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| No Direction Home, Dylan documentary by Martin Scorsese. Fair enough, @rpeluso. I assume then that you also disagree with Dylan's assertion that politics is trivial? ;-)Iris Dement recorded a great political song I love entitled "Wasteland Of The Free", so I'm not against them in principle. But when Jac... | |
| Your vote for greatest (covers) album Good point, @mcslipp. At least The Stones acknowledged the writer of the songs they outright covered. Zeppelin just changed the name of the song, and claimed authorship. Willie Dixon---writer of some of the songs they stole---sued, and won. Plant ... | |
| Best debut album Song Cycle by Van Dyke Parks. Van started work on this album immediately after his collaboration with Brian Wilson on the ill-fated Smile album was prematurely ended before that album was completed.Song Cycle is not Rock, not Pop, and is in fact i... | |
| Wow an old album that rocked your world Smiley Smile by The Beach Boys. Though I didn't yet know SS was a mere hint of what the album originally entitled Smile was to have been (which I learned in a 2-part story on the album in Crawdaddy magazine, the article later included in the autho... | |
| Tune of the Day "God Only Knows", written by Brian Wilson. I consider it the best song I've ever heard, and one of the great---if not THE greatest---compositions of the 20th Century. There is a YouTube video by a guy named Ben Shelton, wherein he explains and dem... | |
| Your vote for greatest (covers) album The Mona Lisa Twins, whom I just discovered while listening to as many versions of Brian Wilson’s "God Only Knows" as I could stand. The Twins---two sisters, true twins, from Austria, and my favorite new musical discovery in a long time---do the b... | |
| Your vote for greatest (covers) album The confusion continues. The topic is NOT greatest album cover, but greatest album containing cover versions of songs. | |
| Gender bender Janis Joplin’s version of "Me & Bobby McGee" is imo better than Kristofferson’s (the song's writer. Never heard the Roger Miller version). But then Gordon Lightfoot flipped that again with his version. I witnessed Bill Johnson hearing Gordon’s... | |
| Best debut album And thank YOU @pehare, for reminding me of that vocal by Richard! His sense of phrasing is on the Sinatra level. I listen to him sing "Orange Juice Blues (Blues For Breakfast)" every day. That song is a bonus track on the expanded CD version of Mu... | |
| Tune of the Day "I Wouldn’t Be Me Without You" by Rodney Crowell, just one great song off his excellent Tarpaper Sky album. The song (written by Rodney), his singing of it, the musical accompaniment by some of the best musicians in the world (Steuart Smith on gui... | |
| What's the worst speaker or stereo set-up you've ever seen? Fabio's system. Four channels of giant Martin Logans set up in a marble-floored and glass-walled room.Then on the Planar Speaker Asylum Forum a while back, there was a knucklehead running Maggies and Klipsch together, side by side. | |
| Your vote for greatest (covers) album Dylan's Self Portrait immediately comes to mind. Got terrible reviews when released (Greil Marcus' review in Rolling Stone was entitled "What is this sh*t"), but I loved it. Still do, and the critics have now acknowledged they were wrong. | |
| Is there an ideal (ish) cartridge output? Yes: the 5mV output of the London pickups. ;-)Schitt includes a 30dB gain "Decca Mode" setting on their Mani phono amp. | |
| Best tube preamplifier for under $15k I'm envious @ewert. I have to get by with the 912's little brother, the 868L. Good enough for my modest system. ;-) | |
| Gender bender Joan Osborne's version of Slim Harpo's "Shake Your Hips." Smokin' hot! Her version of "What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted" is also fantastic, though maybe not "better" than the original by Jimmy Ruffin. |