SOME OLDIES REVISITED.

OK, I've tried something new, lets see if it works.

I mentioned some time back that I was re-doing a living room and getting some new gear so that I would be able to play my vinyl like in the old days, trouble was this house has two living rooms, one we used everyday and the other which was a storage room for records and equipment but it wasn't very conducive to sitting and listening to music.
So we did a bit of a change in there, two new windows, a new paint job, all the vinyl on one side, CD's on the other and the new gear between two new comfy chairs so I could reach the turntable and the amp sitting down. Right in front were two JBL Studio Monitors plus I treated us to a Sharpe flatscreen. I once again started spending my afternoons playing records, some that I hadn't heard in years, but I recently started being very selective and looking for albums that I'd really enjoyed years ago to see if they'd held up over the years. As you might guess some did and some didn't; a surprise were the Stones, I played several 60's albums and was disappointed with all of them, I think it's Jagger, he's a poseur, it's all fake. Another was Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, I remember thinking it was once great, now it isn't, it became a discard.


There were quite a few more but there were also several that have lasted well and sound just as good today as when I bought 'em, Dark Side of the Moon, Tommy, some early Who, Van's Astral Weeks, Paul Simon, Dylan, CSN, plus more. What I really like about many of these albums are the backing groups and the creative arrangements they used, specifically Van, Dylan, Simon, Floyd and the Who, all great music that was breaking the moulds and going off in different directions at that time. I've chosen single cuts from those albums that I particularly remembered, there's a couple which unfortunately are not included, Tommy and Dark Side of the Moon, spotty doesn't include them, possibly because the record company's don't want to dent their ongoing sales, 'Moon' is still selling in the thousands of copies each week. I deliberately omitted the Beatles 'cos most of them are on my iPod so get regular listening's and I also excluded jazz, reggae and R&B; if this works I might do them separately. Instead of Podbean I'm trying Spotty, it's only a click away: here's the A list.


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The Who – Baba O'Riley
Van Morrison – Ballerina
Bob Dylan – Like A Rolling Stone
The Roches – Hammond Song
Crosby, Stills & Nash – Wooden Ships
Paul Simon – Mother And Child Reunion
Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit
Buffalo Springfield – Expecting to Fly
Neil Young – Heart of Gold
Quicksilver Messenger Service – Calvary