You come home and find that your wife has bought you a CD555/552/500x3 active/DBLs and run off with the milkman - in your supreme happines what is the first piece of music you would play to celebrate your new gains?

Erik,

First, my wife is not that crazy (at least not about me...or NAIM stuff), but without a question I would play my favorite piano disc which I listen to almost every week:

Further Attempst / Todd Garfinkel / MA Recordings

http://www.marecordings.com/main/product_info.php?cPath...5033f663f90bbb99ea3c

It sounds great on any system, even if the wife is still around. Try it.

Regards,

Haim

Styx, The Grand Illusion

No dobut. It's gotta be this.

Jonatha Brooke Live - West Point - sublime

Closer - Joy Division, for the ultimate mix of pleasure and sadness.

The first:
Antonio Vivaldi - Le quattro stagioni - Deutsche Grammophon 1983

Stern, Zukerman, Mintz, Perlman
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra directed by Zubin Mehta

Wonderful performance and recording.
Possibly on vinyl.

The second immediatly after would probably be "Protection" by Massive Attack.

Erik

I tweaked your question a little and asked myself which piece of music would I play if I had a once-only opportunity to play something on my dream system, after which the system would vanish in a puff of smoke.

Answer: Glenn Gould's 1981 recording of the Goldberg Variations.

Steve

YES!
Good choice!

A mind-blowing performance.

I do agree!

"Call Me the Breeze" J.J. Cale. Also specified as my funeral song!

Pat Metheny Group - First Circle - live track from the album The Road to You

My complete HMHB collection starting with

I would put in "Kind of Blue" and listen to "Blue in Green" turned way up. On the right system, John Coltrane's solo on that song gives me shivers.

Tweaking my answer:

That would be a perfect song to tell the sad tale...

Haim

Finlay Quaye- Maverick a Strike.

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Originally posted by HR:

Tweaking my answer:

That would be a perfect song to tell the sad tale...

Haim

What a great choice - one of my favourite songs

I'm glad you didn't choose:

She said she'd like to bathe in milk, he said, "All right, sweetheart,"
And when he'd finished work one night he loaded up his cart.
He said, "D'you want it pasturize? 'Cause pasturize is best,"
She says, "Ernie, I'll be happy if it comes up to my chest."
That tickled old Ernie and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west.

Now Ernie had a rival, an evil-looking man,
Called Two-Ton Ted from Teddington and he drove the baker's van.
He tempted her with his treacle tarts and his tasty wholemeal bread,
And when she seen the size of his hot meat pies it very near turned her head
Poor Ernie and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west.

Fearing disappointment, even from a dream system, I would probably play something that had recognised musical qualities but which I didn't like. I happen to dislike opera as a genre, so Maria Callas singing something operatic would probably do. Actually, I've just remembered that whenI heard a demo of DBLs [which may or may not have been the first time I heard a CDS - my memory from 15+ years ago is fading] one of the tracks played was of Maria Callas, so it's a good precedent.

Or, if I'm feeling more hopeful, Kansas City Milkman by Level 42.