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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The Rhythm Future Quartet -Travels (CD due out tomorrow)
a modern take on gypsy jazz

A festival of light classical music.  Readers digest.  I believe Kenneth Wilkinson was the engineer.  Great recordings
The Be Good Tanyas ‎
- Blue Houses 2000 (not on label, self issued)
 -Chinatown 2003 on Nettwerk America

Gillian Welch
- Revival 1996 Almo Sounds
- Time (The Revelator) 2001 acony Records

I realize Blue Houses was briefly released on vinyl in 2011 (try to find a copy under $300)

Happy Listening!




1. Beatles Sargent Peppers MFSL
2. Moody Blues Days of future past MFSL
3. Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Out Quality Pressing 45 rpm
4. Traveling Wilburys
5. Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon MFSL
6. Steely Dan Aja MFSL
7. Band on the Run CBS mastersound pressing
8. Eagles Hotel California MFSL
9. Willie Nelson Stardust CBS Mastersound pressing
10 Patsy Cline Greatest Hits Quality Pressing
Gorecki, Symphony No 3. Stefania Woytowicz soloist, Ernest Bour cond. Soundtrack for the movie, "Police". Erato 9275.

Absolutely stunning. Count me in for this one too.
Hearing Solar Winds (TAS list), The Harmonic Choir, David Hykes dir, Ocora 558 607.

Count me in for this one, Ralph.
I've been hoping for years that Alan Parson's On Air would get a vinyl release and finally it has. Limited to 1000 though so i'm glad i got in and ordered mine.
Not sure if you know but "Car Wheels on Gravel Road" has just been reissued on Music on Vinyl:

http://www.musiconvinyl.com/catalog/lucinda-williams/car-wheels-on-a-gravel-road#.U--oabySwyA

There is a lot of reissuing going on at the moment - I hope extends to early Felt LPs. For some dumb reason I failed to get some of their early LPs at the time eg Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty, The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories or Ignite the Seven Cannons.
Yusef Lateef ‎– Live At Pep's Volume Two
Impulse! ‎– 547 961-2
(release on CD in 1999)

Yep, volume one was released on vinyl back in 1964, so go figure what Impulse! was thinking?!
I'm easy to please.....I just want the spindle hole to be centered and the record flat
11-30-2009 was the date of my original contribution to this thread.

Likewise, you're welcome for an unabashed statement of fact.
I never made an uncivil statement. Just stated the facts. OH, and you're quite welcome!
I would like to(NOT)thank Rodman99999 and Palasr for adding anything to this otherwise, civil thread.

Happy Listening! ;^)>
"I'll never again touch anything(remixes/remasters) that Kevin Gray, or Steve Hoffman, have had anything to do with"

Seconded. I'll add most Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab LPs to that as well. The latest Dylan "Blood On The Tracks"? Nice job thoroughly sanitizing and sucking every ounce of life out of the recording. The original cheap Columbia blows the MFSL away. Fremer is quite apparently deaf.
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.
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! ;^)>
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!
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.
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
Re-pressing of Buena Vista Social Club 45 RPM
Kind of Blue 45 RPM
and +1 on Beatles Analog (AAA)
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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+
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.
Right- so for this to work we need to get the right LP title :)

Should I start another thread or can we vote??
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??
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.
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.
David Brubeck: "Late Night Brubeck"

Ray Brown: "Live at Loa"? or something like that.
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).
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?!
How about all of Cake, Beck, Prodigy, Crystal Method, Chemical Brothers, Suzanne Vega and some special Beastie Boys tribute albums?
Cake - Fashion Nugget. Great album, nice and dynamic on CD, would be awesome on vinyl