What is a favorite recording that you listen to when no one is around?

zybar · « **on:** 26 Oct 2006, 03:42 pm »

They asked this question to many of the vendors at RMAF and posted the results in an article over at 6Moons:

http://www.6moons.com/industryfeatures/denver06/stephaen.html

What would your choices be?

George

thorman · « **Reply #1 on:** 26 Oct 2006, 04:10 pm »

Have to go with Tierney Suttons' - "Something Cool" or any album she does." I'm with the band " is also a great album. She just seems to have the ability to sound natural and effortless and always pristine recordings ...

AB · « **Reply #2 on:** 26 Oct 2006, 04:20 pm »

Scissor Sisters "I Don't Feel Like Dancing"

I highly recommend it.

PSP · « **Reply #3 on:** 26 Oct 2006, 04:37 pm »

Patricia Barber's "Cafe Blue", SACD version

Jennifer Warnes "The Well"

Felix Hell http://www.referencerecordings.com/choraleorgan.asp#Felix

Osmo Vanska, Beethoven's 4th Symphony: http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Drilldown?name_id1=858&name_role1=1&name_id2=56145&name_role2=3&bcorder=31&comp_id=3820

All of these offer a "sit up and listen" musical experience and, IMO, extraordinary sonics.

Have fun! / Peter

launche · « **Reply #4 on:** 26 Oct 2006, 04:52 pm »

Well I looked over that list and all respectable stuff.
Where's there really embarrassing, wouldn't have guessed that stuff. There's people are holding back.

So nobody else puts on a Britney Spears song?
I admit it I like "Slave 4 U" I like that beat.

Good mention of Coltrane's "Sunship" by Art Audio.
It's one of my favorite recordings, that's one album that really registers with me on an emotional level. That was one of the first jazz recordings that came across to me as an "event" Maybe the only jazz recording to bring me to tears. You either connect with it or you don't, it's that definitive I think. It's been 10 years for me with that recording and I'm still maturing into it. Coltrane just has a way of making most other music seem contrived and impure. The man absolutely fools me into thinking that "everything" is being created "right now." An artist and music of Epic proportions IMO.

R_burke · « **Reply #5 on:** 26 Oct 2006, 05:08 pm »

I play Emerson Lake and Palmer's first REALLY LOUD, not sure if this is embarrassing or not, guess it depends upon whether or not you like the music

Zero · « **Reply #6 on:** 26 Oct 2006, 05:10 pm »

I recently heard and actually liked.... a.... Paris Hilton song.. "Turn it Up"

*runs in shame*

nathanm · « **Reply #7 on:** 26 Oct 2006, 05:15 pm »

Sounds like a misleading question. To me it suggests "What's your guilty pleasure?" but the responses (on the linked photos) are not that for the most part.

My answer is: everything I own I listen to when no one's around!

95bcwh · « **Reply #8 on:** 26 Oct 2006, 05:16 pm »

Enigma's 3rd album

From Track#6: Shadows In Silence - all the way till the end.. awesome..

gooberdude · « **Reply #9 on:** 26 Oct 2006, 05:16 pm »

Balanced Power Technologies (BPT) sends out a demo disc with every purchase...probably the best recorded material I've ever heard. Its stuff I'd never listen to for enjoyment, but its a killer system test.

The last track is 10 minutes of HUGE japanese drums + there are 2 great chick tracks:

Georgia On My Mind by a great female vocalist and
Somewhere Over the Rainbow by a guy with a deep, deep voice.

The CD label states the material was compiled on a modded Alesis Masterlink.

gotta get me one of those...

When its just me, i throw down Hip Hop. Mos Def's latest, The New Danger,
seems to be recorded quite well.

zapper7 · « **Reply #10 on:** 26 Oct 2006, 05:29 pm »

BUCK CHERRY CRAZY BITCH

A little to much for the wife and kids.

Rob Babcock · « **Reply #11 on:** 27 Oct 2006, 06:15 am »

I also have to say 99.9% of my listening is with no one around since I live alone. But my extensive collection of 80's metal is mostly kept "on the down low" when company comes over.

