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Record player help?

Discussion in 'Tilted Gear' started by Borla, Jun 15, 2014.

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  1. Borla

    Borla Moderator Staff Member

    Relevant:

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    Borla, Dec 7, 2014
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  2. grumpyolddude

    grumpyolddude Very Tilted

    Location:
    Metro Detroit, Michigan, USA
    Incredible, isn't it?
     
    grumpyolddude, Dec 7, 2014
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  3. omega

    omega Very Tilted

    Yep, pretty amazing. For the 30's. I'm thinking of starting a pen pal club with some of our members.
     
    omega, Dec 8, 2014
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  4. Speed_Gibson

    Speed_Gibson Hacking the Gibson

    Location:
    Wolf 359
    Pardon the mildly pedantic tone, but the decade is more like the 1880's/90's. The bigger advance has been the material used for recording discs themselves.
     
    Speed_Gibson, Dec 8, 2014
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  5. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
    I have a very large collection of vinyl records, used to play them quite frequently, even recorded my favorites to cassette to save the wear on the vinyl.

    Fast forward to CDs. With the exception of some analog-to-digital remastering that just don't sound right, I welcomed CDs.
     
    Chris Noyb, Dec 9, 2014
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  6. Borla

    Borla Moderator Staff Member

    I have decided that I need to buy myself a new album or two just to get back in a vinyl groove. Post up your best 3-4 recommendations for 'must own' albums. If a dozen or so get posted by tomorrow evening by a couple different members I'll pick one from the suggestions given.
     
    Borla, Dec 25, 2014
    #26
  7. redravin

    redravin Cynical Optimist Donor

    Location:
    North
    Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
    Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
    The Beatles - Revolver
    Bob Dylan - Highway 61/Blonde on Blonde
    Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
    David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
    Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
    Joni Mitchell - Blue
    Led Zeppelin - II and IV
    Neil Young - Harvest
    Paul Simon - Graceland
    Van Morrison - Moon Dance
    The White Stripes - Elephant
    Dead Weather - Sea of Cowards
    Blur - Think Tank
    Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
    Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
    The Velvet Underground and Nico
    Kate Bush - Hounds of Love/ The Dreaming
    The Ramones - self titled
    Prince - Purple Rain

    Just to name a few.
     
    redravin, Dec 25, 2014
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  8. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
    Some albums didn't sound quite right after being digitized. One that stands out in my mind is Rainbow Rising by Blackmore's Rainbow (Ritchie Blackmore, ex-guitarist for Deep Purple). The official title is Rising? The CD sounds muddy.
     
    Chris Noyb, Dec 25, 2014
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  9. Stan

    Stan Resident Dumbass

    Location:
    Colorado
    It all depends, have you heard the remastered version Rainbow: Rising? I'll give it a relisten tonight; but I recall the remaster as being very nice (with Ritchie Blackmore's involvement).
     
    Stan, Dec 25, 2014
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  10. Borla

    Borla Moderator Staff Member


    I picked up these five a while back.

    I'll put the other suggestions into consideration. :cool:

    Anyone else?
     
    Last edited: Dec 25, 2014
    Borla, Dec 25, 2014
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  11. Speed_Gibson

    Speed_Gibson Hacking the Gibson

    Location:
    Wolf 359
    Never mind me, I did not check my previous posts here first...
     
    Speed_Gibson, Dec 25, 2014
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  12. Stan

    Stan Resident Dumbass

    Location:
    Colorado
    I'm about a decade removed from listening to vinyl, though I have a mess of it boxed in the basement. I loose my coffee twice a morning, I'm hesitant to make suggestions.

    I really need to go through it, see how it weathered the flooding, and decide if I want to keep it.
     
    Stan, Dec 25, 2014
    #32
  13. Borla

    Borla Moderator Staff Member



    Well, for the purpose of this exercise the ones you listen to don't have to be vinyl. Just looking for a list of "must have" albums.
     
    Borla, Dec 25, 2014
    #33
  14. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
    @omega, thanks for a much needed laugh!
     
    Chris Noyb, Dec 26, 2014
    #34
  15. Stan

    Stan Resident Dumbass

    Location:
    Colorado
    Note that my taste runs toward geezer rock and blues.

    Stevie Ray Vaughan - all; but especially Couldn't Stand the Weather or In Step
    Eric Clapton - Layla or Journeyman
    Albert King - Born Under a Bad Sign
    Allman Brothers Band - Live at Filmore East
    Crosby, Stills, & Nash - Crosby, Stills, & Nash or Deja Vu
    Johnny Winter - And Live
     
    Stan, Dec 26, 2014
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  16. Borla

    Borla Moderator Staff Member

    Just ordered Neil Young's Harvest from @redravin 's list and SRV's Couldn't Stand the Weather from @Stan 's list.

    Also threw in Eric Clapton and Nirvana's respective "Unplugged" albums.
     
    Borla, Dec 26, 2014
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  17. snowy

    snowy so kawaii Staff Member

    Excellent choices!
     
    snowy, Dec 26, 2014
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  18. martian

    martian Server Monkey Staff Member

    Location:
    Mars
    Bob Dylan:
    Blonde On Blonde
    The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

    The Beatles:
    The white album
    Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
    Meet The Beatles

    Pink Floyd:
    The Dark Side of the Moon
    Wish You Were Here

    David Bowie:
    The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
    Let's Dance

    The Doors:
    Self-titled

    Cream:
    Disraeli Gears
    Fresh Cream

    The Jimi Hendrix Experience:
    Are You Experienced
    Axis: Bold as Love
    Electric Ladyland
    (This is all of it)

    Stevie Ray Vaughan:
    Couldn't Stand the Weather
    Texas Flood

    ZZ Top:
    Tres Hombres
    Eliminator

    Bo Diddley:
    Self-titled

    Dire Straits:
    Brothers In Arms
    Self-titled

    I have more to add. This is the kind of stuff that I would consider to be the foundation of a good record collection.

    Now I think I ought to go shopping.

    Oh, Stan's 150% correct about Live At Fillmore East. And lots of other stuff.

    I'm missing a lot of really key artists but I could spend all day doing this and not get anywhere newer than the 90s. Off the top of my head I still haven't said anything about AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Boston, The Allman Brothers, Heart, Guns N Roses, Radiohead... there are a lot of records that you should own, is basically what I am saying.
     
    Last edited: Dec 26, 2014
    martian, Dec 26, 2014
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  19. Borla

    Borla Moderator Staff Member

    I have at least four of those. Good list. :cool:
     
    Borla, Dec 26, 2014
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  20. Lindy

    Lindy Moderator Staff Member

    Location:
    Nebraska
    Or apparently older than the sixties. So the "foundation" of a good record collection includes no jazz, no country or Western Swing, no delta blues, no folk music, no classical... No Bach, no Beethoven, no Benny Goodman, no Sinatra, no Coltrane, Kenton, Brubeck, Marsalis? No Clash or Devo? No musical ideas that can't be expressed in a three or four minute cut?

    Certainly a lot of good music in your list, but what a dull, bleak, and limited world.:(
     
    Last edited: Dec 26, 2014
    Lindy, Dec 26, 2014
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