What are you listening to right now?

puchongvinyl wrote:

elhefe wrote:

Finally....I managed to get this LP and listening to Whiskey in The Jar and Tuesday's Gone...

Fooking excellent isn't it. Actually some of me fave metallica tunes are the covers. Got this on CD. Just need to go pick up me vinyl copy from vendor.

Was blasting the recently acquired 45-rpm versions of Kill Em All & Ride the Lightning just now . . . alongside 12" of One & Harvester of Sorrow (which has Breadfan on flipside).

No if only Metallica can rediscover the mojo that made em great in the first place . . .

Yes...Metallica covers are really good...



How are you enjoying the 45 RPMs??? I have Ride the Lightning and Masters of Puppets..truth be told.. I dont like the sound specifically for Metallica.. The 45 RPMs pressing for Metallica seems lack of energy to my ears...

The 45 RPMs of Garage Inc was only RM20 more than the 33s....But I still did not want to get the 45 RPMs.

elhefe wrote:[
How are you enjoying the 45 RPMs??? I have Ride the Lightning and Masters of Puppets..truth be told.. I dont like the sound specifically for Metallica.. The 45 RPMs pressing for Metallica seems lack of energy to my ears...

The 45 RPMs of Garage Inc was only RM20 more than the 33s....But I still did not want to get the 45 RPMs.

Funny ye should mention that.

Was listening to Ride which is wifey's fave LP & we bought were a little underwhelemed by the muddled sound quality.

Kill Em All was better though. Cliff's bass & the drums were more well defined.

But I is not overly concerned as me still has me ori 33rpm Megaforce pressings as back up.

Waiting fer 45rpm Master as well.

If the don't stack up, just put up em fer sale here or just swap later on.

In car this morning: Death Magnetic

I am glad that I am not the only one who feels that the 45 RPM Metallica is not all 'that'. The RC guy was shocked when I told him that I didnt like the 45 RPM version.

Yes...I might do that...sell the 45 RPMs and get the 33s for Ride and Puppets..

I have the newly pressed 33rpm Master (me old copy was pretty worn out, so traded it in). Waiting fer the 45rpm to arrive.

Will compare & contrast & let ye knows.

Damien Rice - Live from the Union Chapel. Oh Mr Rice, when are we going to be privy to your third album especially with the acrimoneous split from Ms Hannigan that does so ever wonderfully well on this live album?



Angus and Julia Stone - A Book Like This. Their debut and while not as good as the excellent follow up still a pretty decent listen.

Still effing brutal all these years later . . . Bleeeuuuurrrggghhhhhh!!!

LP needs a wipe down though.

Tempted to order the 180gm version if not fer the prohibitive postage costs.

llsaw wrote:Damien Rice - Live from the Union Chapel. Oh Mr Rice, when are we going to be privy to your third album especially with the acrimoneous split from Ms Hannigan that does so ever wonderfully well on this live album?



Angus and Julia Stone - A Book Like This. Their debut and while not as good as the excellent follow up still a pretty decent listen.

Mr LLsaw, that Damien Rice album, vinyl or CD? If vinyl where did u get it from sir?
Thank you so much.

CD via Amazon UK

Lanterns on the Lake - Gracious Tide, Take Me Home. The only thing from Newcastle that interests me apart from Alan Pardew's well assembled Toons. Experimental folk rock or an English Sigur Ros? You decide. Excellent!

llsaw wrote:Lanterns on the Lake - Gracious Tide, Take Me Home. The only thing from Newcastle that interests me apart from Alan Pardew's well assembled Toons. Experimental folk rock or an English Sigur Ros? You decide. Excellent!

Great album, bought the CD several months back and after first spin, ordered the LP too.

Jonsi & Alex - Riceboy Sleeps. Too slow and steady for my liking. Many of the "songs" sound like they are building up to a crescendo only to stop before.. Reminds me of a slower more ambient version of Sigur Ros "()" album



Nitin Sawhney - Prophesy. Not as good as "Beyond Skin" but nevertheless still a very good rojak of hip hop, trip hop, r&b, jazz, world/indian music and even some flamenco.

The vocal of Neil Diamond + strings in the background - relaxing & enjoyable music complimented with good recording.


Good music with excellent recording.

Some 'trophies' scavenged from KLAV 2012.

3 albums from the progressive post-rock movement. All three have Steve Wilson in it

Steve Wilson - Grace for Drowning. Steve is the founding member of Porcupine Tree but this album is quieter than many popular PT efforts especially the first disc. Steve cranks it up on the second especially on "Raider II" which spans more than 20 minutes. Still pretty enjoyable double CD.



Anathema - Weather Systems. Can you believe Anathema started out as a doom metal band? One wouldn't have realised their past listening to this excellent album. Inspiring uplifting melodies about a morbid subject. Produced by Steve Wilson.





Storm Corrosion. Storm Corrosion is a collaborative effort between Mr Wilson and Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth. Acoustical, minimalistic and nearly symphonic vs heavy rock/metal in nature.

