Too many to list

 

I have over 2000 singles on 7", Over 500 albums on vinyl and over a 1000 on 12", they are all in the attic.

Having grown up in the vinyl era, I too have a large collection (including Hounds of Love). I always preferred to buy singles on vinyl rather than CD even after I switched to CD for albums. Trouble is, that means I've got loads of singles which cannot easily and quickly be converted to MP3s.

I'm more a CD person, and I don't have many vinyl largely because our house got rid of our record player 5 years ago. Unfortunately, the hipster inside of my insists on buying vinyl anyway, and I've got:

 

Albums:

Maps - We Can Create (signed. I won this in a competition, and intend to frame it and put it on my wall next year)

Freiheit - Fantasy (their only album in English. The CD version seems to go for up to £50, so I opted for the cheaper vinyl option)

Every album by the Cure up to Disintegration - my neighbour heard I was a fan, so he gave me his collection, which included a Japanese import of 'The Top.' He also gave me several albums by All About Eve, The Shamen and U2's The Joshua Tree, but the less said about them the better)

 

Singles:

Not Squares - Yeah (a cool local band, I bought the 7' because it was for the Haiti appeal, and a far more rewarding experience that the Syco 'effort')

Randan Discotheque - Daily Record May 18th 1993 (a Scottish band, singing about what a paper reported 17 years ago)

Ghostwood - Red Version (this was in my top 10 singles of 2008)

Several Cure singles up to and including Lovesong (as above)

Keane - Spiralling & Lovers Are Losing (won these)

Teenage Fanclub - Star Sign (I was drunk and had access to a computer)

Vinyl is great because is so unreproducible. You can't just make a copy of a mates copy of an album like you can with cd, mp3 or even cassette.

Well that's not really true just takes a little bit more effort

 

Started buying vinyl again this year mainly old stuff that I never bought the first time round.

There's a shop near me that sells loads of old albums and 12" for a quid.

 

This year so far I have got

 

Simple Minds - Waterfront 12"

Spear of Destiny - The Epic Years

Prince - When Doves Cry 12"

Sylvian & Sakamoto - Forbidden Colours 12"

Japan - Visions of China 12"

Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place 12"

Altered Images - Love to Stay 12"

Altered Images - Bring Me Closer 12" & 12" Picture Disc

Talk Talk - It's My Life 1990 re-issue

Japan - All Tomorrow's Parties 12"

Carmel - Bad Day 7"

Toyah - Bird in Flight 7"

 

I didn't get a CD player til 1993 so everything I got before that was of course on vinyl.

I think that means about 500 7", 200 12" and about 750 albums. Haven't counted them for a very long time.

I'm more a CD person, and I don't have many vinyl largely because our house got rid of our record player 5 years ago. Unfortunately, the hipster inside of my insists on buying vinyl anyway, and I've got:

 

Albums:

Freiheit - Fantasy (their only album in English. The CD version seems to go for up to £50, so I opted for the cheaper vinyl option)

Does that have Keeping The Dream Alive on it? I've got the extended version on 12" single

It does, which is the reason why I bought it.

Keeping The Dream Alive is AMAZING :wub: The second most Beatlesy song of the 80s, behind Tears For Fears - Sowing The Seeds Of Love.

I have less than 20 records on vinyl now ... apart from my ELO collection, a Louis Clark album, a Harry Chapin Live, a picture disc of Level 42 and 12" Bat Out of Hell (on blood-red vinyl) ... I got rid of all of my records at boot fairs ... along with my entire collection of Star Trek TNG videos!

 

Norma

 

And how could I forget ... my Idle Race album!

Edited August 13, 201014 yr by Norma_Snockers

Wow, I didn't think that there'd be so much love for Keeping the Dream Alive, I'd thought that it was a relatively obscure song. I think it sounds more like something you'd find on a 40s Disney soundtrack.

 

For anyone who's wondering what we're talking about, here's the creepy video for it:

 

 

I adore that song ... but it really is more Jeff Lynne than Jeff Lynne! That ain't a bad thing though.

 

Norma

 

Wow, I didn't think that there'd be so much love for Keeping the Dream Alive, I'd thought that it was a relatively obscure song. I think it sounds more like something you'd find on a 40s Disney soundtrack.

