Joni Mitchell, “Blue” SACD |
Boulez conducts Bartok - Violin Concerto #2, Rhapsodies for Violin and Orchestra 1&2. Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Gil Shaham. Deutsche Grammophon 1999
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@uberwaltz
Hang in there man. I’ve gotten those occasionally and they can be painful. The last one I had was actually in one of my shoulder blades, and that sucker lasted for weeks. Excruciating at times. Of course, stubborn me, didn’t go to the Doctor. Then one morning I woke up and it was gone. Just like that.
Luckily I haven’t had another in a while, just my long lasting and persistent lower back pain.
It’s hell getting old. |
Think Visual ..... The Kinks.
Cassette.
Poor weekend due to trapped nerve in neck, constant pain, no way to sit anywhere comfortable and about 2 hours sleep since Thursday if I am lucky..lol.
And have to fly to Wisconsin 6am tomorrow for work.
I must be mad.
Oh wait, it's called a conscience and work ethic. |
Fitzwilliam String Quartet plays Shostakovich. Quartets 8,9,&10, CD #4 of the 6 CD set, ‘The String Quartets’. Decca 1998
Incredible set of music.
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Chailly conducts Varese - CD #1 of a 2 CD set: ‘Verese, The Complete Works, - Tuning Up, Ameriques, Arcana, Poeme Electronique, Nocturnal, Un Grand Sommeil Noir. Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. London 1998
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Solti conducts Kodaly - Dances of Galanta, Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song & Weiner - Serenade for Small Orchestra. Bonus disc #6 of the Solti-Bartok box set. Decca 2012
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Getting my Sunday off the a rousing start with this, a great version on this composition.
Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts Strauss - Ein Heldenleben. The Cleveland Orchestra. Decca 1985 Germany
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.....my CD collection has been on hiatus lately, so digging into them this weekend. |
ABBA are imo seriously under-rated. Bjorn and Benny are excellent songwriters (in a long ago interview, Flo & Eddie declared them better than Brian Wilson!), Agnetha and Anni-Frid good singers. I own their complete catalog, and some of the girl's solo albums, one sung in Swedish. |
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Good to see you back David! |
Leonard Cohen --- Thanks For The Dance |
Boulez conducts Mahler’s 7th. The Cleveland Orchestra. Deutsche Grammophon. From the Boulez/Cleveland Orchestra box set. Released 2017.
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@uberwaltz
I guess you can look at it this way; after some of those ‘selections’, your preferred music will sound better than ever before. And so will your system, no doubt. ;-) |
Brian.
Abba is nothing compared to some of the tapes I have lined up to play from my lot purchase.....🤣🤣🤣 |
Talking Heads, "Sand In The Vasoline" 2 CD |
@uberwaltz
Abba?
We might have to take away your music card for a couple hours of ‘time out‘ period.
;-D |
Maazel conducts Respighi & Rimsky-Korsakov. The Cleveland Orchestra. Box set ‘Maazel, The Cleveland Years, Complete Recordings’. Disc #3. Decca, released 2014
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This should amuse you....
Abba ... The Album.
Cassette.
I have vivid memories of Abba slaughtering the competition on the Eurovision Song Contest with Waterloo.
I also remember my mother being outraged when the girls whipped off each other's wraps.....LMAO.
This was prudent England mid 70s. |
Maazel conducts Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, & Scriabin. The Cleveland Orchestra. Box set ‘Maazel, The Cleveland Years, Complete Recordings’. Disc #5. Decca, released 2014
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George Szell conducts Schubert. Symphony #8 ‘unfinished’, & Symphony #9 ‘The Great’. The Cleveland Orchestra. Sony Essential Classic series. Reissue /Released 1992.
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Had an urge to play some Eels today.
Eels - Blinking Lights and other Revelations. Vagrant 2005 2 CD set
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Bangin' .... The Outfield.
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Orso / Long time by
Mid-Tempo Indie rock |
Gatti conducts Berg. 3 Orchesterstücke & Lulu Suite. Royal Concertgebouw. RCO 2008. Recorded to tape.
Cassette |
The Fiery Furnaces / Bitter tea
Indie rock with a lot of time/chord changes |
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Tanakh / Dieu Deuil
Indie music with strings. This is one of my all time favorite indie bands. Very creative & beautiful music IMO |
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Eric Clapton - August. WB 1986
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Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here |
The Allman Brothers Band - Shades of Two Worlds. Epic 1991
Cassette |
Getting to some freebies from @uberwaltz
John Cougar Mellencamp - Scarecrow. RIVA 1985
Cassette
Never bought a Mellencamp album before, albeit I kinda liked some I used to hear on the radio, or MTV back in the day. I think this tape is fine, but the engineering and recording technique of this album leaves a bit to be desired. Very ‘hallow’, poor SQ, and amateurish production vs some of the songs and music that deserved better. I don’t think quality recording was a concern here.....just ‘get it out there’. Probably sounded fine on most car radios. A shame really. |
stereo5,
In case you are still roaming this thread, my Wish You Were Here SBM CD arrived today. I agree with your assessment and prefer it to SACD version although not dramatically.
Thanks for the hint/recommendation. |
@n80, I actually listen to Classical a lot (especially the Baroque era), but don't usually comment on it here. While fairly knowledgeable about Popular (non-Classical) music, I can be viewed as a dilettante in regard to the serious stuff. The title I posted about is not just the 9th, but all nine of Beethoven's symphonies, in a little boxset. Listening to them all back-to-back is interesting: one becomes more aware of the composer's "tricks" (not said in the pejorative sense ;-); the frequent use of dynamic swells leading to a staccato chord punctuation. I actually prefer Mozart as a symphony composer; his are more different from one another, and he wrote far more of them. But to me, J.S. Bach is THE composer's composer. I am of course not alone in holding that opinion. I was introduced to JSB by a songwriter I was recording with in '74-'75, the only genius I've known. He was a music major first at San Jose State College and then The University of California at Riverside, and possessed perfect pitch. Learning to sing a Fugue---as I was required to do in our work---was the hardest thing I've ever done. It also instilled in me a low tolerance for "flat" singing, and out-of-tune guitars. Both are far more common than you would think! |
@bdp24 I did not have you pegged as a classical guy. Of course anyone should be able to enjoy Beethoven's 9th. In my meager experience with classical I see the 9th as possibly the greatest symphony ever.
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The best of the Rest ...... UFO.
Cassette |
Alone Together ... Dave Mason.
Cassette |
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Cricklewood Green ..... Ten Years After.
Cassette |
Claudio Arrau, Chopin, complete Nocturnes....aaaahhhhh |
Beethoven 9 Symphonies, John Gardiner conducting Orchestre Revolutionnaire Et Romantique. Archiv 439 900-2. |
Pink Mountaintops / Axis of evol
Indie rock with a 60’s feel |
Mouse on Mars / Radical connector
Adventurous Electronic Indie Rock |
Bridge to Babylon .... The Rolling Stones.
I started playing this from my server this afternoon but got interrupted.
So put the actual CD in the Esoteric tonight and woah....
This must be the best sounding Stones album I have heard, very well recorded.
And some pretty good songs to boot. |
The Winter Blanket / Hopeless lullaby
Mid-tempo rock |
@uberwaltz Funk #49 ... James Gang. Oh man, one of my favs as a kid. Especially as Joe and the boys were from Cleveland. |
Nashville Skyline .... Bob Dylan.
Cassette. |
Funk #49 ... James Gang.
Factory Chrome tape.
Outstanding SQ!! |
