[Silent One]

 

[philo50]

   

oh yeah......

 

[DLeeWebb]

"The Descendants: Music From The Motion Picture" - Various Artists
 
 

"Break It Yourself" - Andrew Bird
 
 

"Live At Massey Hall 1971" - Neil Young

 

[UmustBKidn]

 

[MrTechAgent]

 

 

[ssrock64]

This is (and probably always will be) my favorite Decemberists album. Folk rock at its best.
 

 

[DLeeWebb]

This is (and probably always will be) my favorite Decemberists album. Folk rock at its best.

We must have similar taste...I'm with you on this...

 

[dc-k]

 lovely...

 

[ssrock64]

  We must have similar taste...I'm with you on this...

That album's just full of really solid standalone songs. Nothing is really filler on there, and all of the songwriting is really high-quality. It sounds a lot more organic and from the heart than other albums of theirs, too.

 

[elmoe]

 

[philo50]

   
 

brings back memories.....

 

[analogsurviver]

 
 lovely...

Agreed !

 

[Androb]

Peter Gabriel - Ovo

 

[analogsurviver]

Surely the stereo version is better?

I am not familiar with the mono version.
 
Although I tend towards hating avoiding listening to mono with headphones, because of the extreme in the head soundstage, with a GOOD mono it is not sooo troublesome and is preferred over the table tennis effects so prevalent in earlier stereo recordings, jazz coming to mind first. These never mimic sound heard live, they serve the purpose of showing off the capabilities of the technology per se, applied with more or less taste by the producer. On speakers, I will take good mono over table tennis stereo any day in the week. Have not been listening to my copy of Blue (stereo version) for longer than I dare to admit, due to its tendency to table tennis stereo camp...

 

[TJ Elite]

 
Surely the stereo version is better?

...? I wonder why you say 'surely'. Anyway, I don't own the album in stereo on vinyl (yet) or in mono on CD, but I did just compare the mono vinyl to my stereo SACD and to me the mono mix is a clear winner. The bass and piano are much more present. In the stereo mix the pianist is often barely there unless he's soloing, but in the mono mix the piano is just there and an equal part of the group. The most wonderful part is the bass, which feels like its level is just right – a rarity for a "golden era" jazz recording from pre-70s. Also the amount of spatial information present in Chambers' playing is truly superlative compared to the stereo mix.