Favourite Vinyl?
 

Would love to hear from people what their favourite vinyl is/was.

Mine is Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of the Moon

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Yes, I think that would be my choice too.
Their music is still 'fresh' today.

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Jethro Tull - "Songs From The Wood".....and this is my all-time fave Tull track:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibDLLDOYfmY

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Sam & Dave - "Hold On I'm Coming" (Stax)
Wynonie Harris/Tiny Bradshaw - "Kings of R&B" (Polydor)
Junior Wells- "Hoodoo Man Blues" (Delmark)
Wilson Pickett - "The Exciting..." (Atlantic)
Otis Redding - "Live in Europe" (Volt)

All treasured albums from my collection on beautiful, pristine black VINYL!!

CDs are fine but they don't quite have the same magic. Downloads?...forget it!

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Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding
The Rolling Stones - Aftermath
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis Bold As Love
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin 1
The Who - The Who By Numbers
The Beatles - The White Album

All on vinyl, and the beauty of vinyl is you get a decent album cover as opposed to the tiny CD inserts!

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Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding my second favourite :)

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And on the vinyl album cover, if you turn it upside down you can see a very tiny photo of the Beatles in the tree trunk. You can't see it on the CD insert.

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Another favourite is Wish You Were Here.

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God damn your right :) just checked it now and its definetly the beatles :)

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Yeh got all the Pink Floyd albums :)

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I liked Bob Dylan when I was younger...but I think I have outgrown him now....except when his songs are covered by someone else.

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Rubber Soul by the Beatles....don't have it anymore. I lent it to someone to take to a party and it never came back....serves me right. I should have known better!

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One of the first Vinyl albums I got was Billy Halley and his Comets think it was produced in 1957 still have it today

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My first was "Outlandos D'Amour" in 1978 -the first album by The Police.
By chance i was listening to it in the car (on CD now!)as i took my 19 yr old into town earlier today -he loves it too. He's a keen musician and loves the fusion of Rock and Reggae in the songs.
There are quite a few classics on it -Roxanne, Message in a Bottle (my favourite), So Lonely and Walking on the Moon.

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Dsotm, Wish you were here, Animals very underrated and of course The Wall.
Did I mention I am a Floydie?

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An addition to my earlier list: Music from Big Pink by The Band.

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Yeah, "The Weight" is one of the greatest songs ever and their version of "This wheels on fire" is also brill but I prefer their second album just called "The Band"

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Little Richard - "Here's Little Richard" (London)
James Brown - "Tours the USA" (London)
Booker T. & The MGs - "Hip-Hug-Her" (Stax)
Wynonie Harris/Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson - "Jump Blues" (Polydor)
Cannonball Adderley - "Something Else" (Blue Note)

...still flying the flag for good music amidst all this hippie rock stuff. ;)

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A band I used to like in the sixties and seventies was Bread, with David Gates have a few vinyl albums of theirs

Bread Everything I own - YouTube

This is one of my favorites

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I'm with you steve sorry dont get the floyd thing, how about this a new record from the great Sharon jones one of your favs steve
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings "100 Days, 100 Nights" - YouTube
This is a new release from the album of the same name...

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My mum used to listen to Bread when I was a youngster, they always remind of those carefree days in the 70's when it always seemed to be sunny! My fave of theirs is Guitar Man.

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Right on, brother, right on. :mosher:

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Ya Steve they were very popular in the 70s, don't here too much about them today, not seen David Gates for ages. Think one of the best tributes they were paid was when Jack Jones recorded a full album called Bread Winners, all music written and previously recorded by them

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Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery. Amazing music, Spellbinding artwork by H.R. Giger. A feast for the senses in every way. Listen to opener "Toccata" on headphones and you'll understand why the album is called Brain Salad Surgery!!! Plus it features the epic Karn Evil 9 suite!!! :)

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Karn Evil 9 *Full Song* - YouTube

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More like it! I first heard Alan Freeman play this in the 80's. He also turned me onto bands like Wishbone Ash, Uriah Heep and the Tull. Incidently, Wishbone Ash are playing Clitheroe this Saturday...would've love to have gone but I'm on a do!

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Ummagumma - Pink Floyd
Meddle - Pink Floyd
Best Floyd albums before they went "Poppy" with Dark Side.

Split - Groundhogs
Charge - Paladin
And all the early Faust albums

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Wynonie Harris - "Bloodshot Eyes" - a very nice 1956 issue on a UK Vogue label 45.
Huey "Piano" Smith & the Clowns - "Don't You Just Know It" - a 1958 UK release on an immaculate plum-coloured Columbia label 45 complete with original sleeve.
Amos Milburn - "One Scotch One Bourbon One Beer" - an early 60's reissue 45 on the British Vocalion label - very rare.
Wynonie Harris - "Battle of the Blues" - a 1961 EP with a great shot of the man himself on the cover on the UK Bluebeat label. Very popular with West Indians at the time.
Otis Redding - "Shake" - a 45 on the US Volt label that I bought about this time last year from a beat up old wooden shack about 5 miles from Stax studios in Memphis where it was recorded.

Still promoting quality sounds, amidst the prog ramblings of the Accyweb hippie commune. ;)

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Otis Redding is the only one of that lot I've heard of!! But is "One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer" the same song as the similar named "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" that George Thorogood & the Destroyers did?....if so, I'd probabily like it.

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Same song, but somewhat different treatment! :cool:

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many many versions, this n up tempo 59,version, wouldn't swop this fer the crown jewels.;)Jerry Fuller - Tennessee Waltz (1959) - YouTube

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Think I'll stick with the Thorogood version.

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Or this one by the man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=BIvka3SSv9Y

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One For Cashy!!

Earl Vince & The Valiants - Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight - YouTube

Took some finding,:p::mosher::D

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Great find Beni,cheers me owd mate.;)

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Has anybody still got any vinyl? Just looking through a few singles I have, here's one from Accy...

Oxym - Mind Keys - YouTube

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Don't really own much vinyl anymore. A couple are rare Mark Eitzel 7" that's about it.

I can honestly say I can barely stand pink floyd. Just never liked them.

Dylan-- I love his 60's stuff and the song hurricane but after that... ugh.

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That must be worth a bit

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Just renewing vinyl collection, the problem is Audiophile quality Vinyn costs the earth

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Vinyl has to be looked after, too much effort for somebody as clumsy as me. I am a bit of an audiophile myself and there is other options.

I have never actually seen a SACD but I have some bootleg concerts that are in 24BIT/96khz audio. SACD never did take off did it?? These days where people aren't bothered about quality. MP3ing everything as they do.

I could not live without a walkman(of some kind--It has to play flac tho) I have an Ipod Classic that is modified to run Rockbox which allows you to play FLAC(16bit and 24 bit audio) So I can maintain the high quality.

You can transfer transfer vinyl to the computer and record in 24/96 and losslessly compress to FLAC for storage of the files. This way you don't have to risk damaging the vinyl by constant use.

This being said. Record companies/Sites/ETC should sell 24/96 FLAC files rather than mp3s. You can convert them afterward to whatever lossy format you desired(if mp3 is ur thing). They wouldn't have to charge so much for the music and you have the exactly same quality as you would playing the vinyl.