What vinyl are you listening to?

[Charlie Jefferson]

Not heard that Charlie, but if the replacement records are not up to scratch, I'll get The Mix and one of the others as replacements instead, as I have original copies of Autobahn and Trans Europe Express already

I really like The Mix and Electric Cafe, two of their less celebrated albums. The Mix also features a delirious take on Autobahn and a stonking Radioactivity, just to tempt you more.

Electric Cafe is probably my most played of their albums. It was the first of theirs that I bought at the time of release. Stranglely it was re-tilted as Techno Pop when the re-masters came out a couple of years ago and it had a slightly altered track listing too, for what it's worth.

Currently listening to:

Another Self-Portrait - Bob Dylan

New Morning - Bob Dylan

Self-Portrait - Bob Dylan

Nashville Skyline - Bob Dylan

 

[ifor]

Aural Sculpture -The Stranglers

Dreamtime - The Stranglers

All Live And All Of The Night - The Stranglers

 

[jamesrfisher]

Talking Heads - Fear of Music

Grandmaster Flash - The Official Adventures of Grandmaster Flash (a serious workout for your system, loss of controlled bass, great drums, Kraftwerk, Yellow Magic Orchestra, loads of breakbeats to get those toes tapping!)

 

[ifor]

Pull The Pin - Stereophonics

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

Young Gods - L'Eau Rouge

 

[Bogester]

My wife bought me "Der Katalog", the German-language CD box-set, for my birthday a few years ago and it's sounds great. However, some of the (English language) vinyl reissues are to be found in my local record store and I've often wondered how they compare - has anyone heard both? Certainly, the CDs don't suffer from significant dynamic range compression in the way that a great many remasters do, so I'm doubtful that any of the vinyl versions are worth forking out for.

 

[Charlie Jefferson]

My wife bought me "Der Katalog", the German-language CD box-set, for my birthday a few years ago and it's sounds great. However, some of the (English language) vinyl reissues are to be found in my local record store and I've often wondered how they compare - has anyone heard both? Certainly, the CDs don't suffer from significant dynamic range compression in the way that a great many remasters do, so I'm doubtful that any of the vinyl versions are worth forking out for.

I wondered the same and bought one duplicate, Radioactivity, to compare the CD and the vinyl.

I personally couldn't tell much difference, if any at all. As you say, the CDs are a really good example of a well-done, excellent sounding remaster.

 

[stevebrock]

Kraftwerk - Man Machine

SQ is immense on this

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

Kraftwerk - Man Machine

SQ is immense on this

Told you.

 

[stevebrock]

Kraftwerk - Man Machine

SQ is immense on this

Told you.

never in doubt!

This is my 2nd copy though - from diverse vinyl and isn't warped like my first copy!

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

My replacement Trans Europe Express arrived today, centre hole is fine, and no warping. Will test playback tomorrow.

 

[Bodfish]

(Weirdly)

Bjork - Greatest Hits

epic production values!

 

[Charlie Jefferson]

(Weirdly)

Bjork - Greatest Hits

epic production values!

Some great songs, ideas, vocals on there too.

I'm currently sulking, having been outbid on two gaps in my mono Dylan vinyl collection. Better luck perhaps over the weekend when one of the LPs comes up for auction again. It's my birthday next week and my wife said she'd buy me some vinyl. I'm obsessing about the ones that got away. Vinyl not wives.

Update: stopped moping about and played some records, as therapy, of course:

1) Bringing It All Back Home - Bob Dylan

2) Another Self-Portrait - Bob

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

Talk Talk - Laughing Stock

Banana Splits - We're The Banana Splits

Depeche Mode - Music For The Masses

Peter Gabriel - Passion-Music For "The Last Temptation Of Christ"

The Meters - Look-Ka Py Py

**** & The Blazers - So Sharp

Japan - Quiet Life

 

[jamesrfisher]

Tricky - Maxinquaye

Collected today from Post Office. Reissue on Music on Vinyl.

Always loved this album, it's very good, great sq. About to give it a second spin, lights off, glass of Macallan. Bliss

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

Why does music sound better in the dark?

 

[jamesrfisher]

Why does music sound better in the dark?

Can't say why but it just seems to. No lights equals no distractions so concentrate more?

Does light suck sound out of a room?

 

[Charlie Jefferson]

Another Self-Portrait,- Bob

i can't seem to stop playing this. It came with a double CD but I've already got used to the 35 tracks in their vinyl formation. I don't think I've played many triple vinyl sets from start to finish so often or maybe even at all.

It's fantastic. I'd even, cautiously, recommend it for non-Bob fans. My wife, usually fairly direct and vociferous in her dislike of Bob's voice, has commented on the quality of the songs and his singing, in places.

I know "even my wife liked it" is a dubious accolade to bestow on a record but it's only the second LP of his she will permit me to play when we're in the same room. The other is, inevitably, Blood On The Tracks. Every non-Bob fans favourite. Usually.

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

I have 3 Dylan albums, Blonde On Blonde (with no outer sleeve), Greatest Hits, and More Greatest Hits, but I've never played them. Whenever I hear Dylan on the radio, I feel compelled to do a stupid impression of his singing, and this would only happen if I played the albums at home, therefore nullyfying any enjoyment I would gain from listening to them.

I'm playing the Easy Rider soundtrack at the moment.

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

XTC - Drums and Wires

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (with 49p Help The Aged sticker still on it)

Crosby Stills Nash & Young - Deja Vu

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

Sparks - Kimono My House

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Exodus

Peter Gabriel - Shaking The Tree

Kraftwerk - The Man Machine

Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing

 

[geordie777]

Played so far today :-

Fun House - The Stooges
Imagine - John Lennon
Days Of Future Past - Moody Blues
Selected Ambient Works 85 - 92 - Aphex Twin
I Care Because You Do - Aphex Twin.

 

[ifor]

10 - The Stranglers

 

[Charlie Jefferson]

I have 3 Dylan albums, Blonde On Blonde (with no outer sleeve), Greatest Hits, and More Greatest Hits, but I've never played them. Whenever I hear Dylan on the radio, I feel compelled to do a stupid impression of his singing, and this would only happen if I played the albums at home, therefore nullyfying any enjoyment I would gain from listening to them. I'm playing the Easy Rider soundtrack at the moment.

I'm in my third or fourth stage of obsession. The books, the films, the forums oh, and the music. Always the music. I blame my Sixth-form History teacher.

We were studying the English Civil War and he'd often play traditional folk ballads on a little tape machine to get us into the "zone". He'd then tell us how these songs connected, through a few degrees of separation, to Bob. Our teacher was the archetypal Sixties hangover, this was 1982 it should be said, with a disregard for formal teacher dress code and an idiosyncratic yet mesmerising teaching style. His stories always seemed to touch on both Dylan and The Grateful Dead, whether we were discussing Oliver Cromwell or the King James Bible.

As ever, I digress.

BBB, re the Dylan "voice", of which there are multiple hues, try Pretty Saro on the new set. It's on the truncated Spotify version of Another Self-Portrait.

Maybe if he'd sung more songs in that "voice" he'd have even more admirers.

A rare daytime eight hour session of vinyl:

Bob Dylan unless otherwise stated:

Biograph box set

Another Self-Portrait

Blood On The Tracks

New Morning

The Last Waltz - various incl Bob

Tempest

Nevermind - Nirvana not featuring Bob

The Best Of John Denver

The Joan Baez Songbook

The River - Bruce Springsteen

 

[geordie777]

The Doors - Morrison Hotel
Wings - Band On The Run
Roger Waters - Radio Kaos
Lou Reed & Metallica - Lulu