Topic: The Vinyl Thread

@Thrillho Hey dude, yeah I used to have Who's Next on CD, but I agree, it is definitely worth a vinyl purchase, it's fairly cheap online too! .I was going to listen to some of their more recent stuff, they released an album last year, have you heard it? I didn't listen to it because I thought to myself - what are The Who without Keith Moon?

@Thrillho Have you heard any Earth? I have Full Upon Her Burning Lips and The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull on vinyl, proggy, Sabbath-infused rock.

Found In the Aeroplane Over the Sea on vinyl for £10 in a charity shop today. While it’s the 2009 reissue and not an original, I’d still say that’s a pretty good find considering the album has reached semi-mythological status.

As part of my recent music haul, I picked up the Floating Points album on vinyl rather than CD as I quite liked the artwork. Good album too.

@Thrillho Good pick!

@Thrillho With regard to the Floating Points record, I have been listening to it on Spotify, and loving it, I'm planning to purchase it on vinyl at some later stage. It is a mixture of downbeat and more uptempo material, material that allows you to reflect and ponder, and music that lets you shake your hips about a bit, what do you reckon their intention was during the crafting of the album?

Weatherday/Sputnik confirmed on Twitter that they’re releasing Come In on vinyl, I’m stoked beyond all belief. Easily one of my favourite albums of last year and an essential lo-fi emo album.

@nessisonett I'll have to give that a listen, do you like any Wilco? Thought that 'Being There' might be up your street if you're into that sort of thing, or Yankee Hotel Foxtrot if you're looking for something a bit more leftfield. It's great that your record will become available on vinyl soon though, as you'll be able to enjoy it in a high-quality format.

@Draco_V_Ecliptic Yeah, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’s great but my favourite album of theirs is probably Summerteeth. Despite a whole lotta Country music being an unholy abomination, the alt-country movement from the late 90s and early 00s spawned some really great albums.

@nessisonett Yeah, especially from the camp of Jeff Tweedy and friends. Did you ever hear any Uncle Tupelo records? Know if they're worth a listen?

@Draco_V_Ecliptic Honestly, Uncle Tupelo are a band I haven’t really got round to yet. My personal favourite album from that sorta genre is Magnolia Electric Co by Songs Ohia. Now there’s an album where every song brings something to the table. And I have it on vinyl too!

@Kidfried I really liked A Sailor's Guide To Earth, did you hear Sound and Fury? That's supposed to be more rock n' roll isn't it? I'll give Uncle Tupelo a go then, they're first album is highly praised on the internet.

Country in general is quite good, I really like Dwight Yoakam, The Highwaymen, Waylon Jennings and Merle Haggard, Glen Campbell etc. do you like any of those?

Went on a bit of a spending spree on HHV, they've got a great selection!

Part 1 of the huge undertaking that is moving my vinyl collection from home to my new place! My compulsive need to sort things into alphabetical order is rather pointless here, as I’m just going to have to sort it again once I grab my next lot.

@nessisonett I am horrified at the lack of protective sleeves around those records

@Thrillho I’ve actually been meaning to get some 😂😂

@nessisonett Where do you get the protective sleeves from? I think the recent additions to your collection were really good choices. I, myself am feeling Kendrick Lamar at the moment in addition to Deftones and am interested in both artists' recent releases, as well as the classics from their back catalogs. What is your favorite record in your collection?

@nessisonett I've been cleaning the house in the last week, but I've put off touching the vinyl collection. I don't want to sort through all of it. But I have a bunch of new ones that I've been stacking on top the vinyl player, so I clearly need to make some space for those.

@Draco_V_Ecliptic You can buy them anywhere really.

@Octane What were the most notable records in your most recent haul?

@Draco_V_Ecliptic My local record store sells sleeves so I just get them there, despite probably being able to get them online for cheaper. Just make sure to get the softest plastic you can find! Back home, I have a signed copy of Pharoah Sanders’ Karma, the greatest spiritual jazz album of all time so that’s probably one of my favourites in my collection. I also have a numbered edition of F#A# infinity by Godspeed you Black Emperor so I guess I just like my original rare ones! In terms of music, I was really excited to get my hands on the Silent Hill 1+2 OSTs as well as Katamari Damacy as they feel like proper collector’s items. Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs was also a great album to snap up, I love those cowboy songs!
To Pimp a Butterfly sounds incredible on vinyl, by the way, as long as your set-up’s decent as the drums are seriously booming, especially on ‘The Blacker the Berry’. I don’t have any Deftones yet but I really like White Pony so I should get round to buying that as well as Around the Fur.