mint firsts of trout mask replica (1053 on labels) and safe as milk
mint in shrink pink moon
mint true first born under a bad sign
i doubt that finer copies exist. completly irreplacable |
My most valuable are certainly not my most played, eg a UHQR Tea for the Tillerman, which I have owned since new- I think the old Island pink label I bought off the street for a buck actually sounds better.
Other goodies- Direct to Disc Flamenco Fever :)
Mobile Fidelities like DArk Side and Aqualung
Some valuable pressings off of 'Harry's List,' including some the big Mercurys, RCA's etc.
The best sounding of the bunch of vintage classical are probably the Deccas, some of the Londons, and the Lyritas, of which I have quite a few;
I still have almost all of the records I bought as a teenager, believe it or not- some of them are still in very good condition, but I have them more for nostalgia than playing-
many, many audiophile collectible records from the early seventies and eighties, including Nautilus, M & K, 1/2 Speed Masters, MoFi, Mark Levinson, lots of Japanese pressings, Sheffield, etc.
I really need to organize all this vinyl- I think I'm close to 8,000, maybe more-
Oh, yeah, I found some of Fulton's demo records in a pile not long ago.
And, that Billy Holliday singing at Altamont Airport where you can hear the planes taking off and landing while she is on stage.
I could go on.... |
Here are some of my vinyl treasure:
Desert Sessions - Vol. 9 & 10
Queens of the stone age - Songs for the deaf
Grant Hart - Intolerance
Sonic Youth - Goo
Sabu - Jazz Espagnole
Sabu - Sorcery!
Art Blakey - any
And many Hammond tunes... |
A few of the gems:
Cat Stevens "Tea for the Tillerman" Mofi
John Klemmer "Touch" Mofi
Christine McVie Self-Titled
Jackson Browne "I'm Alive"
Rickie Lee Jones "Pirates"
Dire Straights "Making Movies"
Bob Welsh "French Kiss"
Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders "Live at Keystone"
Bob Dylan "Planet Waves"
Poco "Legend" Mofi
Shawn Colvin "Steady on"
Bob James & David Sanborn "Double Vision"
and many more... |
Philojet-
I don't think they were recorded seperately, but they were mixed seperately (not just a stereo summed mono). Some of the versions differ slightly in content too.
From interviews I have read and heard George Martin gave the mono's much more attention and relevance than the stereo mixes.... IMHO the mono's sound significantly better than the stereo versions up until around the White Album.... Trouble is, I haven't been able to find/afford all of those old mono records. Anyone want to make a donation? |
Treasures? Who knows? But changed what I listened to.
From when I was younger.
Dave Mason - "Is Alive" and "Dave Mason"
Dead - "Europe 72", "Skull & Roses", and "Mars Hotel"
Who - "Who's Next"
POCO - "A Good Feeling to Know"
Middle Age
REM - "Murmur"
U2 - "Under a Blood Red Sky" and "Joshua Tree"
INXS - "Shabooh Shoobah"
Bronski Beat - "Age of Consent"
Old Age
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Just inherited 75 or so old discs. Anxious to dig in and see if there are any new treasures.
Jim S. |
Cmo-I was just reading in Guitar Player magazine that the Beatles recorded Sgt Peppers in two different sessions one for mono and one for stereo and they are a little different I imagine the same is true with the ones you mention. |
My acetates of Boston, Cat Stevens, Fleetwood Mac & others. |
1.Richard wagner The Ring Decca pressing. Beautiful box set
2. Airto Moreira & The God of The Jazz- Killer Bees B&W Music
3. Tea For The Tillerman Cat Stevens UHQR
4. Joan Baez Diamond & Dust in the bullring- No woman No cry, kept me enthrall most nights
5. Miroku Ryusuke Seto Zen Label
Most rare, difficult and pretty expensive if u can find it. Happy Listening |
Cmo - are you sure you don't want to donate those Tom Waits bootlegs to my collection? |
The first LP I ever owned - "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" by Traffic. It's beat up (I inherited it from my uncle Mike), but it sounds miraculous. Even through the surface noice and scratches, such music! No CD can do that.
Others:
Tommy by The Who (original pressing)
The Soft Parade by The Doors (original pressing)
and my MoFi Beatles collection (I think I have all of them, except "A Hard Days Night").
