Whats on your turntable tonight?

@bkeske I saw what you did there!

Dirty Looks / S-T
1980 Stiff

strum and thrum: the american jangle underground 1983-1987--fantastic compilation of (mostly) unknown guitar pop, although a few of these bands (windbreakers, primotons) may be remembered by obsessives. check out absolute grey, the reverbs and salem 66.

The stones in mono.

Just because I can.  Not that my tt is all that. 

The Divinyls / Desperate 
1983 Chrysalis 

Started the night off with Nina Simone - Nina At Report.  Wrapping my night up with Jan Hammer - The First Seven Days.

Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim-West Side Story(OS 2001) Side 1

Donovan-The Hurdy Gurdy Man Side 2

Black Sabbath-Heaven And Hell Side 1

Dinah Washington-Dinah ’63 Side 1

Neil Diamond-Rainbow Side 2

Mary Travers-All My Choices Side 2

Schubert-Symphony No.5(Walter MS 6218) Side 1 SQ Audiophile

Pat Metheny Group-Letter From Home Side 2 SQ Audiophile

Only "Rainbow" had Subpar SQ. Would have to play Metheny/Schubert several times to declare a SQ winner. Metheny had that slight digital edge and Schubert had a slight veil common with 2 eye vs. 6 eye Columbia recordings. Nearing 3 years of my "play all my vinyl project" while trying to avoid repeats. I have added close to 400 albums in this 3 year period and will give a detailed update shortly.

Spinning more, of what has become, a Jazz Sunday….

The Byrds – Untitled (Columbia 1970)

Sides 3/4

Peter, Paul And Mary – In Concert (Warner Bros 1964)

Joseph Haydn, Vienna Symphony Orchestra Conducted By Jonathan Sternberg – Symphony No. 38 In C, Symphony No. 39 In G Minor (Haydn Society 1954? Mono)

Brahms, Dvořák, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Hamburg Radio Symphony Orchestra – Brahms Hungarian Dances, Dvořák Slavonic Dances (London 1955 mono)

The Dave Brubeck Quartet 

Time Further Out

Columbia 1961

Gesualdo / Robert Craft, The Gesualdo Madrigal Singers – Madrigals And Sacred Music (Odyssey 1974)

Renata Tebaldi, Giorgio Favaretto – Recital of Songs & Arias No. 2 (London 1957 mono)

The Firm "S/T"

Crooked Still – Shaken By A Low Sound (Signature Sounds 2021)

Solid recording and enjoyable music. Sealed from Amazon and vinyl is way noisier than it should be after a SpinClean which I do on all new. I’ll try the US and see if it helps. Otherwise, it’s bye bye back to Amz.

Nicole Atkins "Italian Ice" 

2020/Single Lock Records 

Nicole Atkins "Goodnight Rhonda Lee" 

2017/Single Lock Records

Jim Capaldi / Whale Meat Again
1974 island

Great record, sonics

Traffic / Shoot Out At The Fantasy Factory
1973 Island

Started off with Lynrd Skynrd (pronounced...), then Beach House-Bloom, finishing with Opale-L'incandescent

Van Duren - Are you serious?

Linda Ronstadt, "What's New"

Beautiful recording.

GA-20 CRACKDOWN

IME, she doesn't grace the east coast.

@slaw: Steve, Mary’s out on tour now, so if at all possible try and see/hear her live. She’s real good on stage, particularly as an acoustic guitarist (I saw her at a great club in Portland on her last tour, right down the street from Music Millennium record store), and tickets to her shows are a steal! And if you’re missing any of her catalog, she of course travels with a merchandise table and product (both LP and CD), which I believe she will autograph if you wish.

Joanne Shaw Taylor "Nobody's Fool" 

2022/Keeping the Blues Alive Records

The Bad Ends "The Power and the Glory" 

2022/New West 

Mary Gauthier "Mercy Now" 

2005/Lost Highway 

Andrew Gabbard " Cedar City Sweetheart" 

2023/Colemine Records 

The Jayhawks "Rainy Day Music" 

2003/American Recordings 

@loomisjohnson

the hitmen were pretty great--their first record especially. my hats off to your knowledge of obscure 80s guitar bands noone else remembers

Your taste in music is also interesting and when I think I knew about most of the new wave/power pop 80’s bands you post up some I’ve never heard of…so off I go to stream! I enjoy that, thanks!
I agree on “Aim For The Feet”…fun, catchy Hitmen music.
The Tourists…Dave Stewart, Annie Lennox before The Eurythmics.

@jeffstrick @bkeske just listened to lankum, which i’d never hear before--really dark, but hypnotizing stuff.

@bslon the hitmen were pretty great--their first record especially. my hats off to your knowledge of obscure 80s guitar bands noone else remembers

my picks for the day:

cory hanson, pale horse rider--brooding nick drake-ish type with good songs and really beautiful, keening voice

polvo, today’s active lifestyle--i knew i was a grownup when this started to sound melodic and structured instead of chaotic and dissonant

The Hitmen / Torn Together 
1981 Columbia

The Tourists / Reality Effect
1980 Epic

The Bad Ends / The Power And The Glory
2022 New West Records

Richard and Linda Thompson - Shoot Out The Lights

Hannibal 1982

@jeffstrick 

👍🏼 It’s a good one….but all their LP’s are 

@bkeske very good album!

Lankum - False Lankum

The Animals, Retrospective. Very well mastered. Sounds great on my tube IA. 

Arrived today, the new Lankum LP. Beautiful packaging on this…
 

Lankum - False Lankum

Rough Trade 2023 2LP gatefold

Lana Del Rey -  Did You Know That There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd

White vinyl variant with alternative artwork

2023 Interscope Records

Sir Adrian Boult conducts Tchaikovsky

• Suite No. 3 In G Major Opus. 55

L’orchestre de la Société Des Concerts Du Conservatoire
London 1967
 

Dzhemal Dalgat conducts

• Franck - Psyché: A Symphonic Poem
• Prokofiev - Sinfonietta In A Major, Op. 5/48 (3rd Edition)

Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra
ABC Westminster Gold 1974

Really like this Franck composition, particularly, but in general, a very nice recording overall.
 

Glazunov / Taneyev / Balakirev - ‘Musical Memorials’

• Glazunov - Solemn Contata In Commemoration Of The Centemary Of A. S. Pushkin For Soloists, Choir, And Orchestra Op. 65
• Taneyev - Cantata On The Inauguration Of The Memorial To A. S. Pushkin
• Balakirev - Cantata On The Inauguration Of The Memorial To M.I. Glinka
• Glazunov - Two Preludes For The Large Orchestra Op. 85

The USSR TV & Radio Large Chorus & Symphony Orchestra. Conductors - Kovalev & Yurovsky, Choir Master - Kuvykin

Мелодия reissue 1985, originally 1974, USSR release
 

Squeeze / East Side Story
1981 A&M

Ace / Time For Another
1975 Anchor

An Anthology of British blues. Immediate Stereo Z12 52 006

A very good punch out. John Mayall & the Blues Breakers, Eric Clapton,Savoy Brown and more.

bob

Pink Floyd / The Dark Side of the Moon - Live at Wembley Empire Pool, London, 1974
2023 Pink Floyd Records

Wish you were here - Pink Floyd

@overthemoom… Fun Fact:  Roy Harper is lead vocal on “Have A Cigar”