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BigFactory posted:Casual encounter completed. Not bad actually. Was expecting more dad rock but the stuff he had didn’t interest me or I already had it. Skylarking is an excellent record. XTC's best album in my opinion. petit choux posted:Is it their first? I had that one, loved it. On cassette. Their first three albums, TMBG, Lincoln and Flood were my favorite. zaepg fucked around with this message at 20:05 on May 16, 2021 |
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zaepg posted:Skylarking is an excellent record. XTC's best album in my opinion. Yup. It’s a us first press that looks basically unplayed too.
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caligulamprey posted:Hey, if it means they might do a full US tour rather than just a few nights in L.A., I'm all for it. How did you get their autographs?
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May 16, 2021 23:16
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CPL593H posted:How did you get their autographs? Only band I've ever seen that didn't upcharge the singed stuff though, which was awesome.
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May 16, 2021 23:25
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petit choux posted:I saw the other day a record house willing to print vinyl for as little as like $100. I'd think they'd be willing and able to make stuff like this that doesn't scratch. Pressing a record like that would be almost impossible. Having a perfectly straight delineation like that would be really hard to do unless it was the lathe cut record or picture disk. Having the audio match to the color would be the real challenge. It's pretty clear in the video it is just a normal record with something covering it. Or maybe it is one of those control records that he actually cut a notch out of.
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May 17, 2021 00:58
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sporklift posted:Pressing a record like that would be almost impossible. Having a perfectly straight delineation like that would be really hard to do unless it was the lathe cut record or picture disk. Having the audio match to the color would be the real challenge. It's pretty clear in the video it is just a normal record with something covering it. Or maybe it is one of those control records that he actually cut a notch out of. Oh, well thanks. Still, the video made me want to take all these weird old records and do something novel with them, just for kicks.
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May 17, 2021 01:08
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I just received the 2021 repress of The Future Sound of London's Dead Cities and it sounds absolutely fantastic. After now having listened to quite a few records, it's abundantly clear some are just worse quality than others. I think I also have my nylon brush cleaning game on point finally.
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May 17, 2021 05:40
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petit choux posted:Oh, well thanks. Still, the video made me want to take all these weird old records and do something novel with them, just for kicks. Use them for samples.
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CPL593H posted:Use them for samples. Yeah, that's the original intent. But this guy kinda got me thinking a little bit.
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The weirdest record I own is probably this 2 LP that's a lecture by a Catholic priest on sex ed for parents. I haven't been able to bring myself to listen to the whole thing but one choice bit in that is where he tells a definitely true and totally not made up story about a girl who became "hysterical" when she had her first period and was so traumatized that she had to be put in a mental hospital for a year. From what I heard the lecture is as bad as you think. It's also titled "The sex education of children" which aside from that already being a not great title, those words are in huge print next to a picture of a Catholic priest.
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May 17, 2021 22:52
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...Does...does he think that you have to have sex in order to get your first period? Out of curiosity, what year is it from?
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May 17, 2021 23:06
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because of Problems at my place of employment I'm not going to get into here, I'm currently working mandatory 52-hour weeks: a normal forty in the office on the weekdays and six Saturday and Sunday from home so I've been buying a shitload of records lately to make my weekends as much like lounging in the living room doing nothing as possible yesterday's stack: magnetic fields - quickies (rsd pink) depeche mode - songs of faith and devotion billy joel - the bridge grateful dead - workingman's dead gorillaz - song machine 1 flaming lips - telepathic surgery ... and two others that aren't coming to mind at the moment because I'm back in the office. (yes, go ahead and laugh at my extreme middle-of-the-road-ness) but my point is that all the records I got yesterday (and most of all of them I've gotten since I got stuck with this godawful schedule) have been single LP length and it may just be my adhd, but holy crap, albums should be limited to forty-some minutes without special dispensation. it's just the right amount of anything. the nineties hosed everything up, people expecting every release to be 60-70 minutes just because that's what CDs did
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Song Machine 1 really is a great collection of songs, wish it had a bit more of an identity but it's fine. Haven't played it since it came out actually that sounds like a good summer spin. Good call.
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May 18, 2021 00:38
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hexwren posted:because of Problems at my place of employment I'm not going to get into here, I'm currently working mandatory 52-hour weeks: a normal forty in the office on the weekdays and six Saturday and Sunday from home 40 minutes is about right.
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Read After Burning posted:...Does...does he think that you have to have sex in order to get your first period? Assuming this is correct, 1964. https://www.discogs.com/Francis-L-Filas-S-J-Sex-Education-Of-Children-For-Parents/release/3933087 It’s very affordable!
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May 18, 2021 01:21
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Read After Burning posted:...Does...does he think that you have to have sex in order to get your first period? No, that part wasn't in reference to sex. It's more of a general talk about what you'd cover in a high school health class for parents on how to discuss that stuff with their kids. Of course it's got the Catholic bent to it and it's from the 60s, so it's unsurprisingly it's only slightly less regressive than you imagine. There's a whole lot of "Sex is not to be done outside of marriage. It is a marital act!" stuff because of course there is. Asnorban posted:Assuming this is correct, 1964. https://www.discogs.com/Francis-L-Filas-S-J-Sex-Education-Of-Children-For-Parents/release/3933087 Yeah that's the one, but I didn't want to google the title. I kind of want some of the others but I don't want to pay more than five bucks total for any one of them and shipping for LPs is about 3-5 bucks on its own, so nah. "The Battle of the Sexes...Can it Be Avoided?" is quite a title. It's a whole series of things that Catholic priests shouldn't be speaking on because they refer to marriages and families.
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Picked up ELP's Tarkus and The Moody Blues' Days of Future Passed for a combined  I had heard Days of Future Passed via Spotify before, but it doesn't compare to hearing it on a turntable. Gorgeous album, even with the orchestra having to cover where the Moodys didn't have enough material, but possibly in my top 10.
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May 18, 2021 03:01
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BigFactory posted:40 minutes is about right. Nothing worse than the album that lasts like 49 minutes and completely fucks up your dubbing it to one side of a c90. I still have songs where 20 years later I think are going to cut off in a certain place.
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the last two records were the latest Destroyer album and Trans-Europe Express, one of which I already knew was fantastic (having first heard TEE in high school), and the other I expected to be great and was not surprised when it was
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May 18, 2021 05:03
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EL BROMANCE posted:Nothing worse than the album that lasts like 49 minutes and completely fucks up your dubbing it to one side of a c90. I don't like when there's an album that's just slightly too long for a single disc so they spread it across two but then what happens is you get like three songs per side and it also costs like 40 bucks.
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May 18, 2021 06:21
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Ha absolutely. They must rub their hands together when that happens.
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hexwren posted:but my point is that all the records I got yesterday (and most of all of them I've gotten since I got stuck with this godawful schedule) have been single LP length and it may just be my adhd, but holy crap, albums should be limited to forty-some minutes without special dispensation. it's just the right amount of anything. the nineties hosed everything up, people expecting every release to be 60-70 minutes just because that's what CDs did Sometimes it's a good thing and you get a CD release that's basically "the band's one album and all the singles, in order of release, and easy to identify." Sometimes it's "the band's classic album, with the US track order including the European bonus track and the Brazilian tape bonus track, and the B-Sides and three unreleased track demos, and the promo jingle they did for a cornflakes pack-in flexidisc" CPL593H posted:I don't like when there's an album that's just slightly too long for a single disc so they spread it across two but then what happens is you get like three songs per side and it also costs like 40 bucks.
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May 18, 2021 07:41
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EL BROMANCE posted:Ha absolutely. They must rub their hands together when that happens. I have a couple records where they just put the other song/songs that didn't fit on the LP on a seven inch and it would be better if they just did that when possible. The one I recall off the top of my head is Dig, Lazarus, Dig by Nick Cave.
