Whats on your turntable tonight?

Pete Yorn - Plays and Sings The Classics (RSD). Somehow he finds a way to put a new unique spin on diverse cuts that have been recorded many times before and weaves it into a coherent album that would make you think they're all originals that you already know the lyrics to...cool trick! 

@reubent: One problem with the Pet Sounds album is that the multi-track is not a very good recording to begin with; a good pressing can’t cure that, only not make it worse.

Brian had only 4-track machines to work with at that time, and did a lot of "bouncing" (taking a fully-recorded multi-track tape and mixing all four channels down to one, copying that mix onto one track of another 4-track machine and recording on the other three channels, repeating that process until he all the instruments and voices he wanted). All that tape copying results in the instruments and voices being several generations removed from their original recording. As a consequence, the finished tape sounds rather veiled, soft, and lifeless. It’s very hard to hear the piano playing the glorious chord progression of "God Only Knows", one of my favorite Pop compositions of all-time (McCartney’s too).

In December there is a new album from Brian being released---just him sitting at a grand piano, playing solo piano versions of a lot of his best songs, including "God Only Knows". Oughta be great!

Took day off to get some music in. Wish my bored, retired, leaf-obsessed neighbor on the leafblower would shut up. 

Various – Fast Folk Musical Magazine: Volume 4 No. 5/6 - The 6th Anniversary Issue (Fast Folk Musical Magazine 1988)

Awesome collection of US lefty folk songs.

Back atcha @tomic601! Everything’s cool with me; got my booster shot yesterday. My arm’s only a little sore, a small price to pay ;-) .

I also put in all my holiday sale orders for LP’s (mostly) and CD’s (a few). New West Records, Compass Records, Acoustic Sounds, Elusive Disc, MoFi, uDiscovermusic (40% off!), Discogs, Amazon, etc. Not much of interest to me in the upcoming Indi Store Black Friday list.

Every year Music Millennium puts out little coupon books with great offers for the end of November through Christmas: an extra 15 or 20 precent added to trade-ins, 10-20% discount on new and used LP’s and CD’s, etc. I have a shopping list ready, just waiting for the coupon books to be put out.

Judy Collins – Judy Collins #3 (Elektra 1963)