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General Category => Music => Topic started by: BNAL on June 04, 2013, 09:06:57 AM
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As I'm starting to rebuild my vinyl again I think that this would be a good place to ask people what are some of the must haves for that music collection?
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Be careful what you ask for. Here are a few albums that I would go for:
Pink Floyd, DOSTM
Supertramp Breakfast in America
Sting, Dream of the blue turtles
AC/DC, Bat out of Hell
Synergy, Chords
Fleetwood Mac, Rumors
Bach, Organ music
Beetoven, Sym #5
Tycophsky, The Firebird
Soundtrack from The Pianist
Because of a major BRAIN FART, that's all I got for now.
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As I'm starting to rebuild my vinyl again I think that this would be a good place to ask people what are some of the must haves for that music collection?
Would be most helpful to know what genre's you like. Big difference between Hip Hop and Be Bop; Bach and Beatles!!!
Cheers,
Geary
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I think this would be a great place everyone to post there thoughts. My personal music preferences are for:
Classic rock
Jass
Motown
Blues
I recently picked up:
George Benson and Earl Klugh's - Collaboration
Sting - Dream of the Blue Turtles
Steely Dan - Gaucho and Countdown to Ecstasy
Diane Shuur - Schuur Thing
There were some others that I can't remember, but will update later when I get home.
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If you want stunning mastering and pristine pressings go with Music Matters Blue Note series (if you like jazz) or MoFi or Analogue Production.
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Be careful what you ask for. Here are a few albums that I would go for:
Pink Floyd, DOSTM
Supertramp Breakfast in America
Sting, Dream of the blue turtles
AC/DC, Bat out of Hell
Synergy, Chords
Fleetwood Mac, Rumors
Bach, Organ music
Beetoven, Sym #5
Tycophsky, The Firebird
Soundtrack from The Pianist
Because of a major BRAIN FART, that's all I got for now.
That's pretty interesting. I didn't know some of those albums even existed - AC/DC, Bat out of Hell? Tycophsky, The Firebird? And what exactly is a beet oven?
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To avoid this becoming an ad for the reissue labels I'll throw a few knuckleballs-
Earl Hooker, Two Bugs and a Roach
Captain Beefheart, Clear Spot
The Hot Spot (original soundtrack)
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Doc, a Beefheart fan!
That changes everything, and totally ups the cool-factor of the company. 8)
Clear Spot, though, is not my favorite Beefheart, and the Reprise reissue I have doesn't exactly sound stellar.
(By the way, every copy of Spotlight Kid I've ever heard sounds crummy. Too bad.)
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Doc, a Beefheart fan!
and the Reprise reissue I have doesn't exactly sound stellar.
Yeah, well, sometimes like the forum title says, it's just about the music.
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ummm, never was a spelller
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sorry sooory, I meant 'Beat Oven', n 'Tyke opsy', yah I know 'Strawbensky'.
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n 'Hamberger pie loaf'
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As I'm starting to rebuild my vinyl again I think that this would be a good place to ask people what are some of the must haves for that music collection?
My house Brad! I've got 400 plus sitting on the floor looking for a new home. Give me a call and hopefully you can come down soon :)
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Here my additions
Miles Davis - Kind of blue and ESP
John Coltrane - A love supreme
Michael
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Just a few musts if Brad is my age, or there about.
Fleetwood Mac, Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac, Rumours
Crosby Stills & Nash, self titled first LP
Others to follow when I get to the desktop.
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Grainger,
I'm a little younger, but love those albums. I hate to admit it, but I sold them about 20 years ago. Now I have to go purchase these albums again. The only solace I have is that I have digital copies to hold me over.
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Also, keep an eye on my almost free LPs thread.
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I've got copies of all three Grainger suggested waiting for you I'm pretty sure ;)
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n 'Hamberger pie loaf'
Didn't Meat Loaf recently move to Paris and change his name to Le Pate Americain?
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How dare,you,,,,How DARE you talk about the loaf like that!
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Hey, there. How 'bout these:
The Band - Music from Big Pink; Stage Fright
Bill Evans Trio - Waltz for Debby; Live at the Village Vanguard
Thelonius Monk With John Coltrane - A Monk with a Gun
Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert; My Song; Jasmine (with Charlie Haden)
Keb Mo - Keb Mo
Los Lobos - How Can the Wolf Survive
Eric Clapton & J.J. Cale - Escondido
The Decemberists - The King is Dead
Steve Earle - Copperhead Road; Washington Square Serenade
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Just a few more:
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five
John Coltrane - Blue Train; My Favorite Things;Giant Steps
The Modern Jazz Quartet - (any), and Milt Jackson (any Blue Note or Prestige recordings)
Horace Silver - Song for My Father
Stanley Clarke - School Days
Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior
Art Blakey - A Night at Birdland
Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie - Bird & Diz
Duke Ellington & Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook
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Just got to ask, is take five available on SACD or other format that should sound better? It's not that my copy doesn't sound great, but I would like get the best I can for that recording.
