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Most Treasured C.D/ L.P etc.

What are the most treasured in your music collection? Not neccessarily what the music is but what it represents. Had it the longest, signed, rare etc

A couple of mine:

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I can remember my dad having these in the 70's and he gave them to me so they are around 35 years old I think. I rarely play them but obviously treasure them.

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3 disc version with both mono and stereo versions with a disc of early singles and out takes. Plus a Syd Barrett replica scrapbook with his drawings, paintings etc

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One of my very first C.D's. Nuff said. BTW-It's a Hawkwind album.

I know some of you out there are going to have some top quality stuff so get snapping and posting.

I found an original pressing of S.F. Sorrow ina 60's garage bin at my local music shop. :)

They were charging more for a vinyl copy of Pablo Honey. :laughing:

My most treasured are all bootlegged concerts. But for official releases, The Smashing Pumpin's "Adore" takes me back to my Chicago days, particularly gray and snowy Saturday afternoons looking out over Lincoln Park, Diversey Harbor, LSD, and Lake Michigan. Life was good. It even makes me talk all poetic and sh*t.

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Indio—Big Harvest
It's funny, the type of music on this album—which could best be compared to Sting or Peter Gabriel—is not a style I really have any interest in any more but this album is very close to my heart. Let me tell you why: I bought this tape in 1990 when it was only one year old and I was only thirteen. I loved this album and it was there for me during that awkward time of life, including one of my first experiences with heartbreak when the first girl I ever got to second base with dumped me. Anyways a few years later the tape deck in my car ate the thing and considering what a soft spot I had for the album, I was really bummed. What made it worse was my discovery that the album had gone out of print and was the only thing ever released by the band. And so began a several year search for the thing on CD. I started making it a habit, every time I passed by a used CD store I'd pop in and check to see if they had it. After three or four years of doing this, one day I finally struck gold. I couldn't believe my eyes, I nearly had a heart attack I was so excited. I don't listen to it much any more but it's still easily my most treasured CD. Interestingly, Eddie Vedder covered one of the songs off this album last year for the soundtrack of the movie Into the Wild, so I wonder if that has lead to the album being rereleased or not.

There's actually also a funny addendum to this story. Only a few months after I found the CD I stumbled across another copy of it on CD. I was kind of shocked that it took so many years to find the first one only to find a second mere months later by total accident. I bought it and gave it to the girl I was dating at the time because she was a huge Sting fan and thought she might like it. Now fastforward about six or seven years, that girl and I have long since broken up and lost touch and I had just started dating the woman who is now my wife, and I get a phone call from the girl I gave the CD to. She says she had taken the CD booklet out of the case for the first time and a little note from me that she had never noticed before fell out. So even though it's been over six years since we last spoke, she tells me how she's sorry for the way she broke up with me all those years ago and asks if I'm seeing anyone now. I tell her I am, but we continue to have a pleasant catching-up type of conversation during which she casually mentions that she's naked. I pretty much ignore the comment and continue having a friendly conversation with her for a little while longer, then we say goodbye and I never hear from her again.

So as you can see, I have a long and sordid history with Indio's Big Harvest and I guess that's why it's still near and dear to my heart.

^^

Great story. Enjoyable read.

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Originally Posted by jackhammer (Post 552490)

What are the most treasured in your music collection? Not neccessarily what the music is but what it represents. Had it the longest, signed, rare etc.

I have over 400 LPs. I love them all. I have all of John Denver's Albums, most of AC/DCs, Pink Floyd's and dozens of others... BTW, John Denver Rocks! Remember the 80's with Tipper Gore, John sat with Dee Snider in front of Congress and funded most of the lawyer fees.

Anyways, my most treasured album is my mint condition Welcome to My Nightmare. It was the first Alice Cooper album I owned and it hooked me. I consider it the greatest rock album of all time. I have it on Mp3, CD, Cassette and Vinyl. I'm still looking for an 8 track of it. lol

Second to this are my Beatle's Albums. I have original copies of the first 6 albums released in this country. My mother bought them new for 2 dollars a piece. One of them is in Monoral. The rest are stereophonic.

Lastly, there is my AC/DC Back In Black. First Rock album I ever owned. My uncle gave it to me! Need I say more? :D

My Mom gave me every Beatles album she had on vinyl...all of them are first editions and the Sgt. Peppers even has the inserts and stuff...I also have all the Kiss albums up to Unmasked on vinyl as well...I have a pretty impressive vinyl collection now that I think about it but I don't have a record player at my house so I keep them stored away.

