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What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report

I enjoy vinyl and digital (lately, with recent changes, vinyl actually sounds better than digital to me), BUT given what seems an overall preference for analog/vinyl on A'gon, I'm curious what the non-vinyl "1/2" is listening to. I tried to see if this was a previously posted question. Did not seem so.

This evening for me, it's Genesis (definitive edition remaster) "A Trick of the Tail".

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nutty
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artemus_5  -

Big fan of Crack The Sky. Their self titled, White Noise and Safety in Numbers are all great CD's. 

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bdp24
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I don't recall if I have previously mentioned this album (note: "album" is not synonymous "LP". An album may be on either, as well as tape), but if so it bears repeating:

"The Notorious Cherry Bombs" by the group of the same name. A supergroup comprised of Rodney Crowell, Vince Gill, Tony Brown, Richard Bennett, Hank DeVito, and Eddie Bayers. Great songs, singing, musicianship, and production. A really, really good album.

reubent
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@nutty  - I'm a big Crack the Sky fan too. Interesting story - Crack the Sky is not from Baltimore as many people believe. They were from Weirton, WV, a small steel town near Pittsburgh. Due to a record distribution problem, their first album was only readily available in Baltimore, so they built up a big fan base there, and many rockers in that city claim Crack the Sky as their own.

My college roommate was from Weirton, WV and was a big fan of his local band. We played a lot of Crack the Sky in College......
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uberwaltz
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Another big Crack the Sky fan, thanks to Reubent tbh.

However even I can’t stretch to imagine them as the Beatles on steroids, sorry but just no...lol
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artemus_5
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I have most all their earlier albums but  I’m not sure I realized how good Crack The Sky is until their "Live Sky" album. The musicianship is phenomenal. On one song they flow in and out of different melodies & time changes so smoothly as to make you wonder how they accomplished that. They just make it flow which takes tremendous talent to weave different fabrics and make it sound great.
It may be "Live Sky" which makes me see their similarities to the Beatles. Their harmonies are spot on when the play "The Walrus" on the live Sky album. And their repertoire is so varied as to emulate the Beatles who were also had an extensive library of songs .

BTW, I didn’t come up the Beatles on Steroids but once I heard it I thought it fit better than any other description.
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