From a recording standpoint for me many of the singer/big band records from the fifties still qualify as some of the most astonishingly good recordings ever.  To be able to create a sense of intimacy with 30 musicians or so and a singer and doing it all in one take and live.  Geeze louise.  Can you say real talent?

+1 for Lou Reed, Green Eyed Lady...

lots of great recordings from days gone by.

Live:  Three Sides Live

So.....

are we to be astonished by the recording, the performance, the memories invoked or the back story.

I don't want to get this wrong.

bapu


So.....

are we to be astonished by the recording, the performance, the memories invoked or the back story.

I don't want to get this wrong.

don't know about you but I don't "walk on the wild side" 

bapu


astonishing can be such an obtuse term

"absolutely amazing", now there's a way to describe something

This says it on the label.  I should go home and listen to the album tonight.  Oh, I am seeing Devo.  Never mind

Are you not... When?

Tonight.  Before the cream sits out too long.  I couldn't help buying tickets.  I have an uncontrollable urge.  And I am a mongoloid.  

bapu

offnote


we loose too much when recording, let's play live!

The Who - Live At Leeds
Cheap Trick - Live At Budokan (sp)
Peter Frampton - Live
et. al.

Ooo... Three excellent choices!  (Might throw in the UFO Live album too.)

offnote


it's no wonder for me that some old recordings sound better then current - they had tube amps which are better (warmer and less noisy) then today's digital crap. Tubes are coming back anyway.

Ah, you're one of "those" types, eh?  Here's the tube shrine I put together a long time ago:
 

 
And a larger version...

The production on Fleetwood Mac's Rumours is wonderful, as it is on The Clash's London Calling.

And am I the first to mention DSOTM?