Vinyl Giveaway!

1. Only started to collect recently ( I lay the blame for this totally at my parents’ feet for not having a player when i was a young ‘un) but Two Lone Swordsmen’s Wrong Meeting box-set takes pride of place. I think it’s the combination of the heavier 180g vinyl, a signed copy of some artwork by Mr. Weatherall, the deadly liner notes and the overall excellence of both albums. Plus all owners of the box-set are classed as Patient Saints which gives us folk access to other discounted goodies down the line. These Swordsmen just don’t know when to stop giving.

2. My most treasured vinyl is a 1964 copy of Dusty Springfield’s “A Girl Called Dusty”. When my folks were moving a couple of years back Dad found a box full of records hidden at the back of the attic which he had thought were long gone. There were some real gems in there from old Beatles records to some crackily versions of Beathovens 5th but its was the old Dusty record still in mint condition that I’ll treasure. Her voice still sounds amazing all these years later.

3. Like Brian I’ve only recently started collecting vinyl. At Easter last year I popped along to a vinyl sale in the Bernard Shaw, picked up some nice discs. But it bugged me that I left behind Chromeo’s Needy Girl – why would I do a thing like that? As it happens, I was back in the Shaw the next day – Easter Sunday, as it happens, having given up booze for Lent. I saw Bodytonic’s John Mahon and asked if he still had said single, and if I could buy it, and to his credit he ran upstairs and got it for me, and let me have it for zero euro. Gent. I had to take special care of it all that night, but somehow it came home with me. I’ve since picked up two more editions of the single, but this is my favourite. The Zdar edit of the track is delightful, and The Juan MacLean’s angry reworking of Me & My Man is what really got me into the man. And look at the artwork – Dave and P all tangled up in phone wires on the cover, and the old style phone dial on the vinyl itself. It remains the silliest and most meaningful addition to my growing collection.

   1. I’ve only just copped on to the genius of Chromeo thanks to a mate. in fact, Bonafied Lovin was the first tune I played in the Twisted Pepper on Saturday night. Great track.

4. I’m a recent enough convert to vinyl, having gotten the In Rainbows box set last year. I dug out my parent’s old player back home and it is now pride of place in my bedroom in my house. Owning a physical copy of my music on such a unique format as vinyl is a real kick for me, it’s something you cant just burn off your laptop. I have a few titles I’m fond of; the Beck/Sonic Youth split 7″ I got on the last record store day, the old copy of Stone Roses I found at a Fulham market one weekend in London, my novelty-value clear see-thru 12″ copy of QOTSA’s ‘Go With The Flow” but honestly, there’s one above all others whose loss would really upset me.

   As cringe as it is, my most prized vinyl is “The Smurfs All Star Show.” It was amongst the finds when I dug out that dusty old player and brought me back to the late eighties. It was my first – and for along time only – album and the memories of a very young Joe singing along with those high pitched blue freaks came flooding back. My folks have a picture of me, no more than 4 years old, with headphones on asleep next to the then brand new player listening to it for the umpteenth time.

   Of course it’s only been given one spin for memories sake since I found it again – dear God I gave up half way through track 1 (“Roll Up Roll Up, Welcome To The Smurfs All Star Show,” fact fans!). In a funny way, my new found appreciation for vinyl brought me back to the first unit I ever listened to music on, and reunited me with my first LP. (And I’m willing to admit it was!)

   Growing up and (hopefully) more refined taste bedamned – it was my first album, and you only ever get one of those. I may never listen to it again, though a new nephew in the family may get an introduction, but regardless for these reasons it is my most treasured vinyl and is irreplaceable.

5. Tiffany’s ‘I think we’re alone now’

6. Mine would be Live at Jittery Joe’s by Jeff Mangum because it was the first present someone I love gave to me and they made me guess what it was before they gave it to me and I somehow got it in one! There was no way I could have figured it out so we were both really shocked and I like to think I’ve psychic powers because of it. haha.

7. I love my limited edition of War Stories (UNKLE). It’s one hunk of a vinyl box set, and is a prime example of why I love vinyl; owning the fantastic music and collaborations that you love, and the amazing art work and thought that goes into its production. I’ve even framed some of the sleeves.

