The Pretenders - first album - MFSL, very good
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@bdp24 GDP, I couldn’t agree more. I personally thought Trace just absolutely mopped the floor with the first Wilco record from a songwriting and execution perspective. And I too could not figure out why Tweedy got so much more attention than Farrar. Didn’t compute to me. Hell, in my opinion, if you listen to Anodyne the two bands had already formed and when I would play that record I would skip most of the Tweedy tracks. Oddly, I was never a huge fan of Jay’s solo stuff. The first 3 SV records were just so frigging great. A golden period like the Stones from Beggars Banquet to Sticky Fingers. Pablo |
That is the trick bdp, when I think "perfect" you can't pull off a single song (like Yellow Submarine) and EVERY track has to be awesome. It is a tough criteria and even renders a massive number of masterpieces 'imperfect' to me. Doesn't mean they aren't the greatest albums of all time but very few "perfect" |
@slaw Sorry, thought someone else was talking about the quality of How the West Was Won. Thanks for the heads up. I like your competition. Let's hear your results, but Filmore East is a pretty strong live album. Today: Bob Marley - Survival from the box set, not my favorite Bob album but it sounds really good in this pressing |
White Stripes - Elephant Miles Davis - Seven Steps to Heaven- AP 33rpm 200gram, holy frik, it is so amazing sounding Kings of Leon - Youth and Manhood, great album, just wish the low end of the record was better done Elliot Smith - Either/Or, I still can't get over how good this reissue is. So highly recommended Flaming Lips- Yoshimi, German pressing |
@slaw That Aretha is very, very good. I really like that record. I am kinda curious if AP will put out a pressing in 200gram 33rpm at some point. If so I want to compare. For some silly reason I just bought a turntable from a guy on the forum? I am not bright. Now I have to find a dang cart for it. Should have probably just bought more AP records and the TP box set. |
@slaw I bought an EAT C-Sharp and will be putting the cart that is typically factory fitted on it, an Ortofon Quintet Black. I got to hear one a while back at a local shop but the shop changed hands and they no longer stock the EAT gear so I was looking online. I was comparing it to a Rega P6 and the EAT was extremely impressive and is drop dead gorgeous, work of art from a design perspective. Big change from my current table. |
OK, funny one. I bought a Mofi copy of Dylan's Freewheeling, my favorite of his, on dual 45rpm 180 gram vinyl in mono a month or two ago and has gotten a good amount of platter time. It is truly spectacular. So the funny part, I started on side three and accidentally started it on 33 1/3 instead of 45 and the result was actually... Awesome! Bob Dylan's Dream was surprisingly listenable, so much so I listened to it three times. I sincerely enjoyed it. I highly encourage giving it a try, and the MFSL copy of Freewheeling. Incredible. |
@slaw Slaw, the cart is new, I installed an Ortofon Quintet Black, which is the cart this table comes with if you order this table with a cart. The previous owner took his cart to a new table. The Ortofon is much smoother on the high end and MUCH better on the low-end extension but I suspect that is table and arm related as well. Overall I am very pleased so far. I suspect the cart will break in nicely. Right now: Beck - Morning Phase - incredible |
I was also posting the other night how blown away I was with my new reissue of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road but somehow it didn't post?? I picked up a new, relatively cheap ($26 I think) copy at a local store as my old copy is pretty rough. Mercury tri-fold version. Holy smokes the new one is incredible. Vinyl is super heavy and nice, SQ is phenomenal, staging, clarity, dynamics are off the chart. I guess that Bob Ludwig knows a thing or two?? Highly recommended if you have an old copy like I did. |
@boxer12 Congrats on the new cart. That one should sound pretty sweet. Mine seems to be settling in nicely as well. I played side 3 and 4 of the Simon and Garfunkel Bridge One Step tonight on the new table. That record is so stupid good that I wound up playing The Only Living Boy in NY 4 times. It is so incredibly great in every possible way. Elton John - Madman - reissue Donald Fagen - Nightfly - MFSL One Step - the low end is just awesome and the whole record is so balanced. @slaw you are in for a treat when What's Going On arrives. |
@boxer12 - if you had a lathe at home that could handle a 12"+ piece of stock I was going to be even more impressed. Over, that is a phenomenal achievement. Much better than anything Slaw could pull off , ha ;) hell, I felt pretty impressed just setting my new table up. I even did it with my big boy pants on! Radiohead- Amnesiac 45rpm version- stellar |
@Boxer12 - are you referring to the Afrocubism? I picked it up at a local shop, Waterloo Records in Austin. One of the owner turned me on to the World Circuit stuff. Most of it is AMAZING, https://shop.worldcircuit.co.uk the Caichaito is my favorite, incredible, the Ruben Gonzales is also excellent. Right now: Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days |
I am absolutely freaking BLOWN AWAY with how quiet the vinyl is and the incredible sound quality on this Yo La Tengo is. I know Summer Sun is not considered way up the list for a lot of YLT fanatics but I have always loved this disc and found a new copy for 25 bucks and it is AMAZING. Researching who mastered this for Matador records and who pressed it. It is THAT GOOD! |
So last week my copy of The Nightfly MFSL One Step showed up that I found on Discogs for a pretty reasonable price. It is phenomenal and was mint. Today I get back from San Diego and my wife shows me that my dogs ate the cover while I was gone. :( At least the vinyl is ok Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha - incredible record, so so vinyl |
@n80 I see some really high prices on some of the previous One Step records but there are other more reasonably priced copies if you shop well. But as much as I love those stupid dogs I want to take out two of them right now. I guess it would only effect resale price and I can't see myself letting any of the one steps go so I shouldn't get worked up too much but I do try to baby my records and for F sake I didn't even have it for a full week and is the most expensive single record I have purchased in a while! The National - Sleep Well Beast - not Boxer (as far as the performance) but it is a great sounding recording and pretty darned good pressing. Crazy super low end |
Too much time on the road lately with the new gig. Nice when you return from a trip to new vinyl Alan Parsons - I robot - Mofi 45rpm - pretty amazing, I have wanted this version for a while after reading a review about how good this pressing is and they were not kidding. Funny, I bought it from Music Direct last week when they were sending me a new box for my Donald Fagen Nightfly One Step and they were so cool on the phone (and only charged me shipping for the replacement box) that I felt obligated to buy something from them. The Alan Parsons seemed like a deal at 10% off. |