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nomarnomar Posts: 66
edited February 2011 in Other Music
So, I decided to go the vinyl route for some of my all time favorite albums/new releases. Inspired by PJ of course. Since I'm not so interested in CDs anymore, it seems like vinyl is a great route because many of them include the mp3 download anyway, at least for new vinyl albums. For the old ones, I already have them mp3s for most of them. Anywhere, here are the stats as of today, considering I just bought my first record player on Friday:

Own:

PJ holiday singles
Ten Box Set
Wilco "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot"
A Tribe Called Quest "Midnight Marauders"
The Shins "Wincing the Night Away"
My Morning Jacket "Acoustic Citsuoca"
Nirvana "Unplugged in New York"
Roots "Things Fall Apart"
Red Hot Chili Peppers "Mother's Milk"
Radiohead "OK Computer"
NOFX "So Long and Thanks for all the Shoes"
Rancid "Life Won't Wait"
Mumford and Sons "Sigh No More"
Jack Johnson "Brushfire Fairytales" - on order from amazon

I'm getting the Vs/Vitalogy sets of course.

Pending/Wanted:
Pearl Jam "Yield"
Beatles "Revolver"

Any other recommendations of favorite vinyl records?
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  • Attaway77Attaway77 Posts: 3,361
    AIC - Unplugged
    Black Keys - Attack & Release, Brothers
    Bob Marley - Legend
    The Doors - All Albums
    Temple Of The Dog
    Beatles - Abbey Road
    RHCP - BSSM, Californication, By The Way, Stadium Arcadium
    Pink Floyd - Dark Side, The Wall, Wish You Were Here
    Postal Service - Give Up
    Creedence - Chronicle
    Johnny Cash - all American Recordings
    Ray Lamontagne - All
    Led Zeppelin - Most of them
    Kings of Leon
    AND ALL THE PJ YOU CAN GET!!
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  • DB247136DB247136 Posts: 13
    Call me "new school" but what's the allure of vinyl verses cd or mp3?
  • mfc2006mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,484
    Black Keys: Attack & Release, Thickfreakness, Brothers, Magic Potion
    Neil Young: Mirrorball, Rust Never Sleeps, Harvest
    Bob Dylan & The Band: Before The Flood
    My Morning Jacket: Z, Okonokos
    Ben Harper: Live From Mars, Burn To Shine, Diamonds On The Inside
    Wilco: Sky Blue Sky
    Soundgarden: Superunknown, Batmotorfinger, Louder Than Love
    Radiohead: Hail to the Thief, In Rainbows, Live Recordings
    Elliott Smith: Elliott Smith, Either/Or, XO


    just a few from the top of my head....
    also: PEARL JAM

    i just received Riot Act today....WOW :shock:
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  • theserialthrillatheserialthrilla Posts: 15,760
    :lol: another one hooked :lol:
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  • mfc2006mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,484
    theserialthrilla wrote:
    :lol: another one hooked :lol:

    :lol:
    it doesn't take much!
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  • rcsrcs Posts: 711
    Go out and pickup anything and everything by My Morning Jacket. All their albums sound phenomenal on vinyl and also all are readily available for reasonable prices. Especially look for It Still Moves and Okonokos. Mind blowing!
    E agora? Faz xixi na mão e deita fora!
  • GardenpartyGardenparty Posts: 1,910
    DB247136 wrote:
    Call me "new school" but what's the allure of vinyl verses cd or mp3?

    Some enjoy "collecting" still. It's nice to have your favorite albums on the shelf. Cd's are not worth collecting sice you can get the digital files online. So i keep all albums on my coputer/hardrive and purchase my favorites on vinyl.

    I'll add:
    Beck - Mutations & Odelay
    “I know this song so well, I can smoke a cigarette, have a drink, brush my teeth, take a shit, and mow the lawn while singing it. But I'll only be doing a couple of those things during this version.”
  • EZ1221CEZ1221C Posts: 2,645
    The Wall-Pink Floyd.
    Where did you get Mother's Milk?
    PLAY THE SOUTH
  • nomarnomar Posts: 66
    Thanks for the responses so far. Keep 'em coming, please.
    EZ1221C wrote:
    The Wall-Pink Floyd.
    Where did you get Mother's Milk?

