Vinyl Collection Treasures
 

Apologies if this is a re-post, but to all the vinyl collectors out there, I'm curious to know what your treasures of your collections are.

Having just started my collection i do not have much to go on, but my current favorites are:

Billy Joel: KohUept
Billy Joel: Turnstiles
and
Blues Brothers: Briefcase full of Blues

Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead 12'' single(blue wax and picture disc)
Klaus Nomi - Self Titled(German Import)
Ramones - It's Alive(Portuguese Import)
Ramones - Rocket To Russia
Plastic Bertrand - Ça Plane Pour Moi(promo copy)
Dixie Dregs - Punk Sandwich 12'' single(promo copy in red wax)
The Replacements - Pleased To Meet Me
Johnny Cash - Live At San Quentin

gotta admit i'm jealous of the judas priest and johnny cash ones

Well I've been collecting for around 5-6 years so I have found some pretty decent things. Actually just found Judas Priest's Screaming For Vengeance last week and Johnny Cash At San Quentin back in December. It's important to frequent your local record store as you never know what they'll have the very next day.

I don't collect but I had the original release of Rolling Stones Some Girls (with all the faces). But is disapeared from my collection sometime during college. I always have wondered what happend to it (who did I loan it to).

:clap: listen if you come home and find somethings missing....ummm Fred did it...

I've been looking for Meatloaf; Bat out of Hell for a while now. so my fiance finally ordered me a copy for my birthday next month. can't wait til it gets here

Oh man, Bat Out Of Hell is such a common album at my local record store. I could probably go up there now and come back with at least 10 copies. It is a great album though.

I don't own one Vinyl or a vinyl player is the quality better then CD ..???? and can u skip tracks ..???

Not sure if you're serious or trolling, but I'll answer those questions anyway.

Generally it is said the quality is better, but it's not such a large difference that the casual listener would notice. But you also need to have decent speakers, I mean any format would sound horrible if you have crap speakers.

Yes, you can skip tracks, you just pick up the needle and move it further inward or outward of the record, depending where the track you want to play is.

I personally prefer vinyl for a number of reasons.

for one, it turns simply listening to music into more of an experience. anyone can pop in a CD or download an album and then simply forget it's playing and go on doing something else. With a Vinyl there is a bit more of a ceremony or procedure (for lack of better terms)
You choose the album you want to listen to. carefully slide it out of the case. gingerly place it on the turn table. press play and drop the needle. then after a while you flip the album and restart the process.

I may be romanticizing the process, but such is my way.

Also i like the fact that if you have a first pressing, or at least a very old album, it's almost as if you are holding a piece of history. that record has lived and survived through time and remains unchanged, a good metaphor for the music itself.

And a vinyl is the recording that the artist originally wanted for that piece. All this digitization and remastering of classic albums i feel is tainting the true art of the music. music isn't pure and clean and exact. Music is raw and dirty and more natural then all this over production allows nowadays.

but maybe it's just me

(gets off soap box)

I've got a load of vinyls.

David Bowie - Everything up until Black Tie White Noise, except for his debut which was crap.
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Saturday Night Fever
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
Kate Bush - Never For Ever
The Strangers (several)

Got more but those are the only ones I like.

I have those, they sound great on vinyl.

I don't see how that's any different then a CD

u carefully take it out of its case u put it in your CD player and press play ....

I could walk off with my vinyl player playing just has easy has a cd player .......

plus the most important thing u can also take that cd and put it on your Ipod and take the music with U in the car esp nothing beats Jammig to music in your car while driving

What? LOL. You don't press play with vinyls - you just set the needle in the groove to start it. And turntables are not terribly portable, so you can't take them jogging or whatever like with an iPod. Or a discman.

You know what vinyl records look like, right?

I don't think you have the right to compare since you've never experienced both the sides..right? A lot depends on the turntable that you choose..if you buy some turntable meant mainly for scratching (ones that DJs use) then the listening experience is nothing great..It only when you get hold of some really good audiophile (technics, rega, etc) that you truly understand what it feels like..every music format has its + and -..obviously one should listen to vinyl in a relaxed state..not when you're in office or something!

