2017/01 - What Vinyl Have You Bought & Received This Month?

Every month I'd like to start a thread, just to see what Vinyl people are buying. New, used, online, in store - it's all good. Post pictures if you like.

Is there any reason you bought that particular album? (content/colour/rarity)

If it's not a 'mainstream' band - do they sound like any other band, and maybe others might be interested in hearing them?

Please save music quality and vinyl quality reviews of your purchases for other threads.

I will be only posting vinyl that I have actually received - as many more will be days, weeks or months before they arrive. Choice is yours but please don't post in one month that you bought vinyl, and then post in another month that you received the vinyl.

Hope to see you all in here.

 

Starting my vinyl collection with mostly familiar ground. These are albums that I either own Hi-Res or SACD versions of, with the exception is Chris Robinson who, with his brother’s solo material caught my attention by reading these forums. I chose to start my collection with mostly stuff I already own as this music is music I come back to year after year, and I can compare easily to other versions I have. And, I’ve only opened 2 so far this month..

Many more albums on the way!

Iron Maiden:

Number Of The Beast
Piece Of Mind
Powerslave
Live After Death

Pink Floyd:

Dark Side Of The Moon
Wish You Were Here
The Final Cut

Lynyrd Skynyrd:

Pronounced

The Black Crowes:

3 Snakes And One Charm
Warpaint Live
W/ Jimmy Page Live At The Greek

Chris Robinson:

Woodstock Sessions vol.3

 

Sure I'll bite - bought quite a few LP's this month (so far). I'll start with this one:



Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)

Had this on digital for years, found this pretty cheap at one of my local stores, used. Price was the main factor here, and the hope of improved sound (you wanted to avoid that discussion so won't comment on that).

I can't say that they really sound like anyone else, nothing comes to mind.

 

2017-01 so far...

Horace Silver-Cape Verdean Blues, Music Matters 33
Lee Morgan-Search For The New Land MM 33
Lee Morgan- Lee-Way Blue Note Connoisseur LP series
Horace Parlan-Speakin My Piece,MM 33
John Coltrane-A Love Supreme-Impulse GR-155 reissue
The Billie Holiday Story Vol. II,mono Columbia KG 32124
The Exciting Wilson Pickett-Atlantic mono 8129
J D Crowe and The New South-Rounder, 40th Ann. RSD
Patsy Cline-Live At The Opry,MCA

 

Only 2 so far this month:

New - Moody Blues In Search Of The Lost Chord (Friday Music)
Used - Rod Stewart Gasoline Alley (1'st Canadian pressing), in VG condition, a steal at $4

 

Intended to slow down this year but:

On vinyl:

Lee Morgan - Indeed (from DeAgostini Jazz series)
Pink Floyd - Animals (new vinyl reissue)
Hank Jones & Donald Byrd - Quartet / Quintet (charity shop vinyl)
Peggy Lee - Sea Shells, Christmas Carousel, Things Are Swingin', Let's Love, Mirrors. Also an EP (Presenting Peggy Lee on Brunswick from 1956) & 2 60s demo 45s. I'm really getting into Peggy Lee in a big way at the moment.
Chas & Dave - Live at Abbey Road

On CD:

Tyrannosaurus Rex - Expanded editions of the first 5 albums
Little Feat - Original Album Series

 

So far...

The Fall - Oh! Brother 12"
The Passage - Sharp Tongue 7"
Pale Fountains - Thank You (picture disc) 7"
Manicured Noise - Faith 7"
Magazine - Shot By Both Sides 7"
Martha and the Muffins - Saigon 7"
It's Immaterial - Ed's Funky Diner 7"
Isabelle Antena - Hoping For Love
Pieter Nooten - Sleeps with the Fishes
Joy Division - Transmission 12" (replacing a crackly copy)
Spherical Objects - Further Ellipses
Five or Six - Cántame Esa Canción Que Dice, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah

(Found all those 7"s at once and they were all super cheap!)

 

Fun
So far.
Cd
Bjork- Volta
Beck-The Information
ELP- Brain Salad Surgery Deluxe
Vinyl
XTC-Skylarking org. With Mermaid no Dear God
McCartney- RRSpeedway Us with Braille back
McCartney- Ram US Apple
U2-Joshua Tree deluxe
U2- Unforgettable Fire- Quiex RCA Music Club edition
Moody Blues- Question Of Balance
Moody Blues- Days of Future Past
Cal Tjader- el sonido nuevo
Cal Tjader- The Best Of
Men At Work- Cargo half speed master
Plastic Ono Band- John Lennon
Franck- Symphony In D Minor/Munch
Russell-Benno- Asylum Choir
Pink Floyd-MLOR
Pink Floyd-Final Cut
The Church- Remote Luxury
Still looking for Nat King Cole Songbook)Analog Productions (Apparently OOP or Awaiting repress)

 

Pink Floyd: The Final Cut
The Stone Roses: The Very Best of the Stone Roses
U2: The Joshua Tree (2xLP)
Frank Zappa: Hot Rats
Frank Zappa: Joe's Garage, Acts I, II and III

 

Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper (3LP, 2015)



Bought new / but at a discount. This comes with the Mr. Noah EP as the 3rd LP. Again a situation where I had been enjoying this on digital so grabbed it on vinyl when I saw the price.