8. I’ve got Marving Gaye’s “Anthology” vynil. Its a 4 vynil compilation of this amazing soul singer and it makes me cry every time I heard it.
   I’ve been a fan of Gaye’s work since I was 17. I downloaded tons of MP3s and made compilations and mixtapes. But one thing is hearing Gaye’s voice in your PC and other is hearing from the vynil player. It’s not only a great voice, nor a sentimental feeling or just a nostalgia thing. It’s something that overcomes every other feeling and makes you thing: “Hey, I was hearing this guy for years in digital. But vynil makes me understand him.” So, I feel understood by him too.

9. gotta be my Stone Roses Fools Gold 12′ in Gold Vinyl.
   All 9:53 of it!
   Bought in 1989 and so visually and aurally uber pleasing! 😀
   I don’t know what else to say. It’s a beautiful thing.

   cheers
   c

10. I have two. When I turned 5 (in 1989) my parents bought me an adult record player / tape deck / all in one stereo, it was a real upgrade from the fischer price 45 turntable I had. and to go with my new fancy player, my father gave me Led Zepplin’s ZoSo and ABBA’s Greatest Hits. I am 100% positive these albums shaped my eclectic music taste, and I am sooo proud to say I have both of these albums in great playing shape!

11. I inherited my ‘collection’ from my parents. I denote ‘collection’ because of all the 40 or so LP’s my parents gave me only two did I accept. ‘The Great Johnny Cash’ & ‘The Johnny Cash Collection’. The other LP’s were according to them ‘classics’ such as ‘Great Irish Showbands’! Why couldn’t my parents have been cool & passed on Zeppelin, The Beatles, The Beach Boy’s and so on. So my prized vinyl would have to be ‘The Johnny Cash Collection’ because out of my two LP’s its the better of the two!

12. Victoria @8 I have that UNKLE thing too – it’s great, and I love it, but tbh it just sits on my shelf, and I doubt I’ll ever even play it – maybe because I have the album in two CD formats…

13. My favourite would have to be Bleach by Nirvana. I treasure it as I found it in an Oxfam shop I was doing community service in a few years ago. After a few days of ironing cloths and having to listen to old women talk about there bra size I couldnt have found it at a better time. I have since dicovered by careful reading of the print that it is one of the originally released copies,. Its also a really raw album which i enjoy immensely. The artwork captures the vibe of the album perfectly.

    btw, serious finds to be found in oxfam shops, also managed to pick up lcd soundsystem brand new there too!

14. Michael Jackson – Bad

    Because was my first album ever. Really!

15. Just been told the Major Lazer vinyl is a picture disc 🙂

16. For me, my copy of Born to Run comes in well ahead of any other LP I have. It was dubiously acquired only last year during a trip into an abandoned house with my mates (teenagers, awful, aren’t they?) along with plenty of other classics (Darkness…, Led Zep 2, Astral Weeks, Exodus, Dylan’s Desire & Blood on the Tracks) and fast became one of my most played records. No matter how many quality new albums came out, I couldn’t stop myself going back to Bruce over and over again.

    There really is something special about listening to Thunder Road on a day when absolutely nothing has gone right. Springsteen can cure any bad mood. Likewise with Tenth Avenue and the title track too. Throwing this on the table, turning the volume way, way up and having a sing/shout along is incredibly satisfying. Or if that’s not appropriate, bring the needle right to the end of side 2, sit down and be blown away by the incredible power and the deft and delicate musical genius of Jungleland.

    Not only was it so great in itself, it was my first introduction to Bruce, so I have it to thank for leading me to listen to Darkness…, Nebraska & all the other greats.

    I was lucky enough to be able to feed my addiction even more then, seeing him twice at the RDS last month (cheap last minute tickets really are the best thing). All my friends may have been at Oxegen but that definitely didn’t stop me having a f’king amazing time.

    I think it’s fairly unanimous that Bruce is a legend, and his masterpiece from ’75 is definitely the best piece of vinyl that I own.

17. My favorite LP is Tracy + The Plastics “Muscler’s Guide to Videonics”. I went to her show after only hearing a few songs and I blown away by her performance. Nikki and Cola talk with her on the projector during the show and every play along sometimes too. I bought the LP at the show and listened to it a lot. It’s one of my favorite records.

18. my most treasured vinyls:
    serrato records (you know why)
    jack benny presents the treasury of golden memories of radio (unlimited sample and scratch)
    aphex twin: window licker (classic)
    xxx flicks: (dj battle tool)
    osborne: in gear
    most of the ghostly catalog
    man i really got alot of records i could always use more.

