Elvis Costello & The Attractions: This Year’s Model
Hip-O - 17th March 1978
24/192
Sophia Pfister: Birdcage
Bandcamp - 2018
16/44.1
I haven’t listed to this album in a while…
My favourite track is ‘Living in the Grey’.
For anyone interested, here is a YouTube link;
Terry Callier: What Colour is Love
Cadet Records - March 1973
16/44.1
Suzanne Vega: Solitude Standing
A&M - April 1987
16/44.1
Paul Simon: Still Crazy After All These Years
Warner Bros/Rhino - October 1975
24/44.1
Paul Simon: So Beautiful Or So What
Concord/Hear Music/Universal - 8th April 2011
24/96
Stephen Stills: Manassas
Rhino Atlantic - 1972
16/44.1
She can actually sing!
Come on Jeremy, not too many completely talent-free artists have achieved all this!
I’d argue a few have got close
Legend: The Best of Bob Marley & The Wailers
Island - 8th May 1984
24/192
War: Greatest Hits 2.0
Rhino - 29th October 2021
24/192
Prince and The Revolution: Purple Rain
CG/Rhino - 25th June 1984
24/192
Inspired by Jeremy’s ever-so-slightly conservative scepticism I decided to spin this one this morning:
Quite poignant that Bennett was 95 y o and had been diagnosed with dementia five years prior to the recording sessions (I can recommend the review on Roon which I am unfortunately unable to link or quote here) so this was his “swan song”. Also check out the review in the Independent.
Led Zeppelin: The Complete BBC Sessions
Atlantic - 16th September 2016
24/96
King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King
Discipline Global Mobile - 10th October 1969
24/96
Emerson, Lake & Palmer (eponymous album)
BMG - 20th November 1970
24/96
Pink Floyd: The Dark Side Of the Moon (Live at Wembley 1974, 2023 Master)
Rhino - 24th March 2023
24/96
Been digging back with a theme of ‘what was out 20 years ago’. Been enjoying this one again.
Edit: Squarepusher. Ultravisitor.
Carl Orff: Carmina Burana
Eugen Jochum - Chorus of the German Opera Berlin, Schoneberger Sangerknaben, Orchestra of the German Opera Berlin, Berlin State Opera Orchestra
Gundula Janowitz, Gerhard Stolze, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.
Deutsche Grammophon - 18th September 1995
24/96
Cecilia Bartoli: Antonio Vivaldi
Jean-Christophe Spinosi - Ensemble Matheus
Decca - 30th November 2018
24/96
Anna Fedorova: Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No.3 & The Youth Symphony. Silvestrov The Messenger
Modestas Pitrenas - Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen
Channel Classics - 12th May 2023
24/352.8 (DXD)
I remember seeing Madonna perform spontaneously at the 100 club on Oxford Street in about 1982 (so I was well underage)! Apparently she was there as a guest and the management asked her to sing so she sang Holiday (then unreleased). Amazing!
I was at a 50th birthday party last night that was styled as a 70s disco so maybe I was back in the disco groove? Either way I listened to this just before bed.
Holé molé folks! This was something else! It was like being at a live gig (although of course this is a studio album). The vocals are amazing, the instrumental layering otherworldly and the electronic effects like sparks of musical energy all over the soundscape. Jawdropping!
Right brain is saying ‘endgame’ but left brain just thinks that is definitionally absurd!
BBLPC (you know who you are), I am starting to get it!
Madonna, “Ray of Light” (1998) Qobuz 16/44.1
John Lee Hooker: The Best of Friends
Point Blank/Virgin - 20th October 1998
16/44.1
Carlos Santana: Blues for Salvador
Columbia - October 1987
16/44.1
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band: The Roaring Silence
Import - 27th August 1976
16/44.1
Just a reminder @T38.45, @RobW, @Mark we have a fellow forum member who hangs here occasionally who is blind and whose text-to-speech software is unable to parse images. So please follow Jonathan’s exemplary lead and provide album details in text format too!
Harp - Albion
Very nice album, not the best recording but the electric guitars sound so relaxed. Great music for the mind to wander off :-).
Her best album by far… some cracking tunes on it