LOTW (Listen Of The Week)?

[Pat D]

We drove down to Saint John yesterday to meet my wife's nephew and his wife, who were coming off a cruise ship to see the sights. And we had a really nice few hours with them.

While the ladies were shopping for the kids (who weren't along!), I dropped into Backstreet Records and looked around a bit--not much classical. But in the stack of classical LPs, there it was, an old Fine Arts Quartet recording of of a couple of Mozart's "Haydn" quartets, K. 421 and 465 ("Dissonance" quartet), on a Concert-Disc CS-227. And only 97 cents! Well, I only have a few of their recordings, but the Fine Arts Quartet always played wonderfully. They weren't as dramatic as many, but they were very precise even in rubatos, and they shaped each note and phrase very nicely. Not only that, the sound is fabulous. It perhaps harks back to an older way of playing, but it's very enjoyable, definitely the best of the week.

The FAQ did as fine a recording of the Debussy and Ravel Quartets as I've ever heard, too. I haven't yet heard them over the Signature S2's.

I picked up a few other things, too, and I've listened to a couple already:

Verdi Overtures, conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli, on Philips Eloquence.4681832. This is a worthy enough addition to my collection of overtures.

Who Do We Think We Are? Turtle Island String Quartet, on Windham Hill Jazz 01934 10146-2.

I must say doing the listen of the week is a lot easier than putting together a whole list. Good idea, Peter.

[Dusty Chalk]

Thanks! And nice to hear from you, too, as always -- you're always listening to interesting things.

[Mike]

For me it's Sol Seppy - Bells of 1 2, a female vocalist in the folk/pop/electronica style, it's a really nice album from a lady branching out on her own, I think I read somewhere she's worked with Sparklehorse in the past.

She's got that kind of delicate little girl lost voice matched with lots of acoustic instruments like piano and cello it's an album which you can come back to and each time and hear something fresh.

Cheers
Mike

[PDK]

This past week has found me listening to some releases from the past six months. Probably the best (and most listened) is The Kooks: Inside In/Inside Out. Highly recommend if you like your music to be British pop inspired by XTC. Others this week include: Giant Drag (excellent cover of Wicked Game), the Paddingtons (breakneck and ragged Babyshambles influence), and the latest Zutons and Dirty Pretty Things releases. I'm going to have to dig out See How We Are from X over the weekend to hear Fourth of July a few dozen times next week...

[ForeverAutumn]

This past week has found me listening to some releases from the past six months. Probably the best (and most listened) is The Kooks: Inside In/Inside Out. Highly recommend if you like your music to be British pop inspired by XTC. Others this week include: Giant Drag (excellent cover of Wicked Game), the Paddingtons (breakneck and ragged Babyshambles influence), and the latest Zutons and Dirty Pretty Things releases. I'm going to have to dig out See How We Are from X over the weekend to hear Fourth of July a few dozen times next week...

There's a latest Zutons? I'll have to look into that. Thanks for the heads-up.

[Snowbunny]

HEAD'S UP!

I was just thinking about where that saying came from. LOOK OUT!

There's a new Ed Harcourt. Don't think its out here yet.

LOTW for me was The Beatles - Rubber Soul

What must it have been like to have heard this for the first time when it was originally released?

Drive My Car
Norwegian Wood
You Won't See Me
Nowhere Man
The Word
Michelle
Girl
In My Life

All those great songs and its not even a Greatest Hits? Did anyone really need the drugs?

Hippy Friday!

Snowie

[ForeverAutumn]

DUCK!

Why "duck"?

Seagull, I could understand. But, duck?

Actually, it's funny that you bring that up...where meanings of phrases came from, that is. We were just talking over dinner about the phrase take it with a grain of salt, and wondering how that originated.

And no...this post is not music related. ...unless you count the two margaritas that I had with dinner as I hummed Margaritaville.

[ForeverAutumn]

There's a latest Zutons? I'll have to look into that. Thanks for the heads-up.

I've been searching around the 'net and can't find any news of a North American release date.