the universal japan releases are uniformly excellent. quiet as they come. very pricey, but if you find some of your favorites in this line, its worth it. the steely dan- aja is as close to the original abc as they come.
Great sounding new vinyl
This was suggested by Sonojfim on a previous thread. I wanted to send a petition to the vinyl companies because so many bad sounding new LP's on the market. A more positive way would be for all of us to share a few titles of really good sounding new and reissue LP's with label info if possible...
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Strange how everyone's list (except Jazdoc's) spans the dawn of recorded sound until, oh, around 1987. Recommendations thin out in a hurry thereafter...hey, isn't that around the time digital became the ascendant recording AND playback medium?? Funny how that works... I'll make a modern-era recommendation: M. Ward - his Merge Records releases have been exemplary (sonically and (for me) musically), with special merit to "Transistor Radio". "Post War", and the recent rereleases of "Duet for Guitars #2" and "Transfiguration of Vincent" are also excellent. Although not easy to peg, I like to classify his music as 'contemporary old-timey' - lots of processed guitar sounds, harmonica, theremin, crickets... Clear as a mudpuddle, right?? Good listening, -Richard |
For good vinyl recommendations, don't forget the long lived thread begun by Slipknot1: Whats on your turntable tonight? I'm regularly finding excellent recommendations being posted there. . |
Some recent vinyl that hits high by any measure is: Shearwater: Rook Wilco: Sky Blue Sky Ray Davies: Workingman's Cafe Elvis Costello: Momofuku Gutter Twins: Saturnalia Stephen Malkmus: Real Emotional Trash Alejandro Escovedo: Real Animal Zooey Deschanel/M. Ward: She & Him Levon Helm: Dirt Farmer Plant & Kraus: Raising Sand Radiohead: In Rainbows Mathew Sweet: Sunshine Lies |
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