Whats on your turntable tonight?

Jean Martinon conducts Saint-Saëns - Morceau De Concert Pour Harpe Avec Accompagnement D’Orchestre, Op. 154 / Tailleferre - Concertino Pour Harpe Et Orchestre / Ginastera - Concierto Para Arpa Y Orquesta (Revidierte Fassung Von 1968). Orchestre ORTF, Paris. Deutsche Grammophon 1970 German release 
 

Jane's Addiction- S/T

Just arrived, 

Aimee Mann "Queens of the Summer Hotel" 

Cat Power "Covers"

Jane Morgan With The Troubadors – Fascination (Kapp 1957 mono)

How can a 65 year old record sound better than current ones?

Steve - I have been streaming many of @noromance mono picks……enjoying them a bit 2 much….

Whaaa???

….must…NOT…lust after…wait for it……….

A mono cartridge…..

@whatsaftumch

Welcome to this wonderful thread.  Your writing, which I copied and posted below, is spot on.  I am in full agreement with your words and thought.  You are a wise man!

Sometimes a beautiful sounding album and a beautiful album are the same thing. There’s a few albums I own that fit that bill, albums that got the production and the musicianship that the material deserved.

Jane Morgan With The Troubadors – All The Way (London 1958 mono)

Simply magic.

Hi Jim!

@slaw I like it, but only one listen so far. 

“It Still Moves” still moves me.

Brian - streaming Carolyn…i get the multi faceted…attraction…

Pink Floyd - "Wish You Were Here"

Anyone got a modern version of "Who's Next" that you can recommend? I think finding a clean original copy, at a reasonable price, might be difficult. Any to avoid?

How do you like the latest My Morning Jacket, @sbank  Spencer? I think it's up there with their best!

Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Walter Piston - Symphony No. 2 & William Schuman - Concerto For Violin And Orchestra. Boston Symphony Orchestra w/Paul Zukofsky violin. Deutsche Grammophon 1971, German release 

 

Jane Morgan – The Second Time Around (Kapp 1961 mono)

Kansas - "Monolith"

Brian, test it in an incognito/private browser window.

Carolyn Hester – Carolyn Hester (Tradition 1961 mono)

Her voice. 

@noromance 

Arg,…..still trying to figure out the best way, and replaced that photo with another. And now cannot edit that post.

oddly enough, it’s still showing for me 🤔😵‍💫

@bkeske Vaughan Williams photo MIA.

Unapologetic copying of what you're doing 🙂 except I'm copying the live image URL from Discogs so no hosting needed. 

Lucy Ward – I Dreamt I Was A Bird... (Betty Beetroot 2015)

Vernon Handley conducts Delius ‘Orchestral Works’ - Intermezzo - "Fennimore And Gerda" / On Hearing The First Cuckoo In Spring / Summer Night On The River / A Song Before Sunrise / Sleigh Ride / Prelude - "Irmelin" / The Walk To The Paradise Garden / La Calinda - "Koanga". The London Philharmonic Orchestra. Classics For Pleasure, Lambert & Butler Master Series 1979 UK release 

 

Brian - So appreciate the LP covers, especially the “ wild man “

@whatsaftumch Great contributions so far, please do ! Best tgread on audiogon made so by posters. Nice tribute to a friend. I have seen Rickie in her faded glory behind a concert grand, had she knocked on my door, i would’ve asked her to stay some count of decades…..

RLJ - Pirates ( which i consider her masterwork. )

Sir John Barbirolli conducts Vaughan Williams - A London Symphony. Hallé Orchestra. Angel 1968
 

@whatsaftumch  - Welcome to the Best Thread on AudiogoN! You've posted some great stuff!

I bought Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - "Rattlesnakes" on CD when it was first released. Was one of my first CDs, after XTC - "English Settlement". Always loved "Perfect Skin" and especially "Speedboat".

