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Author: zoo
Date: 04-20-12 13:48
Inspired by the article in the link below, what are your most treasured vinyl albums?
http://thequietus.com/articles/08539-record-store-day-my-favourite-vinyl
Mine are my original Austrialian pressings of Split Enz' first two albums, Mental Notes and Second Thoughts (on Mushroom records). Not only were they not easy to find, I paid more for those albums than any others I've ever purchased (I ordered one onilne, and bought the other from Banana's Records in St. Pete, FL). The music is also very special to me, which makes these my most treasured vinyl.
Another would be The Blue Nile's A Walk Across the Rooftops. I bought it on a whim about ten years ago from a record store in Newport News, VA while visting my wife's relatives. I'd never heard the group's music before. It is now one of my favorites.
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Author: MrFab
Date: 04-20-12 14:47
Cale signed my unpeeled 'banana' album. Bought it for $40 from a grizzled Viet vet in the late '80s who told me "Don't you peel that fucker!" Saw Cale with Chris Spedding a year or two later at the late legendary Palomino in North Hollywood, snuck backstage with a pen, and he graciously signed it, eyebrow raised when he saw the record: "Ooh, you got an original one, eh?" Lovely chap.
And, no, I have never peeled that fucker.
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Author: STEVE
Date: 04-20-12 19:06
only because your a floridian zoo,
rsteviemoore.com - 'what's the point? (basically anyway)
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Author: Delvin
Date: 04-20-12 20:28
In order of addition to my collection:
The Ventures LPs that belonged to my dad.
The debut albums by Devo and The B-52's (because I got them at such a crucial time in my life).
More Songs About Buildings and Food (for the same reason).
An original pressing of Loaded.
A couple of Christian rock recordings on which my wife was the studio engineer.
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Author: erikalbany
Date: 04-20-12 20:37
"The Ventures LPs that belonged to my dad."
Very cool. . . I've been collecting instro records for about 10 years (it started with seeing a whole lot of Eddie Angel, a local). The Ventures is the one thing upon which me and my adoptive dad seem to agree.
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Author: HollowbodyKay
Date: 04-20-12 21:10
- The Yo La Tengo "Urban Crusher" 45 that I scored as an at-the-door freebie at their New Year's Eve gig back when and got James and Ira to sign … and then had to wait a decade to get Georgia to sign because I'd managed to walk past her a half dozen times the first go-round. That woman in nearly invisible.
- Fall In A Hole (Flying Nun import) double live LP. Even though "The Man Who's Head Expanded" skips and has since the day I bought it used. No worries. I got even. Something to do with a Sugarcubes CD Singles Box Set. Shhhh.
- "Singin' In The Rain" 45 by Just Water.
- Robyn Hitchcock's "Surgury" flexi from The Bob magazine is in a tie with the free Bucketful of Brains 45 by Nigel & The Crosses doing a live version of "Queen of Eyes." Does a flexi even count as vinyl?
- Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To LP by Spacemen 3. Mail-ordered from Forced Exposure back in the day. It's been reissued a few times, but nobody has used the same wigged-out, LSD-soaked cover art. Gloriously moronic stuff from gloriously moronic times.
- Cutout bin LP by The Clique that features the original version of "Superman." The title escapes me just now, but I'm pretty sure that it isn't "The Rest Of This Entire LP Is Utterly Forgettable."
- We're An American Band by Grand Funk Railroad on gold vinyl. Gift from an insane uncle who did too many drugs in Germany when he was in the army in the 70s.
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Author: Heff
Date: 04-23-12 13:04
I've gotta go with Christian Lunch "Bites From Bait" One of the few things that I love just as much now as I did when I got it back in 1987.
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Author: jim green
Date: 04-23-12 18:27
Mine would have to include my red vinyl Nazz Nazz which I got for $2.25 back in, like, 1971 . . . the T2 album It'll All Work Out in Boomland which I got for free as a partial replacement for albums that were stolen from me (long goofy story) . . . the first US Marianne Faithfull album which I got her to sign 20+ years later . . . the Blue Oyster Cult live 12" promo EP (a live broadcast from a pizza parlor!) which would prove to be the best live trax they EVER issued -- got it for 50 cents . . . the Halfnelson album which was $1.99; when it came out as Sparks a few months later I got that one for 25 cents, but the redesigned cover was a crap rush job . . . the original UK issue of Brain Capers, for which they shrink-wrapped the black eye-mask (and which was the first truly mind-blowing album by the band), which probably cost me $3-ish . . . the US 45 of "Rebel Rebel," which is by far the best version (yeah, cost a buck or so when it came out) and the US promo 45 of "Please Please Please" by Ducks Deluxe, also better than the album version, which I probably got for a quarter somewhere . . .
There's more . . . and I still prize these for the memory value as well as the actual music in the grooves . . .
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