Whats on your turntable tonight?

Liars / ST

ELP - Brain Salad Surgery 1973/1977 Reissue Atlantic Records

Joni - Both Sides Now

confirmed 2nd Degritter tank inbound….

playing a new record i got today: "strange world" on mississippi records. "cosmic and earthly doo wop and r&b from america and jamaica"

Michel Martin conducts Debussy - Epigraphes Antiques & Roussel - Le Marchand De Sable Qui Passe. Orchestre De Chambre Michel Martin. Cybelia French release. Date unknown, but guessing early-mid 80’s
 

@slaw ​​​​@dayglow I like On Every Street, but it's not as cohesive as most of their other albums. I realized I only have it on my server. I need to pick up the vinyl. 

Diana Krall - All for You (A Dedication to the Nat King Cole Trio)

Eduard Fischer conducts Martinů - Concertino For Cello And Orchestra, Op. 57 & Concertino For Cello And Orchestra, Op. 57. Prague Chamber Soloists

František Vajnar conducts Martinů - Concertino For Cello, Wind Instruments, Piano And Percussion. Collegium Musicum Pragense

Supraphon 1977 Czechoslovakian release
 

Avey Tare / Down there 

@tomic601 Jim, good news about the second tank for the Degritter.

Utah Phillips, Happy Traum, Peter Alsop, Dan Crow “Silly Songs and Modern Lullabies” Briar Records 1980

Windy & Carl “Songs for the Broken Hearted” Kranky 2008

Dadamah “This Is Not A Dream” Grapefruit 2020

Robert Bensick Band “French Pictures In London” Smogveil 2016

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

Minus Story / No rest for ghosts 

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 🍺

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

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

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. 

Carole King / Tapestry
1971 CBS

Portishead - Dummy 

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

Patti Smith Group / Easter
1978 Arista

Opeth - Damnation

XTC - Skylarking 

@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 😉

DJ Premier – Beats That Collected Dust Vol.2

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!

Low – Trust

@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.

DJ Shadow ‎– Endtroducing.....

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.

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:

@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

‘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

My Morning Jacket – My Morning Jacket (2021)

@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".

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

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. )

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 

 

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

@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. 

@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 🤔😵‍💫

Carolyn Hester – Carolyn Hester (Tradition 1961 mono)

Her voice. 

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

Kansas - "Monolith"

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

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 

 

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

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?

Pink Floyd - "Wish You Were Here"