My Morning Jacket – My Morning Jacket (2021)

‘Wild man’ Stokowski conducts ‘ Rhapsodies’ : 

Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 In C-Sharp Minor
Enescu - Roumanian Rhapsody No.1 In A Op.11
Smetana - The Moldau & The Bartered Bride : Overture

RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra. RCA Victor Red Seal reissue, late 60’s. Originally 1961

@whatsaftumch Yeah, I saw an XTC documentary and Andy was pretty funny in his disdain for Todd. No love there! 

The Stranglers – No More Heroes

Happenstance? Todd Rundgren produced XTC’s Skylarking which I played last night…apparently it was an ‘ahem’ interesting experience for both he and the band:

I love Something / Anything?, it's one of my favorite records.  I saw Utopia in Portland at Revolution Hall (an old high school converted to a concert venue) not too long before the pandemic started.  That was a lot of fun.

DJ Shadow ‎– Endtroducing.....

@sbank

Saw Todd at Roseland Ballroom in NYC in the 90s. It was a round stage with a variety of percussion instruments attached to the bottom going all the way around

Spencer, I fist saw Todd around 1974/5, can’t remember exactly, but the concert was highly connected to his Wizard release, but also Todd. For the time, it was quite the experience blending music and Todd’s own take on theater, and even acrobatics.

Next time was the mid-90’s, IIRC, with Warren Zevon. That was a great show combo. And the last in the large 90’s/early 00’s with Joe Jackson (I have a hard time remembering dates, always have). That was primarily a two man solo show, Todd had basically moved in that direction at the time, and that was also a great show….but….I did miss him with a larger band nonetheless.

Low – Trust

Todd's music had so much detail and so many different percussion touches....it was ahead of it's time. He may have been a Runt back then, but he was indeed a Wizard.. a True Star. 

Yes, he produced Meatloaf's Bat Out of Hell...the only project including Jimmy Iovine, The E Street Band, Phila. Orch and Phil Rizzutto!

Saw Todd at Roseland Ballroom in NYC in the 90s. It was a round stage with a variety of percussion instruments attached to the bottom going all the way around. For the encore he passed drumsticks to about 50 audience members and they joined for Bang The Drum All Day, while he tossed condoms to the crowd. What a guy!

DJ Premier – Beats That Collected Dust Vol.2

@whatsaftumch 

👍🏼 Won’t get much argument in this thread, it’s primarily about the music. We just got smitten with how well it can be reproduced. And wherever we are on that journey, all are welcome here 😉

XTC - Skylarking 

Opeth - Damnation

Patti Smith Group / Easter
1978 Arista

Julie London / Julie Is Her Name
1955 Liberty / Japanese pressing

Portishead - Dummy 

Carole King / Tapestry
1971 CBS

The eponymous Rickie Lee Jones

I suppose I’d call myself a bit of a Hi-Fi nut, an audiophile if you will. That’s why I’m here I suppose. I think we’re thought of at a level slightly above train modellers.

But it’s always only about the music and so my pursuit of ‘perfect sound’ and the equipment that plays it has only ever been about trying to get as close as possible to the sound as the artist intended.

Sometimes a beautiful sounding album and a beautiful album are the same thing. There’s a few albums I own that fit that bill, albums that got the production and the musicianship that the material deserved.

An album made by a girl in a beret and the finest musicians in town and she’s got a voice so sassy, flirty, aching and touching that if she turned up on your doorstep you’d ask her to stay the night. 

Tracey Ullman / You Broke My Heart In 17 Places
1983 MCA

Norah Jones / Pick Me Up Off The Floor
2020 Blue Note

Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Rattlesnakes

One of my favourite debut albums of the 80’s and frequently played . Great production too.

I was very fortunate to inherit this album as part of a collection which cost me the equivalent of a few beers from a good friend and now retired work mate named Doug McRae. 

I’d only ever heard individual songs from it previously but now it always gets played from start to finish. I definitely got the better deal Doug. Cheers 🍺

Minus Story / No rest for ghosts 

All this talk about the Doobies, I broke out my MFSL SACD of What Were Once Vices...