Cat Stevens "Teaser and the Firecat"
Al Stewart "Year of the cat"
Dave Brubeck "Impressions of Eurasia"
Joni Mitchell "Song to a Seagull","Blue", "Ladies of the Canyon", "Clouds"
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Holst, The Planets Mobile Fidelity |
Dukes of Dixieland on 1959 Audio Fidelity vinyl. Nice!
Interesting technical specs regarding the recording on the album cover. Hi Fi was a big deal back then and some labels really made an all out assault on sound quality and people took notice.
Those were the days...... |
Rush that sounds like fun. I envy you having a listening partner.
I have been working my way through the Shostakovitch symphonies. I have the 1st with the same combination as the Decca only it is on a ancient RCA Victrola label. On the whole it is quite excellent.
My lp of the 9th is bundled with the Prokofiev "Lieut. Kije"; it is on Everest with the LSO and Malcolm Sargent.
It is well played but the pressing isn't the best.
I also have the 5,8 on Everest. more later
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Bombay Bicycle Club - I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose
Marc Cohn - Join The Parade |
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Nice to see a few of my favorite recordings in your recent playlist, including particularly:
Gustav Holst "Savitri" Argo
Shostakovitch "Age of Gold","Symphony #1" Decca LSO/Martinon
My listening partner and I are currently working our way through our collection of alternative performances of Mahler's symphonies. Finished through the 1st through the 4th symphonies at this point (21 different recordings), on to Barbirolli's performance of the 5th tonight, with Kubelik and Solti to follow at some later time.
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Budgie...Squawk..Original UK MCA pressing
Uriah Heep..Demons and Wizards...Bronze UK Pressing |
I have been too busy to post up but due to a snow storm and working from home I got to do some listening between conference calls. Especially nice since I just got a new Ypsilon SUT. Damn thing costs as much as the rest of my system, but Mike Morrow is very persuasive (he lent it to me to hear first).
Janis Ian "Between the Lines" Columbia
Joni Mitchell "Clouds" Reprise
Gustav Holst "Savitri" Argo
Shostakovitch "Age of Gold","Symphony #1" Decca LSO/Martinon
"Contate Domino" Proprius
Dave Brubeck "Impressions of Eurasia" Columbia "six eye"
Film score of "Barry Lyndon" Warner Bros.
Excerpts from "Star Wars, Close Encounters" LA phil./Mehta
Rushton: I love your selections,glad to see you are still going strong
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Dinosaur Jr -- Beyond
Donald Byrd -- Mustang
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings -- I Learned The Hard Way
Sun Ra -- I Am Strange 7" |
I found one song on the net and liked very much. The problem is that I don't know who's playing it and what's the album. Can anyone help me please. The link is below;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7m5UB037tw |
sharks-jab it in your eye, wiliam lyall-solo casting, brownsville station-no b.s. |
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Mahler, Symphony No. 4, Maazel/VPO, Battle, Columbia
Mahler, Symphony No. 4, Reiner/CSO, della Casa, RCA
(where did the magic go? Better soprano for this music in della Casa, but missing the engagement that Maazel and Vienna created) |
Sade - Diamond Life
Van Halen - Diver Down
The Beatles - Hey Jude (Japanese)
Madonna - Celebration
Badfinger - Straight UP
Madeline Peyroux - Careless Love (MOFI)
Foriegner - (MOFI)
Chris Isaac - Heart Shaped World
Van Halen - Women and Children First
Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual |
Coltrane "A day in the life of John Coltrane"
Dexter Gordon "Dexter blows hot and cool" featuring Carl Perkins
The Modern Jazz Quartet
Ralph Towner "Batik" with Eddie Gomez |
A snoozing cat. (the table is covered) |
Junior Kimbrough-All Night Long |
Amazon (via a third party vendor). No problems. |
Palasr:
I LOVE Skylarking! Where do you get that remaster???? |
The new remaster of XTC - "Skylarking" done at 45 RPM.
If you're a fan of the album, run, don't walk to get a copy. Well worth the price of admission. |
Rebbi, that Sade album is one of my fav's as well. |
The Del Fuegos - Smoking In The Fields [BMG 9860-1-R]
$3 used, cleaned up real good, superb sonics.
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Peter Gabriel, "So," especially "Don't Give Up" and "Mercy Street"
Sade, "Promise," especially "War Of The Hearts" and "Is It A Crime"
All sounding great with the lights turned off. :-) |
Foreigner - MFSL
Berlin Philharmonic - Nutcracker (full ballet)
Steely Dan - Aja
Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill
Madeline Peyroux - Endless Love (MFSL)
The Police - Outlandous D'Amour (Japenese Pressing)
Widespread Panic - Dirty Side Down (sublime best of 2010).
