Do you collect '1980's' vinyl?

its my least favorite era....but yes i have about 30 albums.

 

I have a lot. By the mid to late point of the decade, some of the vinyl just sounds bad, it just does. IMO that's what made people go to cassettes and run to CD's.

I still don't know why some of the work sounds bad, perhaps a lot of all digital albums and the declining quality of some vinyl made for a toxic mix. I can only speak from personal experiemce, by about 1986 or so, a lot of the 45's and new releases on record---sounded bad.

 

I think vinyl is a good option for this decade.
Many albums at this time were very bright and hard sounding, sometimes slathered in digital reverb.
I find that vinyl can take the edge off this a little.
Recent examples of this I've picked up cheap would be Steve Winwood, Tears for Fears, Men at Work and ZZ's Eliminator.

 

It depends on the year. Early 80s is still good on vinyl, but mid- to late-80s, as CD started to take hold, you find more albums getting longer and longer. As a result, lots of late-80s vinyl sounds bad with trying to cram so much time onto a single LP. For those, I'd rather have the early CDs. And while early 80s LPs can be had cheap, stuff from about 1989 on can get very expensive now, just like all those 90s album that cost a fortune.

 

I collect albums from artists, styles and eras I'd like, so I do indeed have a fair amount from the '80s (though certainly the '70s is more represented in my collection).

I just don't have a lot of '80s pop. The Police, Men at Work and Thomas Dolby are notable exceptions.

 

Absolutely, some of my best sounding vinyl records come from this era - off the top of my head:

The Police: Ghost In The Machine and Synchronicity
Sting: Dream Of The Blue Turtles and Nothing Like The Sun
Robert Plant: Shaken N Stirred
Joe Jackson: Body And Soul, Night And Day and Big World

 

I have a small collection of about 20 lps from that decade. In a very general sense, I've found that decade relatively easy to collect LPs in good condition at a reasonable price relative to other decades.

 

I bought many LPs and 45s in the 80s and still have most of them. I was more of a 45 collector back then, trying to get favorite singles with picture sleeves. Some albums, I tried to get all the singles
from an album, with picture sleeves. The ones that come to mind for me were all the singles with picture sleeves for: Stevie Nicks - Bella Donna (4) , Billy Joel - An Innocent Man (6). I have a few others, those were just from memory. Tower Records was my favorite store back then.

 

I've really been digging my '80s vinyl. The '80s was when the medium really reached its peak in terms of consistent quality...just the perfect time for the brilliant minds at the majors to kill it off of course. Just spun an later 80s pressing of The Nightfly by Donald Fagen. This was probably a Super Saver title that I bought used for less than five bucks, and it still sounds sublime. Quiet as the still of the night and as full bodied as a great red wine.

 

I have a ton of vinyl from the 1980s -- especially the early 1980s, as I was buying it before I got my first CD player in 1984.

The majority of what I currently play and still collect from the 1980s is in the realm of 12" singles, mainly due to the fact that many, many, many of those have never seen any sort of release on CD. Most albums that I listen to are readily available on CD (my format of choice), but I don't pass up the opportunity to add something to my collection just because it's not available on CD.

 

No, I don't collect them.

I do buy them, however.

 

I have lots of stuff from the 1980s because I started collecting during that decade. There is lots of good music to be had and there's still lots of used vinyl at reasonable prices out there from that era.

 

To answer the question; no - I don't collect any vinyl.

 

Well well coming out of the seventy's with the heavy pro rock stuff were the stoner's got their heads out of the clouds! I sure like the eighty's it was all about having fun again, at least for me. I just wonder how Led Zeppelin's would have sounded if they started out in the early eighty's?
Like any time between sixty's and up to know there is a bunch of crap, but it might me that don't care about what is going on now? lol


Nesta

 

I don't "collect" per se but I bought quite a bit of vinyl in the '80s, especially in the last one-third of the decade when I used reviews in Melody Maker and the NME as a guide (many of them were duds, a few were gems, like Mr. Hurst by Last Party).

I didn't start buying CDs until I bought a CD player in 1988 and at first I concentrated on the '60s and '70s, i.e. Genesis, Moody Blues, etc.

Around 1990-91 I started buying CDs for which I had only recently bought the vinyl, for example Banking, Violence and the Inner Life Today by McCarthy and Cake by the Trash Can Sinatras.

 

"The Seeds Of Love" by Tears For Fears.

 

Not nearly as much as from the 70s, but yes (and as someone said, mainly the early 80s).

I have:
Bruford - Gradually Going Tornado
Jean Luc Ponty - Civilized Evil
Miles Davis - The Man with the Horn
Al Di Meola - Electric Rendezvous
John McLaughlin - Music Spoken Here
Brand X - Is There Anything About?
Alan Holdsworth - Road Games
Jean Luc Ponty - Open Mind
Frank Zappa - Jazz from Hell
Steve Hackett - Defector
Yes - Drama
Yes - Yesshows
King Crimson - Discipline
King Crimson - Beat
King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair
Robert Fripp - God Save the Queen
Peter Gabriel III
Kate Bush - Never for Ever
Adrian Belew - Lone Rhino
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
Queen - The Game
KISS - Music from the Elder
Queen - Hot Space
KISS - Creatures of the Night
KISS - Lick it Up
Brian May - Star Fleet Project
Queen - The Works
Queen - A Kind of Magic
Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Queen - The Miracle
Black Flag - Family Man
Black Flag - The Process of Weeding Out
Black Flag - In My Head
Watchtower - Energetic Disassembly
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Death Angel - The Ultra Violence
Metallica - And Justice for All
Watchtower - Control and Resistance

 

I don't 'collect' '80s albums the way I do albums from the '60s and early '70s: in the main I bought them in that decade. It was a glorious time for new music from all genres, and I have very few issues regarding quality either.

Yes, a lot of 80s music sounds like it has the same Yamaha DX7 pre-sets all over it, and some of it sounds totally over-produced, but to discount a decade that has all the 4AD output, Japan, Talking Heads, The Cure, Pixies, King Crimson, Kate Bush, Pat Metheny, Al diMeola, and thousands more seems a bit silly...

 

When alternative was still just that, of course.

 

No mention of the following...

The Chameleons
The Sound
Teardrop Explodes
Durutti Column
The Associates
Magazine
...

 

Yes, I have many from that time. Some of my favorites are:

The Sherbs - The Skill
Streets - S/T
Point Blank - American Exce$$
Prism - Small Change
Shooting Star - Hang On for Your Life
April Wine - Power Play
Scorpions - Blackout