Whats on your turntable tonight?

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.

Janet Baker:
"A Treasury of English Songs" truly magical inspite of being a EMI "Angel"!

Kings College Cambridge:
Purcell "Funeral Music for Queen Mary" (EMI)
Allegri "Misereri", Palestrina "Stabat Mater" (Argo)
both of these LPs are old staples for me.

Corydon Singers:
Howells "Requiem
Vaughn Willams "Mass in G minor"
Bruckner Motets
This group has several LPs on Hyperion and are all amazing

all of these LPs are original 1960s and 1970s pressings

all played in reverse phase,,,a recent discovery that is making many of my records (mostly British) sound like a different (and correct) recordings.
,,,,,give it a try