Your most prized record(s)?

[Happy_Listener]

Which record or records in your collection do you value the most? I'll start off.

1. Recently acquired Music Matters John Coltrane, Blue Train on blue vinyl

2. Prince, Purple Rain on purple vinyl. 1984 copy

3. A few brand new and unopened 1980's records

 

[MajorFubar]

The records from my my dad and the cheap MFP and Top of The Pops records I played almost transparent from my childhood. All of zero material value but all of emmense personal value.

 

[Al ears]

Mine would have to be some of the hard to find classical recordings I have, a few early jazz albums, and some limited edition box sets like Frank Zappa and Elbow (which has yet to be opened).

 

[macdiddy]

the last few years, plus the few box sets I own including the Elbow one mentioned above (mines unopened too).

*music2*

 

[Deleted member 108165]

Her complete studio recordings and live albums, all original US pressings from 1975-1991. All bought mint from Discogs with the majority being sealed copies. Cost me a bloody fortune to collect this lot over the last two years. New remasters are not a patch on the originals.

 

[Frank Harvey]

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross' soundtrack to David Fincher's remake of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross' soundtrack to David Fincher's The Social Network.

The Dust Brothers soundtrack to David Fincher's Fight Club (Simply Vinyl release).

The Rise And Fall Of Paramount Records 1917-1927 box set.

Boards Of Canada's Geogaddi (sealed original pressing).

Boards Of Canada's Music Has The Right To Children (original pressing).

Numbered pressing of The Beatles White Album that belonged to my parents. One of the albums I grew up listening to.

 

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ziggy stardust

smashing pumpkins siamese dream

Pj harvey. Dry

The La's

Oasis definitely maybe

Nirvana..nevermind

Metallica black album

All first UK pressings among other various indie stuff.

But my fave has to be the The's mind bomb,and the new fast automatic daffodils..body exit mind,not valuable at all but I just love these albums and listening to them on vinyl,reminds me of my youth and just gives me that sense of nostalgia

.ps guy's you got to open the elbow box set...if just to listen to asleep in the back on vinyl..my fave elbow album to date.I got to get that.

 

[stevebrock]

Kate Bush - Aerial

massive attack - heligoland 3x180g

daft punk - Tron Legacy soundtrack

 

[Frank Harvey]

massive attack - heligoland 3x180g

I do wish I'd picked this up - got Mezzanine and 100th Window (still sealed!), but for some reason missed out on this.

 

[bigfish786]

i've bought all mine to listen to, till they wear out. i can't think of a single album that i treasure more than any other. if i have any favourites, they are the ones i play most, not covet the most.

 

[Deleted member 108165]

i've bought all mine to listen to, till they wear out. i can't think of a single album that i treasure more than any other. if i have any favourites, they are the ones i play most, not covet the most.

Totally agree. I bought most of my albums sealed but none of them have remained that way, they all get regular spins.

 

[6and8]

Here are a few of mine, all originals, some mono:

13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere

Love - (first album)

Country Joe and the Fish - Electric Music For The Mind And Body

Steve Miller Band - Children Of The Future

The Who - My Generation

 

[plastic penguin]

In terms of rarity value, I have an album of Count Basie that's recorded on the BP label. Apparently petroleum companies occasionally pressed records.

The other fairly rare record (12" single) - more accurate the cover - is the cover is in 3D, with glasses supplied.

In pure music terms has to be Stevie Wonder's 'Songs In The Key of Life'. Think his early 70s stuff was pure gold. After that he became a bit naff.

 

[Paul.]

Depends what you mean by value.

The one I value most is actually a single, Park Lake Speakers by Ella Guru. It just sounds all warm and dreamy in a way the cd doesn't quite manage.

My Chemical Brothers Singles 93-03 box set seems to be worth around £100.

 

[Al ears]

Possibly my Stefan Grossman Live album, some of which was recorded at Kingston Polytechnic, because I was in the front row.

 

[Waxy]

Those that bring back memories of times, people, places & feelings (good or bad).

 

[6and8]

Hi Al

If you were at a Stefan Grossman gig at Kingston Poly did you also go to the Toby Jug at Tolworth? I saw some amazing (mostly blues) bands play in the back room there - Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, Chicken Shack, Jeff Beck Group with Rod Stewart on vocals and Ronnie Wood on bass, Capt Beefheart's Magic Band with a young Ry Cooder, Jethro Tull, to name but a few...

 

[knaithrover]

Mine would have been an original,pressing of Safe as Milk by Captain Beefheart if it hadn't been stolen when my house was the venue for some very dodgy parties in the late 90's...

My 70's punk albums by the Clash/Pistols/Buzzcocks/PIL were played to death, remind me of my teens and have immense sentimental value.

As far as as keeping new sealed vinyl goes and each to their own and all that but why buy a record and not play it?

 

[Al ears]

Hi Al

If you were at a Stefan Grossman gig at Kingston Poly did you also go to the Toby Jug at Tolworth? I saw some amazing (mostly blues) bands play in the back room there - Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, Chicken Shack, Jeff Beck Group with Rod Stewart on vocals and Ronnie Wood on bass, Capt Beefheart's Magic Band with a young Ry Cooder, Jethro Tull, to name but a few...

Yes I did, many times between 1973-1976. Excellent establishment.

 

[6and8]

Anyone else out there old enough to remember the first Virgin Records shop - it was upstairs at the Tottenham Court Road end of Oxford Street? First record I bought there was the Velvet Underground's first album - thirty bob! Richard Branson was the first person (that I know of) to sell shrink-wrapped, unplayed albums, hence the name Virgin. In those days, most record shops would let you listen to a record before you bought it. If you didn't decide to buy it, it went back on the shelf, so eventually when it was sold it may aready have been played several times.

 

[Nathan]

Three favourites, all new 180grm pressings

Freddie Mercury's Barcelona

Hugh Laurie's Let Them Talk

Queen II

 

[Happy_Listener]

6and8, That's an interesting story! I didn't know the story behind the name. Thanks for sharing.

 

[jjbomber]

The only single I ever bought in my life was the 12'' version of Black Sabbath's Die Young, as it had a 13 minute version of Heaven And Hell on the B Side. I had it signed by Tony Iommi and Geoff Nicholls, who recently passed away. I kept it for years after I had sold the turntable, but eventually sold it.

The other one that runs it close was the original White Album from Diamond Head. That sold to ebay to a collector from Sweden.