lutz Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 "Leica Virgin" by M-Adorer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graham_morriss2 Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 In the player at the moment is "music has the right to children" by Boards of Canada and lying close by is "freak out" by Frank Zappa and I was listening to a bit of nightmares on wax in the darkroom last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike dixon Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 No idea what's in the CD player stuck off in a drawer somewhere. Right now, I'm listening to Guy Davis on Folk Alley internet radio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graham_morriss2 Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 Oh and Ian I'm jealous that you've got Horse Rotovator on vinyl! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian_kennedy1 Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 i listen to a ridiculous amount of music. <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/slipdesign">here are my music stats from the past couple of months</a> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben z Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 Haven't had a stereo since college, never could stand to have a radio going in the car or while I was working. I don't have a clue who most of those singers are you guys are talking about. Pretty much the only music I listen to is when I'm on the 'phone on hold. Listened to country music growing up, most everyone in my town did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin_mcdonald1 Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 I'm on a business trip now, but the last thing before I left it was Mravinsky's '60's recording of Tchaicosvky's 4th symphony. On vinyl, vacuum tubes, and horns - of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syuji_honda Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 Dolly Parton "9 to 5". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j.ed_baker Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 The Pogues & Captian Tractor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfimages Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 Matt - Buddha Bar, I'm impressed. I've introduced a lot of people to Buddha Bar over the past couple of years and they all love it. Right now in the CD player is Velvet Revolver - Contraband. In the DVD player is Stevie Ray Vaughan - Live at the El Mocombo And in the minidisc is - Led Zeppelin - BBC Sessions. In one CD drive on my PC is Weezer - Green Album and in the other CD drive is a psychedelic trance compilation by Tsuyoshi Suzuki. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert_Lai Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 I found a new hybrid SACD (Super Audio CD)/ordinary CD reissue of Van Cliburn / Kondrashin's performance of the Tchaikovsky 1st piano concerto from the early 1960s. This cost me a princely $12 at Border's Bookstore this past weekend. The liner notes stated that this was one of the first stereo recordings ever made by RCA. They used a 2 or 3 track tape machine running at 30 tpi. The digital technology basically picked up everything that was on the master tape. Because of the nature of editing in those days (razor blade and glue), the sound engineers bascially didn't edit this performace at all - just took it in as it came. I was expecting a hissy, tinny performance with compressed dynamic range. I bought it really because Van Cliburn is one of the 20th century's best performers.<p>Well, I can't stop listening to this! IT'S FANTASTIC! The S/N ratio is so low that there is no audible tape hiss. The pianissimo sections are so soft that if I turn up the volume to hear it, the fortissimo sections blow out my eardrums. The dynamic range is fully there! The sound is rich and incredible. You hear every nuance out of Van Cliburn's Steinway. Every little detailed expression from the orchestra is there. This is one of the best concerto recordings I've ever heard.<p>There's great balance between the soloist and the symphony. On a lot of these concerto recordings, the soloist dominates the sound all the time, and the orchestra sounds as if they were playing 100 feet away in another room. NOT ON THIS ONE BABY!<p>Finally, as if this wasn't enough, the Tchaikovsky concerto is paired with Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto. This too, is one of the best performances that I've ever heard - and I've heard MANY of these concertos by the world's best both in concert and on recordings. This is a highly recommended mid-priced CD reissue. Don't just take my word for it. I later found out that this is THE recording that is recommended by the NPR Guide to Classical Music for both the Tchikovsky and Rachmaninoff 2nd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olivier_reichenbach Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 JS Bach, JS Bach and JS Bach. And a bit of Thelonious Monk here and there, and Django Reinhardt, Bill Evans, Wes Montgomery. Oh, did I mention JS Bach? And Astor Piazzola. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charles_stobbs3 Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 Photography is my main obsession. For music I turn on the radio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Taylor Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 jeff buckley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olivier_reichenbach Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 Robert, this may render you jealous, but I have attended a live Van Cliburn concert of Tchaikovski's 1st piano concerto in Paris in the late 50s. If I remember well the very young man he was at the time had just won the Tchaikovski Competition in Moscow. I can still see him with his mass of dark curly hair sitting at the piano at the Palais de Chaillot. But I don't have his recording of the concerto, "just" Martha Argerich's. Your post might entice me to go dig for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim_franklin Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 Right now? Amos Milburn. Maybe a bit of Gene Vincent later on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just eric Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 Still the same old song and dance. The Boss live in Cleveland from 78. Definitive Springsteen for the ages. Eric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdanger Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 Hey Matt: The Streets, Massive Attack, Luscious Jackson, and Starving Goliath (a young band I photograph). Mary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spearhead Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 <i>so what are you other leica nuts spinning these days?</i><p> I was going to respond until I realized I don't meet the qualifications... Music and Portraits Blog: Life in Portugal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gary_pinkerton1 Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 Loretta Lynn, The Rolling Stones, Josh Grobin, Dylan, Johnny Cash, Queen, Emmylou Harris, and Brian Wilson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_evans4 Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 It's late here; I've turned all the sounds off. If I wake up normally tomorrow I'll put on Martin Newell's mini-CD "Songs from the Station Hotel" but if I think I need a double shot of aural caffeine I'll put on either one or other of three compilations of raunchy, brassy Japanese pops from the early sixties: Eri Chiemi, the Peanuts, that kind of stuff (from back in the days when recording contracts were awards to voices and musicality rather than dance moves, trim thighs, and the ability to simper winsomely on the boob tube). "Come onna my house!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 _-_-<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmwhee Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 "CD player? What's that?" Look out, Al: battery-dependent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albert_smith Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 I just got the new Crosby, Still and Nash (no Young) greatest hits, and it goes from my living room to my cars and back pretty much each time I go somewhere. I also have two Dire Straits discs in the home stereo CD changer, "Making Movies" and "Love over Gold". When the TV is boring, I hit these two discs back to back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy_aitken Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 OK, let's look in em all: Bedroom = The 3 Ep's by The Beta Band. Portable = Best of the Lafayette Afro Rock Band Livingroom = some horrible 80's new wave compilation (not even a good one) left there by my wife... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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