Same Trailer, Different Park- Kacey Musgraves album which lives up to the achingly melancholy lead-off single which first interested me, "Merry-Go Round," a tale of Americana with a darker edge than the usual "small towns rule" shtick from lots of pop-country. She's been compared to a younger version of some country legends, and while its a stretch, she has a nice sense of edge which makes her stand out. She's not a great singer or dynamic performer, and the production is clean if unremarkable, but the songwriting is refreshingly frank. Musgraves tiptoes around topics like homosexuality, existisitential malaise, smoking weed, and even (Gasp!) casual sex with tactful frankness with is fairly surprising for a someone with such a mainstream bent. Some blues-tinged stuff, a little bit of folksy charm, some slightly overproduced pop, and some nicely sparse country. First mainstream album I've bought in a long time, and damn, damn good.
As you can tell I have purchased this album a few times, rofl. I used to have this album on vinyl before but it grew legs along with some other titles and disappeared. But this album sounds great!
Back up and running and the old Sure V cartridge has been replaced with a Sumiko Pearl and all the connecting wires are repaired. So I listed to my 180 gram pressing of Dark Side Of The Moon.
Michael Jackson Thriller (1982) SACD Have not played this disc in years but it looks like it has developed audio drop outs in multiple audio tracks. First time it happened in track three I skipped back and it happend in the same place and twice more on a different song. Pulled the disc from the player and inspected it and cleaned it and same result! Anyone else had issues with there SACD developing issues years later? Rolling Stones Emotional Rescue (1980) Collectors Edition CD Rolling Stones Tattoo You (1981) CD
Lita Ford Out For Blood Vinyl
Journey Infinity Vinyl
Billy Joel 52nd Street Vinyl
Michael Jackson Thriller Half Speed Master Vinyl (Did not finish album as turntable is back to having speed variation issues so off the album went!).
Michael Jackson Thriller (1982) CBS Half Speed Master Vinyl
Eagles Hotel California (1976) Mobile Fidelity Original Master Recording Vinyl
Supertramp Breakfast In America (1979) Vinyl View attachment 14910