20 CDs • Over 300 tracks • Two Lavish full colour booklets, one 86 pages and the other 96 pages with rare photos, detailed biographies and full discographies. The legendary Rubble Collection Volumes 1-20 CD boxed set. Amongst the first and best psych compilations ever put together, each and every volume is a mind-blowing treasure […]
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I was fortunate enough in the sixties to see the Kinks live at Manchester University where I was a student at UMIST. They were indeed outstanding and it wasn’t just because of their strange and unusual stage presence, but they really could play their instruments and sing and of course wrote some truly wonderful tunes. […]
Timm Davison, studied Media Communication at University of Washington (2017) replies: For a rock band, bringing it to the stage is supremely important, as much so now as ever before (there could be an entire post about how touring is really the only money-maker these days, as streaming has taken precedence over physical sales, there […]
GRAMOPHONE Liszt’s piano music, with Alexander Ullman Alexander Ullman’s new album featuring Liszt’s Piano Concertos Nos 1 and 2 and the Sonata in B Minor, is released today on Rubicon Classics. For this week’s episode of the Gramophone Podcast, the Award-winning pianist joined Editor Martin Cullingford to explore this extraordinary music, its beauty and its […]
GRAMOPHONE: Arranging The Four Seasons for solo harp Harpist Keziah Thomas talks us through recreating Vivaldi’s evocative imagery on her own instrument As a child of the 80s, my first encounter with The Four Seasons came from my favourite cassette in my grandfather’s meticulously indexed drawer of classical music albums, ‘Hooked on Classics’. Vivaldi’s music […]
Howard Popeck: As part of my continual effort to broaden my classical music horizons I have applied lateral thinking which has turned out to be rather effective and pleasurable. I’ll share it with you although I recognise that it probably won’t be of use to you if you are already where I want to be […]
ALEX JOHNSTON writes … Yes, indeed. ‘Revolution 9’. Commonly agreed to be the Worst. Beatle Track. Ever. A blot, we are constantly told, on an otherwise great album. And, I mean…it’s hard to disagree. The Beatles were a band whose signature trait was not that they were the heaviest, or the most complex, or the […]
Being a bit too young at the time though, I dearly, dearly would have loved to have seen the Small Faces live. I’ve seen a number of live performance videotapes of them and they were certainly not a studio-bound band. Whilst it’s true that certain effects in the studio such as phasing and backwards guitars […]
We are told: Together at last! Two folk legends of Laurel Canyon’s countercultural music scene join forces on this gorgeous album of all new recordings! Features captivating versions of classic tunes by fellow folk icons Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen plus a few of their own compositions!
Do you like the music of Elvis Costello? Hmm. Visualise me stroking my chin please. Okay – got that? Good. I’ll begin. But I haven’t met him! I’ve been thinking long and hard about the question you posed, do I like Elvis Costello? Try as I may, no simple answer emerges and I can only […]
We are told ….. Two ‘high octane radio concerts from Husker Du one from 1985 when the band were enjoying an upsurge of interest globally not just locally due to the success of the Byrds cover single 8 Miles High and the albums New Day Rising & Flip Your Wig. Disc 1 Introduction 2. Flip […]
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Alex Johnston writes … Yes. It was actually three days after the album’s release that Hendrix played it at a concert in the Saville Theatre. Memorising it, incidentally, is a feat well within the powers of even a middling rock musician. ‘Sgt Pepper’ the song isn’t exactly complicated, and Hendrix—a hugely gifted rock musician—had been […]
Howard Popeck: Certainly. Now forgive me for saying this, but it is possible to over-analyse the wonder of music, the magic and the emotion. It’s a danger, but somehow I sense you aren’t going to fall into the trap. The most wonderful book on the sheer unadulterated joy of classical music without the usual patronising […]
Eric Johnson answers It’s a little-known fact that Rory Gallagher nearly joined Bill Wyman in the Rolling Stones after guitarist Mick Taylor walked out following a series of blow-ups with Keith Richards. In January 1975, Rory was invited by The Rolling Stones to come and jam/audition with The Stones in Rotterdam after Mick Taylor had […]
I recently received a private email asking me “what exactly is a good recording?” Great question and here’s what’s interesting: we all know a great or poor recording the moment we hear one. At one of my recent demonstrations I was demonstrating a decent transport and DAC through the customer’s much loved and really rather […]
BRUCE EDER: Despite being the premiere of heavy metal, Jeff Beck’s Truth has never quite carried its reputation the way the early albums by Led Zeppelin did, or even Cream’s two most popular LPs, mostly as a result of the erratic nature of the guitarist’s subsequent work. Time has muted some of its daring, radical […]
INTRO: The catalyst for this discussion is both the on-air and off-air discussions between the Lost Immortals team on our FM (streaming too) Sunday show @ 17:00 GMT. Our radio station control room is very far from hi-fi; more like no-fi. Cheap as chips speakers, bygone era headphones and so on. And yet, and yet […]
From classic-rock squabbles to hip-hop diss tracks and social media wars, here are the ridiculous, rancorous conflicts that have held us rapt. https://getpocket.com/explore/item/music-s-30-fiercest-feuds-and-beefs?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB Hi and thanks for taking a look. If you have a email you want to share with us the please contact us by clicking https://www.hifianswers.com/talk-to-our-editors/ Thank you