Anyone have any interesting vinyl?

Irish Guitarist

Does anyone here own any interesting records? By interesting I mean either vinyl that looks a bit different than the usual black or a record that has some kind of interesting novelty factor in the way it plays. For instance the run out groove on the original Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band album kept repeating in an endless loop (this was in the days when the tone arm on record players didn't automatically lift up when it came to the end of a record).

Back in 1992 I bought the seven inch single of Something Good by Utah Saints. While I no longer have any interest in dance music I still think the b side was an interesting novelty. It was a track which could be played at either 33 1/3 RPM or 45 RPM, depending on how fast or slow a track you wanted to hear.

Also in 1992 I bought a couple of singles by Faith No More. One was A Small Victory and the other was Midlife Crisis. The former was on yellow vinyl and the latter was on blue vinyl.

rcaz

I've got a few Flaming Lips albums on coloured vinyl, they're mad for coloured pressings, even their first ever EP was coloured. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots is on transparent pink vinyl, I've got a repressing of Oh My Gawd!!! on clear vinyl (which makes listening to a particular track really hard 'cause you can see the grooves from the other side as well as the top side), Hear It Is on white vinyl, but my favourite is an original pressing of Clouds Taste Metallic on transparent green vinyl, apparently it's a rare enough one and I got it at a fair for €20, chuffed with myself.

I'm not one of those hardcore vinyl nerd original pressing fiends, but since you asked :pac:

Technocentral

Have a few pic discs and coloured vinyls, favourites are:







and:



Missed out on this on ebay recently, is luminous (glow in the dark) 12" of neon lights by Kraftwerk:

I have Nirvana's Bleach on White Vinyl, used to have a much bigger collection with interesting things, but it got nicked

ItsAWindUp

I've got The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths

Sinfonia

I've got the Limited Edish Lateralus:
(Picture is from Google Images, but it looks the same!)


Got something in red and something else in white, can't remember what they are though, and a transparent green Dark Side of the Moon.

The coolest that I have is probably Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do (Sigur Rós): the music fits on one side of the disc, so on the flip side it just has carved choreography stickman figure things.. Sorta looks like this, except the figures are carved in, rather than white:

Technocentral

Deleted User wrote: »

I have Nirvana's Bleach on White Vinyl, used to have a much bigger collection with interesting things, but it got nicked

That would have killed me!

rcaz

Sinfonia wrote: »

The coolest that I have is probably Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do (Sigur Rós): the music fits on one side of the disc, so on the flip side it just has carved choreography stickman figure things.. Sorta looks like this, except the figures are carved in, rather than white

Ooh, my Dad has Takk on double vinyl which comes with a third 45rpm with the same deal, a picture engraved on the B side. Really cool idea.

Technocentral

Sinfonia wrote: »

I've got the Limited Edish Lateralus:
(Picture is from Google Images, but it looks the same!)


Got something in red and something else in white, can't remember what they are though, and a transparent green Dark Side of the Moon.

The coolest that I have is probably Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do (Sigur Rós): the music fits on one side of the disc, so on the flip side it just has carved choreography stickman figure things.. Sorta looks like this, except the figures are carved in, rather than white:

That Sigur Ros one sounds cool, its hard to engrave things on the oul mp3s on the other hand.

rcaz

Technocentral wrote: »

That Sigur Ros one sounds cool, its hard to engrave things on the oul mp3s on the other hand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9xMuPWAZW8

Skip to 5:30

reap-a-rat

I have a Rice Crispies vinyl at home. I'll dig it out and upload a pick the next time I'm there. I can't remember what's on it though, I just remember it from my childhood

Technocentral

El Pr0n wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9xMuPWAZW8

Skip to 5:30

Yeah well its hard to use mp3's as frisbees.:)

Technocentral

Also have this, it came free with NME in 2007, single sided 7" with etching on b side and space for the other 7" (Icky Thump) which you had to buy. Nice idea, NME should do more of them.

discobeaker

Probably the coolest one of my records is a copy of "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" by The Beastie Boys. Its a clear 7" single with a crashed plane sticking out the sides of it. Hopefully the picture has attached ok

delbertgrady

Monty Python's Matching Tie and Handkerchief LP (1973)
I've an original pressing of this. "Side Two" has a double groove, so depending on where the needle lands, you get a totally different set of material. Of course, this can be infuriating if you really want to hear one batch of jokes and the needle keeps landing in the "wrong" groove.



