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Show us your 12" vinyl albums. Most PSers are too young to ever seen these.

Dancing Fire

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Just a few of what I have in my closet...If you remember these then you are at least 60 yrs old... 1571522459165.png


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Soul music of the 70's...:love::love:

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Here are a few 12" singles with one song on each side.

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Asscherhalo_lover

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@Dancing Fire you must be really out of the loop! They've come back! It's the CD that's dead. We have digital for on the go but and home we prefer vinyl. I buy vintage and new, all on vinyl :)
 

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@Dancing Fire you must be really out of the loop! They've come back! It's the CD that's dead. We have digital for on the go but and home we prefer vinyl. I buy vintage and new, all on vinyl :)

CD is the only way I listen to music.
It has the best sound quality.
For me that far outranks the convenience of how music is sold, stolen, and listened to today.
I still have hundreds of CDs, mostly classical.

Recording quality improved with each new technology over the last century.
It peaked with the CD.

Now, everyone seems to not care about high fidelity in music.
 

Daisys and Diamonds

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oh a thread after my own heart
too bad the internet hasn't worked out how to share smell yet
i love the smell of vinyl
i love that little crackle when the needle first goes down
my dad taught us to be real gentle with records and record players
apart from kids story reacords the first vinyl i owned was David Bowie Lets dance. it was $8.99 from EMI because it still had the price on it
i had some 80s 45s because that's just the age i am
Records are so much more expensive now

my record player is in storage down south but it did survive the Christchurch earthquakes so one day i will be able to play my vinyl agai

my records live on a shelf in the wardrobe of our 4th bedroom (aka my proposed Bruce room but its just a bit further down the priority list as our bathroom is horrible and the kitchen is impractical )

apart from the sound the best thing about vinyl is cover art
i spent way too much time looking at album covers on the internet even from artists i don't know or like
they can be so beautiful

im excitted vinyl made a come back - but for me it never went out
the sound is so warm
although until i get my record player home i won't be able to compair new with old as the whole process is so different these days

true story
my SIL gave me a hard time for owning old vinyl and said i should throw them out
the very next Christmas she found out it was cool again and got her hubbie a new record player
no one ever thinks im cool

anyway i supported record store day (all be it via the postal service) since Bruce started supporting it because i still support bricks and mortar mom and pop stores

my aim originality was to get the origional back catalogue mint but it just got too expensive and i desided i want to play the records not just keep them so some i have got are preloved

i have the modern remasters but there is just something about having a record that dates back to when the album was knew
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this record waited almost 35 years waiting for someone to buy it and love it
see the little sticker on the back of born to run?
that's because they mispelt Jon Landau's name so someone had to go through and put the sticker with the correct spelling over every one
its not particulary valuable just intetesting

Darkness on the edge of town 1978

this is the greatest piece of art i will ever own and contains to me all the answers to all the questions of all the things i didn't understand about why life is the way it is
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HI:

WOT...no Doobie Brothers???

These look pristine! Ours were worn the hell out.....

cheers--Sharon
 

Daisys and Diamonds

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CD is the only way I listen to music.
It has the best sound quality.
For me that far outranks the convenience of how music is sold, stolen, and listened to today.

Recording quality improved with each new technology over the last century.
It peaked with the CD.

Now, everyone seems to not care about high fidelity in music.
i think back in the day a brand new record was very hard to beat
but now we have the mp3 generation who don't even understand why its wrong to not pay for music never mind the flat dead sound

and i admit i have to listen to Bruce via my phone because the stereo isnt unpacked and Gary hates Bruce
i think we got lied to about cds
remember they said they would last for ever
they were so expensive when they first came out
my dad and sister was buying them but i wasn't even buying a cd player

anyway i have worn out so many cds over the years (because i love them and play them repeatedly)

i will always need my music to be a physical thing i can hold in my hand
no cloud or spotify what ever its called now for me
 

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LOL vinyl is everything now. DF did you know there’s a National Record Store Day? The young kids (hahaha) listen to records again. I haven’t used a CD or DVD in years.
Here’s some of my childhood collection. The most recent record I bought was The Last Waltz by The Band.
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Daisys and Diamonds

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LOL vinyl is everything now. DF did you know there’s a National Record Store Day? The young kids (hahaha) listen to records again. I haven’t used a CD or DVD in years.
Here’s some of my childhood collection. The most recent record I bought was The Last Waltz by The Band.
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record store day is now even in NZ
but it has been around since 2008
 

Daisys and Diamonds

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they have to keep making cds and dvds for people like me
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Daisys and Diamonds

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i can't get to my 45s
too many moving boxes in the way
but record store day 2011
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All from the 70s and 80s. Ask me if I have a certain one and I’ll find it.
 

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We still have ours but they are not where I can easily get to them. I am excited to hear that people are into vinyl records again. Maybe I can sell them and buy a diamond or something! :lol: (Although, my husband would never agree to sell them as long as he is around. Not that he EVER plays them, of course!)
 

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DF, that Technics turntable is a CLASSIC!
Ultra high quality!

They still make them.
Sweetwater carries two models, $999 and $1699. :shock:

I think today they are mainly bought by DJs because of their legendary acoustic isolation.
You can crank up the volume and bass amazingly high before getting resonance/feedback.
 
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DF, that Technics turntable is a CLASSIC!
Ultra high quality!
Think I paid like $325 for mine, but this was 70's money. This turntable probably weigh close to 30 lbs. :o 1571531835209.png
 

Daisys and Diamonds

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OMG, we inherited all of my FIL’s albums when my BIL died. All original and all in mint condition.
thank God no one threw them out
my sister gave dad's ones to the demetia care unit mum went into
as much as i would have liked them i hope someone plays them to the residents
 

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Think I paid like $325 for mine, but this was 70's money. This turntable probably weigh close to 30 lbs. :o 1571531835209.png

I did too, but sold it when CDs came out.
 

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I have lots of records. I think there are more in the basement.....
The last one is for you@Daisys and Diamonds
 

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Austina

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Gave all mine away when we moved here 8 years ago.
 

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I am old enough to have a stack of 45s somewhere in a trunk in the garage.

Not LPs though.

DK ;))
 

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We have a whole vinyl album collection in our home library back in NYC. When we get back home (who knows when that will be) I will take a photo for you @Dancing Fire. We have about 200 vinyl albums in our collection.

IMO nothing beats the original recording.
 

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We have a combined collection of over 200 albums. I also have the Technics RP. I was serious back in the day. A lot of my albums have plastic album covers, lol. DH has some with his name on them (sacrilege!) from bringing them to parties--anyone remember that?
 

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I never threw out any records because I was traumatized to see one of my older cousins do it when I was a child. I wish some of my 45's were in better shape. I didn't bother keeping them in paper sleeves, so they are probably all pretty scratched. They were just kept in piles. But my albums are all in cardboard sleeves if not also paper sleeves and I had a wooden cupboard (huge) handmade for them 30 or 40 years ago. I must have many hundreds of them. They are all in my Virginia house and I am in my Connecticut house). I haven't listened to any in years, but I don't want to lose them. My former Jeep allowed me to play CDs, but my current one does not. It is too high tech. When I am driving is the only time that I really listen to music, so I have loaded music from CDs into an iTunes account. Now I am trying to get the right kind of iPod to work in my new Jeep!
 
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