Whats on your turntable tonight?


For me its the first or very early LP's of:
Allman Brothers - "Allman Joys" "Idyllwild South"
Santana - "Santana" 200 g reissue
Emerson Lake and Palmer - "Emerson Lake and Palmer"
and,
Beethoven - "Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major" Rudolph Serkin/Ozawa/BSO
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I know this is "What's on your turntable TONIGHT, but it's a -7 outside here today, so it's a vinyl day, (and night!).

Chilliwack-Lights From The Valley

Canadian 1st Pressing

 

I'm on a Canadian Rock Band kick lately, so most will be from the Great White North...

Sparks-"A Woofer In Tweeter's Clothing"

Friday Music, RSD Limited Edition, Blue Vinyl

Fleetwood Mac-Tango In The Night

Brand new 2LP, 45RPM, Mobile Fidelity reissue on SuperVinyl

Fleetwood Mac-Heroes Are Hard To Find

Clear with Black/Bone Splatter Vinyl (ROCKtober 2024 release)

 

 

Mark Knopfler-One Deep River

Indie Exclusive, Half Speed Mastered, Blue Vinyl

 

 

Just received this in the mail this morning.

Miles Davis-Dark Magus (Live At Carnegie Hall)

Brand new MOFI, 2LP

 

The story behind Dark Magus is nearly as unbelievable as the spur-of-the-moment compositions that resulted when Davis brought drummer Al Foster, bassist Michael Henderson, percussionist James Mtume, horn virtuoso Dave Liebman, and guitarists Pete Cosey and Reggie Lucas together, and, in a new twist for the concert’s second half, added guitarist Dominique Gaumont and tenor saxophonist Azar Lawrence to mix. That the latter two instrumentalists had never seen each other until that night adds to Davis’ legend — and penchant for bold, unorthodox moves.

Ditto Davis’ own actions that spring evening, which reportedly included showing up to the show an hour late and taking the stage with his back facing the crowd. The strategy worked. Davis inspired the group to play in a bold manner that few, if any, had heard before. Dark Magus is a rhythmic bonanza. Rooted in Afro-centrist techniques, avante-garde sensibilities, and exploratory moods, the songs eschew set arrangements and solos, and, for the most part, melodic devices.

For Davis, Dark Magus represented a personal triumph amid a period marked by health issues, addictions, and critical decline. The latter slight would be corrected, but not until decades later when Dark Magus saw Stateside release in 1997 via a CD reissue. Of course, the free-form patterns, unpredictable passages, dense structures, and distorted blues that course through the songs — titled after Swahili numerals — are not for everyone. And certainly not for the fainthearted. Though Dark Magus contains majestic moments marked by quiet restraint and something on the level of balladry, its rich and radical concoction of tormented thwacks, thumps, cracks, clatters, wails, bleeps, burbles, stomps, and enigmatic beats remains its adventurous heart and soul.

Primal and enigmatic, fierce and jagged, forceful and revolutionary, jolting and terrifying, Dark Magus seemingly attacks from any and all directions. Turn it up loud and let the prophetic brilliance of this inimitable and relentlessly funky album wash over you.

@slaw...I'm a huge MOFI fan and find that almost all of their titles are pretty damn good.  I know that a lot of people were put off with "The MOFI Scandal".  IMHO, I don't care how it gets on the record, I care what comes off.  Most of the releases are close to, if not the best recordings I have in my collection...

Sorry to hear your One-Step pressings have not been good.  I have all of them and again find them for the most part to be excellent.  Case in point, the new Joni Mitchell "Court And Spark" is spectacular.

@slaw...back at you!  I've always appreciated your insight, experience and knowledge.

@paqua123...I have thousands of records from the 70's & 80's.  Some are really good and some are really awful.  It depends on the mastering, who mastered it, where it was mastered, where it was pressed, the materials used, etc.

I am not from the camp that all original pressings are better, because I have just as many from both sides that are good and bad.  YMMV.

Amazing Rhythm Aces-"Too Stuffed To Jump"

US 1st Pressing

(One of my DIT25)...Desert Island Top 25 

Elton John-"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"

Speakers Corner-Germany

(I went to pull this out and realized I had like 10 different versions of this.  Direct-Disk Labs, MOFI, Simply Vinyl, Speakers Corner, US 1st, UK 1st, Japanese 1st, Belgium.  Also one of my DIT25).

Trooper-"Knock 'Em Dead Kid"

Canadian 1st Pressing

(My high school graduating class song was "We're Here For A Good Time, (Not A Long Time)", from this album laugh

The New Pornographers-Mass Romantic

Canadian 1st Pressing

Absolutely adore Neko Case!

@reubent...never heard of The Trews or Metric. Qobuz has most of their stuff, I’ll need to listen to them. Thanks for the recommendation!

Joni Mitchell-"Court And Spark"

MOFI, 2LP, 45RPM, One-Step.  This is a SUPERB copy!  One of the best of the MOFI One-Step pressings so far...

Mahogany Rush-"Mahogany Rush IV"

Canadian 1st Pressing

I saw these guys live, in concert, a couple of times back in the mid and late 70's.  Frank Marino was a MONSTER on the guitar.  One of the best I've ever seen.

@slaw...thanks for the reminder of the Gordon Lightfoot documentary!  I saved it to my watchlist awhile ago, but forgot about it.  I'll watch it this afternoon.