Wish List For Vinyl Pressings



Vinyl is king. Lets make it bigger and better.

With the huge resurgence of vinyl pressings new, reissue, 45RPM Lp's and specialty box sets, not to mention turntable sales, we are certainly living in the great second life of the analogue vinyl Lp album. All this and the abundance of used records is wonderful.

Here's the thing, I was thinking that the industry could use a list by us of albums that would be well received if put to press. Who else but a group of AudioGoners to offer up a wish list. This helps everyone, the artist, the record industry, the record stores and us the music lovers. Everyone wins.

Please keep with a couple of simple guide lines to make this an easy read for those industry guys. This is a list of titles that have never been on vinyl or are out of print, or very, very rare items. This should be record titles, artist names, maybe even catalog numbers if the item had previously been in press. Lets keep the banter to a bare minimum, if you would. The hope is that this will be read by the right folks and we will see (and hear) all this great stuff on our favorite format.

Happy Listing & Happy Listening, as always!
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Rickie Lee Jones -Traffic From Paradise
I finally go it.
What I'm still starving for is:
*** Emmylou Harris, At The Ryman ***
Vinyl exists, I missed it once at eBay. Never seen it again till now. Sigh.
another dark and beautiful gem from Cowboy Junkies the album... "Lay it Down" from 1996

love, peace, and chicken grease
I've got another one that is soooo good... and so hard to find on vinyl.
Los Lobos- Kiko from 1992 Warner Bros / Wea

Happy Hunting, Happy Listening!
Ascension -- John Coltrane
All the Pink Floyd albums (I have only seen Dark Side of the Moon being reissued) particularly Relics and Meddle
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady -- Charles Mingus
Another Green World -- Brian Eno
On the Corner -- Miles Davis
A tribute to Jack Johnson -- Miles Davis
The Last Waltz -- The Band
The BBC Sessions -- Led Zeppelin
Expensive S**t -- Fela Kuti & Africa 70
and, The Blues and the Abstract Truth -- Oliver Nelson
Govt Mule's debut album, Allman bros. 1st & 2nd set Live from there 1990 shows with Betts & Haynes.
also.......UHQR 200GM 45rpm half speed mastered Box set of weird Al Yank'o'vick
The DMB catalogue.

I can't believe between "Big Whiskey..." releasing last year, and copies of "Between These Crowded Streets" on vinyl selling for upwards of 500+ dollars that no company has capitalized on releasing these.

A whole box set with every album would certainly sell at least one copy!
Kingdeezie,

I've never seen "before these crowded streets" on vinyl.

I would also like to see the title "Under the Table and Dreaming" as well... One would think RCA might find some value in pressing these.

Happy Listening!
10 Records to Die For(EVERY collection should have)
1-Beatles Revolver
2-Dire Straits
3-Steely Dan-Aja
4-Eagles
5-CSNY-Four Way Street
6-Elvis Costelo-My Aim Is True
7-Heart-Dog and Butterfly
8-Robin Trower-BLT
9-Radney Foster-1959
10-JAzz at the Pawn Shop
Ani Difranco... Living In Clip
Up, Up, Up
Like I Said
Hello, Rightous Babe Inc, are you listening? Your Knuckle Down LP had murky sonics. Bring us the good stuff like Living in Clip
Ok, I know this thread has been dormant for some time but...

Well, it has been a wait, and we win again, Luna's bewitched comes out this Tuesday on vinyl Lp for the first time ever!!!

Vernneal, evidently you misunderstood the point of this thread...it was music that you wish was on vinyl, but is not, or is so rare that it is cost and sourced prohibitive, but that's ok. Fortunately no one (or their wallet) will have to die for acquiring this list of goodies.

Happy Listener!
Hifiharv, I'm with you on this one. Ani Difranco that righteous babe, we need (she deserves) to have far more of her titles but to vinyl Lp!

Happy Listener!
Phish concerts. Particularly those originally recorded to analog tape, anything from 97, 98, and 99, and any good shows from other years. If the source is analog, please preserve it (no A>D>A).

Grateful Dead concerts. Particularly those originally recorded to analog tape. There are so many good sounding digital copies of these shows, but I would really like to hear them without the A>D conversion.
As far as I know there was only a limited European LP pressing of this album.

Cheers
FM
The Beatles - Abbey road and white album 180gr. 45rpm. remastered from original analogue source and kept analogue.
Anything by Eliza Gilkyson!
If anyone deserves to be recorded on vinyl, it's Eliza.
The Grace Potter album is actually "Nothing But The Water". Huge Grace Potter fan here.
Pat Metheny's ... Secret Story is what my post above should have read.......As far as I know there was only a limited European LP pressing of this album.

Cheers
FM
Cake - Fashion Nugget. Great album, nice and dynamic on CD, would be awesome on vinyl
How about all of Cake, Beck, Prodigy, Crystal Method, Chemical Brothers, Suzanne Vega and some special Beastie Boys tribute albums?
Ok, it's been a while but here are a few from Declan Patrick Aloysius Macmanus (Elvis Costello) (the true King!) that just never found there way to wax...

