Friday, March 18

A leprechaun and two discs


 Spring does indeed appear to making an appearance here with it warming up with the daffodills out along the main road here after sitting on a bench in the park with just a thinner jacket on with my shorts and grey socks enjoying the sun.


Time to play a couple of discs  starting with the all time early classic Harry Nilsson Nilsson Schmilsson album issued in 1971 came out on a Super Audio cd edition with just a print run of 2,500 world wide in October 2021.

This album, the title of which may escape you was a massive seller in that era and was the home of the #1 single Without You written by Pete Ham and Tom Evans of the Welsh group Badfinger.

Recently Mobile Fidelity Sound labs issued it's follow up.

Harry Nilsson's bold proclamation on the opening track to Son of Schmilsson immediately makes it evident the singer had no intention to repeat the approach of his commercial breakout, the preceding Nilsson Schmilsson – harbouring no desire to hold back on any front or advance any traditional notion of a career. 

The madcap album goes all out, delivering a wild ride infused with horror-movie effects, crass jokes, then-shocking profanity, snoring, and even a belch – strangeness that belies the fact it went gold and landed a Top 40 single in the form of "Spaceman." 

Both come as hybrid super audio cds meaning they will play on practically all cd players while offering the best sound on a dedicated super audio cd player and packaged as a mini lp.

Going one hundred and eighty degrees away from the his new audience didn't damage him!

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