Also, on early issues of Another Monty Python Record (1971), the closing sketch (a spoof documentary) on Side One involves The Piranha Brothers, East End gangsters, played by Michael Palin and Terry Jones. At the end, they get into a scuffle with voice of authority, John Cleese, when they want the documentary to end. The last bit is Michael Palin saying, "Sorry, squire, I've scratched the record", but it's in a locked groove, so the record runs out with Palin's voice repeating "scratched the record, scratched the record, scratched the record..." ad infinitum. Or until you lift the needle. Subsequent editions just had the line repeated a few times, and the novelty of the vinyl version was completely lost on CD.

Android 666

I bought this when it came out 20 years ago



And I have the Jesus Christ Pose Etched disk which is basically this image etched on the bside:



And that's about it

Temaz

Original Dylan albums from the 60's, Doors albums, Hendrix albums

All from my Dad's collection!!

Irish Guitarist

reap-a-rat wrote: »

I have a Rice Crispies vinyl at home. I'll dig it out and upload a pick the next time I'm there. I can't remember what's on it though, I just remember it from my childhood

I had one of those. I remember it was a flexi disc (paper thin vinyl) stuck to the outside of the box.

Executive Steve

Great thread!

here's a great site for lovers of rare coloured / picture disc vinyl :

http://12in.ch/ (see what they did there?)

Riesen_Meal

Recently I got this as a birthday present, I just love 10" vinyl, especially clear vinyl.....



I have loads more at home, but thats my most recent "cool vinyl"

Executive Steve

I 10" vinyl.

I've got a neeeearly full set of releases on a Dutch dubstep / dub techno label called Tube10, some of them are beautiful, each one a differently shaded clear or coloured 10", cracking tunes as well, obviously. Not too many pictures online though.

Executive Steve

Instra:Mental and Nico 10" picture disc on the Exit Records Aptitude series; limited run of 300 hand numbered in a double sleeve with two sheets of stickers included. Could only get my hands on one copy at the time, but it's a great record that looks amazeballs.

Executive Steve

And even though the tunes were cheesy as hell I had to buy the remixes of Adam F - "Kaos" for the 2 x 12" picture discs.

Sacksian

Great idea for a thread! I sort of collect 7"s from small indie record labels so, in the interests of time, I've picked just 3 interesting examples - otherwise I would be here all day! Apologies for the quality of the pictures..

The first is both unusual and pretty rare - Neutral Milk Hotel: Holland, 1945 on Blue Rose. Brilliant picture disc on Side A



And then Side B is a sort of dice...



And the sleeve is a board game!



I have the NMH - Everything Is 7" too, which might be rarer, but not very pretty to look at.

Next choice is also quite unusual. It's pink vinyl - not particularly interesting, but the sleeve folds out into a polka dot dress! - The Pipettes: Judy (on Total Gaylord Records) -



The splatter on this is beautiful and it's one of my favourite records to boot - Spacemen 3: Walking With Jesus - on the short-lived Earworm Gold series.



The cool thing about the label on the record is that aligns up with the outer sleeve, as shown in the image below!



This is one that I pressed myself - Suburban Kids with Biblical Names - Marry Me 7" on pink vinyl….

SilverScreen

^ Holy crap that Spacemen 3 vinyl looks awesome.

I've nothing too interesting in my vinyl collection unfortunately, just regular old vinyl.

mike65

I only have one picture disk - Megadeth - So Far So Good So What? And the odd slightly limited edition sleeve ie a numbered gatefold. Nothing of real interest.

Oh I do have Tommy Bolin The Ultimate LP set which contains a 12 x 12 24 page book which is rare now but the vinyl is bog standard black.

Executive Steve

Sacksian wrote: »

Great idea for a thread! I sort of collect 7"s from small indie record labels so, in the interests of time, I've picked just 3 interesting examples - otherwise I would be here all day! Apologies for the quality of the pictures..

You should submit them to http://12in.ch man, they're trying to build an archive of cool / pretty / interesting coloured / shaped / pic disc vinyl from all over the world and right across genre...

Lovely stuff there by the way, that board game one looks incredible.

Technocentral

Sacksian wrote: »

Great idea for a thread! I sort of collect 7"s from small indie record labels so, in the interests of time, I've picked just 3 interesting examples - otherwise I would be here all day! Apologies for the quality of the pictures..



This is one that I pressed myself - Suburban Kids with Biblical Names - Marry Me 7" on pink vinyl….

You win hands down so far! When you say "pressed myself" did you work in a vinyl pressing plant or do it at home or what, I'm intrigued?

Sacksian

Executive Steve wrote: »

You should submit them to http://12in.ch man, they're trying to build an archive of cool / pretty / interesting coloured / shaped / pic disc vinyl from all over the world and right across genre...

Lovely stuff there by the way, that board game one looks incredible.

Cheers - yeah, I had a look at the 12in.ch site (great url!) but they do seem to be all 12" records, rather than 7" ones. I'll check back again and see if I can create an account and if they do 7" records. That Instra:Mental and Nico 10" of yours looks fantastic!

