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dorium posted:so every techno record I've ever bought lol. Tho i do find some tracks that play better slow/fast. I just put the speed the album is meant to be played on a tiny sticker and leave it on the outer sleeve now. Yeah, that's half the fun. Realizing after a track has been on for like 20 minutes that it was meant to be at 45. But it's too late at that point, the track is ingrained in your mind as a downtempo/chill with just the right amount of ambient. hexwren posted:the part of that that really gets me is when all the track names are on one side of the record and there's just a graphic label on the other side - my instinct is to put the track-name side on first, but that's usually side b I like the ones that just say "this side" and "that side"
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hexwren posted:in unrelated news, gently caress anyone who presses a record but doesn't make it blindingly clear what speed it's meant to run at Actually, the cooler thing to do is to have a record like this: quote:"Multi Axis, Multi Speed. Soundtracks designed for play at 16, 33, 45, and 78. Engineered to permit remixing at home. Maximal volume suggested. This record is absolutely unbreakable."
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# ? Apr 30, 2020 00:13 |
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Wasn’t 16 exclusively used by radio stations for playing back recorded programs in the days before magnetic tape? Nobody has a turntable with 16, right?
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I like the ones that just say "this side" and "that side" My favorite is when side 1/A and 4/D are on one disc and side 2/B and 3/C are on the other, though it is pretty rare it happens.
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Hey, speaking of overpriced classic rock albums why are all old pressings of 70s Neil Young albums so expensive? I was looking to replace my copy of Tonight's the Night which is a mid/late 2000s reissue (from before the fancy pants one he put out fiveish years ago) because it's a terrible pressing. All kinds of crackles despite not being scratched at all. Any and all vintage copies are about 25 bucks on the low end. Many of them are considerably more expensive. What's up with that?hexwren posted:the part of that that really gets me is when all the track names are on one side of the record and there's just a graphic label on the other side - my instinct is to put the track-name side on first, but that's usually side b I have a copy of Joy Division's Closer and a previous owner wrote a and b on the inner sleeve with the track listings. Except they were wrong about which side was which. pwn posted:
I've never even seen a 16 RPM record in all my years of collecting. From what I know that speed was used mainly for non-music like lectures, interviews, and instructional recordings. CPL593H fucked around with this message at 00:55 on Apr 30, 2020 |
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CPL593H posted:Hey, speaking of overpriced classic rock albums why are all old pressings of 70s Neil Young albums so expensive? I was looking to replace my copy of Tonight's the Night which is a mid/late 2000s reissue (from before the fancy pants one he put out fiveish years ago) because it's a terrible pressing. All kinds of crackles despite not being scratched at all. Any and all vintage copies are about 25 bucks on the low end. Many of them are considerably more expensive. What's up with that? On second thought, I think I may have been confusing 16 RPM with 16” records w/r/t radio station use. Either way, both are obscure formats I received a big box of goodness from Needlejuice Records. Some of you may know that it is run by Goon weirdojace, and their first release was that crazy King Gizzard record from 2017 (their fourth record that year,) for which they freely released the vinyl and CD masters so that anyone could press their own copies. Needlejuice had a swell sale on what would have been RSD weekend, and I bought a few items I’d been eyeballing the past couple years. I like having multiple formats, and the CDs and tapes were really cheap. I appreciate the inclusion of a virgin hype sticker ♥️
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Booo, I wanted some poo poo on there but wasn't buying it because of the prices.
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# ? Apr 30, 2020 01:41 |
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CPL593H posted:I've never even seen a 16 RPM record in all my years of collecting.
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CPL593H posted:Hey, speaking of overpriced classic rock albums why are all old pressings of 70s Neil Young albums so expensive? I was looking to replace my copy of Tonight's the Night which is a mid/late 2000s reissue (from before the fancy pants one he put out fiveish years ago) because it's a terrible pressing. All kinds of crackles despite not being scratched at all. Any and all vintage copies are about 25 bucks on the low end. Many of them are considerably more expensive. What's up with that? The Ditch trilogy is always at raised prices. I think it didn’t sell great so there were less copies? At least that’s what I’ve always heard. I have two copies of Unknown Pleasures, one of which has the labels flipped, so I’ll literally never know which side I’m supposed to be putting on.
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pwn posted:
Some 60s turntables had a setting for 16 even though it was a hardly used out of date format even then, and that record came out in 1979 so there probably would have been a few floating around at the time.
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pwn posted:
That's on a crappy BSR changer I have.
