Whats on your turntable tonight?

@loomisjohnson The first cut, “Wicked Gravity”, gets it all revved up…

@bslon i just re-listened to catholic boy--what stood out is that his poetry/posturing aside, the band actually rocks and the melodies are there. "day and night" and "i want the angel" as good as anything lou reed ever did.

The Jim Carroll Band / Catholic Boy
1980 ATCO

Divinyls / Desperate
1983 Chrysalis 

The Cars / S-T
2023 Rhino RE 1423/5000, orig. 1978

Outstanding reissue by Rhino

Heartless Bastards "Arrow" 

2012/Partisan Records"

Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs "Dirt Dont Hurt" 

2008/Transdreamer Records

Gordon Bok – Bay Of Fundy (Folk-Legacy 1975)

J.J. Cale – Okie (Shelter 1974)

Elvis Costello – Secret, Profane & Sugarcane (Speciality 2009)

Susan Pillsbury – Susan Pillsbury (Sweet Fortune 1973)

Django Reinhardt – Three Fingered Lightning (Doxy 2012)

Van Halen "S/,T" 

DCC

Richard Thompson "Mock Tudor" 

1999/Bong Load

Richard Thompson "Some Enchanted Evenings" 

MFSL/45RPM

Sarah Shook & The Devil "7" 

2012/Bloodshot Records

Saint-Saëns* , Boston Symphony* , Munch* - Symphony No. 3

Url: https://www.discogs.com/release/6208848-Saint-Sa%C3%ABns-Boston-Symphony-Munch-Symphony-No-3

Pete Yorn.    Day I Forgot

Robert Plant/Jimmy Page " No Quarter"; 

"Since I've Been Loving You" f 'n rocks!

Rolling Stones "Goats Head Soup" 

50th anniversary 

Rodrigo y Gabriela "S/T" 

MOV

Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here" 

2016

David Bowie "Ziggy Stardust" 

MFSL 

David Bowie "Dark Star" 

2015/ISO

Sybarite5 “Collective Wisdom” and Prefab Sprout’s “I Trawl the Megahertz”.

Prior experience and a good review in The New Yorker led me to the former, which I shared with a friend who writes for Stereophile.

His response was, “Well, if you like that, try this”, which was my introduction to Prefab Sprout.

The Delines / The Imperial 
2019 El Cortez

The Clientele / Bonfires on the Heath
2009 Merge

Mikaela Davis / And Southern Star
2023 Kill Rock Stars

Lots of dust!

Climax Blues Band / Stamp Album
1975 Sire

The Doobie Brothers / The Captain and Me
1973 Warner Bros.

Bad Company / S-T
1974 Island

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness

Recently re-release on vinyl in a beautiful package with book of lyrics and book of history of each track.  Just awesome!  

David Ruffin from the Temptations. 

The Monty Alexander Quintet-Ivory & Steel(CJP-124) Side 1 SQ Audiophile

Jackson 5-Victory Side 1

Kiss-Alive II Side 3

Joe Sample-Carmel Side 2 SQ Audiophile

Tom Petty/Heartbreakers-"Damn The Torpedoes" Side 1 SQ*

Sammy Hagar-Standing Hampton Side 1

Eagles-ST Side 1 SQ*

Donna Fargo-My Second Album Side 1

With 2 Audiophile SQ recordings and 2 near misses(SQ*) makes for an average SQ night. Only Ms. Fargo had average(at best)SQ that sounded like it was recorded for AM radio. "Carmel" takes the SQ crown having a very wide and open soundstage.

Holly Golightly And The Brokeoffs – Sunday Run Me Over (Transdreamer 2012)

Manfred Mann Earth Band "Angel Station"

Manfred Mann Earth Band "The Roaring Silence*

Jenny Lewis and The Watson Twins "Rabbit Fur Coat"

Joe Walsh "Barnstorm" 

1972/ABC,Dunhill

The Third Mind "2" 

2023/YepRoc

Recommended

Cracker "Kerosene Hat" 

MOV

Traveling Wilburys "Vol 1" 

From box set

Grant Lee Buffalo "Jubilee" 

2023/Real Gone Music 

Grant Lee Buffalo "Copperopolis" 

2023/Real Gone Music

Agree on Manfred Mann @dayglow 

Drive-by Truckers "The New OK" 

2020/ATO

Townes Van Zandt "Delta Momma Blues" 

2007/Fat Possum Records 

Patti Austin-'Every Home Should Have One" Side 1 SQ*

Journey-Infinity Side 1

Richie Cole/Hank Crawford Quintet-Bossa International Side 1 SQ*

Sergio Mendes & Brazil '66-Fool On The Hill Side 2

Manfred Mann's Earth Band-Budapest Live Side 1 SQ*

Sibelius-Karelia/Ormandy(RCA ARL 1-2613) Side B SQ Audiophile

Van Halen-II(Bellman pressing) Side 1

Captain & Tennille-Love Will Keep Us Together Side 1

With only 1 Audiophile SQ recording and 3 near misses makes for an underperforming SQ night. The VH Bellman press lacks the bite of the OP, but still a solid repress. Have 4 Captain/Tennille pressings and all 4 sound different(lol). This one is pristine-Jacket/Vinyl but not the best SQ. Manfred Mann's Earth Band has to be the most overlooked top level "Prog" band of the 1970's.