I went to Grady's Record Refuge today and enjoyed picking out some vintage vinyl

Crosby Stills & Nash - Crosby Stills & Nash

CSNY - Deja Vu

Supertramp - Paris

Emerson Lake & Palmer - The Best of Emerson Lake & Palmer

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery

Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark

Loggins & Messina - The Best of Loggins & Messina

I just finished cleaning some of them, now for an evening of vintage vinyl on a vintage turntable through a tube phono preamp and tube headphone amp, the way music is supposed to be listened to.

Bought a few cheap Vinyls, a bit scratchy and dusty but play fine and all are original first issues is seems.

Matching Mole - Matching Mole's Little Red Record (1972)

Matching Mole - Matching Mole (1972)

Gong - Expresso II (1978)

Caravan - Back to Front (1982)

Ralph Towner - Blue Sun (1983)

Art Lande - Desert Marauders (1977)

There is a rumor that Mosaic Records might be going out of business. So now might be the time to pick up any box sets you want. Thelonious Monk Complete Live At the It Club was one of my favorite jazz purchases from last year.

March/April have been a great month for jazz

Analog Productions 45 rpms:

Pure Pleasure Records

Charles Mingus - Dynasty

Mosaic Records

Charles Mingus - The Complete Candid Recordings (4 LP)

Tina Brooks - The Complete Blue Note Recordings (4 LP)

and Peter Gabriel 1, 2, 3, 4 from Classic Records (33 rpm)

The Who - Tommy, Quadrophenia, Live at Leeds, Who's Next Classic Records (33 rpm)

Edited April 7, 201016 yr by deepak

Hell of a haul, Deepak. Nice.

Just went on a vinyl run:

I just went on a cd buying run! 11 cd's for me and 2 for the wife.

01. Hilton Ruiz - Doing It Right

02. Chet Baker - Sessioni In Italia

03. Candy Dulfer - Live At Montreaux

04. Rachelle Ferrell - Individuality (can I be me?)

05. Incognito - Eleven

06. Incognito - 100 And Rising

07. Incognito - Inside Me

08. Heavy Shift - The Conversation

09. Valerie Joyce - The Look Of Love

10. Fourplay - X

11. Mindi Abair - It Just Happens That Way

Special editions of Epica's The Divine Conspiracy and Design your Universe to get the bonus tracks. It is odd, ripping DYU SE produces FLAC files about 30mb larger than the normal edition, not counting the bonus track. Very large CD, 79 minutes of awesome music.

Most of my recent music purchases have come via my Magnatune membership, but this week...

Mike Oldfield .... Tubular Bells = a classic that I somehow have not acquired

Everything But the Girl - Idlewild = Thank you Antonio! Excellent. No scratch that, most excellent!

Special editions of Epica's The Divine Conspiracy and Design your Universe to get the bonus tracks. It is odd, ripping DYU SE produces FLAC files about 30mb larger than the normal edition, not counting the bonus track. Very large CD, 79 minutes of awesome music.

Maybe mastering is different? Usually, if the track is louder, the more space it fills up (for some reason)

Everything But the Girl - Idlewild = Thank you Antonio! Excellent. No scratch that, most excellent!

Heh, he got you too!

Glad you're liking that album. Definitely one of my fav ones

I just picked up the following albums on vinyl

Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms, Dire Straits

Green Day - Dookie

Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark, Ladies of the Canyon

James Taylor - Sweet Baby James

Metallica - Master of Puppets (special edition)

Nirvana - Nevermind

Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch

Stevie Nicks - Crystal Vision - The Very Best of Stevie Nicks

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium

More Fantasy 45 rpms

The Kenny Burrell and John Coltrane is great! Although mine is a CD not vinyl.

The Kenny Burrell and John Coltrane is great! Although mine is a CD not vinyl.

Yup one of my favorite Coltrane albums. These 45 rpms aren't cheap but they'll bring my many years of enjoyment, more than any gear that comes and goes.

Just bought a couple very cheap FLAC albums from Orlando artist Thomas Wynne (& The Believers, his band). Excellent southern rock, songwriting's not quite *there* yet but he's getting close to nailing it down. The guy has a voice on him though, one that should propel him to a decent level of fame if there's any justice in the world.

There's also a free recording of a concert at Skipper's, my local jamband/blues redneck hippie joint. It's not superb quality but very listenable and shows the much more jam oriented side of their live performances. Check out "You Can't Hurt Me" from that set and marvel at the intense 3 minute distorted harmonica solo, and just how damned tight this band is live.

Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider & It's a Wonderful Life

The Dead Weather - Sea of Cowards

and The National - High Violet (plus Boxer to go with it)

Frou Frou - Details

Pre-ordered:

- Band of Horses - Infinite Arms

- LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening

- The Black Keys - Brothers

ordered

Mofi Vinyl

Elvis Costello My Aim Is True

Marvin Gaye What's Going On

and a 45 RPM of a Mastodon LP

Epica - Design Your Universe

Epica - The Divine Conspiracy

Opeth - Watershed

Xandria - Ravenheart

Within Temptation - Mother Earth

Katra - Beast Within

Went and traded a bunch of old CD's in for fresh tasty vinyls:

Hendrix - Band of Gypsys

Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica

Destroyer - Streethawk: A Seduction

RX Bandits - Mandala

Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record

Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights

Just an FYI...

Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day, for $26.99 is "Woodstock Ultimate Collector's Edition on BluRay" which is quite the deal, IMO.

Amazon.com Gold Box: New Deals. Every Day.

I think I paid at least twice as much when it first came out (not all that long ago) and wasn't disappointed.

Only 17 years after it came out, 15+ years since I first heard of the artist, over a decade since I was aware of the album's existence, I finally bought myself a copy of YAP's 1993 self-titled release.