There's so much vinyl!!!!!!!!!!

theserialthrilla · December 2010

tremors wrote:

dimitrispearljam wrote:

i have it in mp3 in my pc...the vinyl is given as a gift years ago...yeah...i was the same guy in the past..

I went all mp3 for a few years -sent away all my vinyl. Then I saw the error of my ways

you fool :P

tremors · December 2010

theserialthrilla wrote:

tremors wrote:

dimitrispearljam wrote:

i have it in mp3 in my pc...the vinyl is given as a gift years ago...yeah...i was the same guy in the past..

I went all mp3 for a few years -sent away all my vinyl. Then I saw the error of my ways

you fool :P

Yeah it was a major mistake. I gave them to my brother for storage, and whilst I was fucking around with my itunes he cleaned them all, arranged them by alphabetical order, and stored them safely in his house - I think he was a bit shocked at how I treated some of em. Then when I saw the error of my ways and got my turntable mended I asked for them back. He was a bit pissed off actually, cos I'd said he could help himself

He's more hip-hop than rock anyway, though he does like a little led zep and stuff I got him into in our childhood.

Yeah, I feel like I went through a divorce, and then realised that I was still in love. So this is my second marriage!! (to vinyl...... women are far too much trouble

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ilockyer · December 2010

tremors wrote:

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dimitrispearljam wrote:

im listening it now

We gotta keep this thread alive man. Were you spinning Forever Changes on vinyl dimi or on *spit* compact disc ?

And Forever Changes must be brought to many more ears that have never heard it! I bought it in 2000, when the remaster came out, because I'd seen Robert Plant earlier that year, and he played a couple of songs from it, Bummer In The Summer being the one I remembered. I met him afterwards and asked about it, he told me the album title and that it was coming out again. Have since introduced loads of people to it.

Saw Arthur Lee and Love (Baby Lemonade) many times between 2002 and his passing, none better than the 2003 show at the Royal Festival Hall which was released as the Forever Changes concert. Of note from that is that A House Is A Motel was played a second time and it is this version that is on the CD, not the version when they played the album in order!

tremors · December 2010

ilockyer wrote:

tremors wrote:

tremors wrote:

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dimitrispearljam wrote:

im listening it now

We gotta keep this thread alive man. Were you spinning Forever Changes on vinyl dimi or on *spit* compact disc ?

And Forever Changes must be brought to many more ears that have never heard it! I bought it in 2000, when the remaster came out, because I'd seen Robert Plant earlier that year, and he played a couple of songs from it, Bummer In The Summer being the one I remembered. I met him afterwards and asked about it, he told me the album title and that it was coming out again. Have since introduced loads of people to it.

Saw Arthur Lee and Love (Baby Lemonade) many times between 2002 and his passing, none better than the 2003 show at the Royal Festival Hall which was released as the Forever Changes concert. Of note from that is that A House Is A Motel was played a second time and it is this version that is on the CD, not the version when they played the album in order!

Yes more people should know about this album!! On any format!

I am just in the process of 'erecting' a new vinyl storage unit

It's partly out of necessity, but I want this one to be non-alphabetical, and for all the great masterpieces which I play so often they seem to spend most of their time littering my living room. This is going to be the 'esteemed and special' cabinet! Only problem is I'm no good at DIY. IKEA is almost idiot proof, but I think I need some help from someone like the serialthrilla who I'm guessing is good at doing 'proper' jobs like this!

Newch91 · December 2010

Got one of my holy grails today.

tremors · December 2010

Newch91 wrote:

Got one of my holy grails today.

Got that this year too. Sounds sooooooo good on vinyl. Amazing. Think I might have to flip that one onto the turntable right now - Radiohead before breakfast!

tremors · December 2010

Favourite VINYL! Purchases of 2010

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1968 original Red / Plum Atlantic pressing

Parlophone second pressing - 50p in a charity shop!

first pressing Mono - sounds awesome

You need this in your life! Two LP collection, like being immersed in liquid gold. I love 1970s vinyl!!

Newch91 · December 2010

tremors wrote:

Newch91 wrote:

Got one of my holy grails today.

Got that this year too. Sounds sooooooo good on vinyl. Amazing. Think I might have to flip that one onto the turntable right now - Radiohead before breakfast!

That's what I like to hear! Can't wait to listen.

tremors · December 2010

Newch91 wrote:

tremors wrote:

Newch91 wrote:

Got one of my holy grails today.

Got that this year too. Sounds sooooooo good on vinyl. Amazing. Think I might have to flip that one onto the turntable right now - Radiohead before breakfast!

