What vinyl are you listening to?

[DIB]

Making an effort to dig out LP's that I've not played in years, so on with one of the Stones' lesser known albums from the 80's..

Definitely not one of their best but a decent listen none the less.

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[Lost Angeles]

Basically because it was next to Kate Bush in the rack...

Breadfan - classic air guitar material..

I've got a mate who hates them. They murdered Cherry Red by your fave band.

I played this,

 

[Charlie Jefferson]

1) Dusty In Memphis - Dusty Springfield

2) Clouds Taste Metallic - The Flaming Lips

3) Tribute To George Harrison - Jim James

 

[DIB]

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[Ravey Gravey Davy]

Making an effort to dig out LP's that I've not played in years, so on with one of the Stones' lesser known albums from the 80's..

Definitely not one of their best but a decent listen none the less.

just finished reading KR's autobio Life.600 pages- if he'd left out 6 words,it would have been 300 pages.

 

[DIB]

A wee bit crackly this one...

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[Lost Angeles]

One of my fave albums

Contains 2 of my favourite lines
Last night you said I was cold, untouchable. A lonely piece of action from another town and

I see convoys curb crawling West German Autobahns, Trying to pick up a war.

 

[Charlie Jefferson]

It's my one night of beer and vinyl - not always a safe mix, but so far, so good.

I've purposely delved into hitherto less played sections of my collection for this evening's listening. Some of these are unplayed since teenage days, thirty odd years ago.

1) LA Woman - The Doors

Surprised how good this sounds. I gave up on The Doors about age 17, having listened to and loved most of their LPs since inheriting them from my peripatetic brother when I was 14. It's great to be reacquainted with this and Morrison Hotel once more.

2) But Seriously Folks - Joe Walsh

Another LP gleaned from my older brother's collection.

3) Darklands - Jesus And Mary Chain

My fave JAMC album. Bought at the time but neglected for decades since. Oh, those student days. Saw them live too at Uni in 1984, one of those fast, furious and very short gigs.

4) Grotesque (After The Gramme) - The Fall

Pure time-travelling stuff for me. Magic.

 

[El Hefe]

AN aggressive Sunday morning for me here...Rage Against the Machine and Cranberries...

 

[Lost Angeles]

Last night's listening included the following

Twas a hot night in Budapest.

After 10 goes to get this word verification right and every one was correct I give up. and have removed the pics.

The Albums were
The Firm Mean Business
Supertramp Crisis What Crisis ( I had one here) and

Jethto Tull Crest Of A Knave.

 

[DIB]

A mixed bag so far today..

Excellent, so good I've played it twice.

Then

Pretty dull actually...

Now

Not aged well IMHO.

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[Charlie Jefferson]

I've been to a record fair today, and to my wife's and my own surprise, I returned with only one LP, a copy of Morrison Hotel by The Doors. I felt guilty having my brother's copy on "loan" for many years, so time to make amends. Side one is brilliant, not so much side two, but a good buy nonetheless.

Lots of great things at the fair but either out of my price range (original Nick Drake LPs for £400, that kind of thing) or nothing by artists I was specifically looking for (Durutti Column, Captain Beefheart, Zappa).

So following Morrison Hotel, it's:

1) The Steve Howe Album

I love this.

2) Sue - Frazier Chorus

A semi-hidden gem from the late 80's. Very English baroque pop.

3) An Alpine Symphony - Richard Strauss (Rudolf Kempe/RPO).

One of my Dad's favourite pieces. He's been playing me this and enthusing about it for decades, and finally I get it.

Apparently, a recording by Von Karajan on Deutsche Gramaphon of this piece was the first ever CD released. I didn't know that until today.

Edit: not the first "released", that was The Visitors by Abba, but it was the first "pressed". (All according to Wiki).

 

[Rob998]

2) Sue - Frazier Chorus

A semi-hidden gem from the late 80's. Very English baroque pop.

Ooh. I liked them. "Dream Kitchen" & "Typical" were excellent.

 

[Charlie Jefferson]

2) Sue - Frazier Chorus

A semi-hidden gem from the late 80's. Very English baroque pop.

Ooh. I liked them. "Dream Kitchen" & "Typical" were excellent.

Great album. Shame their follow up album, Ray, was lumbered with a spirit of the charts dance-beat production so prevalent in the early 90s.

