Buy them all, but start before Roger Dean, say The Yes Album.
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An eclectic mix:
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Love The Crusaders (The Jazz Crusaders). It’s not so easy to get those individual albums now separately.
My absolute favourite is “Street Life” (1979).
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I already have Street Life on LP and CD, so it was the others that interested. And I used an AMZ birthday gift card from my bro. What’s not to like? 
There’s a Wilton Felder album “Secrets” that I bought on LP and loved (and I still have it!), but it seems to not have been released on CD or streaming. So I need to work out how to connect my Sondek/82 to Audacity on the PC! 
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Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5
Philharmonia Orchestra, Santtu-Matias Rouvali
Anne-Sophie Mutter: Carmen-Fantasie
Two different readings of Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms
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This is the last of Ayreon’s studio albums to add to my collection - skipping the Actual Fantasy ‘remake’.
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Yes, for me those mid seventies albums covered by this set up to and including ‘Streetlife’ (my favourite too) are superb. I have some of the solo albums of Joe Sample from that period on vinyl also which are classy too. Will look out for ‘Secrets’, thanks for the recommendation.
Last Saturday I bought the album ‘Natural Avenue’ (1977) by John Lodge of The Moody Blues on vinyl at the Exeter record fair based on the cover by Roger Dean. I thought it had to be like 1970s Yes in some way. We’ll see!! Either way I have the sleeve.
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Haven’t got any Joe Sample solo albums, but I did find a couple of WF albums on that infamous video streaming site.
OTOH, eight LPs for the princely sum of eleven squid. I can see this going in the next AMZ basket!
Edit: And so it came to pass that the box set was duly ordered
It’s been a heavy month, so far, for music purchases; The Crusaders box set is “out for delivery”, and I’ve got the Beatles DVD on order as well.
Next up: birthday CDs for daughter #2……she has requested Iron Maiden & Metallica! Yes, we brought them up well!
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Off the back of this I ordered the Fugazi CD box set, an album I love!
It arrived a couple of weeks ago, I have only just copied it to the Nas Drive. My first and so far only listen to it got as far as Emerald lies. As this track progressed I felt somewhat underwhelmed, so I changed to my 90’s 24bit CD rip. What a difference, the old CD utterly trounced the new one. More DR and emotional connection, I just had to turn the volume up to match the level of the new CD. In all honesty I’m disappointed, but I’ll give it another chance soon.
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32 discs (25 CDs, 3 DVDs and 4 Blu-rays)… I got knackered just looking at the contents. Lord knows when I’ll find the time to listen…
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Interesting, I had exactly the opposite reaction - I’ve always found the 90s 24 bit remasters to wound a bit off, and much preferred the remix. Different ears and systems… If you end up not being a fan of the remix, keep hold of it for now as all the deluxe editions have increased in value significantly since their release - you might get back several times what you paid for it in a couple of years.
Agreed It’s horrible.
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Latest arrivals
Neil Young - Royce Hall
Peter Gabriel- SO 25th Anniversary Deluxe 3Disc Release
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
Bruce Cockburn - Small Source of Comfort
The Tragically Hip - Saskadelphia
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