    Reckless records in Chicago. The place is insanely awesome at vinyl. I haven't listened to it yet. Hopefully by tomorrow. It's a nostalgic album for me because it was one of the first five CDs I ever owned. Now, it's one of the first records.
    rcs wrote:
    Go out and pickup anything and everything by My Morning Jacket. All their albums sound phenomenal on vinyl and also all are readily available for reasonable prices. Especially look for It Still Moves and Okonokos. Mind blowing!

    Damn Okonokos is expensive. Have you found it anywhere for cheaper than, say, $25? I'm pretty opposed to spending a lot of money on vinyl, especially with a lot of good stuff available for $5-$20.
    mfc2006 wrote:
    theserialthrilla wrote:
    :lol: another one hooked :lol:

    True that.
    mfc2006 wrote:
    Black Keys: Attack & Release, Thickfreakness, Brothers, Magic Potion
    Neil Young: Mirrorball, Rust Never Sleeps, Harvest
    Bob Dylan & The Band: Before The Flood
    My Morning Jacket: Z, Okonokos
    Ben Harper: Live From Mars, Burn To Shine, Diamonds On The Inside
    Wilco: Sky Blue Sky
    Soundgarden: Superunknown, Batmotorfinger, Louder Than Love
    Radiohead: Hail to the Thief, In Rainbows, Live Recordings
    Elliott Smith: Elliott Smith, Either/Or, XO

    i just received Riot Act today....WOW :shock:

    You win on Riot Act. I really want Yield.

    About the above, why is Brothers so damn expensive too? $30?

    I'll probably get a good chunk of these. Particularly more Wilco. Good calls.
    Attaway77 wrote:
    AIC - Unplugged
    Black Keys - Attack & Release, Brothers
    Bob Marley - Legend
    The Doors - All Albums
    Temple Of The Dog
    Beatles - Abbey Road
    RHCP - BSSM, Californication, By The Way, Stadium Arcadium
    Pink Floyd - Dark Side, The Wall, Wish You Were Here
    Postal Service - Give Up
    Creedence - Chronicle
    Johnny Cash - all American Recordings
    Ray Lamontagne - All
    Led Zeppelin - Most of them
    Kings of Leon
    AND ALL THE PJ YOU CAN GET!!

    Good ideas. I'd love the AIC unplugged.
  • nomarnomar Posts: 66
    I failed to mentioned that I ordered Bright Eyes "The People's Key." Good example of vinyl done right. Comes with the CD and mp3 download code for $6 more than the CD itself. This is a good reason to get vinyl.
  • rcsrcs Posts: 711
    nomar wrote:
    rcs wrote:
    Go out and pickup anything and everything by My Morning Jacket. All their albums sound phenomenal on vinyl and also all are readily available for reasonable prices. Especially look for It Still Moves and Okonokos. Mind blowing!

    Damn Okonokos is expensive. Have you found it anywhere for cheaper than, say, $25? I'm pretty opposed to spending a lot of money on vinyl, especially with a lot of good stuff available for $5-$20.
    Unfortunately I don't think you'll find it for that cheap. It's a four record box set. My local record store has it for $55 right now but I've seen it as low as $45 brand new. Really worth it if you like MMJ!
    E agora? Faz xixi na mão e deita fora!
  • EZ1221CEZ1221C Posts: 2,645
    If you want to trade your copy of Mother's Milk, I'm your guy. One of my favorite albums of all time
    PLAY THE SOUTH
  • Super CreepSuper Creep Posts: 374
    There are a few bands whose discographies I only have on vinyl such as of Montreal and belle and sebastian. If you're a Wilco fan than I suggest the kicking television vinyl box, but it certainly isn't cheap. I have a massive cd collection but lately they haven't been doing it for me so I've been getting more and more vinyl. It's a whole other experience. I'm actually listening to radiohead's amnesiac on vinyl as I type this.
    The Scary Monster
  • Pearl Jam_iePearl Jam_ie Posts: 821
    Black Crowes-"Croweology" and "Before the Frost..."
    Little Feat-"Waiting for Coulmbus"
    Rolling Stones-"Sticky Fingers" and "Exile on Main St."
    Muddy Waters-"Electric Mud"
    The Band-s/t
    The Who-"Whos Next", "Tommy", "Quadrophenia", "Live at Leeds"

    My only advice to buying vinyl is (only pertains to used iterms), CONDITION CONDITION CONDITION! Check those albums out and don't bother with stuff that doesn't look clean (dirty, scratches, etc.). Nothing worse than throwing something like "Dark Side of the Moon" on the old turntable and hearing a constant tick through 3 songs cause there's a hairline scrach across the groves of the record.

