Whats on your turntable tonight?


For me its the first or very early LP's of:
Allman Brothers - "Allman Joys" "Idyllwild South"
Santana - "Santana" 200 g reissue
Emerson Lake and Palmer - "Emerson Lake and Palmer"
and,
Beethoven - "Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major" Rudolph Serkin/Ozawa/BSO
slipknot1
Started out with Elvis Costello/My Aim Is True then Warren Zevon/Excitable Boy, Steve Earl/ Guitar Town and finishing up with Jerry Lee Lewis/Live From Austin and the wife stayed up and listened to the first two and we shared a bottle of wine, nice night.
beatles--let it be. i'll submit that song-for-song this is their best album. granted, "one after 909" is a throwaway and "for you blue" mere filler, but side one is essentially perfect. the focus is justifiably on paul's opuses, but i always thought "dig a pony" and "don't let me down" were among john's finest.

elvis costello--taking liberties. an oddly coherent grab bag of outtakes and b-sides and as good a testament to his compositional genius as anything--this guy throws away better songs than 99% of his peers can even dream about. fully half of these 20 tunes rank with his best work, with "chelsea", "big tears" and "tiny steps" rocking as hard as anything he's done.