My most treasured album is likely my copy of The Wallflowers' Rebel Sweetheart. It was the first album I ever bought for myself. Believe it or not, this was only two years ago (doesn't say much for my age). It's still one of my favorite albums, and I think that it is an absolute masterpiece.

I have all the '60s, '70s, and '80s King Crimson releases on original print, near-mint vinyl. Definitely the most important pieces in my collection. Nothing in the world beats listening to "Fallen Angel" while watching the record spin.

I also love my psychedelic cover-art collection, albums like
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Spyro Gyra - Morning Dance
Ten Years After - Ssssh
Led Zeppelin III
Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
The Zombies - Odyssey and Oracle
Donovan - Sunshine Superman

One day when I have enough I'd like to line an entire wall in framed psychedelic cover art

I don't have anything too special but I do have the European Version of The Strokes' "Is This It?" Different cover art and it has the song NYC Cops on it, kinda cool I guess.

I don't have anything very special either. The rarest CD I have is a copy of From the Vaults Of Mainman; a bootleg of various David Bowie rarities, including early (unreleased) mixes of songs, a live cover of Imagine, a few alternate mixes, unreleased songs and the like. Cost me only £6 when I got it in Norwich - quite a bargain really. Can't find a good picture of it anywhere though, I'd have to take one myself (which I can't really be arsed to do right now). If any of you wanna hear it just PM me

I treasure a huge pile of original records that my dad gave me when I moved out of home. It's a random and eclectic mix of a whole lot of stuff that he acquired in his teenagehood and at university.

Mine would probably have to be the score to the movie Sunshine.

I love the score anyway, but I have it signed by John Murphy as well as Karl Hyde and Rick Smith from Underworld, who all contributed to it, and Danny Boyle the director.

What makes it even more special is that it still hasn't been released for some reason.

I have quite a few cool collectible CDs etc, but the others are all what I have paid for so, whilst they are good to have, aren't really special in a unique way.

For a while I treasured My Bloody Valentine's Loveless on LP because I thought it was rare to find, but apparently they've been re-released or something.

So I think Pet Sounds on LP, with all tracks on mono, is my most treasured vinyl. It's a limited edition 180 gram vinyl.

On CD it's a tougher choice. The rarest thing I have is Stereolab's Emperor Tomato Ketchup, which isn't that hard to find.

Just remembered I've got a copy of Nico' 'Icon' (the re-release of the remix of 'Drama Of Exile' - long story). Don't know how rare it is, but I can't find it online and I picked it up in a second-hand shop, so I assume it's not exactly the easiest album to find

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Originally Posted by ToeAndno (Post 553627)

'Sunshine' :D Brilliant film, brilliant score *cough*

I don't really own anything particularly "special" in terms of rare pressings, etc. I could make a case for my absolute favorite albums being "valuable" for their sentimental meaning, but that would be boring.

The "coolest" thing I own is probably a CD-R of the mono version of Blonde On Blonde. It's taken from scratchy, worn down vinyl, but hey, it's BOB in mono.

I have Godspeed You! Black Emperor's F#A#Infinity on limited edition vinyl, its one of my most prized possessions.

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Originally Posted by WaspStar (Post 553831)

I think that's the purpose of this thread. Show and tell.

Ask the Ages by Sonny Sharrock, original press.

Has had its run, but I have tried to keep it in good condition.

I don't have anything AMAZING. But I have an Ashes of Soma CD signed by the whole band.

I have a first edition copy of Dark Side of the moon
unfortunately I trashed the inserts as a youngster.

Oh, and also I have an original release of Alice Cooper's "Welcome to My Nightmare". Almost forgot about that little piece.

I have one of 10 test-presses of Fall of Efrafa's 'Tharn'
CTTS/pg.99 split 7"
CTTS as the roots undo on green marble 12"
CTTS s/t EP with free random stickers and signed postcard
Khanate Limited Picture disc of Capture & Release
Kayo Dot 2xLP on light blue/dark blue swirl vinyl.
Godspeed F#A#oo Limitd 12" with a flat penny inside
Explosions in the Sky - The Rescue

It goes on.. I love my record collection.

My "The Dark Side of the Moon" vinyl.

Is not originail precing or anything like that.It was actually made in greece in 1975. However I stole it from my dad's collection,and is cool to know that my dad used to listen to them. I also got from him the "Wish You Were Here" vinyl, however it is not in a very good shape, "Keepin' the Summer Alive" vinyl, "Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits" vinyl and an Abba greatest hits vinyl. He used to be so cool!