Robin Trower - What Lies Beneath
What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report
I enjoy vinyl and digital (lately, with recent changes, vinyl actually sounds better than digital to me), BUT given what seems an overall preference for analog/vinyl on A'gon, I'm curious what the non-vinyl "1/2" is listening to. I tried to see if this was a previously posted question. Did not seem so.
This evening for me, it's Genesis (definitive edition remaster) "A Trick of the Tail".
This evening for me, it's Genesis (definitive edition remaster) "A Trick of the Tail".
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Causa Sui - Euporie Tide Garage sale, three same artist never heard of. Rock? Really? I’ll take them. My first listen, figure the middle one first, I don’t know why? *laffs Anyways, I try and listen to the entire CD. Musicians upgraded just like everyone else, I need to hear different things. I love music, and since I on that subject want to say TY to everyone said ’heh, try this one’. BTW: Causa Sui, reminds me of a new age Sabbath. |
Hey @mental Thanks for posting about RT’s "What Lies Beneath". New one for me and I’m really liking it...even his vocal. Listening to a FLAC version on Tidal but surprised that there’s a very noticeable break between tracks that are obviously supposed to seamlessly fade into one another...no "gapless playback". In a few spots the recording has more distortion than I’m used to hearing from Tidal. Curious if you are noticing any of this on whatever version you have. This is probably a "buy" for me. Thanks for the tip. |
@mental Dude! No offense intended but I do find your posts occasionally "cryptic". ;-) Am I right thinking you hear a little bit of a gap between tracks on your CD but nothing major??? What about sound quality...is that pretty distortion free throughout the recording? Kinda in line with what I think you are saying... the full album is posted on You Tube. Got 21 minutes into that version and I don't hear the same breaks in sound as I do from Tidal. Will finish listening later on. Hoping the CD is better than what I'm hearing on Tidal. Maybe they got a bad rip (or however they store the music you hear). |
@mental Appreciate the follow up. You were definitely writing from another plane last night. I'm sure it made sense to you. Just needed someone better than me to fill in the gaps. :-) No problem, in any case. Yeah..."provenance" ain't always clear (if ever) on Tidal or Spotify but have to admit I'm a bit shocked by the absence of "gapless playback" on "What Lies Beneath". Really like the music. Interested in buying but listening now to the version on Spotify and hearing the same flaws. Track starts to end with a fade out. Before it's completed, there's a click and a moment of silence. The next track then starts with the fade out of the previous track completing followed by the start of the new song. Kinda amateur hour by whoever did the mastering is what I'm thinking. Take care. |
Wishbone Ash - Argus (courtesy of Tidal...it's a thread for the "non-vinyl half", after all). Track 3 Blowin' Free.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUolWNHxRiM |
@mental Ha! Sept 2013...that Colossal Head mention goes back a ways. Good reminder. I was listening to Los Lobos steadily for what seemed like a couple of years well before then. Had Kiko, Colossal Head, This Time + Just Another Band from East LA spinning on a regular basis at home and in the car. Bought How Will The Wolf Survive on vinyl when it first came out. There is still a lot of their catalog that I don’t know. Have always respected the heck out of them. Talk about paying dues. Liked that they did some very adventurous/nontraditional things with their music...thanks in large part to Mitchell Froom’s influence, I believe*. Kinda stopped following them with the release of Good Morning Aztlan. Just didn’t have the magic their earlier records had. Kinda flat feeling. Worth noting it wasn’t done with Froom. If you liked Colossal Head, This Time might work for you too. Probably gonna have to give ’em a listen later this evening. *was forgetting Tchad Blake. More than Froom (maybe?) responsible for the interesting production. |
Los Lobos - This Time Title track... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCQeZRsoKUY Oh Yeah - ! Track 2 as in too good to leave out... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYnb5gg9s3w&frags=pl%2Cwn |
One I haven’t played in a very long time: Smiths - Meat Is Murder When it got to How Soon Is Now? I stopped the CD, went over to my vintage 1965 Fender Deluxe Reverb, flipped on the power switch, tuned up the Fender Stratocaster, flipped the standby switch to on, tweaked the tremolo to a generous fast pulse at that song’s tempo and with a lot of reverb, and cranked that chord progression for half an hour. So cool. |
Truly a very well recorded and tasty cookie for your CDP/DAC: Bill Frissel, Dave Holland and Elvin Jones. Elektra Nonesuch (2001) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_Dave_Holland_and_Elvin_Jones |
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