    Welcome tothe club! Good luck and have fun!!!
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  • CobCob Posts: 858
    DB247136 wrote:
    Call me "new school" but what's the allure of vinyl verses cd or mp3?

    mp3's sound like CRAP and they are compressed files that sound NOTHING like they should. A piece of advice to anyone purchasing vinyl, DO NOT buy anything that is recorded digitally and is on vinyl, you are wasting your money and might as well just buy the cd.

    A few issues ago in Rolling Stone, there was a good article on how they are now discovering that the first albums that were recorded digitally are now starting to go away, you see digital recording only last a certain amount of time and won't last forever like a record recorded on analog will.

    The article said that The Cult tried to re-issue and remaster their album Love from the mid 80's and not only was a lot of the master recording just gone, but a bunch of the bass and drum parts to songs were just gone, they couldn't even salvage enough to release the original songs in order of the album, they wanted to re-issue it with bonus tracks and had to scrap the whole project.
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  • DewieCoxDewieCox Posts: 11,430
    Cob wrote:
    DB247136 wrote:
    Call me "new school" but what's the allure of vinyl verses cd or mp3?

    mp3's sound like CRAP and they are compressed files that sound NOTHING like they should. A piece of advice to anyone purchasing vinyl, DO NOT buy anything that is recorded digitally and is on vinyl, you are wasting your money and might as well just buy the cd.

    A few issues ago in Rolling Stone, there was a good article on how they are now discovering that the first albums that were recorded digitally are now starting to go away, you see digital recording only last a certain amount of time and won't last forever like a record recorded on analog will.

    The article said that The Cult tried to re-issue and remaster their album Love from the mid 80's and not only was a lot of the master recording just gone, but a bunch of the bass and drum parts to songs were just gone, they couldn't even salvage enough to release the original songs in order of the album, they wanted to re-issue it with bonus tracks and had to scrap the whole project.

    Strange about the Cult album. They've remastered it before and re-released it several times. Also seems odd that it was recorded digitally. I was under the impression the tape was the standard til around the mid 90s.

    I think a vinyl could make sense with a digital album if you're not gonna release the cd and just go with higher definition options.
  • nomarnomar Posts: 66
    Couple of updates -

    I was able to snag The Black Keys "Brothers" for $17.99 at bestbuy.com. Not bad.

    Also, interested -
    EZ1221C wrote:
    If you want to trade your copy of Mother's Milk, I'm your guy. One of my favorite albums of all time

    bestbuy.com has it for $12.99 right now. Run.
  • LiftedLifted Posts: 1,836
    i would recommend you forgot it in people by broken social scene and a love supreme by john coltrane. both are affordable and easy to find. also, anything by neko case.... however, i don't really know much about what kind of music you like besides the records you mentioned, so those may be terrible suggestions.
  • CobCob Posts: 858
    DewieCox wrote:
    Cob wrote:
    DB247136 wrote:
    Call me "new school" but what's the allure of vinyl verses cd or mp3?

    mp3's sound like CRAP and they are compressed files that sound NOTHING like they should. A piece of advice to anyone purchasing vinyl, DO NOT buy anything that is recorded digitally and is on vinyl, you are wasting your money and might as well just buy the cd.

    A few issues ago in Rolling Stone, there was a good article on how they are now discovering that the first albums that were recorded digitally are now starting to go away, you see digital recording only last a certain amount of time and won't last forever like a record recorded on analog will.

    The article said that The Cult tried to re-issue and remaster their album Love from the mid 80's and not only was a lot of the master recording just gone, but a bunch of the bass and drum parts to songs were just gone, they couldn't even salvage enough to release the original songs in order of the album, they wanted to re-issue it with bonus tracks and had to scrap the whole project.

    Strange about the Cult album. They've remastered it before and re-released it several times. Also seems odd that it was recorded digitally. I was under the impression the tape was the standard til around the mid 90s.

    I think a vinyl could make sense with a digital album if you're not gonna release the cd and just go with higher definition options.