Thanks, Uncle Mike!
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MoFi half-speed masters : Aqualung , Cosmo's Factory , Led Zeppelin II. + Dark Side Of The Moon , Madman Across The Water , White Album (Capitol), We're An American Band , The Song Remains The Same , Led Zeppelin IV (untitled)
Elvis' #1 hits , mono. |
My mono and stereo Butcher albums. |
The Who Live at Leeds
Exile on Main Street
Abbey Road
Physical Graffiti
Meet the Beatles (my first LP)
Groovey Records |
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My original Mono Beatles Parlophones (Rubber Soul, Help, Beatles for sale, Revolver). 45 RPM Fantasy jazz reissues. Bootleg Ry Cooder in concert. Bootlegs of Tom Waits, the Stones and a radio promo show of the Dead..... And about anything from when I was a kid (sentimental value).
Chris |
Frank Sinatra's albums on Capitol (the ones recorded in the 50s). Of these, I think In the Wee Small Hours is one of my favorites. Listening to them is a Sunday tradition. |
04-30-07: Restock
My almost complete collection of Tom Waits Records.
Yeah, I had no idea. A minty fresh copy of Swordfishtrombones fell into my possession recently, and it blew me away, both sonically and artistically. Is it just me, or is this one of the best recorded and reproduced albums in *any* medium--analog, tape, direct-to-disk, digital, reproduced to tape, vinyl, CD, DVD, or SACD? |
Kingston trio first album mono (the only way it came). |
The first 4 King Crimson albums - german pressings with terrific sound |
My almost complete collection of Tom Waits Records.
In particular, last year I found a rare recording of Tom Wait's original performance of the "The Black Rider" at the Hamburg Dahlia Theatre. I have never seen this one on CD or Vinyl ever. The released "Black Rider" is a studio recording, whereas this one is the original live performance of the first run of the opera at the Dahli theatre. |
The Orchestral Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield |
Some of my favorite lucky scores of great music I've found in used record bins have been:
A mint promo disc of John Abercrobies "Current Events" on ECM, the best sounding disc I own. Another mint promo of Steve Tibbetts "Safe Journey," fabulous ECM sound and surfaces so silent you think it's digital, and Richard and Linda Thompson's classic "Shoot Out the Lights," another promo record that has great sound. I was lucky enough to hit a record store that was relocating and had just dug out a huge cache of vinyl they'd been saving to sell when they had enough floor space. Dozens of great condition promotional lp's from radio dj's collections were there for $3-$5 a pop. Right place at the right time! |
a signed Peter, Paul, and Mary |
One opened and one sealed copy of MoFi UHQR Alan Parsons "I Robot" |
Thanks for the topic. My list.
My old "promo copy" of Kim Carnes Salin'
The MCA Heavy Vinyl Buddy Holly
Clannad in Concert-BLB 5001
Heavenly Treasures-Doyle Lawson& Quicksilver -Sugar Hill 3735
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto- Philips 6500708 |
Branford Marsalis, Trio Jeepy
Johnny Cash, The American Recordings Series with Rick Rubin
Muddy Waters, Folk Singer
Led Zeppelin 1
The Beatles, Rubber Soul |
Here are five records from my collection that I'd be sad to lose:
Stravinsky's "Firebird," the 45 rpm 3LP Classic Records reissue of the Dorati Mercury SR90226. An amazing reissue of a marvelous recording.
Malcolm Arnold's "Eight English Dances" on Lyrita SRCS 109 - Arnold is a composer I enjoy immensely and I love the orchestration of these works.
Enescu's "Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano in Romanian Folkstyle," with Sherban Lupu on violin and Claude Cymerman on piano, Alturus AIR 2 9012 - my favorite performance of this characterful work, marvelously well recorded.
"La Spagna" (Music of Spain from the 15th-17th Centuries), performed by Paniagua/Atrium Musicae Madrid on BIS LP 163/164.
Ravel, "Pavane pour une Infante Defunte" Skrowaczewski and the Minnesota Orchestra, Reference Recordings limited edition reissue (RM 1001) of a Vox recording by Aubort and Nickrenz.
Tomorrow it might be a different list, but this is today's... |
