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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Rushton, got both of those Arm&Ell recordings and they are truly energizing. Shows you just how good recording, equipment, technique, musicianship was. Makes one wonder what has happened since then. I guess one could also include Classic's dedication to restoration of music history.

Tonight it's Supertramp Paris. I found this original copy for $5.95 today at my favorite used store. Cleaned it up and it's a trip back 25 years. I'm convinced there was nothing wrong with tape and vinyl. It wasn't broke, so why did they "fix" it?
The new Beck record sounds amazing and it is still growing on me. It’s simply one big party symphony that’s full of surprises and refers to his musical influences, you will hear them. Total 180 in sentiment and energy level from the sublime Morning Phase. Beck keeps on reinventing himself, a good thing. If you like bass this is a great piece.
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
Dinosaur Jr. - Where You Been?
Roger Waters - Radio KAOS
E.L.P - Works Vol. II
Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs
The Damned - Anything
Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans
Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
UK - UK and Danger Money
Count Basie - Chairman of the Board
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (red vinyl!)
I have an original first press EMI UK import on Harvest that I bought as a teenager in Cambridge, MA. Sounds good too.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Tarkus - ELP
Emerson, Lake & Powell
Manoeuvres - Greg Lake
Radio Kaos - Roger Waters


Thin White Rope - The Ruby Sea
The The - Mind Bomb
The The - Infected
XTC - (1st album, British pressing)
Yes - Fragile (German pressing)
Saint Saens - 3rd Symphony (Chicago/Barenboim/DG)

slaw: I was just playing that a couple of days ago from an original Dunhill pressing!!!
Clash - Sandinista (all six sides of first pressing vinyl)
Damned - Grave Disorder
Thanks uberwaltz! For some reason, these all seemed to flow together somehow last night. I should also have added a recent copy I found of Mark Isham's Castalia.
Triumvirat - Spartacus
Roxy Music - Country Life
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Change (EP)
The Future Sound of London - My Kingdom (EP)
Rachmaninoff - Isle Of The Dead/Symphonic Dances, Previn, LSO (Angel)
King Crimson -Three Of A Perfect Pair
Thanks slaw! I think I’ve posted a few times earlier. Great thread for hunting and seeking new vinyl possibilities. Dare I say, an eclectic assortment of music and interests? A good thing!
Hunky Dory - David Bowie
Tommy - The Who
The Photographer - Philip Glass
The Great Destroyer - Low
Bruce Cockburn - Dancing In The Dragon's Jaws, Big Circumstance and In The Falling Dark
@ uberwaltz:  I totally agree that Gretchen Goes To Nebraska is King's X' finest album and just wish they would remaster it to bring up the bass a bit more and lower the compression. 
Mothers of Invention - Freak Out (I just found this mint original first pressing from June 1966 at a shop in Portland, OR, sounds amazing!)
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced? (my original copy I got for Christmas 1970, still plays great)
The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette
The Pretenders
The Pretenders II
Echo And The Bunnymen - Porcupine
Robert Plant - The Principle Of Moments
Enya - Watermark
Clannad - Anam
Sugarcubes - Life Is Good


Uberwaltz - Saga and Strawbs, great bands!
Slaw - Gonna pull out and play some Low vinyl tomorrow!
Sadly, the last true Floyd album was Animals, and even then the cracks were beginning to appear in the edifice, so, make that Wish You Were Here then. Released around September 1975, some 8 short years after Piper.
I'll fall off my chair if anyone also has these that I played earlier today:

Subhumans - From The Cradle To The Grave
Luke Slater - Freek Funk
Plaid - Double Figure

Phil Western - LongForm (RIP Phil, died Feb 9)
Interpol - Marauder
Ultravox - Quartet

Sarah Vaughan - Sassy (1962 reissue of the 1956 recording on Mercury)
Squarepusher - Go Plastic
Pete Townshend - White City: A Novel
Red Lorry, Yellow Lorry - Nothing Wrong
Red Lorry, Yellow Lorry - Blow
plus a bunch of their 45 rpm, 12 inch singles/EP UK imports I've collected over the years.

@n80: I hear ya. I just wish they hadn't compressed the crap out of it; for shame Geoff Emerick! And, aren't Wings really just Paul solo albums in disguise?  My favorite Paul album is still Ram, and I just wish that he had extended the first section of Uncle Albert and done away with that stupid Admiral Halsey section, to me it's always been goofy, Yellow Submarine stuff, and ruined an otherwise perfectly good song. I mean, "butterpie?"

Also, Another Day was a good single.
I will say everyone here has superb musical tastes, at least based on my preferences.

Any Guided By Voices fans?

GBV - How Do You Spell Heaven
GBV - Bee Thousand
GBV - August By Cake
El Ten Eleven - El Ten Eleven
Sisters Of Mercy - This Corrosion EP