Vinyl Collection

So this summer I dove into the world of vinyls or records. And I was wondering what member's prog collection looked like of vinyls (or just all record collection). Also voice some general opinions on the record...

Once upon a time I had built up a good sized collection.  The ones that I considered keepers were on a high shelf and the rest on low.  Unfortunately a house flood came along and wrecked the ones I would have sold along with more than a few keepers.

The survivors:
Abercrombie, John    Characters    1978
Abercrombie, John, Dave Holland, Jack Dejohnette    Gateway 2    1978
Airto    Airto : Identity    1975
Akkernan, Jan    Oil In the Family    1981
Akkernan, Jan & Kaz Lux    Eli    1976
Ambrosia    Somewhere Never Travelled    1976
Bach, Johan Sebastian    Four Concertos For Harpsichord And Orchestra    1730
Bach, Johan Sebastian    Das Orgelwerk    1746
Bach, Johan Sebastian/The Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra    Musical Offering    1747
Badger    One Live Badger    1973
Banks, Peter    Two Sides Of Peter Banks    1973
Banks, Tony    Fugitive, The    1983
Banks, Tony    Soundtracks    1986
Baumann    Strangers In The Night    1983
Belew, Adrian    Twang Bar King    1983
Berlin, Jeff & Vox Humana    Champion    1985
Bernhardt, Warren    Solo Piano    1978
Bernhardt, Warren    Manhattan Update    1980
Bernhardt, Warren, Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, Mike Mainieri, Larry Coryell    Blue Montreaux    1979
Brainbox    Brainbox    ????
Brand X    Is There Anything About?    1982
Bruford    Bruford Tapes, The    1979
Bruford, Bill's Earthworks    Earthworks    1987
Burton, Gary    Turn Of The Century    1972
Burton, Gary    New Quartet, The    1973
Burton, Gary    Seven Songs For Quartet And Chamber Orchestra    1974
Burton, Gary The Quintet With Eberhard Weber    Ring    1974
Bush, Kate    Kick Inside, The    1977
Bush, Kate    Lionheart    1978
Byrne, David    Music For The Knee Plays    1985
Captain Beefheart    Abba Zabba    ????
Cheiftans, The and the RTE Orchestra    Year Of The French, The    1983
Mr. Hampton B. Coles (Ret.)    One Ruined Life (Of A Bronze Tourist)    1978
Cobham, Billy    Crosswinds    1974
Cobham, Billy    Total Eclipse    1974
Connors, Bill    Theme To The Gaurdian    1975
Coryell, Larry    Fairyland    1971
Coryell, Larry    Real Great Escape, The    1973
Coryell, Larry    Basics    1976
Coryell, Larry    European Impressions    1978
Coryell, Larry    Standing Ovation    1978
Coryell, Larry With The Eleventh House And Mahavishnu John McLaughlin    Planet End    1975
Coryell, Larry, John McLaughlin/Chick Corea/Mirosalv Vitous/Billy Cobham    Spaces    1974
Coryell, Larry/Philip Catherine    Twin-House    1977
Crack The Sky    Animal Notes    1976
Danser's Inferno    Creation One    1975
de Grassi, Al    Altiplano    1987
Debussy    Le Martyre De Saint-Sebastian    ????
Debussy & Ravel by Budapest String Quartet    Debussy & Ravel by Budapest String Quartet    ????
Debussy, Claude    Etudes For Piano Books I & II    ????
Debussy, Claude    Les Grands Maitres de la Musique    ????
DeJohnette, Jack    Pictures    1977
Di Meola, Al    Tour De Force - “Live”    1982
Di Meola, Al, Project    Soaring Through A Dream    1985
Double Image    Dawn    1978
Eleckrosonics    Electronic Music    1962
Eleventh House With Larry Coryell, The    Introducing The Eleventh House With Larry Coryell    1974
Eleventh House, The Featuring Larry Coryell    Level One    1975
Eleventh House, The Featuring Larry Coryell    Aspects    1976
Emerson, Lake & Palmerl    Emerson, Lake & Palmerl    1971
Emerson, Lake & Palmerl    Tarkus    1971
Emerson, Lake & Palmerl    Trilogy    1972
Emerson, Lake & Powell    Emerson, Lake & Powell    1986
Ethos    (Ardour)    1977
Flash    Out Of Our Hands    1973
Flying Island    Another Kind Of Space    1976
FM    Black Noise    1978
FM    City Of Fear    1980
Fripp, Robert    Let The Power Fall    1981
Fripp, Robert And The League Of Crafty Guitarists    Live!    1986
Frith, Fredd and Henry Kaiser    With Friends Like These    1979?
Gabriel, Peter    Ain't That Peculiar? (Bootleg, Cleveland 1977)    1977
Gabriel, Peter    Plays Live    1983
Gabriel, Peter    Games Without Words (Bootleg from home studio)    ????
Garbarek, Jan    Dis    1976
