleisher, Piano
Columbia Masterworks Stereo
M4X 30052
I wish the sound quality of this record was better. Maybe it’s too much information to put on the side of a 33. |
You mean the Violin player...? Doesn’t his first wife play bass on “Ditch”? |
Meant to say, it’s where a lot of good music lives |
@slaw hey there. Been on a Jason Isbel/DT Spotify bender today but haven’t been posting since it’s spotify.... But it’s where (a lot) of music resides. |
@slaw common experience with Presence. |
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@big_greg & @slaw, yeah, I picked up The Delta Sweete at Music Millennium when it came out because I like Mercury Rev a lot (I had a little weekend place in the Catskills back when I lived in NY) even though I was sort of scratching my head over the content. I really like it. Moreover, my wife likes it. Atmospheric doesn’t begin to describe it. I did make me wonder though what fans of the original would think. |
@tomic601
Aoife is one of my favorites. You know....
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Paul Bley - “Open, To Love”
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Mark Knopfler - “Tracker”
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Courtney Barnett - “Tell Me How You Really Feel”
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Beethoven Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 “Pastoral” - English Chamber Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor |
@big_greg. I meant to say the Bobby Gentry album that Mercury Rev remade recently. |
@big_greg. How does the new Mercury Rev sound to you. I really like those guys. But it may not compare well if you knew the original. I think my current favorite album is the latest by Harmony Rockets which as far as I can tell is the same as Mercury Rev with certain other guests. |
@slaw re: your cart. been looking at some of the really interesting videos on YouTube put up by Peter Ledermann of Soundsmith. Amazing products and an impressive guy. |
Thank you to each of you, especially @tomic601 and @N80 lately, getting some really great musical ideas from you.
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@slaw
Loving the Valerie June record on vinyl. I dream about that woman. I’m not kidding - woke up humming “Astral Plane” and put it on first thing. Did you see my post about her live radio recording of these songs - it’s just on Spotify far as I can tell.
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@millercarbon. Please forgive me. My post should have been noticed to @n80. Sorry about that. Demented old Rush fan....
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@Millercarbon
I understand how you feel about what happened with Rush’s music after Subdivisions. (The new wave period was something of a letdown - and those songs haven’t held up well and they didn’t include them in their sets after). But, you might try “Half the World”, “The Color of Right”, and perhaps the instrumental “Limbo” off the album “Test for Echo” and find your enthusiasm renewed. I do not want to be argumentative about it but what else of thrilling aspect was happening in the relatively tasteful wing in broader context of progressive in the early 90s? Dream Theatre? Primus? Tool? What were you into around that time that still really rocked? I found myself having to absorb whole new- to -me kinds of music to find thrills and contentment. All the while though Rush kept rocking. And IMO the above couple of three cuts are examples of Rush that are absolutely timeless.
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Valerie June - “The Order of Time”
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