Whats on your turntable tonight?

Just changed the room and am listening to:

Queen "A kind of Magic"

Kings College Cambridge "O come all ye faithful" Christmas compilation (digital master but sometimes incredible)

Joni Mitchell "Song to a Seagull"

Moody Blues " Days of future Passed"

I am liking the room setup too.

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SRC - S/T (Capitol '68)
SRC - Milestones (Capitol '69)
Jamme - S/T (Dunhill/Warlok '69)
Fotomaker - S/T (Atlantic '78)
George Shearing and the Montgomery Brothers - S/T (Jazzland '61)
Marco Rizo - The Bossa Nova Sounds Of Marco Rizo (Somerset)
Marian McPartland - Bossa Nova + Soul (Time)

hank marvin-guitar syndcate...frut-keep on truckin'

Last week I was at the local record store and browsing though the "newly arrived" used records and something made me check out a particularly bad looking Dark Side Of the Moon.

I think it was the fact that they were asking $30 bucks for an album that had a terrible cover, I thought it was a mistake, but it wasn't.

When I took the record out, I realized it was first pressing from 1973, and even though it was dusty, it looked amost new. I played it on in the store, and it sounded fine, but I knew I wouldn't really to be able to tell if it was noisy or not until I got home, cleaned it Walker/VPI 16.5, and it's just sublime. Much less noisy than any of the 3 "new" copies I have tried this year.

It does sound different from the new pressings, it's more open and extended, not at warm. Not better or worse, just different.

What a find.

Kaleidoscope - "Tangerine Dream" (Fontana UK '67/ Repertoire UK '05)
Kaleidoscope - "Faintly Blowing" (Fontana UK '69/Repertoire UK '05)
Fairfield Parlour - "From Home To Home" (Vertigo UK '70/Repertoire UK '04)
Kaleidoscope - "The Sidekicks Sessions 1964-1967" (Alchemy '03)

...All the same British band, evolving from garagey Beat/R&B as The Sidekicks and Moddish foppery as The Key (both represented on poor-sounding rediscovered demo acetates only), to electric + folky-baroque lite psych as Kaleidoscope, to mildly proggy classic AOR as Fairfield Parlour, with consice melodic pop and fanciful poetic/introspective lyrical sensibilities at their core.