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  • Just put in Oasis: Be Here Now...got it on vinyl for Christmas. Quite enjoyable - it's a remastered version, which IMO that album always needed one. Much more depth and punch, without sacrificing clarity! Even the heavy distorted guitars sound great, not just like noise like the CD/mp3s did.


    Don't Go Away is one of my favorite songs of all time.

  • Just put in Oasis: Be Here Now...got it on vinyl for Christmas. Quite enjoyable - it's a remastered version, which IMO that album always needed one. Much more depth and punch, without sacrificing clarity! Even the heavy distorted guitars sound great, not just like noise like the CD/mp3s did.


    Don't Go Away is one of my favorite songs of all time.

    Much better album than its reputation suggests.

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    Lovely psychedelia.

  • Ryan Adams has released 4 new studio albums I am currently checking out. „Sword and Stone“ might be my favorite out of those ….


    I have followed his work over the years, lost a bit of interest some years ago and started listening again last year.

  • Genesis, the "shapes" album.


    I regard this one as one of my favorites, but I only listen to it once in a great while. But every time I put it on, I'm reminded how much I enjoy it. It's just so different sounding from any of Genesis' other material-perhaps their most raw and "edgiest" sounding record.

  • Listening to a lot of Elbow at the moment. My wife’s favourite band and next on our gig list.

    There are times when they can annoy me for being too one-paced, but they’ve created some great pieces of music. High in the list at the moment is The Birds, a track which (to me anyway) feels influenced by their love for Genesis.

  • Blissful cover


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  • Currently I'm listening to a lot of Abacab. I have long since had the half-speed vinyl version, but I've recently considered getting the original versions on vinyl, to experience what those are like. So I started with the original of Abacab, and I'm listening back and forth to compare the differences.


    I'm not sure which version I like better yet-but I'm leaning towards the original, which feels richer and punchier, and has more of an "analogue presence" compared to the 2018 version-which in contrast seems very much more bright and clear in the treble range, but at the expense of everything else the original offers. I'll have to try out some other originals to be sure which I prefer I guess...

  • I am listening to all Phil's albums in succession & have nearly finished NJR. Starting to get less angry, dark & moody, and more insistent use of brass which I know he loves but on NJR it detracts from the songs. Not as many woe is me ballads (yet). The first two albums remain the pinnacle.

  • Busy week in Foxfeeder Tower's listening room (and letter box!). Earlier in week, it was the new Cock Robin box set, "Precious Dreams" the complete CBS recordings 1985-1990 (albeit incomplete, as it omits the single edit of Worlds Apart, and ironically, The Part That I MIss). Today it's 2 XTC 5.1 sets that went on sale last week at Burning Shed, half-price. Listened to Drums & Wires earlier, now playing Nonsuch!

    Ian


    Putting the old-fashioned Staffordshire plate in the dishwasher!

  • The new JAMES album "Yummy" is quite good. I followed the band on and off (in recent years more off), but the new songs finally have more substance than what they did on their last 2 albums.

    Recommended!

    ... make tomorrow today!