Once again: what are you listening to now?

[Hawkeye]

Roger McGuinn - Back From Rio

 

[Sheep]

I have a feeling, that everyone that posts in this thread, doesn't listen to anything anyone else posted, and just adds what they're listening to.

SheepStar

 

[3db]

I have a feeling, that everyone that posts in this thread, doesn't listen to anything anyone else posted, and just adds what they're listening to.

SheepStar

I've picked up a few CDs or downlaods based on commnets made on this thread. Do I listen to them? Hell no!!

Seriously, I can't remember which CDs they were but I liked it.

I'm going back to teh days of acid...listening to Blind Faith's self titled album. I have alot mroe respect for Steve Winwood now after listening to this.

 

[abelincoln]

Lucero - "Smoke"

 

[swspiers]

SunnO))))/Boris- 'Altar'

 

[skizzerflake]

I've picked up a few CDs or downlaods based on commnets made on this thread. Do I listen to them? Hell no!!

Seriously, I can't remember which CDs they were but I liked it.

Same remark, except when I buy them, I usually listen to them unless my wife grabs them and loses them in the car.

 

[skizzerflake]

Right now, it's the Drive By Truckers huge work Southern Rock Opera. Full of irony, pathos, humor, red-neck history, Flowers on the Highway and Skynnyrdy guitar chords, I love this "Dead, Drunk and Naked" double CD.

 

[caupina]

Cafe del Mar Vol Six...dZihan & Kamien "Homebase" stands out.
Ivan Lins "Anjo de Mim" (brazilian singer)
Wolfert Brederode Quartet "Currents"....great jazz.

 

[basspig]

This day is very special, because I just received the digitally-remastered release of Saint-saens Symphony No. 3, the one made in 1959 (which I've had the RCA half-speed mastered vinyl recording of since then), and with the great Berj Zamkochian playing the organ, recorded at Symphony Hall, Boston. It was the first of the great, new "hi-fi spectacular" recordings in stereo from RCA, recorded on the Ampex 300-3, three-channel 1/2" recorder at 15 IPS.
Now it's been transferred to digital, from a restored Ampex 300-3, directly.
I'm previewing on headphones due to the hour and the fact that my wife is still pissed off about the playback levels of the explosions in last night's movie, but I anticipate this should be a nice improvement over the vinyl, especially in bass extention. Berj's unique interpretation of this symphony, using the 32' pedal Contra Violone is very unusual, as it is not done in any reading of this work performed since. I have many versions, ranging from Marie Claire Alaine's performance in Denmark, to Eugene Ormandy's interpretation for Telarc in the 80s, but none have the emotional impact of Charles Munch's interpretation, a proper French conductor, reading a French composition, artfully, passionately, with perfection that transcends the sum of the parts.
I so long to get everyone out of the house this weekend so I can listen to this recording at a proper and spirited level.

 

[Cavediver]

This day is very special, because I just received the digitally-remastered release of Saint-saens Symphony No. 3, the one made in 1959 (which I've had the RCA half-speed mastered vinyl recording of since then), and with the great Berj Zamkochian playing the organ, recorded at Symphony Hall, Boston. It was the first of the great, new "hi-fi spectacular" recordings in stereo from RCA, recorded on the Ampex 300-3, three-channel 1/2" recorder at 15 IPS.
Now it's been transferred to digital, from a restored Ampex 300-3, directly.
I'm previewing on headphones due to the hour and the fact that my wife is still pissed off about the playback levels of the explosions in last night's movie, but I anticipate this should be a nice improvement over the vinyl, especially in bass extention. Berj's unique interpretation of this symphony, using the 32' pedal Contra Violone is very unusual, as it is not done in any reading of this work performed since. I have many versions, ranging from Marie Claire Alaine's performance in Denmark, to Eugene Ormandy's interpretation for Telarc in the 80s, but none have the emotional impact of Charles Munch's interpretation, a proper French conductor, reading a French composition, artfully, passionately, with perfection that transcends the sum of the parts.
I so long to get everyone out of the house this weekend so I can listen to this recording at a proper and spirited level.

This sounds interesting. Is the recording you got a CD or an SACD? And where did you get it from?

 

[basspig]

This sounds interesting. Is the recording you got a CD or an SACD? And where did you get it from?

It's a CD. I found it on Amazon, of all places. Cat # is 09026-61500-2.

There are some problems with it though.. on the Jaques Ibert pieces, there is a complete loss of audio several times, where you can hear a plug being pulled and then reconnected. Very unprofessional for an RCA re release. Fortunately the Saint-saens doesn't have this mess, but it has other problems, including gross intermod distortion on bass drums and when the organ makes it's grand entry on the final movement. I don't recall the LP sounding this bad, but I'll have to listen again to compare.

 

[pbrown]

I'm listening to the Journey Time box set. It's been a long time since I put that in.

As for new music to check out... I was listening to some Martin Logan speakers on Friday. They were playing a version of Stairway to Heaven that I've not heard before. I whipped out my iPhone with Shazam loaded and discovered that it was Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Stairway to Heaven.

 

[highfigh]

I'm watching Jeff Beck- Live at Ronnie Scott's. Right now, they're playing 'A Day In The Life'.

 

[Sheep]

SheepStar

 

[skizzerflake]

Right now it's Diana Krall, Quiet Nights. Bear in mind, I'm a moderate fan of Krall and this is a moderate CD among the ones I know, so am I damning it with faint praise? Not necessarily. It's very laid back, slick, glossy, well performed and recorded in a quiet jazz-bossa nova sort of way. It's a pleasant anachonisim that is best taken with a Martini in a tall condo in Manhattan.

 

[caupina]

Right now it's Diana Krall, Quiet Nights. Bear in mind, I'm a moderate fan of Krall and this is a moderate CD among the ones I know, so am I damning it with faint praise? Not necessarily. It's very laid back, slick, glossy, well performed and recorded in a quiet jazz-bossa nova sort of way. It's a pleasant anachonisim that is best taken with a Martini in a tall condo in Manhattan.

She's really good. I have some of her records on SACD. You should also listen to Eliane Elias' "Dreamer" and "Around the City".

 

[skizzerflake]

Tonight's is a new one by the Drive By Truckers. One of the best bands around, "the fine print" (yes, all lower case), is a CD of outtakes and tunes that somehow served some other purpose, including one Tom Petty song performed for an episode of King of the Hill. Amazingly, a CD of outtakes by the Truckers is better than what many bands put INTO their albums. Definitely worth a listen.

 

[3db]

Ben Harper and The Relentless 7 "White Lies For Dark Times"

 

[hwkn]

The Grateful Dead-6/22/91[Soldier Field Chicago]on XM 57

 

[vizionut]

rush 2112 side one as loud as i can....