What LPs have you listened to recently?

Toni Rambold · « **Reply #1700 on:** 4 Apr 2011, 11:15 am »

Quote from: pumpkinman

Annie Haslam was the lead singer for Renaissance. I think this came out around 1977

... talking about sound quality, there's a Renaissance LP from 1977 in HP's Super Disc List:

Renaissance: Novella
Sire Records SA-7526

... reviewed by HP, TAS 10, page 253

Renaissance: Novella
Warner Bros. Records K 56422

... surfaces of the UK pressing are quieter.

pumpkinman · « **Reply #1701 on:** 4 Apr 2011, 11:23 am »

Quote from: Toni Rambold on 4 Apr 2011, 11:15 am

... talking about sound quality, there's a Renaissance LP from 1977 in HP's Super Disc List:

Renaissance: Novella
Sire Records SA-7526

Renaissance: Novella
Warner Bros. Records K 56422

... surfaces of the UK pressing are quieter.

Thanks Toni I haven't listened to Novella in years. I'll break it out and clean it after work this evening
I've been cleaning LPs with steam "What a diff."..........Bill

jimdgoulding · « **Reply #1702 on:** 4 Apr 2011, 12:07 pm »

I've got the one on Sire. Will play it this week. It's been a good while.

pumpkinman · « **Reply #1703 on:** 4 Apr 2011, 09:38 pm »

Renaissance ~ Novella

Sire LP

Sire LP

orthobiz · « **Reply #1704 on:** 5 Apr 2011, 07:46 pm »

Quote from: pumpkinman on 4 Apr 2011, 09:38 pm

Renaissance ~ Novella

Awright, you got me. I ain't got it! Everybody's listening but me!

Paul

pumpkinman · « **Reply #1705 on:** 5 Apr 2011, 08:23 pm »

Quote from: orthobiz on 5 Apr 2011, 07:46 pm

Awright, you got me. I ain't got it! Everybody's listening but me!

Paul

Paul I didn't remember having 2 diff. copies. I'll tell you the upper pic . that LP has horrible sound........Bill

orthobiz · « **Reply #1706 on:** 6 Apr 2011, 12:18 am »

Quote from: pumpkinman on 5 Apr 2011, 08:23 pm

Paul I didn't remember having 2 diff. copies. I'll tell you the upper pic . that LP has horrible sound........Bill

I feel better now, thanks. I'm listening to that second copy of Graham Parker Heat Treatment. Man I love that early Parker stuff. Got it at the Cleveland store run by the guy playing the super bad/hard Italian punk stuff. He says to me, you know the best part about Graham Parker. To which I just shrug my shoulders cause I can't imagine that he would know GP at all. The answer: Graham toured with Thin Lizzy!

God I love this hobby.

BTW this record was unlistenable, crackling to the max with dirt and grime. Endozime followed by a water rinse on the VAC machine has made it a sonic
pleasure!

Paul

Toni Rambold · « **Reply #1707 on:** 6 Apr 2011, 11:03 am »

Klaatu
Capitol Records/EMI Electrola 1C 064-85134

... reviewed by HP, TAS 10, page 251

Dr. John: Anutha Zone
EMI Parlophone 95490

Toni Rambold · « **Reply #1708 on:** 6 Apr 2011, 01:32 pm »

LA4: Live at Montreux - Summer 1979
Concord Jazz CJ-100

Borodin: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3/Prince Igor Overture
Ansermet, L' Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Speakers Corner/London Records CS 6126

etcarroll · « **Reply #1709 on:** 7 Apr 2011, 12:24 am »

Pachelbel Canon, Albinoni Adagio & Other Baroque Melodies
Tomaso Albinoni (Composer), Johann Pachelbel (Composer), format: vinyl

jimdgoulding · « **Reply #1710 on:** 7 Apr 2011, 06:43 am »

A couple of DTD 45 rpm's on Crystal Clear Records . . Charlie Byrd, and San Francisco Ltd. Different from one another and Terry Garthwaite on the latter is a way special interpreter of the songs and singer. Love the lady. Fine sound. The Byrd has startling dynamic life. Both are very clear.

Toni Rambold · « **Reply #1711 on:** 7 Apr 2011, 08:28 pm »

... funny opinions in the Vinyl Asylum :

Muddy Waters: Folk Singer
Chess Records CH-9261

... recommended by Mikey: TAS 73, page 154

pumpkinman · « **Reply #1712 on:** 8 Apr 2011, 02:12 am »

Radiohead ~ The King Of Limbs

etcarroll · « **Reply #1713 on:** 8 Apr 2011, 10:24 pm »

Again, while I test WyWires.

Quote from: etcarroll on 11 Mar 2011, 03:12 am

Hejira
Joni Mitchell | Format: Vinyl

pumpkinman · « **Reply #1714 on:** 9 Apr 2011, 01:17 am »

orthobiz · « **Reply #1715 on:** 9 Apr 2011, 02:16 am »

PFM
The Chocolate Kings

White label promo.

Paul

pumpkinman · « **Reply #1716 on:** 9 Apr 2011, 03:04 am »

Quote from: orthobiz on 9 Apr 2011, 02:16 am

PFM
The Chocolate Kings

White label promo.

Paul

Now you have me at a disadvantage. Who or what is this ??

jimdgoulding · « **Reply #1717 on:** 9 Apr 2011, 08:00 am »

Quote from: pumpkinman on 4 Apr 2011, 09:38 pm

Renaissance ~ Novella

Sire LP

Sire LP

Wow. First up, must tell you that I hadn't listened to this in 30 years. Very impressed with the bandmates' composing and performance, the arrangements and production, and the sound. I don't remember hearing anything quite like it. The name of the group is very telling in a 60's and 70's kind of way. That's a good thing. Thanks for pulling my coat. Ya'll be cool.

Btw, I have the original release.

vinyl_lady · « **Reply #1718 on:** 9 Apr 2011, 03:43 pm »

R.E.M. - Automatic for the People

Factory sealed German pressing found on Discogs. I love the last three songs on side 2, Man on the Moon; Nightswimming; and Find a River. IMO, the last two are two of the most beautiful songs R.E.M. has ever written.

XTC - Skylarking

A recent find at Som Records in Washington DC

Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

orthobiz · « **Reply #1719 on:** 9 Apr 2011, 04:16 pm »

Quote from: pumpkinman on 9 Apr 2011, 03:04 am

PFM
Now you have me at a disadvantage. Who or what is this ??

Actually, I stumped myself!

PFM is a group I am unfamiliar with myself. Stands for Premiata Forneria Marconi, an Italian bakery or something from their homeland of...ITALY! Anyway, according to allmusic, Greg Lake heard them and they got a contract with an American label. A while back I enquired on stevehoffman.tv about which album to start with: common answers were Per un Amico and The World Became The World. But I was out and about and picked this minty white label jobby in Wilmington, NC last year and finally got around to playing it.

It has really good sound, the music is like ELP, maybe a little less easy to follow where the "song" actually is, if you know what I mean. They do have violin AND keyboards. Unlike Gentle Giant, where I was intrigued and stricken by the sonic beauty/weirdness, this one hasn't hit me on the head yet. Like, 1. how did I miss this back in the day and 2. thank goodness I found it now!

Meanwhile, I found this:
http://www.italianprogrock.com/top100.php?h=4
and while PFM is listed as Number 3 and 38 with a different albums, Chocolate Kings didn't make the list!

I suspect Wayner would really like them, they remind me a bit of Camel.

Paul