Peter Posted May 25, 2004 Report Share Posted May 25, 2004 Savoy Brown - "Outside Looking In" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeway Posted May 26, 2004 Report Share Posted May 26, 2004 It's kinda simple really: If it was recorded before, let's say, 1975, it should be listened to on vinyl. There are very few (and really I can't think of any offhand) rock albums from that era that do not sound better on vinyl than CD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockefeller center Posted May 26, 2004 Report Share Posted May 26, 2004 Do yourself a favor and get rid of your turntables. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolff Posted May 27, 2004 Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 (edited) Do yourself a favor and get rid of your turntables. Yeh, right. It will be cold day in hell. Saving my pennies for: Edited May 27, 2004 by wolff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted May 27, 2004 Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 Used to catch them all down Kenmore Square at The Rat. Some great memories in that place...you ever go? Actually, yes, I went there quite few times. I hear that it's GONE now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjobbe Posted May 27, 2004 Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 (edited) some 70's rock stuff that will never make it on CD: - Ray Manzareks Nite City LP's - Some UK Band called Charlie who's CD re-releases were so bad... - some german stuff from a band called Lake (where only some compilation has been re-issued on CD) - All my Pat Metheny ECM's Cheers, Tjobbe Edited May 27, 2004 by tjobbe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Burke Posted May 27, 2004 Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clunky Posted May 27, 2004 Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 all my Elvis Costello, Rollingstones and other LPs sound significantly better than their CD counterparts. Why did I give up on LPs so easily !!!!! ( poor pressings and cheap TT) Not sure how much I'd have to spend to bring the sound of my CD up to my relatively humble Rega P3. Probably £1500 plus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmirBagachelles Posted May 27, 2004 Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 (edited) True-life Spinal Tap-type moment, mid 80s: Late at the Rat, watching Eric Martin of Neats; during the excruciatingly loud finale, w/ Buck and Mills sitting in for a song or two (REM had played the Orpheum earlier that eve), giddy Martin bent over and stuck his stringy haired head through the legs of a fellow Neat. He lifted his mate so high, this guy smashed his head into the low ceiling, though Martin had no idea. Fans aghast and then hysterical. A great image in my mind from the lovely Rat. Edited May 27, 2004 by AmirBagachelles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Posted May 27, 2004 Report Share Posted May 27, 2004 probably nostalgia, but London Calling by the Clash. yes, the vinyl is crappy, but somehow that adds to the drive of the music go figure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregK Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 Everything Neil Young has done since about '95 (when he returned to analog recording) has sounded better on vinyl (particularly Broken Arrow and Greendale!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parkertown Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 Everything Neil Young has done since about '95 (when he returned to analog recording) has sounded better on vinyl (particularly Broken Arrow and Greendale!) Some sealed copies of Mirrorball "appeared" at my local mom n pop record store. On the back cover, it had the "HDCD" logo... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parkertown Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 And it was a single lp, not a double. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregK Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 And it was a single lp, not a double. my copy of Mirror Ball is a double. I think the HDCD logo is just carried over from the CD artwork. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parkertown Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 Really? Well, I'm pretty sure this was a single disc. I may go back to check. How's yer 2-Lp set sound? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Son-of-a-Weizen Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 (edited) These five: Edited June 14, 2006 by Son-of-a-Weizen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werf Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 (edited) It was rock music that got me back into the turntable, after over 16 years of buying CDs. Specifically, Robert Pollard and Guided by Voices had been releasing vinyl only stuff, demos, official "boots," and side-projects. I enjoyed listening to that stuff so much, I started buying the other rock artists I enjoy on vinyl too. Unlike most jazz labels, the independent rock labels are big on vinyl. Matador, Merge, Jagjaguwar, Secretly Canadian, Barsuk, and Luna are just a few of the indie rock labels putting out vinyl. This year Matador has been using the RTI pressing plant, and their releases are absolutely gorgeous. Cat Power "The Greatest," Belle and Sebastian "The Life Pursuit," Mission of Burma "The Obliterati" are the ones I have, and the packaging, the thickness of the vinyl, and the sound are wonderful. I'm really looking foward to the new Yo La Tengo "I'm Not Afraid of You, and I Can Beat Your Ass" in Sept. It should be the finest vinyl release ever for them, quality wise. Every week I check out the new releases at the local independent, and there's always a stack of brand new vinyl. I'm getting "Rather Ripped" by Sonic Youth on my next trip. And as I type, Luna Music in Indiana is shipping the latest Pollard projects on vinyl, The Keene Brothers "Blues and Boogie Shoes," The Takeovers "Turn to Red," and Psycho and the Birds "All That Is Holy." I'm geeked! Edited June 14, 2006 by Werf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregK Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 Really? Well, I'm pretty sure this was a single disc. I may go back to check. How's yer 2-Lp set sound? It sounds good to me, but then my system isn't special and my turntable is a very cheap, non-adjustable Denon. It sounded better on my old Hitachi from the 70s! I'd like to hear Year of the Horse and Silver and Gold on vinyl, if I could ever find them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neal Pomea Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 My country rock lps by New Riders of the Purple Sage, Grateful Dead, Great Speckled Bird, Byrds, Ian Matthews.... Canned Heat; Fleetwood Mac when it was Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer, and Danny Kirwan; John Mayall Back to the Roots Savoy Brown, Hellbound Train Rockpile, Seconds of Pleasure Neil Young, Harvest and On the Beach Band, Big Pink and brown album Got just about all of Fahey if that counts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neal Pomea Posted June 15, 2006 Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 Do yourself a favor and get rid of your turntables. NO! Proud flip flopper here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASNL77 Posted June 23, 2006 Report Share Posted June 23, 2006 Muse: Origin of symmetry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted June 23, 2006 Report Share Posted June 23, 2006 White album and the first two Joy of Cooking lps. Glad I can play 'em, don't want to spend money on reissues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slide_advantage_redoux Posted June 23, 2006 Report Share Posted June 23, 2006 King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted June 24, 2006 Report Share Posted June 24, 2006 Michael Hurley & Pals: Armchair Boogie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patricia Posted June 24, 2006 Report Share Posted June 24, 2006 Do yourself a favor and get rid of your turntables. WHY? All of us have CD players, probably audio-tape players, sound-systems for our computers with downloaded music AND I-Pods. And yet, there are still collections of fine music, even rare music available only on vinyl. YOU do yourself a favour and get a nice turntable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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