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
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Beethoven sonata in E flat major, op. 81a - Ivan Moravec
Connoisseur Society ( issued by the Book-of-the-month club in the 60s )

Weiner Suite, op. 18 ( Hungarian folk dances ) Phil. Hungarica/ Dorati - Epic

The Who: Who's Next - Decca (U.S.)
Dengue Fever - "Cannibal Courtship" [Fantasy LP '11]

Dengue Fever - "Sleepwalking Through The Mekong" Sndtrk. [M80 CD '09]

Hawkwind - "Hall Of The Mountain Grill" [U.A. LP '74]

Raspberries - "Starting Over" [Capitol LP '74]

The Mixtures - "Stompin' At The Rainbow" [Linda/Minky Records CD expanded reissue '62/'10]

The Spinners - "Original Spinners" [Motown mono LP '67]

John Coltrane - "Ole Coltrane" [Atlantic LP repress '61/'69]

Alice Coltrane - "Journey In Satchidananda" [Impulse!/MCA LP reissue '70/'97]

Martinu/Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 - Neumann/Czech Philharmonic Orchestra [Supraphon (Czech) CD reissue '78/'94]

Schubert/Complete Trios - Beaux Arts Trio/Grumiaux Trio [Philips 2CD reissue comp. '66-'69/'93]
Elbow - "Build a Rocket Boys". Double LP 45 rpm Fiction label. great music and recording. Very textured. Guy Harvey is a genius.

Elvis Costello - "Get Happy!". MoFi 45rpm double LP. Great recording and music. Another MoFi winner.

Arctic Monkeys - "Suck It and See". 180g Domino release. Great music and the Monkeys release another solid LP. Average recording but still very enjoyable.

Cults -"Cults" Columbia Records release. 60's pop with 90's psych. Good song writing, great vocals. Recorded a little bright but great music.
New (old) acquisitions:

Joe Cocker - Joe Cocker
Cat Stevens - Teaser and the Firecat
Grateful Dead - Shakedown Street
The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man

I'm in the mood for some Ray Charles - that's my "hunt" for the w/e!
Moussorgsky, "Night on Bald Mountain" & "Pictures at an Exhibition"; Chesky RC30 ("The Power of the Orchestra"); Rene Leibowitz conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Gerhardt/Wilkinson, Producer/Engineer, recorded in 1964 for RCA.

Best regards,
-- Al