Gaslini, Georgio    Meets Jean-Luc Ponty/Steve Lacy/Harry Beckett/Tony Oxley...    1976
Genesis    Seconds Out    1977
Genesis    Duke    1980
Genesis    Genesis    1983
Genesis    Invisible Touch    1986
Genesis    Story Of Genesis, The    1979?
Gentle Giant    Octopus    1973
Gismonti, Egberto    Solo    1979
Gleeson, Patrick    Beyond The Sun – The Planets    1976
Gong, Pierre Moerlen's    Downwind    1979
Gong, Pierre Moerlen's    Live    1980
Goodrick, Mick    In Pas(s)ing    1979
Grappelli, Stephane    Afternoon In Paris    1980
Grateful Dead    For The Faithful    1980
Green, Mike    Midnight Mirage    1976
Gruntz, George    Percussion Profiles    1978
GTR    GTR    1986
Hackett, Steve    Highly Strung    1982
Hackett, Steve    Bay Of Kings    1983
Hampton Grease Band, The    Music To Eat    1970
Hannson, Bo    Music Inspired By Watership Down    1977
Harrison, Jerry    Red And The Black, The    1981
Hassel, Jon/Brian Eno    Forth World Vol. 1 – Possible Musics    1980
Hendrix, Jimi    Rare Hendrix    1966
Hendrix, Jimi    Roots Of Hendrix, The    1966
Hodgkinson, Tim    Improvisations    1985
Holdsworth, Alan    i.o.u.    1982
Holdsworth, Alan    Atavachron    1986
Horslips    The Book Of Invasions – A Celtic Symphony    1976
Horslips    Aliens    1977
Howe, Steve    The Steve Howe Album    1979
Iron Butterfly    Scorching Beauty    1975
Jackson, Joe    Will Power    1987
Jarre, Jean Michel    Equinoxe    1978
Jas    Volcano    ????
Jethro Tull    Living In The Past    1971
Jethro Tull    Thick As A Brick    1972
Jethro Tull    Under Wraps    1984
Jethro Tull    Passion Play, A    1973
Jethro Tull/London Symphony Orchestra    A Classic Case    1985
Johnson, Alphonso    Spellbound    1977
Johnson, David Earle    Route Two    1981
Joos, Herbert    Philosophy Of The Flugelhorn, The    1974
Jordan, Stanley    Magic Touch    1985
Kawasaki, Ryo    Juice    1976
King Crimson    Earthbound    1972
King Crimson    Doctor D    1973
King Crimson    Unpronounceable    198?
Kitaro    Astral Voyage    1978
Kitaro    Millenia    1982
Kitaro    Asia    1985
Kitaro    Full Moon Story    1985
Klaatu    Hope    1977
Lloyd Webber, Andrew    Variations    1978
London Symphony Orchestra    We Know What We Like – The Music Of Genesis    1987
Mainieri, Mike and Warren Bernhardt    Free Smiles    1978
Morning Sky    Morning Sky    1973
Olfield, Mike    Boxed    1976
Ogerman, Clause Featuring Jan Akkerman    Aranjuez    1981
Oregon    Crossing    1985
Osanna    Landscape Of Life    1974
Rivera, Scarlett    Scarlett Fever    1978
Shadowfax    Watercourse Way    1975
Skeleton Crew    Learn To Talk    1984
Sky    Cadmium    1983
Sky    The Great Balloon Race    1985
Talking Heads    Fear of Music    1979
Talking Heads    The Name of This Band is Talking Heads    1982
Toya & Fripp    Lady Or The Tiger, The    1986
Various Artists    Guitar Player    1977
Various Artists    Music And Rhythm – A Benefit Album For A World Of Music, Arts And Dance    1982
Various Artists    Against All Odds – Sountrack    1984
Various Artists    Jazz Flavours At The Atlanta Jazz Festival    1985
Wakeman, Rick    Six Wives of Henry VIII, The    1972
Wakeman, Rick    Journey To The Center Of The Earth    1974
Wakeman, Rick    The Myths And Legends Of King Arthur And The Knights Of The Roundtable    1975
Wakeman, Rick    White Rock    1976
Wakeman, Rick    Rhapsodies    1979
Wakeman, Rick    Country Airs    1986
Weber, Eberhard    The colours of Chloe    1973
Weber, Eberhard    Fluid Rustle    1979
Weber, Eberhard Colours    Silent Feet    1978
Weisburg, Tim    Dreamspeaker    1973
Wheeler, Kenny    Around 6    1979
Winwood, Steve, Jim Capaldi, Dave Mason, Chris Wood, Rick Grech, Reebop Kwaku Baah, Jim Gordon    Welcome To The Canteen    1971
Yes    Yes    1969
Yamashta, Stomu    Go Live From Paris    1976
Yes    Tales from Topographic Oceans    1973
Yes    Relayer    1974
Yes    9012 Live – The Solos    1985
Zappa, Frank    Bongo Fury    1974
Zappa, Frank    Joe's Garage Act I.    1979
Zappa, Frank    Joe's Garage Acts II & III    1979
Zappa, Frank    Orchestral Favorites    1979
Zappa, Frank    Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch    1982
Zappa, Frank    London Symphony Orchestra Vol. 1    1983
Zappa, Frank    Meets The Mothers Of Prevention    1985

WOW!!! Slartibartfast that is quite a list!!!! 

