The Vinyl Thread

[Wooderson]

I was cheesed off to see this one. Shure discontinuing my fave stylus.

https://www.residentadvisor.net/news/41657

[Mardy]

I got a question for you vinyl heads. Do you organise your collection and if so, how? I don’t like the idea of alphabetical order, but i’m at the stage now where if i want to listen to anything specific, it takes me ages to find it. Currently, it’s sort of vaguely chronological from when i bought it, with the older stuff on shelves and the newer/recently listened to in piles in front of that, but i’m finding it increasingly frustrating. Am i going to have to bite the bullet and do it alphabetically? How do you do yours?

[Wooderson]

Mardy i'm in a similar boat. Know that scene in Spaceballs where the lads are "combing" the desert?

 

[The Nal]

16 minutes ago, Mardy said:

How do you do yours?

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Broad-ish genres. 6 or 7 genres I think. I got a load of laminate floor "samples" from Homebase that are about 14 inches long and I use them as dividers with the genre written on the exposed couple of inches. Blues, electro, classical, folk, rock, soul and so on. Works fairly well. Nothing I can't find within a minute or two. 

Think I've a section just for the Beatles and The Stones as I've so many of them. You may need similar for your "earnest singer/songwriter" section!

[Gnomicide]

Autobiographical. 

[Gnomicide]

I used to have it in genres then sub genres but I finally caved and went a to z. Desicion then is first name, surname, what do you do if it's a name plus a band? I mean, where do I file Zodiac Mindwarp and The Love Reaction. 

[Guest]

Mine are grouped by artist with each artist's work organised chronologically, then artists are organised chronologically by their earliest release I own. It's a wonderful system, when you buy an album earlier than all the others you own for that artist you have to do this big shuffle around. Let's not pretend we're not in this game so we can pick up loads of records and take them on and off the shelves.

[Chef]

Has anybody bought the Springstein on Broadway LP? 

Weighing u whether its worth the investment. 

[Wooderson]

On 1/28/2019 at 4:44 PM, Chef said:

Has anybody bought the Springstein on Broadway LP? 

Weighing u whether its worth the investment. 

Negative. Looks an exhausting listen on wax. Too much swapping around. 

[Gnomicide]

2 hours ago, Wooderson said:

Negative. Looks an exhausting listen on wax. Too much swapping around. 

2 intros and 2 songs per side isn't it? Bollocks to that.

I've got the Live At Hammersmith 4 LP set, I'm knackered by the time that's over but at least it was only £20.

[Wooderson]

1 hour ago, Gnomicide said:

2 intros and 2 songs per side isn't it? Bollocks to that.

I've got the Live At Hammersmith 4 LP set, I'm knackered by the time that's over but at least it was only £20.

Most recent ‘Dead set I picked up is 6 slabs o’wax. Shattered after it.

[The Nal]

On 1/28/2019 at 4:44 PM, Chef said:

Has anybody bought the Springstein on Broadway LP? 

Weighing u whether its worth the investment. 

Boring stories of glory days

[Chef]

12 hours ago, Wooderson said:

Most recent ‘Dead set I picked up is 6 slabs o’wax. Shattered after it.

That's kind of what I figured, 4 x LP seems excessive but sadly seems to be a common thing now to eek out 'special releases' 

46 minutes ago, The Nal said:

Boring stories of glory days

Don't disagree entirely but I do like the versions of the music he performs. 

I still have record tokens to use and want to buy something a bit more expensive, box set or the like, that I wouldn't necessary pay for normally. The White Album anniversary edition is still out in the lead. 

[The Nal]

12 minutes ago, Chef said:

That's kind of what I figured, 4 x LP seems excessive but sadly seems to be a common thing now to eek out 'special releases' 

Don't disagree entirely but I do like the versions of the music he performs. 

I still have record tokens to use and want to buy something a bit more expensive, box set or the like, that I wouldn't necessary pay for normally. The White Album anniversary edition is still out in the lead. 

Yeah a Boss unplugged sort of thing with an intro to the songs would've done. 

[Chef]

6 minutes ago, The Nal said:

Yeah a Boss unplugged sort of thing with an intro to the songs would've done. 

Agreed. Probably one best kept to enjoy on Spotify every now and then. 

 

[Chef]

Ordered the Bohemian Rhapsody soundtrack from Banquet Records and it arrived yesterday a couple of days early. 

The Live Aid performance sounds great. 

[nikkic]

Treated myself to a turntable upgrade yesterday. 

Bought the Project Essential 3.

Looks so good! Lovely bit of kit. 

Need to rejig my vinyl too, going to go with A-Z by artist then chronological. 

[Chef]

Anyone checked out the RSD list yet? 

https://recordstoreday.co.uk/releases/rsd-2019/ 

Edited March 1, 2019 by Chef

[The Nal]

25 minutes ago, Chef said:

Anyone checked out the RSD list yet? 

https://recordstoreday.co.uk/releases/rsd-2019/ 

Yeah. I think its a cynical load of shite personally however that Wes Montgomery release looks interesting. Nowt else on there interests me really. 

[Gnomicide]

Got my eye on that Fallen Angels LP. Can't be arsed queuing up so hopefully still available afterwards.

[Mardy]

Not much on there that interests me, but i’ll definitely be after the Prefab Sprout and the Aidan Moffat album. That’s about it

[oneeye]

National record store day today; use 'em or lose 'em ??

https://recordstoreday.co.uk/home/

 

[Guest]

1 hour ago, oneeye said:

National record store day today; use 'em or lose 'em ??

https://recordstoreday.co.uk/home/

 

Record Store day, the only day of the year that I would never go vinyl hunting.

I have found though, if you support your local record shop all year round, they will happily keep stuff you want to one side and you can swerve the trophy hunters.

[oneeye]

2 hours ago, eastynh said:

Record Store day, the only day of the year that I would never go vinyl hunting.

I have found though, if you support your local record shop all year round, they will happily keep stuff you want to one side and you can swerve the trophy hunters.

Good for you 

[Mardy]

I've got everything I want on order, will (hopefully) pick some of it up tomorrow, some of it next time I'm back in the UK, but I popped into one of the shops here at lunchtime and picked up that Lou Reed Album and the SF Nuggets compilation. And got a free RSD tote bag, which kept Mrs Mardy happy.