That's what I like to hear! Can't wait to listen.

Went and listened to it twice straight after posting. 2x ok computer and then breakfast. Sounds waaay best on vinyl. Then I moved over to 45rpm and played Hail to the Thief. Then I walked down to the community cafe for my lunch and did some work writing. So, thanks for kicking off a good day Newch!

Newch91 · December 2010

No problem. I just finished listening to the first side of the first record and...

Subterranean Homesick Alien was like sex to the ear. I'll never be able to listen to the CD version again the same way.

tremors · December 2010

Newch91 wrote:

No problem. I just finished listening to the first side of the first record and... Subterranean Homesick Alien was like sex to the ear. I'll never be able to listen to the CD version again the same way.

i shit and i stink · December 2010

All the vinyl I bought in my village store back in the Uk arrived this week. That's not bad for my old man, it only took him 4 months to call the courier company (!) It contained:

Self-titled albums by Pretenders, Roger Daltrey, Iron Maiden, Ricky Lee Jones, Billy Jo Spears Roy Buchanan, Curtis Mayfield and collections of Muddy Waters, BB King, John Lee hoooker and Gershwin and...:
Rush - 2112
Neutral Milk Hotel - In an aeroplane
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions, Songs in the key
Roxy Music - Flesh and blood
Stiff Little Fingers - Nobody's heroes
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk, Tango, Rumours
Stranglers - Black and white
Elton - Madman, Honky chateau
Queen - night at the opera
Black flag - lungs
Niel Diamond - beautiful music
Wedding present - tommy
Who - tommy, who's next
Eagles- on the border
They might be giants - flood
king crimson - court...
simon and gar - bookends
sparklehorse - vivadixie...
10cc - bloody tourists
thin lizzy - jailbreak
bowie - low
herp albert - tijuana taxi
new order - low life
wings - band on the run
and the cabaret OST

Plenty to get through over the next few months! My rules for buying vinyl were nothing I have on CD already, everything under a tenner (most of the above were 1 to 3 quid) and don't start collecting pearl jam!

tremors · December 2010

i shit and i stink wrote:

All the vinyl I bought in my village store back in the Uk arrived this week. That's not bad for my old man, it only took him 4 months to call the courier company (!) It contained:

Self-titled albums by Pretenders, Roger Daltrey, Iron Maiden, Ricky Lee Jones, Billy Jo Spears Roy Buchanan, Curtis Mayfield and collections of Muddy Waters, BB King, John Lee hoooker and Gershwin and...:
Rush - 2112
Neutral Milk Hotel - In an aeroplane
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions, Songs in the key
Roxy Music - Flesh and blood
Stiff Little Fingers - Nobody's heroes
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk, Tango, Rumours
Stranglers - Black and white
Elton - Madman, Honky chateau
Queen - night at the opera
Black flag - lungs
Niel Diamond - beautiful music
Wedding present - tommy
Who - tommy, who's next
Eagles- on the border
They might be giants - flood
king crimson - court...
simon and gar - bookends
sparklehorse - vivadixie...
10cc - bloody tourists
thin lizzy - jailbreak
bowie - low
herp albert - tijuana taxi
new order - low life
wings - band on the run
and the cabaret OST

Plenty to get through over the next few months! My rules for buying vinyl were nothing I have on CD already, everything under a tenner (most of the above were 1 to 3 quid) and don't start collecting pearl jam!

Quality! A vinyl fest and no mistake. Some awesome albums in that lot. Enjoy! (Band on the run vinyl..... *sigh*)

I had this when I got my turntable back. When I knew it was coming I'd started buying second hand records, along the lines you described. I had about 15 new second hand records by the time it came back. I think I just stayed in for the weekend!!

i shit and i stink · December 2010

Of course, with 3 little ones in the house, I don't find whole afternoons to spend listening to records but I do try to listen to an album in full, with the door closed and no distractions, if I get the chance. It's not like a CD where you can just put on one song and be done with it. They need to be listened to a side at a time.

It'll take me a while to do them all justice but right now I'm loving the Pretenders album, I've always had a soft spot for Brass In Pocket and the rest is great too.

And my Songs In The Key Of Life is my fave. It's a double yellow vinyl with a ltd ed yellow 7" in there too. It's a beauty.

My wedding present 'Tommy' completes the bands collection, as I have everything else on CD (apart from Ukrainski!)

