DIB said:Funny you should mention early 60's "Best of" LP's CJSF and their quality. I bought this LP at a carboot earlier in the summer for next to nothing, dates from the early 60's on the Columbia label, and is a quite outstanding recording. Don't laugh...
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Hi DIB, thats my kind'a music, I would buy that . . . roll on next year, extension of the hobby; boot sales for old vinyl and old camera kit. I had a chat with a friend a few months back, he knows his stuff, reckoned the late 50's, 60's recordings were potentially the mutts nuts, quality mics and recording equipment, little or no interference from multi tracking. It was the reply technology that was behind.
CJSF
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El Hefe
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A couple more gems from the 80's,
Gerry Rafferty and Pat Metheny:
http://i617.photobucket.com/albums/tt254/CliffStone/700GerryRafIMG_4706.jpg
Any one know why the site wont allow me to post pic?
CJSF
Gerry Rafferty and Pat Metheny:
http://i617.photobucket.com/albums/tt254/CliffStone/700GerryRafIMG_4706.jpg
Any one know why the site wont allow me to post pic?
CJSF
El Hefe
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El Hefe said:Here you go CJSF.
Did you click on the tree icon and paste the link at the URL box?
Thanks El Hefe, that is exactly what I did, but it wont let me past it in . . . strange cos I have done it previously, (a few weeks ago).
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I am signing off for the night with another 80s classic....She is one rocker...her rendition of Have You ever Seen The Rain is definitely one of the best cover version I have heard...
Probably my favourite Marillion album.
Last night you said I was cold, Untouchable a lonely piece of action from another town.
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Full of cold but still luxuriating in the many wonders of The Beach Boys' Smile Sessions.
The sound lovely on vinyl. Three sides of mono, which makes up the current approximation of the 60's Smile album, then a fourth side of mostly stereo extras.
It all sounds very impressive. I keep trying to listen to it with contemporaneous ears. As in, I've been playing Revolver and Sgt. Pepper, to grasp a scintilla of what it may have been like to actually hear this back in 1966/67. Had it been issued then.
Other listens:
Under A Red Sky & Empire Burlesque - Bob Dylan
I seem to becoming an apologist for his little loved 80s/early 90's albums, but I have to say how marvellous they are. Great songs on both, and despite Arthur Baker's best attempts to sabotage the former, both sound good.
The sound lovely on vinyl. Three sides of mono, which makes up the current approximation of the 60's Smile album, then a fourth side of mostly stereo extras.
It all sounds very impressive. I keep trying to listen to it with contemporaneous ears. As in, I've been playing Revolver and Sgt. Pepper, to grasp a scintilla of what it may have been like to actually hear this back in 1966/67. Had it been issued then.
Other listens:
Under A Red Sky & Empire Burlesque - Bob Dylan
I seem to becoming an apologist for his little loved 80s/early 90's albums, but I have to say how marvellous they are. Great songs on both, and despite Arthur Baker's best attempts to sabotage the former, both sound good.
Charlie Jefferson
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Continuing the Dylan weekend, it's New Morning and Good As I Been To You. Only had time for one more today, and that's Requia by John Fahey. This latter album keeps dragging me back to it's sweet chiming charms, it's ancient longing and chilling ache. It's all in the way he plays those steel strings.
Edit: one last album has been played before the inevitable clang of Monday morning crashes through the blind,and it's got to be the perfect Sunday night entertainment, Dylan's sublime Time Out Of Mind. From start to finish its a journey in the ancient and modern traditions in American popular music forms. Particularly drawn to Cold Irons Bound, Not Dark Yet and the closing epic, Highlands. So good, I may have to instantly revisit all of its 16 minutes right now.
Edit: one last album has been played before the inevitable clang of Monday morning crashes through the blind,and it's got to be the perfect Sunday night entertainment, Dylan's sublime Time Out Of Mind. From start to finish its a journey in the ancient and modern traditions in American popular music forms. Particularly drawn to Cold Irons Bound, Not Dark Yet and the closing epic, Highlands. So good, I may have to instantly revisit all of its 16 minutes right now.
Charlie Jefferson
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My wife has dug out an old box of vinyl from her student days, and what's more has the audacity to suggest my Dylan & The Beach Boys LPs take a rest tonight!!
So in their esteemed place we have, Everything But The Girl (various tracks from their early albums which I really like), a sickly smooth Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits album (the green cover one, not too keen on the post-Rumours stuff) and now the smoothest of the lot, Sade's Diamond Life. Very slick, yet I love her voice. I just can't dissociate this album from the "Thatcherite nineteen haties". Plus, she married/is married to still (?) Robert Elms. Who I simply can't abide. Irrational and non-musical criteria for struggling to give an album a chance I know, but there you go.
Still to come: The B52's, Chris Isaak, The Carpenters, Style Council and The Small Faces.
So in their esteemed place we have, Everything But The Girl (various tracks from their early albums which I really like), a sickly smooth Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits album (the green cover one, not too keen on the post-Rumours stuff) and now the smoothest of the lot, Sade's Diamond Life. Very slick, yet I love her voice. I just can't dissociate this album from the "Thatcherite nineteen haties". Plus, she married/is married to still (?) Robert Elms. Who I simply can't abide. Irrational and non-musical criteria for struggling to give an album a chance I know, but there you go.
Still to come: The B52's, Chris Isaak, The Carpenters, Style Council and The Small Faces.
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Simon Lucas said:
My copy of Laughing Stock arrived around a week ago, so being aware that there has been an issue with the inner sleeve possibly marking the vinyl, I removed it very carefully, only to find some light scratches all over track one, side one.
It's gone back, with a new copy on the way, and hopefully without any marks this time.
Now listening to Buttshakers Soul Party Vol 1 and Vol 2.
I hope this picture of Vol 2 is ok, Vol 1 is a definite no I think.
Corking albums of soul, boogaloo and raw funk, guaranteed to make you wanna dance. I especially recommend vol 2.
I hope this picture of Vol 2 is ok, Vol 1 is a definite no I think.
Corking albums of soul, boogaloo and raw funk, guaranteed to make you wanna dance. I especially recommend vol 2.
Charlie Jefferson
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Normal service resumed: my wife is studying tonight, so I'm I'm charge of what's on.
1) Desolation Row - Bob Dylan
2) Under A Red Sky - Bob Dylan
I love this album. Unfairly maligned because it followed on from the universally acclaimed and admittedly stunning Oh, Mercy.
3) Katy Lied - Steely Dan
4) Fundamental - Pet Shop Boys
5) Clear Spot - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
1) Desolation Row - Bob Dylan
2) Under A Red Sky - Bob Dylan
I love this album. Unfairly maligned because it followed on from the universally acclaimed and admittedly stunning Oh, Mercy.
3) Katy Lied - Steely Dan
4) Fundamental - Pet Shop Boys
5) Clear Spot - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Started mellow, which then got me in the mood for some classic jazz, which then led me to something far more groovy.
DIB
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Isn't "Desolation Row" on "Highway 61 Revisited"? Picked as the Observer's best track of all time some years ago - stunning, but too long for modern ears!Charlie Jefferson said:
Listening to "Woodface" myself at the mo.
DIB
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Oh God! TYA -have bought 2 of their albums recently but haven't had the guts to play them. That guy can play guitar...
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