Vinyl Junkies

Well seeing as i am kinda new around here don't know anyone ,who are the Vinyl Junkies ?
What are your most prized  albums ? might not be that supper dooper rare one it just might be the record that means a lot to you,  also what  is that one Record you been hunting down but just can get your hands on ?

I think my most Prized Collection would be my Amon Duul 2  collection  , i bought my First Duul Album   Phallus Dei  in 1974 from second hand Shop for 90 pence i only bought because i thought  Penis God was a cool name for a album , But when i got it home played it just blew me away , so very next day i took a trip up to London and bought all the Duul albums i could find,  I also Love my Caravan collection  Man didn't Decca
press  good Vinyl , Also i have to Mention  On The Threshold of a Dream the Moody Blues  because i can remember as a 15 year old kid going in to my Older brothers bed room and tacking it into Mine i have always loved that album and it's lovely  big Lyric Book,

The one album that  i so want to get my Hands on is Fairfield Parlour  (original first pressing ) From Home to Home , i had this Wonderful record once but it  got stomped on by a size 11 boot, it was one of those nights back in the day when it was all back to my place for a smoke after the Pub, some bright spark decided to skin up on my Fairfield album then put it on the floor, someone coming back from the Toilet stepped  on it NOOOOOOOOO
of course there are Many other Vinyl albums i still wish to buy , to list them i would be here all night.
LONG LIVE VINYL !!!!!

 


Edited by Hawkwise - June 03 2008 at 20:13

I have a bit of vinyl but I am not a junkie, I have reformed.  I admit I was a junkie when it was the medium of choice.  Actually for me it wasn't.  I'd immediately record the thing to cassette to avoid needle damage.

DBX  made poor copies if you listened to it on a non-DBX player, which is why Dolby won out.  On a DBX deck though, you'd get sound that matched the LP.  For those not familiar with DBX, it compressed the sound to get past the limitations of tape (hiss, etc.) and then reconstituted it to it's previous uncompressed sound.  Unless my fuzzy mind is mistaken, Dolby was just about noise reduction.

The LP format when it comes to album art can't be beat though.

To throw out a little barb.  Why have a VHS when you can have a DVD?  And believe you me, I have made copies of VHS I have to DVD.


Edited by Slartibartfast - June 03 2008 at 21:26

Yorkie X wrote: ever looked at a Vinyl record ripped to mp3 on a spectrum analyzer ?

Not the spectrum analyzer...  aieee!!!!

Ohhh yes I love my vinyl. The art is bigger, the process of playing music is a little more meticulous than just clicking the 'play' button with your mouse.... its all very pretentious, but it does make the music listening seem a little more special.

I rip all of my vinyl to the computer to also avoid needle damage (even though I buy mostly used, so who knows how much damage has already been done....)

And NO, vinyls do NOT sound 'better' than CDs, nor vice-versa.... It's a matter of preference, either format has its own qualities and inferiorities to the other. I like both for different reasons.

edit: I didn't even answer any of Hawkwise's questions.... I think some of the most prized ones I have are the ones that I have framed on my bedroom wall: KC's Discipline, Mahavishnu's Birds of Fire, Pat Metheny Group Offramp and Brand X Unorthodox Behaviour.... I reallly reallly like the combination of fusion with vinyl, and I've really been keeping an eye out for Bruford's One of a Kind and Allan Holdsworth's Metal Fatigue.


Edited by explodingjosh - June 03 2008 at 23:09

MMMMMM vinyls.  My collection is on its way to 4000 if it hasn't already gotten there (and in only 5 years time!).  Love the sound, the art, the whole spirit.  Its magnificent.  If anything were to happen to them I would be...well many bad things to put it cryptically.

Prized Lps?