The other Tommy, by the Who, I am waiting to listen to whilst burning a candle, as I was assured by the movie 'Almost Famous' that I'll see the future if I do so

tremors · December 2010

i shit and i stink wrote:

Of course, with 3 little ones in the house, I don't find whole afternoons to spend listening to records but I do try to listen to an album in full, with the door closed and no distractions, if I get the chance. It's not like a CD where you can just put on one song and be done with it. They need to be listened to a side at a time.

It'll take me a while to do them all justice but right now I'm loving the Pretenders album, I've always had a soft spot for Brass In Pocket and the rest is great too.

And my Songs In The Key Of Life is my fave. It's a double yellow vinyl with a ltd ed yellow 7" in there too. It's a beauty.

My wedding present 'Tommy' completes the bands collection, as I have everything else on CD (apart from Ukrainski!)

The other Tommy, by the Who, I am waiting to listen to whilst burning a candle, as I was assured by the movie 'Almost Famous' that I'll see the future if I do so

Yeah I don't have the problem of any brats to get in the way of me and my vinyl listening! Sounds like you will have fun going through them over the coming weeks. I have that Songs in the Key of Life, but mine is missing the 7" :( I have bought quite a lot of records in the past year that I owned on CD, but have never had on vinyl. Quite a revelation! I didn't know that about Tommy - I'll have to try that one! Sounds entirely possible

i shit and i stink · December 2010

I reckon that moving about 20 times in the last ten years means I've lost over a thousand Cds on my travels in various ways. So, that means replacing them on vinyl and ripping the originals from the net is acceptable. I never go into a vinyl shop looking for something in particular, I just love to be surprised. Having said that, there are things I always have my eye out for, like The Boys 'Alternative Chartbusters' but have never found at a decent price. If anyone is in the midlands, I recommend a trip to 'visual vinyl' near the M1, tiny shop but a good guy and a lot of stuff in the back room and elsewhere that he can't fit in the racks.

tremors · December 2010

i shit and i stink wrote:

I reckon that moving about 20 times in the last ten years means I've lost over a thousand Cds on my travels in various ways. So, that means replacing them on vinyl and ripping the originals from the net is acceptable. I never go into a vinyl shop looking for something in particular, I just love to be surprised. Having said that, there are things I always have my eye out for, like The Boys 'Alternative Chartbusters' but have never found at a decent price. If anyone is in the midlands, I recommend a trip to 'visual vinyl' near the M1, tiny shop but a good guy and a lot of stuff in the back room and elsewhere that he can't fit in the racks.

Vinyl hunting is so much more fun than hunting stuff down on the web. You never know quite what you are going to find! Some absolute bargains to be found second hand - all the 1960s and 1970s vinyl seems to be coming out of collections where people have actually looked after it properly. Sometimes in a charity shop it is obvious there is one person's entire collection - and you can find a whole run of amazing things in mint condition. Just gotta keep your eyes open!

i shit and i stink · December 2010

I'm constantly disappointed by the vinyl stores I've visited in the UK. I hear about these treasure troves but it's all Walker Brothers albums and Band Aid singles. The best vinyl shopping I think I've done was a long time ago in the hip end of Queen's St in Bristol when I was at uni. However, with my parents living in the midlands I was still made up to find a store open in our village, no matter how small it is.

I am familiar with almost all of the stuff I bought but I hadn't really given the Stiff Little Fingers a spin before and I was fucking blown away by it yesterday. Un-f******-believable! I listened to it once and have been humming half the tracks all day today. It is infectively contagious and damned hooky and with cool lyrics. How did I get to my thirties without hearing that album before?

tremors · December 2010

I've been lapping up the Oxfam specials in the last year or so. They can be a bit pricey - but they have LOADS of really good condition 60s and 70s stuff, on vintage early pressings - and they clean the records professionally too. The best records I've bought in the last 18 months, that get played and appreciated the most - were all bought from Oxfam. Every new town with a reasonably sized Oxfam is a potential treasure trove!! Well worth the extra money.

I got the Smiths Queen is Dead, Strangeways, Louder than Bombs and Meat is Murder, all on original rough trade label, and all in absolute mint condition from there, paid about a fiver for each one. Very good buy!

i shit and i stink · December 2010

tremors wrote:

I got the Smiths Queen is Dead, Strangeways, Louder than Bombs and Meat is Murder, all on original rough trade label, and all in absolute mint condition from there, paid about a fiver for each one. Very good buy!

Re-issue ! Re-package ! Re-package !
Re-evaluate the songs
Double-pack with a photograph
Extra Track (and a tacky badge)

That's what you need, forget this old vinyl nonsense!

There's so much vinyl!!!!!!!!!!

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