Vinylla Fudge.(THE MUSIC)

Brahms: Symphony No. 4 Bruno Walter conducting the Columbia Symphony Orchestra (Classic/Columbia MS-6113-200)

I don't think my extremely positive opinion of how Bruno Walter conducted this symphony matters much. This is because since it's official release in 1960 on Columbia opinions have been tossed about by the masses, and whether you fall into the camp that his tempos are perfect, or too slow, too fast, too flexible, too rigid; his conducting style perfect, or too emotional, too cold, too unyielding, too lax, etc. etc. you get what I mean. Yet I guess pretty much everyone can agree that Sony's relatively recent issue of this symphony on SACD and this vinyl issue show that the recording quality of this early stereo gem is quite good. I can't help but compare it to RCAs other recordings of the same vintage, and then it falls a little short, probably in large part due to the fact that the Columbia Symphony Orchestra is not the Chicago Symphony Orchestra or the Boston Symphony Orchestra. But even when comparing them to the other orchestras RCA recorded back then you can hear some minor tuning and unity problems that the others don't have. Still, I think it is a great version of this symphony, painstakingly produced on heavy vinyl. Not that my opinion matters very much.

Can: In Want More + 3 (Spoon 12spoon047)

It's nice to have Can's almost-hit along with it's companion cut ... And More on 12" 45-rpm orange vinyl, but it sounds like to me that they were rather carelessly taken from the digital masters and thrown on this limited-edition disc just for the convenience of DJs, collectors, and Can devotees. But since I haven't seen this one on compact disc for sale (yet), I'll just assume this is the only way we're going to be able to get this one for a while, so we might as well enjoy it. The two remixes, Smoke, by their bassist and recordist Holger Czukay, and Half Past One. by keyboardist Irmin Schmidt are fairly pointless, but I still would have purchased this disc knowing this. I Want More is late-period Can, but is still recognizable as coming from these brilliant Germans.

Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock (Experience Hendrix/Classic Records RTH-2014-200) 4 LP + 7" 45

I guess the release ...