Favorite Vinyl Purchases of 2021

cp3iverson

Spinning off of the awesome Favorite Albums of 2021 thread……what was your favorite LP that you purchased this year?  Could be used, could be a reissue.  Could be a record you finally tracked down on vinyl.  

Almost Famous 6LP Boxset.  —-Incredible collection of tunes and it’s amazing that they were able to license everything.  The book they include is great too.  I played these records over and over and it’s back on the turntable since a few Christmas songs are on it. 

Tom Petty - Echo
Beach Boys - Surfs Up (70’s pressing. Used.  Sounds great). 

PJ Benaroya Hall — I finally caved and a member here helped me out.  It’s amazing to own this after all this time.  

Do yourselves a favor and don’t add up what you spent in 2021

Tim Simmons

too many. 

Assembling the Bowie Brilliant Live Adventures box set.
Whatever vault came out this year.
the 3 Taylor Swift records that came out this year.
Fela Kuti Box set 5. 
Kind of Blue One Step (mine sounds terrific)
All those Levitation Sessions (Ty Segall, Oh Sees, Fuzz, Primal Scream) and their cool platter, color in color variants


Christ, I've bought a lot of records during the pandemic

Tim Simmons

Life Aquatic finally getting a pressing. Thats a huge one too.

1ThoughtKnown

Tragically Hip - Road Apples 30th Anniversary Boxset 

Amythyst Kiah - Wary + Strange - Signed/Pink Marble 
Neil Young - Live at Carnegie Hall 1970 
Sun Ra - Lanquidity - Boxset 
PJ - Moline Vault 10
Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady 
REM - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Brandi Carlile - In These Silent Days - Signed/Clear
No More Tears - Ozzy Osbourne
Mission of Burma - Vs.
Blue Rodeo - 5 Days in July
Dexter Gordon - One Flight Up
King’s X - Tape Head
King’s X - Ear Candy
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Gruntruck - Push

1ThoughtKnown

Tim Simmons said:

too many. 

Assembling the Bowie Brilliant Live Adventures box set.
Whatever vault came out this year.
the 3 Taylor Swift records that came out this year.
Fela Kuti Box set 5. 
Kind of Blue One Step (mine sounds terrific)
All those Levitation Sessions (Ty Segall, Oh Sees, Fuzz, Primal Scream) and their cool platter, color in color variants


Christ, I've bought a lot of records during the pandemic

I hear this…it was almost a weekly occurrence for me. 

GlowGirl

I think I have bought well over 100 records since August 2020 or so. That was my pandemic hobby - every Sunday I hit all the record stores in walking distance to me - not to mention all my online orders. I will have to go back and look at what I posted in the "I just picked this up on vinyl" thread to remember them all. Then I will make my list. I am sure I spent a staggering amount of money.

mfc2006

Tool - Aenima
Brandi Carlile - In These Silent Days (signed/clear)
MMJ - MMJ (Orange/Blue)
Cooley/Hood/Isbell - Shoals Boxset
Tom Petty - Angel Dream
Heartless Bastards - A Beautiful Life (Hand Poured colored LP)
INXS - Kick
Neil & Liam Finn - Lightsleeper
Flag Day Soundtrack
Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues Singers
Beastie Boys - Aglio E Olio
The Decemberists - Live Home Library Vol. 1
Josh Ritter - Gathering
Raconteurs - Live in Tulsa
War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore

These are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

brianlux

Being semi retired has had it's pluses and minuses.  Plus is more time to hunt for and buy records, minus is less to do to keep busy and reduced income (which make that plus maybe not such a good move).  That being the case, I bought more records than usual this year- but some really great stuff.  But I just nearly had heart failure looking at my Discogs "collection" which list things in order by when they were added and oh man, I bought a lot of records (for me anyway) this year.  Thankfully, a number of them were thrift store finds.  My favorites of these are:

Neil Young and Crazy Horse: Barn
The Dream Syndicate:  These Times (signed) and The Universe Inside

Dead Moon: Nervous Sooner Changes, Unknown Passage, and Defiance
Dinosaur Jr:  Sweep into Space
Death: ...for the Whole World to See, and N.E.W.
Joy Division:  Unknown Pleasures, Closer, and Substance
David Sylvian:  Gone to Earth, and Secrets of the Beehive
The Shadows, self-titled
Willie Nelson: Ride Me Back Home
Oliver Nelson:  The Blues and the Abstract Truth
John Coltrane:  Lush Life, Ascension, Sun Ship, and Live in Seattle
Miles Davis: In a Silent Way, Miles Smiles, and Kind of Blue
Vince Guaraldi:  A Boy Named Charlie Brown
Pharoah Sanders: Journey to One
Ornette Coleman:  The Art of Improvisors, In All Languages, Ornette, Song X, Something Else, and Crisis
Lou Reed: New Sensations
Thelonious Monk, Palo Alto, and In Person
Bad Company:  self-titled
Teenage Fanclub: Songs From Northern Britain
Traffic: Mr. Fantasy
The Neats:  Neats, and The Monkey's Head in the Corner of the Room
The Rolling Stones: Their Satanic Majesties Request
Carole King: Tapestry
Elmore James: The Master of Slide Guitar, King of the Bottleneck Blues.
Leo Kottke: My Feet are Smiling, Dreams and all that Stuff, Mudlark

Tim Simmons

Oh shit. those Spiritualized reissues. man those are great too!

Loujoe

Love that stones^^

pjpjpaul

Miles Davis- Kind of Blue (UHQR)
Neil Young and Crazy Horse- Way Down In The Rust Bucket
Neil Young- Carnegie Hall and Massey Hall
The Who Sell Out Box Set
The White Stripes- White Blood Cells (peppermint swirl)
Cooley/Hood/Isbell - Shoals Boxset
Tom Petty - Angel Dream
MMJ - MMJ, Okonokos, Evil Urges, and It Still Moves (all color vinyl)
War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore (Red Marble)
Flag Day OST
Dinosaur Jr- Sweep It Into Space (Purple Ripple)
R.E.M.- New Adventures In Hi-Fi
Dungen- Ta Det Lugnt (multi color splatter)
My Bloody Valentine- Loveless (deluxe)
Pearl Jam- Moline Vault
Prince- Purple Rain (Target Purple vinyl)

Blue Note Tone Poet and Classic Series
Acoustic Sounds Series

jerparker20

For this year:

1. the Grateful Dead Anthology box from VMP. Beautiful set. Paid a chunk of cash for it, but worth it.

2. Way Down in the Rust Bucket - Neil and the Horse. This was worth purchasing solely for the cut of Over and Over.

3. A few Jazz Dispensary compilations. Great obscure funk and jazz/funk cuts from the 70s/early 80s.

4. A few releases from The Analog Africa label. If you like international/non-western music this label has some great stuff.

5. Metallica - Live in Moscow 1991. Someone broke up a Black Album deluxe box and I grabbed it. My five year old thinks it’s the greatest thing ever.

I also seemed to have bought a pile of records this past year. I guess when you’re not doing much, or going places, you need to do something with your money.

steveddievedder

jerparker20 said:

For this year:

1. the Grateful Dead Anthology box from VMP. Beautiful set. Paid a chunk of cash for it, but worth it.

2. Way Down in the Rust Bucket - Neil and the Horse. This was worth purchasing solely for the cut of Over and Over.

3. A few Jazz Dispensary compilations. Great obscure funk and jazz/funk cuts from the 70s/early 80s.

4. A few releases from The Analog Africa label. If you like international/non-western music this label has some great stuff.

5. Metallica - Live in Moscow 1991. Someone broke up a Black Album deluxe box and I grabbed it. My five year old thinks it’s the greatest thing ever.

I also seemed to have bought a pile of records this past year. I guess when you’re not doing much, or going places, you need to do something with your money.

