What are you listening to?

Always a sucker for sleeve art, bought the LP when it was released & saw them on tour in Manchester UK. A few weeks later I was visiting my Daughter in Boise Idaho & saw them again. Great album, great band, even better live.

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I'm always puzzled to see when once super popular artists and their works seem to have ceased from the public (including enthusiasts) entirely. There've been different flavours of this phenomenon.

One of them I'd like to call the "Phil Collins effect". At some point in time it became fashionable to be embarrassed by ever having listend to his music at all. Ha! As if he hadn't been an ingenious drummer and influencer of popular music for decades! Then there is the "Wolfgang Petry effect", something completely unknown to any non-German (maybe except for @castalla). Nobody ever listend to Wolfgang Petry. Nobody. His albums never made it to top chart rankings (until fully automated charting systems could no longer hide the truth).

I'm not going to make this a complete list, but just complain why so little music by Mike Oldfield is found in this thread. Five MIles Out is just one of many incredibly great albums. Maybe it's the best. Ask me tomorrow and my answer might differ, though.

Rega P6 (modified to use P8 pulley), Rega Nd7, Aiyima T3PRO, WiiM Amp Ultra, Radiant Acoustics Clarity 6.2.
 
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