Album Club - Discussion Thread Only

[Rare Bird]

You'll have to stick to stuff that's available on Spotify.

thats me out then

[The Grand Wazoo]

Jeez, Andre, there's got to be something on there that you like!

[serendipitydawg]

Can we just stick to the 20th century decade by decade. All genres and definitely no MP3's or Spotify

[John]

Trouble with that is most people will not have access to music so be quite limited and a lot of people want to join in the fun

[John]

Andre for classic albums you could suggest ELP Yes etc The obscure stuff would be hard for most of us to get hold off . Let me know if you wish your name not to be listed

[MartinT]

The difficulty with classical is that there are so many different versions that we will need to make sure everyone listens to the same one, or else the follow-up discussion about the album is going to be pretty meaningless.

Agreed, but it can be done. There are great recordings of every piece and we could use the Penguin highest rated one, or more pragmatically select from one that is on Spotify to attain the greatest audience.

[ursus262]

The difficulty with classical is that there are so many different versions that we will need to make sure everyone listens to the same one, or else the follow-up discussion about the album is going to be pretty meaningless.

Imagine if the album was Elgar's 'Cello Concerto and some listened to the du Pré version, some to the Tortelier version and some to Casals etc

That was why I suggested the Naxos label for Faure, because IIRC that is the only version in their catalogue.

The Per Norgard is available on DACAPO (part of Chandos) as a CD/SACD hybrid.

[ursus262]

Lots of great suggestions folks
Another idea from The Grand Wazzo
Instead of using the v oting mechanism different members can take turns to nominate an album, one week it can be classic the next an album to recommend but also offer up for critical feedback.
If we do go this way then it be easy to cover for specialist taste quite easy
I suggest as it Grifo104 (Simon) idea he goes first and then creat a list from those who has expressed an interest in this
So the list could look something like this
Grifo104
John
Welder
Keiths
Alan Sircom
WAD62
Vinyleyes
MartinT
Andre
Audioman
Ursus262

Sounds OK to me

[MartinT]

That was why I suggested the Naxos label for Faure, because IIRC that is the only version in their catalogue.

Hmm, I must have about 15 versions of the Faure but I don't have the Naxos. I think we should stick to great recordings that most people stand a chance of having.

[Audioman]

Andre for classic albums you could suggest ELP Yes etc The obscure stuff would be hard for most of us to get hold off . Let me know if you wish your name not to be listed

Obscure stuff at least on LP is usualy available on CD (search Amazon/Ebay/Discogs) or even a download.