[Zaiks]

Pet Shop Boys - Fundamental

 

[Faust2D]

 

[krmathis]

"Niagara" - Mark Norman

 

[sachu]

Pink Floyd - Division Bell

Great reference material for road testing my newest pair of HD580s!!

 

[lisnalee]

Ayo technology - 50 Cent / Justin timberlake

 

[Quaddy]

radiohead - national anthem

 

[Hi-Finthen]

(Them) Changes [Arranged / written by Miles]

Jimi Hendrix

Band of Gypsys [Remastered '98]

/ Band of Gypsys, recorded live at the Fillmore East on New Year's Eve, 1969, a project by Jimi Hendrix, backed by Billy Cox and Buddy Miles, that followed Hendrix's Experience project. Released before his death in 1970, it was the last album Hendrix himself authorised. Jimi shows his Blues based avant-garde funk here, with the Gypsys melodic, groove-heavy, socially and spiritually conscious compositions . A truely awesome three man group more in the direction many fans wished he had lived to further experiment and produce with, I for one

Remarkably great sound quality!
Yet another great artist lost to horse

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Glide

Phish

Nectar [16 tracks, '92]

Phish's second major-label release is still in many ways their best and most accomplished album. Expanding on the musical explorations that dominated "Lawn Boy", "Nectar" incorporates a remarkable mixture of styles, from country, jazz, and calypso to straight-up rock & roll. Lyrically, the band's trademark goofiness is intact, but the playing is more muscular and Trey Anastasio's arrangements have increased intensity and focus. In fact, it's a surprisingly tight record for a band that built their reputation on endless concert jams, very impressive listening

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Celebration / Liberty

Phil Lesh & Friends

There & Back Again [11 tracks, 2002]

/ This quintet Lesh assembled, with an instrumentation that replicated the Grateful Dead's, except for the inclusion of only one drummer, features former Allman Brothers Band guitarists Warren Haynes and Jimmy Herring, former Zen Tricksters keyboardist Rob Barraco, and former Bruce Hornsby & the Range drummer John Molo. "There and Back Again" is this unit's first studio album and is recorded and mixed so as to provide our gear with excellent reproduction sound quality. Not surprisingly, it sounds like a cross between the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers Band. Mmmmm

Lesh has made one other crucial connection here, bringing in Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter to write the words for six of the 11 songs. (One of them is "Liberty," a Jerry Garcia co-composition the Grateful Dead performed toward the end.) Hunter has a distinctive, wordy writing style, full of allusions, aphorisms, and wordplay that will be familiar to any Deadhead.

The leadoff track, "Celebration," with music by Lesh, is very much the product of the team who wrote the Grateful Dead's "Box Of Rain", [Lesh/Hunter]; it is a statement of purpose, proclaiming a recommitment to a positive viewpoint despite "stolen elections, corruption, and hate." Haynes, who does most of the singing (though Lesh and Barraco get leads, too), was a careful student of Gregg Allman's throaty style, and his stinging slide guitar work recalls Duane Allman.

For the most part, the band keeps their natural tendency to jam in check, placing emphasis on the well-written songs played very tightly. The tracks run four to six minutes each and usually fade out with the band still playing, so this material no doubt stretches out in concert, aka The Dead/Allman Bros concerts I've attended... The result is a surprisingly well-organized and accessible collection that is the best album yet made by a Grateful Dead spin-off band, IMO ...

 

[DLeeWebb]

"House Of Cards" - Radiohead
"Monsoon" - Floratone
"Boy With A Coin" - Iron & Wine
"I Got Mine" - Spoon
"Scare Me To Death" - Joe Henry

 

[Fing]

"Leaders of the Free World" - Elbow

 

[mrarroyo]

Rio De Maio - Jane Monheit

 

[Rise To The Top]

Kid Gloves - Voxtrot

 

[bball2]

Nas - Life's A Bitch

 

[John D.]

Prayer Meetin' - Jimmy Smith

Caution - Maxi Priest

 

[Fing]

"Head Over Heels" - Cocteau Twins

 

[LarryK2]

. . . with Andrea Watts/Ozawa/NYP, on Columbia LP. Good performance, and well worth the 88 cents I paid for it. The vinyl is in NM condition except for the 2nd movement, which may be NM, but the pressing is flawed. Oh well, two good movements is still worth the .88.