Album(s) That Took The Longest To Come Around To

@simao  +1 on that!  If I had a TT, I know that I would have a few Patricia Barber LPs.  

Ten Song Demo is incredible, so amazingly great.

@rpeluso  , I find it hard to understand why that didn't hit me when I bought it almost 30 years ago!  I guess I was in another life-mode back then, and if a CD or song did not have a real catchy obvious grab-line, I put it (the CD) out of sight and then it was out of mind.  I am way happy I rediscovered it a few days ago.  There is a palpable quality to her voice on that one that is not there on all red books OR SACDs.  Maybe it's because of these new speakers that I am auditioning/breaking in . . . but if it is, it isn't happening on all my old red books I am trying to rediscover.

. . . here's another one I bought back in the late 90s that I just played today and really enjoyed, although I probably hadn't played it but a half dozen times (if that many):

Dave's True Story, the Sex Without Bodies CD (a Chesky aluminum disc, 1998).  Kelly Flint's vocals almost have that same palpable quality that I was raving about above on Rosanne Cash's Ten Song Demo CD, and I like much of the quality of the instrumental work around her.  I particularly enjoy their cover of Lou reed's Walk On The Wild Side. 

I am going to add Van Morrison/Blowin Your Mind.  I remember hearing Brown Eyed Girl frequently on AM radio stations when I was growing up in Montana and I thought it was a catchy tune but I never thought much else about it.  Then in '91 when I had a rack system I ordered that CD from the record club I had joined, but back then everything was background music and I never sat and seriously listened to anything.  I had also gained a passing familiarity and interest in Van Morrison via The Last waltz (video) and the Rodger Watters remake of The Wall/Berlin (video).  Then a few years ago (so I'll say '18 or '19) on an impulse I ordered a used (Sony red book) SBM remaster of it and I discovered that not only were there some good tunes the SQ of that particular remaster is fantastic!  And I am generally not thrilled with all of the other SBM remasters I own.

So with that typed, I am adding Van Morrison/Blowin' Your Mind to my list.

Back in the early or mid '90s I heard a Richard Thompson song on the public radio station I used to listen to, so i went to the CD store and bought Richard And Linda Thompson/Shoot Out The Lights (1982, I think).  I remember listening to it a few times back then, but it was never really grabbing me.  I made it to hour 96 plus on my speaker audition/break in journey, and Shoot Out The Lights was the second CD I listened to.  It sounded very good (actually better than the two Linda Ronstadt CDs that I finished with) and it is a CD that I now appreciate and should be listening to some more.

I had always seen “Shoot Out The Lights” on many greatest albums lists. Got it a couple of years ago at Goodwill for a buck, but I don’t think I’ve given it a proper listen. I’ll do that very soon.