Whats on your turntable tonight?

Sir Adrian Boult
conducts music of
Vaughan Williams
London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
Aristophanic Suite from “The Wasps”
English Folk Song Suite
Fantasia on the “Old 104th” Psalm Tune
Angel (Compilation, Date unknown)

goofy record

Black Dice / Creature comforts 
Weird sh*t tonight boys :-). Just got a new batch on the front porch.

Holly Cole Trio - Don't Smoke In Bed

Peter Gabriel So... just love this album!

@spiritofradio

goofy record

James, I have a handful of Boult conducting Williams, have seen that one, but never truly interested me....perhaps I’m lucky ;-)

I am a big Williams fan though. 

I also have a CD box set of his complete works conducted by Leonard Slatkin and the Philharmonia Orchestra, which is pretty good. The older Boult selections on vinyl are a bit ‘hit and miss’. Some pretty good, but none I would say are ‘great’.

@boxer12 Streaming Black Dice. Not doing it for me! Moving on to Flooting Grooves.

@bkeske,  I’ll send it to you.....

yeah, Williams composed many of my favorite orchestral works.  These are different.  There is one exquisite passage with piano in the long choral work but most of the rest, like 80’s keyboards music, doesn’t survive the test of time.  There may be people who still like to hike to church service all dressed up in marching costumes but I don’t know any.  

@spiritofradio and @bkeske, Vaughan Williams is one of my very favorite composers. I love many of his orchestral works, but he had a wonderful way of writing for the voice. Some of my very favorite choral works are by him: Serenade to Music, Dona nobis pacem, and his motet, "Lord, Thou Hast Been Our Refuge, to name a few. 
My listening this evening has been weirdly eclectic: Bread - "Baby I'm-a Want You", Art Pepper - "Winter Moon", Marvin Gaye- What's Going On, "Ringing Strings: Fiddle Music of Norway", and now "British Band Classics: Works by Walton, Holst,and Jacobs" by the Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennel, conducting.

@gardnerss501,  I played “serenade to music” just the other day, it’s a wonderful work.  

👍 Jim

John Cale / Vintage violence
I believe this was his first record after The Velvet Underground

First Aid Kit ‎– The Big Black & The Blue (Wichita 2010)

Beck / One foot in the grave

Karajan conducts Beethoven - 9 Symphonien. Berliner Philharmoniker. Deutsche Grammophon 8LP reissue 1975, the original 1963 cycle. German pressing. 

Humble Pie - Smokin’

good news, lung collapse smaller by approx 55%.....

cranking it up....

First Aid Kit ‎– Stay Gold (Columbia 2014)

They're sort of addicting.

Phish / The siket disc

Listening to a super duper blue vinyl Target exclusive Queen Greatest Hits II.

Electric Light Orchestra - Face The Music 

10,000 Maniacs ‎– The Wishing Chair (Elektra 1985)

Hank Williams Jr,-High Notes Side 1 SQ 4.3
Benny Goodman Sextet-On Stage Side 4 SQ 4.4
Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes-Havin' A Party With... Side 2 SQ 4.3
Carly Simon-The Best Of  Side 2 SQ 4.3
Stephen Bishop-Red Cab To Manhattan Side 2 SQ 4.3
Nazareth-Expect No Mercy Side 2 SQ 3.9
Brahms-Concerto No.2(RCA LSC-2581) Side 1 SQ 4.5
Gladys Knight & The Pips-I Feel A Song Side 1 SQ 4.4

Jackson Browne - The Pretender.  This one might be going in the bin :(

@big_greg  - 

The Pretender. This one might be going in the bin :(

Don't like the music, or poor quality of your copy? I've always liked "The Pretender".

bit of thrift stone bin diving rewards:

Parkening - Plays Bach and Romanza ( Angel )

and

Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 2
Van Cliburn / Fritz Reiner
Chicago

RCA Red Seal 1962

Pat Metheny Group
American Garage 

Loud

@reubent it had a small skip on side 1. There was another on side 2 that sealed its fate. I ordered a replacement. I like the music it was just a bad record.

I have that Pat Metheney Group album.  So that means, I'll have to play it, maybe tomorrow.  Always get ideas of what to play from my collection when reading all of the posts here.  Yeah!

Got a couple of remasters, arrived today.

Fleetwood Mac   'Kiln House'  Awesome album!  My high school copy was thrashed and I made this purchase because, well, I just had to have it.  They did a fabulous job on this reissue.  And quiet vinyl, too.

Neil Young S/T  I bought this new in 1973 so it was a reissue at the time.  It is a terrible copy, very noisy.  This new remaster is outstanding!  This is at the level of the Buffalo Springfield Box Set.  I'll be getting the others now that I know how well they did them.  Man, this is great!

The Cars - S/T, MFSL

@spiritofradio  - 

Pat Metheny Group - "American Garage"

I love that record! It's been in my semi-regular rotation since it was released in 1979.

beautiful sunset, Pelicans, surfers, crashing Dolphins on bait....

Leonard Cohen - Ten New Songs ( w the sublime Sharon Robinson )

Jim,
I'm glad that you can breathe more easily again.  Enjoy life!

Slow night... 

Amy Winehouse
The Beatles

thanks Joel.....i am thankful for great care and insurance, thanks for checking in on me - means alot.

Dire Straits- s/t...45 rpm MoFi ( 10775 of ? )

i am a kid again, winter of 78 or early 79...skiing Seven Springs...this was the ONLY thing on the FM radio and we were crazy for it.....

@tomic601 good to see you're back on form.
+1 Ten New Songs. 

“Way on down South, London town...”....... wow

@noromance the bins didn’t cough up any playable 50-60 New Orleans discs for you....today, but they will my friend, they WILL...

the kick drum on Wild West End is a revelation....

Warming up the tubes, reaching for Dire Straits

@Mammothguy54 +1 Joel.  It was I think the perfect record for our first warm spring day here.  Hope you enjoy it too.  

Dire Straits 
Eponymous
45 RPM No. 008494
Warner Bros/Mofi 1978/2019

Man o man!

Dripping wet dobro

Yes - s/t ( RSD release from 2019 ? on orange vinyl )... this is simply superb....

isn’t that just wonderful James ?...

@tomic601 

Pick Withers and De Montal Armagnac, V.S.O.P.

Here’s to your health Jim.  

thank you James

i have a lovely Red open - Davis Vineyards- The Sage

Mine is black but yeah. Oh yeah. 

Palpable Soundstage all the way out into the room.  I can almost see the notes bouncing around.  

@reubent 

Yeah, “American Garage” is so good and on several levels.  On my more evolved system now I can appreciate the details along with the incredible musicianship and the life soundtrack melodies.  One of the most uplifting records ever made.