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CPL593H posted:I don't like when there's an album that's just slightly too long for a single disc so they spread it across two but then what happens is you get like three songs per side and it also costs like 40 bucks. What's even worse is when an album would definitely fit on a single or double lp without even rearranging tracks and they still split it up with certain sides having only a single track. Looking at you, Kanye. Give me a single LP 808s without Pinocchio Story and a 2LP MBDTF.
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I've gone through about half of the albums I got from my mom. Haven't touched the stuff I've collected myself over the years. Median value shows $900 (and I've done my best to get the correct pressing of each). Wish they were in better shape. Not planning on selling or anything, just cataloging at this point. https://www.discogs.com/user/shivan000/collection
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hexwren posted:the last two records were the latest Destroyer album and Trans-Europe Express, one of which I already knew was fantastic (having first heard TEE in high school), and the other I expected to be great and was not surprised when it was I constantly surprise myself whenever I listen to anything Dan Bejar related and am reminded that oh yeah, he really is the greatest but besides most of the New Pornographers discography I don't have any of his other output on vinyl. I should remedy that.
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CornHolio posted:I've gone through about half of the albums I got from my mom. Haven't touched the stuff I've collected myself over the years. Median value shows $900 (and I've done my best to get the correct pressing of each). Wish they were in better shape. Not planning on selling or anything, just cataloging at this point. Nice. Love those two Alice Cooper albums. And Mandrill. Your mom has good taste. My mixcloud show was supposed to be picked up by some internet radio station. So I sent them the files and stuff but they kinda ghosted me. Oh well. Here is my newest mix. All vinyl stuff from the stacks. https://www.mixcloud.com/mawesome/moss-appeal-vol-1/ I also threw together this spotify playlist for something else but I think it is too weird to submit. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0C4AwZjGEXVKmLybzuDTI9?si=c3a4a0845b014d37 and here is a download code Sparkle Division - To Feel Embraced dropcards.com/vinyl YKVR99T397
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sporklift posted:Nice. Love those two Alice Cooper albums. And Mandrill. Your mom has good taste. A lot of them were my dad's, he passed away two years ago and my mom's downsizing (which is why I got these plus their turntable). I don't know whose is whose... their names are on some, and there's mysterious names on a lot of others. I've found some records in the wrong sleeves too. It's like delving into who they were and who their friends were before I was born.
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May 18, 2021 19:53
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Got a printing error release (a side is printed on both sides) album and debating to swap out. Would an error like that be more valuable?
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May 18, 2021 20:22
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Vinyl is to listen to so I would return that.
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incoherent posted:Got a printing error release (a side is printed on both sides) album and debating to swap out. Would an error like that be more valuable? Return that poo poo.
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incoherent posted:Got a printing error release (a side is printed on both sides) album and debating to swap out. Would an error like that be more valuable? No, that just happens sometimes.
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Fell for a 50 year old scam and accidentally bought a bootleg copy of Let It Be. I noticed once i started it and it sounded like it wasn’t playing at a consistent speed… which my turntable does. Then it sounded like it was far away and then just horrible all around. Looked it up on Discogs and, yep, got a bad one. 
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May 18, 2021 20:56
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Assuming you didn't pay a lot for it, I think having a bootleg is kinda neat, just in a different way. 
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I recently bought a copy of let it be and, like, yeah, it's cut from the 09 digital masters but who gives a poo poo it sounds fine
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It’s definitely a neat piece of history. I guess it was took out of print soon after release due to a lawsuit, so bootlegs spread for a few years until it was officially rereleased. It was only $8 so no biggie. My favorite part is that the bootleggers knew they needed an “IAM Triangle” stamped in the runout, but had to crudely draw it instead:   A fun read to see the other differences here.
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I would much rather have a bootleg copy of Let It Be than the crummy normal one I have.
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I have zero Beatles records.
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dorium posted:I have zero Beatles records. Most of my Beatles poo poo is on CD. I have an unhealthy number of McCartney and Ringo vinyl albums though.
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