 

For anyone who's wondering what we're talking about, here's the creepy video for it:

It's a brilliant song. The 12" version is even better with the wonderful OTT ending.

Carmel - Bad Day 7"

 

FANTASTIC single.

 

Charity shops are brilliant for vinyl bargains - our local one had the whole Kate Bush back catalogue, which I have anyway, but I re-bought them all for £2 each - and they're all like new, absolutely mint and unplayed! Bargain....

 

I like the re-issues around now, too, the 180g vinyl editions - The Smiths albums have recently all been re-issued on heavyweight vinyl and also as 12" picture discs - and in the 90s, WEA reissued them all as 10" albums which were rather nice and very limited - I have The Queen Is Dead and Strangeways. The Smiths stuff is always worth getting on vinyl if only for the beautiful artwork.

 

Another band whose vinyl I always get because each cover is a complete work of art is UNKLE - especially the War Stories era. Pretty collectible, too. And musically excellent, of course ;)

It's a brilliant song. The 12" version is even better with the wonderful OTT ending.

 

 

It's very McCartney-esque.

 

Is this the 12"?

 

Edited August 14, 201014 yr by Sinner

It's very McCartney-esque.

 

Is this the 12"?

That's the one, false ending and all :D

I DJ'd at an 80s party recently so have loads of LPs/12" vinyl that I borrowed from my Mum and Dad's collection which was sitting in the attic.

Too many to list but the highlights include:

 

The Undertones "The Undertones" (s/t debut)

Blondie "Parallel Lines"

The Clash "London Calling"

Siouxsie and the Banshees "Once Upon A Time / The Singles"

Jam "Sound Affects"

The Human League "Dare"

Stiff Little Fingers "Nobody's Heroes"

 

All in pretty mint condition too, and sound great!

 

 

I also have a few hundred 7" vinyl from 2003 to date, most of which are singles I bought at the time - but collections as well as I buy (or try to buy) every single that makes it to number 1 on my personal chart. I'm more of a CD person though, I have thousands of those lying around the flat at the moment, I desperately need to get some storage sorted out!

YES! You guys rock I run a record shop in Bournemouth so people like your fine selves are pretty much my reason for being :D I spend 4-5 days a week surrounded by vinyl, and can't imagine anything better. If any of you are ever in the Dorset vicinity, pop in and see me!

Working in a record shop is like my dream job tbh, theres just something special about it. and you get to talk about music all day.

Working in a record shop is like my dream job tbh, theres just something special about it. and you get to talk about music all day.

 

It was always my dream job too, I'd wanted to do it for years and years, ever since I left school. Things only really started to happen for me when I moved 3 years ago though, I found Berkshire (Wokingham in particular) very frustrating in terms of opportunities. You should come work with me, you're only a couple of counties away :D The only bad side of running a record shop is that you get chancers coming in trying to sell you piles of utter crap for something ridiculous like a couple of hundred quid, when it's three dozen country & western compilations on budget labels <_<

 

It was always my dream job too, I'd wanted to do it for years and years, ever since I left school. Things only really started to happen for me when I moved 3 years ago though, I found Berkshire (Wokingham in particular) very frustrating in terms of opportunities. You should come work with me, you're only a couple of counties away :D The only bad side of running a record shop is that you get chancers coming in trying to sell you piles of utter crap for something ridiculous like a couple of hundred quid, when it's three dozen country & western compilations on budget labels <_<

 

I know Wokingham very well actually, used to live there (I live in Twyford, you may know it if you used to live in Wokingham), can't imagine too many people caring for a record shop, The Sound Machine in Reading is the only one around here I know and it's even smaller than your average record shop and doesnt seem to get too much interest. I think Bournemouth might be a bit far for me to come and work lol, although I do really need a job right now. I imagine one big downside is making a decent amount of money (i dont see it too much about money, more spreading music, but you still need to make enough to run a shop and live), You should tell people who try to sell you $h!t to use ebay.

Working in a record shop is like my dream job tbh, theres just something special about it. and you get to talk about music all day.

 

Holy Christ, we've got something in common. I applied at Music And Video Exchange in Notting Hill a few months ago but they turned me down :( Likewise HMV. I worked in the record department of my local Woolies when they still existed, but it's not the same :nocheer: