What are you listening to right now ?

[slartibartfast]

I was referring to all those songs which failed to credit the original writers and arrangers.

I think at the moment I prefer Physical Graffiti, with Zep 3 coming in second place.

R

When I first heard Achilles Last Stand I thought it was Rush 🤣

[Grumpy Bob]

When I first heard Achilles Last Stand I thought it was Rush 🤣

I don't think I have ever listened to anything by Rush!

R

[w3wilkes]

I heard Led Zep II first back in 1970 and quite licked it but over the years LZ II is still good, but LZ I has turned out to be my favorite.

[slartibartfast]

I heard Led Zep II first back in 1970 and quite licked it but over the years LZ II is still good, but LZ I has turned out to be my favorite.

I didn't really discover them until around 1975 or 1976 but when I heard Houses Of The Holy I remember thinking it was weird 🤣

[d6jg]

Album chosen randomly by server. Why not?

♪ Playing Give a Little Bit by Supertramp from Even in the Quietest Moments… (1977) (Local • 1012kbps VBR 16bit 44.1kHz FLC)

[d6jg]

I didn't really discover them until around 1975 or 1976 but when I heard Houses Of The Holy I remember thinking it was weird 🤣

IV for me. Because of Sandy Denny

[slartibartfast]

Album chosen randomly by server. Why not?

♪ Playing Give a Little Bit by Supertramp from Even in the Quietest Moments… (1977) (Local • 1012kbps VBR 16bit 44.1kHz FLC)

I found an early A&M AM+ CD of this on E-Bay a couple of years ago. I should really try a needledrop to compare 😀

[d6jg]

I found an early A&M AM+ CD of this on E-Bay a couple of years ago. I should really try a needledrop to compare 😀

This is an early CD

[d6jg]

Second random album of the evening.

♪ Playing Such A Shame by Talk Talk from It's My Life (1984) (Local • 878kbps VBR 16bit 44.1kHz FLC)

CD rip.

[slartibartfast]

This is an early CD

Mine cost £2.12 🤣

[d6jg]

Mine cost £2.12 🤣

Similar sort of price but can’t say exactly. I bought a lot of second hand CDs about 10-12 years or so ago. Coincided with first SB3 purchase for some reason. I didn’t start needledropping until a couple of years later.

[slartibartfast]

I have read comments on the Steve Hoffman forum describing this as murky and muddy. I see where they are coming from but it makes it more crankable 😀
A couple of tracks on my vinyl had an annoying amount of static like noise which was difficult to eliminate but I am happy with the end result.

[Grumpy Bob]

I've been playing Coil's debut album Scatology (1985) a fair bit lately. The B-side of a single taken from the album was a cover of Tainted Love, the Ed Cobb song made famous by Soft Cell all those years ago (and before that by Gloria Jones). Coil's version slows this to funereal pace as a reflection on HIV/AIDS. The video has an appearance from Marc Almond as a sinister leather-clad presence (he also contributes vocals to the recording) - it was also issued as a benefit for the Terence Higgins Trust.

Robert

[slartibartfast]

I've previously mentioned a needledrop of The Wall that I heard where the sound of a bone breaking in "The Happiest Days Of Our Lives" was inaudible presumably due to click removal software. I have finally got around to ripping my copy and running it through a trial version of iZotope RX which is supposedly the Rolls Royce of declicking software does indeed remove that detail. Slightly at low Sensitivity settings and completely at a Sensitivity of 4 out of 10. So be careful out there 🤣

[Redrum]

What did I listen to last night? Dusted off an old favorite:

Daniel Lanois - For the Beauty of Wynona



Second Album by the super producer of many, my favorite, but Acadie is very close, I first heard this at a friends house many years (decades) ago and had one of those "what is this??!!" moments.

As a result, What am I listening to today?:

Emmylou Harris - Wreaking Ball



Quite the departure from a typical EH album, produced by Daniel Lanois, I love the "soundscape" on this, that Lanois used for so many other of his productions (Gabriel, U2, etc), much like Eno has a signature "sound"

What might I listen to this week?

Peter Gabriel - Us, U2 - The Joshua Tree, Daniel Lanois - Acadie or Shine, maybe Belledona (an instrumental/Ambient album)

...or, I might listen to something else

Jim