Hi cooks,

Your brain cells are still working fine, it was roundabout records on Papanui rd in ChCH. I got in there just before they closed and grabbed a swab of vinyl at ridiculous prices.

Herbie and Neil,

Herbie - Blue Note 80, excellent Optimal pressing, superb sound (Kevin Gray all-analog remaster),

Neil - good analog sound, decent pressing

Where did you get them from?

Not the recent Palmie record fair?

Got nothing from record fair but dirty fingers

Records from Southbound, I had a small credit with them, bought some poly lined paper records sleeves that were too small !

They tell me that following the COVID shut down, they'll be offering a standard 10% discount to loyal members instead of the buy 10 x $20 discount card for a $20 credit.

My batch of polylined paper sleeves from them was fine, although I prefer their Nagaoka 102 type ones.

Jul 26, 2020 16:57:37 GMT 12 michaelw said:

Herbie and Neil,

Herbie - Blue Note 80, excellent Optimal pressing, superb sound (Kevin Gray all-analog remaster)

This Blue note 80 is indeed very good sounding.
Musically its nothing too adventurous by today's standards, but a fine example of a youthful Hancock and fairly safe hard bop.

Matthew Halsall - ONENESS
Spiritual jazz.

Des deux l'une est l'autre by HYPNO5E

Experimental post ambient metal. Maybe one for temporaryjohnny?

hypno5e.bandcamp.com/album/des-deux-lune-est-lautre

If you're at all into (spiritual) jazz and poetry then you might like this
Virtual Shadow Ensemble - Keep Your Distance, Noa Records Aotearoa 2020





An op shop find

Richard and Linda Thompson-Shoot Out the Lights
Double cd reissue from 2010 on the Rhino Handmade label.
Nice package, great music. Disc 2 is an 11 tk selection from their final tour together in 1982.

Nice quote from Linda
"Shoot Out the Lights was the last album that Richard and I ever made. Had I known that, I'd have tried harder. I couldn't see the signs for singing them. I was very pregnant during recording. Nobody wanted me to go on tour. I'd just given birth, I'd been dumped, and I was washing my antidepressants down with Voka( quite a good combo, since you asked). I'm glad I went, even though I made Ray Milland's The Lost Weekend seem pretty pedestrian.
We quit while we were ahead, and this record is mostly good."

Must have been difficult standing on stage next to the man who'd left you singing lyrics like this. 

Jul 28, 2020 17:08:51 GMT 12 Citroen said:

An op shop find

I recently dug this out for a clean, one of the first records I ever bought.

DarkLantern blog - darklanternforowen.wordpress.com

Thanks to Trevor Reekie Worlds of Music RNZ:
Listened in for the Buddy Guy interview (OK), but hearing Dawda Jobarteh, research revealed:


happy, happy...nice rhythm, and electric kora 
 

album version:



 Gambian kora player, resident in Denmark.    

"I see music as a lifetime affair." [Rory Gallagher]

Gene clark, White Light. Intervention Records hybrid cd/sacd. Very nice.

I am ripping my CD collection on my InnuosZENmini Mk3, during which I found some discs that had received a lot of play time in the past, but haven’t been heard for several years. So, have taken the opportunity to listen again. Yes, they are great, and have been on repeat play lately.



Joan Armatrading - into the blues.
RL Burnside - wish I was in heaven sitting down.

Both werer purchased when positively reviewed on the old Audioenz website.

Even though I am only up to the Cs, I have come across several albums I have never listened to, despite them being in my collection for several years!
Including ones by - Joan Armatrading, Tory Amos, David Bowie (2), Jimmy Barnes (2), plus the remastered  mono cd set of the Beatles.  Makes me wonder why I keep buying new music! Especially since when I get to the classical and jazz cd collectuins, I know I will find dozens of unplayed items!

Aug 3, 2020 13:41:47 GMT 12 sub said:

I am ripping my CD collection on my InnuosZENmini Mk3, during which I found some discs that had received a lot of play time in the past, but haven’t been heard for several years. So, have taken the opportunity to listen again. Yes, they are great, and have been on repeat play lately.



Joan Armatrading - into the blues.
RL Burnside - wish I was in heaven sitting down.

Both werer purchased when positively reviewed on the old Audioenz website.

Even though I am only up to the Cs, I have come across several albums I have never listened to, despite them being in my collection for several years!
Including ones by - Joan Armatrading, Tory Amos, David Bowie (2), Jimmy Barnes (2), plus the remastered  mono cd set of the Beatles.  Makes me wonder why I keep buying new music! Especially since when I get to the classical and jazz cd collectuins, I know I will find dozens of unplayed items!

