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« Reply #760 on: February 16, 2023, 12:53:33 PM » |
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Also working my way through the superb Horslips box set.
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« Reply #761 on: February 17, 2023, 12:26:17 PM » |
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Chapman Whitney : Streetwalkers (Reprise LP, 1974).
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« Reply #762 on: February 17, 2023, 12:28:28 PM » |
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Rush - A Farewell to Kings
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« Reply #763 on: February 17, 2023, 02:50:49 PM » |
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Rush - A Farewell to Kings
I love it still.
Alex Lifeson says of recording Xanadu... "On the day we recorded it, Pat Moran, the resident engineer, set all the mics up and we ran the song down, partially to get balances and tones. Because it was a long song, we didn't need to complete that test run. We then played it a second time from top to bottom and that's what you hear on the album." Quite extraordinary. |
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« Reply #764 on: February 18, 2023, 06:47:10 PM » |
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Transatlantic - The Final Flight: Live At L'Olympia
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« Reply #765 on: February 19, 2023, 11:04:48 PM » |
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Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous Super Deluxe Box Set. Arguably the greatest live album of all time (opinions may vary) together with all the gigs it was compiled from over eight CDs. Maybe a couple more versions of Baby Drives Me Crazy than I really need but the rest is incendiary stuff and brings back lots of happy memories of being down at the front for countless Lizzy gigs in the 70s.
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« Reply #766 on: February 20, 2023, 09:26:27 AM » |
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Transatlantic - The Final Flight: Live At L'Olympia
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« Reply #767 on: February 20, 2023, 12:55:36 PM » |
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Julie Tippetts : Sunset Glow (Esoteric CD, 2022).
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« Reply #768 on: February 20, 2023, 01:01:35 PM » |
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Inspired by Andy's post, I've had a bit of a Rush morning:
A Farewell To Kings, followed by the 1978 Hammersmith Odeon show from Different Stages, and then Moving Pictures.
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« Reply #769 on: February 21, 2023, 12:39:37 PM » |
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Meg Baird - Furling This woman is a genius and deserves to be so much better known!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBhdZPSW9YM |
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« Reply #770 on: February 22, 2023, 09:00:13 AM » |
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Shirley Collins : Sweet Primroses (Topic CD, expanded, 2019).
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« Reply #771 on: February 23, 2023, 10:32:00 AM » |
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So how is everyone getting on with the big Horslips box?
I have now worked my way through almost all of it (apart from the DVDs). I just have one disc of Live at the O2 (which I already owned) and Tracks From The Vaults 2 remaining.
Like all of these mega box sets, with so much music in the world and in my own personal collection, there is more here than I can ever listen to more than once. I started with all of the previously unreleased or unheard stuff and those discs contain most of what I am unlikely to go back to very often. The 1977, 1979 and 1980 live recordings are excellent. The earlier live stuff was less essential for me. The rehearsals disc is a once only listen for me (and my copy actually has a manufacturing fault on the first two tracks which is disappointing but better this disc than any of the others). The RTE sesssions discs were an interesting listen but once again probably not the ones I will return to repeatedly.
Of the post Horslips material, the Host album is entertaining but has a very dated production sound. I like the Fean & Carr disc a great deal and also the Charles O'Connor album. I didn't get on with the Barry Devlin album at all and Jim Lockhart's incidental music is pleasant but inessential.
That leaves all of the previously released material which is all, of course, splendid. I didn't have every album so am pleased to put that right and to have found some new favourite songs. Highlights? The Book of Invasions sounds fabulous and the new mastering of The Belfast Gigs is a treat.
Roll on the BBC box. Hopefully that will include the Live With The Ulster Orchestra disc which is the only thing missing from this set.
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« Reply #772 on: February 23, 2023, 11:21:20 AM » |
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Listening to lots of records from 1974. It's for a Twitter thing. It's a far better year than I ever gave it credit for.
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« Reply #773 on: February 23, 2023, 11:25:13 AM » |
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Listening to lots of records from 1974. It's for a Twitter thing. It's a far better year than I ever gave it credit for.
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« Reply #774 on: February 23, 2023, 11:31:06 AM » |
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I'll take 4 from the top row, 5 from the middle row and 5 from the bottom row please Carol.
Can't believe you're only having 4 from the top, Gub. They're in release order, by the way. Apologies to Stevie Wonder who got bumped off. Jules |
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« Reply #775 on: February 23, 2023, 12:18:14 PM » |
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I'll take 4 from the top row, 5 from the middle row and 5 from the bottom row please Carol.
Can't believe you're only having 4 from the top, Gub. They're in release order, by the way. Apologies to Stevie Wonder who got bumped off. Jules Those are the ones I actually have. I would take Todd Rundgren too but I don't have it currently. Same goes for The Kinks and Gene Clark in the other rows. |
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« Reply #776 on: February 23, 2023, 12:42:43 PM » |
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Think I'd take all but the Funkadelic, Roy Harper and the one with Collins on.
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« Reply #777 on: February 23, 2023, 12:49:58 PM » |
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Forced to choose 5, for me it would be Gene, Neil, Sandy, Bob, Richard & Linda. No Other stands on the shoulders of giants though...
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« Reply #778 on: February 23, 2023, 12:51:45 PM » |
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Think I'd take all but the Funkadelic, Roy Harper and the one with Collins on.
A man who would take Parliament but not Funkadelic is a strange man indeed. I too have massive reservations about Genesis, to be honest. Jules |
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« Reply #779 on: February 23, 2023, 12:52:57 PM » |
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Forced to choose 5, for me it would be Gene, Neil, Sandy, Bob, Richard & Linda.
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