Painted from Memory

My Flame Burns Blue

The River in Reverse

...what are these record companies thinking?!
Emmylou Harris's "Wrecking Ball."

After all these years, my CD version gets a lot of play; would love to get the LP, which was issued along with the CD, but the small number that were are now horrendously expensive (circa $300).
David Brubeck: "Late Night Brubeck"

Ray Brown: "Live at Loa"? or something like that.
All the Buddy Rich albums he did on World Pacific Jazz, 1966-1970. The World Pacific/Liberty/Blue Note library is now owned by Capitol/EMI. Capitol proved they could make a great reissue with the 40th anniversary Dirt Band "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?", remastered at Bernie Grundman studios.

I'd also like to see Cat Stevens' "Catch Bull at Four" and "Teaser and the Firecat" get the same treatment as the recent Tea for the TIllerman remaster.
RCA 1960 recording of Sea Shanties with The Robert Shaw Chorale. Even the cd is a knockout so you can imagine how it would be from Acoustic Sounds on a double 45 pressing.
How about a group buy?

If we can get enough people to ante up on a title, we could master it (I run an LP mastering operation) and get it going. Any thoughts??
Right- so for this to work we need to get the right LP title :)

Should I start another thread or can we vote??
I think you should propose a list of prospects and see if any of them could get enough votes to make a pressing run financially feasible.
I would like to be able to buy "Asking for Flowers" by Kathleen Edwards on vinyl. It is now out of print and the scalper price is $80+
Why not create a list and then vote from that list. I suggest another thread for this project. Entrees for the list could come from this thread.
So far the only LPs that have more than one entry are the Beatles and Emmy Lou Harris' 'Wrecking Ball'. Is this worth another thread yet?

So much music! I am sure there are a lot of great suggestions here. Its my surmise that a Beatles reissue will be the hardest to pull off.
Govt Mule's debut album
Jazz at the Pawn Shop
Grace Potter "Nothing But The Water"
Emmylou Harris's "Wrecking Ball."
Kathleen Edwards "Asking for Flowers"
Van Morrison "Healing Game"

I would buy all of the list above.

The Beatles have had their reissues reissued, and licensing will be difficult if not impossible.
I wanted an album on vinyl so bad, I started a vinyl label!

That was 7 or 8 years ago, but since then, it seems that the labels I like have regularly been issuing vinyl, which is nice. (Small Stone, Tee Pee, etc.)
I wish they would remaster for vinyl (I do- it makes a difference), but at least the vinyl is being made now.
(I listen to mostly bands on smaller labels... definitely not the norm for a'gon.)
Led Zeppelin all albums, The Who, Who Are You, what the hell is wrong with that album? 4 copies and all horrible, Richard Thompson, Steve Hillage, Rush, all albums, Better pressing of Funkadelics catalog.
Re-pressing of Buena Vista Social Club 45 RPM
Kind of Blue 45 RPM
and +1 on Beatles Analog (AAA)
This is tough as so much is being re-issued. I just picked up the Bauhaus re-issues and Fields was great but Mask was awful. I think this is a trick to the re-issues… who's doing it, is it quality, and are they mastering to their own ear.

In the spirit of the thread I pick: Scratch Acid and Camper Van Beethoven
So many quality jazz artists, with cd releases, but little on vinyl. Maybe, too small a market.
Linda Oh.. Kenny Garret...Fred Hirsch...Christian Mcbride ...Avashai Cohen and his sister Anat Cohen...Jeremy Pelt...Marcus Miller...live Marsalis...Sean Jones...Ben Allison...Roy Hargrove...Aaron Parks.. Ambrose Akinmusire... Brad Mehldau... Brian Lynch... Chris Potter... Cyrus Chestnut... Dave Douglas... Gene Harris live... Jacky Terrasson... Jim Rotondi... Joe Lovano... Joshua Redman.. The Brecker Brothers... Tomasz Stanko...and so many more.
I am a huge jazz fan, especially of the bebop era, but how many pressings of Kind Of Blue and Giant Steps do we need? These young talented artists are so deserving of a larger exposure. Maybe vinyl releases would help.
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter -Reckless Burning

(first album/briefly pressed to vinyl. Falls somewhere in the Trinity Sessions- Cowboy Junkies and So Tonight That I Might See- Mazzy Star genre)

Hauntingly beautiful

*AtmaSphere: Ralph, I would love to be a part of that!!!

Happy Listening!
Beautiful Freak from The Eels DreamWorks Records –DRLP-50001 (1996)vinyl consistently pulls just shy of four hundred bucks a copy in M- (ish shape) and good luck finding one.

Daisies Of The Galaxy by The Eels on Bong Load Records –BL47 is another.

I loved Bong Load Custom Records!!! Lovely slabs of black beauty, thick stock/high gloss gatefolds, outstanding quality...

Happy Listening! ;^)>
An ORIGINAL pressing of Doug MacLeod's, 'COME TO FIND'. I'll never again touch anything(remixes/remasters) that Kevin Gray, or Steve Hoffman, have had anything to do with.