I have inherited about 1000 LPs from my dad and we’re trying to work out what to keep. When we have a quiet evening, we’re going to pick an album and listen to it – it might only be a little bit of it if it’s particularly awful – and then we’re going to write a post about it.
For the record, we’re rock fans and my dad wasn’t. The LPs are about a 50:50 split of classical and rock/pop/folk/random oddities – we’ve only been listening to classical music for a few years, and as classical numpties we don’t really know what we like yet, so there’s plenty there to learn from.
For the hardware geeks, we’ve also got my dad’s hi-fi system – a Linn Sondek LP12, Obelisk 3 amp and Linn Kan speakers. Yes, I know…
There may be two of us posting – myself (shendy) and my other half, Lunacy Towers. I may refer to her as SWMBO (She Who Must Be Obeyed) and she may refer to me as Captain Sunshine. It’s entirely possible that there will be disagreements – fortunately there isn’t any Johnny Mathis so we don’t have to argue about whether or not the production on When A Child Is Born is amazing.
The reason the blog is called No Harpsichords Allowed is because we both loathe the sound of the bloody things. There are a few harpsichord albums in my dad’s collection, they’re been filed in the “to go” section.
It’s not just going to be classical on here – I’ll also write about other records we listen to, and I’m also going to try and do small reviews of concerts that I/we go to. I actually find it quite hard to describe how I feel about music, so we’ll see how that goes…