Lp Records

lulu1

Who still has lots of their favorite Lp's or single records sitting in a cupboard somewhere in the house. Just found a Bay city roller Lp today and played it as well, much to the horror of my teenagers

Phil.x

I've lots and a rega p2 player.

Wibbs

lulu1 wrote: »

a Bay city roller Lp

OK...

much to the horror of my teenagers

Kudos Lu, your kids have taste.

God I remember the Rollermania stuff and even though I was small of boy and low on brains even then, I knew that this was baaaaaad. Like John Milton if he had been exposed to the Scots yahoos would have added a tartan level of hell to Paradise Lost baaaaad. Then again, they had better tunes than Justin Please, Why won't you just Expire, Beiber so…. Christ, even dreck was often better quality in the olden days.

Poor Uncle Tom

Oo la paloma blanca is my favourite followed by Kevin Barry and Hotel California....

lulu1

Wibbs wrote: »

OK...Kudos Lu, your kids have taste.

God I remember the Rollermania stuff and even though I was small of boy and low on brains even then, I knew that this was baaaaaad. Like John Milton if he had been exposed to the Scots yahoos would have added a tartan level of hell to Paradise Lost baaaaad. Then again, they had better tunes than Justin Please, Why won't you just Expire, Beiber so…. Christ, even dreck was often better quality in the olden days.

Aw The bay city rollers I even had a pair of trousers with a tarten strip my friend had a green pair and we thought we were the bees nees

indioblack

lulu1 wrote: »

Who still has lots of their favorite Lp's or single records sitting in a cupboard somewhere in the house. Just found a Bay city roller Lp today and played it as well, much to the horror of my teenagers

I thought I was clever when cd's came along - dumped all the vinyl - won't need them anymore.
Wrong.
I had the notion that everything would be transferred to digital relatively quickly. There is still an album by Terry Oldfield that I'm waiting for after nearly 30 years.

FanadMan

Hundreds of them here. From my mums old Blues and Jazz to mine and my brothers Rock and Pop. All we need now is a turntable and we're set!

Jurgen Klopp

Apparently they are outselling digital music in the UK now, can't remember where I read it

If true it's great to see

PMBC

Phil.x wrote: »

I've lots and a rega p2 player.

Rega is terrific. Last few years were bad years. 2017 I hope to recommission my Rega - I think it just need a rubber pulley -get leads for my amps and 'hit the road'. If not then, the following year. Something to look forward to.
Enjoy the music whatever you are using and don't concentrate, like I did, on the equipment!!

Sue Pa Key Pa

I have around 100, which I will never play again. Luckily, I recently found a lad who is into vinyl and wants to buy them. Anyone who remembers the hassle of having to flip over the album 'mid-session' will appreciate the modern way to listen to your music

The flying mouse

My brother has hundreds , some of which were mine,

Black Sabbath,Thin lizzy,Deep purple, Budgie, Montrose, Led zeplain, Eagles, Rory gallahger,T.rex, & the Wolfe tones :-) plus a wide variety of others from all types of mucic .

Winterlong

I got a record player from santa. Great to be able to play some of the old LPs again. But some of my collection from my childhood is truly muck.

Olishi4

I still have a good few of my parents records. I listened to a lot of their records as a teen because when they got a new stereo for the sitting room, I took the record player up to my room. I had my own stereo but I wanted the record player aswell.

My oh's dad gave him all of his collection, the last time he was over here. We have a cheap record player and get them out the odd time but it's been a while since I've had a look through them all.

Rubberlegs

I still have Shakin' Stevens LPs and singles from when I was about 8. Wham! Make it Big LP and Last Christmas single. Madonna The First Album, Like a Virgin and True Blue LPs and Gambler single. Cliff Richard and The Young Ones Living Doll, Band Aid One Year On, Do They Know it's Christmas and Billy Idol Mony Mony singles. I also have the very first Hits Album double LP. As old as they may be if I heard a song today on the radio I'd still remember where a scratch was on the record:)
Also in the house are the OH's collection of LPs, Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, Stiff Little Fingers, Megadeth, Madness, U2, Van Morrison, Thin Lizzy, Slade and others. He still has his first single amongst the few he has, Musical Youth, Pass the Duchie. At least his taste in music improved over the years !

fryup

who remembers K-tel and their compilations out every xmas

loobylou

My late father has a large collection of classical music, mainly on vinyl, some on cd.
I don"t want them but cannot bring myself to throw them out as he collected them over many years.
Free to good home, Dublin collection.

indioblack

Sue Pa Key Pa wrote: »