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Yes, I have it on Gold CD and SACD. Not to mention the 4 LP 45 RPM set.
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Sooold
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Heh, heh, just got 'Time Out' on SACD. Good lord, I may be late for work because of this. Boy that Dave Clark Five sure knows how to buzz. Heh heh, sorry Grainger, you kno that I can't resist! Bait anyone?
P.S. thanks for leading to this great recording.
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Adding to the list:
Dire Straits
Love Over Gold
Brothers In Arms (I always skip the first three songs having heard them thousands of times)
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Ry Cooder, Paris Texas
http://www.amazon.com/Paris-Texas-Vinyl-Ry-Cooder/dp/B00004ZKSQ/
An Evening With Windham Hill Live
http://www.discogs.com/Various-An-Evening-With-Windham-Hill-Live/release/290977
Muddy Waters, Folk Singer
http://www.amazon.com/Folk-Singer-Muddy-Waters/dp/B00005YLN4/ref=tmm_vnl_title_0
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Dire Straits, Alchemy
Little Feat, everything when Lowell George was still kickin
The Moody Blues
These are my must haves.
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Beetohovan, 9th Symphony, Herbert von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the 1962 recording on DG. Herbie the K recorded the 9th a number of times but only the 1962 has the magic for me.
J. S. Bach, Brandenburg Concertos, My fave on LP is Gustav Leonhardt leading Collegium Aureum on Harmonia Mundi. On Nonesuch the Karl Ristenpart/Saar Chamber Orchestra is a decent runner up. ( On CeeDy there are other choices)
Frank Zappa, "Hot Rats", an original on the Bizarre label if you can dig one up.
Jethro Tull, "Minstrel in the Gallery" and/or "Songs from the Wood"
"Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall" fairly recent LP that has gone out of print but worth seeking out.
Ella Fitzgerald, "Mack the Knife - Ella in Berlin" on Verve. The scatting on "How High the Moon" is breathtaking!
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I keep doing this, as I changed the font and color I chose "Biege" instead of "Blue" above in reply #22. The text disappears.
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The beginning of Love Over Gold has intrigued me. I listen as carefully as possible to hear that first tone or rumble. Love the album! Again, this will send me SACD hunting.
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Is there an SACD of Love Over Gold?
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So far, the ones that I looked at were like $90!!! Too afraid to see if they were SACD, but seems like they were. The regular ones were MUCH cheaper, so that's my guess. Man, it's just not worth it to me, and yet, I do have a couple of high priced SACD's in my collection. Patricia Barber comes to mind. I did hint to my son about a few choices for Fathers day. Let's see what happens.
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Update. I just found an SACD for $50 on fleabay. Yah, believe me I still think that this close to absurd. I bought it because it is one of the VERY few albums that I would throw this kind of money at. Usually, I will pay about $30 for SACD, but this is also one of the new SHM SACD's from Japan and will ONLY play on an SACD player. I have never owned one before, so this will be a first.
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I bough the other one that they had. It will take 2 weeks coming from Japan.
Back to the subject at hand...
Last night we got together with some old friends, about 15 years younger. I threw on a lot of vinyl. Chicago Chicago Transit Authority, 180g remaster, Cowboy Junkies Trinity Sessions, D. Brubeck already mentioned, The Beatles Love, Santana MOFI Abraxis and Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac and Rumours.
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Grainger, You always bring me to a new train of music memory. This time, I was inspired to listen to Fleewood Mac, 'The Dance'. It seems to have it all for me.
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Just got the reissue 200g lp of King Crimson In The Court of the Crimson King. I couldn't be happier. Any drummers out there I think should own this album.
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I have a very old copy of this. It is excellent. And I was a drummer in the 60s.
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How about some Allman Brothers? MoFi has some decent reissues.
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Santana's first two LPs. Both are on MOFI and I have replaced my copies with them.
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Stones, Beggars Banquet, Exile on Mail Street, Their Satanic Majesties Request
Tom Rush, Ladies Love Outlaws
Jefferson Starship, Blows Against the Empire
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Will The Circle Be Unbroken
Taj Mahal, Giant Step
Little Feat, Dixie Chicken
Marshall Tucker Band, The Marshall Tucker Band
Joni Mitchell, Blue, Court and Spark, The Hissing of Summer Lawns
Carole King, Tapestry
James Taylor, Sweet Baby James
Simon & Garfunkel, Bridge Across Troubled Water
Bob Dylan, Nashville Skyline, The Freewhelin' Bob Dylan, Basement Tapes (with The Band)
Emmy Lou Harris, Pieces of the Sky
Nancy Griffith, Storms
Eva Cassidy, Live at Blues Alley, Songbird
Stevie Wonder, Songs in the Key of Life
Marvin Gaye, What's Goin' On
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Must be my brother from a different mother .... only vinyl list I have EVER seen where I own each of the listed titles ..... must be dating myself .....
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Hey, Tubejack. Aged a bit we may be, but we ain't dead yet, brother.
