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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Franz Lehár - Kölner Rundfunk Chor Und Orchester – Paganini (RCA 1978)

The heavy metal of opera. Sort of. In honor of Taylor Hawkins.

Boulez conducts Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique. The London Symphony Orchestra. Columbia Masterworks 1971, radio station copy.

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Peter Rybar, Vienna Festival Orchestra – Violin Concerto In E-Minor, Op. 64 (Whitehall Records 1962) side 1.

Not the quietest vinyl. Some clown damaged a visually pristine record with a junk stylus.

Boulez conducts Schoenberg - A Survivor From Warsaw, Op. 46 / Variations For Orchestra, Op. 31 / Five Pieces For Orchestra, Op. 16 / Accompaniment To A Cinematographic Scene, Op. 34. BBC Symphony Orchestra. CBS Masterworks 1978
 

Tomaso Albinoni, I Musici – 12 Concerti A Cinque Op. 5 (Philips 1982 Digital)

Super album. SQ is excellent and the vinyl is silent. 

Diana Krall  -  The Look of Love   Verve records, excellent recording and pressing.  Beautiful music to relax the night away (last night).

Boz Scaggs  -  Dig   A wonderful album, some of his best written music.  A bit of a "modern" recording sound, though.  But the bass is really good.  Deep and strong.  Vocals are absolutely dead-center, locked in.

Both of these albums arrived yesterday.  I'll be listening to them a few more times, very soon. 

Firehouse Five Plus Two – The Firehouse Five Story, Vol. 2 (Good Time Jazz 1958)

The Innocence Mission – Befriended (Badman Recording Co. 2019 RE 2003)

Boulez conducts Boulez - Les Soleil Des Eaux. Dorati conducts Koechlin - Les Bandar-Log, Op. 176 & Messiaen - Chronochromie For Orchestra. BBC Symphony Orchestra w/BBC Symphony Chorus. Angel 1965

Home late from a Celebration of Life event for a close college buddy who recently passed. Melancholy day so needed to spin a couple (LPs and...) to wind down. Fired Golden Palominos "Visions of Excess" Buffalo Tom, "Birdbrain" & Steve Earle, "Train a Comin"... 🍻 to a good man gone far too soon!

@spiritofradio "Please Don’t Touch" when released it was noted as very innovative for some unusual effects used. I've been playing occasionally since its release. Most recently spun it after watching a Genesis doc on Wind & Wuthering where the narrator said "If Gabriel was the band's brains, Hackett was its soul"!

White Stripes Greatest Hits

Tom Tom Club – Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

 

streamer:

Cowboy Junkies - Songs of the Recollection

Daniel Martin Moore - Turned over to Dreams

record player:

Steve Hackett - Please Don’t Touch

The Complete Roulette Recordings Of The Maynard Ferguson Orchestra (Disk 3)

Eva Cassidy - Live At Blues Alley (45)

Miles Davis - Someday My Prince Will Come (AP)

Aoife O’Donovan - Bull Frogs Croon

 

Hey @jay73 ,

I always enjoy my Hot August Night/MFSL. It really is a great performance.

Szell conducts Brahms - Double Concerto In A Minor. The Cleveland Orchestra w/Mstislav Rostropovich, cello & David Oistrach, violin. Angel reissue, 1980’s, originally 1969

Yeah, I think that when I listened to a couple newer songs, they didn't grab me. 

Hey Steve!

I streamed a few before buying this one earlier this week. This is only the second Califone album I have (The other being "Heron King Blues", which you already own). Anyway...while streaming I didn't hear one I wouldn't own & would have bought more but this was the only Califone album the record store had. 

 

Currently streaming Orenda Fink "Blue Dream". Thinking about the vinyl.....

Hi Tim, 

I have a few Califone lps. Was wondering if their latest efforts are as good?

in the middle of a big soul run...blue magic, harold melvin, darondo, more obscure stuff like the brief encounter, don julian and the larks etc...sometimes it's just what you need 

Was out of town with my wife for a few days. Didn't realize how much I missed vinyl until just now. The system sounds incredible tonight with this Califone album. Highly recommended although it might just be my mood right now 😃

@j_husker I don't think you're alone in doing that. I have a few unopened MOFI one-steps.

Just arrived today:

Bud Powell-Time Waits (The Amazing Bud Powell) 2022 BN Classic

Milt Jackson With John Lewis, Percy Heath, Kenny Clarke, Lou Donaldson And The Thelonious Monk Quintet 2022 BN Classic

On an unrelated note, I have this thing for lp box sets. Call it a fetish, call it a character flaw. Either way I look in my collection and around the room and there’s an over abundance of them. Most are unopened. Struggling with the decision to sell, or bust em open and spin them.

@noromance yeah, I played it and there are a couple of great cuts a couple of real rejects and the rest mostly excessive progressive.  Synths aren’t recorded well.  Anyway, Richie’s singing is good and interesting inclusion on the record.  

@spirit,  I've heard it and I'm not really a fan. A little too synth-prog-noise in parts for me. Acolyte is decent in parts. Don't know more than that.

Bernstein conducts Brahms - Serenade In A. New York Philharmonic. Columbia Masterworks 1968
 

@noromance 

Brian playing his Bournemouth made me pull this Finlandia!

👍🏼 I tell ya, that box I got is really quite good. Many believe Paavo and Bournemouth may be the reference on Sibelius performances. Had been hunting for a good copy being sold in the US, and finally, got one.

I have a couple Karajan ‘takes’ on Sibelius in single LP form, and are always enjoyable as well.

@noromance Hey I just picked up an unwashed copy of the 1978 Steve Hackett record “Please Don’t Touch”.  It features Richie Havens.   Do you know it?