PhilNYC · « **Reply #12 on:** 27 Oct 2006, 12:32 pm »

Quote from: launche on 26 Oct 2006, 04:52 pm

So nobody else puts on a Britney Spears song?
I admit it I like "Slave 4 U" I like that beat.

Whoa, pretty darn embarrassing!

My wife recently picked up a Britney Spears CD at a yard sale, and she asked me to rip it to make it available on my Squeezebox. So I did, and I played it...and Britney's voice sounds even worse on a high end system than it does on a car radio.

My "embarrassing" CD is Christina Aguilera's "Stripped"...

There aren't any CDs that I think "hey, I'm alone, I'm going to listen to this CD!"...I'm more likely to listen to something that I've never heard before in those instances. But in terms of favorite CDs that aren't really sonic marvels, I think of:

-Weather Report's "Black Market"
-Jeff Beck's "Wired" and "There and Back"
-Oscar Peterson's "Live!" (The Bach Suites)
-The Clash's "London Calling"
-The Police (their first 3 albums)
-The Beatles (pretty much anything, but Let It Be, Abbey Road, and Sgt. Peppers are the favs)
-Sonny Rollins' "Saxophone Collosus"

Soundbitten · « **Reply #13 on:** 27 Oct 2006, 12:44 pm »

I'll have to say metal too and also add in abrasive 70's punk .

Some others:

Skip Spence - Oar
Various Artists - 20 years Of Dischord Box Set ( 80's Hardcore )
Various Artists - 25 All-Time Greatest Bubblegum Hits: The Ultimate Bubblegum Collection
Various Artists - Black Box Of Jazz

Rob Babcock · « **Reply #14 on:** 1 Nov 2006, 10:11 pm »

At least Christina Aguilera has a good voice. Don't get me wrong, her music is pretty bad- but the girl can really sing.

nathanm · « **Reply #15 on:** 1 Nov 2006, 10:26 pm »

When no one's around...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZdNDw3hX330

ted_b · « **Reply #16 on:** 1 Nov 2006, 10:45 pm »

Radiohead Amnesiac....loud

launche · « **Reply #17 on:** 1 Nov 2006, 11:25 pm »

Quote from: PhilNYC on 27 Oct 2006, 12:32 pm

Quote from: launche on 26 Oct 2006, 04:52 pm
So nobody else puts on a Britney Spears song?
I admit it I like "Slave 4 U" I like that beat.

Whoa, pretty darn embarrassing!

Hey, I know t ain't pretty but I do like that beat and actually her singing or breathing on that song is not that bad.

I also like that Celine Dion "A New Day Has Come" song, when we went to Vegas , my wife got tickets to her stage show. you should have seen how mad I was when after sitting through that 2 hr show and she didn't even perform my song.

I also like some Kyle Minogue stuff, again good beats and good pop/dance arrangements.

Most of my listen when no one's around stuff is the female pop artists. Now I really like Bjork, Tori Amos and Fiona Apple and I'll play that stuff proudly. BTW, that Fiona Apple is about as talented a songwriter as I've ever heard. Spend some time with "Tidal" and you will see this young girl has got a gift...very underrated IMO.
And while I'm on the subject, every teenage girl should own a copy of Tori Amos' Little Earthquakes...it should be included in her rites of passage with other needed media.

That Radiohead stuff is pretty interesting, it was alot more than I expected. The complexity of some of the arrangements really stood out from the rock norm.

rockadanny · « **Reply #18 on:** 1 Nov 2006, 11:57 pm »

Nina Simone's "Anthology", strictly these cuts (in order): "I Loves You, Porgy", "Ne Me Quitte Pas", "Strange Fruit", and, "Who Knows Where the Time Goes". Why these? Because by the end I'm bawling like a baby with a killer diaper rash sitting on a hill of fire ants! Has there ever been a singer who better coveys sadness than she? I almost squeezed out a tear just thinking about those cuts. I think I need help.

AB · « **Reply #19 on:** 2 Nov 2006, 12:23 am »

I got you all beat...

Joanna Newsom.

This is a contest, right?