Big Star - "Radio City"
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@pierce911 congrats on the Sota! Aja is the album I always use to test my turntable after setting it up or changing cartridges. |
@slaw without your advocacy I wouldn't know about Tony Joe... thanks ! @pierce911 Nice move on the SOTA, i think a few of us here have them... Streaming this eve so i can put together my weekend LRS hunting list. London Grammar - Californian Soil How very appropriate... |
AC/DC-Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap Side 2 George Shearing/Mel Torme-Top Drawer Side 2 Bloomfield/Hammond/Dr.John-Triumvirate Side 1 A Tribute To Duke(CJ-50) Side 2 SQ Audiophile Rosie Vela-Zazu Side 1 Schubert-Piano Sonata(Lydia Artymiw) Side 1 With the exception of AC/DC the rest of the recordings SQ were near Audiophile level. Rosie Vela and Lydia Artimiw recordings had a slight digital "sheen" ."Top Drawer" and "Triumvirate" were very close maybe on a different day/time? |
@boxer12 l'll see your whiskey, and raise my own. |
You guys are a bad influance. (😉). One of my favorite groups/bands in the 90’s was The Sundays. They only produced three albums, and have them all on CD. The vinyl today is very high priced. But, I just cracked open the wallet and purchased a NM copy of Reading, Writing, and Artithmatic, their first LP. $130 with tax. Holy smokes, never thought I would spend that much for a single LP. The other two are going for twice that much, Blind going for $350-500 easily. Eventually.... lol |
@slaw Happy birthday, Steve! With the Rilo/Jenny momentum, it's a good day to remember that you were "Born Secular" |
@bkeske I bought an original to replace a missing record recently for the most I’ve ever spent on an album. $105. I hope it arrives safely from Europe. |
@slaw Happy Birthday Steve - keeper of the vinyl flame !!!! Care package on da way brother:-) " time is an afterthought " Talking Heads |
Yea, I looked at a couple UK releases, but with shipping from Europe/UK they were equal or more, so found a store in the US. Really can't wait to hear this LP on vinyl. @slaw lol, thanks. In the grand scheme of things, some LP's may just be worth it if you want them bad enough. As a band with only 3 LP's, and somewhat a 'cult following', supply and demand equates to higher prices I guess. |
Capacitor swapped, ziltched pass transistor in the power supply regulator replaced and music pours forth from my speakers once more.
Deep Purple "Shades Of Deep Purple" Tetragrammaton Records 1968
Sir Douglas Quintet "Mendocino" Smash-Mercury 1969
Dead Kennedys "Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables" Cherry Red UK 1980
David Bowie "Heroes" RCA-Germany 1977 |
@puffball08 handy with the soldering iron ! Good on ya ! |
@bkeske -Thanks Brian, and you mentioned Sandy Denny above, I came across one of her records in my flurry of cleaning the shed records.
@tomic601 - yeah, started my career working in a TV repair shop way WAY back when (when TVs were repairable) and made the switch in college to broadcast and post production. Haven’t put the soldering iron down for long since then. Wish I had a nickel for each of the XLR connectors I soldered over the decades.
@boxer12 - I noticed Ubu’s "The Modern Dance" above. My Ubu collection appeared in one of the boxes. I have both the Blank Records (US) and Polydor/Polygram (UK) versions. Haven’t listened to the Polygram pressing but the Blank version (Blank was distributed by Mercury who in turn is owned by Polygram) still sounds very amazing. |
@bslon -Yes, amazing record given it was 1968. Bad thing is the record label, Tetragrammaton, was a shoe string operation. Their pressings were made with regrind (recycled) vinyl to save money. The surface noise of this record is horrible but the music is irreplacable. Fortunately during the active tracks, the background noise gets cancelled pretty well. But oh the lead in, track spaces and lead out are just horrible. |