Post by Owen Y on May 29, 2020 14:55:55 GMT 12
There have been a few of these 'music challenges', happening during the lockdown, but maybe it'll be interesting for us to do a variation.... It goes like this.... Choose albums (up to 10 maximum, LP or CD) that have greatly influenced your taste in music. One album maximum per day. No lengthy explanations or reviews, just album cover & maybe a one-line comment if you wish. Feel free to comment on other's picks but (for this exercise anyway), no lengthy analyses or digressions. We'd like to hear from any or all members (there's no embarrassments here  ). Maybe it'll remind others of great music we've forgotten about or new music to explore. I'll kick it off....  Purchased in London in the 70s, helped kick-start my journey into Classical.
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Post by jon on May 29, 2020 15:18:46 GMT 12
 My parents had this record. It introduced me to this legendary woman, torch songs, musical humour and big bands.
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Post by foveaux on May 29, 2020 17:49:00 GMT 12
 This nudged me down a parallel path to pop, blues, glam , rock etc...that of jazz/prog. In '72 to my ears and mind, this was exotic and transcending. Stone cold classic, imho.
"I see music as a lifetime affair." [Rory Gallagher]
"Free - I miss that band, but when I look back, we were very young" [Paul Rodgers]
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Post by Citroen on May 29, 2020 18:19:33 GMT 12
JOHN COLTRANE - A Love Supreme I hated instrumental jazz until I heard this only about 15 years ago. And now at least 3/4 of my listening is jazz. 
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Post by RdM on May 29, 2020 23:31:14 GMT 12
Yes that album changed my life, early 70's. A new appreciation.
There was a CBS SQ Quadraphonic version of that album, that I have a transcription of, albeit just in stereo. I've wondered if (it's a 24/96 transcription through some fairly exotic equipment) software SQ decoding is possible, or else I find a s/h decoder.   Notes from the transcriber: EQUIPMENT: RCM: Clearaudio Smart Matrix (Personal clean fluid + L’Art du Son Cleaning Fluid ) TURNTABLE: Dr. Feickert Woodpecker TONEARM: Reed 2A, 9,5'' (Ziricote armwand, cable Finewire C37+Cryo.Eichman bullet plugs) CARTRIDGE: Ortofon MC A90 (MC) PHONO STAGE: NAGRA VPS (Vacuum tube phono stage, charged to 100 ohm ) ADC System: Mytek Stereo96 ADC Professional Converter DAC System : Roland UA-55 Quad-Capture USB (only bring Mytek digital signal to PC) Cables: XLR-RCA ELEMENT 47 SOUNDSPIRIT, Kimber Kable USB Zerostat 3 Anti-Static Pistol Onzow Zerodust (to clean the needle) Platterspeed for iPod Touch (Dr. Feickert) speed verifier Please excuse my digression;- I'll see if I can think of an original for me in the spirit of the post!
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Post by Owen Y on May 30, 2020 9:53:40 GMT 12
Yes please & other members?
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Post by robertr on May 30, 2020 10:32:37 GMT 12
The Rural Blues. A double LP compiled by Samuel Charters and released in the UK on Xtra in 1966
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Post by papahemi on May 30, 2020 10:55:18 GMT 12
 My very first record, purchased via World Record Club.
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Post by papahemi on May 30, 2020 10:56:07 GMT 12
Don't know how I got the two images, twice as good.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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Post by Owen Y on May 30, 2020 17:03:24 GMT 12
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Post by robertr on May 31, 2020 11:35:26 GMT 12
Hi Owen
It is the same album but mine is a different pressing. It is has a black, red and white cover with a crude pencil sketch of a black man wearing bib overalls.
I will see if I can overcome my technical limitations and post a photo
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Post by papahemi on May 31, 2020 15:05:07 GMT 12
 Not an album as such, the Dunedin Double remains an important record of the Dunedin scene that I was able to experience in the venues of the time. www.audioculture.co.nz/scenes/dunedin-double
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Post by foveaux on May 31, 2020 23:13:41 GMT 12
Next up... 
"I see music as a lifetime affair." [Rory Gallagher]
"Free - I miss that band, but when I look back, we were very young" [Paul Rodgers]
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Post by papahemi on Jun 1, 2020 12:40:01 GMT 12
 The Christchurch Scene was dark and sinister (still is).
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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Post by Owen Y on Jun 1, 2020 15:06:38 GMT 12
Good stuff, still looking to more members to chime in please.... Not necessarily your favourite albums, but the ones that most influenced your music tastes. Possibly most influencial in my interest in reggae way back then... 
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Post by cooksferry on Jun 1, 2020 16:51:01 GMT 12
The Unstoppable Stones. NZ only compilation in mono. This was probably my 2nd ever lp purchase and made with paper round money in 1965. Had to love those 5am starts. I still have this record and regularly play it. It's warped and needs the outer ring clamp and the surface looks like some one has been ice skating on it. I found it hard going playing back in stereo then one day finally added a mono switch to find a world of difference. Despite all the wear and tear I now have almost silent playback. There is another version with a different cover which I think came out early 1970s (?) . I have a near mint copy of that from Relics (Dn) but the NZ original just sounds better, more immediate, more balls. Never been released on CD or any other digital format. 
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Post by sub on Jun 1, 2020 16:59:14 GMT 12
Bought a copy of this in late 50s after seeing the movie - 
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Post by Graham on Jun 1, 2020 17:20:52 GMT 12
My very first LP purchase in early seventies when living in Vancouver, having just bought my first 'hi fi' system. Cant remember what turntable or speakers but the amp was a Sansui QRX3500 quadraphonic monster. 
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Post by jon on Jun 1, 2020 17:47:49 GMT 12
The Unstoppable Stones. NZ only compilation in mono. This was probably my 2nd ever lp purchase and made with paper round money in 1965. Had to love those 5am starts. I still have this record and regularly play it. It's warped and needs the outer ring clamp and the surface looks like some one has been ice skating on it. I found it hard going playing back in stereo then one day finally added a mono switch to find a world of difference. Despite all the wear and tear I now have almost silent playback. There is another version with a different cover which I think came out early 1970s (?) . I have a near mint copy of that from Relics (Dn) but the NZ original just sounds better, more immediate, more balls. Never been released on CD or any other digital format.
Serious moment. Consider coating the record with a thick layer of PVA GLUE. It must be thick, continuous and have a tongue you can grab to peel.
Will clean your record like nothing else.
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Post by cooksferry on Jun 1, 2020 18:45:58 GMT 12
The Unstoppable Stones. NZ only compilation in mono. This was probably my 2nd ever lp purchase and made with paper round money in 1965. Had to love those 5am starts. I still have this record and regularly play it. It's warped and needs the outer ring clamp and the surface looks like some one has been ice skating on it. I found it hard going playing back in stereo then one day finally added a mono switch to find a world of difference. Despite all the wear and tear I now have almost silent playback. There is another version with a different cover which I think came out early 1970s (?) . I have a near mint copy of that from Relics (Dn) but the NZ original just sounds better, more immediate, more balls. Never been released on CD or any other digital format.
Serious moment. Consider coating the record with a thick layer of PVA GLUE. It must be thick, continuous and have a tongue you can grab to peel.
Will clean your record like nothing else.
Tried that on a couple of other records but won't do anything with all the wear and tear etched into the vinyl.
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Post by colinf on Jun 1, 2020 22:11:19 GMT 12
My fascination with Shostakovich string quartets began with the no. 8, written in only 3 days in 1960 in Dresden. 
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Post by dc4 on Jun 2, 2020 8:25:35 GMT 12
 We'll try that again.... From the late 70s and still my favourite Bruce.
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Post by sub on Jun 2, 2020 9:08:52 GMT 12
Not this album, but similar, long since gone, bought circa 1959 
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Post by robertr on Jun 2, 2020 9:59:38 GMT 12
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Post by Owen Y on Jun 2, 2020 10:15:57 GMT 12
There's some exposing their age here!  A lot of albums I've not listened to... early Deep Purple, Stones & Springsteen, Shostakovich Q's (I acquired the Fitzwilliam Q box a while ago). This one got me deeper into operatic arias.. 
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Post by foveaux on Jun 2, 2020 10:44:17 GMT 12
another from '72  slick & sophisticated at the time. I'd heard nothing like it before.
"I see music as a lifetime affair." [Rory Gallagher]
"Free - I miss that band, but when I look back, we were very young" [Paul Rodgers]
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Post by cooksferry on Jun 2, 2020 11:35:25 GMT 12
We'll try that again.... From the late 70s and still my favourite Bruce. My fav Springsteen lp as well. Played the grooves of my copy along with The River through the 1980s.
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Post by papahemi on Jun 2, 2020 16:59:10 GMT 12
 Purchased from Mike Pelvin's Record Shop? in Dunedin (Hanover St) about 1975. $22 for 2 x 2 lp set - a lot of money in the day. Opened up the world of folk and blues, 12 string guitar and outsider music.
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Post by papahemi on Jun 2, 2020 17:03:07 GMT 12
Isn't it funny the wee details we remember regarding our purchases, I even recall the carousel stand in which the Leadbelly records sat.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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Post by colinf on Jun 2, 2020 18:50:32 GMT 12
As a kid I listened quite a bit to Dire Straits. I love the live album Alchemy, recorded in July 1983 at the Hammersmith Odeon in London. 
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