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Early Afternoon Listening

Alan Parsons Project: Ammonia Avenue (1984)

While this wasn’t the first album I bought on CD, it was among the first half dozen for sure and was the one I most vividly remember playing the fuck out of after I got it.  Don’t Answer Me and Pipeline at angelic, make-your-ears-bleed volume. That front-and-center sax riff in Pipeline…chef’s kiss. That’s all I can say.

One of these days I need to make a compilation Minidisc of nothing but the instrumental cuts from APP’s albums.

Pet Shop Boys: Please (1986)

The soundtrack of my life for the first few months I lived in San Francisco.

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Where Should I Go Next?

To any Miles Davis fans out there:

I have the ones crossed out plus a few others: The Birth Of the Cool and The Complete Birth Of The Cool, Miles 54: the Prestige Recordings, and ‘Round About Midnight. Where should I go next?

For context, I love his Blue Miles/At Midnight/Love Songs era, but I can barely make it halfway through Disk 1 of Witches Brew without giving up (I know a lot Davis fans are probably screaming, “BURN THE HERETIC!”), if that helps.

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Going To Give This One Another Chance

Miles Davis – Bitches Brew (1969)

This Miles Davis recording comes highly recommended to friends of his music, with some even calling it his masterpiece. Don’t hate me, but for the life of me, I. just. cannot. get. into. it. That doesn’t mean I’m not going to stop trying, however. I’m hoping one of these days it just clicks.

I mean, it’s okay for background noise when I’m working on other things, but when I want to sit down, put my feet up, and devote 100% of my attention to what’s coming through my stereo or my headphones, it fails for me.

 

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Released 48 Years Ago Today

Giorgio & Chris: Love’s in You, Love’s in Me (1978)

Never one of my favorites, but looked back upon fondly, especially Burning the Midnight Oil.

I get the totally unsubstantiated feeling that Giorgio was fucking Chris at the time and was hoping to make her the next Donna Summer. Unfortunately, Chris didn’t possess the vocal talent of Summer and this is why I think this was a one-off album…

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Released 48 Years Ago Today

Giorgio & Chris: Love’s in You, Love’s in Me (1978)

Never one of my favorites, but looked back upon fondly, especially Burning the Midnight Oil.

I get the totally unsubstantiated feeling that Giorgio was fucking Chris at the time and was hoping to make her the next Donna Summer. Unfortunately, Chris didn’t possess the vocal talent of Summer and this is why I think this was a one-off album…

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Evening Listening And My Initial Thoughts On The Sennheiser HD600s

I Who Have Nothing and Take Me To Heaven: the first two songs I put through the new Sennheisers at angelic volume. Keeping in mind that these need a week or so to “break in” and it may change, as of right now I’m very happy with the purchase. They sound great right out of the box, and if anything, they’ve unabashedly revealed the differences between my CD players. Surprisingly, the oldest players I own, the D-10 and the D-15 (1988 and 89 respectively) sound significantly better than my newest, the D-EJ915 (1999/2000) and D-EJ100 (2004) but honestly, that may just be my imagination playing tricks.

They’re also high impedance and therefore power-hungry. On the older players I barely had to turn the volume control above it’s lowest setting to get decently loud with my other ‘phones; now I have to turn it about 1/4 of the way up. On the newer players with digital volume controls, I have to crank it to 3/4 of the way to max to get the same sound level.

On my main system, they’re

Comfort-wise, so far so good. The pads are big enough that they fit completely over my ears and the pressure on my glasses is minimal. We’ll see how that plays out as time goes by.

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Saturday Afternoon Coffee and Tunes

This particular CD Walkman, the Sony D-EJ915 is among my favorites the company produced in the late 90s. While it has no built-in display (you need the external remote to see track numbers, times, and to access all the secondary functions like programming and sound control), it does have physical buttons on the unit itself to handle all the basic functions. I have the remote, but I hate Sony MD/CD remotes so it’s always important to me that I can access the basic functions from the player itself.

I understand the 915 was their flagship model from 1999 to 2000 and it reeks of quality. The top case is solid aluminum, has skip-free G-Protection and seems to run forever on two gum stick batteries. It’s also among the last players Sony made that allowed you to see the spinning disc (a big plus for me just because).

Shadowfax’s Dreams of Children dates from about 1984 and while not era-specific to the player (something YouTube guys like to point out when demoing/repairing their equipment), for me it invokes memories of San Francisco and embodies my whole “New Age” music period. I found it at a thrift store for $1 earlier this week.

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Saturday Afternoon Coffeehouse Tunes

Meute – Empor (2024)

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Thursday Night Soundtrack

Duncan Sisters: Duncan Sisters (1979)

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