Edited by AlexDOM - December 17 2011 at 21:38

I have about 400 vinyl albums.  The oldest is an original 1956 Woodie Guthrie album and the newest is the Decemberists 'Long Live the King' (a 7-inch EP).  The oldest prog one is probably an original copy of Jethro Tull's 'Stand Up'.  I had about 300 more at one time but got rid of a bunch of 80s crap several year's ago.

I quit buying albums when cassettes became the norm (kind of regret that now since most of my cassettes dry-rotted years ago), and started buying them again when Godspeed You! Black Emperor started putting stuff out on vinyl.

I'm pretty new to prog music, so my collection is limited to a couple VdGG LP's, Gentle Giant's In A Glass House and Yes's Fragile, plus about 60 metal and rock classics, italian metal and some Iron Maiden 7". Hope to expand it very soon

I inherited a reasonable amount of vinyl from my parents, including many prog classics, but in 2011 I began building a small collection of my own. Happened quite by accident - a record store I knew was closing and had the price reduced on new vinyl records. I thought "why not?" and got some. Then I kept buying them occasionally, either bargins or albums I truly enjoyed and wanted to get in the prettiest format available. I haven't gotten much, but I'm pleased with the 13 I've got so far.

I've been collecting records since about 1980 - not buying nearly as often since CDs came out, but not really getting rid of any either.  In fact, several times a friend of mine has given me his/her record collection to keep, when they have to relocate to a new house and don't want to move them all.  It's a pretty even mix of classic rock, progressive, 80s bands, punk/hardcore, and "oddities" that I inherited but would never have bought on my own.  Every now and then, I'll buy a recently released album on vinyl new, but mostly I just scavenge for random used LPs.  I probably have about 500 LPs total.

Kotro wrote:

Actually wholesale was his ambition, but you might be able to get some made for you still.  He had a small company lined up that could have produced them.  I think at this point he might still be hand making them.  Those were.  I've seen them personally and they really are top quality.  I even did the drawings for him.  David put a lot of hard work into trying to get this venture off the ground but I'm afraid the market for LP crates is limited even though vinyl has had a resurgence.


http://www.stereophile.com/content/nomad-crates
I received an interesting call today from a man named David Garrett in Atlanta, Georgia. David has 25 years of experience as an architect (in fact, he grew up in Highpoint, North Carolina—“Furniture Capital of the World”) and, for the last 13 years, has operated his own interior design company. He is aggressively and enthusiastically looking to change directions, however, and has recently started an LP rack business called Nomad Crates.

“I’m 49 years old, so I have plenty of good experience and I’m still young enough to put it to work.”

David wanted to design something that would be sturdy, “super-modular,” easily transportable, and relatively affordable. (People should be able to save on shelving and put more money toward buying records or audio equipment, he says.) Nomad Crates use domestically sourced wood and are built here in the United States. They ship in 4”-thick containers, arrive unstained and partially assembled, and can be disassembled for storage. Standard lengths are 18”, 24”, and 30”; a 24” Nomad Crate holds approximately 150 LPs and costs $50. Or just $0.33/LP. Which matches the price per LP cost of my Gothic Cabinet LP rack, but still misses the crazy-cheap $0.18/LP mark of my nicely finished Ikea Expedit shelves. But, then again, I can’t just rearrange my Ikea shelves to suit my mood or ever-growing LP collection, nor can I simply pick up and go with my Ikea shelves the way one might with the Nomad Crates. After all, the Nomad Crates are made to be transportable and configurable.

(This is an interesting attempt at addressing a problem common to most vinyl fans. We want to lead these free lives—physically and intellectually free lives—but wind up burdened by these things we hold so dear. We are crowded, made immobile. The records own us as much as we own them. What’s up with that? Love?)

In fact, while David says he designed these crates for music lovers, he’s also working with a department of the US government to devise larger versions of the design which can be utilized as temporary shelters, walls, and other sorts of structures. Your LP crate can even double as a shield against terrorist attacks! Just kidding. Professional DJs are going to seriously love these things, though. David tells me that DJ Turn Signal, an LA-based DJ perhaps best known for spinning Gene Simmons’ house parties, is already a big fan and will be promoting Nomad Crates in his videos.

Edited by Slartibartfast - January 11 2012 at 12:36

Alitare wrote: I only have a handful of Vinyl records (no record player). Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen Out of the Blue - Electric Light Orchestra Some crap from the Carpenters

Except for Springsteen that was in my record collection before I got hooked on prog.  Just one Carpeters album though.