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Ended up doing my own "sunday spin" by happenstance today. Loving this record, great classic rock with a little bit of country groove at the top of side 1 that gave way to a series of wonderfully orchestrated and sung ballads. Currently working my way through side 2.
A friend got a basket full of vinyls from a friend of a friend getting rid of her dad's old stuff. Nothing too cool in the basket, just some reprints and mid level albums from the 80's, but free music is free music! I'm fine with Southern Rock for the most part, amd Hatchet is certainly entertaining enough. It's something you would put on while working in the garage.
Godflesh goodness. Re-issue of the 2014 album on white vinyl. Easy listening for the masses.
Typically i just go to my discogs and select a random item from a my collection to keep my posts here a little varied. Today the algorithm gave me Graceland, and it seemed a perfect album to finish off 2024. Simon reminiscing about the past while looking ahead is perfect for today. The titualar song was about a road trip Simon took to Graceland with his son after his divorce to Carrie Fisher. It's a song about new beginnings and forgetting the troubles of your past, which is an approach i am happy to apply to the miserable year in which i came to understand what that girl in New York City means.
This is an original from 86 and is absolutely beautiful to listen to. The drum beats Simon would become famous for shine through as crisp as if they were in the room with you without smother the beautiful vocals and guitar work.
Gather ye bairns, a couple tabs, and a pour yeself a pint o Brown, time for some canny tunes from the Toon!
As you can tell, i am a Midwestern Millennial, but Lindisfarne is one if my favorite bands. My mom is a Geordie, born and raised on the Tyne so i have spent more time in NW England than a lot of Southern Brits. I think Lindisfarne perfectly captures the spirit of Northumbira. Alan Hull wrote about 200 songs while working as a night nurse at a mental hospital in Newcastle, which is where Lady Eleanor was written. Geordies and Mackems might be tough blokes, but they are also very well read and educated compared to their Southern peers, and the lyrics of Lady Eleanor were inspired by Edgar Alan Poe's Eleonora and The Fall of the House of Usher. What i really like about Lindisfarne is the accessibility of the music compared to their contemporaries like Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, and Pentangle.
As for the vinyl, for reasons i haven't been able to find, the American versions, with Nicely Out of Tune taking a radically different design. It isn't a traditional sleeve, but a pocket with a carboard instert to protect the vinyl (forgive Boudica's intrusion, she just loves the record player).
The top row came from my old neighbors in town, while the bottom row i pick up at Half Priced Books at my parents's place in Houston. Not big on Tyler, The Creator, but i listened to the Igor album with them and it was excellent! I'm super stoked about On Time though. GFR is one of my all tome favorite bands and this was the last of their original albums i was missing. I've been on a massive Prog and folk rock binge this past year, so i am alwo excited to add some more ELP to the collection as well. All in all, i added a lot of great records to my collection this year, and i am hoping for a bunch more in the next year!
My second hand shop had 20% off everything so I made a blind buy and also got something familiar.
I'm traveling to see my parents tomorrow, so I'm doing my Sunday Spin a day early. Today is a classic album, Business As Usual. Undeniably Men At Work's best album, it's a defining album of the 1980's. Who Can It Be Now and Down Under still take massive airtime on modern airwaves while secondary bangers like Be Good Johnny and People Just Love To Play With Words keep the album entertaining and fresh the whole way through in a away many bands fail at. The great thing about the album is it's super easy to get your hands on a great copy for cheap. Honestly it's probably the best value record you can have in a collection based on price (i paid $7 for this original American pressing), sound quality, and ease of finding since there are literally millions of them from the 80's alone floating around.
Listening to Midnight in Tula from White Eagle right now. If someone tells you Brad Fiedel didn’t listen to this before making Tunnel chase for The Teeminator soundtrack feel free to laugh them out of the room.
One of my favorites in my collection. It's a 71 Terra Haute pressing and the sound is absolutely beautiful on it the sleeve has seen its share of abuse, but i dont care when the record sounds that good. Obviously the album needs no introduction, and ever song on it is absolutely amazing. Busted this out while i was making Christmas cookies, because Iron Man is ky spirit animal while dealing with Christmas mayhem.
This is from an interesting corner of my collection. An old roommate found a bunch of Hungarian records at the local Goodwill and got a couple of them, including a record of a Hungarian folk music which was absolutely incredible. We went back and scooped up the rest of the collection (i assume someone's Hungarian father died and his descendants didn't know what to do with the records so they just donated them since they all had the same name/initials on them). Unfortunately this album isn't nearly as good as the folk music, but i enjoy listening to it. The violins are very beautiful, even if there isn't anything particularly remarkable about the music. It's a lovely record to spin up while you read with a cup of tea.
This one is a reissue from 78, but it sounds great. One of Pink Floyds less appreciated albums, but a favorite of mine none the less.
One of my favorite albums of all time. My CDs of this and The Wall got me through high school and introduced me to the wider world of prog rock. I will argue that 2112 was Rush's greatest album, and that the singles on the B-side deserve way more love. Passage to Bangcock and Something For Nothing are masterpieces in their own right which would have shined had they not been bulldozed by the epic greatness of the title track. This is the album that saved Rush and paved the way for Canadian and American prog.
I've always loved ∆J since An Awesome Wave came out. I've always felt that This is All Yours was faithful to their first album while really cranking up the themes to 11.
As for the pressing itself, i have the color shuffled dual pressing with blue and yellow. The quality is fine compared to most other colored pressings, although my rig isn't really sophisticated enough to notice minor flaws.
I got to Record Riot every time they are in Cleveland. It's a good time to hang out with friends and browse some cool collections. Mr. Spock's Music From Outer Space was everything i hoped it would be, and Dreamboat Annie is an absolute banger of an album. I've also been dying to get my Fog On The Tyne to wrap up my Lyndisfarne collection, since my mom was growing up in Newcastle when they were big.
I am absolutely thrilled with this lot but positively jubilant about the Kraftwerk maxi!
And they have a synthpop section for singles! Pure heaven! Actually found a grail of mine…
