Your vinyl record collections — Page 2

ferris209 said:

I have a TON of old country and bluegrass vinyl. Best stuff ever!!

Country and Bluegrass are perfect on vinyl.  That sort of music shouldn't be crisp and polished.

Got a few today, $2 each.

Queen - A Night at the Opera
Boston - Boston

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No idea who he is, but I liked the cover. The back is equally goofy.

Went on a vinyl hunt today at a couple of thrift stores and and came back with a few new ones.

I found:

Petula Clark's Greatest Hits

My Fair Lady sound track

Burt Bacharach's Greatest Hits

Blue Oyster Cult - Agents of Fortune

Ink Spots Greatest Hits

and several classical music compilations. Beyond the Ink Spots and some of the classical stuff, none of them are anything I was particularly dying to get my hands on, but for a buck a piece, I really can't complain.

As I was sifting through the stacks of albums, I couldn't help but notice how hot many of the covers were. Kind of ridiculous, you walk down the CD aisle at your modern store and you are bombard with images of scantly clad female singers, yet they can't hold a candle to many of the fully dressed women gracing the covers of albums from the sixties and seventies. Wanted to buy some of those albums I had never even heard of just for the covers. More evidence in my long held suspicions that I was born several decades later than I should have been.  

I'd love to get me some B.O.C! Nice find. :)

I totally agree about the covers, too. Classiness far outweighs trashiness. And a LOT of artists used glamour shots of random beauties for their covers back then, whether it had anything to do with the music or not.

Ripplin said:

I'd love to get me some B.O.C! Nice find. :)

It is like the cowbell is right there in the room with you!

Like to collect vinyl, but have never really gotten into it. This is all of mine (I think). Do any of you collect new vinyl pressings and reissues?

R.E.M.-Murmur (3rd), Reckoning (original pressing), Dead Letter Office (original pressing), and numerous singles.

The Who-Who's Next (3rd), Quadrophenia (German pressing), It's Hard (original).

The Best of the Animals, 2001 A Space Odyssey Soundtrack, From Russia With Love Soundtrack, Goldfinger Soundtrack, Thunderball Soundtrack, The Living Daylights Soundtrack, Star Wars Soundtrack (original 77 double LP).

Ripplin said:

Got a few today, $2 each.

Queen - A Night at the Opera
Boston - Boston

and



No idea who he is, but I liked the cover. The back is equally goofy.

Not trying to one-up you or anything, but I found this at the thrift store yesterday:

Nice! :p Always good to share the goofiness!

Here's one from my grandfather's collection:

The majority of my vinyl collection is made up of 12" dance singles from around 1992 to 2000. It currently lives in the loft, and my decks reside in the garage. One day, when the kids are a bit older, I'd like to get it all out again and rediscover my collection.

Moth3r said:

The majority of my vinyl collection is made up of 12" dance singles from around 1992 to 2000. It currently lives in the loft, and my decks reside in the garage. One day, when the kids are a bit older, I'd like to get it all out again and rediscover my collection.

Yes, you should worry about the kids. I ruined most of my dads records back in the day. I loved the music, but I just didn't think vinyl records would scratch. LOL

Just picked up "Get the Knack" last week and now Doug Fieger has died.  Odd.  Also got "Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group: Live".

If your only knowledge of Jan Hammer is from Miami Vice, you should check out his work in the '70s beginning with John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra and then with his own band.  Excellent fusion.

Yeah, Hammer's work goes well beyond the Miami Vice theme, though that was pretty awesome. ;)

I just bought an Ion Profile LP: http://www.ionaudio.com/profilelp



There's a guy on eBay, also from Ontario, selling them for $79.00 CAN with free shipping to anywhere in North America. That's a nice deal! I looked up some reviews and apparently, the sound quality is very good. It also has a built-in pre-amp and RCA outputs. :)

Maybe some of you would also like to check it out if you're in the market. He has 9 more of them available, apparently.

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270532700462&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

Oh man, just got my hands on the 5 LP Bob Dylan collection Biograph and Pink Floyd's The Wall. My inner hippie is in a state of euphoria at the moment. Listening to good ol' Bobby D right now, and man, that stuff was mean to be played on vinyl. Listen to him all the time on digital, and it just isn't the same.

Congrats! I'd like to get some Floyd on vinyl sometime.

^I still have my Dad's Dark Side of the Moon, as well as Wish You Were Here. I put them on frequently. Umagumma... well, not so much.

Yeah, I need to get my hands on DSOTM sometime. Such a popular album, eveytime I see it at used record shops it is way over priced for the condition it is in.

Got my turntable today [yesterday]. Haven't tried it yet. I need to clear some room for it and yank out the receiver to plug it in, etc, etc...

There was a recent 30th anniversary vinyl edition of DSotM that I picked up a while back. Remastered, with all the original stickers and posters and stuff. I'd say it's worth the price tag (which was around $25-$30 when I got it).

I never realized just how much of a difference in sound quality there was between analog and digital until I did a test myself with the CD and vinyl version of "Communication Breakdown" by Led Zeppelin (I've got all but two of their albums on vinyl). The vinyl sounded SO much better. The drums had some serious kick to them.

When you look at how lossy audio CDs are, it is a wonder they were accepted as the standard. You'd think modern technology could come out with a new format that has full range audio.

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I can't work out whether this is subtle humour or a serious post?

CD's are crap! Every time I try to play one, the needle completely scratches it!!

^You should try a CED, then. ;)

I did...but the corners kept knocking the needle off.