What Are You Listening To - The Reckoning

[Futtocks]

I managed to pick up a mint copy of Nutbush City Limits the other day for £1:50 from my favourite 2nd hand shop, really enjoying it and have just picked up a copy of Sweet Rhode Island Red too. Even though they are both studio albums they have a live feel to them. We all know the history of what went on between Ike and Tina but the chemistry between them on there records was amazing.

An amazing live act, too. I have had an LP of theirs for years called Nice'n'Rough, which mixes their own songs with covers and the raw energy is amazing.

[Futtocks]

Just arrived - the new Mobile Fidelity pressing of The Band's second album. If they've done as good a job as they did with 'Music from Big Pink', I'll be very pleased.

 

Wow. Just wow. I played this against a perfectly decent clean pressing based on the original release mix, as botched by the record label. Compared to this new one based on The Band's original intentions, it sounds gutless and distant.

Just like Mobile Fidelity's pressing of 'Big Pink', this is the only version anyone should ever need to own.

[808tone]

[Futtocks]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z1vZI5dAwM

[Futtocks]

[westhuller]

I've won a £50 iTunes voucher from Cyrus Audio on Twitter downloaded Steve Earle and the Dukes and Duchesses The Low Highway, excellent going have to buy it on vinyl.

[terrywebbisgod]

Asadoya Yunta-Traditional Okinawan folk song.

[Wolford6]

Just watched the results show from Strictly Come Dancing. Some quasi classical boy band did an overblown  turgid version of Bob Dylan's Forever Young.

 

So I've dug out the "genuinely classic"  version by Joan Baez.

 

 

[hunslet ramone]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQWobv8swkg&feature=kp

 

Street Dogs - Punk Rock n Roll. Just the mutts, I effing love this band.

Great stuff Johnoco, have to go see this band if they come to England.

[hunslet ramone]

Will do Johnoco, usually I'm on the ball with my punk gigs.

[longboard]

A classic for the fruit lover:-

 

http://www.last.fm/music/The+Sultans/_/Lemon+Squeezing+Daddy

[westhuller]

Tenpole Tudor - Throwing My Baby Out With The Bathwater

[Futtocks]

Frank Zappa and band perform 'Inca Roads' with part of it animated by the demented plasticene creations of Bruce Bickford.

 

[l'angelo mysterioso]

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=gene+vincent+race+with+the+devil&qpvt=gene+vincent+race+with+the+devil&FORM=VDRE#view=detail&mid=EF835A9B6734D2E25D84EF835A9B6734D2E25D84

 

 

saw Bill Wyman's Rhthm Kings play it last night: escellent evening in a packed Grand Theatre

 

Vincent was an important part of my music education.

[Ullman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9RKQ8hvs_o

[Futtocks]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4QY0POLC8g

[Futtocks]

Doing some hi-res vinyl rips over the weekend, in between the World Cup action, including this:

 

[westhuller]

Just ordered a 45rpm copy of The Magic Numbers first LP, it is a double vinyl release with only three tracks on each side, apparently the sound reproduction is better at 45 rpm than 331/3. I'm looking forward to hearing the results but not having to get up every 10 mins to change sides.

[Chairman M]

The Stranglers - Suite XVI

[Chairman M]

Have they played their 40th Anniversary shows? I know it was in the offing but not sure if they have gone

Not yet mate. It starts at the end of Feb. Have booked my tickets for Rock City.

[Futtocks]

Just ordered a 45rpm copy of The Magic Numbers first LP, it is a double vinyl release with only three tracks on each side, apparently the sound reproduction is better at 45 rpm than 331/3. I'm looking forward to hearing the results but not having to get up every 10 mins to change sides.

I borrowed (and sneakily recorded) the 45rpm release of Simon & Garfunkel's 'Bridge over troubled Water'. Let me just say WOW!

 

The record goes faster, so your cartridge is picking up more information per second, and the increased movement makes it output more signal, so a really dynamic recording will knock your socks off. You may, depending on various factors, get a little more background noise, but it's not a big deal.

[Futtocks]

Interactive video released of Bob Dylan's 'Like a rolling Stone'. Wow! That must have taken one hell of a lot of work!

[westhuller]

Natalie Merchant on BBC Radio 4 Mastertapes tonight talking and performing her debut solo album Tigerlily

[Futtocks]

Sunday's trip to the record shop turned up the following LPs:

• Leon Russell - Will o' the Wisp
• Mandrill - We are one
• Tackhead - Friendly as a Hand Grenade
• Tangerine Dream - Hyperborea
• Tonto's Expanding Head Band - Zero Time

[Bigal02]

The Joan Baez cover of Dylan's  "Forever Young" is the one for me.  I first heard it on the TV show, "The Wonder Years" and was blown away. I used it as a backing to a photo slide-show of a birthday, and almost everyone who sees it asks who's singing.