That Metallica live LP was worth the box set alone, and the Black Album remastered sounds pretty sweet too

goldrush

Neil - Carnegie Hall
Neil & Crazy Horse - Way Down In The Rust Bucket and Barn
REM - New Adventures in HiFi
Lou Barlow - Reason To Live (Artist Enabler Series handmade sleeve)
PJ Harvey - Stories From The City…

steveddievedder

My fave pick ups from this year:

New/reissues:
Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker / Croweology
Neil Young - Massey Hall / Carnegie Hall
Machine Head - The Blackening (Picture Disc)
Pearl Jam - Vault 10 / Alive RSD / No Code Clear
Painted Shield ST
Brandi Carlilie - In These Silent Days (signed clear)
Metallica - Black Album / Live In Moscow from the box set
R.E.M. - New Adventures 
RHCP - Stadium Arcadium
Admiral Fallow - The Idea of You
SVE - Remind Me Tomorrow

And some great used finds this year:
PJ - VS OG pressing
EV - Into The Wild MOV
Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty (OG organge vinyl signed by Mike D)
Radiohead - The Bends first pressing / In Rainbows 45rpm box set (which someone inexplicably sold me for £5 on ebay because it was missing one of the CDs...)
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland (1984 UK pressing - found for £2 in a charity store)
Nirvana - Nevermind / In Utero / Bleach OG pressings
AIC - Jar Of Flies / SAP OG coloured vinyl
Smashing Pumpkins - Pisces Iscariot (yellow) / Siamese Dream / Adore OG pressings
Frightened Rabbit - A Frightened Rabbit EP

cp3iverson

^^ In Rainbows 45rpm boxset is the best that Radiohead has ever sounded on vinyl.  So good

cp3iverson

Tim Simmons said:

too many. 

Assembling the Bowie Brilliant Live Adventures box set.
Whatever vault came out this year.
the 3 Taylor Swift records that came out this year.
Fela Kuti Box set 5. 
Kind of Blue One Step (mine sounds terrific)
All those Levitation Sessions (Ty Segall, Oh Sees, Fuzz, Primal Scream) and their cool platter, color in color variants


Christ, I've bought a lot of records during the pandemic

Didn’t purchase all 3 but Red was so well done.  So strange how she’s turned into the new Joni Mitchell or Bob Dylan or whatever.  Such an important song writer/artist.  

Edved82

Neil's "Way Down In The Rust Bucket" by far, an amazing release. U2's Achtung Baby reissue is also pretty stellar. 

silvo

Looking back i managed to spend a lot of money this year on vinyl, amazing the extra cash available when working from home and not paying for lunch and fuel associated with normal working week!!
A mixture of new and used purchases i've been pleased with this year:
The multitude of Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails versions available
Foals - What Went Down box set, Total Life Forever blue/white sub-pop release and Live at The Albert Hall RSD release
Wolf Alice - Creature Songs EP
Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend blue marbled vinyl with lenticular sleeve
The Bluetones - Expecting to Fly box set reissue
Placebo - Self titled debut red vinyl RSD release
PJ - No Code clear vinyl
PJ - Vault 
PJ - Alive RSD
Mad Season - Above original vinyl release
Mad Season - River of Deceit red vinyl
Dot Hacker - Inhibition splatter vinyl
Jerry Cantrell - Boggy Depot green/black 

Tim Simmons

1ThoughtKnown said:

Tim Simmons said:

too many. 

Assembling the Bowie Brilliant Live Adventures box set.
Whatever vault came out this year.
the 3 Taylor Swift records that came out this year.
Fela Kuti Box set 5. 
Kind of Blue One Step (mine sounds terrific)
All those Levitation Sessions (Ty Segall, Oh Sees, Fuzz, Primal Scream) and their cool platter, color in color variants


Christ, I've bought a lot of records during the pandemic

I hear this…it was almost a weekly occurrence for me. 

There was a good stretch early in the pandemic where I was getting a record a day. Then something similar has been happening but mainly because of record I’ve ordered between April and August have started shipping now. It’s not 1 a day, but 3-4 a week for past month and a half, yeah. 

