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Summertime by Chet Baker.

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Chronicle 20 Greatest Hits

Vinyl

Astrud Gilberto & Walter Wanderley -- A Certain Smile A Certain Sadness

Vinyl

Southern Harmony & Musical Companion

Guilt Machine, On This Perfect Day

The Apples - Looking for Trouble

Early '80s Dave Grusin production.

"with... the virtual indestructibility of the Compact Disc, it can truly be said that this performance of the Glenn Miller Orchestra will last forever."

Interpol -- Interpol (4)

SACD

Nice to hear you again, Alison, it's been a while.

She and the band are really awesome in concert, if you ever get the chance. I know her recordings are audiophile cliche at this point but they still sound great. Especially when drinking good cognac, no?!

She and the band are really awesome in concert, if you ever get the chance. I know her recordings are audiophile cliche at this point but they still sound great. Especially when drinking good cognac, no?!

Indeed!

And she is definitely on my short list of performers I'd love to see live.

For A Minor Reflection - H

Mozart Requiem, 24-96 vinyl rip from Karajan's 1962 recording

Nathan Wiley - "Bottom Dollar"

Mankind is Obsolete, Rise -- really really digging this, it's a weird amalgamation of Nitzer Ebb teutonicness, Nine Inch Nails aggression, Garbage-y pop production, with the occasional shoegaze and metal influences rearing their respective heads in odd places. And quite clever too, at parts. In their ballad, "More Than What I Am", they deliberately start off with very sparse musical elements with the vocal standing out in typical vocal-forefront pop fashion. Part way through the song, they kick into this shoegaze wall of sound 'break', and -- in typical shoegaze portion -- the vocals are subdued and layered. One of the vocals continues singing lyrics, and another is singing something like "Singing, singing, wordless music, empty lullabies" -- I.E. deliberately vapid lyrics, autotuned, no less. And then, to top it all off, the verse continues without the music bed getting any less cluttered, but with the vocals back in the forefront. Really, only someone like me (and by 'someone like me', I mean one of us headphone music listeners) is going to catch this.

Paul Simon - There Goes Rhymin' Simon

Dave Holland - Hands

Sara Bareilles -- Kaleidoscope Heart

Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan - Hawk

Al, how's that Sara Bareilles'?