Running into a similar problem as I add my cds to Discogs.  There's an awful lot of head scratching and questions like, When did I buy that, Have I ever listened to it and why do I appear to have an almost complete catalogue of an artist I don't remember playing. Our local TW (a decade or so ago) used to have a lot of hard to find cds at bargain prices. Many happy hours on my knees hunting through the bins on the floor. However if I've never played them, are they really a bargain.

Things maybe get worse when you realise there's 8 different versions of Ogdens Nutgone Flake in the collection, 7 of Aqualung and the same number for the Allman Brothers Live at the Fillmore East.

At least I'm slightly more controlled this year with the count at 4 cds and 2 lps for the year with one pre order to come. Feeling virtuous . 

Geez cooksferry, I feel indulgent on the odd occasion that I've got a second version, let alone an eighth!

Aug 4, 2020 15:19:32 GMT 12 Citroen said:

Geez cooksferry , I feel indulgent on the odd occasion that I've got a second version, let alone an eighth!

In my defense these double ups are across multiple formats, lp,cd,sacd,bluray audio etc and can including stereo or mono versions and different mastering. 

The Ogdens count was past 8 but I did get rid of a couple of items last year. Not a total lost cause.

Nope, guilty as charged

STEREOLAB Reissues

SOUND-DUST

Missed these in the 90's but now enjoying the Anglo-Franco electronic/pop vibe

MOJO PRESENTS ... Various ‎– Feed Your Head (16 Mind-Blowing Classics)- came across this working on my Discogs listings today.

www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2pKA4iV0Bktubo3qofNKGyn_CDkCNVSh

Coming across 'many' long not-played albums. Like Sub, rediscovery when ripping to server.   

"I see music as a lifetime affair." [Rory Gallagher]

The Look of Love

Aug 11, 2020 11:18:25 GMT 12 michaelw said:

The Look of Love

Adore that Shelby Lynne album.

I am a non-recovering audioholic, and Ivor is my higher power.

Aug 3, 2020 20:34:24 GMT 12 cooksferry said:

Aug 3, 2020 13:41:47 GMT 12 sub said:

I am ripping my CD collection on my InnuosZENmini Mk3, during which I found some discs that had received a lot of play time in the past, but haven’t been heard for several years. So, have taken the opportunity to listen again. Yes, they are great, and have been on repeat play lately.



Joan Armatrading - into the blues.
RL Burnside - wish I was in heaven sitting down.

Both werer purchased when positively reviewed on the old Audioenz website.

Even though I am only up to the Cs, I have come across several albums I have never listened to, despite them being in my collection for several years!
Including ones by - Joan Armatrading, Tory Amos, David Bowie (2), Jimmy Barnes (2), plus the remastered  mono cd set of the Beatles.  Makes me wonder why I keep buying new music! Especially since when I get to the classical and jazz cd collectuins, I know I will find dozens of unplayed items!

Running into a similar problem as I add my cds to Discogs.  There's an awful lot of head scratching and questions like, When did I buy that, Have I ever listened to it and why do I appear to have an almost complete catalogue of an artist I don't remember playing. Our local TW (a decade or so ago) used to have a lot of hard to find cds at bargain prices. Many happy hours on my knees hunting through the bins on the floor. However if I've never played them, are they really a bargain.

Things maybe get worse when you realise there's 8 different versions of Ogdens Nutgone Flake in the collection, 7 of Aqualung and the same number for the Allman Brothers Live at the Fillmore East.

At least I'm slightly more controlled this year with the count at 4 cds and 2 lps for the year with one pre order to come. Feeling virtuous . 

You know I’ve never listened to aqualung or Allman brothers live. Quite the embarrassing confession.

I am a non-recovering audioholic, and Ivor is my higher power.

Worth exploring- not what was expecting.

I am a non-recovering audioholic, and Ivor is my higher power.

^ great album from NM

love shelby too, pictured is the analogue productions version, the original lost highway pressing was problematic.

www.analogplanet.com/content/just-little-lovin-finally-gets-some-0

Typical United pressing, my 2008 copy looks like a truck ran over it.
Fortunately it doesn't sound as bad as it looks.

it's close !

My Lost Highway pressing looks and sounds just fine. I wasn't aware of any potential issues with it, but now thanks to Michael I shall now wonder if I have to find an Analogue Productions copy to compare. 🙄

Nope. Your version is fine.