Post Ricardo Strauss and pre-sleep, I've blasted out my favourite Zep album, Physical Graffiti (side one), and luxuriated in the incredible, dynamic production and fantastic songs. Also went back a further decade for side 3 of The Beach Boys' Smile.

Vinyl is sounding better than ever tonight - why does that seem to be the case occasionally?

 

[DIB]

Post Ricardo Strauss and pre-sleep, I've blasted out my favourite Zep album, Physical Graffiti (side one), and luxuriated in the incredible, dynamic production and fantastic songs. Also went back a further decade for side 3 of The Beach Boys' Smile.

Vinyl is sounding better than ever tonight - why does that seem to be the case occasionally?

I have been listening to Physical Graffiti a lot lately whilst driving around in my van at work. Totally agree about the production, has there ever been better recorded rock drumming than on this album? It's quite staggering really.

This backs up my view that a superbly produced album will sound great on anything from the cheapest all-in-one unit up to a set-up costing thousands. A poorly produced album still sounds poorly produced, no matter how much money you spend on the hardware.

I have to disagree totally on Smile though

. I bought the double CD set last year and to be honest, the singles apart, to me it's a prime example of "The Emperor's Clothes".

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[Charlie Jefferson]

Yes, I agree with you DIB about Physical Graffiti sounding great on just about any system. My first experience of it was a taped copy of my brother's vinyl. I played it many, many times on a one speaker tape machine and still thought it was magical.

Regards Smile, I wouldn't stretch to labelling it "emperor's new clothes" but can sort of see how people could think that. I'm a devotee/anorak for all things Brian so I find it difficult to see it as anything other than five or six incredible songs patched together with fascinating interludes of adventurous pop. I've owned many CDs worth of out-takes from these sessions down the years but still marvelled at the 7 hours worth of music and rehearsals released in the official box. I'd even go as far to say they are more interesting and revealing than the "finished" versions on disc 1.

Back to Zep, a friend of mine came across some John Bonham drum tracks, just him playing on the last studio album, In Through The Outdoor. There's little bits of his headphone sound of the rest of the band too. It's a truly great sounding drum recording. Makes you head straight for the complete recordings.

 

[DIB]

Another mixed bag tonight..

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[Charlie Jefferson]

1) Live At The Witch Trials - The Fall

2) Tinseltown Rebellion - Zappa

3) Bona Drag - Morrissey

 

[plastic penguin]

Been listen to the Stones, Maaan. Cool!

"Tattoo You" album is very good in parts. The gems being 'Worried About You' and 'Tops'. Superb.

 

[Charlie Jefferson]

More miscellaneous finds from the attic stash, soon to be housed in purpose built shelving in a new music room (aka "the old front lounge").

1) MTV Unplugged - Bob Dylan

2) Limited Edition - Can

3) New Day Rising - Husker Du

 

[shropshire lad]

Deep Purple - Made in Europe . No where as good as Made in Japan . In fact , rather boring .

Tommy Bolin - Private Eyes

Steve Wilson - Grace For Drowning

Nick

 

[DIB]

An old favourite returns to the TT, my favourite Dire Straits album..

I love the bass line on the track Six Blade Knife. Oh so simple, but oh so effective.

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[Charlie Jefferson]

Selections from:

1) Vauxhall And I - Morrissey

2) Southpaw Grammar - Morrissey

3) Wincing The Night Away - The Shins

4) Physical Graffiti - Zep*

* DIB, I played it the car this morning and yes you're spot on, it sounds fantastic. Big but believable drum sound, great swathes and layers of guitars, plenty of JPJones at the lower end and Mr Plant atop but integral to the whole thing. If only all rock records sounded half as good.

 

[Lost Angeles]

Well I finally had enough of the silver spinner and DIB and CharlieJ have been on about this so I gave sides 1 & 2 a spin. The drumming is superb. Possibly the first time I’ve played it on the Orbe and really listened. Agree with your comments. Pity the first four LPs weren’t produced like this.

Followed by Achilles Last Stand and side 1 of In Through The Out Door still in it's brown paper cover.

 

[Simon Lucas]

I've just got back from ISE in Amsterdam where, yesterday evening, Mr Editor Dawes and I were driven loopy by the bog-standard, join-the-dots, meat-and-potatoes blues being played in every pub we went in. So by way of a contrast I'm listening to this:

and things seem better now.