Hi Everyone. New around these parts.
These are what I've been playing:


Beak> - Beak>


Animal Joy - Shearwater


Woods 4: The Green Album - Woods Of Ypres


Celebration Rock - Japandroids

Sigur Rós - Inni (2CD + DVD). Live album featuring tracks from all their previous albums prior to the latest - Valtari



Sigur Rós - Valtari. Gets better with every listen though slower and more akin "()" then their last "naked people running around".. sorry "Med Sud | Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust"

Hi llsaw,

I'm Big fans of Sigur ros too,are you going to thier live concert at SG or KL on november?

llsaw wrote:

Anathema - Weather Systems. Can you believe Anathema started out as a doom metal band? One wouldn't have realised their past listening to this excellent album. Inspiring uplifting melodies about a morbid subject. Produced by Steve Wilson.

Maaannn, I have not listened to Anathema sincenI left high school. They were among my daily listening bands alongside Morbid Angel, Carcass and Deicide.

beat wrote:Hi llsaw,

I'm Big fans of Sigur ros too,are you going to thier live concert at SG or KL on november?

Hi Beat,

I am not an avid concert fan hence very rarely do concerts.

elhefe wrote:

llsaw wrote:

Anathema - Weather Systems. Can you believe Anathema started out as a doom metal band? One wouldn't have realised their past listening to this excellent album. Inspiring uplifting melodies about a morbid subject. Produced by Steve Wilson.

Maaannn, I have not listened to Anathema sincenI left high school. They were among my daily listening bands alongside Morbid Angel, Carcass and Deicide.

I believe you will find this "version" of Anathema totally unlike what you were used to in high school

The sometimes forgotten man. David Sylvian - A Victim of Stars 1982 - 2012

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Bob Marley - No woman no cry...

Donna the Buffalo, rockin' in the weary land. Southern style. Zydeco country rock.

Bal

JOHANNES LINSTEAD - album kiss the earth

Just downloaded from iTunes...and listening to:

Sungha Jung & Angus/Julia Stone

JESSE COOK - album tempest

In CD:




In 24/96:

FARID ALI AND ROGER WANG - album No Strings Attached

the best gambus fighting with kapok guitar - track number 6

JAIME VALLE - album ROUND MIDNIGHT

This is my newest cd from ebay... the japanese mini LP remaster. The first 2 tracks are nice, and the rest is a disaster. Shrill enough to cause ear AND nose bleed!! Pity, this is such nice music made for cd by deaf engineers.


Unlike this one... i first listened on casette way back when, and finally got a copy from ebay. Very difficult to find, even Amazon does not have. Brilliant music that even now 19 years after it's release. And the production? Stunning. Excellent recording, i mean it's mastered by Bob LUdwig, what else can i say. Fantastic.

Jason Mraz - You and I (Live at The NorVa on 2008-04-19)

MASAYOSHI TAKANAKA

album - FADE TO BLUE (japanese pressing)

HEAVEN track number 5 (killer songs)...very low deep bass

Giving this a go to fight off the post-lunch drowsiness.

for tonight...

DIANA KRALL

album - the look of love

best female vocalist forever... Cheers

now playing First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar.
and just before, some stoner rock, Monster Magnet - Superjudge.

for tonight i listen...

1- PACO NULA new flamenco guitar
2- GUITAR HITS FOR LONELY EVENINGS
3- the hifi sound of FRANCIS GOYA featuring PETER WEEKERS
4- PETER RATZENBECK - peter's fancy

Henry Mancini: Send in the Clowns



Youtube link...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvNLQFY6V84

Early Saturday morning....630 am to 8 am.... Ebiet G Ade...and M. Nasir on MF M6 CDP (on loan for evaluation and review)...

2 albums in similar genre as Coldplay but better than the abysmal Mylo Xyloto

Snow Patrol - Fallen Empires



Keane - Strangeland

Fabtastic!

The Antlers - Hospice



And the excellent follow up - Bursts Apart

For tonight......

A tad overindulgent methinks especially the second half. Pet Shop Boys - Elysium

listening Aerosmith new album...Music From Another Dimension...They still rock...

elhefe wrote:listening Aerosmith new album...Music From Another Dimension...They still rock...

pagi-pagi sudah layan

gloraglory wrote:

elhefe wrote:listening Aerosmith new album...Music From Another Dimension...They still rock...

pagi-pagi sudah layan

All pumped up for the day....Steve Tyler did a duet with Carrie Underwood...nice...

Found this on e bay... excellent, excellent excellent. rocked the house last night. Ordered their 'live' album.... can't wait for it to arrive!
Bal

And this one... another long lost album of my youth rediscovered on e bay used cd's. Very nice easy listening. Excellent vocals, wonder why they didn't make it big in the industry. One of those one hit album wonders, me thinks.
Bal

For tonight......very good recording cd's

cyrus2 wrote:For tonight......very good recording cd's

I have the Lucky CD....the thing I am interested to know (which I did ask the question in another thread but no feedback received), what does it means when it states on the CD cover that it is of DSD quality? Does it mean it was extracted from SACD?

The sound of the CD does sound amplified though.