I've just started my vinyl collection..started about 7-8 months ago..the ones that i got hold of recently :

Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing
Om - Advaitic Songs
Agalloch - The Mantle
Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray
Psychotic Waltz - Into the Everflow
Cryptopsy - None so Vile

a few of my valuable favorites..

Sparks - "Beat the Clock" 12" extended (yellow vinyl); "Tryouts for the Human Race" 12" extended (orange vinyl); "Introducing Sparks" LP (red vinyl - I also have one in black); "Hello Young Lovers" LP (pink vinyl); "Two Hands/One Mouth" 12" (picture disc) - thanks (Ki), sweetie!

Jefferson Airplane - "Surrealistic Pillow" - fairly common but the copy I have has its original inserts and it's basically in NM/NM- condition

Vanilla Fudge - S/T - same condition as above; terrific vinyl - it was such a steal.

Justin Hawkins/British Whale - "This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us" 7" single (clear/transparent vinyl)

I'll probably be back later with more but I'm a sucker for Mint/NM/NM- quality vinyl, colors, and picture discs.

I don't have a lot of vinyl yet, but here are some of my favorites that I do have.

Andrew Jackson Jihad - Can't Maintain (Clear/Gray Marble Vinyl)
The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten (Blue Vinyl)
Into It. Over It. - Twelve Towns (Red Vinyl)
Destroyer - Rubies (Deluxe Edition, two disk White Vinyl)
Elliott Smith - Either/Or Alternate Versions (7inch)
Defiance, Ohio - The Great Depression
Paul Baribeau - Unbearable
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea.

Bought my first few records the other day.

The Velvet Underground — The Velvet Underground & Nico
Weezer — Pinkerton
Weather Report — Heavy Weather
The New York Dolls — Too Much Too Soon
Miles Davis — Kind of Blue
Kanye West — My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Jon Anderson - Animation
Rainbow - On Stage (Live album)
Don McLean - American Pie
Yes - Close To The Edge
Simon & Garfunkel - Live in Central Park
Saga - Saga
Asia - Alpha

I can't think of anymore right now but I know I have a lot more that I am very happy to have. I'll come back once I refresh my memory.

Very awesome finds indeed! I've only really been collecting since May of this year (since I didn't have a vinyl player beforehand it never interested me), but here are my top eight or so vinyls:

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Lick My Decals Off, Baby
Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention - Freak Out! (original print too)
Boom Bip & Doseone - Circle
Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come
Herbie Hancock - Thrust
Various Artists - The Concert for Bangladesh
United States of America - s/t
The Velvet Underground & Nico
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch!
Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra
Charles Ives - The World of Charles Ives

I have Rudimentary Peni's discography up to and including Pope Adrian 37th Psychiatric.

I have everything Bowie did from space oddity to never let me down.
Led Zep 1-the white one after physical graffiti forgot the name.
Kate bush - the kick inside + never for ever
J Dilla - Donuts
Black Sabbath - paranoid, master of reality and Sabbath bloody Sabbath
Thin Lizzy - jailbreak
VUAN
Elton John - goodbye yellow brick road plus about four others
The first two stranglers albums (ratticus norvegicus + no more heroes?)
The who - who's next
Saturday night fever

Quite a few. Can't pick a favourite but I'm quite proud of my Bowie collection.

Went on a spree today, bought about 40 vinyls brand new in a record shop closing down sale. Mix of 12 inch and LP's. Should be arriving tomorrow.

:cool:

I have all of Godspeed's albums.

Minus All Lights Fucked which isn't real.

Vinyl:

The Ventures - Ventures in Space
Ancestors - III
Nile - Black Seeds of Vengeance
Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard
Slayer - Hell Awaits
Bolt Thrower - In Battle There is No Law
Tom Waits - Nighthawks at the Diner
Conqueror - War.Cult.Supremacy
Chuck Mangione - Fun & Games
Rick Astley - Whenever You Need Somebody
Ancestors - III
Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love
Judas Priest - Hell Bent For Leather

...but I've tapes I value more than any of these. Proclamation's "Messiah of Darkness & Impurity", especially.

Good call on the Pestilence, Om & Cryptopsy.