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The Senator Giroux posted:The Ditch trilogy is always at raised prices. I think it didn’t sell great so there were less copies? At least that’s what I’ve always heard. Yeah I checked out that album on discogs and it doesn't have 90 million pressings like his more popular albums but even stuff like Harvest and after the Gold Rush are going to 20-30 bucks. It's not like either of those are in short supply. I was lucky enough to score a copy of On the Beach a few years back at a flea market. I got it with an early UK press of Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegtables and a couple other cheap records for thrity bucks all together so it was a good score. I also picked up Time Fades Away for about five bucks but that was about ten years ago. With that people are charging for the old releases I might as well just get some of those reissues because they're actually cheaper if you buy them used and Neil Young is a huge audio nerd so I'm sure they're good.
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Wiggity posted:My favorite is when side 1/A and 4/D are on one disc and side 2/B and 3/C are on the other, though it is pretty rare it happens. My least favorite is when you get a single white label that just says "C" and you're like "WHAT THE gently caress IS THIS?" because you don't know how many records are actually in the set.
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wa27 posted:
Mine’s from one of those old school (literally) turntables used in classrooms back in the 70s and 80s.
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The Senator Giroux posted:The Ditch trilogy is always at raised prices. I think it didn’t sell great so there were less copies? At least that’s what I’ve always heard.
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Wiggity posted:My favorite is when side 1/A and 4/D are on one disc and side 2/B and 3/C are on the other, though it is pretty rare it happens.
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Darthemed posted:No run-out etchings? There are, it’s more that I have two copies and at the time didn’t realize the labels are messed up so I would grab one and get really confused. I put the wrong one in storage so I wouldn’t. Plus, there’s a lot of weird stuff with Unknown Pleasures and it doesn’t help that the sides are labeled Inside and Outside, and that the labels get flipped sometimes. Note on one pressing: “Side A is Outside (black label) and Side B is Inside (white label). Outside and Inside got mixed up by the (unknown) metalworker, assigning Outside to B and Inside to A in the runouts.”
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pwn posted:On second thought, I think I may have been confusing 16 RPM with 16” records w/r/t radio station use. Either way, both are obscure formats I actually didn't know Needlejuice was run by a goon but I did buy that Sunday Television album awhile back and it's pretty decent.
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I'm not sure why Neil Young's records are expensive online, maybe he's considered the godfather of audiophiles or something? For as many copies of Harvest that sold back in the day I rarely see it while crate digging. It took me years to even find a copy (in the wild) that wasn't trashed and under $25. You can get lucky though. I found On The Beach and Zuma for $5 each at an antique mall last year. I want thrift stores and dirt malls to open up again
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Boinks posted:I'm not sure why Neil Young's records are expensive online, maybe he's considered the godfather of audiophiles or something? That's the thing about Harvest. I can't even guess how many copies I've seen all over the place but they always look like someone used it as a frisbee in a parking lot. Still that album probably sold a few million copies so I doubt good copies are a rarity. My guess as to why the prices are so high is the same as everything else: boomers. I did find a nice pristine copy at a flea market a few years back and I asked the guy to hold onto it for me until I came back the next week which he said he would do. Then he sold it anyway.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/28/arts/music/electric-recording-co-vinyl.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=curquote:In making “Mozart à Paris,” for example, a near-perfect simulacrum of a deluxe 1956 box set, Hutchison spent months scouring London’s haberdashers to find the right strand of silk for a decorative cord. The seven-disc set is Electric Recording’s most expensive title, at about $3,400 — and one of the few in its catalog that has not sold out.
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My PUSA vinyl shipped. That must the the quickest kickstarter end -> time to ship in history.
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The Walrus posted:My PUSA vinyl shipped. That must the the quickest kickstarter end -> time to ship in history. I got mine a week ago, I was floored by how quick it showed up.
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CPL593H posted:I've never even seen a 16 RPM record in all my years of collecting. From what I know that speed was used mainly for non-music like lectures, interviews, and instructional recordings. I mean you could arguably play most of Earths stuff at 16 rpm but there’s also this https://www.discogs.com/Earth-Untitled/release/916084
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THIS IS VERY COOL INFORMATION.
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# ? Apr 30, 2020 23:19 |
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Cool. Sleepy time gorilla museum put on a rad show back in the day
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CPL593H posted:But think of how much you can inflate the prices of these records on eBay if most people are afraid to leave the house! But but but the Odds and Sods re-release has a bonus extended cut of my favorite song! We'll have to wait and see how the whole covid thing shakes out when it gets closer to Record Store Day, but it has made me rethink how much do I reeeeeeally want that Parish Hall reissue, especially since I already got a decent boot CD of it. Sucks because this was the first year I was going to attend it. Speaking of, new stuff! I finally got the Windwaker Soundtrack CD, and chose this one over the Windwaker HD Sound Selection version from Club Nintendo for a couple of reasons. First the above one is two discs of all the game music including little 10 second clips like item fanfares and such whereas the the Sound Selection is just that: a curated collection of the longer songs of the game. Secondly a big US based eBay seller happened to have this new at the magic $40 price point. A good thing since word on the street is Japan has temporarily suspended EMS shipping to America so importing stuff will be a bigger pain for a while. And as a bonus I now have this guy to stare at me from the shelf: I like this silly cover art way too much.
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I was getting something from a seller on discogs and took a look at what else they had and saw a 1970s Japanese reissue of Sonny Rollins’ Rollins Plays For Bird, complete with OBI strip and moon language liner notes. The price: less than $10 because the seller said it was warped. I was willing to take a chance and see how badly warped it was, considering other copies of the record are north of $30. Packaging looks great for a 40+ year old import. As for that warp? Compare with that Stephen Arnold record I posted on the last page and see for yourself. Conclusion: well spent Ballz fucked around with this message at 01:00 on May 1, 2020 |
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Ballz posted:OBI strip I don't know how this started but I see it everywhere and I loving hate it. obi is a word, not an acronym
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My nerd record store day rant is that they never released the Anamanaguchi Scott Pilgrim video game soundtrack after that and it is stupidly expensive.
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Turbinosamente posted:And as a bonus I now have this guy to stare at me from the shelf: Oh hey, have you seen Lisztomania? If you like Roger Daltrey you'll love that movie.
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CPL593H posted:Oh hey, have you seen Lisztomania? If you like Roger Daltrey you'll love that movie. I finally did see it and I did not like it actually, Tommy the movie is way better. Largely didn't like Lisztomania because it went way off the rails in like the last quarter and the writing wasn't great to begin with. The acting however was fine, including from Daltrey himself, so I blame Ken Russell's script. Still nabbed a copy of the soundtrack on vinyl though and am kinda hoping it works out like the soundtrack to Flash Gordon in that it's better without the movie in front of you as a distraction. Pope Ringo was a brilliant idea though, makes me laugh a bit when I think about it.
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Turbinosamente posted:I finally did see it and I did not like it actually, Tommy the movie is way better. Largely didn't like Lisztomania because it went way off the rails in like the last quarter and the writing wasn't great to begin with. The acting however was fine, including from Daltrey himself, so I blame Ken Russell's script. Still nabbed a copy of the soundtrack on vinyl though and am kinda hoping it works out like the soundtrack to Flash Gordon in that it's better without the movie in front of you as a distraction. Pope Ringo was a brilliant idea though, makes me laugh a bit when I think about it. You are the President of Wrongsylvania because Flash Gordon rules.
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CPL593H posted:You are the President of Wrongsylvania because Flash Gordon rules. Guess I'll have to be, that movie was played too straight for my tastes, sorry.
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Turbinosamente posted:I finally did see it and I did not like it actually, Tommy the movie is way better. Largely didn't like Lisztomania because it went way off the rails in like the last quarter and the writing wasn't great to begin with. The acting however was fine, including from Daltrey himself, so I blame Ken Russell's script. Still nabbed a copy of the soundtrack on vinyl though and am kinda hoping it works out like the soundtrack to Flash Gordon in that it's better without the movie in front of you as a distraction. Pope Ringo was a brilliant idea though, makes me laugh a bit when I think about it. Rick Wakeman didn't really like the final product, it seems, and released one of the rear end ugliest album covers to be found of his own version, based on master tapes he found in his garage.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Rick Wakeman didn't really like the final product, it seems, and released one of the rear end ugliest album covers to be found of his own version, based on master tapes he found in his garage. I thought the link was going to be this cover which is almost as ugly. I thought about getting his more complete CD version but it can be a bit difficult to find, and I'm not in the mood to import at the moment, so I opted for the more available original record.
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Turbinosamente posted:Guess I'll have to be, that movie was played too straight for my tastes, sorry. That movie was absolutely not played straight. It's campy as gently caress and most of the actors look like they're having a good time particularly Max Von Sydow (who outright said he took the role because it would be fun), Timothy Dalton, and Brian Blessed. RC and Moon Pie posted:Rick Wakeman didn't really like the final product, it seems, and released one of the rear end ugliest album covers to be found of his own version, based on master tapes he found in his garage. You know what's a really good Rick Wakeman score? Crimes of Passion. The movie also rules and if you like incredibly sleazy movies it's a must see. Anthony Perkins is in it and he plays a deranged street preacher who's always high on poppers. To really get into the role he went method and did a shitload of poppers when they were making the movie. Kathleen Turner plays a prostitute and in one scene she sodomizes a cop with his own nightstick. But even without the movie the soundtrack album is really good.
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Whoa, not sure how long it's been the case but Badbadnotgood has their collab album with Ghostface up on their Bandcamp. Today's also another day that Bandcamp is waiving revenue sharing, so give your favorite starving musician some money!
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Speaking of Bandcamp, the new MAN MAN album is out https://manmanbandband.bandcamp.com/album/dream-hunting-in-the-valley-of-the-in-between
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It was pretty weird to wake up today and find myself in a promo video for the new Man Man album, but I'll take my street cred wherever I can get it.
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