Whats on your turntable tonight?


For me its the first or very early LP's of:
Allman Brothers - "Allman Joys" "Idyllwild South"
Santana - "Santana" 200 g reissue
Emerson Lake and Palmer - "Emerson Lake and Palmer"
and,
Beethoven - "Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major" Rudolph Serkin/Ozawa/BSO
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shhhhh, don't tell anyone, but I've spun a bunch of guilty '80's favs tonight:

Talk Talk - It's My Life

Psychodelic Furs - Mirror Moves

The Producers - You Make the Heat (several times)

INXS - The Swing

It's 1984 all over again!!
A evening with mono...

Duke Ellington - Ellington Uptown - Columbia ML 4639 (Pure Pleasure reissue)

Duke Ellington and Rosemary Clooney - Blue Rose - Columbia CL 872 (Pure Pleasure reissue)

Brahms - Symphony No. 1 - Walter/NYP - Columbia ML 4958

Bartok - Violin Concerto No. 1 (1908) - Dorati/MinnSO, Menuhin, vn - Mercury MG50140
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Heart- Dreamboat Annie. A stellar rock recording with a wide range of songs tempo and style wise (for the rock genre). By far my favorite Heart LP. The opening note of Magic Man lets you know this is a special spin indeed.
Bjork, Selmasongs the soundtrack to the Lars Von Trier movie Dancer in the Dark. I picked the the Little Indian reissue, direct metal mastered on 200g vinyl.

This is one of many titles I picked up this weekend during the Montreal Audio Show. Out of all them this is the biggest surprise. I already owned the CD of this recording but was never impressed by the sound quality. But the vinyl blew me away.

Other picks were:
Keith Jarret - Yesterdays, double LP on ECM. Fabulous and Musical! It was a costly addition to my collection so I had high expectations, and my expectation were easily met.

Blue Rodeo's new album, sounds good but not terribly impressed by the music. There are a few good tracks. I bought for my wife mostly. I prefer Five Days in July.

I also picked up various other used titles on ECM, and some classical titles as well. I'll save my comments on those for future posts!