Seymour Sampler, 4/04
Seymour Sampler – VOL. 1 Chris Seymour, 4/2004
1. Peter Gabriel, Passion (Remastered), “The Feeling Begins,” Incredible textures and detail. Perhaps a bit odd for some, but after 16 years this is still nearly my favorite album. You may need to give this track (and the next) a few plays as they tend to grow slowly on people. But if they do grow on you, the album will be a long-term investment that pays off incredibly. If you can play it, the single-layer SACD version is slightly better.
2. Peter Gabriel, Passion (Remastered), “Of These, Hope”
3. Loreena McKennitt, The Mask and the Mirror, “The Mystic’s Dream,” The only great track on the album IMO. Sound cinematic? Was used as opening theme for a movie I can’t remember.
4. Peter Gabriel, OVO, “The Man Who Loved the Earth / The Hand That Sold Shadows,” This album could be considered a hybrid of his Passion sound and his more traditional song styles. Textures + groove = wicked fun.
5. Sting, Still Be Love In the World, “A Thousand Years (Nitin Sawhney Mix),” Don’t start off too loud, comes in @ ~0:58, extremely low bass @ 3:25. This is an unusual sonic palette and not a common recording, even though the original song is.
6. Everything But The Girl, Walking Wounded, “Before Today,” Bass comes in at 0:47 (if you still have a woofer from track 5). I absolutely love her voice. Silk.
7. Ramsey Lewis, Verve/ Remixed 2, “Do What You Wanna (Mr. Scruff’s Soul Party Mix),” If you have any joints in your neck, this song will find them. Patchy sound is due to this whole album being modern remixes of classic Verve material. Still a lot of fun.
8. Dr. John, Duke Elegant, “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If it Ain’t Got That Swing),” Great groove, very clean recording, punchy, sounds great loud.
9. Peter Gabriel, Us (Remastered), “Washing of the Water”
10. Marc Cohn, (Self Titled), “Ghost Train,” I love electric piano – great tones.
11. Aimee Mann, Magnolia Sndrtk., “Wise Up,” Simple, dry (little to no reverb or processing) female vocals. I loved it instantly from loving the movie, but the latter is quite strange and you will either love it or hate it.
12. Rickie Lee Jones, Traffic From Paradise, “Jolie, Jolie,” She is always well engineered and occasionally musically brilliant, like Lyle Lovett. She too often gets too nostalgic, bordering on depressing. And her latest album is musically nice, but lyrically too spiteful. I most like her when she’s jolie.
13. Nickelcreek, This Side (CD layer of SACD), “Speak,” Great DSD recording, but the SACD layer clearly demonstrates the limitations of redbook. The quality of the sibilant consonants (t, s, etc.) are noticeably more natural in DSD. Also, the surround SACD mix is great – they place much more space around each sound, and combined with the dry sound makes a wonderful 3D image.
14. Lyle Lovett, I Love Everybody, “Record Lady,” Perfect audiobuddy song. Lyle is always well engineered, and occasionally musically brilliant, like Rickie Lee.
15. Steve Poltz, One Left Shoe, “Silver Lining,” One of only two great songs on this album, but it is such a fun song, especially in the car.
16. Counting Crows, August & Everything After (MFSL Remaster), “Perfect Blue Buildings,” Organ, mandolin, wire drum brush (hear the individual wires? – not many non-planar speakers resolve this)
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