    They had the ability to record digitally in the mid 1980's when CD's first came out and if they re-released several times before, that was before the digital recording were lost, as they only last a certain amount of time. I know Pearl Jam was one of the last bands that used to record analog, but now there is hardly any analog tape out there.

    Hers the article.

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  • WM31482WM31482 New York, NY Posts: 563
    Anybody have any advice on what to do if your semi-new to vinyl and your record player just stops spinning??
  • LiftedLifted Posts: 1,836
    WM31482 wrote:
    Anybody have any advice on what to do if your semi-new to vinyl and your record player just stops spinning??

    check to make sure it's plugged in.


    ....or, maybe you need to flip it to side b.
  • WM31482WM31482 New York, NY Posts: 563
    Ha! No I'm not that clueless -
    It's been working fine for like 6 months at least now...then all of a sudden now when I turn it on, it doesn't start spinning like it used to? I can get it started by hand again, but it always dies before I can make it through even one song... it's definitely not a power thing, I checked all that before posting...
  • randallanddarcyrandallanddarcy Posts: 813
    If you like (old) Smashing Pumpkins, "Melon Collie..." sounds amazing (although the original limited, numbered version is hard to get...I got mine the day it was released), and so does "Adore" which was mixed in mono for vinyl. The 4th side of Adore is blank, which is a cool novelty, too!
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  • RoadTripperRoadTripper Posts: 67
    CSNY - Deja Vu
    Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
    Listen to No Quarter with good headphones on vinyl and you'll be hooked. I promise.
  • randallanddarcyrandallanddarcy Posts: 813
    Soundgarden: Down on the Upside.
    Counting Crows: Recovering the Satellites
    Afghan Whigs: 1965
    Black Sabbath: Vol. 4
    Black Sabbath: Paranoid
    Black Sabbath: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
    Iron Maiden: All of the '80's albums
    The Frames: For the Birds
    Pumpkins: Melon Collie...
    Pumpkins: Adore
    Pumpkins: Machina...
    Mother Love Bone: Apple
    Brad: Interiors
    Big Star: Radio City
    Idlewild: Make Another World
    Idlewild: Post Electric Blues
    Judas Priest: Sin After Sin
    Judas Priest: British Steel
    Three Fish: both albums (and both have 3 bonus tracks)
    Bad News
    Duke Special: Songs From the Deep Forest
    Fleetwood Mac: Rumours

    The original issues of these (not remasters/reissues, where they exist) are fabulous listens on vinyl.
    My Pearl Jam shows: 1 in 1995, 2 in 1998, 20 in 2003, 13 in 2006, 3 in 2007, 8 in 2008, 5 in 2009, 4 in 2010, 5 in 2012. EV: 8 in 2011, 1 in 2012. Brad: 1 in 1998, 1 in 2002.
  • apirk72apirk72 Posts: 506
    longtime vinyl collector but new here. Not sure if you guys are familiar with recordmole.com but it keeps track of the prices of vinyl on amazon. Sometimes you can get LPs insanely cheap on amazon but they usually don't stay that way long.
  • apirk72apirk72 Posts: 506
    WM31482 wrote:
    Ha! No I'm not that clueless -
    It's been working fine for like 6 months at least now...then all of a sudden now when I turn it on, it doesn't start spinning like it used to? I can get it started by hand again, but it always dies before I can make it through even one song... it's definitely not a power thing, I checked all that before posting...

    remove the platter and make sure everything is still attached properly.
  • nomarnomar Posts: 66
    You guys are awesome.
    apirk72 wrote:
    longtime vinyl collector but new here. Not sure if you guys are familiar with recordmole.com but it keeps track of the prices of vinyl on amazon. Sometimes you can get LPs insanely cheap on amazon but they usually don't stay that way long.

    Wow. What a great find! This is a great way to go.
  • RedMosquito22RedMosquito22 Posts: 8,158
    I would suggest the new Bright Eyes Album - The People's key and think about pre-ordering the new Radiohead LP.
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  • randallanddarcyrandallanddarcy Posts: 813
    apirk72 wrote:
    longtime vinyl collector but new here. Not sure if you guys are familiar with recordmole.com but it keeps track of the prices of vinyl on amazon. Sometimes you can get LPs insanely cheap on amazon but they usually don't stay that way long.
    Thank you for the recordmole.com link. Very interesting. I had never heard of this site. Thanks again!
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