Why I Love Collecting Vinyl (Records) (Page 3 of 12)

Here in South Africa it seems that we have the problem that prices for vinyl records in stores are inflated by the weakness of our currency. Unfortunately this means that most of these wonderful 180g re-releases of classic albums are way outside of my price range. I have only found a couple of exceptions, two of which were Bob Dylan albums which I was very pleased to buy for a reasonable price. The only other new LP I've bought was Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which I only bought because fortunately there was a mistake with the price label, meaning that I got it for a discounted price.

Yeah, Yoko must be down to her last lot of silk knickers...   

I have one really stupid question - oh, and btw, thanks TP for appreciating my very obscure joke     - I am trying to buy the thin wires covered with plastic and marked with a dash signifying a minus that go from the amp or hi fi to the stereo speakers, with thin wires you insert, and then screw the fitting down, and just can't find them. All you can get is like, 10m wires that you have to cut down and cost £20.

Am I looking up the wrong thing on amazon? All I want is the wires/leads that come with whatever speakers you buy. Or do I go for cable leads that you just shove into the back, forget the wire stuff? Are they better?

Last edited by Napoleon Plural (26th Jan 2016 11:49)

COOL    'Lazy' is one of my top Deep Purple faves

Very Good Vinyl Handling Clip Here

Did the wife take it in the divorce settlement - and then use it to shoot you?!      

On the subject of The Beatles, there's this:

Now this album was released to tie in with the rerelease at the cinema and BluRay of Yellow Submarine. It's remastered and went to the top of the charts; it was the first time all the songs from the movie featured on one disc. The original Yellow Sub album had the B side given over to George Martin's soundtrack, which not everyone wants, and I think the idea back then was that you don't flog record buyers songs they already own, like Eleanor Rigby or When I'm 64.

But I still thought it odd the new record was doing so well. Much later I discovered the real reason: the songs had been totally remixed for the movie reissue. So the elementary stereo recordings had been shelved and wholly reinvented for modern ears. That's why it was so popular, esp for the iPod generation who find the early stereo tinkerings so awful through the headphones.

There's talk that one day all the Beatles stuff will get the same remix treatment, A Day in the Life and a few others get it on the Love album. In the meantime, they say, mono is the way to go when listening thru headphones.

The remixed Yellow Submarine album is available on vinyl too, with the caveat that the remix was done digitally, so it is not the full holy grail of analogue remastered remixed.

Indeed! Last Friday I raided my closest such place, Recycled Records, spending 90 very happy minutes perusing the bargain bins, and came out with a bag-load of $2 LPs: Supertramp, the Alan Parsons Project, Rush, Asia, Peter Frampton, J. Geils Band, the Moody Blues, Chicago, Bon Jovi...and Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass---including the LP that features Casino Royale  Of all these finds, only the Supertramp album ("Crime of the Century") has skips in a song that I couldn't rectify...and so I will seek a $2 credit with them on my next visit.

Fortunately, many of the records they're reissuing are precisely in my preferred era and genre(s)...I'm eagerly awaiting the reissues of Bowie's early catalogue in 180-gram...and of course having his brilliant swan song Blackstar back in stock (I was very happy to see him kick Adele out of the top sales spot, if only for a moment    ).

In further exciting news (and circling back around to the Beatles!), my sealed mono copy of the "White Album" arrived in today's mail, and...wow. 

Last edited by Loeffelholz (1st Feb 2016 18:56)

I'm waiting for this one to be reissued in 180-gram:

Though she might weigh a bit more than that...

Many a time in my youth did I sing along to this on my old record player - The Dubliners - "Limerick Rake":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8moLHIW8xw

And a little bit of child murder thrown in for good measure, "Weile Weile Waile":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tku2A42izoE

Both songs are from the album "A Drop of the Hard Stuff" (1967).

Last edited by Silhouette Man (4th Feb 2016 12:34)

Hmm, cleaning the stylus, anyone?

My stylus seems to be picking up a lot of naval fluff, vinyl fluff if you will. To the point when the needle skids across the top of the record.

Now, I don't know if this is due to playing old records from the charity shop, but they didn't look that dusty! And it occurs only after a few plays!

Sure you can buy a little brush as described in one of my previous links, for around £6. Is it any different to a clean toothbrush though? And surely getting rid of the fluff with tweezers might work?

Then there's the pricey, five star Onzoq Zerodust, but I can't personally see how this gets rid of dust - does it sort of absorb it or something? Or destroy it?

How's that White Album mono, Loeffs?   

Any songs better or worse than you imagined?