I have just got my turntable up and running. I’ve been collecting the odd record here and there over the years and now can munch the fruits of my collection for the first time. i have a bit of stoner/doom oriented stuff new, sealed and ready to go, which rocks. I just spun Om’s Pilgrimage. It was satisfying. I suppose some folks here love vinyl, so this should be a thread devoted to vinyl, and its sweetness.
I am just about to clean up and play some of my recent ministry acquisitions, these are…
Revenge 12’’
I wanted to tell her 12’’
Work for Love 12’’
Cold Life EP
Halloween Remix/Nature of Outtakes 12’’
All Day/Everyday is… 12’’
Also the Ptp single and the Lead into Gold Album.
There’s aome b-sides on the ministry singles I haven’t ever heard, which is exciting.
cool. that’s great if this will be the first time you’ll her a lot of these “extras”. i haven’t hooked up my turntable in a decade. still got my records tho.
carmangary, you should bust out that vinyl and learn scratching!
I have this strange craving to do covers of the revolting cocks songs with the bad scratching ie beers steers and queers, but do them with phat prolonged hip hop scratching solos, that would be very rad.
I just listened to You Goddamn Son Of a Bitch on vinyl, this is actually the first time I’ve heard this record and it was most enjoyable, the big sexy land stuff with real bass is money
[reply]carmangary, you should bust out that vinyl and learn scratching!
I used to try that now and then and the need would always inevitably jump up and down on the record and make a horrible noise.
One thing cool about vinyl was that DJs could really do some magic as they mixed the songs. I’m not sure what tools DJs have for mixing CDs these days but I haven’t heard any good mixing in ages. Most just fade from one to the next at best.[/reply]
Check out Zeph & Azeems “On The Rocks Mixtape”…there’s a few cuts on their myspace where they’re mix Pink Floyd amongst other stuff with bangin Hip Hop beats.
the one and only time i dj’ed i had a 10" copy of bob and earl’s harlem shuffle, with a quick follow up with my picture disc of the( joy division) warsaw single. i gave that picture disc to a great friend. hope he still has it on his wall.
sadly, i got rid of most of my vinyl @1988, during one of my bouts of "i hate music, so now i’m gonna listen to gregorian chants. "
true story.
vinyl rules. sounds so much richer and imperfect than hyper processed pro-tooled out anything.
i hope you still at least have a weighty collection of said chants, ed.
peligro, agreed, vinyl is just more special. my record store has quite a bit of second hand nurse w/ wound vinyl, but i haven’t ever heard them. recommendations? same store has quite a bit of 80’s industrial vinyl that i will exploit with the fruits of my christmas job!
I have the monster magnet ‘spine of god’ and ‘tab’ re-releases that are going to be spun soon
Alec Empire and DHR are the reason why I started to collect vinyl records. The first one I ever picked up was Shizuo’s “High On Emotion” EP. Great times. I saw it and I had to pick it up because once upon a time before the boom of the internet, you really had to be very quick in order to get the good stuff.
Eventually, because of hip-hop and sampling, I also do crate-digging for original samples to today’s and yesteryear’s hip-hop songs. It’s why I’m very much into the 70’s jazz scene like Roy Ayers, Isaac Hayes, Lonnie Liston Smith, John Tropea, and Roberta Flack.
To have the originals in yr hands is truly something special, like watching a 70’s movie like The Warriors and wanting to go back there because it’s so far removed from what we experience.
Got my record player up and running recently. I don’t have that many records but have spurecently;
Men in Black 7" - Frank Black
No Soap in Glasgow 7" E.P. - The Newtown Grunts
Little Creatures - Talking Heads
Teethgrinder remixes 12" - Therapy?
Opal Mantra 7" - Therapy?
I’ll be putting on Trompe le Monde by the Pixies and Age of Reason by Lead Into Gold - good to see a few others have the Lead Into Gold 12" too.
on the topic of the lead into gold LP, i have a question. On my copy, it looks like someone has taken a bite out of the top left corner of the LP packaging, just a small modest bite, not a nip, definitely not a full meal’s worth, but a small and determined bite.
The person i bought it from on ebay said this is what got done to all the wax trax promo records around that time. I’m almost scared to ask, but was i lied to by an ebay seller with a taste for LP packaging? Or is his explanation legit?
ALSO - With my revco “you goddamn…” LP i also received a piece of promo material on red a4, if anyone wants a copy i can scan it.
on the topic of the lead into gold LP, i have a question. On my copy, it looks like someone has taken a bite out of the top left corner of the LP packaging, just a small modest bite, not a nip, definitely not a full meal’s worth, but a small and determined bite.
The person i bought it from on ebay said this is what got done to all the wax trax promo records around that time. I’m almost scared to ask, but was i lied to by an ebay seller with a taste for LP packaging? Or is his explanation legit?
ALSO - With my revco “you goddamn…” LP i also received a piece of promo material on red a4, if anyone wants a copy i can scan it.
It’s legit. I also have a copy of “lead Into Gold” with a bite off of the corner (My Filth Pig is like that as well). It’s the equivelent of a hole punched though the barcode for CD’s.
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i pretty much only buy vinyl nowadays. so if a band just releases something on cd, i’m probably just downloading it. i’m no audiophile but i do enjoy the sound of vinyl blasting off my stereo much more than cds. picked up the cure’s disintegration last week for $5. had been looking for that forever on vinyl. thankfully ann arbor has 1 decent record shop still. but lately i’ve noticed that they put up all of the good stuff on ebay rather than just selling it at the store. so no more $5 or $10 coil records for me.
you youngsters don’t remember the era of “cutouts”, when record companies wanted to get rid of inventory they cut out a corner of the sleeve. the labels didn’t make anything off of those and neither did the artist.
promo vinyl had a stamp saying " for promotional use only " or some jive like that. i don’t have any more of those.
yeah same with cds, they either had a hole in the upc code, cut out of the paper or drilled through the cd case or on the left side what looked like somebody sawed into the case a bit.
I just like how vinyl makes those warm little cracks and pops