Vinyl - Your old favourites

[Greenwich_Man]

What do you keep coming back to?

One for me is - Eric Clapton's - Rainbow Concert. got it second hand from Virgin in the '70s

I now have the expanded CD - but the vinyl still sounds better to me.

What about you - what keeps getting onto your turntable?

 

[Alantiggger]

I keep coming back to the eighties and mostly the new romantic movement era.

The Human League and more so Heaven 17 are superb on cd.... music quite unlike any other ... Clapton etc are all too easilly liked and lauded from 'kid-on' music lovers and as such are a little boring for me..

 

[Greenwich_Man]

Alantiggger:Clapton etc are all too easilly liked and lauded from 'kid-on' music lovers and as such are a little boring for me..

Hi Alan - What's a "kid-on" music lover?

 

[Charlie Jefferson]

Perennials of the vinyl variety include:

1) Presence - Zep
2) Harvest - Neil Young
3) Technique - New Order
4) Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death - John Fahey
5) Electric Cafe - Kraftwerk
6) Who's Next
7) Workers Playtime - Billy Bragg
8) Rubber Soul
9) Songs For A Blue Guitar - Red House Painters
10) Very - Pet Shop Boys

 

[tenergy]

After 17 or so years of collecting the little silvery disc, I am now back to collecting vinyl in earnest, much to the chagrin of the wife. Here are my 10 favorites-

1. Everything But The Girl - The Language of Life

2. Everything But The Girl - Idlewild

3. The Style Council - My Ever Changing Moods

4. Nat "King" Cole - After Midnight

5. Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage

6. Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto

7. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

8. Bob Marley - Legend

9. John Coltrane - Ballads

10.The Cure -Staring At The Sea

 

[Greenwich_Man]

Neil Young - Comes a Time

Here's another one that's often on my turntable - when I got it second hand it had loads of crackles - but I took it to be cleaned up in Soho - and it plays perfect now - I just love it!

 

[The_Lhc]

Alantiggger:
I keep coming back to the eighties and mostly the new romantic movement era.

The Human League and more so Heaven 17 are superb on cd.... music quite unlike any other ...

You missed the use of the word "vinyl" then?

Clapton etc are all too easilly liked and lauded from 'kid-on' music lovers and as such are a little boring for me..

I've got to say I agree in a way, I've never understood the appeal of modern blues guitarists, or modern blues itself, more likely, it just seems to completely miss the point of blues as far as I can tell.

 

[Greenwich_Man]

Well - I just love modern blues guitar - for me you can't get better than Peter Green. I love early John Mayall records - both Clapton and Green excel on those 1st 2 albums. Then there's the 70th birthday concert - some great stuff. Then there's early Fleetwood Mac.

Peter Green is truly playing his blues. Look at his life - he really knows the blues!

For those interested I can recommend going to Ronnie Scotts - once a month is a blues night (it's on a Sunday night) You will hear some great blues - including great guitar.

 

[The_Lhc]

I don't know, I see concerts on the telly, with Gary Moore gurning away and sweating like a horse and I just think "That isn't the blues." It leaves me stone cold I'm afraid.

 

[Greenwich_Man]

Not into Gary Moore

 

[The_Lhc]

That was just an example of the last artist I saw, you could substitute pretty much anyone from the last 30-40 years to be honest.

 

[Greenwich_Man]

OK mate - we all have different tastes

 

[The_Lhc]

Don't get me wrong I like old blues and I like quite a lot of electric guitar stuff (can't think of a better way of putting it as I'm not talking about any one genre!), I just don't like modern "guitar-god" type blues. It doesn't move me.

 

[Greenwich_Man]

That's fine - I can hear some Jazz - and know it's good - in fact know its VERY GOOD - but it doesn't move me! - It's the same with lots of music from lots of areas - From Classical to Rock and Pop - But there is other stuff I'd find it hard to live without

 

[Greenwich_Man]

This is a classical record that's on my turntable a lot

Vaughan Williams: Tallia Fantasia; Fantasia on Greensleeves; The Lark Ascending etc.

I thought I'd lost this - and bought the CD - but was very happy when I unearthed the LP

 

[DIB]

This LP got some hammer back in the 70's/80's, got put under the stairs when CD arrived, but has come back with a vengeance recently...

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[Anonymous]

for me its a supercut audiophile pressing of
supertramp breakfast in america, i also own

a audiophle pressing of a japannesse toshiba lp called take the a train
a big band jazz offering and is 1975 recording this is the best sounding piece of
recorded music ive heard its a direct cut lp ..

 

[mitch65]

dvdaudio:
for me its a supercut audiophile pressing of
supertramp breakfast in america, i also own

a audiophle pressing of a japannesse toshiba lp called take the a train
a big band jazz offering and is 1975 recording this is the best sounding piece of
recorded music ive heard its a direct cut lp ..

Is that one of those Nimbus issues they did in limited numbers?

 

[Anonymous]

hi mitch65 ii got it way back early 80s nimbus pressimgs

it was bought from a hifi mag am sure it was either practial hifi
or hifi news mail order, i also got stuff like that quincy jones and joan armtrading both supercut pressings
also very good as well i also bought a couple sheffied labs audiophile lps but these were expensive back then
and i worked a lot of overtime to get them but i still listen to them often

 

[Greenwich_Man]

dvdaudio:it was bought from a hifi mag am sure it was either practial hifi or hifi news mail order,

It may have been Practical HiFi - I got two back then - David Sancious "The Bridge"; and George Solti & LSO "Mahler - Symphony No 1". Both from Practical HiFi mastered by Nimbus

 

[Greenwich_Man]

This is my favourite Rock Gospel LP from the 80's - still love to play it

 

[mitch65]

dvdaudio:

hi mitch65 ii got it way back early 80s nimbus pressimgs

it was bought from a hifi mag am sure it was either practial hifi
or hifi news mail order, i also got stuff like that quincy jones and joan armtrading both supercut pressings
also very good as well i also bought a couple sheffied labs audiophile lps but these were expensive back then
and i worked a lot of overtime to get them but i still listen to them often

I guess a small consolation is they are worth more now as quite collectable so not a bad investment (time and money!)

Definitely Practical HiFi, remember seeing these in the mail order section when I started reading this mag (too rich for my student earnings

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