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Les Claypool's Frog Brigade, Live Frogs Set 2.
Nothing special at all. If anyone's gonna cover Animal by PF, they better do something more unique,.
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summer reggae vibes gitin' to I now...
havin' a smoke...ready to go eat some...
listenin' to...
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Black Uhuru: Red
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Sunday morning, rain , hot coffee, and toones. Had stuff to do in the garden, but have to sit inside instead now. Man I love english weather.
Spinning round and round.......
"Bill Mallonee - Permafrost"
"Bob Walkenhorst - Live at Molloy Brothers July 20, 2005"
Have a great weekend
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Hey BrotherBernd, welcome back!
Beautiful out here, not a cloud in the sky. The first half of the day is mine for uninterrupted tunage...Attachment 1948
Cheers to all
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I may have forgotten just how great Blood on the Tracks is until listening to the whole thing 2 times waking up slowly this morning...
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I really should listen to more Dylan. Only have this one, HIghway 61 Revisited, and Nashville Skyline plus a live CD and his greateast hits. I think I need to do a little Dylan hunting in the near future.
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Listening to Faust IV by Faust. Checkout this outstanding album cover....
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P...2.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
This record was given to me several weeks ago. Wish I had spun it alot sooner.
Hey Bernd, looks like life's been keeping you busy. Maybe we can save 500th post for you. Wonder how far this thread will go on, maybe 1000? Have a great week to all.
-JRA
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Dylan
[QUOTE=I really should listen to more Dylan. Only have this one, HIghway 61 Revisited, and Nashville Skyline plus a live CD and his greateast hits. I think I need to do a little Dylan hunting in the near future.[/QUOTE]
"O Mercy" aint bad. Its done with the Nevilles in the old N.O.
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Pet Shop Boys - Fundamental plus Fundamentalism limited edition bonus remix CD (import)
Musically, it doesn't really branch out too far from their familiar 80s/90s electro/house sound (among their recent releases, only Bilingual tries to explore new musical areas), but thematically it takes their typically exuberant (and IMO brilliant) sense of irony and applies it to current events for the first time. ("I'm With Stupid" is a witty and not-so-thinly-veiled treatise on Tony Blair and Dubya under the guise of a love song featuring a guy explaining why he stays with a lover despite that lover being an utter moron)
As usual, they leave it up to outside producers and remixers to create the more current sound to accompany their album material.
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Calexico/Iron and Wine ep In the Reins from '05 on vinyl - nice sounds for winding down on Sunday night. I'm definetly interested in checking out releases from both bands.
Listenend to Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak earlier today. Sounds kinda like Spoon's Gimme Fiction. Cool guitar riffs and distorted tones. I like the white vinyl but it's a little noisy.
Picked up Best of G. Love and Special Sauce last week. I usually don't go for "Best of" or Greatest Hits, but G. Love is playing locally later this month and I wanted to test my memory from about 10 years ago. This is a fun cd. I'd say that 8 of the 11 tracks are strong and are worth multiple plays. The style is to my liking but I can see that it would be difficult to squeeze out more than 2 or 3 good albums. Jack Johnson joined G. Love & SS for an upbeat version of Johnson's "Rodeo Clowns" in 1999. Johnson recorded it again for one of his later albums but it doesn't have the same swagger. "Blues Music", "Cold Beverage", "Stepping Stones", and "Baby's Got Sauce" are in that classic Beck-like, Beastie Boys-funk vein from around '93 to '96. Fun stuff that reminds me of the days when I'd travel many miles to catch a live act - even on a week night!
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Hey Bernd, looks like life's been keeping you busy. Maybe we can save 500th post for you. Wonder how far this thread will go on, maybe 1000? Have a great week to all.
-JRA
Hi,
Yeah, has been pretty hectic. Too much to get into on here, but I am out the other side. Never thought this little thread would run and run. Picked up some great tips from my fellow posters. So thank you for that.
Last night going round and round.....
"Ry Cooder - Buena Vista Social Club"
"Drew James and the Parafinaliens - The last second Chance"
"Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Boulevard"
"Eric Clapton - Me and Mr Johnson"
"Dave Brubeck Quartett - Time Out"
Real mellow evening:ihih:
Peace
Bernd:7:
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Mahler
Symphony No. 7
Michael Tilson Thomas
San Francisco Symphony
Truly excellent! Much appreciated!
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Originally Posted by jrhymeammo
Listening to Faust IV by Faust. Checkout this outstanding album cover....
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P...2.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
This record was given to me several weeks ago. Wish I had spun it alot sooner.