You being down in the Republic of Tejas, how about some Stevie Ray, the Fabulous T-Birds, Joe Ely (just picked up 'Down on the Drag') Guy Clark or Steve Forbert? (I'm not really a Townes Van Zant fan, although I love some of the songs he wrote.) Steve Earle went and came up here to NYC.
I only made it to one Willie and the Family Band concert, at Town Lake in Austin. Had to boogie when the folks behind us started throwing (full) beer cans for the hell of it . . . I feel bad that I completely missed the shows at the Armadillo. It was shut down about the time I got to Austin.
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Got my girls involved in the hunt for vinyl. :)
(https://forum.bottlehead.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi1278.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fy504%2FBNAL%2FRecords_zpsf7355b81.jpg&hash=e59a14b53d7bbfdadb3dec5f836f63ff922eee0d)
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Brad,
No one is going to comment on that picture of your daughters.
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Hang your heads in shame 2000 plus hits and an Englishman adds The Velvet Underground/Lou Reed and The Doors to the list! :o
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Some suggestions seeing that I just started back listening to vinyl. Here's what I grabbed off the shelf to break in the Debut:
Raising Sand Plant/Krause
Imagine Project: HHancock
God Willin & The Creek don't Rise
Four MF's Playin Tunes: B Marsalis Quartet
How I got over: The Roots
Oscar Peterson Trio + One
Getz Au go go
The Telluride Sessions: Strength in Numbers (just for "One Winter's Night", the rest of the album is aiight but doesn't compare to that one song)
Couldn't Stand the Weather; SRV
Most Kenny Burrell
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Bought a 180g Astral Weeks. This is becoming a favorite LP quickly.
I'd recommend it since it isn't very expensive.
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I had been thinking about buying the Diana Krall Live in Paris LP, the CD is wonderful I remember looking at a it a little while back I nearly fell of my chair when I saw the price being asked for a copy now, the price seems to have shot up astronomically over the last year!
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For classic jazz lp's, new or used NM copies of the OJC re-issues can be had for cheap.
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The ojcs are very fair priced new. And most if them sound very nice.
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The ojcs are very fair priced new. And most if them sound very nice.
Xavier,
Given your rig, that's high praise.
Mike
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Be careful what you ask for. Here are a few albums that I would go for:
Pink Floyd, DOSTM
Supertramp Breakfast in America
Sting, Dream of the blue turtles
AC/DC, Bat out of Hell
Synergy, Chords
Fleetwood Mac, Rumors
Bach, Organ music
Beetoven, Sym #5
Tycophsky, The Firebird
Soundtrack from The Pianist
Because of a major BRAIN FART, that's all I got for now.
That's pretty interesting. I didn't know some of those albums even existed - AC/DC, Bat out of Hell? Tycophsky, The Firebird? And what exactly is a beet oven?
Sounds like someone's been letting their meatloaf.
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Stones, Beggars Banquet, Exile on Mail Street, Their Satanic Majesties Request
Tom Rush, Ladies Love Outlaws
Jefferson Starship, Blows Against the Empire
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Will The Circle Be Unbroken
Taj Mahal, Giant Step
Little Feat, Dixie Chicken
Marshall Tucker Band, The Marshall Tucker Band
Joni Mitchell, Blue, Court and Spark, The Hissing of Summer Lawns
Carole King, Tapestry
James Taylor, Sweet Baby James
Simon & Garfunkel, Bridge Across Troubled Water
Bob Dylan, Nashville Skyline, The Freewhelin' Bob Dylan, Basement Tapes (with The Band)
Emmy Lou Harris, Pieces of the Sky
Nancy Griffith, Storms
Eva Cassidy, Live at Blues Alley, Songbird
Stevie Wonder, Songs in the Key of Life
Marvin Gaye, What's Goin' On
I like your tastes, and would add the following:
Airplane/Kanter and Slick: Sunfighter and Baron Von Tollboth and the Chrome Nun (both were made around the same time as Blows Against and have the same musicians playing (Garcia, Freiberg, Crosby, Nash, etc.) I listened to Blows and Baron today while working out.
David Crosby: If I Could Only Remember My Name.
Jorma Kaukonen: Qua
Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks (MOFI)
Quicksilver Messanger Service: Shady Grove and their first self-titled LP.
Sorry if I repeated anything Grainger posted (if I remember correctly he likes MOFI), but I cannot read the tiny blue text...nothing subtle about the hint! ;)
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The blue text has been mentioned. But with 5,000 posts I haven't had time to convert them all to lime green. I will go up and change mine in this thread.
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Bought a 180g Astral Weeks. This is becoming a favorite LP quickly.
I'd recommend it since it isn't very expensive.
Hey, I can read you posts now. Don't make all of the changes for my sake.
A few weeks ago I purchased the 24/192 version of Astral Weeks. Must admit that I am equally moved by it.
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Paul Joppa said that the Lime Green didn't work for quotes. When you quote, you can change the color yourself. My original limegreen popped up and I changed it:
The blue text has been mentioned. But with 5,000 posts I haven't had time to convert them all to lime green. I will go up and change mine in this thread.