A Record Collection Thread

[davos]

*updated

 

Hey y'all,

 

So I got a new record player that hooks up to my new Bose speakers and have been lovinnnnnng every minute of it.  

 

I was wondering how many huddlers collect and what's the cream of the crop in your collections?

 

So far I've found....

 

Hand-me Downs from the 'rents:

 

Dark Side of the Moon  

Who's Next

Argus - Wishbone Ash 

Rubber Soul - Beatles

War Heroes - Hendrix 

 

My buys:

 

Ecology - Rare Earth

More Songs about Buildings & Food - Talking Heads

Rumors - Fleetwood Mac

In Rainbows - Radiohead

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The Captian and Me - Doobie Bros.

Champagne Jam - Atlanta Rhythm Section

Chicago (II) - Chicago
Time- ELO

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Rare Earth - Rare Earth

Thick as a Brick - Tull

Nightlife - Phantogram

Surfin' Safari - Beach Boys

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AM - Arctic Monkeys

Time Out - Dave Brubeck Quartet

Summer in Abaddon - Pinback

Hypnotic Eye - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

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Brother in Arms - Dire Straits

Quadrophenia - The Who

With Light, With Love - Woods

Watt - Ten Years After

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Lost in the Dream - The War on Drugs

Vs. - Pearl Jam

Vitalogy - Pearl Jam

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Tales from Topographic Oceans - Yes

Strange Trails - Lord Huron

Not Fragile - BTO

Demons & Wizards - Uriah Heep

In Squared Circle -Stevie Wonder

 

 

 

Who's Next has risen dramatically on my all-time record list.  

 

[Cary Kollins]

I don't listen to my records nearly enough because the sound is crap from my player. I bet those Bose speakers are awesome.

Off hand my favorite records I have are:

Sly and the Family Stone - Stand!

The Doors- LA Woman

The Avett Brothers - Four Thieves Gone

[Anybodyhome]

We have a very similar music aesthetic.

 

One of the very first  concept-album bands I ever listened to was Wishbone Ash. Who's Next gets better the older you get, Jethro Tull pre-Brick is pretty fugging good also. 

 

Did you know Rare Earth was the first rock/R&B band signed by Motown? They had a definite R&B funk/groove to them and I still listen to their early stuff (69-74). I saw them as the opening act at the first California Jam in April 1974...

 

 

 

 

Cassette tape became the rage when I was 15, CDs years later, so all of my music until I was into my 20's was vinyl. Hell, on Friday nights, we'd go to the Tower Records store and just go through the row upon row of albums they had, looking for the next buried treasure. Unfortunately I lost my entire record collection, probably close to 400 albums, in 1988 in a fire.

[Zcustom]

Thriller

Dark side of the moon

Animals

Paranoid

News of the world

[TheRumGone]

my parents gave me over 80 records for the record player i got a few years ago.

 

all the old stuff zeppelin, hendrix, crosby stills and nash, pink floyd, grateful dead (i wanted to burn them), the beatles, and some random artists i've never heard of that i will get around to listening to.

 

i just bought kendrick lamar's good kid maad city on vinyl and it kicks major ass. gonna keep that one in mint condition.

[panthers55]

I have 300 albums from the 60s through the 80s.  From In-a-gadda-da-vida by Iron Butterfly to House of the rising Son-from The Animals album.  Fleetwood Mac- self-titled to Saturday night fever.   Unfortunately, many of them got some water damage when my basement flooded.

[davos]

We have a very similar music aesthetic.

 

One of the very first  concept-album bands I ever listened to was Wishbone Ash. Who's Next gets better the older you get, Jethro Tull pre-Brick is pretty fugging good also. 

 

Did you know Rare Earth was the first rock/R&B band signed by Motown? They had a definite R&B funk/groove to them and I still listen to their early stuff (69-74). I saw them as the opening act at the first California Jam in April 1974...

 

 

 

 

Cassette tape became the rage when I was 15, CDs years later, so all of my music until I was into my 20's was vinyl. Hell, on Friday nights, we'd go to the Tower Records store and just go through the row upon row of albums they had, looking for the next buried treasure. Unfortunately I lost my entire record collection, probably close to 400 albums, in 1988 in a fire.

 

That is awesome man.  Very cool stuff.

 

Rare Earth and Wishbone Ash are two amazing bands and I totally agree about Who's Next.  I used to be more Zep but have really transitioned to The Who recently.  

[davos]

my parents gave me over 80 records for the record player i got a few years ago.

 

all the old stuff zeppelin, hendrix, crosby stills and nash, pink floyd, grateful dead (i wanted to burn them), the beatles, and some random artists i've never heard of that i will get around to listening to.

 

i just bought kendrick lamar's good kid maad city on vinyl and it kicks major ass. gonna keep that one in mint condition.

 

I've noticed a decent amount of hip-hop when I've gone to stores recently and was wondering how some of it sounds on Vinyl. Nice.  

 

My dad still plays his so he's not quite at the point where he's ready to give his 100+ to me haha

[TheRumGone]

I've noticed a decent amount of hip-hop when I've gone to stores recently and was wondering how some of it sounds on Vinyl. Nice.

My dad still plays his so he's not quite at the point where he's ready to give his 100+ to me haha

Yeah especially this one cause it has that grainy sound already in the music production. Playing it on vinyl gives it a really cool feel.

[davos]

Yeah especially this one cause it has that grainy sound already in the music production. Playing it on vinyl gives it a really cool feel.

 

Nice.  I never really gave his album a full listen but being a J. Cole, Black Star, and Big L fan think I'd like him.  

[Crixtala]

my parents gave me over 80 records for the record player i got a few years ago.

 

all the old stuff zeppelin, hendrix, crosby stills and nash, pink floyd, grateful dead (i wanted to burn them), the beatles, and some random artists i've never heard of that i will get around to listening to.

 

i just bought kendrick lamar's good kid maad city on vinyl and it kicks major ass. gonna keep that one in mint condition.

 

i'll gladly take those dead vinyl's off your hands if they're causing you too much pain

 

 

my father in law passed last april and my wife and i got all of his stuff... The Band, anything with Jerry Garcia, Dylan, Zeppelin, Hendrix... all amazing stuff

 

the new stuff I've bought include Jack Johnson's new album and some of his older stuff, Railroad Earth's latest album, The Avett Brothers The Carpenter, The Lumineers (if you don't know this, look it up - AMAZING), Lotus, STS9... I'm sure I'm missing some

[Jangler]

Everything is gone... even the bootlegg vinyl, 

 

 

 

Don't forget about your needle. always need good needles.

[panthers55]

I remember my oldest son discovering my Peter Frampton album and falling in love with it.  It was funny because I hadn't listened to it in years and here was a new generation discovering the timelessness of music.

[frash.exe]

What am I supposed to do with all these pat cooper albums