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (v good, but I think just a bit over rated)
Girls - Album (excellent) |
Pat Metheny LP: Day Trip/Tokyo Day Trip Live. It's a 3-LP/2-CD behemoth I got on sale for $19.99. It's Metheny in a jazz trio setting, with bass monster Christian McBride and perfect-choice drummer Antonio Sanchez. These three present what one reviewer called a "telepathic virtuosity." The music is great, the musicianship is stunning, and the recording quality does both justice. It's the best jazz trio recording I have now and I'm looking forward to getting to know this music better, because it's stunningly good in every way. |
Schubert, Str Qnt in A, op114 ("The Trout"), Vienna Octet, Curzon -pf, Decca SXL 2110 (Speakers Corner reissue)
Bill Evans, Explorations, Explorations 9351-45 Analogue Productions 45 rpm reissue
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Richie Beirach Trio - Trust - Evidence - 1996
Richie Beirach - Piano
Dave Holland - Bass
Jack DeJohnette - Drums
Great disc. Percussion is well played and recorded. Cover of Wayne Shorter's "Nefertiti" is excellent. |
Yamashta, Windwood, Shrive "GO"
Santana "Abraxas"
Allan Parsons Project "Tales of mystery and imagination"
Clapton / Cale "The road to Escondido"
Nydia Caro "Nydia Caro"
Pink Floyd "Dark side of the Moon" 30th anniversary re release
Mandrill "Is" |
Sonny Clark Cool Struttin'
Neil Young Live Rust
Jethro Tull Thick as Brick
Roxy Music For Your Pleasure |
SRV Texas Flood on Pure Pleasure
Arlen Roth- Guitarist If you like really great gee-tar playin' picked cleanly, well, this is hard to beat. |
Little Feat, The Last Record Album |
Well, today my wife bought me the Monk bio by Robin Kelley (great writing), so of course I immediately put on Monk's The London Collection: Vol II with McKibbon and Blakey.... |
Roy Buchanan, "Live in Japan"
Creatures of Leisure, "Mental as Anything"
Beatles, "Abbey Road" |
Elusive Disc holiday sale purchase already showed up:
10 cc - The Original Soundtrack
Shelby Lynne - Tears, Lies and Alibis
Jane's Addiction - Ritual lo Habitual
The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy and the Lash
George Michael - Faith
Madeliene Peyroux - Careless Love (MOFI)
Flock of Seagulls - Space Age Love Songs (greatest hits)
Green Day - Dookie
Supertramp - Breakfast in America
not a bad pressing in the lot, a diverse selection to dig into the next few days. |
Frank Sinatra & Count Basie - "Sinatra-Basie" [Reprise LP '63]
Frank Sinatra - "Sinatra & Swingin' Brass" [Reprise LP '62] Arr. Neal Hefti
Don Elliott - "A Musical Offering By..." [ABC-Paramount '56] Arr. Quincy Jones
J.J. Johnson & Kai Winding Trombone Octet - "J.J. & Kai + 6" [Columbia Jazz Odyssey reissue LP '81, orig. '56]
Jefferson Airplane - "Surrealistic Pillow" [RCA Victor LP '67] |
Santana-Caravanserai (original pressing)
Beck-Modern Guilt 180gram
REM-Document 180gram
Cat Stevens - Teaser and the Fire Cat-(original pressing) |
Van Morrison, Astral Weeks
The Who, Live at the Isle of Wight
Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers
Bob Dylan, Blood on the Tracks |
A Charlie Brown Christmas- The Vince Guaraldi Trio
on Fantasy 45 RPM 2 record set.
I've been waiting since LAST CHRISTMAS to put this back on!!! Favorite Christmas album for sure, and a GREAT pressing to. |
Just spent some time doing azimuth adjustments with my Fozgometer (I re-leveled my table a bit).
After that:
Kris Kristofferson - Silver Tongued Devil & I, Border Lord
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
On deck:
Bruce Springsteen - The Promise |
Coldplay- A Rush Of Blood To The Head |
Widespread Panic - Dirty Side Down (my fav of 2010)
Van Halen - II
Van Halen - Women and Children First
Tchaikofsky Berlin Philharmonic - Nutcracker Suite (getting in the season)
Tears for Fears - Seeds of Love |
F.S.Blumm - Zweite Meer [Morr Music LP '05] |
Peggy Lee - "Black Coffee With..." [Decca LP '56]
Anita O'Day - "Swings Cole Porter With Billy May" [Verve LP '58]
Anita O'Day/Gary McFarland Orchestra - "All The Sad Young Men" [Verve LP '62]
Horace Silver Quintet - "6 Pieces Of Silver" [Blue Note LP '57]
Bill Evans Trio - "Portrait In Jazz" [Riverside LP '60]
The Modern Jazz Quartet - "Pyramid" [Atlantic LP '60]
Ravi Shankar - "The Sounds Of India" [Columbia Adventures In Sound LP '58] I believe this was his US album debut, replete with spoken introductions and demonstrations explaining the instruments, scales, modes and rhythms, and liners by the classical composer Alan Hovhaness
"The Adventurers" MP Sndtrk. - Comp. Antonio Carlos Jobim, arr. & cond. Eumir Deodato [Paramount LP '69] |
Albert King - Born Under A Bad Sign just got a sealed copy today. Then T-Bone Walker Stormy Monday Blues. |
Sorry E, I obviously misunderstood your post of 11/08 -- didn't notice that you had written "Janis Ian" in quotes as a separate title, thought you were talking about the '70's Columbia album instead. (Which, if I was a fan of her 70's work, I would have known didn't contain old stuff, since as I have since realized it contains her biggest 70's hit, "At Seventeen".) Yes, that first album is an amazingly precocious debut for a young teenager, and what helps put it over the top for me is the production of Shadow Morton (of Shangri-Las fame). |
Z I sent off a reply today,but I had started it right after I recieved your email.Just got busy and I wanted to find a good web page for you.
As for Janis Ian, her Verve debut album mentions that she was 15 and after Wiki ing her birth date I just did the math.
Her "between the lines" came out about 1976 and is all contemporary stuff(to the best of my knowledge).I remember when it came out and "17"got lots of air time.Indeed,that is when I bought my copy that I have to this day.
I can understand how some may not care for her stuff;with all the self reflection on bad relationships.Joni Mitchell went down the same road, but less pathetically.
I personally was in your camp but lately have come to have more empathy and appreciation for women's plights in a male led society; especially in the 70's.
I hope you find the email I sent you helpful,and I hope that I piss off anyone with my last remarks.
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Hey E, the other week Janis Ian's self-titled '67 debut LP on Verve/Forecast was in heavy rotation here. I don't really dig most of her stuff I've heard after that one, but I didn't realize that the title you mention, which was released in the mid-70's, contains early vintage material. Are they demos, do they feature a band? (BTW, I tried to email you thru the Agon system several days ago about SUT's but didn't receive a reply?)
Dan & Dale - "Batman And Robin" [Tifton LP '66]
Jan & Dean - "Save For A Rainy Day" [Sundazed CD reissue '96, orig. '66]
Bob James Trio - "Bold Conceptions" [Mercury LP '62]
Shelly Manne/Bill Evans w/Monty Budwig - "Empathy" [Verve LP '62]
Gil Evans Orchestra - "Great Jazz Standards" [World Pacific LP '59]
Ella Fitzgerald - "Sings The George And Ira Gershwin Songbook Vol.1" [Verve LP '59]
Red Garland Trio - "Groovy" [Prestige LP '57] |
Very nice MacDadtexas. I got mine from Brazil,it has one "bad" spot but on the whole is very good.
Just upgraded the HMW19jr. to MKIII level.What a difference!
tonights spins:
Janis Ian: "Between the Lines", "Janis Ian"(made in 1966 when she was only 15!)amazing.
Christy Moore: "Unfinished Revolution","Strong Whiskey and Smoke"
The Beatles: "Sgt. Pepper's Loney Hearts Club band"
Dire Straits: "Dire Straits" |
Just reasonably burned in the Signature update on our Aesthetix Rhea and had the pleasure of some very rewarding analogue time...
Patricia Barber - Mythologies on MFSL 2-318/Capital EMI
Jacqueline du Pré - Haydn Cello Concerto on Angel S 36580
Jon Sholle - Catfish for Supper on Rounder 3026
Happy Listening! |
Emorrisiv, yes, you are correct. I was channeling my Nirvana, when I wrote that. Heart Shaped World. It is a great copy, no pops, no cracks, nada. Like new, bought from Greece on eBay, but it's a US printing? Pretty cool.
The Badfinger copy that I got was from a local dealer, and it's a German pressing. He doesn't sell much on eBay, and I glad he didn't sell this one there. It's so good it would have gone for 3 times what I paid him. |
