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emdiar 
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Posted: August 29 2007 at 06:00 |
Last night Sean Trane and I sat outside a pub discussing all things prog, and the conversation drifted on to the geopolitical state of Europe in the 70's. Sean bought up the interesting point that the oil crisis of '73 had bought about a slimming down of vinyl (a petroleum based substance).
I remembered my copy of a Warm Dust double LP, "...And It Came To Pass", circa 1970 (couldn't remember the title last night.). The discs feel very thick and heavy indeed, and it got me to thinking, what is the heaviest LP, prog or otherwise, ever released. The Warm Dust discs in question weigh 169 and 175 grams! Compare that to an original copy of, say, Topographic Oceans, (1973) at 116g and 129g, or The Wall (1979) at 116g a piece. I picked double albums in the interest of consistency, but single albums also follow the same trend.
Can anyone (with scales) beat "...And It Came To Pass"?
(Sean- pm me if you still want to borrow the LP)
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Posted: August 29 2007 at 06:17 |
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Dum-dum India were heaviest LP's for shure
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Posted: August 29 2007 at 06:22 |
 Warning!
First make sure that your scales are free of baking powder or,if using bathroom scales,talcum powder.
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Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
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Posted: August 29 2007 at 07:04 |
Thick as a Brick?
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Posted: August 29 2007 at 07:06 |
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Trippiest post ever??????
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Posted: August 29 2007 at 07:18 |
I no longer have any LPs (the last one was sold off about 15 years ago...) but I do remember my Grandfather's massive collection of classical LPs (both 78s and 45s) stretching back into the 1950s....he used to have 4 or 5 different renditions of each symphony.... 
anyway, I remember the earlier ones being distinctly chunky.......  |
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Posted: August 29 2007 at 08:11 |
The band Shellac has all their LPs pressed on 180 gram vinyl.
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"The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar.... Now, that's my idea of a good time."
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emdiar
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Posted: August 29 2007 at 10:14 |
I need figures guys. Get those scales out, "dust" them off, and get weighing.
"Trippiest post ever?" 
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Posted: August 29 2007 at 10:51 |
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I don't have a scale, should I weigh them like Archimedes by sinking
them in a bathtub? Or can I do it with fish scales?
EDIT: I just remembered I don't have fish scales either, so into the tub they go!
Edited by Vompatti - August 29 2007 at 10:56
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Tapfret
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Posted: August 29 2007 at 14:14 |
 fandango wrote:
I no longer have any LPs (the last one was sold off about 15 years ago...) but I do remember my Grandfather's massive collection of classical LPs (both 78s and 45s) stretching back into the 1950s....he used to have 4 or 5 different renditions of each symphony....
anyway, I remember the earlier ones being distinctly chunky....... |
When my grandfather died he had this huge colection of 78's from WW2 era and earlier. You could do some serious damage with those. I never weighed them out, but they had to be at least twice as heavy as a post-1975 LP.
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Posted: August 29 2007 at 19:04 |
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I had some old multiple disc recordings of classical concerts. Those things came in boxes.
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Posted: August 29 2007 at 22:02 |
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I don't know if this counts. I have a lot of records and none of them stand out particularly, but I recently bought Tool's Lateralus special edition double vinyl and it's 200 gram, which is enormous. Same with Mars Volta's De-Loused in the Comatorium.
A lot of records from the 1950s were 180 gram or around that weight.
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Posted: August 29 2007 at 22:12 |
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Lateralus is a beast. So is a recent Dark Side of the Moon pressing I saw. Both were about $40 new.
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Posted: August 30 2007 at 09:58 |
This would have to be one of the heaviest! BOOM, BOOM 
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"Without prog, life would be a mistake."
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Posted: August 30 2007 at 13:44 |
T.Rox wrote:
This would have to be one of the heaviest! BOOM, BOOM
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I can barely make out the label, it says "Queen something:
Is it, "Queens of the Stoneage"?
Or is it the single of Queens "Flintstone Cold Crazy"?
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Posted: August 30 2007 at 14:32 |
Tapfret wrote:
T.Rox wrote:
This would have to be one of the heaviest! BOOM, BOOM
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I can barely make out the label, it says "Queen something:
Is it, "Queens of the Stoneage"?
Or is it the single of Queens "Flintstone Cold Crazy"? |
Nah, it's the Way-Outs! Or maybe the Beau Brummelstones.
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