19. My most treasured record is my original pressing of ‘Death Church’ by Rudimentary Peni.

    It was released in 1983 and it’s pretty rare so when I was browsing the Southern Studios online store a few years back and saw that they had unearted a few copies I had to take one off their hands.

    Aside from the great music there is also some of the most fucked up & eerie outsider art I have ever seen courtesy of their lead singer Nick Blinko (the album cover folds out into a 24″ x 34″ collage poster)
    Anyway, check them out if you like, they’re fucking mental!

    http://www.discogs.com/Rudimentary-Peni-Death-Church/release/380829

    Long live the wax!!

20. I recently got reported at college for playing my Sugarhill Gang Rapper’s Delight 12″ at full blast one night. It was worth it.

21. my most treasured vinyl is Appetite for Destruction,
    I spent all my conformation money on that and Lies and loads of other assorted GnR paraphernalia.
    I was my first and sweetest hit of vinyl junkydom and I haven’t had a penny since possibly due to that first taste. I don’t regret it even a single 7″.

22. Blur – ‘Popscene’ one sided 12” promo thing, bargain at a fiver. Th disgusted look on th Reckless Records shop assistant’s face was priceless…as I was leaving Shane Mc Gowan was entering with a load of records, said ‘howaya’ and held th door for me….

23. it would ahve to be a limited edition Beatles 7″ Abbey Road, its a 17 track original master recording. It was the first record my nanny ever bought when she was in her 20s, after she was given a record player for her wedding anniversary.

    She handed it down to my mam when she was coming of age and starting to like the Beatles, some time in the early 80s(when it wasn’t cool to like em), it was the only Vinyl that survived from my nanny’s collection after our house was robbed.

    My mam played this the whole time she was pregnant(with myself of course) and there is a joke in my family that I came out of the womb singing Beatles songs. She was going to call me George if I had of been lucky enough to pee standing up alas it was not to be and she settled for Darcie, after the Smashing Pumpkins bassist.(My parents were cool :D)

    Since I could speak I knew all the words to every song on that record, started singing and later started playing guitar and decided I wanted to become a DJ all because of that one record.Which disappeared not long after I started school.

    It then found its way back to me after moving houses , changing schools, holidays, house floods etc etc for ten years….found it in my mams room after she passed away.

    I wouldn’t dare put it back on a deck now, for fear of anything happening, so its on a shelf in my room, it just survived my first ever house move.

24. Shit anclove, i accidentially deleted your comment. I have a copy of it though so for the record: 

    My favourite vinyl is my copy of “The Beta Band LP”. It took me years to track it down and the moment i found it in vinyl exchange in manchester my heart nearly stopped.

    Its a massively underated album, and one of my favourite of their collection. It starts with teh massive mistep of teh beta band rap, but any album with “Its Not Too Beautiful”, “Simple Boy” and “round the bend” on it can never really be considered bad. Unless you are insane.”

25. It’s almost impossible to pick one so I have to choose the one that started the ongoing obsession. I remember my older sister collecting tokens from rice krispie boxes to send away for a choice of 7″ singles. Her choice? Club Tropicana by Wham! I was fascinated by the wierd song on the B-Side. It didn’t sound like anything my little 10yr old brain had ever heard before. It was Rockit by Herbie Hancock. Fast forward 20 years, my house is full of vinyl, turntables, mixers, and general DJ & Music related crap (much to my wife’s annoyance). Still think it’s an amazing piece of music and I still have the 7″. Snap, Crackle & Pop Baby!

26. I remember something like that weird Kelloggs offer! I think I got something like Pump Up the Jam by technotronic?

     I also remember getting Brimful of Asha on CD single as part of some token thingy for little pizzas or something..

    Random.

27. I think you deleted more than one, Niall. As far as I can remember there were 24/25 comments (including my own re: Born to Run) before today, and now its down down to 15.

28. The comments left before this morning over the last few days aren’t showing up here but are in the database so they’ll be included in the draw on Monday.

29. my pride and joy has gotta be the complete original series of the mowax headz 1 and 2.
    headz 2 a and 2b are amazingly packaged ,and the sheer weight and calibre of the music speaks for itself. also the delux radio head in rainbows ,thats some lush art right there ,and a great album to boot 😀

30. I’m going to get someone (ie. not me) to pick the best comment this evening so I will contact the winner then.

31. howya nialler, forgot to leave any details with the comment above (rice krispies) it’s [email protected]

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