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I've got a load of LPs that somehow never made it to CD or download, mostly inherited from my dad. I've have often wondered why at least some of them didn't. I'm sure a good few of them would have sold in enough numbers to warrant the effort. One of my favourites is the Decca Phase 4 recording of "1812 Overture" b/w "Nutcracker Suite" (Sharples, London Festival Orchestra). Another is the Eric Delaney & Louis Bellson album "Repercussion": criminally never available on any digital format as far as I have been able to tell.
Then you get some albums that are available digitally but the quality is so bad you think "who the hell signed-off this rubbish??". A perfect example is the abysmal needle-drop of Peter Appleyard's "Percussive Jazz". Absolutely nasty, noisy capture from a scratched and worn LP, which is made all the more unlistenable by the crippling digital noise-reduction they employed to try to make it bearable (which failed). The digital capture I made from my own LP using just the line-in on my Mac, a Technics SL-6 turntable and my Cyrus 2's phono-stage is in a different league.
What are your favourites that never appeared?
Then you get some albums that are available digitally but the quality is so bad you think "who the hell signed-off this rubbish??". A perfect example is the abysmal needle-drop of Peter Appleyard's "Percussive Jazz". Absolutely nasty, noisy capture from a scratched and worn LP, which is made all the more unlistenable by the crippling digital noise-reduction they employed to try to make it bearable (which failed). The digital capture I made from my own LP using just the line-in on my Mac, a Technics SL-6 turntable and my Cyrus 2's phono-stage is in a different league.
What are your favourites that never appeared?