 

Ramones-Road to Ruin
Peter Tosh-Mystic Man
John Coltrane-Blue Train (reissue)
Herbie Hancock-Empyrean Isles (reissue)
Gov't Mule-By a Thread
Jimmy Cliff-The Harder They Come Soundtrack
Frank Zappa-Orchestral Favorites
Dave Brubeck Quartet-Time Out
The Clash-This is Radio Clash/Outside Broadcast 12" single
The Vandals-Peace Thru Vandalism (reissue)
Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose-Self-titled

 

All lp's:
ELP Trilogy
Doobies S/T
Quicksilver Anthology
Til Tuesday Welcome Home
Mott The Hoople Greatest Hits
King Crimson In The Wake Of Poseidon
Fleetwood Mac Tusk

 

Filling out my Beatles mono collection with the 2014 AAA Please Please Me. Also my sixth copy of Dark Side of the Moon, added the 2016 version.

 

One dollar sealed



Best double-punch song list is "Big Mac", followed by "Diet". Nicely done.

 

Them Crooked Vultures

I had never heard of this 'super band'. I came across it in a thread on this forum about the Queens Of The Stone Age, who I really enjoy. Watched their live in Austin set on Youtube and ordered this right away...

 

The XX - I See You
Paul Weller - Paul Weller
Paul Weller - Wild Wood
Pink Floyd- The Final Cut
Pink Floyd- MLOR
All vinyl

 

Tom Petty - two vinyl box sets
The xx - I See You (deluxe vinyl)
Foxygen - Hang (deluxe vinyl)
Flaming Lips - Oczy Mlody (signed vinyl)
Spoon - per ordered new album

 

Motorhead: No Remorse, Iron Fist, Another Perfect Day, No Sleep 'til Hammersmith, Ace of Spades, Bastards, Self Titled (clear splattered vinyl) and Orgasmatron
Metallica- St. Anger
Death- Scream, Bloody Gore, Leprosy, Spirtual Healing, and The Sound of Perservance
Chicago- CTA I, II, III, IV (on order as of this writing), V, VI (on order), VII, VIII, IX, X (Quad!), XI (On order, my g/f got this one physically before I did), Hot Streets, 13, XIV (on order), Greatest Hits, Vol 2, 16, 17, 18 (on order)
Rocky I and IV OST's
Beverly Hills Cop OST
Alice Cooper DaDa
Star Wars Episodes IV-VI on gold vinyl
Iron Maiden- Can I Play with Madness and Infinite Dreams singles

Going to order Motorhead: Overkill, Rock n Roll, What's Words Worth, Bomber, and Chicago's 19 this coming Friday. When all is said and done I'll have 777 albums in my collection.

 

So far...

New vinyl:

Leonard Cohen- You Want It Darker
Wilco- Schmilco (pink vinyl)
Roger Waters- Amused to Death
Steven Wilson- Hand. Cannot. Erase.
The Mission- Another Fall From Grace

Used vinyl:

Elton John- Tumbleweed Connection (original UK pressing)
Elton John- Honky Château (original UK pressing)
Cat Stevens- Izitso (original UK pressing)

 

Only one so far. Van Morrison, Tupelo Honey. Used, US pressing.

 

Shopping in Ft. Lauderdale this week.

Just purchased a new 200-gram pressing of The Damned's Machine Gun Etiquette and the two Kinks 7-inch EPs released for the last Black Friday RSD from We Got the Beat Records.

Before that was Mose Allison's Hello There Universe, the Blasters Non Fiction and a promo copy of the Tubes Live (cleared for airplay) from Radio Active Records.

 

Only a couple of $1 records so far, both played nicely after a cleaning. Cher ST + a Rod Stewart & The Faces compilation.

 

Red hot - californication 2012 remaster
Red hot - by the way
The Lemon Twigs - Do Hollywood
Lana del Rey - ultraviolence
Lana del Rey - Honeymoon
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
The XX - I see you
Leonard Cohen - You want it darker

And preordered Dusty in Memphis for february

 

Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
Paul Weller - Wild Wood
The Wailers - Catch A Fire (original Jamaican version)
Frank Ocean - Blond
A Tribe Called Quest - We Got it From Here..Thank You for your Service
Jackie Mclean - Jackie's Bag (MM)
Freddie Hubbard - Ready for Freddie (MM)
Sun Ra - The Definitive 45's Collection (vol 1)

 

So far this month...

The Beatles - Let it Be...Naked (still sealed with 7")
William Bell - Bound to Happen (reissue)
William Bell - This is Where I Live
Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield Again (mono) (used)
Cymande (reissue)
C. Duncan - The Midnight Sun
Freddie Hubbard - Ready for Freddie (MM)
The Jam - About the Young Idea (colored vinyl)
The Jam - Live at Reading University 1979
The Kinks - Preservation, Act One (used)
The Kinks - Come Dancing with The Kinks (used)
The Last Shadow Puppets - "Standing Next to Me" 7" (used)
Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go box set
Jackie Mclean - Jackie's Bag (MM)
The Olympians
Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason (reissue)
Pixies - Doolittle (original UK pressing) (used)
Prince (reissue)
Prince - For You (reissue)
The Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me (reissue)
The Rolling Stones - It's Only Rock n Roll (used)
The Rollings Stones - Goat's Head Soup (used)
The Rollings Stones - Black and Blue (used)
The Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue (used)
The Rollings Stones - Exile on Main Street Half Speed Master
Skullsnaps (reissue)
The Sounds (reissue)
The Sounds - Dying to Say this to You (reissue)
Transporting soundtrack (reissue)