Hey Bernd, looks like life's been keeping you busy. Maybe we can save 500th post for you. Wonder how far this thread will go on, maybe 1000? Have a great week to all.
-JRA
mmmm
<i>Jennifer, your red hair's burning
Yellow jokes come out of your mind
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Tonight it's Keb' Mo's Sessions at West 54th. The video is crisp and clear and the audio, while being mixed at a very low level, articulates each instrument well. I'm viewing in PCM mode so I can't comment as to the DD track.
Hey, special guest appearance of Dr. John.
The audience looks as if they thought they were coming to see Ron Popeil.
Cheers and good listening
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Feeling fortunate to have time for cleaning and spinning.
Next monday, I will be starting my last semester of college. Hope to spin alot of music before the madness starts again.
Nothing new but can't stop listening to them.
Leonard Cohen - Love and Hate
Nina Simone - To Love Somebody
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
To -Jar-, I'm just now starting to feel that mmmmmm, since I have only spun it once. I'll spin it again tomorrow for more mmmmmmmm. What have you been spinning? Mmmmmmmmmm
-JRA
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The Amalgamation of Soundz, Part II
Very kewl nujazz/electronica CD. Unlike a lot of the other discs that I listen to in this genre, this is not a compilation but a whole album from an actual group.
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Last night I enjoyed....
"Tom Russell - Love and Fear"
"Mike Scott - Bring'em all in"
"The Wonderboys - Soundtrack"
Peace
Bernd:16:
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Originally Posted by JohnMichael
Mahler
Symphony No. 7
Michael Tilson Thomas
San Francisco Symphony
Truly excellent! Much appreciated!
JM -
Have you had a chance to take in any of the other discs in the SFS' Mahler series (they're almost done -- after the 5th comes out in early-October, only the 8th Symphony will remain)? The 7th is indeed a stellar performance and recording. If you haven't heard them already, I would also highly recommend the SF Symphony recordings of Mahler's 1st and 6th. The 6th in particular is a devastating performance that took place on September 12-14, 2001.
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Welcoming a new morning are:
"The-low-country - the dark road"
"Ed Harcourt - Strangers"
"Grant-Lee Phillips - Mobilize"
"Memphis Slim - Blue Memphis"
Peace
Bernd:16:
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JM -
Have you had a chance to take in any of the other discs in the SFS' Mahler series (they're almost done -- after the 5th comes out in early-October, only the 8th Symphony will remain)? The 7th is indeed a stellar performance and recording. If you haven't heard them already, I would also highly recommend the SF Symphony recordings of Mahler's 1st and 6th. The 6th in particular is a devastating performance that took place on September 12-14, 2001.
Wooch the 7th is my first with SFS and Tilson Thomas. I now want the whole series. I have the 1st with Riccardo Muti conducting, the 2nd with Claudio Abbado, two copies of the 5th with Rattle and Chailly, the 6th with Boulez, the 9th again with Chailly. Once I have the SFS series if they are as good as the 7th they will be the ones I play.
I do have a lot of music With Michael Tilson Thomas conducting. I have him conducting Copland, Gershwin "Rhapsody In Blue" and a live recording with Sarah Vaughn "Gershwin Live" which is excellent.
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Recent talk of Horace Siver has me in thought. So, during a break in the action, Miles Davis All-Stars~Walkin'. Good stuff!
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Also going along with the hard bop theme ...
Freddie Hubbard - Goin' Up
One of the great horn tandems in action with the then-22-year old trumpet prodigy Hubbard (this was only his second album) trading chops with the underappreciated Hank Mobley on tenor sax. Add a pre-Coltrane quartet McCoy Tyner and Paul Chambers to the mix, and there's quite a session playin'!
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Originally Posted by JohnMichael
Wooch the 7th is my first with SFS and Tilson Thomas. I now want the whole series. I have the 1st with Riccardo Muti conducting, the 2nd with Claudio Abbado, two copies of the 5th with Rattle and Chailly, the 6th with Boulez, the 9th again with Chailly. Once I have the SFS series if they are as good as the 7th they will be the ones I play.
I do have a lot of music With Michael Tilson Thomas conducting. I have him conducting Copland, Gershwin "Rhapsody In Blue" and a live recording with Sarah Vaughn "Gershwin Live" which is excellent.
It's interesting because Thomas is very well known for his expertise with more modern composers like Copland, Ives, and Gershwin. The SFS (and the LA Phil) gets a lot of attention from east coast music critics because they include so many modern and less-oft-played composers in their programs. Just in the last year, I've been to concerts where the SFS program opened for Mahler's 5th with a modern minimalist composition similar to some of Philip Glass' work, and as a prelude to Orff's Carmina Burana played a soundtrack overture to some obscure Mexican movie from 60+ years ago -- an arrangement that required at least eight percussionists.
