My Vinyl Collection (A - Z)
Submitted by lbangs on Wed, 10/02/2002 - 11:17
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- Aerosmith - Rocks
- The B-52's - The B-52's
- The Band - Music from Big Pink
- The Band - The Band
- The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
- The Beatles - Abbey Road
- The Beau Brummels - The Best of the Beau Brummels
- Chuck Berry - The Great Twenty-Eight
- David Bowie - The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust
- David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
- David Bowie - Station to Station
- Alice Cooper - Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits
- Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
- Cream - Wheels of Fire
- Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmos' Factory
- Creedence Clearwater Revival - Chronicle, Vol. 1
- Crosby, Stills & Nash - Crosby, Stills & Nash
- Duran Duran - Rio
- Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
- Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
- Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
- Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
- Einsturzende Neubauten - Strategies Against Architecture '80 - '83
- The English Beat - I Just Can't Stop It
- Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
- Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
- Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
- Human League - Dare
- Michael Jackson - Thriller
- The Jam - Snap!
- Carole King - Tapestry
- The Kinks - The Kink Kronikles
- The Kinks - Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
- Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
- Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
- Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
- Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
- Van Morrison - Moondance
- Willie Nelson - Shotgun Willie
- Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger
- Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
- Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
- The Police - Synchronicity
- Prefab Sprout - Two Wheels Good
- The Pretenders - Pretenders
- Prince - Sign o' the Times
- R.E.M. - Murmur
- Otis Redding - Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
- The Rolling Stones - Aftermath
- The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
- The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
- Roxy Music - Siren
- Todd Rundgren - Something / Anything?
- Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Live Bullet
- Simon & Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme
- Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends
- Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)
- Sly & the Family Stone - Stand!
- Sly & the Family Stone - Greatest Hits
- Sly & the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On
- Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
- Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
- Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill
- Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story
- The Strokes - Is This It?
- The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
- The White Stripes - Elephant
- The Who - Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy
- The Who - Who's Next
- Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
- Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
- Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
- Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
- Neil Young - Decade
Author Comments:
Most of these were bought preowned at used record stores around my house. As you can see, these stores are mostly full of 70s rock, especially of the hard variety, so my choices have been limited. On the plus side, most were bought for about two bucks, so even though I have only had a turntable for about a month, I already have plenty of platters to spin!
On the assumption that you are NOT related... were you aware the Human Leagues "Dare" was the last record that Lester Bangs listened to?
Interesting... No, that is news to me.
I hope it wasn't the album that pushed him over. I rather dig it!
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Alright, just found this info. So he bought it for his girlfriend, put it on for a spin, and died? Hmmm...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Decided not to take a chance on that "Dare" album, huh. LOL!
:)
Actually, I'm glad you said that. I must have a box I forgot to type in here, as I still very much have that Dare album somewhere... Hmmm....
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs (unlike my namesake, still breathing even after daring Dare...)
I don't know why this one album in particular is interesting to me, but I hope you can track down Dylan's "Bringing It All Back Home". I'm betting that "Subterranean Homesick Blues" sparkles on vinyl. Dunno. How's "Blonde on Blonde" on record?
Bringing It All Back Home and Love and Theft and the next Dylan albums I'm searching for on vinyl. Great discs!
Blonde on Blonde is terrific on vinyl. I grabbed a near-mint 70s reissue, and even it kills my CD (it even beats my SACD) of this disc! Great album. All the Dylan discs (the rest are 60s originals, although the Freewheelin' is not that famous ORIGINAL original!) simply slaughter the current CDs. Here's hoping the hybrid SACDs coming late this summer will improve the digital situation!
I also replaced my US This Year's Model with a UK version; the Uk one cooks! (The US one was rather horrible, to be honest...)
That Aretha above is the recent 180 g. 4 Men with Beards reissue, and it is incredibly lifelike. The CD ain't bad, but my, this release is incredibly superior to that! Well worth the 15 buck or so it goes for new.
The Van Morrisons are also much better on vinyl, but then the CDs aren't all they really should be. When will they get the remastering treatment his later albums have received?
I'm really WAY too hooked on vinyl. I have probably bought 25 - 50 vinyl albums for every CD I've purchased in the last six months, and that is a very conservative estimate!
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Yes indeed that's a lot of vinyl. But I'll bet hearing a near-mint Dylan or Morrison would seal the deal for a lot of people like you (and me, if I had the money for CD and LP formats).
Was it from you that I heard a rumor about Beatles remasters?
I completely agree; one listen to a great vinyl pressing of Dylan, Morrison, or (my addition) Neil Young would shock many. The format is fantastic.
I don't think you heard that Beatles rumor from me, but I might be mistaken. I know a 5.1 remaster of Abbey Road was worked on a bit, but last I heard, that is on indefinite hold. On the other hand, The Beatles will be releasing a Let It Be minus Spector's work soon, and I've heard that a 'Get Back' (the 'lost' album) and an edition of Hey Jude (? I don't really see the purpose in that) are also being worked on for possible release.
Rumors refuse to die about a Beatles 2 album, collecting the rest of the top ten singles that 1 didn't have, but I think people spreading this one might be confused with Second to None, an Elvis collection in the works with the same purpose. Maybe wishful thinking has more to do with it than confusion.
Whew. Well, that's what I know, or what I've heard, at least. The end of summer will see 15 or so hybrid Dylan SACDs released, so that's pretty exciting...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
If I'm not mistaken, you also have a copy of The Stones' Hot Rocks, which is a great record, but a most hideous album cover. The backlit hair of the gang looks like fraying ropes. Ugh!
Does The Beau Brummels' album have anything from Triangle on it? That is an unsung psych album, and the best overall album the band did.
Johnny Waco
Yeah, this is yet another sadly neglected list. I'll try to update soon.
The Beau Brummels does include Triangle material; it is a very excellent compilation summing up the group's prime material.
Now, if I can grab a few more spare minutes today, I'll try to get a review of Nobody Knows up.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs