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    Posted: May 19 2010 at 07:20
In your collection of vinyl records, what are your 10 favourite?
Mine are not exactly prog, but i imagine yours are.
 
1. Rainbow - Rising
2. Motorhead - Motorhead (signed by Lemmy to Mike Moorcock)
3. Yngwie Malmsteen - Odyssey
4. Saxon - wheels of steel
5. Alice Cooper - Raise your fists and yell
6. Motley Crue - Girls, Girls, Girls
7. KISS - Reason to live (single)
8. KISS - Turn on the night (single)
9. KISS - Forever (single)
10. Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2010 at 08:34
Mine aren't really prog either.

1. David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive
2. Shostakovich - Symphony No. 7
3. Alice - Mélodie Passagère
4. Anita Lane - Dirty Pearl
5. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate
6. Morrissey - Years of Refusal
7. Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses
8. The Velvet Underground - White Light White Heat
9. Maj Karma - Salama
10. Captain Beefheart - Lick My Decals Off Baby
11. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
12. Siouxsie & The Banshees - A Kiss in the Dreamhouse
13. Marillion - Fugazi
14. Keith Jarrett - Sacred Hymns
15. David Bowie - Low

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2010 at 09:28
my one favourite has to be continuum recyclings vol 2. it's cool with beautiful pictures, cool gatefold sleeve, marbled vinyls...and fantastic music too
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2010 at 12:32
In no order and not prog:
 
Making Plans for Nigel: XTC:  Fold out cover (Single)
Electricity : OMD Black cover black lettering (Rare) Peter Saville Design
I married a monster from Outer Space:  John Cooper Clarke:  Triangle Orange Vinyl
Led Zeppelin III : I like the turny picture thingy
Hawkwind :  Space Ritual fld out cover
Storm the Gates of Heaven: Wayne County and the Electric Chairs :  Sick Coloured Vinyl
Armed Forces : Elvis Costello and the Atractions:  Fold out Cover etc Barney Bubbles Design
Smells Like Teen Spirit : Nirvana:  Pic Disc
Orchestral Manoeuvers in the Dark :  LP Cut out sleeve: Peter Saville design
Ballroom Blitz:  Sweet:  My first single aah!


Edited by akamaisondufromage - May 19 2010 at 12:43
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2010 at 12:55
i only have one vinyl record-it is-

Helmut Koellen-You Won't See Me
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2010 at 21:08
Speaking as someone who only currently has any vinyl records for their value as covers rather than their record content (we're talking true LP format):

1. Jon Anderson : Olias Of Sunhillow - Basically an LP book.  The artwork and story contained therein are spectacular.  If you haven't got this album, you probably haven't experienced it in all it's glory or just don't like Jon Anderson's voice.
2. ELP : Brain Salad Surgery - Cover art by H.R. Giger.  Dark metallic looking outer cover art with a hole to the center.  Opens up to reveal that crystallized flesh woman.  (Destroyed by house flood, I'm really pissed Cry)
3. Gentle Giant : In A Glass House - The outer cover had a square in the middle with a transparency that had images of the band in negative black and white.  The inner sleeve had another set of those out of sync with the outer images.  Really cool 3D effect.  Never owned one of those, but the first CD version I got replicated it well.  Still have that.
4. Jethro Tull : Thick As A Brick - Nice novelty newspaper parody cover in the form of an actual newspaper somewhat.
5. Jethro Tull : Living In The Past Deluxe Editition???  - A thick hard cardboard outer cover with nice integral interior "booklet" (I don't know if that is the proper term for it.)
6. and 7.  Rick Wakeman's Journey To The Center Of The Earth and THE MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF KING ARTHUR AND THE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE (sorry for the all caps there Embarrassed) Both came with excellent full size loose "booklets" much like these new fangled CD booklets I keep hearing about only much much larger. Tongue
8. Patrick Moraz : i - Again for those who don't get this album, if you have a copy of the original 33-1/3 it had a wonderful gatefold and more importantly an inner paper sleeve with a copy of detailed and artful handwritten notes by Moraz on the album.  If you didn't "get" this album, the inner sleeve might have made a difference.
9. Genesis : Foxtrot - I've lost count of how many versions of this album I've had in my collection but for more years than I can count I've had a copy of the album with the inner gatefold displaying mounted on a wall where I was living somewhere inside, more locations than I can recall LOL.  We're talking a few apartments and it's still in the music room of my flooded out old house.
10. Yes : Close To The Edge - An album for which the inner cover art really epitomizes the musical artwork of the cover track.  Have had a poster of that for longer than I can remember.  It survived the flood and is hanging up near me right now!!!! Big smile

By the way, for any of you new to vinyl who haven't done this, some discs vinyl look really really really cool under blacklight...
(and I'm talking basic black vinyl.)