Gibson

So I don't think this qualifies, but I bought an overpriced ticket to Our Lady Peace (Canadian band.) It cam with a promise of a live vinyl copy of the show (still waiting) and an NFT which included the new album that has a Jan 28, 2022 release. The NFT came today, to which I was able to download the album to my computer. While I still feel that I overpaid for the ticket, receiving the album a month early feels like I hit the jackpot.

For what its worth, its the bands' best album in 20 years. I think a few of us can relate to that. ---and when this ghost vinyl arrives, it will have been worth it.

Tim Simmons

we calling download codes NFTs now?

1ThoughtKnown

Tim Simmons said:

1ThoughtKnown said:

Tim Simmons said:

too many. 

Assembling the Bowie Brilliant Live Adventures box set.
Whatever vault came out this year.
the 3 Taylor Swift records that came out this year.
Fela Kuti Box set 5. 
Kind of Blue One Step (mine sounds terrific)
All those Levitation Sessions (Ty Segall, Oh Sees, Fuzz, Primal Scream) and their cool platter, color in color variants


Christ, I've bought a lot of records during the pandemic

I hear this…it was almost a weekly occurrence for me. 

There was a good stretch early in the pandemic where I was getting a record a day. Then something similar has been happening but mainly because of record I’ve ordered between April and August have started shipping now. It’s not 1 a day, but 3-4 a week for past month and a half, yeah. 

Yeah, my weekly occurrence included several record purchases. I’m sure I averaged 20-25 a month throughout the pandemic. Lol

Tim Simmons

respect.

dankind

I’m pretty sure that I purchased it in 2020, but my Sade box set didn’t arrive until 2021, so I’m going with that for starters. Now they just need to get Lovers Live pressed on vinyl.

All the Margo Price releases I bought this year, too. I was late to that party—only discovering her in 2021 when I bought her first record on a whim to get in on one of those “buy this many records to get a discount” deals—but she is fantastic.

Also, the Sugar Hill Records 40th Anniversary box of pure joy! It finally sat on the shelf long enough at a Massachusetts suburban mall shop to get a 50% off sticker. Ain’t nobody but me buying that where I live.

And I didn’t want to repeat anything from the favorite 2021 albums thread, but I still don’t know how to classify Prince’s Welcome 2 America, so I’m putting it here, too.

I was able to finally buy a Dylan Rolling Thunder Revue box, so that goes here for sure.

Oh, and I’m way too pumped about the Ghosts of Mars soundtrack. It is fucking killer!

Finally, VMP has really come through with some hip hop releases this year—in both its Essentials and RHH tracks. Much love for that!

BrainofBGA

Anyone in this thread from Australia? Melbourne in particular? Just interested to know where you buy your new and used vinyl from here in Melb. Cheers. 

Zod

Tom Petty - Angel Dreams (RSD blue version).   Didn't quite dig it the first listen, but it grew on me quickly.  Really like this alternate version of the she's the one soundtrack.

Metallica - Black Album boxset - Worth it for Live in Moscow.   I'd heard the concert to 1.5 million people but I love listening to it on vinyl.   So good.

edit: I'd say Flag Day but the vinyl hasn't arrived yet :(  I'm sure it'll sound amazing on vinyl.

goldrush

BrainofBGA said:

Anyone in this thread from Australia? Melbourne in particular? Just interested to know where you buy your new and used vinyl from here in Melb. Cheers. 

Not sure about Melbourne specifically, but I’ve bought quite a bit from Discrepancy Records over the years, they’re in VIC. They can be a little hit and miss at times (sometimes the prices seem high, others you can find some really good deals) but I’m always keeping an eye on their site to see what they get in.

1ThoughtKnown

I must add:
Type O Negative - October Rust 2021 RE by Run Out Groove 

dankind

1ThoughtKnown said:

I must add:
Type O Negative - October Rust 2021 RE by Run Out Groove 

This is one of my wife's favorite bands. I've bought all the reissues for her except this one.

They just sit on the shelf because she's afraid of using one of the turntables, so I skipped this one.

Tim Simmons

Christ, those my Bloody valentine reissues came out this year as well. Hot damn.