One more for the thread: Ma Cherie for Painting - Salut Salut on Earworm - single-sided, clear glittered vinyl!

Sacksian

Technocentral wrote: »

When you say "pressed myself" did you work in a vinyl pressing plant or do it at home or what, I'm intrigued?

Ha - no, I put it out - didn't actually (literally) press it myself!

Technocentral

Sacksian wrote: »

Cheers - yeah, I had a look at the 12in.ch site (great url!) but they do seem to be all 12" records, rather than 7" ones. I'll check back again and see if I can create an account and if they do 7" records. That Instra:Mental and Nico 10" of yours looks fantastic!

One more for the thread: Ma Cherie for Painting - Salut Salut on Earworm - single-sided, clear glittered vinyl!

Nothing compares to vinyl for music listening and aesthetic appreciation, sparkly opaque CD's and Mp3's just don't compare .

Sacksian

Technocentral wrote: »

Nothing compares to vinyl for music listening and aesthetic appreciation, sparkly opaque CD's and Mp3's just don't compare .

I definitely agree with you about vinyl but, as it happens, coloured vinyl is generally considered to be ****ter than normal black vinyl and transparent vinyl for sound quality (more surface noise apparently), not sure what the science is but there's a good link here:

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/mastering-forum/381089-colored-clear-vinyl-vs-standard-black.html

Technocentral

Sacksian wrote: »

I definitely agree with you about vinyl but, as it happens, coloured vinyl is generally considered to be ****ter than normal black vinyl and transparent vinyl for sound quality (more surface noise apparently), not sure what the science is but there's a good link here:

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/mastering-forum/381089-colored-clear-vinyl-vs-standard-black.html

Yeah I was aware of that theory , funny how a colour could affect sound quality, though having said that the coloured stuff I have sounds as good as the black vinyl (direct comparison: Decades by Joy Division I have on a green vinyl 7" which plays at 33 rpm sounds exactly the same as it does on my 1980 copy of Closer, so go figure.)

julio_iglayzis

Dinosaur Jr had some interesting etchings on the flip side of their "Just like heaven" single -



The kings of splatter vinyl, the Brian Jonestown Massacre -





Very nice picture disc from Mr Sonic Youth -



And finally, Sigur Ros really know how to put together an amazing looking product - the vinyl version of Takk is on two 12 inches and one 10 inch, with this on the flip side -

Technocentral

julio_iglayzis wrote: »

Dinosaur Jr had some interesting etchings on the flip side of their "Just like heaven" single -

Some lovely stuff there, btw is that your Audio Technica deck, was thinking of getting one for home use, how would you rate them?

julio_iglayzis

Technocentral wrote: »

Some lovely stuff there, btw is that your Audio Technica deck, was thinking of getting one for home use, how would you rate them?

Yup, that's mine, I got it off insound.com a few years back, and I'd highly recommend it. The sound is fantastic and the its overall "feel" is great too, the thing is built like a tank.
They seem to have attached USB leads onto the current model, which is handy if that's your thing.
http://www.insound.com/AT-LP120USB-Turntable-Turntable-Audio-Technica/P/INS72319/
Be careful with customs charges nowadays though, everything I've ordered off insound in recent times has been hit with them.

Technocentral

julio_iglayzis wrote: »

Yup, that's mine, I got it off insound.com a few years back, and I'd highly recommend it. The sound is fantastic and the its overall "feel" is great too, the thing is built like a tank.
They seem to have attached USB leads onto the current model, which is handy if that's your thing.
http://www.insound.com/AT-LP120USB-Turntable-Turntable-Audio-Technica/P/INS72319/
Be careful with customs charges nowadays though, everything I've ordered off insound in recent times has been hit with them.

Cheers, I have no interest in mp3's but I'm going to get one of those decks.

beng128

Nothing too interesting myself, just this red Blood Sugar Sex Magik



Been reading this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unusual_types_of_gramophone_records And there's some crazy shit out there.

This especially:

Chocolate has even been used to produce promotional recordings that could be eaten once the record had been played

dickdasterly

Technocentral wrote: »

Nothing compares to vinyl for music listening and aesthetic appreciation, sparkly opaque CD's and Mp3's just don't compare .

Love the big Amanita Muscaria Mushroom!

Irish Guitarist

I bought the last Johnny Cash album on vinyl a few days ago. I didn't even realise until I removed it from the shrink wrap that it was on clear vinyl.





Unfortunately I also noticed that whoever put the record in the sleeve did a crap job and creased the corner of the inner sleeve.

Technocentral

Presented by Paul Morley.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ckmgg

It includes an interesting piece about cutting and quality isssues.