Four Movements for a Fashionable Five Toed Dragon by Carmen Moore
Neil Young - Time Fades Away (sounds incredible)
Keith Jarret - Hymn Spheres
Sahara - For All the Clowns
Henry Kaiser, Sang Wan Park - Invite the Spirit
Hamza El Din - Escalay, Eclipse
Jade Warrior - Last Autumns Dream
Magma - Udu Wudu
The Fourth Way - The Sun and Moon Have Come Together
Rare Bird - s/t
The first four John Cale albums
Badger - One Live Badger
Spooky Tooth/Pierre Henry - Ceremony
Nitzinger - One Foot in History

Then there are some from the past 30 years of Alt. Rock that are included but that section is off limits to me until the morning.  But features the likes of Ghost, GY!BE, Sioxsie and the Banshees, Cocteau Twins, The Unknown, and so on.
Robert Savage - The Adventures of Robert Savage



Edit:  Some of the albums I've been searching for but haven't got a hold of yet are compositions by Ligetti,
the vinyl set of Philip Glass's entire Music in 12 Parts, Eddie Hazel's solo album Games, Dames..., the first Dukes of the Stratosphear album, early Yoko Ono albums excluding the first Plastic Ono Band album.



Edited by BroSpence - June 04 2008 at 02:10

Badger - One Live Badger Now your talking  , Great Tunes Top Cover Art 

i like vinyl. it's more serious listening and there's more of a ritual to it. it feels more alive than cd. says nothing for the audio quality, though.

i'll be an audiophile soon. give me 5 years.

I'm really an mp3 dork because the internet amazes me... but I might not be into music at all had I not experienced the ceremony of rotating Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells on a record deck like some revered custodian of sound o:)

Massive vinyl junkie. Couple of standouts for me:

I bought a USB turntable earlier this year, and I love it.  I've spent the better part of the last few months making mp3s of old LPs and cassettes (it was a happy day when I realized that I could connect my headphone extension chord into my old tape player and plug the other end into to microphone input on my laptop so that I could make mp3s of cassettes too.  It's a ghetto hookup, but it works).

I'm only 24, so I didn't have a chance to accumulate a vinyl collection growing up.  But I've started going to thrift stores once a week looking for old LPs and cassettes.  In the past six months I've probably bought about 600 albums averaging about 50 cents each.  I do it mainly as a means to (legally) create a decent sized music library without spending much money.  When you figure that I spent $100 for the turntable plus approximately $300 on the albums, that's a pretty good price for hundreds of hours of music.

I think the thing I like best about the vinyl is that you can only rip mp3s in real time, unlike with cds.  That way when I make my mp3s, I'm actually forced to listen to the music.  It seems like every time I buy used CDs at a record store I buy five of them, listen to two of them, get distracted by something shiny, and then I never listen to the others.  I still have CDs sitting around that I never got around to listening to.  But the vinyl forces me to listen to the music.  Combine that with the seemingly random selection of albums that one can actually find in a thrift store, and I'm listening to a ton of music that I would otherwise never have access to.  Just today I made mp3s of albums by Weather Report, America, Joan Jett, and The Marshall Tucker Band.  And queued up I have albums by the Who, Nazareth, the Carpenters, and Phil Collins.  Of all of those bands, the only ones I'd ever consider buying a CD of are America, Weather Report, and the Who.  So as a young'un who didn't get to grow up with this music, it's great and is broadening my musical horizons.

Unfortunately, one doesn't usually find many prog albums sitting around in thrift stores, so my collection is rather pathetic when compared to that of some of the older members here.  But I am fond of some of the prog albums I've been able to find.  I have copies of albums by Yes, Genesis, Jethro Tull, ELP, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report, Dixie Dregs, Steve Hackett, Starcastle, Deep Purple, Moody Blues, the Who, Frank Zappa, Styx, Kansas, ELO, Asia, and a few others.

Still though, I wouldn't call myself a vinyl junkie.  But it is extremely satisfying to listen to a record when the original owner took good care of it.  And when that's the case, it's even more satisfying to know that I have a recording of near CD quality and I paid a fraction the price.  Of course, it's also extremely frustrating to try to listen to an album that is dirty and scratched to the point that it is unlistenable.  But for fifty cents, it's a risk I'm willing to make