Spinning Today - What Are You Listening To Right Now? (Part 3)

[Alex_UK]

I don't have anything live by Faithless, what's it like?

I think the best I can say is “it’s ok”. I know why I haven’t played it very often, aside that I am not a massive fan of live recordings as mostly I feel “you had to be there” and this is probably in that category.

It doesn’t sound that brilliant recording quality wise to me, probably because it is live, and because they are using real instruments I.e. drums and guitars it just seems a bit strange when you are used to the studio versions of epic songs like Insomnia, God is a DJ, We Come 1 etc., and it is relatively short in song numbers (only 12) and lots of crowd interaction which is a bit distracting if you haven’t seen them live, which I haven’t.

If you see it for a quid at a car boot I’d say it’s worth it but I wouldn’t be urging you to go order online unless very cheap or the points I have made don’t put you off.

[Pigmy Pony]

Cheers Alex, I sort of thought that might be the case. I agree about live recordings, they can so often be disappointing. And in the case of Faithless, as with other acts of that ilk, going from studio electronics to a live setting with real instruments is going to be losing a lot of what made it good in the first place.

I did have a live Faithless DVD a few years ago, I didn't watch it all the way through.

Anyway, Mrs. P is on her way home, so just one more record.

[Barry]

Cheers Alex, I sort of thought that might be the case. I agree about live recordings, they can so often be disappointing. And in the case of Faithless, as with other acts of that ilk, going from studio electronics to a live setting with real instruments is going to be losing a lot of what made it good in the first place.

I did have a live Faithless DVD a few years ago, I didn't watch it all the way through.

Anyway, Mrs. P is on her way home, so just one more record.

I agree about live recording - usually the microphones were badly located; there was far to much audience adulation to start and even more of it at the end of the set. All in all a waste of time.

But that was then ('70s - '80s), now recordings of live performances are much better. The recording engineers know how to mike up the instruments and/or amplifiers, and the audience appreciation is now edited to a respectful minimum. Obviously the overall performance is not as well polished as it would be for a studio recording, but you do have the excitement and experience of it being a 'one off'.

Regarding the Dire Straits album, excellent choice there (along with their debut album), but you might be amused to learn that a colleague at work who had just bought the LP complained of excess hiss at the start of one of the tracks, and was going to return the copy for a replacement. I had to tell him there was nothing wrong with his copy - what he thought was "hiss" was actually the sound of waves and surf breaking on the shore!

[Idlewithnodrive]

Qobuz

[Idlewithnodrive]

[Idlewithnodrive]

Music buy of the year for me.

[Idlewithnodrive]

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Death Hilarious

[Idlewithnodrive]

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Death Hilarious

Another great Album. As an aside, great to see that Rocket are once again in the ascendancy

[Alex_UK]

No idea on that one, I will search it up, Mike!

A bit of American Indie/Dream Pop for tonight's late night mellowness:

The Marias - Submarine (2024)





Relatively new discovery, this is right up my street.

[Alex_UK]

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Death Hilarious

Ummm, that's not one to try listening to at 10:40 when everyone else in the house is trying to get to sleep! I'll add that to the "when everyone's out, play it loud!" list!