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
Just got this one, one of my fave albums. The LP could use a cleaning (still waiting on my d*mn VPI 16.5 to arrive) but sounds awesome even if a little gritty. I heart eBay.
Nazareth- Close Enough For Rock And Roll Great sounding and a wide range of music on this LP that I have bought an unknown number of copies from my teen years 'till now. Highly recomended for any 70's rock fan!
Went to the Cincinnati Public Library annual book sale and picked up about 50 single LPs (mostly classical) and about 10 box sets (all classical).
A very kind audiophile that I met there gave me a NM Britten "War Requiem" (London, Britten,Pears,Fischer-Dieskau, Vishnevskaya) from off his stack.
I have been wanting to pick this up for years and just never found one that was in good shape or was affordable. I paid $1.00 for the Britten as well as the other discs. I do have another version by Rattle (digital)that is pretty wonderful. But this one has such a low sound floor and soundstaging that the digital version doesn't portray. Not to mention the dynamic shading and impact.Amazing!
Rushton I know you have this and love it. Now I do too.
Elton John- Yellow Brick Road excellent 180 gram pressing (DJM 1001) with big dynamics J.C. Mellenkamp- Scarecrow Dire Straits- first one Tommy Tutone- Two CCR- Willy and the Poor Boys
Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition - Tin can alley. I am getting in gear for the show at Montreal Jazz Festival Keith Jarret, Jack and Gary Peacock. I can't wait!
I'm listening to some recent acquisitions tonight:
Dire Straits - Dire Straits Mink DeVille - Return to Magenta Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame David Bowie - Hunky Dory Spencer Davis Group - Very Best Of... Dr. John - Gris Gris Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle
"Laudate II - Baroque music from the Duben Collection" - DrottingholmBarEns, UppsalaAcKammarkor, Anne-Sophie von Otter - Proprius PROP 7860 (a prize among all of my Baroque music LPs with a young and incomparable Anne-Sophie von Otter) .
Led Zeppelin - II Japanese Promo copy - WOW, best pressing I have ever heard. Like brand new too. I'm sorry I bought it, now that's all I want to buy is these super expensive Japanese pressings.
The Beatles - Beatles Forever (Hey Jude) another sublime Japanese pressing. It was worth the money.
Frank Sinatra - Live in Paris (MFSL) my first Frank on vinyl, a great place to start
Madeliene Peyroux - Bare Bones (MFSL) not my fav album of hers, but still better than most
Sit: A friend went to see the current Yardbirds with McCarty and Dreja in concert yesterday and gave a very good report -- and he's not even a particularly big fan who owns the old records like I do (I'd planned to attend with him, but unfortunately wound up unable to make it).
Shostakovitch Symphony #1,"The age of Gold" RCA/ Martinon LSO original 1959 pressing and quite extraordinary.
J.S. Bach "Magnificat" Proprius just arrived from Sweden.Typical Proprius;wonderful, but I like the Kings College reading better.
Sphere "Flight Path" Elektra Musician If you have never heard this LP you owe it to yourself to find one and try it. Amazing recording by T.Monk's old mates.
Pelleas et Melisande collection Phillips/Zinman/Rotterdam phil. A box set of incidental music for the famous play/opera. Sebelius,Faure,Schoenberg. The Faure is a particular favorite of mine and this LP has the rarely recorded soprano solo sung by Jil Gomez.Sublime
Rod Stewert - "Never a Dull Moment" (which I found today for for $2.99) Beach Boys - Pet Sounds Van Morrison - Saint Dominic's Preview McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy
James Newton Howard and Friends (Sheffield Labs) Stomu Yamashta, Steve Winwood, Michael Shrive "Go" Gil-Scott Heron "I am new here" Allman Bros. Live at Fillmore East Mike Greene Band "Mirage"
Yardbirds. Originals. Not a mix. Relf, Dreja, McCarty, Samwell-Smith, Topham, Clapton, Beck, Page. WONDERFUL WORK. I was about 12 Y.O. when this music was newly out there. It still rocks big time.
Grover Washington Jr. "Winelight" Genesis "Selling England by the pound" Genesis "Wind and Wuthering" Alan Parsons Project "Tales of mystery and imagination" King Crimson "In the court of the Crimson King"
Oscar Peterson featuring Stephane Grappelli, double LP on Prestige. I often overlook this record in my jazz collection, but tonight I it is hittin the spot. The sweet spot!
Chopin - Selected Mazurkas, Nocturnes and a Ballad performed by Ivan Moravec, piano - Connoisseur Society CS 2122 (I confess an abiding love of listening to Ivan Moravec play Chopin. His playing is so intelligent, so beautifully wrought. For me, his interpretations and playing are perfection. Add to this the superb production values brought to these Connoisseur Society recordings by the inimitable producer Alan Silver and you get a marvelous listening experience.)
Buzzcocks - "Another Music In A Different Kitchen" [UA UK '78] Buzzcocks - "Love Bites" [UA UK '78] Buzzcocks - "Singles Going Steady" [Liberty UK '79] Buzzcocks - "A Different Kind Of Tension" [IRS '80] Buzzcocks - "Parts One, Two, Three" [IRS '80]
Morning after listening, saw 'em again last night in Baltimore, this tour highlighting only the vintage stuff including the first two albums in their entirety (some of the deep cuts on which I've never heard them play live before), tour dates at buzzcocks.com Feeling 16 again!
Cheap Trick- Dream Police. Rockin' Power-Pop at its best. There are some REALLY great tracks on this LP. Need Your Love, Gonna Raise Hell, Voices, there is not a bad track on it.
Cat Stevens "Tea for the Tillerman" MoFI original series of half speed masters circa 1980
Christy Moore "Unfinished Revolution" Wea records Just won this off ebay straight from Ireland. Like all the Christy Moores a wonderful pressings and recording.
Jennifer Warnes "Famous Blue Raincoat" original pressing
"Instruments of the Middle Ages and Renaissance" - David Munrow and the Early Music Consort, EMI SLS 988 (a multi-LP collection of short pieces, each highlighting a different instrument or collection of instruments, but marvelous MUSIC, not just demonstration of instrument sound. Includes a marvelous book on the music and the instruments of the middle ages.) .
Tomorrow is a BIG day - we've added a new member to the Walker Audio turntable family and several of us are descending on him for the day with lots of vinyl in tow. Three Walker owners, one TW-Acustic Raven owner and friends - vinyl nuts all. What vinyl am I hauling with me for the day? Ah, all wonderful stuff:
Royal Ballet Gala Performances, 45rpm reissue The Reiner Sound (Ravel:Rapsodie Espagnole), 45rpm reissue The Jung Trio, Dvorak Trio, Groove Note 45rpm Rossini Overtures, Fone 45rpm Rota, Concerto per archi, I Musici on Fone Lee Morgan, Search for the New Land, Blue Note/Music Matters 45rpm reissue Eric Dolphy, Out to Lunch, Blue Note/Music Matters 45rpm reissue Louis Armstrong, St. James Infirmary, 45rpm reissue Holst, Savitri, Argo Holst, Double Concerto, Lyrita
I'm shocked at how great it sounds. I thought that all of the tracks, or most, were digitally recorded, so I didn't expect that much, but the record is fantastic.
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