When the SFS announced that they would embark on the Mahler series, some people were concerned about whether they could pull it off, whether they could be focused and "serious" enough to handle some of the weightier arrangements that are in Mahler's works. Their monumental performance of Mahler's 6th (the "tragic" symphony) on 9/12/01 quickly doused any doubts. I'd seen the SFS perform that piece several years ago, before MTT took over as musical director, and the 2001 recording completely blew away what I remembered seeing from the SFS several years back. The other performances have been uniformly good, with occasional greatness (the recordings of 1st, 6th, and 7th; and I expect with the 5th as well if the CD is anything like the live recorded performance I attended last year)
As I mentioned, the SFS only has Mahler's 8th (the "symphony of a thousand") left to finish the complete cycle, but I am a bit concerned about the arrangement, having just seen the SFS perform that piece live a couple of months ago. They chose not to record it this time around, so it will be at least another two years before they do record that piece. This time around, they went with a downsized arrangement with less than 500 players total, but that's about all that will fit on the stage at Davies Hall for a public performance. Sir Georg Solti's landmark 1972 recording of Mahler's 8th with the Chicago Symphony used an oversized orchestra and more than 800 players, and recorded it in a large auditorium with no audience present. Hopefully, they'll find the answer by the time the tape starts rolling!
Aside from the performances, the recording quality has been excellent. These discs are the primary reason that I bought a SACD player, and it's been worthwhile. As great as the CD layer sounds, the two-channel SACD layer is better yet, while the 5.1 SACD layer takes you right up to the conductor's podium at Davies Symphony Hall.
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Hardbop is definetly my favorite category. Went thru my vinyls and found Dexter Gordon's Our Man in Paris. I didnt even know that I had this album. This happens way too often, but it is like purchasing good music for free.
This re-re-re-re press has been digitally mastered. I really hate records that have been altered from the orignal goodness, but I'm learning to digress.
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Originally Posted by Woochifer
Also going along with the hard bop theme ...
Freddie Hubbard - Goin' Up
One of the great horn tandems in action with the then-22-year old trumpet prodigy Hubbard (this was only his second album) trading chops with the underappreciated Hank Mobley on tenor sax. Add a pre-Coltrane quartet McCoy Tyner and Paul Chambers to the mix, and there's quite a session playin'!
Reading about a young trumpter always makes me think of Lee Morgan. The Cooker used to be my favorite album so it will be player later.
http://yoyo-jukebox.velvet.jp/jazz-L...-TheCooker.jpg
I'm loving this talk about Jazz.
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Hardbop is definetly my favorite category. Went thru my vinyls and found Dexter Gordon's Our Man in Paris. I didnt even know that I had this album. This happens way too often, but it is like purchasing good music for free.
Even worse is when I repurchase an album that I forgot I already had in my collection! It's happened to me a couple of times. First time was when Tower was having a sale on all of Fantasy Records' releases, which includes the entire Prestige jazz catalog. So, I went to town buying up a whole bunch of Prestige's limited edition K2 remasters (the same process that JVC uses on its excellent XRCD titles) from Trane, Miles, and Cannonball, only to find later on that I already had a K2 copy of Miles Davis' Cookin'.
Another album that I accidentally repurchased was Sonny Clark's Cool Struttin', which I bought on one of Classic Records' 96/24 high res PCM discs. Only after I cracked open the disc did I realize that I already had it in my collection -- Classic Records had accidentally included it with a mail order purchase a few months earlier, and I had forgotten about it! Oh well, they eventually got my money with that accident!
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Originally Posted by jrhymeammo
Reading about a young trumpter always makes me think of Lee Morgan. The Cooker used to be my favorite album so it will be player later.
I'm loving this talk about Jazz.
I haven't explored Lee Morgan all that much. My personal favorite hard bop album from that Blue Note era is probably Hank Mobley's Roll Call. Many of the same stellar supporting players from Freddie Hubbard's early albums, but that Mobley session absolutely smokes! I read on the All Music site that legendary jazz writer Leonard Feather (with whom I took a jazz history course in college -- amazing class) once referred to Hank Mobley as the "middleweight champion" among jazz saxophonists.
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Another enjoyable session last night included amongst others:
"Neil Young - Living with War"
"Chuck Prophet - No other Love"
"Yo Yo Ma - Soul of the Tango" (Thanks Bobsticks)
Peace
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