Rolling 2007 Vinyl Thread

Certain musics are compatible with this feeling.

You're right, these are the best; they're sturdy, records slide easily in and out, they fit right in the outer sleeve, they protect the vinyl. But I only have a few of 'em. The plastic inner sleeve is the bain of my existence. It's a pet peeve of massive proportions.

also, you folks who don't use plastic covers are nuts. you must not play your albums very much. just sliding them in and out causes more damage (over time) to my covers than I can tolerate (especially on the bottom edge). At this point I have bags for every LP. And many of my older bags are all torn up on the bottom edge - that would have been the record cover without a bag!

And besides, when LP covers are split at the bottom, that's why God invented Scotch tape, right? (And the solution to playing any of your albums too much is easy: Buy more albums! Like, duh.) (Though to tell the truth, I actually don't think all that many of my LP covers are in all that much worse shape than when I bought them.)

oddly, i hate plastic outers but like the inners, even if they're confoundingly round shaped. it always seems like the inner plastic almost has an anti-static quality to it, perhaps just paper is more frictive.

Only 12-inch plastic outer baggie things I ever keep are for records.. where the sleeves are basically made of paper or detached flimsy cardboard

weird, i do this too. any silkscreened cover or folder type, like Pixeltan or 70's Dylan or Stones bootlegs, it's just paper so i throw it in plastic for support.

srsly you folks who don't use outer sleeves are just askin' for some drunk teenager to puke on your LPs

no one is puking on my privates.

you can leave the album outside the cover in a sleeve. record freaks do this so that they don't damage their covers. i do this when i send people records that they won from me on ebay. i have some records like that. but i do get a little nervous having a record out in the open like that. even in a sleeve. within a plastic sleeve. but i've got kids. and i'm a little messy. if i were rich and really anal, i'm sure i would have everything all perfect.

um, I meant that if you are (for example) using a wooden shelf for your records, when you slide a record back into the stack the PLASTIC is sliding across that possibly-less-than-smooth surface. As opposed to your cardboard record sleeve, leading to split seams and such.

I also carry records around a lot, to a radio station and DJ gigs, and this may explain my preference for bags. Never had anybody puke on one, but I have seen spilled drinks that would have been much worse w/o a bag.

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herbie mann - reggae (1974. with albert lee and mick taylor! it is by far the best herbie mann/mick taylor/albert lee reggae album that i own.)

the savage rose - your daily gift (via ebay. original pressing on gregar records. an RCA affiliate.)

the funky kings - s/t (1976. not really funky. produced by paul rothchild. featured jules shear. featured the tune "slow dancing". but who had the hit with slow dancing? it wasn't these guys. was it? olivia newton john? someone.)

cowboy - 5'll getcha ten (superior country-rock on capricorn! really really good. and i have cowboy's 1977 capricorn album, so i know from cowboy. this one is way better. this one is from 1971. just solid in every way.)

irene reid - two of us (nice soulful stuff from 1976 on t.k. subsidiary glades. irene made a pretty well-regarded jazz/standards album in the 60's. this one isn't as well known, but it's very nice.)

the persuasions - we came to play

the farm - spartacus (hah! it was a dollar. i made it thru most of side one. i thought of gareth.)

Victory - s/t (debut by german scorpions-esque cockrockers.)

ray simpson - tiger love (1978. love the song "slinky". ashford & simpson's lawyer/manager died here on the island and i am still coming across stuff from his house at the record store. most of it sealed and a dollar.)

stein ingebrigtsen - stein (70's swedish pop. nice swedish-language cover of rhinestone cowboy.)

der tpk - harmful emotions (new on siltbreeze. 500 copies. awesome stuff. tpk is short for teenage panzer korps.)

ghost - in stormy nights (double vinyl. different track order from the cd and a vinyl only track that is a weird mix of their cromagnon cover. drag city vinyl is always good.)

greezy wheels - radio radials (on london from 1976. goofy/folk/country/fiddle/rock/hippie stuff.)

west, bruce, & laing - why dontcha (needed this! thank you island of plenty!)

gas mask - their first album (great cover. forgettable horn rock a la blood sweat & tears.)

i traded in crap CDs, so i paid about 20 bucks for this stuff. minus the savage rose which i bought on ebay whilst drunk.

and the chilton song on the Hoehn album is great and very chilton-y. plus, he sings back-up and it sounds like he's playing guitar too.

Anywhere I can check this out before I buy it? The descriptions sound great.

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Terence – “An Eye For An Ear” – It’s almost painful for me to put Terence on a tape and not have the song be “Fool Amid The Traffic”, you know what I mean? I mean, you can see my predicament, right? Wait, what do you mean you don’t know what the hell I’m talking about? Fool has it all! The wail of that fuzz lead! If you ate that song you would not only be stronger, faster, and brighter, you would feel from your scalp to your fingertips to your toes a revelatory sense of permanence and rock-hard glow of solidity that could put Mount Everest to shame. But “An Eye For An Ear” need not step to the back for any song. It sings of itself mightily from the first blast of drums, horns (Ah, the horns. My trail of breadcrumbs has transformed itself into a trail of spit shaken from the valve of a horn. Those brass sections are reclaiming their place in the story of the rock and the roll. Their shrill bravado masking the fear that they will be forgotten…), and piercing six-string that perfectly accompany Terence’s blustery conviction that the world…the world is what, Terence?...That the world is…Going. Up. In. Flames.

I had them both on cd, but they were only $2.95 so I got them.

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Oh well, probably not coming out.

someone seriously needs to get this:

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AWESOME intricate baroque pop album. HIGHLY recommended. especially sealed for that price.

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Jimmy Campbell – “In My Room” – I don’t even know if Jimmy’s Half Baked album on Vertigo is rated, let alone under or over or sidewaysdownrated by Mojologically-inclined historians of post-mod squad baroque pop, and I don’t really know if there is anything I can do –singlehandedly- to remedy this situation, nor do I know whether I even feel up to the task. My new motto, when I’m in my cups, is: “Screw it. I’ve got a copy.” Let them eat Badfinger. Or Eric Carmen. Or Al Stewart for all I care. I dig and I dig until I can’t dig anymore. I climb thru windows. I get down on my knees. I go thru the mold and muck of forgotten cellars. I reach out and up. My hands -literally- bleeding to find a piece of that sweet soothing sound that my dreams are not only infested with, soaked in, trembling within, but that my very soul requires to make light of the fear-crazed eyes I have seen in the past. In hospital beds. On the streets. In the mirror. “In My Room” is great. And not to be confused with Fatty Sandbox’s pity party of the same name.