What CD are you listening to right now?

[JonMarsh]

For those not familiar with what an Alex Lifeson Les Paul looks like,




Note the bridge assembly, compared with a "normal" Les Paul.

[JonMarsh]

OK, this is the “Geezer reconnects with favorite music of the distant past” moment. Extra points for you if you know who the Pousette-Dart band was. I just received the double album CD of their two best early albums from Amazon- a small number floating around, made in Italy. Extra points for you if you know who they are, or can name at least one song. But like most folks, you probably have “Amnesia” about these guys… whereas I can sing all the words to this song and others on the album without even thinking about it.

https://youtu.be/dm6AFag8SdY

Scary, huh? My daughter understands, but I don't think anyone else does... maybe, unless you hear it!

This is the double album CD I picked up. Enjoy the heck out of it. Very good writing and ensemble playing.

[Warlock]

Listening to the new Haiduk album Diabolica. Blackened death metal. Non stop riffs!

Haiduk - Wraithavoc:

[svenarajala]

I've been listening to Ghost Impera album. I don't know hos I missed this album for so long!

[JonMarsh]

Why, the "Lost Christmas Eve" by Trans-Siberian Orchestra, of course!

[masterofnone]

Why, the "Lost Christmas Eve" by Trans-Siberian Orchestra, of course!

I have that same album. Perhaps I should play that later today too... It is a pretty fun album to listen to, and I'm sure it will bring up some good old memories of when I was living in in the Southern states.

[JonMarsh]

My wife loves their stuff, but then she's Russian, born in Khabarovsk in Siberia, of parents exiled from the Moscow area by the Bolsheviks.

That's what I call having history...

[r100gs]

a blast from the past, Modern English , after the snow

[svenarajala]

OK not a CD because I need to track one down if they have it... Found out about this group the other day from a colleague in the office, and I'm shocked I've never heard of this group! The group is called Brass Against which does covers of Tool, Perfect Circle, Rage Against the Machine, Led Zeppelin and others. Its a brass instrument group with drummer, vocals, and some strings (bass and/or guitar).

[Warlock]

Possessed by this song

[svenarajala]

A life goal for me that I don't know if I will ever achieve at this point is to drum like that!!!! Such discipline to keep that beat. Great share!

[technodanvan]

So I've been trying to listen to bass-heavy music this week to break in my new subwoofers. Naturally, this leads me more towards a pop / hip-hop trend than what I normally listen to (which is a much more varied blend of music).

First up, I discovered Post Malone is a bit of a bass head, especially on his first album. It gets quite deep, but it sometimes seems to get louder or quieter on a whim, with little rhyme or reason.


Of course, Post Malone is best listened to in small doses (IMO) so I've been breaking that up with a lot of Halsey, whom I quite like. Specifically her first and third albums, Badlands and Manic, respectively. The other two are fine as well, but I keep coming back to these two. The initial bass hit on 3 A.M. is something to behold.



To keep the mood light I also listened to the Popstar soundtrack by The Lonely Island. A couple of the later songs dig pretty deep. I love the Lonely Island, it's great listening just about anywhere (except the garage with an open door)...



From here I went back to hip hop and tried T.I. on for size. This is fairly variable, but his 2020 album The L.I.B.R.A. seems to take some cues from the Post Malone-era of bassheadedness.




Kud Cudi also explores the depths with several albums, most notably in the Man on the Moon, Vol. 3.

[JonMarsh]

I agree! will check some out more-
But note, for "traditionalists", try a good recording of Saint-Saëns C minor organ symphony, I'm fond of several, but the Boston Symphony with Charles Munch (remastered SACD preferred) or the Philadelphia Orchestra with Eugene Ormandy are probably my all time favorites.
And for something that's been around and might surprise you, try Deana Carter "Did I Shave My Legs for This? 25th Anniversary Edition. Remastered and two new tracks; very clean 5 string bass that goes quite low on some cuts. And it's like a classic country album- who'd have thought?

[svenarajala]

I got the Popstar album now. Only listened to 2 songs, and need to get through the album when I get some time...

[technodanvan]

Hope you like it. The movie is worth a watch IMO. Some of the songs are helped by a little context.

[JonMarsh]

OK, decided I had to "bite" on this, in a sense, because there are new versions of a couple of favorites I discovered yesterday after reviewing this thread, as noted in the comment above.

The SACD version of the Charles Munch version of the C Minor symphony... ordered:




While I do have a couple of SACD players, what I need to do is install the Vanity 93 output board in my Oppo player, set up the conversion configuration for DSD to PCM, and fire up my oldest Mac Pro which is setup with software to capture the PCM stream from an RME Fireface 800 and store it on disk. I was last doing this with an older AudioPraise product that had to be hardwired into a Pioneer multi format player- this is a lot better, as it just swaps in for the original output board.

Why do I think that will take most of a morning or afternoon to get working right....

Of course, this is another one of those deferred gratification projects, as was the Oppo player I bought just for this activity.


Much simpler will be ripping and listening to the 25th Anniversary of Deana Carters 1996 album...




This is for the "country music lover" that wants to hear what an excellent recording job can do with fairly classic tunes, (originals) and with deeper range of a 5 string bass tossed into the mix (not a typical country music approach, in my limited experience!