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I have a pile of old vinyl records on the attic.
I don't have a turntable and I don't want one.

But after getting triggered by a conversation recently, and being inspired by the book 1001 Movie Posters, I carried them downstairs, made a photo of each cover and created a playlist in Spotify.

Having a blast playing that old material, re-living memories.
And although I don't want to be "that one", yes, they made better music in the past and I really like the covers.

Now that I have the pics, I might as well post them here. See what you recognize and tell stories if you have them.

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I only have the ONJ from these... :sweatsmile: (and Totally Hot -- a killer LP)
I may only have about 50 LPs and made tons of cassettes more from library LPs...

Oops, I have the ABBA and Queen ones too.
Thx for supporting Urbanus ;)
 
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Holy Mackerel...I thought I'd never ever see a vinyl copy of Todd Rundgren's Utopia Another Live album. That takes me back to Hoboken, New Jersey 1976 and my 1st stint in engineering college at Stevens Tech. One of my dorm mates was a huge Rundgren fan and lit me up...During our late freshman year we rode the Long Island Expressway out to Montauk to some medium-sized music hall. The bunch of us from 3rd floor east dorm bundled onto the train and rode/walked 2-¼ hours each way. It was during Todd's RA tour with his custom ankh guitar and Egyptian theme.

Although less so a Todd fan today, my modest Rundgren collection receives airplay fairly often.

One item of note I didn't see...was wondering if you ever picked up a copy of Jethro Tull's Songs from the Wood? With your significant Tull collection present, was curious as to why SFTW wasn't there...
 
I had over a thousand LP's at one time, but once CD's came along, I gave away about 80% of them to friends. Your post makes me remember that I need to go dig through the storage boxes and see what LP's I kept. I haven't checked in decades.
 
Drama, Thick As A Brick, Houses of the Holy, Nursery Rhymes and Pictures from an Exhibition all trigger some strong memories - like picturing the places I first listen to them :D Thanks!
 
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Well, thanks for making me aware that there was a Steve Morse Band before Kansas!

Somehow I thought the Southern Steel album was the first one...
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Check out Janne Schaffer too. He was the guitar player for ABBA “but” with chops to kill for.
 
I have been collecting LP's since the 90's. Not so much anymore. i have arount 450 some worth a good bit of money and have two turntables in the house. I have gotten to the point that I have been playing and recording so much that I don't have or make time to listen to them. There is nothing like dropping the needle on some great sounding wax though. Will always be my favorite format. Glad it's making a comeback.
 
yek said:
I have a pile of old vinyl records on my attic.
I don't have a turntable and I don't want one.

But after getting triggered by a conversation recently, and being inspired by the book 1001 Movie Posters, I carried them downstairs, made a photos of each cover and created a playlist in Spotify.
Having a blast playing old that old material, re-living memories.
And although I don't want to be "that one", yes, they made better music in the past and I really like the covers.

Now I have the pics, I might as well post them here. See what you can recognize and tell stories if you have them.

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We have a lot of similar tastes.

When CDs came out I kept my albums for a while, then they got moved to the garage, which, here in Phoenix, is a lousy place to store vinyl so after several summers they warped but I didn't really care because I'd purchased the CD versions. (I'd worked in high-end stereo sales for a couple years, and we couldn't wait to get rid of vinyl.)

And, of course, I eventually ripped my CDs to my drive and an iPod then a replacement iPod then the streaming services showed up and I eventually switched to those when they began remastering albums. Now, there are versions that are so much better sounding than the original albums that I have no interest in going back.

And, yeah, they don't write songs like that anymore.

PS - Steven Wilson got his hands on master tapes from King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Yes, Gentle Giant, and many others and did a great job remixing them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Wilson_discography#Album_remixes
 
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If I had all the money I spent on 8 tracks, records, cassette tapes, CDs, just to not have a way to play them and get ride of them. Ain't evolution great. Let's not even think about beta, VHS, DVD, blue ray, and that video thing that was similar to records that I forgot what it was called.
 
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