Miles - Seven Steps - AP 200gram, incredible
Miles - Nefertiti - Mofi 45rpm, holy smokes, this could be his best sounding pressing of anything in his catalog.
Beck - Morning Phase, one of the best recordings and mastering jobs of all time.
Ben Kweller - Sha Sha in white vinyl, better than I expected it to be, my daughter got it for me for Father's day
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Thanks, Slaw
Have Gerry Mulligan meets Ben Webster on AP 33 playing now, it is phenomenally good
Radiohead - Amnesiac 45rpm
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi on red German vinyl, so great |
Fun run today
Floyd - The Wall- remastered
Getz/Gilberto - AP 45rpm, staggeringly great
Muddy Waters - Folk Singer - AP 33, picked it up today - unbelievable.
Pet Sounds on 33 1/3 AP, can't imagine that the 45rpm could be THAT much better??
Pretenders - Learning to Crawl - Mofi
Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
Shelly Manne/Bill Evans - AP 45rpm - superb in all respects
Paul Desmond - Take Ten |
The Police - Zenyatta Mendatta - vintage Superdisc
Cachaito - World Circuit pressing - I can't recommend this record enough.
Boston - Boston - reissue on blue vinyl
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Miles - Funny Valentine - Mofi
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds - AP 200gram 33 - incredible low end
Cachaito - so fkn good!
Miles - KOB - Mofi 45rpm |
Booker Ervin - the Freedom Book - AP 33
Miles - Someday my Prince - AP 33 (fkn staggeringly great)
Son House - Ledgedary - AP 33 (sooo sooooo great)
Led Zep II - schitt reissue
Neutral Milk Hotel - in an aeroplane - reissue
Beck - Mutations
Ben Webster - Soulville - AP 45
New Mc C47 is installed and happy as a clam with how the setup sounds
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@reubent - I am a big fan of Andrew Bird, have seen him live many times, which if you haven't seen him, you must. Incredible. Especially when he is totally solo and no additional players. Fascinating.
Noble Beast, in my opinion, is not his most accessible album. Even as a fan it took me a bit longer to warm up to but l like it now and it is maybe my favorite album of his on vinyl. It is not nearly as good as Armchair Apocrypha but is recorded really well. My copy sounds very good. Hope you give it more spins and if you don't have Armchair I highly recommend that as well. |
Today -
ZZ Top - Fandango (garage sale find), kicks ass!
Neutral Milk Hotel - in an Aeroplane
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Dead Can Dance - into the Labyrinth - (OK this was streamed) and I am still not sure they click with me - suggestions for most accessible album?
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@slaw - Mutations is a great album. Cold Brains may be my single favorite Beck tunes. Great low end on that record. I wish it was as well recorded as Sea Change or MP but it is such a good record. |
@tomfoolery - not sure if that was a question and if was directed at me but my TT is a vintage Denon DP-62L. I love it and when combined with a Denon 103r low output MC cart it sounds pretty incredible for the investment I have in it. |
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@reubent - thanks for the welcome. I have been posting a bit over the last few weeks and enjoy the thread. Funny, after speaking about it I put on Noble Beast. I really like that album and it sounds great. But if you have not yet heard Armchair or the album before it, Mysterious Production of Eggs, which is phenomenal, they are highly recommended.
A friend turned me on to Armchair (and Andrew Bird) right after it came out along with Boxer from The National, which released at almost the same time, I spent the next 5 or so months spinning those over and over. Could not turn them off.
Hope you enjoy. |
Willie Nelson - Stardust - Mofi
The Cars - The Cars - Mofi
Steely Dan - Aja - schitt copy, I need a better one - still a perfect record |
@reubent is there a better copy of Meddle than others? Love that record but need another copy. The repro of Wish You Were Here is pretty good, didn't know about Meddle |
Ben Webster - The Soul of Ben Webster - 45 RPM AP - absolutely staggeringly great
Billy Holiday - All or Nothing - AP 45
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The Cure - Acoustic Greatest Hits. - really good, just picked it up today |
@slaw on that Dylan Freewheeling - try side 3 on Dylan's Dream on 33, I did it by mistake one night and listened to it about 4 times in a row. It is actually really good in almost a Taj Mahal kinda way. |
Tonight is
Van Morrison - Moondance
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Son Volt - Trace
The Cure - Acoustic Hits |
Aretha"s Gold - MFSL 45rpm, love the record, gonna miss that gal |
The Police - Ghost in the Machine, reissue, pretty good
Sonny Clark Trio - 1960 Time Sessions reissue on 200g vinyl, sound quality is phenomenal but I can't get rid of some vinyl noise, pissing me off |
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam - original pressing |
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Kenny Dorham - Quiet Kenny - AP 200gram, incredible. One of my favorites
Sigur Ros - Takk
From CD:
James mcmurtry - Where'd ya Hide the Body and It Had to Happen - both excellent records |
White Stripes - Elephant
SD - Royal Scam
XTC - English Settlement - original pressing |
@slaw it is very good. There is some variation between some of the tracks but overall it is worth the money.
Today:
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic, demo copy |
Beastie Boys - The In Sound from Way Out - awesomeness
Miles Davis - Bags Groove on AP 33 - stellar in every way
Beatles - Rubber Soul - reissue - mono |
Marshall Tucker Band - Marshall Tucker Band - reissue - surprisingly good
Willie Dixon - Willie Dixon and Memphis Slim - AP 33rpm 200g - super good
Howling Wolf - Soul Blues - AP 33rpm 200g - stunning recording
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Miles Davis - Someday My Prince Will Come - AP 33 200g - excellent
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjum - such an incredible record, hard to believe their first full release was A.) so great and B.) so incredibly well recorded. It is a really great sounding record. One of my all time fav bands
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Tom Petty - Damn the Torpedos |
Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge over... - new Mofi 1step release - pretty incredible, if a little bright on the top end
Miles Davis - ESP - Mofi 45rpm |
@slaw I definitely get the sticker shock on the the price of the specialty vinyl but I guess I also understand how much manual work goes into everything from the re-mastering to all of the pressing stages, packaging and the rest of it.
The record pretty much sounds like something that was started from the ground up to be the best sounding piece of music you can offer your ears. It is indeed 'special' in my opinion. I paid $109 all in for mine but I pre-orded it from my favorite local shop that does a lot of Mofi and Acoustic Sounds stuff so they pretty much sold the pre-orders at retail. Heck, it was so good I called them back and had them hold another copy of it for the sake of hoarding or if I can swap a copy of the Bill Evans box that Mofi did that I don't have.
The other good part about it, even if you feel like you paid too much for it just hang on to it for about a year and sell it on eBay for $300, there are already copies of this one listed for over twice retail.
I really can't wait for the Hendrix Axis mono version that is due any time as well. That one should sound killer too.
When you see how much some people shell out for early first pressings (used at that) it doesn't seem quite as bad.
Just my 2 cents (well, +$109)
Pablo
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@slaw I also wondered about the value and waited too long on some of the other high dollar releases from Mofi, Analog Productions and Classic Records that I really would like to have but now I won't pay 'scalper' prices for it.
What I can say is that EVERY single 200gram lp from Analog Productions, 45rpm ($50 retail) or 33rpm ($34 retail) has been worth every cent (at least at retail). If I were a guy of more means I would just buy the whole damn catalog they are so well done. The 25 Verve re-issues on 45rpm 200g that were all remastered from original tape by George Marino are some of the best vinyl I have ever heard, ever, but the 33rpm releases, like the Prestige and others, are so good as well that it has kinda spoiled me and make listening to decent copies of third and fifth pressing versions hard to enjoy as much.
I like the fact that vinyl demand has allowed Mofi/Acoustic Sounds to thrive and put out this specialty stuff. The downside is it is expensive but paying high dollar for some Japanese pressing off of Discogs for used vinyl seems even more expensive to me. With me? |
@folkfreak folkfreak, I would love to hear your impressions of the difference between the Classic Records 200g Bridge OTW And the 1step Mofi version.
I think the 1step is incredible (after 2 spins) but I do find it a bit bright on the strong and more intense passagess. |
@slaw glad to help, or at least offer my opinion. I picked up the second copy of BOTW they held for me yesterday.
Gave my copy another listen, it is incredible. Really great.
Also
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms - Half Speed Mastered version from Because Sound Matters, it is pretty damned impressive
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication - awful, just freaking awful, I don't know how they screwed up such a great album.
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Joe Jackson - Look Sharp, original pressing
Steely Dan - Katy Lied - original MFSL copy I picked up off of Discogs, honestly, kinda flat, wish they would do a remaster and repress of their entire catalog |
Genesis - Live (first live album)
Miles Davis - ESP - Mofi 45rpm 200g - phenomenal |
Led Zep - I (bad reissue)
Led Zep - II (decent reissue)
Led Zep - In Through the Out Door (decent reissue) this might be their best engineered record
Pink Floyd - Animals - older pressing
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Neil Young - Harvest - reissue, excellent |
@reubent it really is. Out on the Weekend and Old Man are especially good. It is my favorite NY record despite it having two of my least favorite NY songs on it. But the reissue is very well done and totally smoked my older pressing of it.
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Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill
Then Gaucho
Then Katy Lied- vintage MFSL
Then Countdown (man, what a great frickin album)
Caichaito - holy smokes that record is awesome |
Elliott Smith - Either/Or - recent reissue, really, really good |
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Beatles - Recolver- mono reissue - very good |
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"Perfect Record" as in every song is perfect, no filler songs or bad songs on the record or/and? Perfect vinyl quality and sound?
As many phenomenal albums as there are in this world I think there is a handful of "Perfect albums"
Kind of Blue, Dark Side, Aja, Led Zep I, Highway to Hell, Never Mind the Bollocks, In Rainbows, Trace and...? Are a few I put into my list.
Hell, Exile on Main Street may be the greatest Rock and roll album of all time but there are two schitt tracks on it I can't stand, just like OK Computer.
Now Morning Phase is a strong contender to me for the most perfect album ever. Amazing performance, amazing recording, amazing sound quality and mastering. It is awesome in every way to me.
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Dire Straits- Brothers in Arms - reissue, so good |
@slaw
That reissue of The Wall is damn good, my daughter got me a copy for my birthday this year and it sounds pretty spectacular and I agree, it really has to be fairly full volume for me as well which means I get windows to which I can listen to it, kinda like Rage.
That Aretha's Gold is pretty damn good. Tough to remaster a greatest hits as the originals are so different but it is very good nonetheless. Dr. Feelgood is exceptional. |
Tonight:
Son Volt- Straightaways- phenomenal reissue, really great sounding record, and their first 3 records are some of my favorites ever. Any band.
Donald Fagen - Nightfly, original pressing, damn good
Steely Dan, Royal Scam, original UK pressing
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@slaw
The solo in Comfortably Numb is in my top 5 of all time and that reissue sounds epicly large and wide. I had forgotten that The Wall won Grammy for best engineered that year.
I remember skipping school to get my copy the day they released it and I must have put 100 spins on it the first month I had it |
Thanks,Slaw
Funny, I still have an older copy of Dark Side and need to try a copy of the reissue. Wish You Were Here is a great reissue as well. Meddle is good but just not nearly as well recorded as the others but the vinyl is really clean. |
@slaw
Agreed, I have seen them about a dozen and a half times and met Jay briefly at a solo show in Austin that was in between Straightaways and Wide Swing (I think).
I was an Uncle Tupelo fan prior and when they split I actually think Son Volt is the better band (at least for the first 3 records) and I like Jay more than Tweedy as a song writer. I am really not much of a Wilco fan.
I would have told anyone for many years that Trace was my favorite collection of songs on one record. It is incredible.
But from a playback perspective, my copy of Straightaways smokes Trace.
They went kinda wonky after Wide Swing and I was not happy that it really became a solo effort for a while as I really liked the Boquist brothers, they are super talented. And the pedal player from the Jayhawks, who's name escapes me at the moment.
They are not super exciting live but can be damn good.
Pablo
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