Edited by Slartibartfast - May 19 2010 at 21:44
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2010 at 21:59

My favorite vinyls that I own are:

Pawn Hearts - Van Der Graaf Generator
Larks' Tongues in Aspic - King Crimson
Genesis Live - Genesis
Brain Salad Surgery - ELP
The Grand Wazoo - Frank Zappa
Song for America - Kansas
 
I found all of these at my local Vintage Stock.Geek
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2010 at 22:07
Robert Fripp- God Save The Queen/Under Heavy Manners (Never issued on CD)
Frank Zappa- Hot Rats (Vinyl mix is different)
Mothers of Invention- Freak Out! (Mono)
Mothers of Invention- Cruising With Ruben & the Jets (Vinyl mix out of print until, erm, last month)
Genesis - Spot the Pigeon (An EP, but still)
Group 87 - A Career in Dada Processing (Never on CD, as far as I can tell)

The other 190 slabs of wax are standard albums that can be found most anywhere.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2010 at 22:10
No particular order.
 
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (MFSL version).
Beatles - The White Album (MFSL version)
Led Zep II - (MFSL version)
Rolling Stones Complete - (MFSL version)
 
I list these first because the sound is incredible.  Plus if you hold the vinyl up to a light source you can see throught it!  Wowie Zowie.  Now for the just plain cool.
 
J. Tull - Living In The Past.  Some serious cardboard went into this one.
J. Priest - Freewheel Burnin' 12"
Cream - Wheels of Fire true 'silver' cover, not that sh*tty gray thang.
XTC - The Big Express, round cover.
Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers, real zipper intact.
The Who - Tommy - triptych version with booklet intact
 
There are many honorable mentions, just 'cuz they vinyl.
 
One example, how 'bout Keith Jarrett's Sun Bear Concerts.  All 10 LP's conveniently housed in a cover I can hardly lift any longer.
 
 
 
 
 
 


Edited by jammun - May 19 2010 at 22:27
Can you tell me where we're headin'?
Lincoln County Road or Armageddon.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2010 at 22:20
Ah, right. Also have these two:

Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:


Patrick Moraz : i - Again for those who don't get this album, if you have a copy of the original 33-1/3 it had a wonderful gatefold and more importantly an inner paper sleeve with a copy of detailed and artful handwritten notes by Moraz on the album.  If you didn't "get" this album, the inner sleeve might have made a difference



Originally posted by jammun jammun wrote:

Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers, real zipper intact.

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2010 at 01:53
These are the records where I actually prefer dusting off my old vinyl to listening to the CD. Reminds me of being a teenager, listening to my new purchases and getting lost in the gatefold sleeves. A CD just isn't the same!

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath. Maybe the best combination of music and cover art there's ever been, but then there's also...
In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson
Bedside Manners are Extra - Greenslade
Valentyne Suite - Colosseum
Tarkus - Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Argus - Wishbone Ash
Cactus Choir - Dave Greenslade
Home to Roost - Atomic Rooster
Dance with the Devil - Cozy Powell (45)
5.15 - The Who (45)
"And now...on the drums...Mick Underwooooooooood!!!"

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2010 at 10:14
Rush - 2112
Peter Hammill - In Camera
King Crimson - Red
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Riverside - out of Myself
Gryphon - Red queen
ELP - Tarkus
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor(Signed by all members)
Amun Duul 2 - Phallus Dei
Metallica - Master of Puppets(Pink :])
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2010 at 18:28
10. ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
9. Jethro Tull - Songs from the Wood
8. LL Cool J - LL Cool J
7. Rush - Permanent Waves
6. ELP - ELP
5. A Clockwork Orange Soundtrack
4. Rush - Hemispheres
3. King Crimson - Red
2. Yes - Relayer
1. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King

These, Pink Floyd's Saucerful and Cypress Hill's self-titled album are the only vinyl records I have. My dad has much more that I listen to but they're still his, so I'm not putting them here. Most of these are hand-me-downs as well.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 22 2010 at 00:50
Gatefolds rule:
Tales From Topographic Oceans--the lyrics printed with amazing land- and skyscape photos. Wish there'd been a Roger Dean-style poster of this!
Going For The One (trifold)--the inner photo of "in and around the lake", surely. . .
Welcome Back My Friends. . .three big E L Ps each holding a record
Dark Side Of The Moon--the freebies you got in here: two posters and a bunch of stickers
In The Court Of The Crimson King--originally, youngsters, you got heavy stock paper with a semi-pebbled surface. The record was weighty (im more ways than one) Love the stoner phantom inside, too.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 24 2010 at 08:56
My main problem is the majority of my prog is on vinyl and I am too cheap to re-purchase material on cd or Itunes...I should really invest in a digital converter to put them on CD and on my ipod....I find the sound range on vinyl is so much better than digitally sampled music and when you listen to a vinyl record and then a cd, there is a startling difference...assuming you can ignore the pops and hisses...

Top 10:

1. Yes-Fragile - my first true introduction to prog
2. King Crimson- LTIA...first introduction to King Crimson
3. Gentle Giant - In a Glass House..really cool album cover
4. Gentle Giant - Playing the Fool..awesome live album
5. National Health - Of Queues and Cures
6. Hatfield and the North - The Rotters Club
7. Bruford - Feels Good To Me - the analog sound on the recording is awesome
8. Gong - Shamal - was hard to find at the time
9. Brand X - Unorthodox Behavior - it was an out of print punch-out when I got it and it was warped
10. King Crimson- Discipline (Japanese Import) ..the sound on this version was better
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