One of the three a-bit-pompous-good mid-period Pink Floyd albums (Dark Side, Wish You Were Here, and this) that are, I think, their creative peak (with WYWH being the best).
Still has Waters' self-pitying, high-school senior concepts, but they hadn't yet gotten ridiculous (hi, the Wall)…and the band is playing great, and collaboratively.
Has some of Gilmour's best work, too…
(My original copy from long, long ago, still perfect.)
Just realized that Portishead's last album, Third, came out 11 years after their eponymous 2nd album…and it's been 15 years since Third.
I mean, I guess it's been 10 years since we were going to get “a few EPs" from My Bloody Valentine any day now, so maybe time has just slowed down. :-)
As promised - the great recorded turntable sound-off!
So, I did more than I said I would. There's a shock.
Here are nine distinct recorded samples of a single track from The Great Jazz Trio, played on various combinations of turntables, cartridges and preamps. One is uncompressed, the rest are all “iTunes Plus" high-bitrate AAC.
They are, unfortunately, not volume normalized: I didn't want to scale digitally. You can adjust volume at will.
TFW five years after you reported a permissions bug, with no interaction in the intervening years, you get asked for a Sysdiagnose and find out that the reported bug is actually fixed in Sonoma…(it wasn't in Ventura).
The album where Yes became "Yes”, the missing piece being Steve Howe on guitar. And unlike a lot of "prog" albums, these songs are not crammed with too many ideas - just a lot of great playing.
What makes it work, too, is…Tony Kaye. I know Wakeman has his fans, but Kaye is a member of the group who isn't constantly drawing attention to himself. He solos when he should, and plays with, and not against, the group otherwise.
An album I've been avoiding for a long time, no doubt due to the shallow biases of a callow youth: the last thing I wanted to listen to was the strumming of a Chicago-based folk artist singing Appalachian/Nashville flavored songs.
Yeah, well, in time one matures somewhat.
Analog Productions pressing of the Atlantic 75th anniversary series: another gem.
only if that phone call came from an actual amazon email address sent from an actual amazon server showing in the actual amazon message center in your actual amazon account, yes, exactly the same and as legitimate
It's been a lot of years since The Concept, but Teenage Fanclub is still putting out beautifully crafted, glimmering pop gems. They may not last "forever", but it's been a good, long, consistently enjoyable time.
When he was diagnosed with lymphoma last year (and wobbler's earlier in the year), I wasn't sure he'd make it to this one...but the cancer is still in remission. It looks like we'll be on the "good" side of the bell curve.
While his wobbler's has continued its slow progress, PT (both land and swim), walks, and assistance when needed have kept him happy and active.
To go further - Sour was a good record, and this is a great one.
Although I’m not sure how someone who "sold me for parts" is a vampire within the context of that particular metaphor…given how strong the lyrics are in general, though, I'll give her a pass. :-)
Since I was playing Mark Lanegan yesterday, and he was briefly in QotSA, might as well catch up with their most recent...
This is clearly a QotSA album, but while it's got that going on, it's a little...dour? Drums are buried, lyrics are bitter...well, it's still solid, but boy, I hope things are looking up for Josh Homme.
@dnanian after listening to ITNR, I went back to Songs for the Deaf, a masterpeace. ITNR seems like not much has happened in 10 years, for a band that made a slightly different album every time so far.