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What are you listening to? Part III

D.T. said:
Got the TEAC P650 in, thoughts so far, after 5 days of listening: bright without being harsh, good soundstage, very nice build quality, looks terrific and slightly old-school :) The headphone out is shockingly good - I've been listening to it on Beyerdynamic DT880s in 250 ohm, and it's doing a terrific job.

I even scored some new music - mostly replacing lost/missing albums - via used CDs from SecondSpin, terrific experience, great prices (had a discount code too, < $4 per disc to my door), arrived in about 3 days. Some titles of note: Massive Attack ~ Mezzanine, Portishead ~ Dummy, Cocteau Twins ~ Heaven or Las Vegas.
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Good stuff! The first two of the bolded albums have in recent times gotten quite a few spins here as well, both great albums. Cocteau Twins is something I've been meaning to get to for ages, but that has yet to happen. Maybe now it will.

Congrats on the successful CD-player -purchase!

Having worked about 18 hour shifts for five days straight this has been playing in my head pretty much non stop. Great band and great song.

 
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Nice! One of those songs with a never ending variety of performances that can shade its pliable lyrics celebratorily, wistfully or with an ear towards spiritually.

As often with me, I learned this song in reverse through Bob Dylan. His “Restless Farewell” is a significant rewrite. The studio album is isn’t on YouTube and live versions are a mixed bag so here’s Mark Knopfler’s more traditional Scottish cover. It’s a song whose shadow can grow on the soul with age, experience and the creeping shadows of regret for things done, not done, and undone — too often at the expense of those who were hurt in the process.


My first conscious encounter of the original song was when seeing a Josh Ritter at The Ram’s Head Tavern in Annapolis, Maryland around 2004 or so. In an intimate room with tables, plenty of chatter, drinks and clinking, the stage lights dimmed as he backed away from the mic to sing directly into the room, all these sounds mixing into the walls echoing his voice.

The version below isn’t as polished as some of the (free and legal) downloads I’ve scoured (gotta love archive.org) but with YouTube you take what you can get and it captures the flavor of a song which, in the spirit of the numberless pubs in which it’s probably been played, he allows to be warmly and imprecise. Bonus points to this video where he takes an onstage drink here or two.


Edit to add this more polished recent take by Ed Sheeran since its now popped up in my YouTube recommendations. It’s sweet and polished.

 
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Mefisto said:
Good stuff! The first two of the bolded albums have in recent times gotten quite a few spins here as well, both great albums. Cocteau Twins is something I've been meaning to get to for ages, but that has yet to happen. Maybe now it will.

Congrats on the successful CD-player -purchase!
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I'm very happy with it, I listened to it vs. some other equipment I have, notably better. The Onkyo was supposed to be fantastic, but with the unknown of what DAC it might contain, I'm happy with my known quantity of the simply fantastic Burr Brown chip in the TEAC (and some of the features unique the P650 are pretty fun).

At some point, this may wind up just being a transport anyway (i.e., move to an external DAC).

Wow, just wow, I'd forgotten how good Portishead ~ Dummy and Cocteau Twins ~ Heaven or Las Vegas are as a complete listen, first to last track, on some decent equipment.

Currently listening to The Flaming Lips ~ The Soft Bulletin, brilliant, their best, just slightly ahead - IMHO - of Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. :)
 
IronWaffle said:
Nice! One of those songs with a never ending variety of performances that can shade its pliable lyrics celebratorily, wistfully or with an ear towards spiritually.

As often with me, I learned this song in reverse through Bob Dylan. His “Restless Farewell” is a significant rewrite. The studio album is isn’t on YouTube and live versions are a mixed bag so here’s Mark Knopfler’s more traditional Scottish cover. It’s a song whose shadow can grow on the soul with age, experience and the creeping shadows of regret for things done, not done, and undone — too often at the expense of those who were hurt in the process.


My first conscious encounter of the original song was when seeing a Josh Ritter at The Ram’s Head Tavern in Annapolis, Maryland around 2004 or so. In an intimate room with tables, plenty of chatter, drinks and clinking, the stage lights dimmed as he backed away from the mic to sing directly into the room, all these sounds mixing into the walls echoing his voice.

The version below isn’t as polished as some of the (free and legal) downloads I’ve scoured (gotta love archive.org) but with YouTube you take what you can get and it captures the flavor of a song which, in the spirit of the numberless pubs in which it’s probably been played, he allows to be warmly and imprecise. Bonus points to this video where he takes an onstage drink here or two.


Edit to add this more polished recent take by Ed Sheeran since its now popped up in my YouTube recommendations. It’s sweet and polished.

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I love Josh Ritter - that must have been phenomenal to see. Yeah this song was randomly recommended for me via YouTube and evoked my spirit - definitely. I love songs that illustrate a visual of magic in my head. I'm a sucker for Celtic Woman and they performed this masterfully
 
Man I like this song.

There was an evening quite some time ago where a bunch of us old friends got together at a mutual friends house for the whole weekend to catch up and whatnot. The guy, whose house we were staying at, had a fully loaded studio in his basement, and most of us being musicians that's where we naturally set up camp. There was all sorts of jamming that night, but this was a song we always came back to. I really couldn't say how long we went at it, but it was a couple of hours on this one song, at least. Switching instruments, improvising the most outrageous solos, leads, licks, fills and vocal melodies we could come up with. The real bummer is that no one hit record. Oh well, it probably didn't sound as good as I remember it sounding at the time.

Three of the guys present that weekend have since passed away, so this is a record that I like to play to commemorate them with every now and again. That, and these Scots really do funk like nobody's business.

 
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This again:


because of this, and going behind the scenes as to how he did it and insights into Bowie's opinion of it:


Best part:

Producer: Your guitar playing is messy.

Hadfield: Well, you come here into space and try to play guitar!

This guy could read Adam Mansbach's Go The **** To Sleep and it would be a great read! :p

BL.
 
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bradl said:
This again:


because of this, and going behind the scenes as to how he did it and insights into Bowie's opinion of it:


Best part:

Producer: Your guitar playing is messy.

Hadfield: Well, you come here into space and try to play guitar!

This guy could read Adam Mansbach's Go The **** To Sleep and it would be a great read! :p

BL.
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I watched that video - and listened to the stunning rendition of that classic song - the context and setting made it memorable and spell-binding - when it came out at least half a dozen times.

Brilliant; as I recall David Bowie was very supportive and allowed it to be shown for a further year on YouTube. Thanks for sharing. Great video and great story.
 
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