I have around 100, which I will never play again. Luckily, I recently found a lad who is into vinyl and wants to buy them. Anyone who remembers the hassle of having to flip over the album 'mid-session' will appreciate the modern way to listen to your music

Your'e right of course - it's so much easier now - so why was it so much more fun back then?
The amount of effort I put in to just organizing my vinyl back then - and then setting everything up to play them. I doubt I'd go to so much trouble today - because, of course, I don't have to.
Perhaps it's an age thing, memories, nostalgia - the illusion that everything was better in the past, [it wasn't].
Take photography, for example. Today I have a dslr that takes astonishingly sharp and correctly exposed pictures - yet the ones that mean more to me were taken on an old Kodak Instamatic in Cork in the late 1960's.
When my brother died in Cork and I was over for his funeral I cleared out his flat. He'd kept all his lps and 45s. I brought back a 45 of the Hollies that I'd listened to in his house in 1967.
Today I could probably download most of The Hollies songs in minutes online.
So maybe it's just me being sentimental.

ger vallely

Myself and my husband still listen to our music only on vinyl. Unless we're in the car or something obviously! But yeah, we have our record player set up and an ever expanding collection of vinyl. It's the particular sound you get that makes it so special. That and the sleeves, the art on album covers is often fabulous. We both have lots of vinyl from our youth too. I love it and can't see us stopping anytime soon.

Beasty

Still have a couple of Stones and Beatles singles from the 60s I nicked from my sister who in turn got them from our aunty.

Have a ton of stuff I bought in the 80s that's still pretty much pristine and I've recently resurrected the turntable setup and play the odd LP from that era together with a few recent acquisitions (again originating from the 70s/80s)

CelticRambler

Got 'em all, and I can see them from where I'm sitting. Haven't played any in a while because I'm waiting for a new stylus, but my late-teen/early-twenties children and nephews/nieces think it's the coolest music in the house when we have any kind of a party. The eldest nephew seriously re-interpreted his granny's coolness when I showed him an original Chuck Berry 45 she'd "borrowed" from her flatmate and never returned!

And for all the supposed "improvements" in modern recording and playback technology, I've got far more unplayable tracks on CD and "file not found" mp3 files than I've ever completely lost due to a scratch on vinyl.

bonzodog2

I have prob 100+ vinyl LPs of bands/artists I liked between 1973-1980, haven't played in years, even though I won a turntable a few years back in a radio competition

KungPao

fryup wrote: »

who remembers K-tel and their compilations out every xmas

I have 3 of them.

2 are mediocre at best...they're called "Dynamite" and "Chart Explosion". Both belong to the mother I think. Some goodsongs on there. But very hit and miss.

I bought one myself just a few months ago, "Charthits 82". Some good stuff like Phil Lynott, Bauhaus, Roxy Music and ahem...Captain Sensible doing Happy Talk...but that's guilty pleasure of mine, so not bad a few €s

CelticRambler

KungPao wrote: »

I bought one myself just a few months ago, "Charthits 82". Some good stuff like Phil Lynott, Bauhaus, Roxy Music and ahem...Captain Sensible doing Happy Talk...

On the floor as we speak!

bee06

My husband got me a record player and 4 records for Christmas and I love it. I'm too young to have a record collection from the first time around, by the time I was buying music it was tapes but I'm looking forward to building one now.

Someone said earlier the advantage of new music listening methods is the ease but I think the "lack of ease" of vinyl is great. You put the effort into making sure the album you buy is worth the 20 or 30 Euro and then worth the effort of taking it out of the sleeve and onto the record player. Once it's playing then that's it, you listen to it. No skipping tracks or listening to two songs and moving onto something else. Music is less disposable than on a streaming app.

Riesen_Meal

Meh, all you new age vinyl hipsters destroying our culture, a vinyl culture that we have never stopped supporting - especially all the years it wasn't cool...

HMV / Argos selling these fisher price decks again, the boom is back...

I have over 3 - 4K records, never stopped buying them, I'd have a lot more if I could afford to...

KungPao

CelticRambler wrote: »

On the floor as we speak!

Haha there she is. One of my most played records haha, even though Jonathan King compiled it.

CelticRambler

KungPao wrote: »

Haha there she is. One of my most played records haha, even though Jonathan King compiled it.

I have half of CH 81 aswell. :cool: My sister got the other half (skint parents trying to satisfy us both at Christmas). :pac:

In those days, you always knew someone was getting an LP for Christmas when that oh-so-distinctive shape appeared under the tree.