What are you listening to right now?

[tmazz]

I bought 17 CD's today at the same shop for $19
Here's one of them
Jack Bruce ~ Shadows In The Air

You're a man after my own heart. 

Sounds like you found a "Crack House" of your own. 

Happy Hunting!

[tmazz]

Mannheim Steamroller: Saving the Wildlife

[tmazz]

Peter, Bethany & Rufus: Puff & Other Family Classics



Peter Yarrow, Bethany Yarrow and Cellist Rufus Cappadocia

From Amazon:

"It is nice to hear Peter Yarrow, of Peter, Paul & Mary, recording with his adult daughter. They have a good combination of voices and do a nice set of folk music. Always good to hear "Puff" again, but there is a lot of enjoyable music on this. If you like Peter Yarrow or folk music, this is a set for you."

[tmazz]

Al Caiola & His Orchestra: Italian Street Songs



This disc was mixed in with a bag of loose CDs I bought at the Crack House. I don't think I ever would have pick it up on its own , but there were several Verves in the bag that I wanted so this just came along with the rest of the bunch. I was actually surprised how much I ended up liking this disc. The sound is much better than I expected and the music reminds me of Sunday Dinner at my Grandparents house when I was 5 years old. Charlie & Bill, I think this one will bring back memories for youse guys as well. 

[tmazz]

Joni Mitchell: Blue



Long time resident of the TAS Superdisc list.

[tmazz]

Glenn Miller: The Lost Recordings



Like we've said before, there is just some kind of magic in those old original big band recordings. 

[tmazz]

A Walk on the Moon - Motion Picture Soundtrack



From Amazon:
"Original motion picture soundtrack for the 1999 film directed by Tony Goldwyn and starring Diane Lane & Liev Schreiber. Contains 16 tracks from the likes of The Youngbloods, Mandy Barnett, Dust Springfield, Joni Mitchell, The Grateful Dead, Mojave 3 and more."

[tmazz]

Mozart for a New Age



Wolfgang Amedeus gets a New Age "Makeover"

Tracks: 1. Midnight Magic [From Eine Kleine Nachtmusik]; 2. Ring Around the Cosmos [From Rondo KV. 485]; 3. Walk in the Woods [From Serenade KV. 361]; 4. Don's Glass is Full [The Champagne Aria from "Don Giovanni" KV. 527]; 5. Three Rail Shot [From Rondo K. 331]; 6. Living in Minor Time [From Syphony No. 40 KV. 467]; 7. Celluloid Summer (Elvira Madigan Theme) [From Plano Cecerto no. 21 KV. 467]; 8. Planetarium [From Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter"]; 9. At the Post [From Serenade KV. 320]; 10. Nuptial Shuffle [From "The Marriage of Figaro"]

[tmazz]

John Denver: Whose Garden Was This



I picked this up because it contained a number of covers of late 60s folk/rock songs. I put it on the turntable and couldn't even listen to 30 seconds of any given song. This has got to be one of the poorest recording jobs I have ever heard. Every peak is driven right into distortion. I am shocked that a company as well respected as RCA could let a piece of sonic trash like this out the door. (I guess the sound engineers from the classical side of the house never worked on or listened to the Pop releases.) I can only hope that there is really nothing wrong with the recording and the person who donated it to the Crack House played the hell out of it and what I am hearing is physical groove wear and not the sound of the original recording. But the record does not visually appear to worn or played a lot , so I doubt it

[tmazz]

John Denver: Aerie



Unfortunately the SQ on this one is not much better that what I talked about with "Whose Garden Was This?" 

[tmazz]

SAINT-SAENS VIOLIN CONC.#1; PAGANINI VIOLIN CONC.#2 ("CAMPAGNELLA") - Rudolf Ricci,Cincinnati Sym.



Finally, a decent sounding record.   

[eleazar]

Joni Mitchell: Blue



Long time resident of the TAS Superdisc list.

Tmazz I have a few questions
1. What is a Crack House ?
2. A TAS superlist ?
3. With the hours that you are up are you a vampire ?

[etcarroll]

I know the first 2, but am also curious about #3.

[Bigfish8]

[tmazz]

Joni Mitchell: Blue



Long time resident of the TAS Superdisc list.

Tmazz I have a few questions
1. What is a Crack House ?
2. A TAS superlist ?
3. With the hours that you are up are you a vampire ?

1) We have a thrift shop in town that sells LPs for 69 cents and CDs for $2 or less. My son nicknamed it "The Crack House"  because he says I get all twitchy if I don't get there every couple of days for a "fix".

2) The TAS Superdisc List is a list published periodically by Harry Pearson in The Absolute Sound magazine of what he considers CDs  an LPs of outstanding or reference quality. shown below  is a link to a copy of an old list on the Acoustic Sounds web site. I  know there are more current ists that have been published, but this should give you an idea of what it is all about. There are quite a few 180 reissues that are on the current list, but what ever is here still sounds good.

http://store.acousticsounds.com/index.cfm?get=TAS_Super_Vinyl_List

3) Vhy do you ask?
Step into my parlor and we can discuss this further. Come after dark...........